Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 4, 1881, Page 10

e TR i 10 A JAUNT IN JAPAN. | [to} Costames and Customs Of AN |5 e 'of thime little hevises which | THE OMA#A DAILY BEE: swords, The study of the emperor is | log of two troesg and neatly joined to in the same style-perfectly plain. |gether in the centre. Thi serv He sits on the floor when he wishes | ed in the inuseum y devout, and keeps himself warm In fact, : 1 | emits more cold th eat Aucient But Progreseive |51 b i "n wavm climte, People. Bxtracts from the Lectures of" | nothwithstanding they have snow and ice there cold on account of their housekeeping and housebuilding and They suffer extremely from housewarming. In this place we_saw Irving M. Scott in San the famous green stone. The Japa 3 nese get an idea that a stone of cer Lyl tain character has peculiar virtue, San Francisco Call. In the Tem great bell, and the E of its tone. high and nine feet in diameter nine inches thick in metal. The bells in our country turn out at the bottom — the Japanese bells turn in. In our | country the bells have their clapper | ¢ in the inside—in Japan the clapper is | upon the outside, and is a large beam | of wood swung upon ropes, with which | ¢ they draw it back, and strike the outside of the bell. temple yard of Chion there is a famous | stone called “Uri Fuishi.” are said to grow up from it in a single night, each having the namo of a god written on it. The temple yard and grounds of Chion are beautifully situ- ated on the hillside overlooking the town and dale that lies between there and the sea. As you approach these ounds, steps and terraces are fixed for you to climb upwards, and along- side of these paths or stone steps are little booths where those that have come to worship at the tchIu can amuse themselves in a practical sort of a way. There are toys ti ere that have heavy bases, and you throw at thy with a paper ball, and if you knock this toy over you gain a prize; if you do not, you have so many shots for so much copper cash. There is A DEVICE EVERY WHERE To enable you to drop a few pence, almost similar to the state fairs of the state af California. In Kiota is situ- ated one of the famous manufactories of porcelain. They make here the celebrated egy shells, the more expen- sive of which are painted by hand. We also saw in Kiota the school that the government has established to teach the yagasha or dance girls of Japan how to make their own clothing and be independent. Strange as it appears in a land where everyone works, girls following the profession of dancing up to a_very tecent time they did not know how to cut or fit their own dresses. The government has established an institution where these girls go and learn these three branches of that most important trade. Ho tells us that in Japaa these girls were at the mercy of the dress- makers, There is not much differ- ence in their civilization and ours in that respect. The dance girls are a class of people who are taught danc- ing and posturing for the purpose of amusement in their great shows and fairs, or for any little entertainment that you want. ~ They are a distinct and “separate class by themselves. ir instrument i itar, the i wo REVSSh entorfaunment ' with a Japanese band it is customery to start out with a Japanese dinner at a restaurant that 1 described a week ago. Then, after you have had the music and the orau- ges and the confectionary and the salki, it is in order to have a first- class juggler. THE JUGGLERS. Some of the jugglers are very ex- };ert in the art of jugglery. We had a amous juggler there. fle did two or three ver{. amusing things. He took a watch-chain from one of the party, and placed it on the ground. What he did to it, T could not tell, but that watch-chain erected itself, link by link, lool like a snake made of gold. He then took a little pieco of ordinary paper, and rolled it up, laid it on the fleor, and held over it a pan of water. H would then take l\ula of an imaginary picce of string, and that little ball would follow it up and down. He lot us place our hands under the pan, but there did not appear to be any communication. We also went to see the annual fair which they hold in Japan, All the cities in Japan have an exhibition. This exhibition con- tinues, in_many cases, all the year round. The Japanese have a method of passing you in at the front door, and then you have to follow a trac to get out again, which takes you by everything that is exhibited in whole building. You can go rapidly or slowly, as you please. Every arti- cle you can think of is on exhibition, in the way of lacquerware, china, bronze, and fabrics of every kind. In this fair at Kiota we were shown the firemen's clothes. They make a suit of clothes something like knit clothes, fireproof, which the Japanese firemen wear at fires, A Japanese fire machine is of wonderful and dangerous con- struction. It js made of a square box, about as big as an ordinary wash- basket. There is a projecting ledge on each side, on which two firemen place their feet to hold it. Inside of this box are two pumps, with a lever across, and with that instrument they tackle the fires that take place in the great citios of Japan, It would throw about a gallon o minute, 1 think, if you had good luck with it. Tn a great many places in Japan you will find these firc-engines hanging up by the two