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DISAPPEARING LONDON. TWO KOHHim MMDKNCU OK HU. t Kl. JOHRMIH, III* \kftorliKllina WMh Hrmiuirml Th.' l • • < Hurlr* Uml.'. Ilimir In Lit! to Qvrrn OTr.n—\ in. cr Uni and the -WliUlllna orator.” London L*tt*r In Now York P.iat. |> ha* lf*n obwrvwl, and truly, ihat hu mun illr* would b. lreponil>l but lot it,i limitation* of our Mmtos Thoo lim it ('lon* *iand a* a bulwark agalnat a I of imi>ra*lona .whom auddrn Itigr.** 4 ,uld Involve swift annihilation Th* v, Id would apt*ar a* a lial of anunda. ~ i- wtMrring phaniasmagorU of Night*, a \„ t aa<'mt>iage of (cents, |>lra*ant and uni'l' n*unt. On tlia otl.er hand, there aie ir i'l' -slons of which the majority of us dimly nalblc, which It would he til t<> welcome more cordially, to enter t do more horultahly. ni l and ill*im>earliix London Is ever r a to r count some romantic or *trung* talc; hut Instead of eagerly listening, most of us |n>> rapidly by her speaking stones, i jreless of the tact that In one of the ■ i! to-mortows the 1 1borer's pick an t pi will have stilled the voire In a , r ! while the fetish-worship of mere I t tks and mo, tar I* to be dtsrounten ,. ,and, the fact tna' at this stre<H corner that quiet alley one ran ronjure up m noteworthy flgtire In the llierary, -tl-itc. or political world of the past, j mulates the Imagination, lends to acl what up to that moment may for have twin a land of shadow Here I propose to touch briefly upon some of the , i|, ns which attach to one or two threatened or Just demolished buildings. \ tlr place must lie given to two whll ,nt residences of Dr R imuel Johnson W 'hln the past few months. No. 7 John son Court. Fleet s'reee. ha* been raged Kor long the house ha* been relegated to ~n obscure and neglected old age. and ■ roh.ihly the rmy of rat* that found a •me within the dilapidated structure. tth Its broken window*. ll* walls black With the -moke of many a year, are re grelting Its disappearance more than any man being. During ht* visit so Rrot nd. It will be remembered, the burly . ior humorou-ly charaeeerlsed himself ss -Johnson of that Ilk." Perhaps this •vts In part because for about eleven . ir*. from 17*'. to 177d, he lived In John ,n Court. The name of the court, how , v. r. I* not. a* I* popularly supposed. In way connected with his sojourn at V, 7 If the dictionary-maker did not In IS house utter the famous Jibe, ' The I, sl prospect which a Scotchman ever ~ s Is the highroad that leads lo Kne 1." quite posalbly It was within these v, Is that, tn answer to a question by well—as to whether Shere was not it and drink enough in Scotland—to wered aptly: "Why. yes. sir. meat and - rtk enough to give the Inhabitant* suf nt strength to run away from home." It.,swell—a Rent, of course, whom the •or delighted to rouse on the subject • his native land—mention* that when he - trned in London In February. 17tW. he id his friend In a good house In John s Court. Fleet street. In which he had ■mmod.ced Mr.- M llllams with an -m.*nl on the ground fUvr while Mr. ■it occupied hi- past In the garret, 'ling for the first lim>- here. Boswell I he host how. In it conversation he had wlthvVobaire. the French writer distinguish!d between Pope and Dry- I'ooc drives a handsome chariot. ,V, 1 , couple of trim. nea nags; Dtpltn . , h and *l* stately horses." Observed i- .n incisively. "Why. sir. the truth I* drive coach** and si*, hut TVryden's ,re either gaHoping or stumbling; ' izo i<r n stf*ad> trot. . | , er. Day 177*. Boswell, who hud n -d a dinner with Jean Rousseau In Al i,j. of Neufchatel. accepted the Doc mvltallnn to sup "In a dusty reeeas , ~ ,rt." which w >*, in fact, the house ,zcd The picture of the past wm , preserving!. "I supposed." *a ■ .. t.i, . rapher, "we should scarcely have Vi ,nd fork*, nnd only some strange. , rh, 111-lrest dish; but I found everv t v ,tv very good order. We hod no ci- r company hut Mrs Williams and a v 'user woman whom T did not know \ a dinner here was considered a sln t ur phenomenon. and 1 was frequently ~r,.gated on the subject, ray readers ■ , perhaps, be desirous to know out I(d fare Foote. 