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Show S FRIEND OF A KING. KOREA'S AMERICAN VICE MINISTER MINIS-TER OF WAR. Sen. Dy Returning to the Cnlted State After Eleven Tears in Seoul Bow He Hai Thwarted Nomeroiu Plots Against the King. Gen. Dye, an American, who has Dye, made his home at Seoul, Corea, for eleven years, occupying official positions posi-tions and reaping high honors. Is about to start for his old home in the United States. His family lives in Muskegon, Mich., but his old home is in Washington, Wash-ington, where for many years he was major of police. From the time of his arrival in the sountry until recently Gen. Dye was the military adviser of his Corean majesty and the chief organizer, infractor, in-fractor, etc., of the Corean army, which In Seoul alone consisted, includ ing the gendarmerie of about 12,000 men, mostly Infantry and artillery. Although Al-though the former class of the country, which furnishes nearly all the soldiers, re superb riders, there was and is very little cavalry, because of the diminutive diminu-tive character of the native pony. Soon after Gen. Dye's arrival in the kingdom king-dom he was made vice minister of war, a young cousin of the king (and queen) occupying the position of minister, min-ister, his (Gen. Dye's) rank being the GEN. DYE. second in the kingdom, the first rank being held by only a few persons, and they usually relatives of the king or queen. The late minister to Washington, Washing-ton, Ye Pom Chin, is one of the few who hold the first rank, he having successfully suc-cessfully secreted the queen at his mountain retreat for some weeks and months during and after a bloody emeute some fifteen years ago, when her life was in great jeopardy; for she was hounded by the king's unscrupulous unscrupu-lous father from the time she became the king's consort until her death. Ye Pom Chin later, three years ago, effected effect-ed by virtue of his position of refugee at the Russian legation, his majesty's and the crown prince's escape from the i clutches of the pro-Japanese-Corean conspirators who, since their murder of the queen a few months before, had practically kept them in durance vile. The military, besides especially guarding the palace, also policed the city, Gen. Dye making the precincts and locating the troops. The arms with which the troops were provided were mostly from the United States, including the Remington rifle, Gatling guns, etc. The provincial troops generally gen-erally had flint lock or, as was mostly the case, the slow-match and the priming prim-ing pan. These seemed to answer in a country where the population are not allowed to own arms, and are used successfully suc-cessfully even against the tiger. After the invasion of the country by the Japanese, especially in 1895. there was a constant struggle (ending with the murder of the queen) between the Japanese and the royal family for the control of the military in the palace, who were the special guard of the royal roy-al family, which the king claimed should be under his direct orders, whatever authority the Japanese might choose to exercise over the troops located lo-cated elsewhere throughout the country. coun-try. The Japanese, with a Japanese army in the capital city, had already begun to reorganize, a la Japanese, some of the old army residing outside the palace, for only a portion of the army, on any one day, stood guard within the palace walls. Gen. Dye stood by the royal family In this contest. con-test. He was, after the advent of the Japanese, in July, 1894, permanently quartered quite near the royal compound, com-pound, in a granite and brick structure struc-ture adjoining the library (said to be the finest building in the peninsula), which annex waa erected for the use of the queen or crown prince. Here be was then the Japanese and Corean conspirators assaulted the palace and murdered the queen in October, 1895, after the Japanese had disarmed all the army, excepting a few men, who were then ready to obey their behests. It was at great personal inconvenience and sacrifice that, notwithstanding re- ; peated threats and ever-present imminent immi-nent danger surrounding him, he stood ' ror months, and years even, loyally by the royal family, who seemed to rely much upon him for their personal safety safe-ty and the preservation of their dynasty, dynas-ty, for it seemed to them, as his majesty maj-esty said, that they lost nearly, if not quite, all their Corean friends in their sore hour of need. When the household minister, the queen and others were being wantonly wanton-ly murdered two attempts were made by the Japanese and their Corean coadjutors, co-adjutors, with men under arms, to forcibly eject Gen. Dye from the palace lnclosure, as they had just done in the case of the only other foreigner in the palace on that eventful morning. However, How-ever, certain signs and warnings from Gen. Dye caused them to desist for the time being, when they found that they might have to imbrue their hands with tne Diood of an innocent foreigner, ! whose only fault, in their sight, was standing loyally by their sovereign or royal host These efforts to separate him from the royal family did not end, but continued for months, during which time he was practically a pris- I oner with the king and crown prince. The next efforts were In the form of bribery, repeated attempts being made at it by the de facto minister of war. The palace lnclosure contains many acres and a town of palaces and appurtenant ap-purtenant