Evening Star Newspaper, June 23, 1894, Page 12

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MEYERS & ANDI SON, 1823 G st. n.w. apé-tr near Harper's Ferry; also store room, suitable for bakery, baker im town. Address Capt. y, no baker GEORGE W.CHAMBERS, Harper's Ferry, W.Va.1* Fi FOR CITY PROPER- R SALE OR EXCHAN elegant farm, 137 acres; well fenced, and un- cultivation: 15 miles from city, Fairfax Co., : $3,000. ‘Also 18 acres in village adjoining : good house and out buildings; excellent | farm; young orchard of fine fruit. For rms, &c., apply to C. M. STOY, 1213 F st. n.w. ty di ter it RENT—ANNAPOLIS—FURNISHED HO! ‘aval Academy; §35 for summer months; modern conveniences; ‘very cool and near water. Address 103 Hanover st., Annapolis, Md. Je23-2t¢ COUNTRY REAL ESTATE— SEND STAMP FOR CATALOGUE. JOHN STEPHEN, 619 7TH ST. N.w. HOTELS me ttn Hotel ot americe ww Vendame am sous, BOSton, Sone G H. GREENLEAF & CO. PROFILE KOUSE, White Mountains. Indisputably the leading Summer Resort of New England. Location unsurpassed fn scenie attractions. TAVT & GREENLEAY, FOR 6-3m* apl Je28-s8t rand delig auch: strictly address PROPRIET summer guests; city Address A. C. VAN DEY. . Loudoun county, vy HOTEL, MT. AIRY, MD., THE ween Baltimore and’ Blue’ Ridg YPEN JUNE 1. Send for deserip- T B HORN, Prop. je5-im* sired. Paconian Spr MOUNTAIN VIE Bighest point bet 2: tive circular. WILLARD'S HOTEL, Pa. ave. and 14th st., = Washington, D. © EBBBITT HOUSE, WASHINGTON, D. a 3. T. —= ba 10TH oa Led Pa | }00ds, ire Bri Gay aa ‘Tile Asbestos, Flue Lining. Pulp sae, a ap! THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1894-TWENTY PAGES. THE CICADA HERE And on Each Wing is a Clearly Marked W. THIS MEANS WANT AND WAR To the Superstitious, but Probably Signifies Warm Weather. AN ENTOMOLOGIST’S TALK HE SEVENTEEN- year cicada is here. He is not yet in the capital city, but throughout Virginia and Maryland ts heard his weird, vi- brating, droning song. ing thelr heads mys- terlously and prog- nosticating a destrue- tion of crops and quences of his visita- tion, for upon each of his wings is clearly marked a W, and the superstitious say they mean war and want. He ts here for a two months’ visit, uninvited, though expected; nothing can stay his coming, nothing avert the advent of his progeny seventeen years hence. He comes this time in even greater num- bers than in 1885, but the damage he does will be much less than is generally antici- pated. The birds, particularly the despised English sparrow, will welcome him, for he {s a delicious morsel for them. The farmer will regard him apprehensively and seek to destroy him, the townsman will look upon him with mild curiosity, while the bugolo- gist will rejoice in his appearance as con- firmation of his predictions and as fresh op- portunity for interesting study. Really, this singular little creature of earth and air ts worth more than passing notice. There are no less than twent broods of the periodical cicada, eac! which appears at different intervals. are peculiar to the United States. Some of them infest a large territory, while others are confined to one or two states or even parts of a state. in some cases and with some of the broods only thirteen instead of seventeen years are required to complete their transformation. The Agricultural Department is very much interested in the cicadas and has prepared for their coming. A circular has gone forth to the agriculturists throughout the various states in which this species of hemipterou: insects is scheduled to appear, asking for detailed information respecting the phe- nomena which may mark their presence. According to this circular brood XVIII, the largest of the thirteen-year race, will Visit Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Illinots, Indian territory, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolna, CICADA Issuing FROM SHELL: Texas and Virginia, while brood XII of the | seventeen-year race, also large and Well re- orded, will come up in Connecticut, District of Columbia, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina and Virginia. Mr. L. O. Howard, the entomologist for many years at the Agricultural Department, was asked to give the readers of The Star a little talk on the subject. “What I know about the seventeen-year locust?” repeated the professor, in ans to the request. “Are you aware,” he asix- ed, eyeing the reporter quizzically, “that one of the most common failings of the American people is the calling of things by wrong names? Now, these periodical visitors of ours are not locusts; they are cicadas. The orthoptera, which are popu- larly called ‘grasshoppers,’ are locusts, and this name {s applied to them in other parts of the world, the locusts of Scripture be- ing closely ailied to the species. The term ‘grasshopper’ should be confined to the long-horned, long-legged, green group, stridulating only with the wings, in which the species never