Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 17, 1894, Page 17

o 008 . L TABLISHED JUNE 19, 1871 THE OMAHA SUNDAY J e OMAHA SUNDAY M \TY PAGES ORNING, JUNE 17, 18M—TWE S[NGLE‘ COPY FIVE NANKING'S ANCIENT RUINS " The Greatest Walled Oity of the World and Its Wonders, ' STORY OF CHINA'S GREAT BEGGAR KING The Famed Porcelain Tower—A Visit to the Ming Tombs—Deseription of Famous Ruins of History—Four Thou- sand Walled Cities, (Copyrighted 1894 by Frank G, NANKING, China, June 1.—(Special Cor- respondence of The Bee)—Nanking is the biggest walled city of the world, and it is one of the most wonderful cities of history. 1t was more than 600 years old when Christ was a baby, and its municipal bair was gray with the age of twelve hundred odd years when Mohammed fist saw the light of day. The present wall which surrounds it was built about one hundred years before Columbus palled out from Spain to find a passage to trade with its people, and it has several times been the capital of the great Chinese empire. It lfes in the interior not far from the Yangste Kiang river, about two hundred miles away from the sea coast, and the ‘wviceroy, who now makes It his capital, has more power than President Cleveland, and hq governs nearly twice as many people as there are in the whole United States. He has under him cities of vast extent, the names of which are unknown to the average American, and his income amounts to mil- Carpenter.) b llons. He spends vast sums In his arsena powder works and naval schools, and he di- rects from this point a macbinery of gov- groment which, though by no means so pure, ‘has as many ramifications and offices as that t our capital at Washington. He has here #ho big examinations which test the learning ©of tens of thousands of Chinese students overy three years, and his people are so noted for their ability and culture that Nan- king has been called the Athens of China. \ How shall I describe 1t? ‘4 These Chinese citles are 80 om anything in America that I almost Qespair of giving a good idea of them. In Ahe first place, Nanking is a walled city. All . Pt the big cities of China are surrounded by V') malls ranging in size from forty to seventy “fect high and so thick that two two-horse agons could be driven side by side upon he paved roads which form their tops and the wheels of the wagons would not touch gach other. Here and there upon the walls @re guard houses and barracks which rise one and two stories above the walls and in hich soldiers are placed to keep a lookout different ver the city and its approaches. , he walls are entered by great tunnel-like gates with arched roofs, and the doors to ghese are of heavy planks and timbers bound with sheets of iron riveted on with bolts, - These are closed during the night, and the man who arrives after. dark has o wait till morning among the beggar huts of the outside. It was late in the after- oon when I found myself with about 100 hinese passengers In the rude ferry boat hich takes the freight from the river teamers to the shore at the landing for Nanking, and 1 narrowly escaped spending a night out of doo I was held for some ‘gime by a big Chinese official because I had ot a pagsport from Peking, and when my servant ‘had gotten our donkeys and had jJoaded up two Chinese coolies with our lug- Bage the sun was low in the horizon and I aw a blind Mohammedan beggar kneeling by the roadside and saying his prayers as it avpnt down. We had yet five miles to go fore reaching the city, but we made the . Bates and got in before dark. During the journey, with the prospect of a lodging in vile Clitnese inn before me, I thought of he possibility of climbing the wall, but as I came closer to it I realized the futility of uch an attempt. It would be almost as 5y to erawl up the sides of the Washing- on’ monument. The walls rose straight Wipward from a wide moat to the height of eight-story house, and the only broken Spaces were the cuts formed by their cre- ollated tops. Had one of the soldiers on uard thrown me down a rope ladder I would have feared to risk tne climb, and as ¥ examined it I wondered at the expense of ts building. We often hear of the vast Bums spent upon the great Chinese wall. It gvas about 1,500 miles long, and it s larger than that about Nanking. These city walls of China have eaten un a vast deal more oney. There are in the empire more than ,000 walled cities, and every place I have topped In during