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i eebie i A Visit to ) ) “Menry Barko=oBlF RokaF WarbEPey | Mo ong®? o rnds Ls dn Peldoi Sestren ; : e the ms : T m‘w king Notes. v ften in 5501 o s ot : Kebtlr an 5o ench sontinsént A portion of my. second winter in mwm.uafimdrmu‘ m, it kept the at- ¢ China was spent m.fla‘. which 1]authority over at least two thouso: tel ts the empty glasses. :’r’l"?i‘i‘gl the oiu-nut :M cg:&o? of | subordinates to whom his word was mm aeflm;u‘c of bl,:;l:c,‘n?:: o i e erican minister, ‘ohn A TR » grapes an , all b ’ tween Russell Young. In getting there I had | “The Ladles’ Literary and Musical | When seal the | sat :tnt-{undde crusher bu rln por- | which our well-being w:rfl- w0 go overland, as the river had closed | Club” of was a very exclusive |center witl 'ihnm. oung on his right hen that | Your dignified attitude the for the season, ahd the mode of trans- | organizatior of, and gentlemen were |and Sir Harry n his left. The ‘rdnsmdwh‘tfltmuhtfor Chinese officials and the breadth and y voucher for my October sal- | soundness of your views on n Th [ portation was extremely p: ve, the | not permitted to attend their social | Russian minister sat next to Mr, Young | me. same style having been used for sev- erings, notwithstanding thelr per- [and I next to him, with the Japanese | aIYV been paid by the Hong Kong | which have come befoge you have in- eral thousand years. ‘Thé cart in|sistent efforts, for many years. The |minister on my right. At the proper | and Shanghai bank and I had sent it| spired them with confidence in which I rode was box-shaped and | wife .of the secretary of the ericam | time the company was called to order, | to my home, and here 1 was, thou-| your justice as led to the most about gour feet square and rested sol- | 1égation, and her lady companion, were | when Minister {o arose, and, as|&ands of miles from my native land, | beneficial results, not alone to your idly on the fron axle. To prevent the t members of the club, and |the senior minister in Peking, proposed, | the land that I had left to fill a posi- | country, but to all forelgn residents in 5 jife belng jolted out of me the three bmzm very: well acquainted [in a brief speech, the heaith of the | tion that I had never asked for, that| China. ° sldes were lined with mattresses, with |they Invited me to attend one of their | prince. The spesch was interpréted by | ¢amé to me unsolicited, the duties of| Tn wishing you Godspeed we beg two inattresses on the floor for me to | afterncon entertainments, and not |Mr. Cheshire in a clear, rinein~ voice, [ Which I had disch. with honor | your acceptance of a trifling souvenir recling upon, in doing which m~ feet | knowing of thejr exclualvguu. 1 ac- [and then we all stood up and drank a |and fidelity, and to the entire satis- | to carr{o to your native land, and if it rested on the standard shaft. The |cépted their invitation. But when 1|bumper {o the sentiment. The prince | faction pf my government and all|serves fo remind you sometimes of the men it to Minister Young, he mly an pleasantly responded, after classes with whom I had had official | trhe friends you have left behind you ghaft on the port side was occupled ’ by the Chinese driver of tho tandem |laughed and eald: ’ which drinking became the order of | dealings. The act of President Cleve- | in Tien-tsin, the thought will give us mule-¢eam. The traces of the leading ladies will accept your escort |the occasion. There were other tables | ]and was cruel. It was heartless, and {all great pleosure. Your vacant piace mule were secured to the axle of the|to place of meeting and then, no |hesides the one at which we sat, small- | Will never be forgotten. here, which eannot be filled, will never cart, which gave the animal mbout|doubt, will thank you and bid you |er, but arranged ~in the same way,| -After brooding over the letter for| cease to remind us of you. Our sole - twenty feat to run and haul n, and | good- which were occupled by the several | 8While I took it to the manager of the | consolation in parting with vou is the as passed through Tien the| “All right” sai@ 1, “and I will es- |boards of government, corresponding | Hong Kong and Shanghai bank. * He| thought of the warm hearts which