congregate in swarms, and in which the female is invariably pro- vided with a cimeter-shaped ovipositor, while the name ‘katydid’ may: be used to desig- nate the fiw larger, tree-inhabiting species of th group. “There are two kinds of the periodical cicada,” continued Mr. Howard, “the thir- teen-year and the seventeon-year. There is no specific difference between the two, except In their periods of maturing. There is a smaller variety of each, which two make an appearance simultaneously with | the others, but in much smaller numbers. They are not distinct, but are connected with the larger ones by infinite grades. “Some people will say that these are not the seventeen-year cicadas which are now coming up out of the ground, for it is not seventeen years since they were last seen —in 1885. But the mistake {s made in re- gard to the broods. The entomologists have classified these broods most carefuil; and are able to tell with precision when a visitation of each will occur. It was broods VII and XXII which we had with us in 1885. So, then, this is brood XII of the seventeen-year form, whose last ap- pearance was in 1877, and brood XVIII of the thirteen-year form, which was matured in 1881. “The season of the clcada’s transform: tion differs with the latitude, but I may say that the Ist of June usually sees the full development of a brood. The cicada occur in all the states east of the plains, except the northern part of New Englan: northern Michigan and Minnesota, Rhode Island and Florida. It has been reported from the Pacific coast. It appears that the species does not breed in those north- POSITION, ern states in which the woods are com posed almost exclusively of pine trees and other conifers. Generally speaking, how- ever, the seventeen-year broods will be found in the northern states, and the thir- teen-year in the southern states, the divid- ing line being somewhere along the 38th parallel. When the cicada of 1885 came we instituted a series of experiments, which at the next appearance of those broods will prove interesting in their results. We sent some of the eggs of the tredecim or thirteenth-year transformation to the north from a southern state, and some of the septendecim or seventeenth-year to the south. It is a matter of curious speculation whether either or both will require more or less time to develop than if deposited in there original latitudes.” “How about the destructive habits of this lo—er—cicada?”” was the next question, “I think there is much unnecessary alarm among those who do not understand the exact nature of the insect or who con- found it with the true locust. The damage done is, as a rule, immaterial, consisting in the slight cuttirg, breaking and deaden- ing of the terminal twigs of fruit and shade trees and of young nursery stock by the females in the act of laying their eggs, or, rarely, when boring for food in tender branches. “Why, do you know, there is hardly an- other inhabitant of the Insect world to which is attached such singular interest in regard to its history and development,” went on the man of science, warming up to "his subject. “This same species must hate appeared at regular intervals in this continent for centuries even before Co- lumbus’ time, when the land was but a wilderness of forest and plain. It is one of the most remarkable phenomena of nature that an insect, after living nearly two de. c in the earth, should change from a sluggish, creeping, wingiess form into denizen of the air, with wings and a volc and deposit its eggs to undergo a similat process, and invariably arise after such another lengthy period “And that brings me to a consider a tion Old farmers are shak- | other terrible conse- | i] |of the process of this wonderful trans- | | formation. The ovipositing organ of the j female is provided with a little saw-like apparatus, with which she first punctures & groove In the twig of the plant or tree upon which she settles, and then lays the eggs. These are pearl-white, about three- sixteenths of an inch long and tapering at each end. When the larva is first hatched out, which is in about six weeks from the time of oviposition, it 1s covered by a mem- brane called the amnion. This breaks, and the larva deliberately drops to the ground, crawls quickly out of sight and begins to dig ts way Into the earth, sometimes to the distance of several feet. While in the ground it feeds on vegetable juices. “When the time draws near for the is- suance of the pupa it gradually rises nearer to the surface. When it appears it may become the prey of almost any of the birds or cannibal insects which are its natural enemies, and, instinctively, it seeks the protection of some r object. To witness these pupae, in such vast numbers that 0 cannot step on the ground without crus! ing several, swarming out of their holes and hemorsugase 4 over the ground, all within @ certain radius converging to a central | point, and then in a