Evening Star Newspaper, February 2, 1889, Page 9

ACROSS COREA, ASolitary Horseback Ride Through the Hermit Kingdom. —o——— From Tae Stan's Traveling Commissioner. Tae Monastery or Avy-prex, Ove Day's Jovrnxey From Gensan (W6nsaN), ON Tue East Coasr or Conga, October 9, 1888. I decided to cross Corea for three reasons: First, to save time. If I had continued my voyage from Vladivostok in the Takachiho Maru, and made my way round the peninsula by sea to Chemulpo, and ridden thence 30 miles to Seon), the capital, I should have been either Testricted to two days there, or else compelled to wait three weeks for another vessel; whereas, by crossing the country I can gain three or four days. Second,m a journey round the world, to get for once, at least, off the beaten track, and describe what no journalist has ever Gescribed before. The ‘Hermit Kingdom” does not tempt the globe-trotter, and it is one of the few places on earth virgin to his tread. Bat it will be again the center of great events before long, and even to-day the eyes of people in the east are turned expectantly toward it. ‘Third, to be frank, purely and simply for the adventure. We live in too prosaic days. CONDITION OF THE COUNTRY. Only three or four Europeans have crossed Corea, and nothing, unless in a consular report, has been written about the trip. The Corean authorities discourage travelers, and the Corean minister at Tokyo persistently declined to give me a passport or to spply to Seoul for one for me, although pressed by the British charge to do so. And the condition of the country may be judged from the fact that four months ago marines were landed from the American, Luysian, and Japanese men-of-war at Chemulpo, and marched all night up to the capital to pro- tect the foreigners there; while H. 8. Leander got steam in a hurry and left Yokohama ata hours’ notice forthe same hinese, it is stated, had en- children and sent them to ‘Tientsin for immoral SE and the Coreans professed to believe that the missionaries had stolen them to use their eyes for medicine and for taking photographs. Hence the murders of Coreans and the threatened attack upon foreigners, But the country seems perfectly quiet now, and there is little or no risk in crossing it, So I have sent my things round by sea, taken my note-book, field-glass, revolver, and camera, and here I am, one day's journey out of the six, writing under the oddest and most romantic surroundings I have ever known. A PONT CAVALCADE. To go back a little, I chiefly owe the oppor- tunity of making this trip to Mr. Fitzgerald Creagh, commissioner of customs (in the Chinese service) at Gensan, the open port on the east coast. He gave me directions, hired ponies and grooms for me, procured me ap escort, arranged all the payments for me, and, in short, at much personal trouble made the journey possible aud indeed comparatively easy. As soon as the Takachiho reached Gensan I said good-bye to my very pleasant quarters.and went on shore, where through the glass I could see the ponies already waiting. A Corean pony is a small. shaggy, scraggy creature, but you never like him less than when you first set eyes on him, and before I had gone far with these I learned that many virtues were concealed in their little brown bodies. Four ponies and six men were at the landing. the latter being three grooms, two soldiers, and an interpreter. One pony was for me to ride; upon the second were strapped my bag, canvas hold-all con- tainmg rug and sleeping arrangement, camera, end gun; the third was burdened with two boxes of provisions and a dozen bottles of min- eral water, for it is necessary to carry with you absolutely everything you need to eat or drink here; while the fourth pony had all he could do to transport the money for current expenses. This sounds no doubt as if I were traveling like a second Jay Gould; alas, far from it! The iy carried about twenty Mexican dol- The only Corean currency, however. consists of miserably made copper, iron and bronze coins, called“ ash” in English, and sapek or « in Corean, about the size and weight of an English penny, with a square hole in the middle by which they are strung on plaited straw in lots of five hundred, subdivided = knots into hundreds. Hence the expression “a string of cash.” In Gensan the rate of ex- change when I left was 660 cash toa Mexican dollar, and the pony carries about fifteen thou- sand of them. THE PERSONNEL OF MY LITTLE CARAVAN is decidedly curious, but not very impressive. ‘The grooms, called mapou, are good-natured grinning creatures, low down in the social seale, dressed in extremely dirty white cotton robes and trousers, with straw sandals and battered old wire hats, or none. The soldiers, called kisiou, are tall well-built fellows, dis- tinguished trom civiliens by a broaud-rimmed hat of heavy black felt, with a scarlet tuft trailing behind, and a coat of rough blue cotton, shaped exactly like the exaggerated dress-coat, reaching to the heels, that one sees in a bur- Jesque on the gaiety stage. They carry no weapons but along staff, and they appeared amused when I asked where, since they were soldiers, were their guns? Of my interpreter I stand somewhat in awe. He is a tall, really handsome man, dressed