are h Med m brute availed himsaif of this liberty, | teem it an honor to act as their es- | with our departments of the national | Tead it over deliberately. A . | waiting to welcome you on the other ave su by hloht\gfl:& all .guy-g:uud other ”%: ik o i government. The emperor was at that Txe:V:lslin ::tlg he. t"y&u i leave | side of thé ocean, whither X wish ways o famous y. However, e e came for the meeting, an ime a of fourteen years, who had 5 re nex arch. you a safe passage, and trusting you we finelly reached the open , | together we went to the hall. Arriv- not yetbgme to the D oarm: “I know that very well” said L|iwill have a,p'h-ppy reunion with your tOW&l‘dS the cxpenses °f the end then that mule behaved himself | ing at the entrance, whers I éxpeced | The street lights of Pekine were, in| ‘but how am I o subsist in the mean- | family and_friends, we are, dear Mr. remarkakly well—for a mule. At the |they would bid me geod-by, to my |those days well worth going a long afe- | time?” Bromley. Your loving friends. 250"1 Annlversm Celebn. close of the day we reached the Way- | great surprise they invited me in, and [tance to see, and if thev did not re-| Well” sald he, “you bring your (Here follow the signatures). eide Inn, which appéared like & walled | there, within their meéting room, was | flect the Chinese character the- were | Yougher to me every month and you| While the address was being signed city on & small soale, without one ap- | gathered as lovely a company of fadiex | of no earthly use, for they refiscted no | Shall have your money, and if your|r was overwhelmed by the kind. lov- | tjon, AS paymcnts are made . erture in all its brick walls, The en- |as I ever met. When called to order |iight whatever, and should one wish to | overnment doesn’t honor the drafts|ing expressions of those who gathered /A trance was through an arched gate- | by the lady president, & box was pro- | locate them at night it was necessary | the Hong Kong and Shanghai bank | around me, and as I listened with a way of quite imposing appearance, but | ducéd containing the names of ajl ra- [to get their bearings during the day | Will cheerfully sustain the loss. grateful appreciation 1 could not but the names w‘“ be added to the interior of the square was a sight | sent onmr £lips, and as {hey were | The foundatfon was all sufficient te| . Never in my life have I heard words| think to myself, “What am 1? Who to behold. The center was used for |drawn the box the y an- | support an upright several horse-power | that filled my heart §o full of grate-|am 1, and what have I done that I the feeding of the animals, and on each | swering to that name was expected to | engine.. Upon this was placed a four. [l emotion as did those generous|gshould be the reciplent of sueh un- this list and publlshcd. side were the rooms of the guests. A |ocontribute to the entertainment either | post frame about six feet high, the | ¥Ords of the manager of the Hong| hounded kindness and affection?” Tt door amd one window of each of the|with a song, a recitation, or reading [posts slightly inclining at the apex. | Kong and Shanghai = bank and the| was the event of my life. and it falls forty rooms opened upon the square, | of an original paper, and as the ladies [ The lantern was a square box with a | Ch&nge in my feélings on entering and | to the lot of but few men to be thus and the furniture of each room con- | wers all moving in the highest walks |sash of four panes on each side, but | o0 leaving that bank I shall never for-| highly honored. Charies W. Gale [Bdward C. Ely sisted of two chalrs and a brick bed- | of -nm;. ¥ou may depend everything | these, inttead of being glass, were cov | et A8 long as life lasts. The striking| [ feit that it was much better to feel | S. B. Meech John Eccles stead ebout two feet high. Beneath|was to the queen’s taste. By a singu- |ered with paper, so that what little | CONETast in my treatment by the bank | that I was leaving when thev wished | Mrs. E. Randall | |N. L. Co. Ag1 Bo the bedstead was a small opening for | lar Ereak, my name was the last one | light there was was confined inside the | Mafiagers and by the president of thelme to stay, than to be sta~'~- when | H. F. Parker W. H. Shields a fire, but it