1 remember. In aliuslmi t Francis, the negro, was Willing to stip- P shat our repwst was black broth 1- In fact we had very good soup. ■ iled leg of lamb nibd spinach, n veil pc ,twl u rice pudding." It w* while 1 i . at No. 7 Johnson Court that John ' wrote the prologue to tloldsmlthe '•<- l Natured Man," ptihllshetl hi* "Jour- I,c V 1., the Hebrides." and one Issue of the In, vnnary. and made the wcqualnlance of •h, I',.rales. From here the lexicographer I. moved, in m*. to No. S 801 l Court. (, Mi le farther east. Rome twenty-tteven vrs after, before the wlihvwed IkH'to, ii Johnstwi Court, Mrs. Johnson, for I •!th'i Mkr. took Irwljrlnx* at n ithor Joliiwon not only r’*orte4 ooca •r ally. I>nt wrote a portion, at • v rate, of ’ The Vanity of Human WLli ; Being tho T*nh Satire of Juvenal Imi ! In at team one well known hook • > Isoruton It la xtateA that "the lint • u**e> In Frognal. eouthward*” In which Mr and Mr*. Johnson lived, wo* *ome ’imp hi;o ewept nway. The prohahliltie* however, that we have the house in 'nor> I.>*lue. not far from the church, (though It has been added to i^bnstd* • ily ainco the mtddto of the la*l cen tury. . In the Hampstead of 171#. approached by a rood from london dangerous to "ho. unarmed, carried money, thero was preaching-lent for Whitfield, the first •n-conformii place of worship here • outs, set up within a stone's throw of ’ e race-course; Akenslde. the poet, who *'tolled the beviutles of CSokler'a Hill. Hv • Northerns. Lord flute at Caen Wood. I Kilt croft, the architect, quite close to ognal. Johnson was In general a here • . with regard to the country. A tav ' i chair was hb Idea of an earthly rone, and It was difficult t*> perauade m to forego the pleasures of the to him M-tnoluslve world of Fleet street. Inter ring In this regard are a couple of Da re e*r--..ys, written hy Johnson for the imhier, in which, trenchantly, as • * wont In other directions, he urges on the study of nature, primarily, becaiu* ' Is multiplies our "Inlets to happiness ’’ i word, the doctor's brief resident e at seems tcmporerlly to have • M love Um Study Of nature and solitudes hardly less than that of i and his myriad complexities. Mrs. agon's house, .Priory Lodge. Is. alas, eked out as the site of a projected k of fiats. connection with Ihe new street h beginning beside the Holhurn res ent, ! to connect the Strand with <llll more ancient thoroughfare to the b. one or two protests have hern made r ■ <mt the demolition of a house In !#!•- •tiaen street. Ifolhorn. where Charles Is said to have lived. Asa matter • • t. however. No. 7 Uttle Queen street. Lamb was lodging with his family *. was swept away years ago fo* 1 Hiding of Holy Trinity Churcti. and aly roll* of the essayist left here Is • tary, forlorn-looking tree In the .*i* 'round of the church school, whk’h • 1 etitury ago served as Lamb’* l<ack gar *’ *> ‘ii ftept 22. 17M. there occurred in *° 7 the grim tragedy that ever after '* whieh. In a letter to Coleridge, writ • ftv* days later, he gives this account: Lite, or some of my friends, or ihe • ‘bile papers, by this (line, may have In* 'frned you of the terrible calamities that av * fallen on our family. I will only * ,v * you the outlines: My poor. dear, dearest sister. In a fit bf Insanity, has ****** Ihe death of our own mother. ! was • l h*4 only m time enough to §natch the knife out Of her grasp. Sue la at prrs. " 111 * madhouse, rrom whenoe. I far. • must he removed to a hospital God nus preserved me tuy sens.- I . ,t and "link .11.1 sleep, amt have my Judgment .nt'.'* vrry * m d Mv lather w„- shghily wounded, and I am left to t ,k --of ~,tn ""I my aunt " The scene of it tragi< #• wm cun no longer be (ouu<l v Ut .""Use reins,ns i ..w In Vlllegal 'aid. Drurv I-ane-thai Is to say. tui th. rtver ,ld „f , h * ( Bl) w(l | Is hunk.d n the north by the grim playhouse, me ~1 ,erttor which carries on, so to sa>. In* aiiusiolic sun, salon in si,me."' dating i*hakes|,care's sim. . since w hen u llie.it. r ha, .u„-| thereabouts fiy arrangem. nt With the l>uke of Bed °r< ' lneg.l r > jrd has te en converted iron, „ tnoroughfar, Into a cul-dv-5... and cover, | over tor the convenien. .