Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, June 5, 1909, Page 6

Norwich. The first hour of the regular sessfor of the Third district court Friday morning was occupied in the reading of the criminal and civil dockets and in the discussion of a motion made by ‘Attorney Harry B, Agard in the seizure case of vesseis and liquors of Willis E. Almy, whose case, with that of Oll- ver E. Gavitt, ‘was assigned for per- emptory trial at Friday's session. Mr. Agard asked for & continuance by reason of the absence of George Rodman, a witness in the case, whose testimony would show that he had pur- chased two half pints of whiskey.at Almy’s on different occasions. Afidavit was made that the state had made all reasonable effort to locate this witness and that if the motion for continuance ‘wag granted that this witness could be seoured. Attorney A. T. L. Ledwidre opposed the motion, stating that the case had been assigned a week ago for peremp- tory hearing at this time and that therefore the motion was not entitled to any consideration. He asked for immediate trial er dismissal of the case. Judge Willlams continued the case untll next Wednesday asternoon at 4.30. In a Jike case against Oliver E. Gavitt some time ago the important witness for the state, the detective who alleged that he purchased liquor, failed to ap- pear when the case was called for trial and dismissal was the result. The trial of the case of Oliver E. Gavitt, oharged with kegping intoxicat- ing liquors with intent to sell, wes then commenced. ~ Police Sergeant Thomas E. Brown testified that for the past year Mr. Gavitt had couducted the Martin pharmacy in the Martin house Dbullding. He had served search war- rants on Mr. Gavitt on two different occasions and seized and carried away ilquors from the place, Policeman William H. Holland testi- fied to assisting Sergeant Brown in the liquor selzure cases at the Martin phar- macy. George L. Spooner, a member of Charles P. Ecclestone’s Ashaway detec- tive farce, testified that he had pur- chased whiskey at the Martin pharma- ¢y om two different occasions and that he red the purchases to Mr. Ec- clestons, and that the Mquors were tasted, then tabeled and sealed. He identified the packages in court as those purchased at the Martin phar- macy. He testified at considerable length and was sharply questioned by Attorney Ledwidge. At 12.30 the court took a recess until 2 o'slock. At the afternoon session of the court Charles P. Ecclestone and Hugh Eccle- stone were the only witnesses and their testimony was in substantiation of the identity of the liquor purchased. Ar- guments were made b+ Attorneys Agard and Ledwidge. Judge Williams found the accused guilty and sentenced him to ten days in the Washington county fail and to pay a fine of $20 and costs. From this jndement appeal was taken to the superior court and bonds 0f $100 were furnished for appearance, A painful accident befell Walter Kenyon, ‘aged 35, employed at W. S Aldrich’s stock farm. Friday afternoon at 5.30, while on hig way from Wester- ly to Boom bridge. He was drlving a four year old colt in a road cart. Charles P. Chapman’s automobile, con- taining five people, coming toward ‘Westerly, met Mr. Kenyon. His colt shied, one wheel went over into a five foot aitch, and Kenyon was thrown against a stone wall. His leg was broken between the hip and knee. He was taken to Westerly In the automo- bile and Dr. Scanlon set the bane, Mr. Kenyon was taken to the Rhode island ‘hospital at Providence on the 8.45 train, There is a professional man in W. erly, an enthuisastic admirer of the national game, who is an ardent sup- porter of the Westerly High school teamv and is a native of Middletown and has played on a team representing the Middletown High school. His dope is that Westerly will leadthe eastern diwision and Middletown the western division, and that those clubs will play for the champlonship of the Interscho- lastic league. He wants. to see each team as diviston leaders, but he has not as yet become satisfied as to which team he would prefer as champion of the league, although at present he leans towards Westerly. The pupils of the Westerly schools are regular prize winners in the School Arts gulld contests. In the April con- test the prize winners were announced and among them these from Westerly: One of the Essentials of the happy homes of to-day is a vast fund of information as to the best methods of promoting health and happiness and right living and knowledge of the world’s best products. Products of actual excellence and reasonable claims