Evening Star Newspaper, February 9, 1895, Page 14

14 THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1895-TWENTY PAGES. COREAN BUDDHISM A Night_in the Biggest Buddhist Monastery of the East. WITHTHE CHIEF PRIES? A CHAT Something About Corean Children and Their Amusements. QUEER SUPERSTITIONS es (Cepyrighted, 1505, by Frank G. Carpenter.) SPENT A NIGHT last spring in the biggest Buddhist monastery of Corea. 1t was founded eleven hundred years ago, and Corea had Buddhism while Japan was sti!l wor- shiping the sun goddess of Shinto- ism. ‘he fact is that Japanese Buddhisin came from Corea. rhis was about five hundred years after Christ, when one of | the Corean kings gave a golden Buddha to the mikado. He popularized the rel'gion, and Japan was soon filled with Buddhists, monks and nuns. The religion became pop- vlar, and today Japan is one of the great suddhist countries of the world. Corea, on the other hand, has sunken into barbar- ism. It is the land of infidels and super- stitions. so strong in the past, has fulien into di grace, and until lately the priests were not allowed to come into the city of Seoul. There are no Buddhist temples im Seoul, and there are not a great many ver the country. The chief center of religion is in the eastern part of the veninsula, and the monastery which I visited is on> of the richest and largest in the world. It had hundreds of acres of forests connected with it. It owned vast es, and it had build- ings or tempies which made me think of those of Japan. [t was miade the im} monastery about ene hundred years hefore the discovery of America. ‘the founder of the present Corean dynasty horn near it, and was taught by one of its priest The result was that when he became king. | ice" bags brought A Great Buddhist Outside of Seoal. about ed years ago, he f | th kie wave it imper‘al rank, | and its pr e been getting fat off of | presen This man planted | m | stand stone tab- | great monarch. y in Corea whic dyna @ pines, height, and ep lets commeme re is an old states that the ty will be | destroyed in the houndreith year of t Tt was just five hundred years aco lived, and the Corean rebels tried who have Ment this year hel ing ovt th’s prop to break ip the yove that they are ca and that the present king will be the last of bis jine. Handreds of Priests. 1 fount the country surrounding the monastery filled with priests. They lire the rowds. ‘They are at work tn the ficlds. Yeu see them loating in the woods, and they fairly swarm about the temples. They weor yeflow gowns, and their hats are much hike inverted butter bowls. They >me down over their heads so that you see only their noses and their chins, and The Buddhist religion, which was | vial | | scatterea about, upon which the priests slept later on. A Talk With the Chief Priest. While we were getting dinner the chief priest, the highest Buddhist in Corea, came down to see me. He was a man of :bout fifty, with a head as bald as a billiard ball and a complexion like that of a well- beaten drum head. He was withered and wrinkled, but his little black eyes twmkled out of their buttonhole slits, and he was affable ard pleasant. He squatted on his heels on the floor for a time, and then, upon my asking him to take dinner with me, he sat down cross-legged and we ‘lis- cussed matters together while our aged rooster was cooking. I had a good variety of wines with me, and I offered the chief ‘The Boys of the Monastery. priest a glass of champagne. At first ke refused, but upon “General” Pak telling him it was not like Corean liquor, he gulp- ed down great swallows, rubbing ‘his stom i as the sparkling liquid sent The truth hed the bottle right there, and * Pak made him a present of it. re fs no glass in Corea, and the chief priest considered this a magnificent gift. He bumped his head on the mats before me in response to it, and after th re was nothing in the whole establishment which he did not offer to us. I asked iim some qnestions about his religion. He told me that Buddhism came into Corea from China, and that about 300 years aftér Christ the first Buddhist monks came from that country. I spoke to him about the revival of his religion in Japan and of the movement which is there on foot to s-nd | Buddhist jonaries to Corea, in order to bring back the country to its old faith, but he did not seem to have much interest in the matter, and he was more intent upon watching the getting of the dinner than | in talking of Buddha. He ate with wooden | chopsticks, and he seemed to like my rice | | and chicken soup very much. As soon a | We were through, as politeiy as possible | signified to him that I would Ike to le ; down and be at rest. I had been riding | ince 6 o’lock in the morning a razor-back- ed pony over a very rough road, and I was almost tired out. The Coreans do not use beds. Night clothes are practically wn- | | have known, and the most of the people sivep on he bare floors, which are as hard as stone. | “General” Pak had, however, a lot of eld, into the temple and | spread out on the floor. I supposed they wovld clean out the hundred-odd monks who were in the temple and give me a chance to sleep alone, and I waited some time for them to move. They gave no | sof doing so, and at last in despair I | asked “General” Pak for a screen. He brought half a dozen, and with these we | { ' i | | | i i made a little fence about my rice bags, and, undressing, I wrapped myself in my blanket and