steady stream clam- bering up the tree trunk and diverging again upon its branches, is an experience not readily forgotten, and affording good food for speculation on the nature of in- stinct. “AS soon as the sun goes down the pu- e begin to rise, and continue unt!l about | 8 o'clock. In an hour after settling the skin splits down the middle and the form- ing cicada issues. The cicada at this stage is creamy white almost all over, and has red eyes. From twenty minutes to an hour is the usual time required for the full transformation to a winged insect. Then the body begins to grow hard, and the col- ors appear. “The male cicada is a singer who puts to blush many of his insect brethren. His voice has a peculiar, mournful vibrant quality. gives forth three distinct cries, and made by the muscles in the lower part of the body working on the drums under the wings, by alternately tightening and loosen- | ing them. The prevailing note in the height | of the season is made in unison by a nu ber of males, and may be likened to a dis- tant frog pond or the sound made by a log | in a saw mill when being cut by a circular saw. |_ “Then there is what is called the ‘phar-r- r-r-aoh’ note, something like a rapid train sing under @ short tunnel; also an inte! mittent chirping sound, which reminds one of that ordinerily produced by the barn- wallow.’” “Professor, there 1s a popular impression that these insects sting when molested. | “Yes, but there have never been any well- authenticated cases reported. The idea has probably arisen from the fact that the beak |by which all cicada take nourishment 1s | sharp-pointed and ts quick in action. There | 1s no poison gland. However, if a person | | | | | | were pricked by the beak there might be unpleasant, though hardly serious, conse- quences.” “How about the marks of the letters W on the wings? Do they mean anything?” | The professor smiled indulgently. “They | | may mean warm weather. I guess you would not be far wrong on that interpreta- } | —— | A GRASSHOPPER REMINISCENCE. | The Man on the Cracker Box Tells a Timely Story. From the Detroit Frae Press. “Talkin’ of grasshoppers,” said the man on the cracker box, “reminds me of the scoorge of 1872, when the country out here was overrun with them pesky critters. No- body knew whar they came from, and no- body knew whar they went to, for they come without warnin’ an’ they left in the same fashun. I hec kept my weather eye peeled for a week, but nary a hopper did I see, when I heerd as how they was at Blair an’ a comin’ lickety split to Decatur.” “Them were lively times,” said Long Jim, the stage driver. “Lor, how scared the wimmen were with the jumpin’ erit- tora It were afore I married the widder, continued the man on the cracker box, “when I were livin’ with my sister after she come out here, an’ [ had a right smart of cabbage in the field by the house, an’ I warn't a-goin’ to let no pack of measly grasshop} eat ‘em up, not if I knowed | it. I heard after sundown as they had | struck Blair, an’ I jes set to work an’ cov- ered every one of them cabbages up with | blankets and comfortables.”” “An’ I'll bet you didn’t save a one, not a Jone,” suggested Long Jim. | “It's right you are, I didn't. When I} | got up in the mornin’ the field was as bare as ef it had been struck by a cyclone; not ‘a thing left of them cabbages but’ the stalks in the ground. The hoppers had jes’ eaten the coverin’ sn’ the cabbages like so much provender an’ gone off to another country. I nearly cried over them cab- Heda ages. “Tell us about them in the cars,” said Long Jim. “This gentleman from the east ain't never seen the like.” “They stopped the cars more times than | you could count on your fingers by gitting | of the tracks, and makin’ them slippery, {actin’ like so much grease. And onct. gentlemen, you may not believe it, but it Gospel truth—they pulled the bell and the | ungineer stopped the car stock-still. It) were this a-way, for I were there, and see | {t myself. The ‘corductor came Into the | car when it stopped, an’ he says, says he: “‘Who pulled that bell-rope? | Every- body was scared, ‘cept me, an’ I spoke up says: “The hoppers did it.” * says the con- ‘low no galoot to tend to | my duties. When this train is stopped, I | do it myself. Don’t none of you ever tetch that bell-rope agin.’ I'd like to see enny one tetch it now,” says I, an’ I pinted it out to him weighted down with hoppers as thick as a constric- tor snake after it has swallowed a calf, an’ the car bell a-ringing like mad. ‘Holy Moses,’ he says, an’ looked skairt, | but it were a fact just the same. Them | hoppers followed us into the stage, and we |sat there knee-deep in ‘em, Scairt? No, not much to speak of. You see, them wasn't the seventeen-year locusts with a big ‘W’ on their backs. These here crit- ters were leetle slim things, kind of a brown-green, but, Lord, how ‘they did eat things! We folks had skeeter nets in our winders, and in two minutes after them hoppers’ struck us it hung in strips and threads, an’ they were swarmin’ round the house like fiies.”