in tless white, topped by a monumental black pot- hat made of woven horsehair, and with nothing undignified about him but bis name, which is I Cha Sam. It was impossible to get # Corean who knew any English, even a little Z : be content with one who y only communication for the next week will ato tongue. Our re- y ve proved adequate so » his preternatural silence and ad suspicion is growing in my owiedge of Japanese is ona . I amthe only one of the y that rides; the rest walk, except that ady observed a tendency on the ha Sam to place himselfon top of ash, and that pony is learning to a wide berth. "This I discourage, trom mixed motives of humanity and haste. THE BILL OF EXPENSES furnished me by Mr. Creagh is as follows: 000 cash... 20,000 sely so-ca 4,000 lers, 0 cash ad there and back. 2,200 3“Kum sbaws” interpreter, at #1. 2,000 Total, 23.200 cash, say forty-three Mexican dollars, pius traveling expenses and food. The price of the horses includes grooms, I suppose everybody knows that » Mexican,when it is not anterfeit, which it gaely is, i8 worth t two-thirds of a gold dollar, seventy-five The cash, by the way, miserable, bat- ed. verdigris-covered coins, of which ten ya cent. have actually been debased by the Corean government for illicit profit, while they ar on them such gracious inscriptions as “Used fur Public Beneiit,” and “Enrich the Peopie.” ON THE WAY TO THE MONASTERY. The journey overland from the east coast to the capital generally occupies five days, at the rate of something over thirty miles a day. ‘Thirty-five miles from Gensan, however, n of the overland road, is the great Corean mon- astery of An-pien (spelled An-byan on Peter- maun's map) which I was seriously assured was the only interesting place in all Corea. So i was determined to lose a day and visit this, all the more as Capt. Walker, of the Taka- ehiho, experienced navigator, eager man, delightful companion, and most popular men in this part of promised me his company so far. good-bye to Mr. Creagh about pushed on fast through the — wmong the squalling of the Gensan, and we shoul ve been here dusk except for two unforeseen One was that an hour after starting Jeading the money-pony, which temporarily placed also Capt. Walker’ ets and his provisions for eH i HHH Regs: He E f i E Fy pas eRe i Ae i e e yy th A i i F pointing out pi é I i ! f i i E : E : i i ii : if Hy 4 ' 3 i & i was useless to attempt to stop : eg I went a quarter pee — further, sent ponies on, be banged owey” while I quis, fow oxeg away, w! and by and “i Corean feathers. I looked reproaches at him, but who could utter them? As it happened the delay gave us a remarkable experience. KEEPING OFF TIGERS. The red shades of evening were now appear- ing, and for the next two hours we jogged slong at our best speed. When it was quite dark we reached a little Corean inn, where our had aroused everybody. Out of a house of apparently two rooms twenty white-robed travelers turned out and squatted in 4 row, like tired ghosts, to stare at us. Our men were all for stopping—the road ahead was very steep, the w through which it passed were infested with tigers, the ponies were tired, the monastery would be closed for the night, &c., &c. But we looked at those two rooms and those twenty travelers and hardened our hearts. Then the soldiers, seeing that we were determined, rose to the occasion. One of them shouted to the inn-keeper to turn out and bring torches to light us, and his manner, I re- marked with interest, was peremptory. The inn-keeper demurred in a high tone of voice when, without another word, this excellent kisiou took one step toward him, and whack! with a tremendous slap in the face sent him staggering across the road. The sud- denness of the blow took me fairly aback, but nobody seemed in the least surprised or annoyed, and the inn-keeper appeared a min- ute later with a blazing pine-knot and led the way. We left the road at right angles, and Sity yards from the inn we plunged into the wi and began a steep ascent along a narrow stone path. Thena curious thing hanpened, As soon as our last pony was out of sight a si- multaneous and blood-curdling howl arose from the twenty travelers behind us, and was pro- longed with a series of yah! yah! yah! till the hills echoed again, and ‘when it ceased our six men similarly exploded, each one putting his back into the yell, till it rivaled the notes of a Chicago mocking-bird. The travelers howled again and our men answered, and so on till we could no longer hear the former. “What on earth is the matter?” we asked I Cha Sam. “To keep the tigers away!” he replied. The cap- tain put two cartridges of duck-shot into his gun and I strapped my revolver outside my thick riding-coat, but if the noise was half as disagreeable to a prowling tiger as it was to us, no wonder he avoided our company, for anything so ingeniously ear-splitting as the sounds our men kept up at intervals of three or four years for an hour and a half I never UP A MOUNTAIN SIDE, Meanwhile the road ascended rapidly and the stony path grew narrower till at last we were climbing a mountain side. At one mo- ment we were in thick woods, at another a precipice of considerable depth yawned a yard or two to our left, then we were