soon dropped off to sleep. A Midnight Serenade. About midnignt I was awakened by a horrible dim. A hundred gongs were sound- ing. Two score of bells were ringing, and there were the beating of drums and the clapping of hands and a pounding of one | piece of wood upon another. I rose to my feet and looked over the screen. About thirty monks were still sleeping, and forty others were trotting here and there through the temple on their way to pray- A brawny priest was pounding on a ers. | song near my head, and another was ring- | ing a bell at the foot of my bed. I stood and looked on, for there was no use trying | to go to sleep amid such a noise. This | lasted nearly an hour, and then the priests slowiy resumed their cuddled-up position on the floor, and the Corean snore too the place of the gongs and the bells. I went back to my rice bags, and had just dropped off to sleep when the gongs and belis began egain. 1 looked at my watch. ail walk with long staves. They do get muen attention from the people, they they are in Those I met | and it seemed to fe about their re- perstitious, and I her At the en- there was a big stood a row | ous faces, Knew v hey are very s of this ever: ¥ E of thi rved with hi gate, and on eac of totem sticks, ¢ ke those whic a find outside of each Corean village. ‘These are supposed to be a guard against evil spirits, and they atd | Buddha in protecting his own. We passed through them, and went for several miles along a well-kept road through a beauti- ful pine forest, the g xf which was | studded with flowers. Along one side of | juddhint Priests. | live apart from the monks in quarters of In tke Biggest Corean Monastery. It was 4 a.m., and the day was just dawn- ing. The morning prayers had begun, and this effectually stopped further rest. After breakfast I took a walk over the monastery, and I met a number of the juddhist nuns. These were the scrawn- jest, scrapplest, seraggiest women I have ever seen. Their heads are shaved, anid the women I saw hed faces as wrinkle’ as the leather of an alligator satchel, a’ they Taade me think of the idiots I have | seen in some of our state asylums. ‘They their own, and they are little respected by | the people. I found none of the high-class Coreans had much to do with the monks or the priests, and they were looked upon | more as a set of ignorant drones than | anything else. resorts ‘The monasteries are travel for the people, and many ex- are taken to visit them, more to admire the beautiful scenery by which they are surrounded than anything else. The Coreans are fond of the beauties of nature, and on any fine day you may see sccres of them wandering through the hills about the Corean capital and writing verses and poetry inspired by the sight. When the trees are in flower they have under them, and the beautiful parks of the country are as well known as those of Switzerland are known to Europe. The gentlemen often have poetry parties, at pienic which they compete with each other in writing verses on the spur of the moment rtain subjects, and they ate very in matters of etiquette. More of fucius than in anything ‘ou know, all comes of Seoul there is liev: se, and their culturé from China. Just outside a ve Buddha carved out of stone, with a little temple above it, but it has few worshipers, and the only temples in the road a mountain terrent rushed over a get rock, singing the praises of Buddha | as it pushed its way toward the Pacific | ean. On the other side hills rese almost | like mot ns and the ride v of the most pictmesque that FE found in Corea. ‘The forests belonging to the establishment ave beautifully Kept, and some parts ef the grounds make you think of an English perk. rather than one of the wildest tions of one of the most tries on the globe. There we bridges in temo! resting p and there on the Now and then we ssed ome ted with tab'ets in memory of the holiest monks of the py and all of our surroundings were filled with the beauties of nature Steeping With the Monks. Some of the gorgeous priests in their bntter-bow! hats met my perty at the gate, Pak, my i preter, sent g in advance with my let- ivetion from the King of Co- s to the chief priest to entertainment for m te however, our se of intr rea, with or pare a prop we arrived at the found they ng to put us in a small reom. This did not suit him at all, and he led me throug after court aati we came to the t mple of all, He st h stately tread right into this and spoke in grandiloquent tones to the crowd of priests lying about. He scat- and that, we flying about for my rece reom was hundred feet among those in it time fifty priests w! this hun fix up ed n trying tion th had te Th m tk mov pointed to a me that it e night. a great a, in front of h howls of incense were burning. The mwas yut twenty feet in height, terns hung from the ceiling. were drums and gongs here and there for the waking up of the gods be- fore praying to them, and there were mats ting place w statue of | extreme, the Corean capital are Confucian. Queer Corean Superstitions. I found the Coreans superstitious in the and I met evidences of this everywh ‘The trees which we passed at the foot of the mountains had piles of stone about them, and “General Pak al- ways picked up another stone and threw it on the pile. He told me that in those trees lived the gods of the mountains, and that did not do them honor by giv stone they would work us great Nearly every house had a magic