buildings. The palace assigned as-signed for the residence of his majesty and the prince royat was in each instance in-stance a half mile or more distant from Gen Dye's quarters, with an interminable intermina-ble number of walls and vexatiously labyrinthine structures between, and no suitable quarters for the general near his majesty, which was scrupulously scrupu-lously looked into in making the selections. se-lections. The American minister, the Russian minister and the Britlsh'rep-resentative Britlsh'rep-resentative all in each Instance, came to the rescue when his majesty had re peatedly signified his displeasure at mmL, 4 Mil tne purpose or tne usurpers and the ! fatal day, but it had arrived just the onmiliatlon to which he was being un- S same. "Life is dear to me." she said, lecessarlly subjected. The usurpers j "and it would be hard to give it up! were for the moment thwarted in their . But" and again she gazed at the re-Burpose. re-Burpose. but were not completely out- flection or her fair face in the mirror, lone. The burnt remains of the queen J and more especially at the three gray were In the hands of the usurpers and hairs she had just discovered "my there bad teen talk of their lyinc ' time has come. I must dye," dec a canopy in her old compo'ina oaring oar-ing the long period of mourning customary cus-tomary in the case of the death of a crowned head. There the king and prince royal and the queen's retinue would, without change of residence, have been near enough to perform their part of the rites due on such an occasion. But, no. A half mile away, by the communicating streets, was a very low, damp depression in the palace pal-ace inclosure the lowest and by far the most unhealthy place. This isolated isolat-ed place was selected and the remains of the queen were taken there, with much ceremony; and the king and crown prince, under inexorable rules of ceremony in this sacred cause, were obliged to remove there to perform their sacred functions during the period pe-riod of mourning during which time all business of state is habitually suspended, sus-pended, and they and other mourners are kept quite busy with their weeping, weep-ing, wailing and sacrificing. Within ten or twelve feet of the building temporarily fitted up for the king was a one-kang, dirty, dingy room, with the appearance of a stable, which it was said Gen. Dye was to occupy, oc-cupy, because his majesty insisted that he should be quartered near him. When the usurpers, to their surprise (and chagrin), learned that he, in order to comply with his majesty's wishe3 would for at least a part of the time occupy that dingy hole, the guards at the several gates in the wall surrounding surround-ing the large compound were instructed instruct-ed to suffer no one to pass them going in or coming out without a pas3 having hav-ing three or four distinct seals upon it; and this pass was refused Gen. Dye. He did not see the king again until the latter's escape, in a wo:an's chair, some weeks later, to the Russian legation, le-gation, which feat was engineered by himself, a female of his household (a concubine) and Ye Pom Chin, the recent re-cent Corean minister at Washington, who received his reward in high rank and position that he never could have hoped to reach without such substantia! substan-tia! service. GOT RID OF THE GAMBLERS. An Incident of the Staging Days in Southeast Kansas. Editor S. C. Weldy of the Galena Republican, Re-publican, deputy state oil inspector of Kansas, tells a story of the old stage days in the early 70's, when he was agent for the El Paso State company at Baxter Springs, eight miles southwest of Galena, says the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Globe-Democrat. Continuing, Mr. Weldy said: "The line ran from Baxter Springs to Forts Arbuckle and Sill, in Texas, and was one of the best in the west, as far as stock and general equipment were concerned. The owners own-ers were Sawyer & Fickland, the latter being manager of the line. Old Ben, as he was called, was a character once known never forgotten. He used to take special delight in telling us that we had less stage sense than any man on earth, and continued to discharge us and hire us over again at an increased increas-ed salary, until he raised us from $40 tofM a month. When the boom at Baxter Springs busted it left a host of broken tin-horn gamblers on their uppers. They were anxious to get to Texas and resorted to all sort3 of schemes to get over the road. About this time Ben said to us one day, as he was boarding the southbound coach: 'I want all the stage drivers I can get in Texas. If any come along send them down. We timidly sugested tht we could not tell a stage driver from any other man, and Ben grew very indignant. indig-nant. Said he: 'If a man comes along with a whipstick in his hand and sayi he is a stage driver, don't you know he is?' We replied: 'Yes, if you say so.' That night we said to one of the gamblers: 'Get a whipstick and come and tell me you are a stage driver.' The next day we had eleven applicants and sent eleven men to Texas. The next coach carried eight, and the following fol-lowing morning nine took advantage of the 'excursion rates.' By this time the first coach had reached Finckland and the return coach brought up this message, written in big black letters: 'You fool; stop sending those played-out played-out gamblers down here. There is not a stage driver in the whole gang.' When Ben came up he was frothing at the mouth and said: 'What do you fellows fel-lows