truthfully. presented and which have attained to world-wide acceptance through the approval of the ‘Well-Informed of the World; not of indi- viduals only, but of the many who have the happy faculty of selecting and obtain- ing the best the world affords. One of the products of that class, of Kenyon’s Leg Broken as Colt Shies at Auto—| Almy Case Continued—Gavitt Fined $20 and Cost— e, Appeal Taken—Babcock Prize Essay Subjects An- 4 nounced—Jubilation Over Ball Team’s Victory in Semilda Boulet, White Rock school; Bthel Burdick, Quarry Hill ; fred Harris and Oatherine Howard, Park avenue school; Lillian Young, Avondale school. . * Ruth Barnes, Virginia De. Rocco, Frank Gomena, Frank Morenzoni, Eve- Iyn Newton, James Nugent, William Owens and Frederick Randall were given honorable mention. The subjects of the essays for the Martha G Babcock prizes, open to competition by pupils of the Westerly. High school have been announced. There are seven subjects for the pupils to select from as follows. The Modern Health Movement, Vocational Training in the Public Schools, Beautifying Our Cities and Towns, John Bunyan—Poet and Prophet, Signaling to Mars, Roose- velt in Africa, Did Shakespeare Write Shakespease? The essays are to be written In school the latter part of next week and contestants will be permitted to have notes under certain restrictions. The prizes will"be awarded on the closing day of school. Local Laconics. Hibernian Memorial day Sunday. Annual parade of Westerly fire de- partment this (Saturday) efternoon. There are to be severat changes in the staff of teachers in the West Broad street school. ;i Freight _steamer New Haven wen into temporary quarters at Stoningto Thursday night. When the result of the game with Norwich reached Weésterly Friday af- ternoon there was general jollification. Granite City camp, Modern Wood- men, will attend in a body the Broad street Christian _church Sunday even. ing. Minister Dutton will deliver a special sermon. Two special cars of ,the Norwich- Westerly trolley road léft Dixon house square at 2 o'clock Frida- afternoon filled with enthusiastic rooters for the Westerly High school baseball team. There was considerable betting in Westerly Friday on the baseball game between the Westerly and Norwich school baseball teams. The ~largest wager was 25 to 10, with Westerly the favorite, In the Rhode Island-Connectiout baseball ‘league today (Saturday) Um- vire Shackley will act as umpire in the Westerly-Stonington game at Westerly, Donohue in the White Rock-Carolina game at Carolina, and Lynch in the Wakefield-Norwich game at Norwich. COLCHESTER East Hampton Lodge Pays Visit to Wooster Lodge—Good Fishing. Mrs, George O. Jackson of Norwich was at her summer residence Thurs- day. A number of summer boarders from New York have arrived at the vari- ous resorts in the suburbs. Bacon academy baseball team will play the Portland high, school - team this (Saturday) afternoon on the cam- pus. Wooster lodge, No. 10, A. F. and A. ., held meeting in Masonic hall on ¢ evening. Work in the Mas- ter Mason degree was exemplified. An- chor lodge of East Hampton sent over a large delegation. After the work of the evening the members and thelr guests marched to the Congregational chapel, where the Congregational Young People’s society had prepared an elahorate banquet. A number of speeches was made and a musical programme was given, A gang of telephone men are mow- ing the brush by the roadside and trimming the trees which hang over the wires. The trustees of the Cragin Memori- al library held their meeting in the library building Wednesday evening. Frank Case left town Wednesday for a few days visit with friends in New Haven. Daniel McCarthy of Bridgeport is visiting relatives in town. Mr. Mc- Carthy was a former resident and was at one time manager of the Colches- ter baseball team. Frank T. Wilson of Worcester was in_town Thursday. Frank B. Taylor and Amos C. Case were at Hayward's lake Wednesday, fishing, and returned in the evening with 14 which weighed 14 pounds. Mrs. William Curgenven and daugh- ters, Misses Fannie and Mary, left on Thursday for a visit with relatives in New York. George V. Cavanaugh and a friend m New Haven were guests of Mr. ‘avanaugh's parents Thursda STAFFORD SPRINGS Officers of Stafford Castle—Progress on Main ‘Street Sewer—Trolley Freight Traffic Increases, Stafford castle, Knights of King Ar- thur, has elected the following officers: King, Harold Plerce; seneschel, Harold Butterfield; master of exchequer, Her- bert West! heralds, John Mason and Herbert White. The work of