was seldom used by the | drawn from the box, and I was called | iantern. The structure reminded me | United States has caused me, during| they wished me to go. This T told the | Bdwin A, Tracy |H W, Tibbite foreign guest as the heat would bring [ wpon for & spesch, and from what I|of an old-fashioned twé-story martin|#ll these years to cherish feelings of | tatoti when he asked me why my |John McWilllams |Rev. M. Keutman into life the vermin that gathered from those who preceded |bhox, and with the exception of the|l0ve and gratitude for the one. and|government should desire my return|Edward Harland quietly retired to winter quarters. The [and the inspiration of the surround- | foundation, one man could have car- | Ditter hatred for the other. and I may| when I was such a favorite with the | F. T. Bayles two ohairs were too shallow in their | ings, I made the of my life, |ried off the whole thing easily. say that there is not another man on| Chinese, and 1 had to add that my|@. W. Carroll depth to stand alone, anid had to be|and those who heard it will remember | Donkey-riding 5 a curious feature | 82rth for whom T would for a mo-| government had no idea what a fa- O. L. Johnson placed against the sides of the room.| it to thiy day—that is, if they have of travel, and 1 often saw Chinese of | Ment entertain such a fecling, When | vorite 1 was ana after all it wouldn't| W. R, Jewett I had my own cook and ting-chi, or | forgotten #, After the exeroises, we |twios the bulk of the animals they | ¥iCeToy Li Hung Shang heard that I'| make much difference. Ulmer Leather Co.|H. M. Lerou body servant, who came in another | were treated to refreshrhents, but as |bestrode. They are always accompa- | W25 to be fecalled he teleg‘glrapbed to| The time came when I had to bia a|3d Co, Coast Ar. cart with the bedding and provisions, | we were ing out we met in the |nfed by an attendant called a marfar, | the, Chinese minister at Washington|jong farewell to my dear friends, and | ¥. J. Leavens end they prepared my suover. Such|hallway the Rev. Dr. Martin, presi- | whose business is to trot along on foot | (0 _lave me retained if possible. The| the ghip that would bear me gway was | J. B. Shannon 1s 11%e in a Chinese wayside inn. dent of the university, and I happened | nd encouraged the donkey by gently | AnSWer came back that the appointee | (o jeave at seven o'clock in the morn- | E. A, Bdwell The elghty-mile journey to Peking |to be accompanied by his wife. When | strring him up with a long stick. -1t | Was @ friend of the secretary of state| jhg, which involved the necessity of | ¥. L. Woodard was eccomplished in three days and|he saw me, the surprise depicted on|appeared to be a muatter of complete | 214 that he (the minister) did not|those of my frineds who wished to two mights. Arriying at that famous | his face was a study for an artlst. | indifference to him. whther the- oecu- | 1561 at liberty to interfere. I .learned|say good-by to me on the event of ity en the afternoon of the third day,| “Wife,” sald he “how’s this? Dled a position & few inches hack of the | Alterwards that the viceroy paid oné|my departure rising at six o'clock Wwas recelved by Minister Young | “How's ls what?’ asked Mrs. Mar-|animal's ears or as much in front of | lundred and six dollars for sendin€|, “m, an unusual hour for rising in|L. A. Gallup Ce. @nd @ right hearty welcome was ten- [tin, his tail, while the patient little beasts | DiS dispatch, thus showing his friend- | the Orient. Btt a large comipany of | Elmer R. Pierson |F. P. Gulliver dered me. I found the United States| “Why,” sald the dpctor, “the gen-|pursued the even temor of their ways | SHiP; Which I retained up to the time | jadies and gentlemen was there. not- | Herman Alofsin Misses Gulliver minister very companionable. I had |tlemen of Peking have been trying for | with like stoiclsm in either case. The | Of, uS death. + | withstanding the early hour, and the It was not until the last of March|pang was also there, and when the | Charles H. Phelps [Joseph P. Sm o dad with him, but @id not | years to be admitted to. your sanctum | most playfi meet him untll T had been some whils |and have never Bsokeded, bub here |nese we I :‘,J‘.