mean? Those men are not stage drivers.' We informed him that every mother's son of them came to us with a whipstick and said he was a stage driver. Two days more and we would have rid the town of dead-brokes. Poor old Ben! I shall never forget him. He choked to death on a fishbone while dining in Washington City." THE LATE BISHOP NEWMAN. Bishop John P. Newman, the distinguished dis-tinguished prelate of the northern Methodist church, who died recently at his home in Saratoga, N. Y., wa perhaps the most distinguished churchman of his denomination in America. In 1860, after he had spent several years in preaching the gospel, Dr. Newman went abroad and spent some time in study in various conti- BISHOP NEWMAN, nental universities. On his return he came south as a missionary, and during dur-ing his stay here he established two colleges, one church journal and three conferences. In 1S69 he was appointed appoint-ed chaplain of the United States senate, sen-ate, an office he filled for six years. While in Washington he organized the Metropolitan Memorial Methodist church, and was its pastor. In 1874 Dr. Newman revisited Asia, and after a year's sojourn In Palestine he returned re-turned to his old church in Washington. Washing-ton. He was a personal friend of General Gen-eral Grant, and acted as the spiritual consoler of the former president during dur-ing the latter's last illness. Dr. Newman's New-man's works on the Holy Land are among the most interesting descrip- i tions of that country extant. He was 73 years old. Alaek! AI From the Chicago News: It had come aft last. For weeks and weeks she had dreadeJ the eominsr nf th LED A STORMY LIFE. THE LATE GEORGE W. JULIAN WAS A FIGHTER. rbat Is In a Folitical Sense His Karly Adherence to the Abolitionist Cause Won Him Fame, Friends and Foes in Large Numbers. George W. Julian died at his home Ji Irvington, near Indianapolis, the ther morning. He was 82 years of ige, but he had not been in poor health Jntil a few days before his death. A stroke of apoplexy brought unconsciousness, uncon-sciousness, and the certainty to his friends and family that the end was near. His daughter, Mrs. Grace Julian Ju-lian Clarke, his son Paul, and the family fam-ily physician were with him when he died. In Appleton's American Biography there appears after the name of Mr. Julian the word "statesman." If questioned ques-tioned on the subject he himself would probably not have desired other appellation appel-lation descriptive of the purpose of his eventful life. The generation of today has little if any recollection of his deeds.but the generation which is passing pass-ing away knew him as a virile, rugged, uncompromising constructionist of reforms re-forms during the period from 1850 to 1875. A hater of shams, of false political po-litical pretenses, of slavery, mental or physical, .he gave the best of his talents to the organization of the free soil movement of Indiana; the upbuilding of the Republican party and the abo lition of slavery. In his days Indiana was not as strong an abolition state as Jome historians would now have it appear. ap-pear. Julian's experience there in combating the slave-owning influence was little different from that of Love-joy Love-joy in Illinois, except mat he was not assassinated. His public meetings were routed, buildings stormed in which he was sheltered, and many times his life placed in peril. GEORGE W. He was born near Centerville, Ind., May 5, 1817, educated in such common schools as there were in those days, Btudied law, taught school and was admitted ad-mitted to the bar in 1840. He was a whig as a young man, and as such was elected to the Indiana house of representatives repre-sentatives in 1845. From tne start rf his legislative experience he was ror. in harmony with his party on the great questions of the hour. For that matter mat-ter he was never a strenuous party man. He accepted party organizations so long as they conformed with his ideas of justice and right, but no lenger. The whig party in Indiana in 1845 was undergoing the same processor process-or dissolution that overtook it in Ohio in 1852-53. The free soil party seemed to be the coming organization for men determined to prevent the extension of slavery. In 1848 Mr. Julian attached himself to the cause of the free soiler3. He was a quaker by birth, and slavery I was therefore especially repugnant to him as an Institution. He found the free soil people not well organized and in need of a leader. He took that position, and in reality gave the party its first permanent form through which it was enabled to assume as-sume a national character. He was a prominent delegate to the Buffalo free soil convention, and frpm 1849 to 1851 served in congress as a free soil representative. repre-sentative. His attitude then toward the slave-holding states was one of absolute ab-solute resistance to slavery and no ccmpromise with its exponents. When in 1852 the free soil party placed in the field a presidential ticket Mr. Julian was the nominee for vice president and made the canvass. H was not a brilliant speaker, but a vigorous vig-orous fighter, and set in his notions favoring fa-voring old-fashioned, downright honesty hon-esty in political as well as private affairs. af-fairs. Having also great physical courage, he proved himself a foeman of feared power to the slave owners. When the first reports of the organization organ-ization of the national Repu oilcan party par-ty in Cleveland came west, Mr. Julian studied its platform, and then