about it in order to keep out and professional sorcerers are harm charm t the spirit | A Saerificial Stone. | cattea in at funerals to drive off the de- mons. These are usually old women, who have a very curious dance, and who whirl ‘about in the strest for hours in order to keep off tho evil one. I saw several table rocks en my trip acruss the country which s in times of epi- are ed for sacrific demics, and one immense stone of this kind, about twenty feet square, I was told, saved the country from smallpox. The Cereans believe in astrology. They have their lucky days and their unlucky days, and they think that the spirits hover about them and work them good or ill. At the s-reads I often saw straw effigies, ch, I was told, had been made by men ! western Arkansas in 1540. as a guard against evil diseases. In such straw men are hidden pieces of money, and the parties who make them say a prayer over them, asking that they be delivered from all diseases and misfortunes for the next twelve months. They then give them to the boys, who tear them to pieces to find the money. The more the figure is torn, the greater the efficacy of the charm. The Coreans consider nine to be a lucky num- ber, and they have all kinds of rain prophets and dream signs. = Corean Children. I fouad many boys in this big Corean monastery. They were studying to be priests, and the chief priest took four of them and posed them, in crder that I might have their pictures taken. They were bright little fellows, and they went over the prayers of Buddha quite glibly, not knowing what they mean. The children form one of the most interesting features of Corea. They are bright and good natur- ed, and very polite. They tagged at my heels wherever I Went, and gave the chief amusing features of the whcle trip. In the summer children urcer six wear little more than a little jacket, which comes just down below the arm-pits. They eat great quan- tities of raw turnips and pumpkins, and the whole of baby Corea may be said io be pot- bellied. The children have all kinds of games, and they delight in the flying of Kites. Their kites are made differently from ours. They cre square in shape with a hole as big around as a tin cup in the middle. They let out the string by a reel, and they have kite fights. They use great skill in this amusemert, and two rival kites will fight ilke live things hundreds of feet up in the air. Each one ef the fight- ers tries to entangle the other kites, to break their strings and drag them down to the ground. The greatest kite-flying time is during the New Year holidays, and the men, as well as the boys, have their kites. Gambling in Corea. The Coreans are fond of gambling, but the laws provide that there shall be no gambling, except at funerals, and then only among the friends of the deceased. This makcs the dead man very popular, and all who have any claim whatever to friend- ship or relationship with him sppear at the funeral. The ceremony usually lasts for days, and it is a kind of a cross between an African hoodoo show and an Irish wake. Corean Graves. Graves in Corea are quite as important as they are in China. Every family has its burying ground, and the dead are carried for miles in order that they may be laid with their kin. The monuments are usually round mounds of earth, and the bigger the ; iran the bigger the mound. A rich man will often take a whole hill to himself, and the cemeteries are usually located on the sides of hills. When a man dies hired mourners are called in, and these wail as they burn the clothing of the dead. They do this at night in the street in the front of ¢ door. The funerals of Seoul to pass out of certain gates of the and must go through just at dusk, The result is that they go to the grave on a run, tor if they do not arrive there in time they will have to squat down and wait till the gates open in the morn- ing. Such funerals are always accompa- { nied by men, and there is dancing and mer- ry-making on the way. I saw a number during my stay in Seoul, and there seemed to be more rejoicing than grief. My next letter will be the last on Corea. It will describe my trip to the harbor of , Whence I went to Siberia, aitd show some queer unknown features of the hermit kingd FRAN CARPENT! oe KING HIDDEN TREASURE. Arkansas Prospectors Hunting for Lost Spantsh Silver Mines. From the St. Louls Globe-Democrat. From Springdale, Ark., it is learned that much excitement exists in portions of Washington county, growing out of the trenuous efferts being made by treasure- seekers to discover the silver mines which are popularly believed to have been found and worked by De Soto, when the Spanish adventurer and his soldiers were camped in that part of the state. It is a matter of history that De Soto spent months in north- It 1s also be- ieved that during his sojourn there he and his followers opened and operated silver mines of fabulous richness. ‘The Indians, or such of them as were illured by promises of dazzling rewards, gave the Spapiards the clew which led to the location of the hidden wealth, but the latter, who had ex- pected to discover mountains of gold,show- ed no elaticn over the “find.” handed To this day, down from one generation to stories are told of the Spanish ilver mines in the state, and the uses in which the metal was employed; and to this day has the search for these mines been kept up, the father leaving the treasure to his son to ferret out, and the