putting in the mnew sewer on Main street will begin next week. As soon as the sewer is in the street will be macadamized and the trolley track lowered to conform to the grade of the street, Much freight is now coming in on the trolley and if the increase keeps up extra carg will have to be put on. The company is experimenting with running a number of cars coupled to- gether, as is done on the steam roads, Mrs, Gilbert Amadon has gone to known component parts, an Ethical remedy, approved by physicians and com- mended by the Well-Informed of the ‘Worldas a valuable and wholesome family laxative s the well-known Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna. To get its beneficial effecty always buy the genuine, manur factured by the Califprnia Fig Syrup Co., only, and for sale by all leading druggists. L. L. CHAPMAN, Norwich, Conn. Mk 25,31 ¥y SPECIAL A oumber of Buggy Harness —adis $9.50 A good value and werth $12.00 of anybody's money, may29daw “When in lioubl” come here and select your Spring Over- coat and Sult from my showing of Chofcs Woolens. Godfrey, Mo., to spend two months with her mother. - Mrs. Charles Fox, who has been ill at the home of her nephew in Hart- ford all winter, has returned home; her condition is much improved. Mrs. Chauncey Orcutt is visiting friends in Wales, Mass. OBITUARY. Enoch Bolle: Enoci Bolles, a native of Ashford, now Eastford, Conn., ‘died at his home in Hyde Park, Mass., June 2. He was 91 years old. He came of revolu- tionary stock, one of his ancestors having been a captain under Colonel Elderkin in the war of the revolu- tion. Mr. Bolles served in the war of the rebellion. He leaves a widow, one son and a daughter. Bridgeport.—Christ church, Guilford, has extended a call to Rev. Bdward Livingston Wells, rector for six years of St Luke’s church in the East End. Mr. Wells has not yet decided what he will do, He will be absent from the service*at St. Luke's Sunday evening. Earl H. Kenyon, pastor of St. ho will officiate. will make Mr :lusion known to the parish. About a dozen men with a ke of oxen gathered on the green Wednesday to raise the flagpole. The pole is a straight chestnut, given by H. . Norton, fifty feet long, and is.set five feet in the ground in cement, Thomaston.—Several employes of the. Thomaston Knife company at Terry’s bridge will leave for Waterville next. Norwich “came to,” as they town. goin GOODS. OPEN EVENINGS TILL 9 Conservative Norwich wasn’t quite ready y an offer as my proposition to make to order and to fit all W “Suits and Overcoats for as little as $12.00. But mnsemt:fi en turned towards the Holbrook store. Now I “own' Norwich. I have fulfilled every promise to ‘the letter and made myself solid with a big part of the male population of this fair N for so say, and rubbed her eyes and conserva 2 A tive Balance of the E. C. WH‘ITE stock of Wooléns is g very fast. Better order your SUIT or OVERCOAT, or both, Today. No man ever bought a Suit or Overcoat made of these woolens before I inaugurated this sale for less than $25.00, $35.00 or $45.00. And now you can come here and have a Suif or Overcoat made to your exact measure for $12.00. Ridicul- ously low price to be sure, but I'm a game advertiser, and, the people are finding it out. AND I'M DELIVERING THE 'HOLBROOK, Ghe Tailor, 140 Main Street, NorWich, Conn. m and OVERCOATS -for OPEN EVENINGS J TILL 9 CHAPTER XIIl. Missions and Missionaries — Summer in Tien-tsin—The Emperor's Pray- ers—Che-fu—Mr. Pethick — Colonel Denby's Tour—Boys and Stamps— The Marquis Tseng. The first morning I went to church in Tien-tsin 1 saw a good-sized Chi- naman standing in a little recess just off from the hall, Tinging the church bell. -As it the only pious act I had seen a Chinaman perform since my arrival, I could not but think that for all these years the missionaries had not labored in vain, for here was a Chinaman ringing a church bell! One man, who had been a mission- ary in China for fifteen years told Dr. Hall that he had never yet, in all that,| time, seen a Chinaman that was truly converted to Christianity. Dr. Hall re- peated this to Miss Mindora Berry, Gaughter of Fulton G. Berry of Fresno, and asked her, if such were the case, how she could expect to succeed. “It is mot a question of success or f: ure,” she replied, “it is my duty to la, bor and to wait” “Then” said the doctor, “I could have nothing more to say.” The British consul, Mr. Brenan, knew Miss Berry in Che-fu, where he was stationed before coming to Tien- tsin, and he told me that she did an immense amount of good in her mis- sionary work. She