* “If they come agin,” said Long Jim, “I'd Jest fill up every growin’ thing with pizen, an’ then when the hoppers were all dead | I'd_burn ‘em and use ‘em for fertilizers.” “Yer mought,” sald the man on the leracker box, with a thoughtful look, “if they sent cards a-sayin’ they was comin’. But when they steal on yer like a thief in the night, you carn’t most always calker- late just’ what you would do. I'm layin’ ‘em this year, but they ain't sent on no ce agent with plan of campaign, as | | | | "ha he enveloped himself in a blue haze of smoke that forbade further discussion. 0+ CHARLIE IS NERVOUS. And Taking Ht Dentist’s Ruined His Chances. From the Buffalo Express. | “I don’t think,” said the girl with the sailor hat, “that you used Charlie right. There he ha® gone to « iot of expense get- ‘ting ready to marry you and you had not given him an intimation that you had any other thought than that of becoming his wife. Then you threw him over fh a min- ute, You've broken his heart and I know it “Well,” said the girl with the silk waist, “I'm sure I thought I wanted to marry him, but I just couldn't. You wouldn't either, if you had gone through what I ia. “Tell me,” said the girl with the satlor hat, imperatively. “You see, Charlie is nervous, I think he is a good deal of a co’ ‘d, too, but that didn't matter much. Only, one day he told me that it was necessary for him to go to the dentist's and have some teeth fixed, and he said he couldn't bear the idea. He talked so much about the pain and all that sort of thing that I told him I would go along and cheer him up. He sald that that would be just splendid, and that with me around he was sure He ‘could stand all sorts of pain without a whimper. We went up to the dentist’s last Saturday afternoon. We had to wait a good while in the ante- room, but Charlie didn’t seem to mind it much. I really think that my being there made him feel better, and I was glad of it. “The time came for him to go into the operating room, and he went in,first squeez- ing my hand and telling me to stay there until he came out. I sat over near the | door and could hear the conversation. The | dentist took one of those horrid, pokey | little things and pried around in Charlie's mouth. Then he said that there were two teeth that would have to be pulled. I heard | Charile give a great gasp, and he asked the dentist to let me come in the room and | stay there until the teeth were out. I didn’t | want to a bit, but went for Charlie's sake. | When I got in there Charlie was lying back | in the chair with his mouth wide open and I was shocked. He is a fairly good-looking fellow usually, but with that mouth open he is a fright. I couldn't endure living with a man who looked like that, so I just * “he place and sent Charlle back’ his ring.” 4 | Which hi CURIOUS OLD COREA The Great Soarcity of Wood in That Treeless Country. PEOPLE FOLLOW THE GOOD OLD Wa The Primitive and Original Prac- tices of Curing Human lils. PARADISE FOR HUNTERS Special Correspondence of The Evening Btar. GENSAN, Corea, March 28, 1894. HE VERY NAME of Corea is suggest- ive of mystery, This Uttle kingdom, way out here at the utter- most part of the earth, is still un- known, though she stepped out from her hermit Ufe as long ago as 1882, and en- tered into treaty re- lations with the civil- ized nations of the world. Much of the eastern coast is still erra incognita, though it is reputed to abound in surpass- ingly fine scenery, game of all kinds, in- cluding tigers, leopards and other beasts of Prey. Corea has not yet recovered from her air of bewilderment at sight of the great outside world, and those who have visited her, elther as newspaper correspondents or travelers, seem to have shared in this same bewildered condition of mind. When one first comes in sight of this east coast, instead of beholding a country clothed with beautiful forests of maple, black walnut, cherry, oak, varnish trees, red mahogany and every other common and uncommon wood, as has been represented, there is presented a panorama of mountains, ose rugged outlines, excessively steep slopes and severe, wild aspect, produce a grand but melancholy and inhospitable ex- pression. “It seems a forsaken land, given over to solitude.” For the most part it is utterly treeless, nude and barren, though here and there are growths of unthrifty, crooked, weather-beaten pines. From the lofty mountain summits, which towei to the clouds, to where the foot hills meet the sea, scarce 4 human habitation is to be seen; but on searching more closely, in unex- pected valleys that stretch far into the hills, we find many villages and hamlets, sur- rounded by fertile flelds of rice, millet and other productions, that give a comfortable support to the inhabitants. The Corean towns are composed of unat- tractive