struggling up astone-heap on to a plateau where half a dozen miserable houses formed a village. No European horse could have made a hundred yards of the road, Yet our ponies stepped dog- gedly over everything, never stumbling, and catching themselves again instantly if they fell. We soon learned that the less attempt we made to guide them the safer we were. B: fore leaving Gensan Mr. Creagh had said: “If you don’t need the soldiers as an escort you'll find them very useful in other respects.”” And Isoon learned how. The theory of Corean government is that the people exist for the officials, And as I had this escort I was travel- ing as an official, and therefore entitled to de- mand any services from the people to ee me on my way. The night was pitch dark, and Coe torches we could not have gone a yar FIRE CONSCRIPTION. Therefore the soldiers levied lights from the people. Assoonas they spied a hovel ahead they shouted a couple of words, the man carry- ing the torch helping lustily.’ I found later the words were simply Poul Kira, “Bring out fire!” and no matter how late the hour, how bad the weather, how far to the next house— no matter even though the sole inhabitant was « old woman or child, the torch of pine wood r dried millet stalks bound together must be produced instantly, the guide must hold it flaming in his hand when we reach his door, and woe betide the unlucky being that keeps Corean officialdom waiting, if it be only for halfa minute. Sometimes the stage to the next house was two or three miles, sometimes itwas onlyacouple of hundred yards, but there are no exemptions to this fire conserip- tion. The general effect as I saw it from the rear was extremely picturesque and striking —the line of ponies with their sideways sway- ing loads, the ghostly figures of the men on foot, the cries to each other and the animals, the recurring shout for fire, the yell to keep off the tigers, the dense wood, the precipice, the flaming and flashing torch waved abead or beaten on the ground, dividing everything in- to blood-red lights and jet-black shadows, and finally the thought that it really was just sible the gleaming eyes of one of the great striped cats might be choosing their victim at a few feet from you. It was a new experience. SUPPER AT THE MONASTERY. Our goal announced itself long beforehand by gate after gate. and the instinctive feeling that we had got to the-top, whatever it was, Then the edge of the ravine became paved with stone slabs, and a hundred yards along it brought us toa pair of great wooden doors, They were opened after a little parley, and we found ourselves in a small courtyard, and surrounded by a score of young priests, ap- parently delighted to see us. We hastily un- — our rugs, a brazier was brought, we oiled the kettle, plucked and cooked one of the birds we had shot, and thy monks sat around us in a lan; ehatterii cirele, we supped magnificently off broiied duck, hard-tack, and marmalade, washed down by many basins of tea. (Nobody but a traveler knows the real value of tea.) At midnight we were shown to@clean paper-windowed room about six feet square, and turned in on the floor. And when the morni me it showed us how strange and romanti: place we had reached—one of the most striking and pictur- esque of the unknown corners of the world. But I must defer an account of it till my next letter. For I have not even seen it properly yet, and my diary is blank ahead. Henuy Normay, a Royal and Princely Dinners. From the Paris Galois. In our day royal households keep a compara- tively less sumptuous table than many private individuals. Queen Victoria is fond of Scotch cookery and commences her repasts with oatmeal broth and cream porridge. She drinks pale Domech sherry from asilver cup of marvelously deli- cate workmanship that originally belonged to Queen Anne. The queen's dinner in the even- ing is very complete. The table is lighted by golden candelabra holding wax candles, and masses of orchids placed in epergnes reach up to the ceiling. Her majesty eats a special kind ot meal bread, very highly baked in a square loaf. The queen of Sweden keeps a very Fenn geom | table. Soup. nearly always clotted cream ai barley; steak, and one of her favorite di TY Fo ee: = cooked = oil a On roun poac! ef en at almost every sate J follows the ional and natural viand, salmon preserved in the earth, Atthe German court the grand duchess of Baden keeps the most refined table. She has a French cook and the best of French cuisine, a little too white, perhaps, too many dumplings and jellies, but ® very refined kitchen, and excellent wines. The grand duchess makes her ——— in a Russian coffee pot of enameled gol 7 The Empress Victoria lives in English style, and added a great deal of milk to her cookery firet symptoms of thecrown prince's ‘a preference for mens oben, with gravy and pastry of e "In Ttaly the court dines at a table while the only luxury visible. There are no flowers and the dishes of the country prevail, Roeregy 3 the fritto, a mixture of artic! hearts, liver, brains and cock’s combs. Sieh At the Comte de Paris’ the cuisine is and Th Hf Fe i fk i fie HOME MATTERS. SUGGESTIONS FOR THE CAREFUL HOUSEWIFE— PRACTICAL IDEAS ABOUT HOUSEKEEPING—SEA- SONABLE HINTS AND RECIPES FOR THE DINING- BOOM AND KITCHEN. Tar Ortener Frovr is Strrep for sponge- cake the lighter the cake will be. Fexsa Appie Sauce, warm if possible, is a supper dish in winter. A dash of lemon improves it, Amoxo tHE Ruxes of the Boston cooking- school is one that says, “Always be careful not to slam the oven door. To Keer Sitver Baiout.