handles' in the porch, so that most every respectable fumily in Japan RUNB HIS OWN MACHINE, We went to the palace of the Mika- | do, where he resided up to the chance | in the government. The Japanese| e e T A K Jap- | anese houses are built upon the same plan, They have generally a post in the two corners, so that the two sides can be thrown open to the air and sunlight, because they have no win- dows. If they want another room it is added on so that it can have its own daylight and sunlight. Inside of this m{u«s we saw the bed of the Mikado. he room in which this bed was, was covered with matting and of extra thickness, and in the center of this TOON Was & rai platform, about two inches high, on which was another coavinglof matting. That was the bed stead of the emperor of Japan. The fixtures that were necessary to make it comfortable and warm, were in the shape of blankets, coverlets, and spreads for which the Japancse aro le of Chion hangs the mous throughout Japan t for its size and the purity The bell is eighteen feet | ~ which we Melons | what an arch was for. that you find in modern Japan you will sed built b there since the change in the govern- ou a stock- ing of a Japanese lady. this is the shoe that is worn outdoors [producing). The top of {his is covered with matting, the bot- lace in front where the Japanese places his toe, and holds on to it by the toe, and away he goes. come to a house n | on the outside. They have one of those PLANTED IN THE EMPEROR'S GARDEN, and they call your attention to it as being something wonderful 1t is | Californian that has heen used to look at the Comstock lode and at several thousand dollars to a ton would not An old ake a second look at it. They make cverything on a miniature scale in Japan., We saw some specimens of arch bridges built with stone, and in srder to hold the arch up they would then let it | put two beams of frame work to pre- In the | vent it from coming down, showing | that as late as 1600 they did not know In the bridges a regular arch that has been ment. T will now show his is worn indoors; tom is wood. There is a little go in the house witl A troublesome for an American off in gettintg around the old tem s war-horse. This was on the emperc into a shoe like that. saddle. HE DOES HIS OWN SHOEING, The coolies of Japan wear a like that. except that it is made e, slush and The travel around in the snow, and attend to their work. stilts of Japan from ours. They take a rod of bam boo and fit a little place forthe foot tc rest upon. The object is so that tha universal toe of Japan can get aroun that bamboo. boo made in a cross. it is to see & if it is a Japanese. was a handsome tes house, wher was 80 blessed. and motions, hour we “Will you have whisky or will yo have brandy?” thing about these ladies which we di not wish them to hear, and you ca imagine the fix of those gentleme: who were present. ACCOMPLISHED LADIES, Then in “‘Sherman’s 0! in order t sang. “‘Yankee Doodle,” march through Georgia,” and John Brown.” Then ments were notconfied to guage only, one of them sang th “Wateh by that her name was Mary were four or five gentlemen descende those one hundred and eight ste with a small idea of themselves, W had an opportunity of secing th Thoy take a stump of a tree, their rice. The object of the Japanes: is to “hull” wit{mut breaking th grain, Then he had a mallet of small piece of wood, each other, will loosen the ‘‘hull; drop upon the rice, Operal The o row into him, in order to ‘‘get even Dibutz about 60 feot hi this up in the year 1683. this was done “his son came, He pu high men —short of cash. down this bronze Dibutz and He The present Dibutz is a badly-execut ed, wooden one. 500 idols, and they are all worshipped for some particular virtue, same temple is the archer: where the famous archers of Jupau arrows left there by their great men. with the Coreans. them up to Ki and erected & monument, we went to Osaka. were built with stones forty feet long, somebody that has emigrated | of a1 Now when you ou leave this shoe is the shoe you it was very who wore boots to keep taking his boots The Japanese put their horses’ hoofs 1f you happen to meet a Japanese on horseback, which is not often, you will see a string of these horse-shoes tied to his shoe to fit the soles of their feet, and with noth- ing on their feet except that, they made different A Japanese washing machine consists of two posts of bam- They stick these in a tub, where they wash, and it costs about two cents of our money. While we were in Japan we heard of two vory handsome Japanese ladies. If there is anything an American likes handsome woman, eyen In this particular case we climbed one -hundred ' and eight granite steps at the top of which Wivn 16" w ndvew ey dodies. regidad. man nose, in fact. One of the ladies Her name translated was Gold, and her sister's name was Glass. We wished to be very polite, and talked to them with our hands For at least half an made remarks about their beauty and the manner of living in Japan, when all of a sudden we were startled by a statement of facts thus: We had said some- order to convince us that they knew something of America, one of these ladies picked up a guitar and convinco us that there accomplish- one lan- he Rhine,” and told us Malone, and that she was an Irish lady! There Japanese mothod of cleaning rice. hollow out the top of