taught music and painting to her pupils, upon whom her labors had & most humanizing eftect. Miss Berry lived, when in Chine, at the home of Dr. Nevers, a_beautiful place. The doctor, whom I met at Che-fu, raised all kinds of fruit on his land, grown from cuttings of Califor- nia tgees and vines. He had accom- plished quite remarkable results in propagating California fruits. If ¢he fruits of his mission were as accept- able to the Lord as the fruits of his orchard were to his English and Amer- ican visitors, I felt that his future would be a very pleasant one. Yet I judged that he found it a far easier task to plant trees in his garden than to implant Christianity in the hearts of a people whose religion was many centuries older than his own. ‘When I was in Yokohama I became acquainted with a Mr. Moore, a mis- sionary from Tokio, who had brougnt his wife to the hotel, and expected to be obliged to take her home to the States, as she had become partially demented in her efforts to convert one particular family in Tokio, In whose piritval welfare she had become deep- ly interested. A day or so later, I heard of a missionry murdered by the Chiness and tlie Mandarin who tried to protect him was also fired up- on and killed. Mrs. Leavitt, an earnest worker for the World’s Christian Temperance un- ion movement, came to Tien-tsin in 1887. Though there was no qudstion as to her sincerity, and the high mo- tive which prompted her coming to China. I could not help thinking that at her time of life she was making a great mistake to be starting out on such a mission. She was not an impressive or eloquent speaker, but merely told a straight, unadorned story, closing with a prayer. She desired to meet the viceroy, to confer with him about the opium traffic, but it was impossible for her to gain an audience with him, women never being admitted to his yamen, Mrs. Leavitt's object was to organize upions all over the world {0 disseminate the principles and views of her socfety, and to obtain the names of women signed to monstrous pe- titions to ' parliament, congress and other legislative bodies for the sup- pression of - intemperance. She was very pleasant and interesting in con- versation, far more so than when on the platform. She had Wisited Japan and Australia before coming to China, and intended to retarn home via the Suez canal and Furope. _She very re. luctantly gave up the idea of seeing as his word would have meant much to her, ome of the missionaries in Tien- tsin T found very congenial acquaint- ances. The Rev. Mr. Davis, a fine loking, well informed man, had been twenty-three years in China and spoke the language like a native. Dr. and rs. Osborn, who made the trip from Yokohama to Kobe with me, were also very fine people. They were & young couple with a little boy of about three years of age. In the spring they went into the interior about two hundred and fifty miles, where they did not ex- pect to see a soul except Chinese for three vears. I could not bring myself to believe that the Almighty ever de- signed two such lives to b& so utterl: lost to the civilization ther were so wel calculated to adorn, by isolating themselves to save a people who can never be made to know “what they mpst do to be saved.” t was Mr. Dayis who explained to me how the poor Chinese keep from freezing to deatf)jn the winter. He #aid that in the spring they pawn their inter ciothing and in ghe fall they usually have “enough ‘'to" take their belopgings out of pawn,y I their sum- mer ‘clothing is worth anything they pawn that, to-he redeemed when they pawn the winter ents again. Maap f them do this net out of ne- |1 believe that el the THE LONG AGO AND THE LATER ON An Experience of Eighty Years of- Life By George Tisdale Bromley cessity, but so as to have their cloth- ing taken care of, as the poor have no closets in their houses. The little missionary children, sons and daughters of the missionaries, did not seem to know how to play &s the other children of Tien-tsin did. I was surprised to disccover how few chil- dren’s games they knew. Sometimes I thought the missionaries were mak- ing & mistake in devoting all their best energies to the conversion of the Chinese and permitting their own Httle ones to grow up in ignorance of the joys of childhood. It is true the chil- dren were well bred and all that, and looked with amazement on the rollick- ing sports of those outside the fold, but it seemed to me it would have been human nature for-them to ask them- selves why they had naver been taught those innocent pastimes, and in trying to solve