—Another easy way to keep silver bright is by placing small articles in pans of thick sour milk over night, and washing them thoroughly in warm clear water in the morning. Ir 4 Cumxp nas THE Eanacue, turn a drop of water as hot as it can be borne into the ear and cover it quickly with a bit of cotton batting. ‘This simple remedy has relieved many obstinate cases of earache, Kerr tue Back, especially between the shoulder-blades, well covered; also the chest well protected. In sleeping in a cold room establish a habit of breathing through the nose, and never with the mouth open. A Deticiovs Savor is imparted by putting into beef soup a whole onion with a dozen whole cloves stuck into it. Peel the onion, but don’t trim off the top so the layers will break apart in boiling. Leave out in serving. To Test Cake iN THE Oven never insert a broom splinter, but draw it gently forward and put the ear close to the loaf; if it be not done there will be a little sputtering sound. When it is thoroughly baked there will be no sound. Aw Exceiient Powner for polishing tinware can be made of the soft white cinders found in coal ashes, They should be crushed into a fine powder and applied to the clean tin with a flan- nel. The powder is so fine that it polishes with- out scratching the ti Ir Makes a Great Deat or DirrereNce whether coffee is ground fine or coarse. Fine pulverized coffee is best for making it by “leaching” or percolation, and coarse for boil- ing. Itis always better to have a coffee mill and grind it yourself as wanted. American Toast.—To one egg thoroughly beaten put one cup of sweet milk and a little salt. Slice light bread and dip into the mix- ture, allowing each slice to absorb some of the milk; then brown on a hot buttered griddle, spread with butter and serve hot. Macaroni, Tomators, aNp CuEErse. — Cook the macaroni till tender; make a sauce of ripe tomatoes seasoned with pepper and salt; grate some cheese; have ready a hot dish; put ina layer of macaroni; next sprinkle with cheese; then adda layer of the tomato sauce. Serve at orice. Ir You Have Axy Oup Praster oF Pants Fia- ures, such as shepherds, shepherdesses, &c., that are still wholeand unbroken, but too much soiled to look well, bronze them with the arti- cle generally used for bronzing children’s shoes, &c., and they will appear to advantage once more, Biscurr anp Grvarrsreap require a quick oven; flour bread a slower one. Fruit-cake re- quires more and slower baking than plain cake. | Cookies want a quick oven and close attention |or they will burn. For brown bread a hot | oven at first and a slow and steady fire after it is heated through. Povurry SHouLp Have a SmoorH, clean-look- ing skin, both on the body and feet. If young, the lower part of the breastbone will be car- tilage. Try this carefully, as some of our deal- ers are so unfortunate as to break the ends of the breasts, which, to an untrained marketer, give them the feeling of cartilage. Noopies For Sovr.—One teacup of flour, two tablespoons of yeast, a little salt and two eggs, mix hard with milk, and roll outas thin as a wafer on a well-floured board; cover with a cloth and set in a warm place (not hot). After an hour or two cut into small pieces and drop into the soup; boil ten minutes and serve hot. Cranperny Purr Puppina.—One egg beaten light, one cupfal of sweet milk, in which dis- solve one teaspoonful of soda, one heaping teaspoonful of cream of tartar sifted and thor- oughly mixed with two cupfuls of flour, anda little salt. Add one cupful of cranberries and steam one and a quarter hours. Serve with your favorite sauce. Norine THe Anticie 1x Tue Star of last Saturday about making soap bubbles, a corres- pondent writes: “Dissolve one-fourth ounce of castile or oil soap, cut in small pieces, in three- fourths of a pint of water and boil for two or three minutes, and then add five ounces of glycerine. When cold this fluid will produce the best and most lasting bubbles made.” Sarprve Satap.—Chop fine six cold boiled potatoes and one hard-boiled egg; a teaspoon- ful of dry mustard beaten with one raw egg; add gradually a box of sardines, a little sult and pepper; as you beat the mixture will thicken. After this add vinegar to taste, and then stir into the chopped potato and hard- boiled egg. A little chopped onion improves it. How to Sronxe Ratstxs Eastty.—Take a cup- ful of raisins at a time, put them in a bowl and pour boiling water over them, let them stand a moment. then proceed as usual to remove the seeds, which will drop out of the raisin per- fectly clean without sticking to the fingers. It saves time and trouble, and you do not waste a — of the raisins, and it cleans them as well. Snow Pancaxes.