• of nose who In numbers wait her. for the opening of me m,.„,,. r doors. The Yard under its s.veral n .mes-aomc might say ibd 110 chenge from Vt, gar Yawl or ' v -uch bekNtg . . the adj.ieent Cofnlvent Harden. Indb.it.s the souring influence of our ag. -is a.so elnied with not ;, f.-w remarkable events and persons. Many will remember the tav ern which until recently stood her* . It Was called, and had represented on Its limp. "The Whistling Oyeser." Kor some lime <ft, r the proprietor, about toe year IMo. heard one of ht* tontnsome "native*" producing a k.nd of "slltlnnem," the house wa* besieged by hosts of the cu rious. |t was Douglas Jerrold. I believe, who -nag.-list that this onmxl y ov-t.-r. whose ultimate fate is rvh-ciitert ' had been crossed In love, and now whlsllisl lo keep up appearances, with an idea of showing that It didn't care." In lhitich Hppcircd an Imaginary imrirnlt of this phenomenon; moreover. Thu k, riy was wont lo declare that he was present on one occasion. When an American, after lls . n- Ing to the tab-i,led mollusc, quitted the tavern, Affirming "It was nothing lo tin oyster he knew of In J| issa huseHs. whit h w histled Yankee Iswvll,' right through, nnd followed lie master about like o tlog." |n the olden lime* the "Windmill" In Vinegar Yard was a fa vorite plare of resort. Ihe "Crown" seems otce go have I teen the meeting-place of the Kccentric Club; and here early con tributors to Fun.-h used to eat a weekly dinner Again. -Fanny Barton, as Mrs Abingdon, one of Rtr Joshua Reynolds's favorite sitters, was reputedly horn In the place. It was the extension of the yard about to he closed that Charles luimh alludes to In this vivid passage, descriptive of hi* first visit to a play-house; "At the north end of Croat Court there yet stand* a portal (swept away It may be said. In lkM) of some nrchiteeturi! pretension*, though reduced to humble tie. serving it presort for nn entrance to a printing office This old doorway, if you are young, render, you may no' know, wa* the Identi cal pb-entratice to old Drury—Garrb k's Drury—all of It that I- left I never i>a* without shaking some forty years off my *h tilth ra. recurring to the evening when I ngkiwwl f hrotigli It If% *>.-*• mi’ rtee* ssU ,• Tl* hud hrn and thr* rorvlltton of our koiik (the folk?* an<l wm that th* rain ahouM cent*- \Vi|h what n hatfnK hrart dtl \ watrh from the wtmlow the i>U‘lile*. from rho w:ll ties* of which I wa* Uujrtit to pr<>Kno*tl(Mte the rlepirtnl I *eem to remember the Jam mrnrt. ami the *>. with which I ran to announee it.” y ii THK TROOPH l> TIK\ T<IIN. Queer •Ighl* In fli Inrlrnt Chinese City. Krerlerlf'k Palmer. In rollier'* Weekly Tien T*ln. June 14— How t.ime ihe or eupatlon of the rapltal of an emfscr.int Dutch farming population bcMrle the oc • uimtlon of a walled city of four hundred thou*and Chinetjn! Yon could imagine Ihat Rloemfonteln would be like You could never lm.ifflne what Tien T*ln woull be like. After two week* in ihe Kuropean OonrepMon. and knowinr *oimfhimr of China, I (houcht that I ha-1 hefor nand *ome l<h i of what I was to I had none. W l\ l|illnic* ••Ortherl*" n Jn|i? Take their rifl* 4 * away from the Japan ese. fowl ihe presence of the other for eign **ldler*. and you are carried hack fwo thoua.ind years to the point when a KM-at Aelatlo population expected to fall under u Homan or a Macedonian nword. r.irnar’# lesion* were comftoaetl of umall, comjwietly-hull! hmwn men. and 1 was continually putting the Ja|ie in place of th* K>nan*. The Ja|e* had the eword— but they | nheathed. After beina at bay for a day umier u terrible rifle fire, lyinf In mirshe* and drlnkitiK salt water under a tn> wae woree than any that ever fell on Hroad wa.v in July or Aug net. it wa* to l*e ♦- pet inl that they would *'ake that thrl*t for mat's*'re whl< h lt *up|*o*ed to In a p.rt of their Oriental nature. They did nothing of the kind. They loung'd on the wall*, ate the melon* and cake and suck'-d the ice which the native* brought to them. When C’hineee Inhabitant*, whether rich merchant* or coolie*, fell down ami knocked their head* on the earth in