the problem so strange to them they might be apt to conclude that lite s too short to spend the sunshine 6¢ youth amia the gloom of Puritanical discipline. All who belong to the Taylor mission adopt the Chinese costume and wear the queue. Their labors are in the in- terior, away from the open ports, and where they are completely isolated from assoclations with civilized so- clezy. If they are not more in earnost or more condclentious than those who labor at the seaports, they certainly make more of a sacrifice. The Taylor mission was founded by a Mr. Taylor, who started out alone, without any soclety aid whatever and depended en- tirely on the voluntary econtributions of his friends for the means to prose- cute his labors. < He hed an abiding faith in the promises of Him who said: “Go ye into gll the worid and preach the gospel to every creature” and as a result of that faith the Talor mis- sion, at least when I wes in China, was considered the most successful of the Chinese missions. Some of the young men who came aut t> join the mission held gospel meetings in Shanghal, and the Rev. Mr. Smith, rector of the ca- thedral there, astonished the people of his charge by acknowledging. that un- il attending the meetings of these missionaries he had not kuown.as he expressed it, what it was to “have found Christ.” Surely, it was said,if they be instrumental In converting clergy- men of the Church of England, they ought to be greatly encouraged in their work. But,_one very excellent young man who was agent for one gf the steam- ship companies, was persuaded by the more eloquent of the English mission- arles to throw up his position because, as Stanley Smith said, he could not be a Christian’' and do work on Sunday, even when the work was an impera- tive necessity in the estimation of his employers. “After the excitement of the revival had passed over the young man would have withdrawn his resig- nation gladly, but his successor was then cn the way, so he found himelf out of employment and withhis enthusi- asm evaporated. Such missionary labor may be all right, but to me it seemed all wrong. A Catholic institution at Hankow provided for some six hundred chil- dren of all ages, boys as well as girl They taught the children not only re- ligion, but also instructed them in weaving, spinning, knitting, braiding straw and embroidering, with music &nd languages for those who exhibited talent in these directions. The earn- ings of the inmates, I was told, went far towards making the - institution self-supporting. The cost for the food and clothing of each of the embryonic missicnaries was not more than three cents a day. As they matured and opportunities presented themselves they were sent into the interior to propagate the religion they had been taught. Just such institutions are In operation in most of the large cities of China. Most of them were gstablished by French Catholics and previous to 1870 there was one in Tien-tsin known as the Sisters’ Ophanage. But on the twenty-first of June in that year an infuriated Chinese mob murdered all the sisters and burned the building to- gether with the hospital and cathedral, killing the French consul and others of that nationality. When I was in Tien-tsin the wails of ‘the eathedral were_standing just as the conflagra- tlon had left them fifteen years before. Sir Thomas Francls Wade, then Brit- ish minister at Peking, in Mis dispatch ‘to the Earl of Clarendon giving a re- port of the cause and results, did not lay the blame entirely upon the Chi- nese. On the contrary, he sald the sisters and priests had Jargely brought it upon themselves by a system of Fidraping children. The, credulous Chinese came to believe that the eves ang hearts of the children were taken out to be made into charms for be- witching people, though one would suppose infants could not become very efficient missionaries minus eyes and hearts. From all that I heard and read ahout the various missions in China, it is my firm belief that this people will continue right on living in the re- ligion they have lived for two thou- sand five hundred years, even if the whole evangelical church of Euro, and Aemrica were turned adrift in empire and told to “wade in.” Nor do could be pumped into a Chinese would any better prepare him for heaven than does his unwavering devotion to Buddha. On the top of one of the hills back of the hotel at Che-fu is a “Baby Towdr” such as one sees all over China, and until within a few years they were used as receptacles for fe- male infants which wers cast info their deep shafts to die of