—Half a pint of milk, an | egg. an apple pared, quartered and chopped | very fine, a cupful and a half of flour, one- | fourth of a teaspoonful of salt,a bowl of snow, | Beat the egg light and add the milk to it. Pour | gradually on the flour and beat until smooth and light, Add the apple and salt, and at the last moment the snow. Drop by spoonfuls into boiling fat and cook until a rich brown. A Rerimep Pivmser thus gives a point for the gratutious relief of householders: “Just before retiring at night pour into the clogged pire enough liquid soda lye to fill the ‘trap’ or bent part of the pipe. Be sure that no water runs in it until the next morning. During the night the lye will convert all the offal into soft soap, and the first current of water in the morning will wash it away and clear the pipe | clean asnew. EscaLoreD OvsTErs on a Hair SHeLu.—For a dinner party or evening company, escaloped oysters-are nice, and are very pretty, served in the smooth white shells ee up on the sea- shore, especially along the New Jersey coast, Whether prepared ina dislfor shell, the bot- tom is covered with crushed crackers and bits of butter; next a layer of oysters well seasoned with salt and pepper; more cracker and but- ter; and so on, alternating, until the dish is full, but finishing with a covering of cracker. Pour over this the oyster juice and one quart = new milk. Bake in a hot oven for an jour, Canamet Puppixe (Creme Rexvensee.)—Put a handful of loaf sugar to boil with a quarter of @ pint of water until the syrup becomes a deep brown. Warm a small basin, pour the syrup in it, and keep turning the basin in your hand until the inside is completely coated with the s; which wil] b; t time have set. Strain the yelks of eight eggs from the whites, and mix them gradual] effectually = one taoe| of ers Pour this —— into e ed mol a of on the top, set 18 in a ecucyy of cold water, taking care that the water does not come over bye of the mold, put on the cover, and let by the the hour. £8) the seocepan a oe as the ste cihet abe pudding is avoided, but it will not be as delicate as one made with the yelks alone. oo Turning Vice to Account. ‘From the London Standard, Paris Dispatch. Mile. Mauricette the Bordeaux wedding present, is about to open a millinery establishment in her native town. She has { weet d Bulla Pare “Doors iE ana Ge hre A violent 5 ling with the door-knob R.; Jingling of key, &c., for a few moments, and then enter, R., Sm hand, also smali satchel, and with & between his lips, Sm Bertram. Hello! [Inspects key.] Well, the fellow said No, 81; this is the key of No. 81; must be correct. Confound that courier of mine! Why did he want to leave me in the lurch in this outrageous way? Deuced hard on, a fellow who isn’t used to this sort of thing to be looking after a fel- low's self. [Throws down satchel and hat.) Pretty decent sort of a room they've given me, although why they couldn't send some one up to open it I couldn't make out; their French conversation was not in my line. Confound that blasted courier again! [Locks the door.] If he had only stopped with me long enough to settle me in new quarters, it would not have been so bad, but— Weil! Takes off coat and saunters to the mirror.] What the deuce did I want to change my quarters for, after all? I am an ass, I believe. Here have I, for the sake of finding myself beneath the same roof with ® pretty gitl—ye gods! such a pretty girl!— here have I, a sane—I ose I'm sane [con- templates himself in a hand-glass, which he takes from table}, I—I look sane; yes, quite so —well, a sane, sound, quiet fellow—given up rooms at the Continental, where I always stop, edger and come here, and, by Jove! I don’t even know her name; I only know she lives here. How do I know? use she told me so, bless her! [site]—told me so when, on the ever-to-be-remembered evening of the Tuesday of last week—this being now Monday of the following week—I came to her rescue when she had lost her way in the Boule- vard Poissonniere, became separated from her friends, and was almost in tears, poor child! How sweet it was to see her blue eyes ing up so trustfully into mine! to hear her lovely English voice saying, tremulously, “I can never thank you, sir, for your goodness!” to feel [rises] the touch of those small fingers on my arm as I lead her through the mazes of the streets of Paris and put her ina cab! [Lights a fresh cigar.] By Jove! now that’s the kind of looking woman I could care awfully for— yes, awfully; well, love, you know, and all that sort of thing. Pshaw! {sits} I dare say if one got to know her, though, all she'd care about would be—hard cash. [Rises] I'm a brute, a first-class, thoroughbred, out-and-out brute to say that. She's not that sort ut all. I know she isn’t. Sh Jupiter! (Elevates his feet to the table and smokes heartily; picks up a newspaper and throws it carelessly on the floor.] She's just the loveliest, sweetest, dar- lingest—Hello! (Rises; noises heard without.