Chi nese “kotow*,” the little Jap. with hi* hand* in hi* pocket* and a *r!ck*haw man’* *wagger. emlled at them, a* much a* to eay: “lan't that funny?” and then walked away in anarch of more melon*. Jmt say ”Ni|>pnn” to him and he *howw hi* white teeth In a grin from tar t ear. and mwell* out hi* breast like a pouter pigeon. His piitrlotistn I* equal to hi* pride, and both are boundless nnd nmg nlth'cnt. Bay "Ruslan" to him, and he will *lroke hi* rifle and lmk a* if he were already drawing a bead on the white Rheumatism Rheumatic pains are the cries of protest an<t distress from tortured muscles, aching joints and excited nerves Tho blood has been poisoned by tbe accumulation of waste matter in the system, and can no longer supply the pure and health sustain ing food they require. The whole system feels the effect of this acid poison; and not until the blood lias been purified and brought I>ack to a healthy condition will the aches anil pains cease. Sir., lame, Kell, of 7? Ninth treet, N. R. Washington. D. C.. write* a* follows: "A few month* *g> I had an attack of Sciatic Rheum** I ism in it* worst form The pain wa *o Intense Iks* I area me completely proa. I rated The attack was an /rag unti-uall v severe one. and my condition wus regard- Xg ed as King very danger* VfF mi* I was attended by yW* XT one of the roo*t able doc* tors in Washington who i* also a meintwr * f the far nit v <>f • leading me ii 1 " -oliege here. He fold me S£2frw2!MpSl& Afire Mil twelve lime, wilnoat reeemn* Ihe li*htel benefit I declinvd torfflilinne hi, Irrilmrniiin, remrrr ILvinghvsrdof S.K S (Awifl ,bpiSc| £2f2.ndiX Rheumatism. I deeded. alma* Indeapair however to the medicine Atrial, _ i hal taken a few bottle* 1 wm* able to hobble .round oo crutches, after had no use for them at a!!. H 8 R having red me *ouod and well All the distressing SZrMtmr my appetite b„ returned: Ind I am happy to t* agam remored to perfect the great vegetable g*S &T*' !t "S purifier and tonic, is the ideal remedy in all t. ljk . rheumatic troubles. *r There are no optatc* or mineral* in it to disturb the digestion and lead to ruinous habits. We have prepared a special book on Rheumatism which every sufferer fro™ this painful disease should read. It is the most complete and interesting book of the kind inexistence. It will beeent free !o anv one desiring it Write our phy ctana fully and freely about your case. W e make no charge for me,).cal advice IKE *W!*T IfSCtrlC CO., ATUNIA. M. THE MOKNING KEYVfcfe TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2T>. 1900. THE OM.Y A WHOMTKI.Y If RE MALI MlllNkKY IN TUI WOULD. ftWQk ISS& I ahwotate cure for Con* i aiAZaaf a gumption. There would be A fev m PCS |Wlf r IWfc t* w from Consump- K A 8 Z Si I IV tion. Pronchtlii. (irip or * Hf MII V fHV Whooptny Cough .1 - A* M family k**Dt a bottle of ll- Jwg * vA w^v;.y',h u ,. r ; VTOIJP Iti vigor 111 R '* f n,lly ■*,• >,r '*‘. h HthiJi 4 * v!Tv n ■ 111 O Z121&S& •wrustiott. A,,'„ , ‘ " first symptom-, take mal! qtiantity in a wine r,?Vb. 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As n American or an Lngllshinaiv he rrgaids you as his great friend who Is going to assist him to k. ep the Bear's claw* off his tvell ] earned Korea He Is a unit In all things; ' and he go.* Into action at llie double quick with the mechanical regularity of the bobbing of the forks of a hay ted der. Searching for the lleatj. As I came along the road leading from the gate of the mud wall (which surround* loth Ihe Concession and the native cltyl to ihe Routh tSwto of the native cMy. vv her. bullet* were singing with the per sistency of locusts yesterday, I remarked to mys.