yueathing the hidden wealth to his children, in the assurance that they would discover it. If it be an ignis fatuus it is certainly long lived, for there are people in these mountains who cherish the hope of finding this long-lost treasure, just as ardently as did their ancestors years and years ago. ‘There are farmers living beyond Fayette- ville and Springdale who have in their pos- session many curious relics of the Spanish cceupation of the country. Capt. J. N. Morris has « rude cross,two or three drink. ing cups, several images of s McCune has a pair of curiously wrought bridle bits; Jim Holliday has a couple of e ly shaped rings. All of these things are made of pure silver, thus showing that the Spaniards actually had a plethora of the white metal, and placed little, if any, value upoa it. The prevalent belief is that after the Spaniards left that part of the state and bent their course in a southerly direction, with the expectation of finding inexhaustible gold mines, the Indians care- had abandoned, and destroyed which might lead to their loca- tion or discovery. So well, indeed, did the crafty aborigines do their work that from that day to thé present time the secret re- mains hidden in the mountain depths, and thus far, deapite the energy which has’ been spent in finding them, the exact location of the mines remains a secret still. True, silver in small quantities has been found from time to time, the latest find being cnly a few years back; but the “old Span- ish mines,” as they are termed in neigh- herhood ‘tradition, remain undiscovered, firing the heart of the treasure seeker with the ardor of avar' Within the past ten days the hunt for the mines has been conducted with a per- severance almost beyond belief. Nearly a dozen persons have engaged in it, all of them, but a group of three men, acting in- dependently of each other. The report is given out that one of the party, said to be an oid miner who recently came to the state from Colorado, struck a lead of silver, which, it was thought, would run into the long-sought fo: mines, but it was proved that the vein was top scanty to pay for werking even, it playing out entirely soon after it was discovered. = RISE OF THE DRUMMER. Fifty Years Ago an Unknown Factor in Business. From the N. Y. Price Current. elopment of commerce was for years entirely unknown. The bright, ant, sharp young fellow who now calls en customer after custemer through- out the United States, always neat and al- ways attentive to duty, the drummer, did not then exist. He began to be seen as soon as railroads became common, or per- haps a little before. There could not have been many before 1840. There.were, how- ever, salesmen who frequented the princ!- pal hetels, such as Bunker's, Lovejoy's, the Howard House, the United States and the Astor, long before this, They had a fine tmemory of faces and of names, and spent much of their time in scanning hotel reg- isters and in being in the lobbies of inns, so that when merchants arrived from the country they might be on hand to welcome them and to escort them to their place of business. Little scrutiny of hotel lists is now made, but this was then the most ob- vious method of increasing and holding trade. There was in 1830 no way of know- ing with reesonable certainty the rating of a dealer some distance away. Commercial agencies were not then established, and selling to the retail trade was much more of a lottery than it is now. Those whole- salers were successful who were the best judges of credit. His Insaunitary Condition. From the Indianapolis Journal. You bet I know enough to come in when it rain: remarked Mr. Weary Watkins, in the course of a heated discussion. “It is a mighty good thing you do, retorted Mr. Hungry Higgins. “Ef you didn’t your name would be mud. Least- ways, mostly mud.” ealed the silver mines which the | read and are provided with a tube like | | { jefull of s FLOWERS BY MAGIC How They Gan Be Produced in a Parlor Entertainment, PLEASING TRICKS FOR AMATEURS (= The Mystery of the Restored Hand- kerchief Explained. ——_-—__—_ THE MAGICIAN AT HOME Written for The Evening Star. N: STYLE OF tricks of the modern magician that can be safely attempted by an amateur is more effective than those in which a plant seems to start from seed and grow rapid- ly to full size in a few moments and then to blossom handsomely. ‘There is one of this sort that / is not only easy, but quite brilliant and well suited to open a drawing room performance. The performer of it introduces it by saying: “I notice that-in my hurry I have ne- glected to provide myself with the cus- tomary buttonhole bouquet, but, fortunate- ly, I have here a quantity of magic seed, with which I can not only supply my own want, but can give you a short lesson in magic floriculture.” Show a small hox, which is supposed to contain the seed, while in reality it is empty. “You see, I have only to place a single seed here in my buttonhole and after breathing on it a moment, to supply the necessary heat, I touch it with my wand and instantly we have a beautiful rose. Now, if some gen- tleman will kindly loan me a silk hat for a moment, I will show you a method ky which bouquets may be produced while you wait. I only have to place the hat over this glass goblet for a moment, which, you see, is quite free from deception, and here we have a handsome bouquet.” Re- move the hat and find the goblet still empty. “How is this? Ah, I remem! er