} Oh! [sits, resuming’ former position] the porters with my luggage and traps, I suppose. Come in! Entrez! Oh. that courier, tow I shall miss him and his gift of languages before I can find another to take his place! hse ts are heard from without to open the door; a! voices and exclamations of surprise and’ con- sternation.] Entrez! Come in! By Jove! sounds like women’s voices. Can any of my numerous relatives have found me out so soon, I wonder? [Londly.] Wait an instant please, [Rises and gets speedily into his coat. shaw! stuff and nonsense! it can only be amistake. Allright! One moment! [Crosses and unlocks door, cigar in mouth, disclosing to his astonished gaze the bewildgred counte- nances of Mrs, Smalle, Hilda and Clara. They enter; Clara well in’ the rear, carrying the wraps, parasols and parcels] ' Ladies! I— Catches sight of Clara, Aside.] By Jove, the ling! What in thunder! {Bows to all three profoundly, and throws cigar behind him dexterously. Mns. SMALuE.—This is most extraordinary. {Surveys the room.] I believe my note ex- pressly stated that I should not desire you to came before the afternoon; it is only eleven o'clock. [Glances at clock, Sm Bertram (bewildered), Madame, I— (Deprecatingly. Hitpa.—Well, mamma, I am sure that over- punctuality is nota very bad fault, and since our new courier (Siz Bertram starts; CLara also starts] comes to us with such remarkably nice recommendations, I think we can forgive him for being in advance of the hour. Mus. Smavie.—Quite right, my dear; arecom- mendation from Sir Bertram Lloyd mea rather more than one from some mere ordi- nary person. [Asideto Hixpa:] You are wise, my love; we can learn from the courier a vast deal about his former master’s ways and means, habits, likes and dislikes. If you are prudent, my dear, tempering amiable condescension with a mixture of interrogatory and hauteur, I fancy wecan guide the ship safe to when it puts in the port of Paris snd presents its introduction to us—— Hitpa (aside),—Have no fears for me, Lady en Tam determined to win—to be iy Siz Bertram (aside listening),—By Jove! and is it thusthat we are ee of nolens volens during our absence? We will see. Mas, SmaLe.—Urbano. [Pauses for reply; Sir Bertram oblivious.) Urbano! Urbano! : Hogdiaepoent 4 Hrmpa.—Miss Cameron, have the goodness to say to the new courier that Mrs. Smalle is speaking to him, Cuana (timidly).—Mrs. Smalle desizes to speak to you. 3 Sm Beutram (in maze).—I beg your par- lon! Hitpa.—Mra, Smalle would like to speak to the new courier. Sra Berruam (aside). “New Courier!” Ah! I see; ‘tis they who have hired Urbano; 'tishe for whom they mistake me. ‘Tis in their apartment that though blessed chance I find myself. I will be the courier. “I'were to hold fate in contempt were I to proclaim my name, and ostracize myself from the exquisite propin- quity of yonder (glances at Clara} angel. Anea es o—Urbano is your name, I in! Sin Bertram (advances).—Urbano, Mne. Smatte.—I am glad they showed you ms our apartments at once, Urbano, and pleased to note that your discretion and fidelity peomiied you to lock the door from withi luring our absence, Sm Bertram.—It is best, madame—safest. Mrs. Smavtz.—You are correct, Well, Urbano, as all details, terms, &c., were satis- factorily arranged by note between us, I can easily install you in the routine of your dail duties, Whilst we remain in Paris they will not prove very onerous—to accompany us to the shops and Voeien conduct our purc! orders, &c. For neither Miss Smalle nor speak SiSe te ieee! fluency for such urposes, and my dame de com, », Miss pele {nods introductively retina Sin Benrram bows; Cxaza blushes], although a capital German and Italian lin, is not juite up in French. There is your desk indicates desk, R. upper], where you will find ample material for conducting our French cor- dence. Miss Smalle or Cameron will dictate it to you every mi Your room you will be shown to by-and-by; num- iB TRAM —I iteen!—81 g {To Mra, down! There's luck in numbers, Smatiz.] Yes, madame. (Ret eo desk; sits; looks over papers]. Hmpa.—] ma, have we French notes to be answered to-day, because, if we hav. is still a half hour betore breakfast. in Sim Berrnam.—You? (Rising as Hips ap- ke tow «fone Fern ott te of ping. Sm TRAM (aside) Hizos.) Bir Dotan wes soled, mene you found him « very ber, mamma dear, that I dozens of new silk stockings, Mrs. SMALLE (aside to Hripa).—Recollect, "Yaris (aside Yo Mae, snes} (aside to SmaLie).—Oh, mamma, I know; it’s such an old story. But do, please, just three dozens! and they will come in iti- in a trousseau if I should n to capture Sir Bertram. [ToSm Bertram.) Yes, Urbano; silk hosiery, and—oh yes! how about jewelry. {Coyly.] Idare say you know the very best — ot — that, a Sir Bertram has ie Fe) ion oF such exquisite ents ng his cousins and sisters, " ees Sm Benrram.—Oh, yes, mademoiselle. Mrs. Smatte.—He has a fortune to spend, and I dare say he spends it—eh, Urbano? Sin Bertram (shrugs his shoulders).—Well, madame, I think so. Mrs. SMALLE.—Every one calls him so gen- erons, so liberal. so open-handed. Hitpa.—Urbano has always found him so, I am sure? [Engagingly. ae BerteaM.—That is most true, mademoi- selle, Mns. Smatie (aside).—I do not approve of catechising an inferior; still, an opportunity like the Sere is not to be lost, [To Sm Ben- TRAM.] Is it indeed quite true, my good Ur- bano, that Sir Bertram Loyd has expressed an intention of never marrying? Six Bentram.—Alas, madame, I have heard him declare so many times—until of late— — (agitated).—My worthy Urbano, how a Ciara (timfany advancing).—If you please, Mrs. Smalle, might I go to my room if you do not require me at present? {Blushes as she crosses Siz BERTRAM. Mrs. SmaLe.