announced an-nounced that he believed in it, that both the whig and free soil parties were to be replaced by the Republican, Republic-an, and that from thence on he was a Republican. He was elected a delegate dele-gate to the first national convention of the new party, held at Pittsburg in 1856, was made vice president of the convention ad chairman of the committee com-mittee on organization. Returning to Indiana and regarding was as inevitable, inevita-ble, he campaigned for the cause of abolition ab-olition until 1860, when he was again elected to congress, this time as a Republican. Re-publican. For the next ten years he was a prominent political character in Washington, noted for his unswerving honesty, his bluntnes3, a slight disposition dispo-sition to be crabbed when opposed, but always having his face set toward the right. He served on tne Joint committee com-mittee on the conduct of the war and for eight years was chairman of the committee on public lands. He was re-elected to his seat in congress four times. He belonged to a type of thinkers produced by conditions on' the then frontier. The type ha3 been almost jbliterared now. As earv as 1847 be was an advocate of woman suffrage, and in 1868 proposed in congress a constitutional amendment giving women wom-en the right to vote. He believed from the day the emancipation proclamation was issued that the negro should have the right to vote, and while his Judgment Judg-ment on that point might be seriously questioned now, he never wavered! In his support of the proposition until it was an accomplished fact. The first administration of Grant did not please him, because he believed the Republican Repub-lican party was drifting away from its original aims. In consequence he supported sup-ported Greeley in 1872, and after that never really returned to the Republican Republic-an fold. ; he homestead policy of the government, govern-ment, elaborated after the war, was strongly supported by him while In congress, as also the doctrine that the public lands should be preserved for the use of all the people. After 1875 he did not lake an active part in national na-tional politics, but in recognition of his great services in the past. President Cleveland made him surveyor-general of New Mexico in 1885, which was the last public office he held. His political politi-cal speeches were published in Chicago in 1884. His life and speeches on political po-litical questions appeared in 1872, edited ed-ited by Lydia Maria Child. He wrote often and freely for the magazines and reviews upon political topics, and was a valued contributor. As an abolitionist aboli-tionist he enjoyed the confidence of Abraham Lincoln and often presented the policy of the president in congress on important pending questions. WICKEDEST MAN IN EUROPE. It would not have been surprising if the report from Bulgaria that a revolution revo-lution against the government of Prince Ferdinand was in progress had been true. Ever since he came to the throne the ruler of Servia has so coa-ducted coa-ducted himself as to win the title of the wickedest man in Europe. His reign has been a succession of mur- JULIAN. ders. His hired butchers have killed Beltcheff, the minister of finance; Vulkovich, the Bulgarian diplomatic agent; and finally the great Stambu-loff, Stambu-loff, the prime minister, to whom Ferdinand Fer-dinand owed his throne'. The latter was hacked to pieces in broad daylight within sight of the royal palace, and the murderers are today alive and stand high in the favor of the prince, who a few hours after being told of e murder of his benefactor, went to e theater to enjoy a farce. So no torious are the crimes of Bulgaria's prince that he is practically banished from every court in Europe. Emperor PRINCE FERDINAND. Francis Joseph in refusing to see Fer dinand denounced him as a common felon. Only at Constantinople is he received at all, and then only as a vassal vas-sal of his brother in crime, the, sultan. Woman Finds Wealth. quartz mine. The vein is from 200 to 600 feet in width and is intersected in its source by Atlin City. It has been traced over three-quarters of a mile. Miss Florman's father is a mine expert and numerous assays of the ore which (Tacoma, Wash., Cor. Chicago Record) Miss Frankie Florman, of Black Hills, S. D., has discovered what Atlin mining men regard as an immense he recently made disclosed values running run-ning from $8 to $27 per ton on the surface. sur-face. Mining Expert Frank Baker and William Partridge have bonded the property for $200,000. Partridge left here yesterday for London to place it on the market there. A Familiar Sensation. . "I understand that you were In that lift which fell five stories the other day. How did It feel as it was going down?" "Just as I feel when I get within sight of my home at night ten minutes late and suddenly remember that my wife wanted me to get home early, as she had arranged for a dinner party." Tit-Bits. I Jt est in Life Belts. M. Janet, a Frenchman of Bauvais, finds that four toy india rubber balloons bal-loons attached to a yard of whipcord make a swimming belt or life buoy. The balloons should only be half full In order to resist the waes better. This life belt can easily be carried in the pocket anJ inflated at need. OUR BUDGET OF FUN. SOME GOOD JOKES. ORIGINAL AND SELECTED. A Variety of Jokes, Gthes and Ironies, Original and Selected Flotsam and Jetsam from the Tide of .Humor Witty Sayings. A June Proposal, She wore a red rose in her golden hair My queen of