collections of houses, low and ugly. These dwellings are small straw-thatched mud hovels of one or two rooms, devoid of furniture, where the people sit, eat and | sleep on the floor, The streets are only nar- row, filthy alleys. The mud floors of the Corean houses, heated by flues from be- neath, are called kangs. They are heated in summer and winter to a degree that would be intolerable to one not used to it from infancy. Fuel gatherers scour the country to find means to feed these primi- tive furnaces. All the hillsides are shayen every autumn with short, strong iron sick- les. They are stripped of every growing thing; every stock and branch is taken on; every little bush that has sprouted from the old, old roots that le buried in the rich, black soil; every chrysanthemum and biue- bell, every coarse biade of grass, they cut down and bind in bundies for fuel. This is all they have. The impression prevailed, until recently, that northern Corea was rich in Umber, but it 1s now known that, eacept in temple grounds, or piaces sacred to sume deity, or Ww the memory of some great person, there exists very ilitle timber oc any value. Everytning like @ stick of Umber is very precious and cosuy. Building Muterials From Japan. We are told that the telegraph poles, recently been carried past our house, were brought from a remote part of the country, and the coolies who brought them, all the way on their shoulders, look- ed as though they had come from a@ far country, so pitifully exhausted were they. Every plank for building, every timber of our houses, is brought by ship from J; . There ls not, there ‘need uot ber an eaw mill in ail the country, for there is Lo wood to saw. All bricks for building are also brought on steamers from Japan or China; though clay is abundant, and coolies are Waiung to make brick, there is no wood to burn them. No Yankee enterprise will avail here to tide over these hard places. We have to take things as we find them. 1f age fills one with veneration, then you will tind enough here to impress you most profoundly, for everything your eyes fail upon look so old. The rocks are crumbling so, you can break them with your fingers. And when the rainy season comes, in sum- mer, the mold of ages gathers on every- thing, even to your gloves and shoes, if you drop out of them for a few days. The very air you breathe at such times seems to be charged with malaria and old ag It ig all made plain when you are told that this is one of the oldest countries in the world; that some of its walled cities date back to King David's time; that most of them are more than a thousand years old. The Coreans are proudly conscious of their antiquity. They say they have nearly lived out their allotted time, as a people. Their slow sensibilities, ancient customs, grave language and inert manner of life, all befit the aged. They speak of Europe and America as just beginning life; and in @ stately way they show they have mo in- tention of yielding any of their venerable ideas to such frivolous youth. No influence can move them to change their slovenly fitting white cotton garments for anything of a darker color or better shape. They in- sist on squatting on their heels when they work in your garden, while they use the short-handled, awkward Corean hoe of the past ages, instead of the civilized imple- ment of today. This squatting posture is a favorite one with them. They assume it when they call on us. We see long lines of sqvatting men by the roadside, in the hot sunshine, resting; they seem to be perfeet- ly happy, in a half-comatose condition, with watery eyes, after a surfelt of rice an pickle, dog chops and soup of garlic.atrings of meat and dough, and some indescribable white lumps, neither flesh nor fish, bread nor fat, that cause a gagging sensation when you feel them upcn your tongue, and they siide down your throat as though they might be lizzard or snake. This leaves a fierce burning behind it, and your eyes fill with tears; you plunge a brass spoonful of rice nto your mouth to put out the fire of red pepper. ‘ Fond of the Old Ways. So wedded is the Corean to his ways that any change, even in the smallest detail of life, seems to aim perfectly absurd. With as much hope might you interfere with the rising and setting of the sun or try to change the stars in their courses. All his ancestors have sewed up their fearfully |and wonderfully made trousers, queer stock- ings, long, flowing white outer garments in just the same painstaking way, and there- fore the Corean of today refuses our offer to stitch the long seams on the sewing ma- chine, rather choosing to “‘sit up of nights” and rip and sew according to the good old custom. They will tell you that some strange appearance and movement in the water is caused by a dragon. You need not take the trouble to deny the existence of the winged serpent, for they will adhere to every old superstition. ‘When all our scissors are lost, and, sui