‘,,':g‘?,;’%,,"g‘:,;“;,fi“,’,; my successor put in anappearance, | pang commenced to_play. al the Chi-| 8, & J. Gregson James MeNaily A gia Knew, Tipsisin el | Shes S om0 diehote, 84 | ty'or hersabouts. "Phey played ar | 2 Tt as Sither e Dud | s iemiars onfhe ver Gt ‘hiy | 3B prantios [Mex W K Wit having stayed there with Generai| you receive him with open arms.” bles, n Grant and family during the latters | ‘“Well, doctor,” said Mrs. Mastin, |the 'c,‘:,‘}:,‘,e;",“;,kt';“og“;;, 5 T g travels, Mr. Young told me that Gen- | “wé have drawn ihe line now.” During the kite season the air ahove eral and Mrs. Grant, during their visit| “And where, pray, have you fawn |Peking seemed to be filled with th here, T can't help saying & word re-| {ionate leave-taking, the head-lines [ Town of Norwieh in Tiem-tsin, occupled the sleeping |the line?” msked he. representing birds, animals and flQT President Cleveland's than- | o¢ the steamer were cast off, and the | John L. Mitehel] 700m @t the consulate that I afterward| “We have drawn the line at grand- | which rose to great height i e e. Here was this man receiving [ ¢hip commenced to swing with the|Augusta B, Green made my cwn. Judge Denny was the | pas,” said his wife. The Chinase women of P;Hn the galary of a United States consul| ijje The passengérs, knowing that Louls P. Roath consel at Tien-tsin during the Grants’ | “Then, dootor,” sald I, “vou willjed to be less devoted to the dofaeen. |10 four months and unable to reach | he demonstration was in my honor, | H. L. Benett wisit. Mr. Young was very forid of | have to hurry up and become a grand-| tion of their feet than those "1,‘21‘:"“" his destination. I was performing the| pag given me the after part of the up- | Gardiner Greene erbbage, which game I enfoyed many |pa, and then you can claim admit-|tsin, Ag a general rule the 1 ien- | quties of the office, for which I did not| nor ‘Geek to myself, and as I stood |John Doe times with him. When at the legation | tance to this charming club,” an ing | footed women seemed to me t eh arze- | receive a dollar, and finally left to #et| ihora alone the band etruck up the | P- H. Harriman wt Peking I ooccupled the sleeping | stance where “ @ soft answer turneth | ter looking. They had e °1 e bet- | {o my home the best way I could.|.gyingle Waltz” and when it came | N-City lodgeO.B.A. epartment of the late Mrs, Young. It |away wrath.” EPA08 i thely #m{-er: tconsl:llerame That was the case then, and if it has| ;o the chorus the ladies and genflemen |In. N.lodgeLO.B.A. was just as she had left it, her tollet | Another very pleasing event happen- | ma, the little feet fi‘"‘;' while, to|not peen changed, it is about time it| . jocked arms and swung to the | Carl W. Brown artisles on the biffeau, her_two hats | ed during my stay In Peking. I had|(hey were affiictod with collbaic"81 | was, and ¥t is, in my opinion, a dis-| ugic. But with the sceond chorus | Charles R, Buits Ytanging beside the mirror. Fler para- ’#e ded leaving for Tien-tsin on with chilblajns. grace to the country. However, I am | .ume ‘the mpst affecting scene 1 have | A- R. Aborn sol stood in the corner, her feather esday, bl{! very cordial invi- not here to criticise the government,| Juo. citnessed, for there on that bund | B- B. Perry fan on the mantel Over the mantel | tation from Sir Robert Hart inviting CHAPTER XV. but to tell the story of my life. were all those ladles kneeling in a|P: F. Murtagh was & life-sized p: t of Minister | me to remain and attend the concert After turning over the consulate and| .j.cls with locked arms, keeping time | M. C. Higglins Young's first wife and little girl, both | he proposed giving on Friday evening | In_Honor of General Denby—The|all of its belongings to my successor| ity the music until the last note | Frank Hempstead of whom died at about the same time. | delayed my departure, and on the| Taku Forts—My Successor ls Ap- |00 April first, I received a letter| counded. Never in my life has any | Rumford & Co. ThHe second wife was the nlece of | evening appointed, Minister Young and pointed—My Kind Friend from Mrs. Detring, wife of the Impe- | cyent affected me as did that fareweil | Morrison &M'Cord Marehal Jewell 6f Connecticut, and a | myself, in our sedan chairs, repaired detrine s 3 rial commissioner of customs, In-| ccane on the shore of the Pel-ho, and | Maneatty, Bisbico life-sized portrait of her hung in the |to the place inted and there we! When Colonel Denby was inteq | forming me that my friends in Tien-| oo jong as I live wil that parting be| & Sellas drawing room. She must have been, I|found gathered In the reception room | United States minister to succeed | {57 . knowing. that my soventieth| cherished as a preclows memory. 