it, and in that they put When the top of the piece of wood comes down on the rice, the grains, slipping over then they put the block of wood on the end of a lever, and permit it to He repeats that 1, and they get this rice hulled We visited the great Dibutz again, iginal Dibutz of Kioto was 160 foet high. This was broken by a great earthquake, and ome of the fellows, because this great god had not pro- tected them, went up and shot an ar- with him, and set up a smaller bronze Soon after and he was like most of the sons of traditional took imitation of the larger|care; the uses to which Here there is the temple of the In this range | The financial condition of Japan was practised before they went out to do their great deeds of battle, and they show in the ceiling now some of the We also saw in this same place a mon- ument called Mimuka, that was built to commemorate one of the battles They captured a groat number of the Coreans, in order to have & very vivid recolléction of them, they cut their ears off and took | saki we saw what is known as the na- to, buried them there From here Osaka was the place where these famous stone walls | usual dance of *'Johnny Keno" is the ANTIQUATED (OSTUMES We wlso gaw in this museum an idol, [ representing the dresscs of the Mika | doand of his wife a thousand years We were alsoshown silk and sat little A0 in dresses, and also those nice methods of | pictures which Mrs, Mikado hasitohave | ¢ the posturing and payment of in that country tured. We also sword exercise given most famous swordsmen of Aklyana and Mishida, The exercise to keep her wd-na saw here the famous by two of the Japan about six feet long and double-handed. These swords were covered r with bamboo to prevent them from doing harm to each other. They put on their Japanese war dress, and on the plat form in the yard they went through their sword exercise, which we would call fencing, but their great objec seemed to be to try and hit the other man over the head and make him jump. The people sat there in the open air, t was cold weather, and very frosty in the morning. They would bring these little boxes of charcoal down in order that you could keep warm. They also bring a little teapot. They make cast-iron _teapots, ornamented in gold andsilver on the outside with all kinds mals. Osaka if a great com- mercial town of Japan. There is activity everywhere. The dealing in isinglass is & very active one in Japan. They ship it and export it to China, We also visited the Temple of Osaka. The temples of Japan are very much alike. There is A BRONZE COW, At the Temple of Osaka, which has remarkable virtues, We faithfully subscribed to all of the directions which the Japanese gave us in regard to the wonderful cures to be made by following out their customs, and we went through our travels without a glla-, complaint of sickness or trouble, which Now, this is a Japanese horse-shoe. we attributed to rubbing ourselves up against this bronze cow. We also saw in one of these temples a wooden idol, Bluzurn, who was one of the six- teon disciples of Buddah, and to have arub of that wooden idol is to wash away all your sins and set you straight, and as there was no other way of reforming some of our party, except that, we made each man take a good square rub against “*Bluzurn.” THE JAPA MODE OF TRAVELLING is on foot mostly. If there is anything 1{a Californian hates it is walking. > | When you get to a hill they have institution called a i -| scantling about 6 by 4, and suspended )| by two loops is a little platform, t| where you can sit down, and on the 1| top of this little roof is a place whe lise, you can put your You can down on this “c sive of the fect of some of our party provented that, and we were travel with this about forty-five. sec- onds on ome shoulder, and then they stop and put it on the other shoulder. by & little arrangement on the back. D TIru B bgok, the steamer to passage. We went growing rice. 8Ca) u of amost perfect system of cultivation. d | Their villages and towns were at the n | foot of these hills. From these vil- N ing and _other purposes. ride for a day and a half we came in- to the harbor of Nagasaki. one of the oldest Here is where the !l their settlement, d jorts in Japan. and where HE USES OF BAMBOO, o| Here we also saw one of the tures of Japan, and that is, the they make of bambuo. fea- 1 do not know d s | it would grow, tha o | bamboo, 1f T can _recall e | which T'saw it put T will give them to you, Lf you see a Japanese ship or a small boat—a schoon we would call them—you will see that e | the masts are of bamboo, the yards are o | of bamboo, the sals are of “bamboo, a|the ropes are of bamboo, and poles with which she scuds’ along comes up to the wharf are of bamboo, 1 iact | and let your feet hang down, or stick your feet up | arsen so that they can look at you; but the obliged to let them hang down! The Japanese rreight is carried up the mountains om Osaka we passed back again to the islands, and was said to bo one of the most beautiful rides anywhere in the world. We had an unusually smooth in and around and among islands which were ter- raced from the water’s edee to the top of their peaks, for the purpose of Tt gives great beauty to the landscape, for while the land- is small and subdued compared with ours, it conveys the impression ln:i:sl were plying numerous crafts for fi After a | That 18 utch first made the Portugese made their settloment some use of anything that would be more valua- | ble to California, or any climate where | n this one article of the uses to v yacht, as | tne The captain’s slippers are made of is caught is obliged to pay a forf T begin hy v h arti that they have in their sleeves, wh is the pocket of a Japanese lady, if the game is prolonge | the dancer | PARTS WITH ALL OF HIS CLOTHING These are extreme ey | dance In other cases, it is o d long enough, | leaders of the stamped dences of the ATURDAY. JUNE 4, 1881.