all the world so sweet so fair; Full tenderly my offered "heart she took, Then told me calmly that she couldn't cook. An Extra Ingredient. , "No," he said reflectively, "this isn't like mother's pie." "And why not?" she waspishly asked. "Because," he mildly explained, "mother's pie always had arsts in it." Church Bells. She "What is the atlta-cilom that draws you to church?" He "The belles." The Educated Thief. "The testimony is agninst you," said the police justice, "is clear and conclusive. con-clusive. You spend your time committing com-mitting petty thefts." "Yes, your honor," responded the prisoner, venturing to wink at the court, "I am an embodied pnotest against the existing condition of things. I am a round robbdn, your honor." But his honor was equal to the emergency. "For the next CO days, anyhow," he, said, frowning at the prisoner, "you won't be around robbin'. You'll be a jail bird. Call the next case?" One Woman's Wisdom. He had proposed to the idol of his heart, but things had failed to come his way. "Do you know," he said, as he : was leaving her presence forever, "Chat you are wringing my heart from my bosom?" "Possibly," she answered,' coldly, "but it'3 either that or marry you and wring the bosoms from your shirts in after years." Seeing that the case was hopeless the party of the first part lit a cigarette cigar-ette and wandered hence into the hither. ; He Knew What Was Wanted. "You understand the necessity for making this report as favorable as possible?" pos-sible?" "I think I do." "Of course we don't want any downright down-right lying about it. You understand that. But we want it well, as c?ti-mistic c?ti-mistic as it can be made." "I know exactly what you want. I used to be a census enumerator up In Chicago." Serious Mistake. "The worst enemy I ever made," said the statesman, "was the man I got a government job a few years ago." "What ingratitude!" "No, it was downright anger. There was a good salary attached, but he had to work." Her Predominating Trait "She married an old man worth $4,-000,000, $4,-000,000, and who isn't expected to live a year." "I'm not surprised. Site's always, been a most successful bargain hunter." His Defense. v Flagler I saw the agent for the Society So-ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to. Animals coming out of your house this morning. What'B the matter? Nagdby Yes; I had him drop in to warn my mother-in-law. Caught the Car. "Is Mr. Goodheart still paying: attention at-tention to your daughter?" "He isn't paying her any attention at all." "Indeed! Did she jilt him?" "No; he married her." No More to Get. Sister So you married for money, eh? Well, did you get it? Brother All she had. Hakes That a Business. Pilson Are you going to take part in that guessing eontest? Dilson Oh, no; they'd rule me ov as a professional Pilson Professional? Dilson Yes; you know I am connected con-nected with the Weather Bureau. Worried by Trifles. -She's one of those girls who worry over trifles." "What's the trifle that's worrying her now?" "Her bathing suit' FUN TO GUESS THEV How a Serapbook of Celebrities Cau Be Made Most Amusing. "I have invented a new diversion which has proven a huge success," said a bright young woman of this city. "To begin with, I have pasted seven dozen photographs of prominent promi-nent men, politicians, writers, actors, and so on in a large scrap book. The photographs were at full face and the subjects all smooth shaven. Then I took a brush and painted in one-half of a mustache with Paine's gray water color, on each face, usually selecting the shadow side. The gray matched the photographic tint exactly, and the work looks surprisingly natural. As afinishing touch I glued paper flap? over the pictures. The flaps could be raised from the bottom and were divided di-vided like doors, so as to reveal half the face at a time. That was the whole machine, and it has caused no end of fun. When the mustache side is hidden hid-den every portrait is recognized at a glance, but vice versa hardly a single one of them can be identified. You would be astonished at the change it makes. President McKinley, Richard Mansfield, Senator Hanna, Henry Irving, Irv-ing, Capt. Bob Evans.Gen. Von Moltke, Dr. Talmage, Thomas Edison, Stuart Robson, Constant Coquelin and Richard Rich-ard Harding Davis are apparently total to-tal strangers. They have a slight aid of familiarity, but that is all a sort of I-know-your - face - but-I-can't-recall-your-name look. The best guessing record up to date was made by a professor pro-fessor of Tulane university, who picked pick-ed out three, but disgraced himself on the wind up by declaring that Frederic Remington was John Wanamaker. The scheme might be varied by making a collection of mustached celebrities and painting out instead of painting in, but I'm not enough of an artist for the trick. Anybody can do the other," New Orleans Times-Democrat. PREPARING FOR A NEW PLAY. Complete Model in Miniature of Scenery Made Before Production. The preparation for a new play, as far as the scenery is concerned, is most interesting. A complete model in miniature is made, about the size of one of the German toy theaters seen in the shops. The picture is carefully painted, the rocks, if there be any, and the foliage are cut out, and all the details de-tails are followed with no less thought than when the real affair is attacked. The work is done in water color, mounted on pasteboard, and if the scheme be an interior there are real curtains in miniature, flights of step3, and