starvation or of whatver elss would come to their relif. The towers have now gone out <f use, not by reason of any caange of heart in the Chinese but because the Sisters of Mercy have establisned hos- pitals for female infants, The chil- dren that would have teen put out of the way are bought by the sisters fron the mothers and reared by them in the Catholic faith to become missionaries tn the future. There are five churches in Che-fu and I was told that the attendance on Sundays was, on_an average, about eight persoms. The churches were built not so much te fill & long-felt want as to grawfy the pious discordant element of Chinese society-in Che-fu- all of which enables the heathen Chi- nese to “behold how good and how pleasant i is for brethren to dwell to- gether in unity.” Mrs. Bryson, the author of “Child Life in Chinese Homes” and the wife of a missionary, was ome of those I met In Tien-tsin, a very charming woman, Her book fs well worth read- ing as an insight into the customs of the people with regard to their off- spring. 1 found that the Chinese care moth- for their wives and sisters. They think the world of thelr mothers, and thelr devotion to the maternal pavent is unwavering. During the summer months Cha-fu is the resort of the people of Sharghai and Tien-tsin, and a_very delightful resort it is. It being the rendeavous of the warships of various nationaltios, the officers naturally assist in mahing things very lively in the city. I had my quarters at the Family hotel, about two miles from the city, on the shore of the bay. Connected with the hotel, was @ six-oarsd launch with a uniformed Chinese crew, and .one morning I chartered the lauach and boarded the fla, Marion, of tho United States navy, commanded by Admiral Davis. As' landed on deck I met the admiral as he was about leaving Yor the clty. We had met be- fore, at Shanghai, and after greeting me very cordially, -he invited me into his cabin, and, after a few minutes’ chat and a glass pf wine, he took his departure. On leaving, he asked me if I would accept a consular salute en Jeaving ship. I declned with many thanks as I was fearful of creating a jealous feeling in the breast of the re=- ident consul. But when he bade me good-by, 1 was invited to the officers’ mess room, and for a couple of hours we had a right royal good time. As I was Jeaving the ship, and just as the, launch cast off, they blazed away with the salute directly over my head. I wanted to stand up aud acknowledge the honor, but 1 ddn’'t dare to, for fear of going overboard. But I did the next best thing. I sat in my seat and Taised my hat. Meeting the admiral that evening at an_entertainment, he asked me how I had enjoyed my visit to his ship. I replied that the visit was exceedingly pleasant, but in the ealute that I had received I was fear- ful that they would have to use it In raising my body instead of being In honor of my visit, all of which was Guly acknowledged. I stood the heat of August in Tien- tsin far better. than do many of the old residents, though it had been years since I felt such a warm temprature. ‘When I went abroad I took my um- brella' and fan, and I generally rode in a jinriksha. It was warm work for the jinrlksha boy and if he had worn any clothes except a cloth around his loins he would have been apt to suffer. But as ‘“the wind is tempered to the shorn lamb,” so is the sun to & naked Chinaman. The country side of the settlement presented a very sin- gular appearance to me. The heavy rains had filled all the excavations where the earth had been taken out for grave mounds and pathways, and as one stood on the ramparts outside of the improved portion of Tien-tsin and looked way off over the vhst plain dotted with miniature lakes, ponds and canals, each bordered with a dense growth of millet, ten or fifteen feet high, it struck me as being a grand sight. But what seemed the strangest thing about all this was the | fact that the lakes and ponds were filled with fish, and the Chinaman never investigated further than to | learn that the fish were good to eat. | He ate and asked no questions, An- | other singular featare of this fish | Lusiness: In July, 1885, most of the lakes and ponds were dried p. and &t that time there were fears that the | drought would cause famine. So se- rious had the’danger become that the | emporor at Peking repaired with his | royal retinue to the Temple of Heaven, At midnight, amid the clanging of | gongs, the olashing of cymbals, the | pounding of tom-toms, and all the, other unearthly jcapable of m; he offered my/l ‘eonversion that