—You may be seated, Miss Cam- eron. Imay need you at any moment to read to me the German newspapers. I believe, Urbano, that your late master is still in Ger- many? (Haughtily. Crara sits meekly. Sim Bertram.—Ah, no, madame; he is in Paris, ° {Sighs. Hixpa (nervously).—And he is. you say, Ur- bano, thinking of marriage? [Aside to Mus. Smatre.] ‘In Paris!” Do you hear, mamma? Qh! thatI might see him standing before me! Not an art or a wile of which a handsome woman is capable but that Ishould putin play. “In Paris!” Sm Bertram (aside).—I must have some amusement, as I shall never be able to accept my wages. [To Hiupa.] Mademoiselle, Sir —— is madly, irretrievably, insanely in love. Mus. Smate (distractedly).—With whom?— with whom, my amiable Urbano? {Hixpa sits disconsolate. Sm Berream.—Alas,madame,| know noteven her name, Hiu.pa.—Very* well, Urbano; very well. Of course the love affairs of your late master are of no interest to us, Now [recovers herself with an effort] pray tell us of a d reason- able dressmaker—some person whose charges are moderate, and whose fit is tolerable. Sm Brnrnam (aside).—Just Heaven! I never knew a dressmaker in my life. [To H1mpa.] Well, mademoiselle, if you will permit me, I will consult my list [takes papers from pocket] of dressmakers and make a selection of an—an appropriate one, IRS. SMALLE (aside to Hilda).—‘Madly in love!” Did you understand the man? Hipa (aside).—Perfectly. Leave all to me. Before Iam twenty-four hours older I will dis- cover her name, address, all; and then to work! Iwill meet him, and aided.by this stroke of good luck in the shape of a courier, I will in- tercept letters, apy, watch, wake, win. Mamma, Iam not your daughter for nothing. Hark! the clock strikes one; we must go down to breakfast, Mrs. SmattE.—My love, we must. Urbano, pray in my absence look over these accounts, and Miss Cameron will render you any assist- | ance, or explain our English terms to you if needfnl. Come, love. {To Hilda. {Exeunt both at door R. C., leaving Sir Bertram standing awkwardly in the middle of the floor; Clara, U. C., con- fused, and trying to straighten a tidy on the back of the chair. He stands still, whilst she nervously busies her- self with wetioe the chairs to rights, the disarranged papers, etc., etc. Finally be turns squarely about. Sm Bertram (his hands on the back of the chair she had just moved.)—Will you con- descend to remember in Mrs. Smalle’s courier the man who was so fortunate on Tuesday week as to have the honor of setting a young lady aright who had lost her way? Crara.—Oh, sir—I—indeed I do remember you perfectly; and it was most kind of you. I thank you again with all my heart. Sta Bertram.—You have nothing to thank me for. Miss Cameron; it was one of the great- est pleasures ever afforded me in my life when I was able to render you the little service that Cuana,—You are good to say so, Monsieur Urbano. Str Berrram (aside.)—Oh—ah—yes—ahem! To be sure, I am Urbano the courier—to be sure, i Ciara.) May I trust, Miss Cameron, that although you discover me to be buta humble courier. you will not disdain my—er— further acquaintance? Cxana (smiling ).—May I hope, Monsieur Ur- bano, that albeit in me you discover but the lowly dame de compagnie of the beautiful and proud Miss Smalle, you will not despise further cognizance of my existence? {Crosses R. iin BerTRaM (aside).—The darling! I knew she was a darling! [To Crara.] Despise— you! Oh, Miss Cameron, you are, in my eyes, as far above the lady whose companion youare as are the stars above the earth! Cxara.—Ah, Monsieur Urbano, like all Frenchmen, you know how to flatter. Sim Bertram.—‘Frenchmen!” I am as loyal a Briton as— eae Oh, by Jove! Yes, I am Urbano and a Frenchman; I had forgot. [To Crara.] Yes, y 3 quite so. I mean— 5 [She laughs.) Not at all; Ihave spoken but the truth. Crara,—Ah—h! [Shakes her head. Sm Bertram (crosses L.).—You spoke just now of Miss Smalle as being — And yet, from sundry remarks which she let fall in my presence, I gather she is not too proud to stoop to win the name and furtune of— Crara.—Your quondam employer? Sir Bertram (confused).—Ah, yes, precisely —my late employer, Sir Bertram Loyd, whom I judge she has never even seen. Craza.—It is too true. Poor Miss Hilda. She is , ambitious and— iz BertTRam.—Unscrupulous, Cxand.—It is not well, Monsieur Urbano, to speak thus of ga eay. or be Sie BertRam.—You defend her course! Crarna.—I! Empatically no, Sim Bertaam.—You would not pursue a simi- one? Eagerly. Cana (seriously).—I cannot comprehend marrying any man save for one reason. 81m BeaTaam.—And that? {Anxiously, Crana.—Because I loved him. Sm Berteam = knew she was the right sort. [To Crapa.] And you, Miss Cam- eron, would you not Perhaps permit a man’s fortane, title, position, to influence you —just a little? Ciara Sn would not. Were he king, prince, knight. peasant, or slave, so that T loved him, the rest would weigh me nothing. 81m Berean (crosses R. to CLaRa).