--TWELVE PAGE! it. | turn mighty quick ot you will get run o8 | down. Luckily our horses are very ich | sure fosted. When you have ridden id | a few miles you will catch up with the Then you must turn them. Ride along the out | side leader and crowd him in upon his | Keep prodding and strik him and he will gradually turn from you, foreing the others to do the Fofite s are. within' reach, From | same. Then keep them turning,and you | tinsaka we ook th steamer and | Willsoon have the herd running in o cie | pasked out of the harbor, when the [cle. Once the circle is formed you | bells of the great temple were ring | with that soft and mellow sound, he wonld think nothing of. | was very interesting; they had swords | ;o heres outsides of those old tem Jles, and sailed out to the coal mi which the Japancse are opening. |has some gold and silver | mines. The feature of the coal m was to see these young Japanese gi handling conl. The coal is placed | coal buckets holding about a peck. a they pass it from one to another. more joyful set of people T never s They sing and hum and joke t The Japanese enjoy jokes. you if the weather is dr; ing they do no work. From there crossed the Yellow Sea to China, Sea, that the name was an_arbitr one, but the waters are muddy, an takes its color from the dust wh said to come from the great desert Tartary, about 1,000 miles away. we crossed that sea the rigging o sails of the ship, and everything t had a flat surface or ledge, was cove with a coating of this dark, red dv make every one sick. of the sea before two o'clock in kiang. We what it looked like. had left us there. HERDING IN THE WEST. a Stampede. “How do you like I ding catt “T like it well enough, but 1t is | The general ideaof a cow boy age with a bl | magnific I , dressed in a suit of vel | trimmed with silver fringe dollars, a broad-brimmed | mownted by a v hat, \ ons upon his person, and mounted icent_coal-black or this on & magni white lorse. Now wrong. The cow-boy is as any other person. street; he may carry a revolver, a pretty good animal, but it will hunter. Finally, his spurs not il wanvesan up a herd, T tell you the boys 1 themselves and their work.” S“WHAT IS A cow-Boy 7" queried the reporter. a man who herds cattle. called cow-boys, be sixteen or sixty years old, but is a boy, nevertheless.” “What ““Throughout the summer men are at work br There are usually thr 1 speaking now of how they ness in Montana. The coun ble valleys, each occupied by of cattle. When the branders e of these valleys, their by ness is to drive all the cattle toget! in one place so that the calves may [ be separated from the herd, and it | (uires some pretty sharp riding tc |it. After the herd is rounded, calves with their mothers are se | rated from the lerd, driven to a ¢ | ral, and brand fir THE CATTLE, This is compa cows will not leave them thing is called a calf that is not bra ed. They are branded by burn the owners mark on them with irons,” “How is it that incorrect ports of your work get papers!” i into “Why, a reporter is s and riding with the at the w ck was, and ard sther. They put you in mind of grown up children playing. These girls work faithfully when it is rain- | supposed, before T crossed that Yellow ; ary We passed along this sea on a hot, sultry day, the effect of which was to 1 saw but little morning, when our ship ran high and dryjon the mud banks of the Yang-tse- awoke to find we were shiprecked, and went on board to see Our ship had gone on to a mud bank, and the tide Interview With an Old Montana Cow Boy Interesting Facts Re~ garding Herding and How to Stop | od cattle found on the ‘‘nome range” asked a Toronto Globe reporter of an | old drover just home from Montana. | the fine casy life most people suppose. is o and gold | ving plume of cag milk- idea is all just the same His cloth would not stand inspection on King e docs notalways do so. His horse is begin to compare with an English cept when he is engaged in rounding great fun reading the descriptions of “A cow-boy is They are all The cow-boy may you mean by vounding up a herd?” a gang of wding the calves, ce men in o gang, there is cutup into almost_innumera. opa- tively casy work, as the calves will not stainpede, and the Every- out there, instead of taking a horse, boys tor a few | days, so that he could see for himself | #8 among horned stock. how it was ing | must crowd them on all_ sides, 4| gradually narrowing the cirele until the herd gets so jammed that it is nes | impossible’ for them to run. Then the stampede is over, and neither you, i | your horse, or the cattle are sorry. ‘ne | The cattle lie down, you exchange irls | your tired horse for a fresh one, and in | but for the marks left on the prairie and | by the run, there is no sign that ml{- A | thing unusual has happened. T should \w, | say that each man usually has three horses.” “‘Herding, must then, be very exciting work?” “No, it is not. | These ugly runs occur very rarely, and in general our work is as dull and monotonous as you could well imagine, we | Your boys who go out west to herd 1| cattle thinking it is all fun, are usually sadly nmistaken.” There is a mistaken impression at the east that a “‘round-up”’ means a 1it ‘h is | general gathering together of cattle, of | from immence distances, in one gmnd Ax| “bunch,” at some general point of wnd | concentration Such is not the case. nhat | The owners, or rancheros, are very numerous, and each has his retainers, who are divided into several groups of horsemen, each being assigned a dis- trict to work up. In-this way the “‘vaqueros” or riders, of one owner may if he is a large proprietor, be di- vided into several bands, They dis- tribute themselves over the home range first, perhaps, and take out such cattle as bear the owner's hand, drive them into a ‘‘bunch,” and leaving them herded under guard, while they proceed to an adjoining range mu{"cut out” fromthe ‘‘round- up” there all the cattle belonging to their employer in the same way, in no case interfering with stock that do not Dbear the proper brand. Any unbrand- red 1st. the of any rancher may be claimed and held by him unless identification shall cards be clearly established by Grazing is entively a matter of reciprocaticn—a system of give and take, which cannot *be dis- | pensed with in a country of thin grass and thinner settlements. When all the cattle that belong to a ticular owner are ‘‘cut off 7 from A1 ihe various “‘round-ups,” of which © | there may be twenty or thirty in a | large district, they are driven to the lel” | ftorw other cattle men. not feathers, - spursy with rowels’ s home rigo and_rebranded, if it s re- e ieiive. weap- | Auired. ‘The calves are o o 1 CAREFULLY BRANDED up- after separation from the cows, and, strange as it may seem, there is gen- lly little loss from mistakes of dif- ferent herds. Some owners resort to extracrdinary form of mutilation in In% | order to place identification of stock | beyond all question. Blit ears, lacer- ated necks, sawed-off horns, and so on, can be observed by hundreds among most herds upon the plains. “Rounding-up” is a very tedious gagdeli 1 1v-a envene .. EBgeb. man en- costume, and must have from three to a dozen horses or ‘‘cow ponies” at his disposal. No tents are taken along, but a primitive cooking outfit is indis- pensable, and meals are prepared at some rendezvous previously well con- sidered. In stormy weather the men he | endure the greatest privations, and are do | often compelled to lie out shelterless all night, wet to the skin, The ranch- eros exercise a general supervision over all, and, of course, have got to share the hardships of a rounding-up do | campaign in their own interests. try | The round-up scason begins, on an average, in the month of May of each 8 not. half ted. have herd | year, anywhere from the bth to L5th. top | This scason it was made later beenuse i | of the general weakness of the catle, how | and this same reason will cause the | coiclusion of the work to be very much not y to- | behind this summer. ydo| Portions p outfits can be the | Seen all alor The men | are mounted like Mexican front and do not | | appear to be having a very exhilarat- ing time, as the cattle are too lame from starvation to show much play. | Tn a few weeks from now the interest {of the round-up will be at its height, but no approximation of the winter | ks an be given until all the ranges | hei | are heard from some five weeks hence, In many parts of Wyoming, and in a great portion of Colorado, sheep are rapidly taking the place of cattle, although the mortality among them during the winter was almost as great or- nd- re- the ent " | bamboo, and the earpet in the cap- |\t ! A Bride's Terror. faii e rclliantade. of. bambao, His i";“"’l{'f“‘l' I"'l“'lllk““‘!' @ night at the | cneyenne sun, Y drinking oup may be of bamboo, and | SHnp-fire and ta with the boys, | (n the west-hound Union Pacific many of the ornaments are large stalks of bamboo, earved. They use it for scaffolding to build their fi’n\l»un. They mako their partitions in all their mod- ern houses with a net-work of bamboo, on which they fix their plaster, in ?bo‘ of laths, as we do. They use it or clothing, for pipe-stems. They pipe their hot and cold water in nboo pipes; they make strin t|toys and fans of bamboo, and bamboo makes the handsomest grove that we saw in our travels—slender and straight, and its foliage was as feathery as it is possible to conceiv Iuside of the castle at Kioto the fines MELTED HIM UP grove said to exist in the world we And put him into the coin of the | saw It has been under cultivation realm, and put him into circulation. | for many years, and is not allowed to - | be cut down, and is kept with great bamboo is converted by the Japanese makes it l!llldll]wllulllfu; in fact, bamboo, rice and tea are the great things of Japan. o |not brilliant when we were there. Their “F rts were less than their im- ports, Their paper money was worth sixty-five cents on the dollar. It had no number on it, nor was there any promise to redeew it all all, T am told they have a machine in the Mikado's ace, and when hegot short of funds e gave it a few wmore turns and the people