the hangings, all seriously worked out. It is something that would delight the heart of a boy and furnish him with endless amusement. These models are kept until after the piece is produced, and are then put away on shelves, alas-! only to warp and to become covered with dust. But the master painter's work does not end here by any means, for there are lights to be arranged, since they play an important part in the performance, and must be regulated regulat-ed by the scheme of color; so there are long conferences with electricians and many discussions with the makers of glass shades whereby the exact tints may be obtained. When every detail has been settled, then the great acres of canvas are spread on the paint frames and the drawing begun. Large china pots are used for the colors. These are filled with paints, which are mixed with water and a size, and enormous en-ormous brushes put the pigment on the canvas. It is wonderful to watch the artist who dashes on the paint with no apparent care and who has to work fast to cover the surface before the color dries, whieh it does quickly. New York Commercial Advertiser. Friendship Insurance. From Tid-Bits: That there may be such a thing as carrying insurance too far is indicated by the case of Mr. Mul-cahy Mul-cahy and Mr. Mulhooly, two Irish gentlemen. gen-tlemen. Though they were known to be great friends, they were one day observed to pass each other in the street without a greeting. "Why, Mulcahy," a friend asked, in astonishment, "have you and Mulhooly quarreled?" "That we have not!" said Mr. Mulcahy, Mul-cahy, with earnestness. "There seemed to be a coldness between be-tween you when you passed just now." "That's the insurance of our friendship." friend-ship." "I don't understand." "Whoy, thin, it's this way. Mulhooly Mul-hooly and I are that devoted to wan another that we can't bear the idea of a quarrel, an' as we are both moighty quick tempered, we've resolved not to shpake to wan another at all!" She Knew His Footsteps. They are telling a story up on the West Side which may or may not be true about a rising young politician politi-cian who has unusually large feet. His mother is a lovable old woman, and quite deaf. She lives in a flat in the neighborhood of Grant's tomb, and is always delighted by a visit from h,er son. When the United States cruiser Brooklyn, which was anchored in the Hudson, off the tomb, on Memorial day, fired a salute of twenty-one guns, the old lady was observed to start, fix her cap and smooth down her apron. Then she said, with a sweet smile: "George is coming; I hear his footsteps foot-steps on the stairs." New York Tribune. Trib-une. Local Coinage. A Sarcoxie man was telling the othei Aay of the manner in which the people down in his town have gone into free coinage on their own hook, so to speak, the metal used, however, being aluminum alum-inum instead of silver. The "coin" consists of aluminum strawberry checks of three different sizes, good respectfully re-spectfully for "one crate," "one tray," "one quart." On the back in raised figures is a strawberry, so natural, it is declared, that it almost looks red. "That is the circulating medium in our locality now," said the Sarcoxie man, as he Jingled, some of the checks in his hand. Kansas City Journal. It's Sometimes That Way. She was surprised when she heard of the engagement, and she showed it. "Why, I was perfectly satisfied in my own mind that you liked John better than Harry." she said. "Well, to tell the truth, I did." replied the engaged girl. "But you say you are engaged to Harry." "Yes; that's true." "Well, I don't understand it at ail." "Why, it's very simple. You see, Harry was the one who proposed." Chicago Post. Quite the Natural Thing. Biggs Did you say Brookleigh Knight died a natural death? Boggs Perfectly natural. He was itruck by a trolley car, IN THE SOUTH SEAS. By Frank T. Bullen, in "The Cruise of the Cachalot": When between Cos-moledos Cos-moledos and Astove, the next Island to the northward, we sighted a "solitary" cachalot one morning just as the day dawned1. It was the first for some time nearly three weeks and being well seasoned to the work now, we obeyed the call to arms with great alacrity. Our friend was making a passage, turning turn-ing neither to the right hand nor the left as he went. His rising and number num-ber of spouts while up, as well as the time he remained below, were as regular reg-ular as the progress of a clock, and could be counted upon with quite as much certainty. Bearing in mind, I suppose, the general gen-eral character of the whales we had recently met with, only two boats were lowered to attack the newcomer, who, all unconscious of our coming, pursued his leisurely course unheeding. We got a good weathergage of him, and came flying on as usual, getting two irons planted in fine style. But a surprise awaited us. As we sheered up into the wind away from him, Louis shouted: "Fightin' whale, sir; look out for de rush!" Look out, indeed! Small use in looking out when, hampered ham-pered as we always were at first with the unshipping of the mast, we could do next to nothing to avoid him. Without With-out any of the despe'rate flounderings generally indulged in on first feeling the iron, he turned upon us, and had it not been that he caught sight of the 6econd mate's boat, which had just arrived, ar-rived, and turned his attention to her, there would have been but scant chance of any escape for us. Leaping half out of the water, he made direct for our comrades with a vigor