-lf this was the flrM time In two weeks when I could not hear the sound of tiring. Parties of Japanese de tail,*l to sear, h for dead In ihe m irshe* bud a doxen bodies already gathered on boats which they were padding along the -.n .I beside the road. Those who fell on ■ the road or where *bey had sought cover Itehlnd the mud houses had been carried off the night before The Japanese kdled must run up to elx ty or seventy, the wounded to non. If he could not blow up the Houth (late, ns he had planned, Ihe Japanese General, never theless. never thought of going hack. Ht* magnificent little soldiers endured the con tinuous tire of ten hour* without flinching nnd had their reward when Ihe Chlncee. who .lid not consltler that we as well os they might have losses, run away and left in. In nciter the city mmtssved 111 the marshes on the right of the road American details were engnged tn the same sad work as the Japanese del,ills. The rifles nnd the knapsacks of the cold forms 111 blue and khaki which had been found were being carried off In -rickshaws while the dead themselves were sent on liners. Two of the fallen were shot through the head as they were firing from cover One was lying kh both hands grasping hi* rsfle In the attitude of aiming, ht* head upon his hands. The rifles which went In fo the fight so clean and bright yesterday wire thick wbh rust from the salt *'" nnd their barrels filled with slime The dead themselves were as muddy as If they had lieen dragged through a doien pud dle*. for they charged through mud and they lay In mud for cover It was some satisfaction to look from the scene of Col. Ltscum's death toward the wall* and see that Ihe flag which hs held In his hand as he fell was now floating over the Routh Gate- bearing the price la bel of victory—at half-mas* out of respect to his memory. That South Gate Is as badly battered as the wounded of the Ninth The entrance to It was Choked with the goings and com ings of Ihe soldier* of four nations. The mini IDttton train of the Japs wa* Just re turning as I entered. With It was mixed f;tr more picturesque elements. A British officer, sweaty and dirty, passed me with a morning smile of victory from a tired fnre. •Tien Tsln I* a great fur market." he said. He had three 'rickshaw* and seven or eight coolies loaded d>wn with sable, seal, gnlnk and Thibetan lambs' wool, which Is better adorning Kngllsh woman than fe. ding the flames. After him came an American marine and a \t elsh fusilier ever bosom friends—astride two little don key*. with harnesses gay enough for a mandarin’s stable*, then some captured Chines soldier* with their pigtails tied together: the Japanese general. Kuku shlma very proud, very erect; two or three sauntering Japanese officer* anl engineers; Kurnga-an clerk with more silks than he could carry; Chinese sur prised lo And themselre* alive alternate ly "kotowing" and crowding An Impregnstilr Wall. When the coivlnuou* shelling of the Ku roi can concession hv the Chinese gun* In position In the native city forced us. re gardless of property right*, to reply In kind wt would see through out g asses th- British lyddites and twelve-pounder* knocking up columns of dust from the INtgoda Yesterday morning, ns I have told you. the lyddites as well as Ihe ll pounder*. the little field gun- of the Japs, the big held flaw of tho British Rlkhs and th American marines all hammered away till their ammunition was gone And yet with all that pounding the walls of that g/tc are still standing. It* Interior was set on tire, making It too hot for us to en ter. too hot for the Chinese to remain; Its top walls hav* been battered Into dust and fragment*, hut below Ihe level of the main wall the stone and brick struc ture Is still a* solid as the arch of a Ito man bridge \Vlih Is palled the South Oale t* really llv South (tales You enter one aide of the square Interior area of the iKoda and pa- out of the othir. so that a foreo pelting :hrotiith the Ural Kale would he I In a Ir.p until they not through the rec | ond, and each of there narrow archways ts twenty fet of maaunry. Standlo* ! acaln-t the woll of one were a dosen of the glided standard* of the Chine,® troop, and Hoxcrs and a many slnsall*. \™t ih- areal wall Itself? I was ,ur prlsed lit how little damage our sheila had done to It. Field mins again,t I masonry were n, is)pun. T.de facing I* two and a half to three feet of ntasonry. Hack of that Is Shirty feet of Mirth, which Is the best ••stoplei" of modern fire of nil kinds, with the exception of aand. The facing rise, above the earth more than the hlsht of a mn - a head In thla were loophole, with a mwt fortunate nnsle for defen.e axatfist troops on the plain, behind which the Chinese riflemen atood firing at the goldlera of the Powers. If a lyddin* shell hit the r*srai>et it hurat ahrough. but so far .