prayers fer rain. prayed to the | unds the Chinese are | 4 the consulates was ono of the most interesting and satisfactory tours ever made by a fareign official in China. The eolone] was very well Mked in Pe- xing. He was the tallest of any of the tinisters, and a very fing looking man. The olosing scene of his tour in June, 1886, was a ginmer at Li Hung Chang" yamen in Tien-tsin_ by far the most agreeable Chinese ainner I ever wi- tended. The viceroy told me that dur- :ng that journey of the Seventh Prince the lattér often spoke of me and of the liking he took to ma, which was certainly very gratifying. It plea: me that the viceroy should repes these things te me. The viceroy, four points of the compass, as signi- fying that he way nctiparticular which direction the rain came from, so that it did come. And his prayer was grant- ed The raim came im such quant tles that, six weeks later, there was talk of having the emperor go back |the way, wae much interested in my to the temple and and pray that the |account of a circus I had attended in downpour might “let up.” And mean- | Shanghai. No qbild ever listened to a while, while the emperor at Peking was @evoutly praying for rain, the southern provimces were being devas- tated by flood, consequently the vice- Toys of Southern China were ordering out their praying men to offer up thoeir invocations for less rain and more dry weather. This_ I suppose, would havée been eonsidered by some of the New York Glvines as a severe test of the “prayer guage” though in all probabil- ity those poor feliows struggling in the floods' were more intereseted in the “rain gauge” than anxious about the “prayer gauge.” However, I believe the prayers at both ends of the empire were answered. Only, the fellows with the subscriptions for the sufferers by floods got morth before those with the subscraptions for those who suffered by drought cowld get eouth, conse- quently some ill feeling was created. The emparor's prayers are usually effective. 1 remember - another occa- sion when the snow had beem holding off so long that the emperor took the matter in hand. He went to the Tem- ple of Heaven and at midnight prayed fervently to the heathen god Who i8 supposed to have charge of the snow supply. In about & week the smow came, and the Chinese were jubilant over the answer to the prayer. Many letters came to the consulate from boys asking for foreign stamps. I recollect receiving one that was rather out of the common. The boy lived in Brattleboro, Vermont. I sent him a letter with the stamps he wish- de. In his reply acknowledging the re- ceipt he wrote that he was engpged in cleaning a bird cage one morning when s0me qne brought him 2 letter just ar- rived in the post, saying, “Here's a Jetter for you, but I don’t know whom fairy tale with so lvely an interest s &a Li Hung Chang, the greate man in China, to my description of the circus. It seemed to him almost én- oredible that the horses, elephants, ¢i- gers end Mons could be taught to do what I told him I had seen them do. He expressed a atrong desire to see the circus himeelf. Later on, by the way, the viceroy had his desire grant- ed, for the circus troupe came north and a private performance was given for Li's pleasure @nd that of some of the imperial family. In the course o the dinner the viceroy called ont from the other end of the table and asked me whether I was a democrat or & re- publican. 1 answered that I was United States consul, and left my poli- ties @t home when I came to China. The vicaroy smiled at this answer, which seemed to please him William M. Pethick, my vice consul, and for a long time connected'with the United States consulate as_in- terpreter, and of whom ex-Gov. Low had spoken to me in very Ligh terms -as @ good man to know, gave me a most cordial welcome at Tien-tsin, and showed me many kindnesses during my stay there. Mr. Pethick was born in’ New York and was in the union army during the civil war. He went to China in the lats_sixtles and was for eight years an English tutor in the vicer family, comsequently. he was on term of intimacy with LI Hung Chang such as but few enjoyed. His influence was sought after bv all the syndicates, but he always gave it to the Americans. He had 50 fondness for. society but I found him a charm- ing companion and a good friend. Mr. Fethick's part of the compound at | the consulate was always & beautiful | it is from” The boy said he dropped |spot in summer. He exquisite his bird cagé, tore open the envelope | flowers In pots, and on state occasions and a pile of stamps fell