now, I neglected to put any of the magic seed in the goblet. I will just put in a pinch of various kinds and try again.” Place hat over the glass again and in- stantly raise it, and discover a large bou- quet in the giass. (See figure 1.) “You see the seed acts instantaneously, and, if necessary, I could produce flowers enough in five minutes to supply the Charity Ball.” While saying this brush the hat carefully and walk down as if to return it, still hold- ing the box of seed. Once atnong your audience you exclaim, “What is that? You don’t believe me? Why, see here; by just putting a pinch of the seed in this hat and breathing on it, thus, 1 will produce bouquets for all present how hat nearly all boug: nd distribute them. Then return hat, saying: “I thank you for the vse of your hat, which seems ticularly fitted £ this purp Doubtiess: it has often covered thoughts as beautiful as the flowers it has sheltered tonight.” How They Bloom, To prepare for producing a flowér in the buttonhole, take a. plece of black elastic cord about a foot in length and put one end of it through the center of an arti- ficial rose, from which the stem has been removed, knotting the end to keep it from slipping through. Pass the other end through the buttonhole, also through a small hole made in the coat just behind the buttonhole, and then down and fasten to the suspender button on the back of your trousers. Draw the flower away from the buttonhole and conceal it urder the left armpit, and as you touch the spot with the wand raise the left arm slightly, free- ing the flower, which will instantly fly to the buttonhole. After borrowing the hat place it over the glass, as above, and after removing let the briny rest on the table a second while look- ing at the glass. During this brief time slip your finger into the little cardboard tube which serves as a handle to the bou- quet, which lies on the shelf at the back of your table and just beneath the hat. By closing the fingers the bouquet is brought into the hat (see fig. 2). This takes only a fraction of a second, and as all are looking for the bouquet !n the glass the movement is entirely invisible. As soon as the hat is “loaded” raise it quite a distance above the table and hold it there while you pretend to put the seed in the glass. As soon as the bouquet is shown in the glass, let the hat rest on the table as before, and introduce the small hou- quets, which are tied together with a weak the large bouquet. When you appear to put the seed in the hat, break the thread and shake up the bouquets loosely, and they will nearly fill the hat. Of course you must keep your eyes fixed on the gob- let while loading the hat, and never allow yourself to glance toward the left hand which holds the het, as that would give yeur audience & hint that something was going on in that quarter. ; The Magic Handkerchief. ‘Ap amusing trick that will serve well to fellow this in a beginner's program is styled ‘“‘the restored handkerchief.” It is begun by borrowing a lady's handkerchief. ‘A plain white one is necessary, so if a fancy one is offered, say: “This is too deli- cate; I prefer a more substantial one.” While talking about the handkerchief, turn suddenly and take a lemon from the whiskers or hair of some gentleman, wheel about and throw it on the stage. Then pass the handkerchief to some one to hold, start back toward the stage, but stop sud- Genly, return and ask the man why he dces not hold it as you told him to. Of course he protests, and after a little dis- cussion you ask him to show you the handkerchief. Much to his surprise,he finds it in small pieces. You then take the pieces from him end give him a “talking to” for having spoiled your trick and the lady’s handkerchief, but finally say you will show hfm how to restore it. Pass it hack to him, being sure to place it in his right hand, ‘and tell him to rub it gently with his right hand. As he holds it in the right he is pretty sure to rub it with the left, seeing which you cry: “Here, here: Stop that. I’said the right hand, and you have used the left. Let's see what you have done to it now.” He shows it, but in- stead of the pleces there is now one long strip. Take it from him and say: “It’s no use trying. I see you will never make a magician, so I will excuse you and try to get out of the scrape you have got me into.” Offer the strip to the owner of the hand- kerchief, saying that it is no fault of yours that it hasi been ruined; but, of course, she will refuse it. Then say: “Very well, the only thing I can do is to send you a new one, but in the meantime let’s see what we can do with this.” Return to the stage, pick up the lemon and place it on the table, where all see it, and then say you will try to shoot the handkerchief in- to the lemon. Load it into the pistol and fire at the iemon. Then cut open the lem- cn and take out the handkerchief. Start toward the lady as if to return it, step suddenly and smell of it and say: “This smells rather strong of lemon. Shall I perfume it for you?” Without waiting for an answer, put it on a plate on your table and pour per- fume from a bottle, but accidentally (7?) put on too much, pick it up and show it wet. Then say you will dry it a little be- fore returning it. Light ‘a candle, and while holding the handkerchief over the flame it takes fire. Drop it on the plate and offer it to the owner while still burn- ing. Of course, she refuses it. Then put another