„ 1 could Judge the twelve-pounders did not. Those expert, who thought that the British navy had been •‘sold'' when It bought lyddite were as sadly nils aken ns any man whoever twgoi .1 theory or wrote a mainline arti cle Deliver me from ahell-nre’ Bui O larrd. aliove all. deliver me from lyddite ahell-nre! Ha.-oe of Lyddite Shell,. Wherever a ly<* llte shell burst, you may took for dead tartthln a range of twenty yard. It killed Ihe Chine,# *otdlern and rolled them over hy eoncuseton <lowm the ruts worn by the water of rainfall* to the street where they lay In a pile even a* the debris from a runway on a mountain, able If the (hell carried over the wall into the town—now we know why Admiral Pevmour hesitated *o long to throw ,h*M IP.o Tien Tetn. ihough we were suffer!,!* shell-tire ia the Concession while the vice roy was blandly conducting business in ht* Yamen In the native etty a, usual— and burst tu a oaui-bousv, you found tho m*oih*r* of ilu* family t>ill ono >n top *f th** othor. tut literal in * ftn?*h Tltough the it* t 1 b* Chinffr, an 4 there w.i- m rifle an.| plenty >f < irtrit!*'* near it hand, th* white train hu*VV re at an }| ! e*hl. especlilly If. „ | found In one house, he see* out member of ihe r.dnily i with hi- Jaws an I nose shot off but sill' breathing In bloody bubble- from Ills gu!- ;ict. At ;im . w 1,,-u nur !.o ~ pr,* , mete I the ett, by our trcop- | mean tr-sip* of th** Bill* , the JBp* nee*' the city vt ihs Pllerti aw h mefllrv.il t<>wn b tw pen the e-ntry* rnl’e ”AU*e well!* Th* polrllerii hai son**. Thr**r of ihe |<piilMtlnn h<* hni been warnel, nnr| had -m\ pln>*e to *. and who w re n t |arnlyi'd with ferr had **re Thee** wer* I*olo ratlve!y few The rent bolted thejr do are MR.ilm" the |K*wer of an rnt> even the French l*ea ant* did In and waited for what rh- morrow would bring forth The Chine** found In the turret ran. If hie lrj were etron* enon*ii to carry him. Otherwise, he (ell down, hie forehead tn th* duet, waillr * hi inr oi em eof all rlmra ngnlnet f.r Ign dev lie With Ihe bieakin* tp n of h' n*<**e In the imrn'iiate vtrlnliy of the wall, by the very proper order of the Japan**** Kenerol % aril the destruction nf yun.< and ammunition In th*m. fh** inhabitante. Mil ling we were mi w* ak f. r that In how they ronmrue It aa not 10 kill them, wept forth with •ko tows” and offering- of <*ako, melon* or whatever they had. They * warmed tip the old sM*r*i t* th* i t-ciHut* on the wail, whirh ate ar worn nx h me to the Par thenon. with food In one hand and a white flag in the other, and lagged for pneeea from the aoldlerr The roldler* ate the raker, except the Amerl ana and the British, who *turk hygienical))* to their hardtack, and jrra*|>ed the utruition In a manner worthy of men who light with humor in their heart*. 1.001 liu Iho < it y. Every private Hk>rom*ri forth into a fni:-fledged |rs.hr#-marahal. lie wrote I pa**** In wnatever hie language way And —especially th* Americans—wan n lit tle when the nativee “kotow* M' in thanks There first Chinese to , break out of their house* were deserving of a Chtneee Vk torla ’roe*-- for . kin*! of (*hlne*e bravery. From their statwl ' Point i* waa a most ticklish thing to do I By 1 o'clock the shop* in the main eireet l-mltng from the North to the South Hate were well on flie. While the eld|er reet dor the walii} a*id enjc*\ the Neronle spectacle, two line* of rhlne*.