pecting the house boy, we inquire if he Seen them or has any idea where they may be, he will tell you in the most serious and polite way that he thinks the spirit that steals scissors has been in the house, and we shall not ruffle his serenity in the least if we express our contempt for his explana- tion by using epithets. He will possess his soul in perfect peace, and evidently pity our ignorance and impiety. Our pretty little Corean bride, who has been educated in a mission school, could not endure the thought ot foregoing the custom of brides, so she gladly bore the pain of having all the short hair pulled out which is devoted to bangs by American ladies. Also a professional in the art plucked out her eyebrows. It cost many a tear, to be sure, but it was sufil- cient comfort to know she was following the good old custom. The art of acupuncture ts practiced largely among the Coreans and in the most reck- jess, unskillful manner. Ye Babang has a | woeed knuckle joint, probably a sprain. —— he is a convert to Christianity, a fine Chinese scholar and teacher, he con tends most learnedly for mary of these cu: toms and superstitions. He had this suf- fering joint. punctured deeply in three | places with long needles. Now. after three ya, it is inflamed so we fear lockjaw Necéles are often pushed into the bow and stomach as far as the length of the hand without the least regard to the situa- tion of the internal organs, to say nothing of the quivering nerves. Sometimes these |meedies are roasted in the fire and teken out red-hot and dipped into medicine, the heat and medicine giving added agony—the treatment thus becoming more hopeful to the minds of these berighted people. Unique Medical Methods. The young man Mar was sick. All sorts of medicine men were called in, It was 4e- |cided that some spirit was disturbing his head, so they burned the top with @ hot iron, but he grew worse, and the most learned of the wise men decided that the only remedy would be a medicine made of @ finger of his only brother. The devoted brother submitted to have his finger cut off. In some way it was pulverized, so the sick man swallowed it—we never knew with what result. Our teachers and translators in Corea are COMPARING MANNERS Mr. Harris and Mr. Hill Say Sharp Thing: to Each Other. that he wanted | the arguments that | in favor of the income . | fused to permit an adjournmest | Progress had been made with the declining to permit an adjournment Harris said: *E philosophers in their way. They discussed the case of Hansabang, who has been ill for @ long time. Our American doctor says he hag consumption. These learned Coreans reported that there was, doubtless, some unbalanced condition between the male and |femaie atmospheres within the chest and stomach of Han. All sorts of medicines, made of the most repulsive reptiles and un. ; Clean things, were mixed up, with incant tions, and given, but with no avail, for this morning the poor man lies silent in death | in his mud hut, and the mourners go about | Cerers say it was all because he had passed the point where anything could rectify his internal atmospheres. There is much unexplored country in Co- rea; and it would delight the heart of the intrepid sportsman to visit this quented region. Among the mountains he would find many wild animals. Tigers, leop- ards, bears, wolves, foxes, badgers, hogs |and deer are not uncommon in tae lower hills. Great numbers of sable, ermine and otters are trapped in the highlands. Multi- tudes of birds are met with on hill and plain. Game birds are seen in great num- bers. The beautiful pheasants are extremely plentiful. The turkey bustard, water hen, pigeon, plover, quails and partridges are common. In spring and autumn the waters of every inlet and stream are crowded with ch quantities of wild fowl as to astonish and delight the heart of the sportsman— swans, geese, ducks and teal. The Cofeans still practice the ancient art of falconry. They use with great skill trained hawks and dogs to beat up the game. Corea has been famed for her fine aris, but of late the pearl fishery has m unsuccessful. The seas literally teem with fish, but the Corean shuns a life of toil, hardship and danger. He does not venture out upon the seas, and only gets such fish as he can catch in rudely con- structed traps, set along the shore, which only require attention an hour or so each day. Whales, sharks and seals abound on the east coast. Multitudes of salmon, cod, haddock, herrings, sardines and innumer- able other tribes crowd the waters. Oysters of an excellent quality form a staple article of food. The Japanese artificers drew their first knowledge and inspiration from Corea; but one will search in vain among the Corean handiwork of today for the slightest traces of the renowned craftsmen of ancient Co- rea. He will only find rude pottery and brass utensils without the least ornament. The present generation, no doubt, looks