plate over it, smother the flames and again offer the burned remnant to the owner, making all sorts of excuses for the accident. As she still refuses to accept, offer to put it in a paper for her, return to table and roll the ashes in a piece of paper, and again offer it to her, and as she still refuses, break open the paper, take out the handkerchief and pass it to her, and much to her surprise she finds it is her own handkerchief, and seemingly none the worse for its strange adventures. How It is Done. In commencing with tlis, have in your left hand a lemon, prepared by cutting a plug-shaped piece out of one end, digging out all the pulp and stuffing in a piece of cloth the size of a lady's haadkerchief. After this the plug is replaced and fastened in place with pins. Hold the lapel of your coat with the same hand as you walk down to borrow the handkerchief, and the lemon cannot be seen. Under the waist- band of your vest, on the left side, have a bundle of about a dozen pieces of white muslin—say, three inches square—and on the right side a strip about three inches wide and a yard long. Behind the box on your table have a double piece of news- paper, about a foot square, pasted to- gether on three sides, so that it forms a sort of bag, but appears like a single thick- ness. Also have on the table two plates, a pistol, a perfume bottle filled with alcohol, a candle and candlestick. After producing the lemon from the gentleman's whiskers soe the lady’s handkerchief in the left and. As you turn toward the stage to throw the lemon, tuck the handkerchief under the vest in the middle and pull out the pieces from the left side. Give them to the man who is to assist you. Then you start to- ward the stage again, at the same time getting hold of the long strip, and while explaining to him how to restore the hand- kerchief exchange the pieces for the long strip and give him that to hold. While all are watching him pyt the pieces in your pocket. As you return to the stage, after excusing your assistant, hold the long strip at arms’ length, so they can see it all the time, but with your other hand get hold of the original handkerchief, and while get- ting the pistol push it into the paper bag, smoothing it out as flat as you can. Of course, when you finally tear open the paper you only tear through the outer thickness, and the ashes are concealed by the Inner. Be sure not to leave the paper where the audience can get at it, but crumple it up and throw it on the stage. Often Viewed. From the Indianapolis Journal. “Sharpe got himself elected to the coun- cil as a man of views, didn’t he “Well, he is living up to it. Scarce a bill passes that he isn’t deemed a good man to ‘see.’ SS ee Just the Sign From Brooklyn Life. Miss N. Quiring—‘‘It must be very easy to telegraph bad language and swear words.” Operator—“What makes you think so?” Miss N. Quiring—‘‘Because the code con- tains so many dots, dashes and spaces.” i gpa ih Ag oe Knowing Kangaroos, From Fitegende Blatter. How they fooled their teasing keeper, who placed their food, as he thought, out of their reach, NEW PUBLICATIONS. GEORGE WASHINGTON DAY BY D. uthor of “Original Por- ete., etc. Washington, So good a picture of Washington the Man as this volume portrays has never before been presented to the world. 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An aper- ts, Department of the In- jovernment Printing Of- fic The nuraber of people capable of average litefary effort is astoundingly great, but jonly a few among men are gifted with abil- Ney of the sort needed to construct an index that will do what it ought to do; a vast quantity of valuable reading and reference matter has been forever entombed and lost because the index-maker failed in what he probably regarded as an easy and merely mechanical endeavor. The index which Mr. Ames presents in this volume is, so far as government indices in this country are con- cerned, worthy the designation “unique.” It covers only a period of five years, but nothing has escaped. Mr. Ames has many times tried to secure such appropriations as are needed to make possible the indexing | of all public documents, but his appeals fell on deaf ears; by extraordinary exertion he compiled this index of all government pub- | lications issued during the existence of the Fifty-first and Fifty-second Congresses; the plan is wholly his own, and is the result of long experience. That the volume met with instant approval is not at all surprising— librurians and public men have been en- thusiastic in their commendation, and there | is now general desire for the prompt app cation of the Ames system of indexing to ail our national publications. ner"s So Dr. Parkhurst’s contest with the greatest eggregation of spoils-seeking poliicians has been cency-loving people the whole world over, and there is general public acquaintance with the campaign that resulted in Tam- many’s defeat, but not until now have the doctor’s methods and aims been fully set forth in concrete form by himself. The work will be of value as a text book in ties where reform is contemplated. The der will find Tammany and the poiice of New Y ity synonymous; the doctor’: opi of the farce is pointed. “I believe, he says, “that from top down, with some splendid exceptions, they are the dirtiest, creokedest and ugliest lot of men ever com- in semi-mi array outside of n and Turkey’—a conclusive compari- sci eminently unjust to the