*. one |n- I atlncllvely taking one * t le of the street and *ne the other, were following, with the Chinee* disregard of danger when In pursuit of gain, the true Chinese l*ent Th* line with their arm* full of men-han • lie** were < oming from the looting of the *ho|)a; the (me with empty h ind* wer-* going If m foreign oftier eaw a pair of .inn* full of itk. be might take po *e**ton of them |f he chore. The flHh of It? Toe filth of It’ ThU expression unconaciouaiy aaoaped from your Itp*. The epectai le wi- never eufll dent to drown entirely thought* of dlsln fectanta and a Imth-tuh Even frm the walls the odor of three tltousaiel years of compressed cwige came to your nos trils. Native Tien Tain, with Its dense iMtpui.itlon, has tio drainage The hoar wallowing In It* stinking pool* are it* scavenger*. Tommy Atkins and Johnnv Yank of our Marine*. *!tting side by side and cadlng MuJ. Waller a great man, turned up their nowe*. *Bo 'elp no Gawd. |fa hawful!” amid Tommy. “Well, damme, you have to smell it to believe |t.” said the Yank Hotn wiped their hardtack with their cost-idee v.H as If they feared that odo; might crawl. Hut—l am exceeding mv space; and the buttle took place yesieLday I cannot tell you how much I regret that th** French Marines Imcl this native swine .is ns pigeon* for the banquet which a Frefichmon can mike under any condl tions, and how happy we ail nr** that the Japanese flag flies over the East Gate, th* French over the Weet, the Hrllish over tne North ersf the American over the Routh. thk HOI H OI- os: tTH. Many Insane Person, I'au twny To ward the I lose of Oay. Or. Pilgrim Flail*. From the New York Bun. A study of statistic, hy Charles W pil grim. >1 P.. *u|>erltilendent of the Hud son River Hlalc Hospital at Pnughkeep | sle. whbh ha, been published In the I American Journal of Insanity, hsa been ! reprinted In pamphlet form and attrarta | some attention, partlcufarly by rearen of 1 Dr. IMlvrlm - citations and dedu> lions I concerning Ihe hour of death Dr. Pll siims pr>er Is entitled "The Htodv of a Year’s ft: at Ist lea.** At Its conclusion he says: "An examination of the hour of death showed Hist Si per rent, died between midnight and a m. 19 per cem. between ( a. m. and nom. >1 per cent between r.oon and p. m and 24 per cent, between 1 p m. and mtdnlghl By acting there percentages together we find the curious fact that the death* were very evenly distributed between the hours of dark ness and light. ID patient* having died I lielween 8 p. m arw! a. m. and 1! t,e. | tween a a. m and S p n I--string to pursue this question still further 1 ex amined the deaths for the ten preceding years, nearly t .vn In all, snd found this I statemem strikingly confirmed, as a change of one-half of t per cent, would have made the deaths exactly even dur- i Ing the hour* of day and night •'A chart which I made of the death* I for the yeai-atid 1 might also add that | the statement, which I nm ahoni io ' make were corrborn led by a chart mtd of all the deaths •luring the preceding de cade—showed when divided Into sei’tlons of three hours each, that the highest point of the curve was reached, both for | men and women, between the hours of 2 and * p m . nearly 20 per cent of all j the death* having occurred between those hours The nest highest point was be- ! tween thk hours of 3 and 8 a m although J three was a decided fall fob both sexes for the single hour from 4 to 5. when in* j line went down to the lowest point reached In any hour of the twenty-four : There was also a derided fall, especially 5 for women, between 11 and 12 In the morn ing ‘These figure,, the-*fore, show that there U some reason tot the popular be- i lief that many death* o cur during the early morning hours, but they show Mill more plainly that the iraij rltv of those whit atiffer ft m long cnntli)tn‘d mental disease gtv< up their live t ward th' 'b* of d.iv Asa genet >1 rule Meath sfli% follow * life’ and suffering at the end. r|th*r |h> 4! •: tinntal. Is of t are occurrence. In (act tt t* not an utitom* nt* 11 thing tn 10 1 a clearing up of the cloudcij brain o r#*w hout t*cfire the Meal change This fact was noticed by Hn-h a hundred yt tr* k, and. In ny' Idnbti too li t . ha* h♦■ written of it Mtice From tm own ob-er% at ions, and from the reports of rt l.able nurses, many pat'emr ' p..ily tnoe** dymg of ph thisis. or aft*’ nig ral operations, or fr- 111 i nt** Iniercuirent ui ase*, or In- Jur is which p < luce profound *h* k UP tl the general system hvom*’ calm and • 'h r. nt 'v •*. n< . mIl EUtwl'cr. Ir l’l a liii mak* s Tills re mnk “The numtu 1 of • dlgtr*< and upon irlmluios a l * a Lite melancholia, which I* just