just like the ancient ones, for, clad in the same fashion, we see these tall, white figures going down by the sea or winding up the steep hills and mountains by the same beaten foot-paths that then, as now, are the highways to China and Russia. There are no ruins of ancient cities, tem- ples or palaces—no enduring marks of the generations who have lived, labored, loved and died here. Only the old graves that billow the hill sides tell the sad story They are recorded most carefully, wor- shiped and guarded as the precious treas- ures of the kingdom of Corea. me MORE OR LE! FUNNY. The Cherub Who Watches Over Drunk Men Sometimes Forgets His mess. “I have often heard,” said the man with the black necktie, “that there is a special providence that watches over drunken men. Their luck is proverbial. They fall down | flights of stairs and coal holes and the lik and come up smiling. They walk into| canals and float about until somebody | rescues them. They can’t hurt themselves, | tradition says. However, I had an occasion | to test the thegry, and I scoff at it. Iam a mocker. There is nothing in it. For in- stance, I knew a man once who was en/| habitual drinker. He was full most of the time. One day he went to sleep on the sid of the street. A coal wagon came along, | and the driver dumped two tons of chest-_ nut coal on him. Now, acording to the theory, that man should hav harmed. But he didn’t. No such luck. When they shoveled the coal off him they found him there flat on his back: “ “Dead, I suppose,” broke in the Buffalo express man. “No; he was alive enough as far as that goes, but the weight of the coal had broken @ bottle that contained two of the finest quarts of sour mash ever distilled. Then there was another man I knew who had the same failing. He got drunk because he couldn’t help it. One day he was coming up the street in a very wabbly manner, and he walked by a store that had its sidewalk trap doors open. Of course, he fell in. He struck one of those contrivances they have for sliding boxes down, and he shot into the middie of that cellar as if he had been fired out of a Krupp gun. He hit a crate of crockery —. “And broke it and his leg, undoubtedly, broke in the young man with the beil- crowned high hat. The man with the black necktie shook his head. “No,” he replied, “not exactly, al- though I believe he did spoil a few dozen wash bowls and pitchers. But that cuts no figure either way. By the theory he should have escaped unharmed. Instead, they hauled him off to the police court and he went to the penitentiary for six months for attempted burglary. “But that case wasn't a marker to my own saddest experience. I'll admit that on the afternoon I am speaking of I had taken too much drink. I was hazy as to my whereabouts. I wandered down to the docks. I had no business there, but that is Probably the reason why I was there. I walked off into the water. Now, by the rule, I should have been rescued immediate- after I struck the water. “Why, instead of going comfortably into the water, which would have helped sober me, if nothing else, I fell into one of those infernal scows the ferry boys use. I went to sleep, and that ferry boy didn’t do a thing but row me around the harbor for six hours while I slept and charge me $3 an hour after I waked up.” —_-+-e--___ Old Age a Hard Work. The Lancet says that old people make a great mistake when they give up work. Many men who have made a competency in business and feel entitled to retire from active work, find themselves deciining in health and becoming prematurely oid for want of occupation. In most aged persons the vital functions continue in active ex- ercise under normal conditions; but if the regularity and moderation of business Life are departed from trouble will surely fol- low. On the other hand, the Lancet held that “if in any direction it is allowable for competitors in the race of life to dispense with self-control, it would appear that they Way, to @ great extent, use this liberty with respect to physical and mental ex- ertion.” In other words, we must not eat too much, or drink too much, but we can study hard and take plenty of exercise not only without harm, but with the best re- sults, and if old people wish to live out all the days they should find plenty'to do both for mind and body. ———_+e+—___ Should Both Be Knocked Ont. From Trath. Jasper—“I see by the papers that Corbett assures the public there will be nothirg brutal in the approaching fight between Dimself and Jackson.” Jumpuppe—“Isn’t that too bad!” the streets wailing hideously. The old sor- | unfre- | I am a2 little scrupulous for the | Senators, but I feel that the count | right to know @t the earliest inform it what the fate of the The waste of the time and yesterday have been excusable. For that reason, as it is to Senators, inconvenient and un- comfortable as it is to and with extreme regret that I cannot my sense of duty yield to the appeal