Japanese. MES, CHARLES H, GIBSON’S, MARYLAND VIKGINTA COOK BOOK. Cortn N Valuabie Rece for “Aid in ping. red and Tested by ‘Gib sou of Ratcliffe Manor, bot Co., Md. Baltimore: Joba Murphy & Housekeepers can hardly fail to recosnize the fact that Mrs. Gibson has placed most of them under obligation to her for the very admirable collection of recipes aggre- gated in a volume that achieves instant popularity by its businesslike appearance-- being bound in dark green oilcloth that iin- mediately suggests the kitchen. Of the ex- celience of the advice given cooks and Would-be-cooks there cau be no doubt, but the volume contains more than m essays on food; there are miscellaneous recipes of use in every home ranging from ‘How to Cook a Husband” and how to make soft soap to the construction of colic drops and a sure cure for freckles. DICTIONARY “OF UNITED STATES HISTORY. } Four Ce ries of Hist Writ 7 aed isd tly in ary Form. “By J. Fr Jrunexon, Pa. D., Profesor ef Histor Trown Uni ver fort iy of = Jolms Uat- Editorial Coatet ary, author of Writing in. Americ 300 portraits. Boston: Washington: It, A. Dinsmo: A comprehensive work for the accuracy of which the publishers vouch without qualification. It is a reference book, which most of the essential and a few non- essential facts of United States history are stated with all reasonable brevity. Perfec- tion has been aimed at, and if it has not been hit the shortcomings are less pume: ous than in volumes the objects of which are similar to that avowed by Prof. Jame- son. Valuable features of this dictionary: which deserves a place in every library— are the biographical sketches of men of note. Potomac SPERRY STORIES. | By Arthur Spor : rry Series, No. 2. Washing! : HH. B. Washington newspaperdom of five years ago knew Arthur Sperry as one of its own; today the one-time reporter has a reputation on both sides of the Atlantic as a writer of short stories. Some of his efforts are re- markable for their excellence—especially those that deal with the Chinaman as he is in a great American city. In more than one of the popular glish magazines there is always place for a contribution from Mr. Sperry; sure evidence of real merit, for the Briton is not enthusiastic without good cause oyer American products of either the material or literary varieties. COMMEMORATIVE ADDIE By Pa wil New York: Harper & Brothers. ington: Woodward & Lothrop. In this voluine are reprints of eloquent tributes paid by Mr. Godwin to the me- mories of George William Curtis, Edwin Booth, Lonis Kossuth, John James Audu- bon and William Cullen Bryant. The ad- dresses are not merely eulogistic; they dis- sect the characters of the great o1 with whose lives they deal; they present, m language vivid as the colors of the por- trait painter, miniature biographies that will ever be treasured by those who knew the men or who, knowing them not, realize fully what the departed ones did for inan- kind. THE BORDERLAND OF CZAR Notes from both sides of the Russi By Poultney Bigelow, ted by F Remington.” New York a & Broth Washington: Woodward & Lothrop. Mr. Bigelow may live to be an old man and this book of his be forgotten by most of its readers, but unless Russia changes its form of government he will never be permitted to remain for any length of time in the country of the czar. In a manner that compels belief he sketches a condition of affairs that is truly horrifying; he cor- roborates George Kennan. ‘The German chapters are devoted almost exclusively to the kaiser’s armory. arke God- Wash- HES € rris. Hustrated. OE Publishing Co. Part V of this extremely valuable pubii- cation treats of the habits of the duck- billed catfish, the sturgeon and the bowfin or dogfish; the plates—equal in every re- spect to their predecessors—are of the weakfish and the Rocky Mountain white- fish. The work is unique, and will, when complete, be the backbone of every en- thusiastic fisherman’s library. THE JUDICIAL MURDER OF MARY EF. SUR. RATT. 1 Miller DeWitt. B imore: John Murphy & Co. A beiated but none: the less bitter assault upon those who were in any way concerned in the trial and execution of Mrs. Surratt, one of the conspirators whose machina- ticrs resulted in the assassination of Abra- like this | followed with great interest by de- | in | e| MUST WORK 70 KEEP UP. Few Physicians Try to Cover the W.de Field of Science. TENDENCY OF THE TIME, One All-Impertant Branch of Medi- cine Strangely Neglected U Tn- deperdent Discovery Made Great Stridex —Miiens Have Been Heseued. ‘ himseif a doctor, sud it was true. “The work by the medical profession of America ts and valuable. So vast judeed that few phy- ns are able to cover the entire field of pre Vut select special departments in which me proficient. It is perhaps strange that so few doctors have made a specialty of stu treating the most iinportant organs of t Which are the kidneys, but such nevert fact. It is probably Docause those organs are se Wy delicate and uncertain, bave so few e symptoms when they are deranged, . in fact, assume the symptoms that are also use of most other diseases. It was left to ndent discovery to produce a remedy cs- iy adapted for the kidneys, liver a and 80 efficient bas this discovery beea the past twenty years that it is unbesitat- nowledged by the medical profession and ly as a sovereign remedy for It is needless to say that it 1s ; fe Care. While millions of people have been resened from sickness and are kept in health