about two and one-half tim*a* gr*it * that of acute maria, is quite suggestive It not only proves, nn I* generally *dmitied by .l nits, that It Is the rub* fir insanity to iwgtn with <t* i a wilt tt the hospital much ear lb r th*n the> used t |c. b**f. rc the Ut* r stage of mania ha* had time to develop It Urd 'Ubtrdl) till* fa t which so often giv" rise to the a*“rt on that the form of Insinlty ha* changed of lat* and that the terribly troubles-tne ca*-s of former yea 1 s in which M-'iaint sr *l n* ci ssary. are no longer seen Hut tt Is my belief that th** tyl r* as*n for th* InfLe QU*n* N of Ml 1 C.ISCH Is that hosp Mai-• for the (tisane are to-da> rrgaidi l much mot. fatoraldy tit in th*\ were * \*n .1 decade ago. and then ;i I Is tmii ! earlier nought and thtr full benefits much o I tall er obtain and I’rntt* of the llo* From the For eel and Btream. lnatlncg hold* relatively a* small part in the life of the dog |i do * in the life of man log* inherit the In lnct of mlf preservation, the maternal and paternal Ir.stlrt. and he instinct to seek a food supply, etc . but in fh** 11 tiv|ti*s of life. In choo.- ng mean* to ends, their Intelli genre holds fuil sway Experience and observation add to the dog s store of knowledge us they do to the store of man's. Th* 1 dog's knowledge is a growth Whether he | wiki or dome*th*ated. he ha* much training of mind and body to undergo b* ft re he fit* Into his environ ment to the t*e*t advantage to himself. If tn a wdd stale, he must learn all the wllrs of pursuit, of nttaok and deft rise, both as an individual and ns one of 11 puck In n domesticated state he intelli gently fits hlmsc f to his environment hv following the lines of |eav resistance Cuffed fr jumping on th* bed. driven from the parlor with a broomstick, scold ed for barking In tho house, or thrashed for an attempt lo steal f*w| from the ta ble, etc., he avoids the experiences which arc painful, and make-; ihr mart of guch privileges a* nr** plea int and allowed to him In time, hs experience directs, Ids manner of life bocom*- his habit of Ilf* He cease* to have a longing for the com forts of the parlor, and forbear* stealing food unless he has a safe opportunity. The moral nature of the d>g never reaches to • bight which commands much confidence, lie Is a predatory animal, and his marauding Instincts, though reasonably dormant in his own home, are quickly brought Into activity on outside opportunity. In the home of hi* master’* frbnd. where h* is for the first ftme. the dog most I rigenly search es every nook and earner, disregards his liom** manners, and does not hesitate to appropriate to his own us* any food he may find According to his point of view he I* doing no wrong Buch Is hi* nature. In t me, with more thumpings and more I sinful experience, be barns that the rules |n force at his own home are also the rule* to Ik* observed when he i in other h'Ube- and he governs himself a* - cordlngty. However, lie easily drifts Into vagabond habits If npportunity offers, such as sneaking off into the fields and wood* on self-hunting trips associating with vagabond *d g* etc 4ml at auill times h* wflll Indulge 111 many freaks and faneb s. of which he would not 4>e guilty If under the oye of hi* m.*t*C. He has a profound ;ffe tion for his master, hut that do* * not In the least signify that he los<s any of his own In dividuality or Interest In Ills <wu manner of life (n the mif'er of hl u affection, hy the way, he has leen lauded to bights on the one hand, quite as unwarranted as he was depreciated on the other In the mat ter of Intelligence Logs love their mas ters. It Is true, but not as a rule with the loyalty and and veil n *o dear to sentimen tal writers • a them when rl'koratlng on the nobility which dogs p s-esa. The average dog, however much he may exhibit affection for his maatec to-day. wrlll be quite content to take up With • new one to-morrow. A few appetising morsels of food are sufficient to excite his Interest, a few pats on the head evoke his friendship, ami a few repetition* of frlerui ly attention win hi* affection. 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