were obliged to take his_coin- age without any discount, At Naga- tional dance, or, in their language, “Johnny Keno.” This dance has two or three interpretations of it. The posturing, and the music on th celebrated for their skill in ewbroid- | eighteen feet high, eight and seven | struments 1 have already described. ering and in ornamenting. They had no furniture in that bed room except and feot thick. that matting and a rack for the 1,000 years old. At the town of Osaka | Then they get up & game of forfeits, we saw an old boat which they state is [ and on the catching of & word that the It was made of the [ game seems to turn upon, the one that istied that he knows all about herd; and driving cattle. cow-boys will tell stories, and he will publish the wh thing. You cannot imagine ho ulous some of these stories are. DRIVING CATTLE TO MARKET, “What about driving cattle | market.” job. The dr ers start now, of cattle, or more than 6,000 he: If, us isfrequently the case, one n de )00 head, two or th | required number, There is one w | to every 100 cattle up to 300, and ¢ |man to every 500 after that, F | there must be a night gang as well | doubles the number of men Tl drive from ten to fifteen miles a own time.” | DESCRIPTION OF A ““Does the herd stampede very f | quently?’ lit is @ serious affair. They I remember sttting on my horse ¢ night, ev [ mostly lying down. steer jumped up with a loud snort, tive seconds over 4,000 head of cat wer | horses, before we could stop them. “How to stop them.” are worth, There is 1o spariug ho way of the stampede you have got drink some whisky, and go away sat- Of course the him all kinds of ridic- “That is quite o different A drove seldom contains less than 2,000 head {men will join droves to make up the | | those who herd in the day, which the cattle being allowed to take thei CATTLE STAMPEL rything quiet, and the cattl Suddenly an old on their feet, with tails up, and tearing away over the prairie likewace | *“Turn your | to make up an hour of lost time, an of | bummer boarders first try to break yoursel {of the habit of eating in y irt sle and of dipping your kaife dishes on' the table Goodwin petted the en- | good form. horse and ride after thew for all you | which was proud of a new _pair flosh then, 1f you happen to be in the | on the wings of love and sympathy L | train yesterday was a newly wedded INg | pair, who were as loving and tender as people in that interesting condition of life usually are. They had a sec- tion in a sleeping car and were on a bridal trip to the Pacific coast. Near Sidney a wheel on the sleeper was broken, and the train stopped at to| that place about an hour to put on a new pair of wheels. ole ad. ) around, and whil A | the k ree | things about the town, the train which is one of those things that doesn’t wait for time or the *“tied,” quic o he was absorbing an me | But as vay his bride. | Then thero i, The bride vainly, though the groom put ption to cateh the As he and his r|lioge, and | cally, did | best loe ing train. Te- on board that was left behind,” | the two most deeply intercsted. Failing to catch the trainon foot he lambered into the cab of a locomotive | i after the tlying train, that was lr)infivi d vse | wheels. Away the extra train. sped, to | and steam | when he first heard it. | Gillis cabin, a month passed without ¢ return to the business of pocket min- Here Mr. Good: | dissovess of ok e ) T o el om0 e GERAIROROE” Loaide 4l ot but o kick up his heels wid Look | cane. story which gave him his first in the literary world, found that gald he would have s hioh bappacod 10 e DUBg AOUE| down ey ol ho Woild lavo aeitied In | the place and earnestly solicited help. | never b tle | The engineer, a tender hearted man | this d | with & tender, saw how it was, and | would | proceeded to obtain proper authority | Jim Gillis' *¢ That was the worst stampede | as quickly as possible, and started 1 ever saw. They ran fully eight uuxe..‘mu. Mr. Goodwin on a stern chase | fireman, and gineer and and at Antelop shovel coa overtook the heartless cars that had run away with his brand new wife and soon they were happy again in | ench other's arme R Mark Twain's Mine. New York Tribur “Mark Twain's becoming a pocket miner has never been told it wearching therein for ‘“pockets” of fun Hillis. Jim and Billy miners of California. and Greek authors that repose steel. ference of man, he wil’ hoard of sweets. brothers to be very attractive. some days in hunting for the undis. turbed trail of an undiscovered deposit. of acanon in order to pan it out they at last came to the pocket. T was found. the home depos first samples tail of the pock vein they dug place, and wer the ravine and tes: it. when "the he would remain no longer. in comfort. upon the ground, first having writte thirty days. kept by Coon Drayton, an old shelter. yarns. hotel. life in the mines for The Morning Call, = ived the finishing touches as he dic other sketches the preference, them o= the best thing he had written, an- ad book of sketches that was talked of. to the thoughts of the inmat s of the ing, Mark and his friends in the merits of the ‘“Jumping Frog, other prospectors [;aned upon t| Jim had dug into their ledge. astonishe ally glittering with gold. rain lay some three oun quartz gold. The Austrians were not long in gathering this, but the speedy the deposit whence it