Senator from New York (whom gladly oblige if I could consisten with my sense of duty, and I think we ought to go on. W read a dozen lines of the bill two days. We ought to go on proximate completion. We ought to find an end; Way to find it is to stay here Senator his opportunity, his Let him exhioit his toric to any extent he desires. with him, and let him do it. am concerned I shall not move to as long as there is « quorum find any means of getting « © on With the business of t @ reasonable hour. I do not ask to stay here always, or all night even, 1 do ask them to stay here longer. | Not Responsible. Mr. Hill replied that he could responsible for the delay in bill. “I have been anxious,” he | the Dill was first brought in to @ speedy conclusion. 1 have not delay it for a single moment. I | Voted upon some of | majority have seen fit | Some of them did “I have been will a of the bill were concerned, | ceptions, to allow the | the bill and pass ft exactly As 1 said @ few moments | spoken a single word th day of April last, on the subject of | trust 1 was not when | struggied to hold this Gemocrat cratic principles. I will not me of those few momeni put upon the bill « ciples that might sa) told now that lam for the delay in the ure.” After some further gan to show anger. Mr. Harris said: It thing like decent progress tor would havi Mr. Hill—Who ts the judge, sir’ Mr. Harris—When we have whole days in worse than waste, country suffers, neither my my desire to accommodate | any other Senator would control me millionth part of a second. Mr. Hill—The Senater says that has been wasted. Mr. Harris—It has. Mr. Hill—-There are some Senators think that when they themselves participate in a debate the | wasted. I say time has not been |do not say that every here today has been this portion of the bill, has been consumed tn the wii of bes | | | if rd 3? f SEE iilit ¥ : r 5 £ ry j 6 z fe i rE ot ft & 8 Bt ian ii i : i H , i ig i i : e ue think | é f i : 5 fs iE A $ z 3te9 fe HH £ fi come tax, and not by I think that the arg: days has not been was ented an argument to exemption was wrong, no principle, but ev that you put on it made it worse and iniquitous. You sat here ready to the bill yesterday, ifthe Today a change has come o is @ proper ex you will do tom ovher changes you may morrow. Yesterday I pleaded complete exemption of You have introduced an I think covers it. I exemption of mutual life panies, or yeste: |from Missouri introdu: an which, 1 think, substanially covers | points, if I am advised rightly. New York and Tennessee. nH , f i | | Mr. Harris.—Because Mr. Hull.—I will place ibility upon the Senator, = are ome a but I shall mot around about it. I shall not he Se tion manners exhibited here it. I shall tak time in rs Mr. Harri New —— Mr. Hill—That may better than those My Tennessee. Mr. President, I to facilitate the bill. I_was honest sire. What did I coming last Decem! bhi the question bill passed last fall u election in the country coming on. @s though it was necessary for the salve- tion of our party that we should pass bill. I criticised nobody's motive ‘an fered from me. I spoke of those who were upon the Other side. Yet I saw delay after delay and moath after month until the last few before the election the bill was pass. It ae = its effect. is th nort disgusted with our party. It did not have the effect that it was posed it would lMkely have. The long lay had fritted away the good effect. country had gradually recovered from panic to some extent. The Senate Rules, Therefore, with that experience in Placed before me, I introduced, I think, the first or second day of the December ese session propositions for the amendment of the rules of the Senate. What — those amendments? Those amendment were to provide, first, that there should be | given to a majority of this body (of which I have heretofore been proud to constitute myself a member) the it to determine when a bill shall be It was a principle that at the September session, announcement was then jority had no right to change this body. I introduced another amendment, |was that when « Senator place and announced a | counted for the purpose quorum—a_ proper think ought to have tion. c of procedure that I hoped the Senate adopt for the very purpose majority control the date | might be put upon its to avoid honestly and sim lay which has But, sir, what was done? those amendments | have facilitated the disposition of ure. They went to a commi | {he distinguished Senator was a member. Where are the hands of that committee, death that knows no waking. been kept there from that Senator desired, I suppose, in some way or other. Before finally agreeing ment Mr. Harris announced try and keep the Senate until the bill was complet of the whole and reported $$$ righ! had i : ; § Ls | : i & Ff 3 sf Es I i if i af | il : Gotng to the African The steamer Santa for a trip to the gold She is billed to lea : : I fields ve San