1|W. T. Ward Judge form her portrait, a beautiful jall the officlals of the leégation With| John Russell Young at Pekin hloc birthday would arrive on the four-| sfterward heard from those who were | C- D. Boynten svoman, and I was told she was high- | their men and women friends, and it| rical at Tien-tsin was looked forward | (onth Of the month, were exceedingly | present that they had never befors | I E. Dowe 1y esteemed in Peking for her lovely | Was just too lovely for ‘anything.|to with a feeling of lively inte desirous that I should remain With| sean such a look of wonder and bewil. | Nor. Counell, 720, disposition and her many accomplish- ; When the time came for the concert|and when it was reportedy that "t’;t' them and give them the opportunity | jerment depicted on the Chinese coun-| Royal Arcanum ments. to commence Sir Robert requested the | minister and his family had arrly 3 “to properly celébrate the three Score | tenance as was exhibited by those nu- | W. H. Covey 1 remained in Peking thres weeks,|gentlemen to wait until he had seateéd | at Yokohama and were to leave there |2nd,¥en anniversary” andforme notto| tives when they saw the gentlemen |NOr Retall Liquor durtag which I experienced som- of | the ladies, and he distributed them in|for Taku on the United States steam. |50 t0 the hotel. but to make her house| anq ladies kneeling down. They made | , Dealers’ Assn the most delighttul events of my life. | such a way that each gentleman had|er Trenton, I ocalled on Vieeroy Li|™MY home during my stay. With feel-| yp" their minds that I was some sort| Olive W. Platt Having for a gulde one of the best|a lady to sit beside him, and when all | Hung Chan at his yamen, and hav.|in8S O heartfeit gratitude I joyous-|of a Joss Pidgtn and that I was re-|Leonard B Almy pilots in Peking, I visited every object [ were properly distributed, the gentle- | ing informed him of the expected V- 11y accepted her kind invitation, nor| seiving homage. And it was thus that | Stoddard, Gilbert of nterest worth visiting except the |men were invited in. The first to en-|rival and of my going to Tak: ‘{; would I have exchanged places with|yT pade a last farewell to a people C Fordbidden City and was pumped up |ter was Sir Parks; then fol-|meet the minister, asked the v!ur my successor for all the emoluments| among whom I had pessed through brimful of ancient history, and saw |lowed Minister Young, and I, feel-|if it waere possible for him to farmioy | Of,Dis office. the most important yéars of mv life, mode wonderful sights than ever be- | ing that I was only a consul amongst| me with an order to the mmm‘imdser The endearing friendships that had | and whose love ang affection I prize fore or since. I made the acquaint- |all thoss ministers, feit that I ought| of the forts at Taku to honor the min- | "idened and lengthéned during my | peyond the power of language to ex- ance of all the high officlals of the |to “go away back and sit down.” But|ister with a flag-raising salute as h- official term hed caused me to feel| prosg foreign legations and they treated me | Sir Robert called me to him, and sald | passeq the forts, © | that nowhere on earth could be fyund| = pr. Osborn once asked me why 1 as one of themseives. t & dinner [he: “You come with me” and I fol-| " “Why, certainly,” sald the viceroy, |2 More lovable community than the| giq not write a book on China. He given by Sir Harry Parks T was called | lowed him, when he took me around, | “Aithough it has never been done fl; one dwelling in the foreign settlement | qaid from what he had seen and upoh to repeat a poem which one of | outside the seats, up to the center of| a foreign offictal, I will issue the of Tien-tsin, and my fourteen days|known of me, he was quite sure T the company had heard me rec)*- en- |the front row, and there was the only | der.” . ” Or- | were full to overflowing with joy and | comd write the most readable book| . CO titled “When the Cows Come Home.” | upholstered chair in the room. AS| With that order I started for Taky, | £1adness. On the morning of my[ever published. Judge Sawyer told|A Eriend Sir Harry had left his rural home in |We came to it Sir Robert said: wetit t0 the fort and The Taku, | pirthday, after recelving the conarat-| ma that same thing bafore I left San|A: MeLaughlin England when only nine years of age; | *“There, Mr, Bromley, is your seat” | t; the officer in oh: "e”"ho oner ulations of the family, we entered the| Francisco, but I thEmght then that ’n since that time his home had been in| Said I “Is this for me, Sir Robert? | quly econsidering l‘lsui'xgn'port ir:teé breakfast room, and there, upon the|js much better to hdve peopl, &1 ,: the Orient, and the scenes depicted| It certainly is” said Sir Robert. |me right royally. (aking e therrod |table In front of my seai were the|you can write a book and mot write | James Connors i1 the poem brought to him so vividly | “Well” may God bless you,” I-Te-|the fortifications’ and - pointing out | Pirthday Dresents from the family, | one, than to write one and have ®| T. J. Coughlin his boyhood days of the long ago that | plied. “'Tis all I ean say.” to me how utterly impossible it % oid|and by the side of my chair was a|ple think you ought not to ha Teit. | P. F. Bray hie feclings overcame him o such an| When I was seated I found at my| be for an enemy to attack Succesernl. | SMAH ~table upon which had been | ten it - ve Writ*| Rev. C.H. Rieketts|Fred extant that he went like a child. Many | right was the wife of the Russlan min- | 1y its tmpregnable walls Tt wee oon. | Placed a platter, ang around the sides (Continued Saturday, June 19. P. Cummings times after that evening, at the social | ister, and on my left the wife of the| tainly & wonderful fortress. b c:;: were seventy blue, white and red 4 ) gatherings, he would request me to [Secretary of the American legation.| turned t6 Taku and chartered a tug|li8hted tapers, and in the center a secite the poem and during its recital | Why, the honor conferred on me Was| for one hundred dollars, which "g lighted wax candle which, according J. A, Tourtellotte the would sit away by himself and ap- |simply overwhelming and I Was|pe in readiness at any time for“one to German tradition (the family were CRYING FoR H LP Sam’l Blinderman gau.r to be oblivious to everything but | prompted to pinch myself that I might | week, to meet the Trenton on her ar- | 3erman), was the “Light of Life" Mrs, E. Haughton is precious memories. The first | be assured of my being the same indi- | fyal'and convey the minister and his | AN If In any wdy it was extinguished e i, Mrs. M. Bacheler time, by the way, that I recitéd “When | vidual who once turned the wheel in fa.#ly to Tien-tsin. On the morning | Pefore burning out it was a bad omen. the Cows Come Home” was at a din- |my father's ropewalk. The concert|of the fourth. day. after the enartes|The tapers having ended their part in | Lot of It in Norwich But Dally Grow- mer given by the Chit Chat club, in |was a delightful one. The music Was| the man on the lookout discovered the | the display, the candle was placed on ing Less. :l;‘n‘ };rflovl:ca. tItovn;,g s;:’ wel’l‘ ll‘k.d :x‘qluitsl!l!a a_ndI Illlt ::g.\oyed :t 1{‘:";:‘0”' ship. She had come in during the t;re]mamleplece, where it burned en- n reciting ver jan e social ful n af 8€ | night and » tirely out in the socket, amid t ginee. “The ?ld Cance,” “Tacking | I shall never forget, for the attentions fi-sm the :nngl);:}r;edofa.btmt tpv:?l},z m"e; and rejoicing of all present, ev?; {:i ;h: i crly f:;‘r "lh’ 5 Snp oft Shore: and “The Yam ot |1 received whils iingling with the| eome four miles trom ne usual pasm- |SeTVNC Joineg in ' the enimating Sy subtmoe 2 'y Bel ave also been fa- 1es an on o g pt W scene. . Sir Harry Parks *death occurred dur- | myself. Buk the spell was of vers | gnon under welgh and neaded for iny | eXperierice in China was at the theater | plood s A g i ing my term of office Sir Harry was |short duration, for the next day after| ship, and when the tug hove in sight, | 0% My birthday night. TEvery reel-| hen they fall the bleod