They could only wait and watch and ities of nature and some other | pray in the hope that the partics who put_ap the notice would not return while 1t still hela good. The sun that rolled | rose on the morning of the day after Joaving M. Goodwih and bearing | the. Twateia s of Ho day afte: P {tho Austrians in was consternation in | gro 1 I otice i ground, with a notic Sidney, and on “board the” Pullian. | conspicuously and A was in a state bordering | The oxpired saw of the of their own ntly vosted, ied out the possession new owners cle on distraction because of her lost | pocket, obtaining a little « §7,600 | district in " » b g wer $7,500 franti- | in a fow days. ”‘;‘“1 Murk'l‘uuinnl’..wk— |be 450 feet from the ground to the in his | bone held out a little longer the sack |toP: retreat- | of dirt would have been washed and the | bride were | grand discoy | one, with a very clear case of “a pas- | then have **Not very often, but when they do, | seng i | usually | it was fun for everybody else except | stampede without any apparent cause. y made. He would not 1e to Angle's Camp, and would never have heard or written up the story of “‘Jumping Frog’ - the ‘boost’ Had Mark He would have given up the chase, and to v, when gray as a badger, he lave been pounding quartz as ard” in the Sierra Ne- vada mountains. *Backwoods” —1f you think of taking It is not considered [Court Journal, narrow escape from In 1865 Mark, weary of Bohemian | life in San Franeisco, went up into the | Champagne, a box at the oper, mining regions of Tuolumne county to | rusticate with some old friends, Steve, | Jim Gillis was | and is one of the most expert pocket Although edu- eated with a view of eventually fighting | the battle of life as a physician, and though still finding a solace in his leisure moments in the works of Latin on | their shelves in their cabin, he is |1 thought of n booked for life as a pocket miner. The | business has charms for him that bind him to it in chains of gold— chains | that bind more firmly that iron or Show him a particle of quartz| gold on the side of a mountain, and if it came to where it was found through the processes of accidents of nature, undisturbed in any w“f by the inter- as unerringly trace it to its golden source as the bee-hunter will follow the bee to its Mark Twain found the Bohemian style of mining practiced vy the Gil}l{in e and Jim Gillis took to the hills in search of guldun pockets, and spent Finally they struck a golden bee-line. They were two or three days in fol- lowing it up, as it was necessary to carry each sample of dirt a considerable distance to a small stream in the bed Each step made sure by golden grains, was a cold, dreary, drizzling day when The rried to the stream and washed yielded but a few cents. Although the right vein had been dis- covered, they had as yet found but the Returning to the | own country. sample from a_new hout to carry it down in | travagance, and when its expres began to pour down heavily, and |are reproduced in pictures or language Mark, with chattering teeth, declared | they look like He said there was no sense in freez: ing to death, as in a day or two, when was bright and warm, they could | quate for the utterance of its emo- return and pursue their investigations Yielding to Mark’s en- treaties, backed as they were by his blue nose, humped back, and gener- rlly miserable and dejected appear- ance, Jim emptied the sack of dirt and posted up a notice of their claim to a certain number of feet on the vein, which notice would be good for Angle’s Camp being at no great distance, while their cabin was some miles away, Mark "E‘nd Jim hotel in the little mining camp was A i A iver pilot, and at his house the half-drowned pocket miners found Mark having for some years followed the business of pilot on the Mississippi, he and Coon were soon great friends, and swapped scores of It continued to rain for three days, and until the weather cleared up Mark and Jim remained at Coon's Among the yarns told Mark by Coon was that of the “Jumping Frog,” and it struck hin: 18 being su comical that he determined to write it up in good shape; and when he returned to the Gillis cabin, Mark set to work upon it. He also wrote some sketches of an Francisco ark did not think as | much of the frog story after it had re- | He gave some id sent The Cull and other papers, Steve Gillis, however, declared it was vised him to save and publish it in a full A literary turn having thus heen given | While the days were passed by | discussing 1 e not idle, A trio of Austrian miners who were out in search of gold—)»em'ing quartz hap- he spot where Mark and It was bnt a few days after they had retreated from the spot in the pouring rain. The Austrian Srolpwtun were not a little at seeing the ground liter- L Where the dirt emptied from the sack had becn dissolved and washed away by the s of bright helped « THE FATE OF A FAST YOUNG s¢ miles | MAN. wost, the wild-eyed prramg husband m't it, Billy? that twelve months may It's enrious | “The_ cha liring Last vear | was at Saratoga, py and rich as & king i n the ters with ** g wint juleps by tw lay T am here in the * “What led me to do it? What always Teads men to destruction and crime? It is worth recording, a8 | e Prodigal Son, whom you've read of, him ths story of the ““Jumping | Has altered somewhat in his tim ‘rog,” and sent him off