and ferocity fe-rocity marvelous to see, making it no easy matter for them to avoid his tremendous tre-mendous rush. Our actions, at no time slow, were considerably hastened by his display of valor, so that before he could turn his attention in our direction di-rection we were ready for him. Then ensued a really big fight, the first, in fact, of my experience, for none of the other whales had shown any serious determination to do us an injury, but had devoted all their energies to attempts at-tempts at escape. So quick were the evolutions, and so savage the appearance appear-ance of this fellow, that even our veteran vet-eran mate looked anxious as to the possible result. Without attempting to sound the furious monster kept mostly below the surface; but whenever he rose, It was either to deliver a fearful blow with his tail, or, with jaws widespread, wide-spread, to try and bite one of our boats STRUCK THE BOAT FAIRLY AMIDSHIPS. AMID-SHIPS. in half. Well was it for us that he was severely handicapped by a malformation mal-formation of the lower jaw. At a short distance from the throat it turned off nearly at right angles to his body, the part that thus protruded sideways being be-ing deeply fringed with barnacles and plated with big limpets. Had it not been for this impediment I verily believe he would have beaten us altogether. As it was, he worked us nearly to death with his ugly rushes. Once he delivered" a sidelong blow with his tail, which, as we spun around, shore off the two oars on that Bide as if they had been carrots. At last the second mate got fast to him, and then the character of the game changed again. Apparently unwearied by his previous exertions hs now started start-ed off to windward at top speed, with the two boats sheering broadly out upon either side of his foaming wake. Doubtless because he himself was much fatigued, the mate allowed him to run a-t his will, without, for the time, attempting to haul any closer to him; and very grateful the short rest was to us. But he had not gome a coupie oi nines ueiore ne turned a complete somersault in the water, coming com-ing up behind us, to rush off again in the opposite direction at undiminished speed. This move was a startler. For the moment it seemed as if both boats would be smashed like eggshells against each other or else that some of us would be impaled upon the long lances with which each boat's bow bristled. By what looked like a hand-breadth hand-breadth we cleared each other, and the race continued. Up till now we had Dot succeeded in getting home a singie lance, the foe was becoming wearier, while the strain was certainly telling upon our nerves. So Mr. Count got out his bomb gun, shouting at the sasae time to Mr. Cruce to do the same. They both hated these weapons, nor ever used them if they could help It; but what was to be done? Our chief had hardly got his- gtin ready before we came to almost a dead stop. All was sjlent for just a moment, mo-ment, then, with a roar like a cataract, cata-ract, up sprang the huge creature, head out, jaw wide open, coming direct for us. As coolly as if on the quarterdeck quarter-deck the mate raised his gun, firing the bomb directly down the great livid cavern of a throat fronting him. Down went that mountainous head, not six Inches from us, but with a perfectly indescribable in-describable motion, a tremendous writhe, in face; up flew the broad tail in the air, and a blow which might have sufficed to stave in the side of the ship struck the second mate's boat fairly amidships. It was right before j my eyes, not sixty ieet away, na tne sight will haunt me to my death. The tub oarsman was a poor German, and that awful blow put an end to all his earthly anxieties. As it shore obliquely oblique-ly through the center of the boat, it drove his poor body right through her timbers an undistlnguishable bundle of what was an instant before a human being. The other members of the crew escaped the blow, and the har-pooner har-pooner managed to cutj the line, so that for the present they were safe enough, clinging to the remains of their boat, unless the whale should choose to rush across them. Happily, the rushing waa almost over. The bomb fired by Mr. Count, with such fatal result to poor Bamberger, Bamber-ger, must have exploded right in the whale's throat. Whether his previous titanic efforts had completely exhausted exhaust-ed him, or whether the bomb had brok en nls massive backbone, I doj not know, of course, but he went into no flurry, dying as peacefully aa his course had been furious. For the first time in my life I had been face to face with a violent death, and I was quite stunned with the awfulness of the experience. ex-perience. Mechanically, as it seemed to me, we obeyed such orders as were given, but every man's thoughts were with the shipmate so suddenly dashed from among us. We never saw signs of him again. . . . We got the whale cut in as usual without any incident in-cident worth mentioning, except that the peculiar shape of the jaw made it an object of great curiosity to all of us who were new to the whale fishing. Such malformations are not very rare. They are generally thought to occur when the animal is young, and its bones soft; but whether done in fighting fight-ing with one another, or in some more, mysterious way, nobody knows. Cases have been known, I believe, where the deformed whale does net appear to have suffered from lack of food in consequence of his disability; but In each of the three instances which have come