becomes lal man, overflowing with humor |the most delightful visit of my life I|the rejoicing on that ship was simply |@ent of the settlement, ineluding the | foul and poisonous ooy end bright, witty sayings. His mar- [had to bld good-by to Peking and all| jmmense, as they had all been wondgr- missionaries, was there, and Colonel | There cpnn be no health where th ried daughter living at Shanghal was |its loved attractions and return to|ing nbw and when they would reach | Penby, the United States minister, | s poisoned blood . on her way to visit him at the time | my modest consulate at Tien-tsin and| the 1and. i with his wife, came all the way from ;’;’:ci.ch. is one of the first { :7: bis death, not knowing even of his | @again assume the dutles thereunto As the tug came alongside the ship | Peking to participate in the ceremo- | tions of kidney trouble. % SEES fiiness. The British consul at Tien- | belonging. But I had enjoyed an ex-| | mounted the side ladder and twent | Ni€S, which was a distinglithed honor| It is the kidney's cry for hel }rfl.u nrhel)&vengort_ wen!h dolvrn to »:;l'n;::’ that talls to the lot of but|on hoard, The first person to meet me | that I most highly appreciated. "\ e " V'8 cry for help. Heed and prepare her for the | V' men. was Admiral Davls, The ceremonies opened with é "Doan’ crushing blow. They mest on the| One of my interesting experiences|and greeting me very c‘o'rhm"ffil,f a0 | S ther Aty Artar Ssh Mt IRV | s Ty TIRS are. what 't steamer. Sheé was full of joyous an- |Wwhile visiting Peking was a New | vited me aft, where T tas introduced | the Imperial commissioner of cus- Are just what overworked kidn tiolpation, and for awhile they chat- | Year's call, In connection with theé|to the minister andg his family, also | toms, delivered the opening address, | need. vy tod ‘ana laughed together Defore he |Other foreign rspreseritatives, on One| o the officers of the ship. They were | Which was full of kind, loving words,| ~They strengthen and invigorate the | g ong family could summon courage to tell her the [of the princes. Mr: Young kindly In-|ail grouped together, and such a woe- | Which T could feel came right from his help them to do t{l o iy | Broadway Resid'nt sad news. It was a time of trial for | Vited me to accompany him on this|hegone company I have seldom seen, | heart, and to which I responded as to cure any case errgdork, i\‘l'l:. ff,‘;:“{‘g",; When ):e flnal.lg broke vlm'::. emvvmgo&r; «;’:n:nc'lo‘:lalé After the introductions, the admiral |best I could. . g er she stagger r a|we Tt| said to me: ‘Then was read the foll proot moment and gave way to hér grief, | of the Mldlnht’hron;h long files of | “They don't want us here: you come | Which " wag bea.uflfu.ll]yo'g;fn:gg m;: lze‘r‘nud o e hut soon recovered and was able to | well-d Chinese, who gave ts the | with me.” % parchment, and after the reading it{ Mrs. H. A. Simonds, living at 117 listen to all the details of her father's salutations and wished us a| 1 went to his room and we had a|Wa§ spread upon a tahle and every!one Frankiin Street, Norwich, Conn, says: death. The funeral of Sir Harry | Happy New Year. Our cards had pre- | glass of wine together, and it was | Dresent signed it,and it now hanes in | “For the purposes recommended T oon. Parks, or rather the depositing of his |ceded u8, and we were met at the en- | then that the admiral informed me | mY parlor as one of the most precioue | sider that there is no medicin, e remains’ on board ship, oceurred on |trance of the court by the grand seC-|me that during the short time the Den- | treasures swhich I possess. to Doan’s Kidney Pills. The °a°§§ April 8 1885. I was one of the bear- |rétary and at the door by the prince, | hys had been on board the ship, the ; ea Denet thelr use ha \rapgrer ers, The body lay In state after its |the Dighest officlal who holds direct| family had co endesced themanrss ig| TO GEORGE T. BROMLEY, Esa. |fHlonds warrants me In recommending arrival from Peking In the compound | communication with foreigners. As I|the officers of the ship that the part-,| Dear Mr. Bromley: them very Righly. The facts that lead of ?e Bnglish consulate, a temporary | Was_the only stranger present I had|ing was like the separating of a fam-| We, the