alohg the line | He spends his substance as freely of t,ie literary lode, and sct him to| As the Biblical fellow of old, | But when it is gone he fancies The husks will turn into gold. High steps while fortune is flush, The passionates kiss of women |~ Whose cheeks have forgotten to blush The old, old story, Billy, Of pleasures that end in tears The froth that foams for an hour, The dregs that are tasted for years. Last night as 1 <at here and pondered On the end of my evil ways, There rose like a phantom before me The vision of boyhood da; old home, Billy, Of the school-house that stood on the hill, Of the brook that flowed through the mendow 1 can e'en hear its music still. Again T thought of my mother, OFf the mother who taught me to pray, Whose loye was a precious treasure That 1 heedlessly cast away, 1 saw again in my visions The fresh-lipped careless boy To whom the future was boundless, And the past & mighty toy. I thought of all this as T sat here— Of my ruined and wasted life And the pangs of remorse were bitter, They pierced my heart like a knife, 1t takes some courage, Billy, To laugh in the face of fate, ‘When the yearning ambitions of manhood Are blasted at twenty-eight. - | —[Tllinois State Prison Convitt. VOTARIES OF THE “KULT." The Culture of the Intense Broak- ing out in Amerioa. Hartford Courant. .| There are certain phases of foolish sentimentality with which the writer, t | however skilled in sarcasm or carica- ture, cannot adequately cope. They require pictorial delincation. One of these phases is the strange form of testhetic mania which has been preva- lent in England for some time, and is breaking out here and there in our It is difficult to d seribe it without seeming to_ be e travagant, for the nature of it is ex- ions caricatures, It is full of “aspiration.” Ttis ‘‘severe,” and above all “intense.” Tt is full of “goul.” Ordinary language is inade- | tions, and it finds expression in sighs, wild glances, abrupt gestures, ago- nizing attitutes which are supposed to be “sculpturesque,” and incohereut exclamations. It delights to dress women and adorn dining rooms with n | a combination of faded tints - splashed here and there with blotches of color. 1t hangs hideous old plates on the wall, and makes the fireplace flare with dreary parasols. The dado isits delight. 1t disports itself in peacock feathers. It affects very ;tight and RETI (o 1 front hairin a “rightfully Bafmtne ner. It cultivates an unhappy yearn- ing expression of countenances, and indulges in the most astonishing forms of ecstatic speech. _ The votaries of the “kult” are inva. riably a hnfuid and dejected set. It is not ‘‘good form” to be cheerful, If some lean, long-haired young man wails forth an mane song (rondel, he calls it) in a gusty strain which termi- nates in something like a howl, a sol- emn-visaged woman, apparelled in what looks like a scanty lot of twisted gray towelling, flops limpidly down on the divan, clenches her hands, and ex- claims that ‘it is star-like.” This ‘““kult” has a language of its own. Our readers are familiar with its “awfully awful,” “utterly utter,” “too too.” One of its pet adjectives is ‘‘consummate.” No other word so nearly expresses what may be called its “‘height of quietness!” These ex- clamations are supposed to derivea certain additional emphasis by being uttered with the chin firmly set 1n the clenched fist, or with both kneestight- ly clasped with the outstretched arms. This wretched cultivation of hy | ric self-consciousness, this hypere affection of deep emotion, has |made its way not only into artistic | circles, but into the realms of music, literature and religion. It sets silly folks into imaginary cestacies over pic- tures that are simply hideous; over poems that are worse thamthe pic- tures; over music of the modern ro- mantic school that is an utter confu- sion of sounds, that makes it impossi- ble to say whether the fiddles are saw- ing off right or wrong notes; and over sermons and ceremonies that are inexcusable and abominable trash. The Misses Prigsby clasp their knees while a ‘'song without words" is 1imply played, and say ‘‘they never listen to Mendellsohn.” But why not! “*Because he has no false notes(” You can detect a false note in the | playing of the music of Mozart as | readily as a finger-print on burnished silver, but, in one of the ‘“‘romantic” | symphonies of the “‘intense” school, & madman might be fiddling away meanwhile, and nobody would suspect that it was not ‘‘consummate.” —_— Tall Trees, allest trees in the world are in A fallen tree in Gippsland | 5 feet from the | the highest point of the br: | Another, standing in the Dundenong is estimated to 1 | | The A Victoria, —_— | Going for Badean. | Cincinnati Gazette. Now that Adam Badeau has finished his life and campaigns of Gen. Grant he should return to the war depart- | ment the papers he took for use in | that work. There is a belief that he had rather a free and loose run of the department for his purpose. Natur- fally a_suspici attaches to persons | who have been allowed to run loose among the archives when any of them are missing, especially if no object can he seen in it. As an example, the re- port of the proceedings in the court of nquiry on Gen. Buell —that remarka- ble court which was appointed to ac- cuse, but remained to admire—has disappeared from the files of the de- partment.