by the use of this great remedy, comparatively few realize how reat is its purity and power. It soothes all in- fiammation, fevers, irregularity or similar trov- Mes of these and’ adjacent organs and leads the sufferer back to health and away from misery. If you, therefore, are a sufferer from any of there troubles, while you may have your regular phy- sician, it iz mot necessary that you should cail upon ‘him, for you have @ means of restoring your health within easy reach. Every intelligent Ean or woman who stope to reflect realizes this, and in time of trouble should act upon it. wonderf ham Lincoln. From title to finish there is great affluence of vituperation. SEA YARNS FOR ROYS. Spun by an Old Sali By W. J. Henderson. Mustrated. New Yo Harper & Brothers. Washington: Woodward & Lothrop. Wet with the saltiest sort of conversa- tional spray. Most ingeniously constructed narratives that, while written for boys, will amuse grown-up folks quite as much as they will those for whose especial gratifi- cation they were evolved. MADAME SANS-GENE. An Historical Romance. Founded on the Play by Victorien Sardo: ‘Translated from the French by Loute R. Hel New York: Home Book Co. Theater goers have become acquainted | with the story of Sans-Gene, and will doubt- less appreciate the narrative that presents more of detail than can be presented on the stage. The translation preserves essential characteristics usually to be found only in the original. THE POEMS OF HENRY ABBEY. Enlarged. New York. Mr. Abbey rarely deals with the immz- terial topics affected by most of the minor poets; he delights in history and in modern incidents that afford him morals that are strong enough to be influential for good. Some of the verses are rich in inspiration. HENANDRIA, By Alice Weldon — Wasserbach. Washington: Pathfinder Publishing Company. Six short stories that have in them mucit that merits commendation; evidently tne initial efferts of an aspirant for the fame and profit of literary success; in this in- tance the aspiration seems quite reason- able. Third Edition, AIDES. Jer ‘The latest addition to “The Story of the ions” series. Good, sound history, com- piled by competent students of an around which i> a never-dimmed halo of ro- mance. A liberally-illustrated resume of the greatest strife that ever kad its origin in religious chivalry. THE WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE. cted and Edited, with it nd Notes. by Albert Edward Sterner. Caleago: Stone & Rimball, Just such an edition as might be expected when two such capable men as Stedman Woodberry commit their works and those of Poe to Stone & Kimball for pro- duction. An artistic success. IN CAIRO AND JERUSALEM. An Eastern Note Book. Ry Mary Thorn Ca ter, author of “A Girl’ Vith Minstrations. New York D. F. Randoiph & C Pleasing sketches of an evidently enjoy- able sojourn in historic regions. A great quantity of information, seasoned with ra- tional comment and enlivened by first-class illustrations. rd Evercity Ir JESUS E TO BOSTON. By El Hale. Boston: J. Stilman Sri Not a bit like the book whose title Dr. Hale has paraphrased; simply a pamphiet in which some of Boston's goodness is made plain; two-score pages of pleasant reading. of His Reicn, Ac- Scribe of the Trite . Biers. First Book. Allentown, Pa.: by the Auther. This ingenious production will net be circulated by any campaign committee of the democratic party. MOLLIE FANCHER, THE BROOKLY An Amthenti ement of F: of Mary J. Fancher, the psyc of ‘the nineteenth “coutury. Dailey, Brooklyn. Investigators into the marvelous will flad~ in Miss Fancher’s case much to puzzle over. . A Story with actical, Automatic € Contiacting and Relax sof the Country for iser. Boston: The A’ Washington: Woodward & 1 LOS ANGELES. ots. erprises and Ps nd Mountain Resort Angeles: Lhe ‘Times-Mirror TNTY OF resentative sional Men. Mlusirated. Publishing Co. DOCTOR, HIS WIFE AND THE CLOCK. By Ins Anna Katharine Green (Mrs. Charles Rohlts), author of “The Leavenworth Case Hand and Ring," “Marked “Personal,” "" &c w Ys G. BP. Putnam's Sons. Washington: Woodward & Lothrop. - NAPOLEON TIE AND LADY STUART. An Episode of the Tuilenes. of Pierre de Lano b Selwin Tait & > LIPPMAN'S CABINET OF MUS Roth Vocal nd Tastrument jc of the Highest Class. ON THE HURRIC. K. A Novel. By W. Wright. New York: The Mascot Publishing 7 Sr! Happy Thought. From Bi genzeitung. An elderly woman, being jealous of hef husbend, determined to commit suicide, ard was about to throw herself into the river, when she suddenly exclaimed: “Good” gracious! I have left the pantry door open and the cat will get in.” So saying, she hurried off home, and since then she has made no further attempt to do away with herseif. - 000 Not Insured. From the New York Wevkly. Mrs. De Sty!e—“‘Marie! ear” Servant yes’m.” nd the cat put up?” yes’m.”” “And the children tied to the bedpost in thi nursery?” s'm."" 1. Then you may light the Is the dog chain- ery piano lamp.” i Treatment of Eczema and = Salt Rheum. These two compinints are so tenacious that the readers of The Star shouid know of the suc- cess obtained by using Dr. David Kennedy's Fav- tments have orite Remed failed, it has horrible . salt rhewm n that of Wilbur L. Haile, Post, GA. R., Rondout, ily fated to rende N.Y tt bim any of the physicians sug ted that Remedy be fried and. steady followed its use, and a permanent ¢ “ Tt is used with si norrousness,. Kk in dis shattered nerves.