residents of the Forelgn|me to testify in favor of Dean’s Kid arbor of bamboo and matting being |the hunot of special at‘éntion from thé| fly. "As a proof of the sincerity of |Settlement of Tien-tsin, are nsnemh]‘z‘i ney Pills which I proctred from N. D, built ‘over it, with draped flags and |prince after being presented, and 2as| their feelings, one of the.officers has | to offer our congratulations on your| Sevin & Son's drug store I will chéere pots of flowers at the éntrance. The |we were waiting for the Russian min- | gince married the ministers daughter. | seventieth birthday, to unite | ’xfl." fully give to anyone desireus of knawr- our , an consi - i ‘3’?' .m}wlt:. r?r“":;° t.v:lodhlax" k{:&n ::fl':’l“‘h OI:HC - nklr:’!u-pryetler. ;:; q:un'tuwo. wa'dex:;’zfngl::‘b;fim:l:- ;'ttx):xtr l"x";euaxl:-;{o }d'Tt‘!\.;seh ::Lt:nd“;o;ng: F}Zxr-!fi!lexb:gn ."Cge.le;.u'fl’lll’flufli:fi barr: 'm nes the e cus asked my nge able. v ¥ ¥ . Whole distance. The arsé, which, | when' he learned that I had a wife, After leaving the ship, when a short f::y:‘:x;f»rfi?efi"m“ h;%l: f&?&" ‘}2 oLt SE SRR AN TR Ba S by the way, was a gunioarriage, ths |four children ana several grandchildren | distance away, & minster's salute of | is with deep and unfeigned re {‘th 8| il hembes Ehe: e = Bin's —upd pall-bearers and the forelgners of the |he was 8o pleased and surprised that| thirteen guns was given, when the |we contemplate your near aemertuss | t2re 00 other. f sottlémient marched between the lines, |[he repeased it t6 many around|eolors were dipped, and when holsted |from amongst us, and we shopuld. be as the soldiers stood at “present arms.” | him, after they all seemed to|again a consular salute of seven guns |wanting in gratitiide If we allowed th To avold serlous results take Foley's Chinese flags were flving to the breeze |look upon mie “with profound respect. s fired In my honor, all of which |occasion to pass without ex; ren? o | Kidney Remedy at the first sign of ki and the viceroy’s Chinese band head- | Whether this was on acecount of my | were duly acknowledged by the recip- | you, however feebly, the {')eell::n8 u; ney or bladder disorder such as bacl ed the imposing procession. The mu- |family or on dccount of the attention | jents. As we were passing the fort|true affection with which you hu{:]" ache, urin; #lo_of the viceroy’s band was solemn {"“ me by the prince 1 could not say, |1 threw out the pi sgignal | spired us, and 6ur sense of what :e_ d you ‘:fi{ thotight him by far the most interest- | and up went about forty of the dragon | as a community and each of us indi- | taking Foley’s Kidney Remedy today. of any of the Chinese officials | flags, to, the astonishment of every- | vidually, owe to your kindly ence | Le® I Osgood Co. marched down ‘p the eonsulate play- 1 had met up to that time. He| bodyv except myself. durin; the past ‘three years. en ing “Nellie Bly.” As most of the mu- |had very pleasing ways, seemed ex- The evening of the minister's ar- | you first came amongst us we greet- - sic was minstrel airs they, no doul tremely good-natured and was unus- | rival at Tien-tein there was to be a|ed you &s an acquisition t0 our social considered that the propef thing for 2 lnally polite even for this most polite of v | life. You leave us as & warm and tried tuneral. fi:lo. He had a regular laughing ey | ] AL S Delivered to Any Part of Norwich been in Tien-tsin before and Was!|apors and rushed up to k Geo, Greenberger |Miss Gowld known in the settlement. Now, right| i was all ,bou(_e A!?erot. ,,',“;:.' .;::f Wm. Caruthe: M, Bray Bisket & Pitcher No man In China knew so well the was as amiable as a woman. The 2 he capael: frien the Ale that is acknowledged 0 true ¢f the Chinese gov- ess who were present were the y e .qi'.n‘of, raw:e::o-? < n-? ':’f’:u‘: best on the market — u:;:..;’v‘ its. peculiarities as did |real rulers of the empire, who held in and [ but you have 6"."-... to | PEERLESS. being at the [their hands d,guwm.m- his son. He did so, we arrived.at | attach to yourself by bonds reul A telephone eorder w s | try and it table was a|the settlément in or to | affection a le community of vari- recelve prompt ‘attention. : to [marvel of “counted | pr the banguet. ous ’ whom you|D: J. McCORMICK: 38 Franklin 8t ~