—And if it were so, Clara, that the humble servitor who stands before you now, who dares to raise this little hand to his unworthy lips, who ventures to look into your eyes with a deep love—if so be he should ck situation on count? Really, really, Monsieur Urbano! ee —Uj my life, I find myself regent egos d to the woman THE EVENING STAR: WA‘HINGTON, D.C, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1889. | | { — palaces, museums, aters, and objets d'art of the entire of Europe. Sir Bertram, I implore of your goodness, testify of me for these ladies! [Kneels to 8mm Bertaax. Sim Benrram.—There, there, my good fellow. Mrs. Smalle. Miss Hilda, I— ‘Pon my soul— {Aside.] By Jupiter and Venus and Cupid him- self, I had not thought of this! [To the ladies.} I.in eo of downright fact—I am not Urbano. This is Urbano; anda most excellent, honest, praiseworthy— Mrs. SMaLLE axp Hripa.—Not Urbano! Cana (faintly),—Not the courier! Mas. SMALLE (severely).—Who, then, sir, are you, may I be permitted to inquire? Hixpa (hanghtily).—Yes, pray who are you? Sr Brerram.—i am Bertram Leigh Loyd, at your service—and most contritely too, Mrs. SMALLE (aside to Hitpa).—Be gracious, my love. The madcap pranks attached to twenty thousand a year must not be treated too severely. (To Sin Bertram]. Ab [shakes her finger}, Sir Bertram! Sir Bertram! what can I = to you, then, but welcome to our oor little apartment? Let me ring for some luncheon for you, And you will let us into the jest, eh? [Touches bell]. Hixpa (effusivelv).—And this is Sir Bertram Loyp, of whom I have heard so much? Do you know, Sz Bertram, I could not reconcile your appearance to that of a courier. I— side him]. But you will, as mamma says, ex- = all, [To Cana]. Miss Cameron, you and Srbano may withdraw. Sm Bertram (rises).—I beg your ‘don, Miss Smalle. but as Miss Cameron has been sharer of this mystification, will you accede to my wish that she should listen to the enlighten- ment? Hitpa (coldly),—As you will. Well? Sir Bertram. irs. Smalie I have been, through a chain of fortuitous circumstances, to be hegeafter explained. brought into thi rather singular position solely from one mo- tive. Mrs. Smarie (with dignity).—Yes, Sir Ber- tram; and that? Sre Bertram.—In brief—love. Hixpa (starts violently and joyously).—Love! Love of what? whom? Cana (aside sad) love of a pure, beauti- ful, and most lovable girl, whose face once seen, albeit a stranger to me, I had not been able, or willing, to forget. [Pauses. Mrs, Smatve (softly ).—Yes, Sir Bertram? Do not hesitate; pray continue, [Hixpa retires coyly, U. C. Sr Beerram.—I will not (crosses U. C., am Hixpa half turnsto meet him; Ciara shrinks and trembles}, for I know that both your own kind motherly heart and that of your esteemed daughter (Hiupa bridles] will wish us bappi- ness. (Takes Clara’s reluctant hand and crosses down C. with her.] Mrs. Smalle, I have asked Miss Cameron to be my wife, and she does not forbid me to hope. Hixpa (enraged, aside).—That little, artful, wretched hussy! Mrs. SaauLE (aside).—This is too much. [To 8m Bertram.) Oh, Sir Bertram, this is indeed & surprise, a most~pardon me—unconven- tional, remarkable, exiraordinary—excuse me—ill-judged, ill-advised, and, if I most say it, onthe young person’s part most forward, | presuming — Sim Beerram.—I ask your pardon, Mrs. Smalle. [With dignity.] Miss Cameron bade me hope to win her hand when she believed me merely your courier. Here, in your presence, ask her to share with me a good old name, the fortune I may have—to be Lady Loyd. {Takes Crara’s hand. Urraxo (crosses meekiy).—Forget not, Madame Smaile, if you please, that I am the courier, {Sm Berraam, Crana, C.; Hrepa R., defi- aut and scornful, Mrs. Suacie, L., fu- rious; and, U. C., Unsano fanning him- self with his hat and beating his breast as he murmurs, “I—I am the courier.” (Music ff as curtain falls,] —Fannie Arar Matsews in Harper's Bazar. Bt since octane ur encanta oda tnd ated A Axexaxpers Tonto Pus, THE GREAT INVIGORATOR for Leanness, Weakness, Nervousness, Impoverished | and Impure Blood, Scrofula, Constipation, Indiges- tion, Dyspepsia, Biliousness, Malaria, and General De- bility; for Removing Pimples and Besutifying the Complexion, without an Equal. All druggists. SCHELLER & STEVENS, Wholesale Agents. ALEXANDER MEDICINE €0., Jal6-w&sm New Userrecepexrep Arrasort OVER A MILLION DISTRIBUTED, LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY COMPANY. Incorporated by the Legislature in 1868 for Edu- cational amd Charitabie Purpores, and its franchise made a part of the present State Constitution in 157%, by an overwhelming popular vote. Ite MAMMOTH DRAWINGS he, ually, (June and December), and. i GLE {aisen DBAWINGS take other ten months of are all drawn in public, at the lew Orleans, La. lace Semi-An- GRAND SIN- place in euch ot the the year, and Academy of Music, Ni FAMED FOR TWENTY YEARS, FOR INTEGRITY OF ITS DRAWINGS, AND PKOMPT PAYMENT OF PRIZES, Attested as follows: that we supervise the arrange: ly and Semi-Annual Drawings of he Lowsiana State Lottery Company, and in person contro! the Drawings theinaelves, and that wit! . fairness and in good. et Sonar’ ot. Oa nage ee nie gene oa ny to use this certyficaie. with Fac~simi our sy natures attached, tn ts advertiseinenis.” ST We, the Banks and Bankers. wil! pay al! prizes drawn tn The Louisiana 7 Lotteries which ‘may be presented at our counters. BM. WALMSLEY, Pres. 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