out. With- | would make the whole consulate a out waiting to pick up ‘he”cage, he|bower of beauty with the tropical rushed into his father's rcom ta show | blooms. Mr. Pethick had quite an ad- him his stamps. The - latter asked | venturs on the occaston of one of his him. “But where is the letter?” The |visits to Peking dusing my term of boy sald that in his glee ‘over the|office. He had been outside the .of stamps he had not noticed the letter, but when he read it he concluded it to a Chinese bookstore two or thr miles from the gates, where, having was equal to the stamps. He also|found an interesting Chinese hook, he told me that his mother was a sister |had remained reading until five | of Jim Pisk, who was murdered by |o'cloek, when he started to return in “the blackguard’ Stokes.” About the [his Chinese cart. At about a quarter same time another Yankse boy wrote|of a mile from the eity some o | ed they | to me, asking if there were any oppor- tunity to sell stamps in China, which shouted that the gates nd sure enough, when he arri was quite in contrust with the Brat- | were shut so tight that nothing short | tleboro boy's request. of dynamite eould opext them. lie had | The Marquis Tseng pald me an in- | to make the best of it, but it was long | formal call when he was in Tien-tsin, | after dark before he could find any | and it was quite delightful to me to talk to\a Chinese dgnitary without | the interminable interpreter. a. mis horrib) a place to stay, and then only able Chinese inn wheeo the smells were only equaled by t f- marquis spoke admirable English, and | ening noises. It seems that during the though in his travels he had been re- [ absence of the emperor at the Tombs | ¢eivec by Buropean royalties and min- | the gates are closed earlier than usu gled with the nobility of many lands, | to prevent any usurper from enterir he seemad to have no very strorg idea occupying the vacant of his own importance. He entertin- | for the same reason a copdo ed most enlarged views,' and desired | dlers is encamped outside the to bring about important changes fn [the Forbidden City. the management of Chinese affairs. In| An early Californian I hay appearance, though a thorough China- |in China was Captain Wells, capiain man, his features had more of a Eu-|of a steamer running between Tien- ropean cast than those of the Chinese one sees at home. tsin and Shanghal, He was a mem- ber of the California Commandery and Anotheer ol Californian who called om me was Captain Lancaster, an Ameri. can from Maine, who had been in China for & pumber of years. He was in Ifornia on the steahmboats rune ning from Sacramento to Marysvil nd Red Bluff, and also worked in the amento shippard, He went td China in 1864, (Continued Saturday, June 12.) this paper to learn that there is will he t least aded disease th: lence has ble to cure in all its stages, an that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh © is the only positive cure now kno the medical fraternity. Catarrh a constitutional disease, requires & con= stitutional treatment. ' Hall's Gatarr Cure is taken internally, acting dire 1y upon the blaod and mucous surfac of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease and giving the patient strength by bullding up the constitution and assisting nature im doing its work. The proprietors hav 50 much faith its in curative B that they offer One Hund sliare for any cas t falls to cure, Send for list of monla Address . CHENEY & CO. Tos ledo, O. 1a by Druggist ko Hall's Fam Is for constie pation. Go dee it, 1t's & beauty. It stands ouf among all its nelghbors, because the coloring is so bright and e Mr. Bricson painted with L. & M. Paint and says it cost 1 than ever before, He bought on gallons of L & Ma Paint and 9 gallons of Linseed Ol te mix with . This made 21 gallons of pure paint, and y 3150 per gallon, 1It's as hand as the finest in town. The L. & M. Paint is sold by L. W. Carroll & Son, Norwich, Ct.; J. Py Kingeley & Son, Plainfield, Ct 3 Men Past Fifty in Danger. Men past middle life have found comfort and re n y's Kidney Remedy, cspec r enlarged pross a {s very common L. E. Morris,Dex= ter, Ky., writes: “Up to a year ago my father suffered from kidney and blad= der trouble, and several physicl pronounced 1t enlargement of the prose and and advised an operatio account of his age we were afra he could not stand # and I recommend Foley's Kidney Remedy, and him, and a: the tak ing the second bottle he was no longen troubled with this complaint.” Lee & Osgooa Co. 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