under my own notice, such was certainly not the case. Those whales were what is termed by the whalers "dry-skins;" that is, they were in poor condition, the blubber yielding less than half the usual quantity of oil. The absence of oil makes it very hard to cut up, and there is more work in one whale of this kind than in two whose blubber is rich and soft. GUNS THAT DON'T KILL, Guns have plenty of uses apart from killing. For instance, the signal gun of a ship is intended solely for announcing an-nouncing her arrival on a coast. Again, in desert countries, where water wa-ter is difficult to collect out of a mere dampness of sand, a gun barrel sunk into the ground will collect moisture in the bore, and many a life has been saved by a timely suck at the muzzle. In many an English town the 1 o'clock gun fired by electricity from Greenwich observatory is used for setting set-ting all the clocks; while the minute-guns minute-guns are fired for public mourning and national rejoicings take the form of a royal salute. A slaver captured with a cargo of slaves in the tropics was put in. charge of a prize crew. On her voyage the water wa-ter ran short, and both slaves, slavers and prize crew were dying of thirst. This set one of the marines a sergeant ser-geant thinking, and he hit upon a brilliant idea. After gaining reluctant consent from the captain he took all the available gun-barrels, plugged up the breech-ends breech-ends of a few of them, filled their bores with sea-water, and set them end up among the coals of the galley-fire. As the steam rose he ran it through over gun-barrels until it got cool. The cooling steam collected in the shape of excellent fresh water, of which he procured a steady though small supply. sup-ply. Answers. Giving a I.iones Kther. Professor Gustavo Pisenti of the University of Perugia lately had a thrilling experience in extracting a cataract cat-aract from a powerful lioness 3 years old. The animal was placed in a suitable suit-able cage in the middle of the menagerie, menag-erie, and the first difficulty was the administration ad-ministration of an anaesthetic. The intervals in-tervals between the bars of the cage were filled up with cotton wool, and a large packet of gauze impregnated with chloroform was placed in the cage, Ue door of which was then closed with a shutter. In about a quarter of an hour a reconnoissance was made cautiously, and the illustrious patient was seen lying ly-ing stretched out, and apparently in a condition of deep coma. She was then dragged out of the cage, and bound and gagged. She was then placed on a table, but before the operation could be begun she suddenly awoiie, and struggled violently, rolling onto the floor, where the medical men, "with admirable coolness, but not without intense in-tense emotion which might easily be seen in their countenances," held her down, while the animal's head was wrapped in a towel steeped in sulphuric ether. The lioness, however, managed to free herself from the gag, and partly from her bonds, and gave a roar which made the majority of the spectators beat a hasty retreat. But the ether overcame her, and Professor Pisenti, with great pluck, dragged her into uie cage again, where the anaesthetic coup de grace was given by means of anotn-er anotn-er packet of gauze steeped in chloroform. chloro-form. The beast's head was pulled out through the door of the cage and securely se-curely held in position. Professor Pisenti Pi-senti then operated with brilliant success. suc-cess. A curious feature of the scene was the excitement produced among the other animals zebras, bisons, leopards, wolves, hyenas, monkeys, etc. in the menagerie, who all inhaled some portions of the anaesthetics witn which the air was saturated. National Pride. It is now almost two full centuries since England and Scotland were united, in 1707, under the name of Great Britain. Yet up to the present time the world continues to employ the familiar terms English queen, English Eng-lish army, and so on, with ne mention of Scotland. This slight has often been commented upon by Scotchmen, but never perhaps more happily than at Trafalgar. Two Scotchmen, messmates mess-mates and bosom cronies, from the same little clachan, happened to be stationed near each other, when the now celebrated signal was given from the admiral's Ehip: "England expects every man to do his duty. "No a word o' puir auld Scotland on this occasion!" oc-casion!" dolefully remarked Geordie to Jock. Jock cocked his eye a moment, mo-ment, turning to his companion, "Man, Geordie," said he, "Scotland kens wel eneuch that nae bairn o hers needs to be tell't to do his duty that's just a hint to the Englishers." Monotonous Work. A farmer entered a watchmaker's, and stood hesitatingly about for somie time. At last he hedged up toward the counter with the following request: re-quest: "I say, could one of you fellows go out in the country about five miles and repair a watch?" ... "Why cannot the watch be brought here?" was the reasonable reply. "Well, you see, It's this way," said the farmer. "The watch belongs to a sick man, and he has to have it beside his bed to as to tell when to take his doses." "Then the watch must be going all right," said the jeweler. "Yes, the watch runs, 'cause the feller fel-ler makes It run. He says he's getting tired of poking the wheel with a pin, and wants one of you fellers to come and put It straight." Harrisburg has an ordinance forbidding forbid-ding the placing of sample packages oi anything on doorsteps. ) |