my tour up the Yangtse has these massive battlements about it. Mhey are made just the same as this wall of Nanking. | EXTENT AND COST. { The materinls used are stone and large burnt bricks of a bluish gray color. These ricks are each about fifteen inches long, five nches wide and three inches thick. They are put together in a solid masonry in the shape of twe walls running parallel with cach other and the space between them ls filled An with earth and stones. This Is stamped @own and upon its top a paved roadway Is made, upon which the guards walk and upon hich in many places are old cannon, and Dear them piles of stones ready to be thrown Town upon the enemy. The length of these ‘e gvalls is much greater than Is necessary to nclose the cities. I have seen none less than ten miles 'long, and this wall of Nan- King Is thirty-two miles in length. The city of Nanking, which is bigger than St. Louls ocquplies only a small part of the inclosur nd the wall runs up and down over a roll- Ing country, taking In small farms and mar- ket gardens, many of which stand upon the Blte of the greater Nanking of the past. Tho Einu\m‘n across the Inclosure from one wall 0 the other is more than eight miles, and uring any other time than an exposition or eonvention period you could crowd all the eople of Chicago inside these walls and ave room to spare. 4 milo of such wall must cost considerablyhore than a mille of allroad, and in these 4,000 walled citics It s safe to say there is yomething like 26,000 ‘miles of fortifications, or enough to have S~coverad China with railroads. Mauy of thexo walls aroe poorly Kept, but It a big city should spring up In China today It would Bave a wull buflt about it, and this Nanking wall was thoroughly repaired thres years ngo. It cost the viceroy $260,000 to pateh it up, and you soe-the fresh worlar of today Funning in and out of the gray lines of 500 Yeurs ago. The moat outside the wall s fully us In- feresting as the wall ftsolf. This runs mbout the entire structure, save at the end avher® it cuts into tho mountain, and at the opposite side of the city from the gate at which I entored it expands tnto a very pretty lake. The earth usod for the Riling of tho walla 1s generally taken from the moat, and the excavation Is »o great that the Nanking moat ranges from seventy to Is connected river, and it to the city ol miles from o hundred foet In width, Tt by a canal with the Yangste forms tho highway from it ‘Although it 15 about two hu ho sea, It ts affocted hy ihe fide, and only all boats cau sail through it Thoss briug, howevel gers and frolaht, nal tho Moat swapmg with craft, which sail about it from one gate of (he ety to tha othior, cffering their warea fur sale. There ero hucl upon it, and fuel poddiern push or senll grgat rafis of recds @hout threugh it, solling ud much a3 eno man ry for about 20 cents. The mioat i o1 by bridges at the gates, which, Lke tunnels, enter the wall, aud some of thess bridges roxiind you of (hs noted bridges of Jtaly. There Is at the eouth gate which iz walled with stores like the Ponto Viechio acrozs the Arno at Florence, or, rather, moro ko the Rialto In Venlco. Somo of (he canals mun into the eity, and the wmoat and canals In taauy ways vemind you of the famed water eity on the Adrlatic, It is to we & far more interesting city tham Veulce, and the wonders of the ruins are greater than those of old Rome. THE OLD AND THE NEW. The Nanking of today is built upon the foundation of the Nanking of the past, and outside of the present city there Is a vast area which was once covered with bufldings, The Tartar city where emperors lived has dwindled Into dust, and the marble and golden-tiled palaces of the past have been supplanted by the farms and gardens of the present. Fifteen generations ago there was here one of the most progressive monarchs of history. Nanking was then the center ot Asfatic trade and culture. Foreigners from all parts came here to study, and the Per- sians and Arabians crowded each other upon these streets. Today you see Jewlsh types among the faces you meet, and the city has a large population of Mohammedans, ~ Many of these are the descendants of the strangers who came here in the days of the famed Chinese ruler, Chu Hung Wo. This man started life as a beggar, but he organized a rebel- lon, which enabled him to conquer China and’ to establish his descendants on the throne. He was the founder of the Ming dynasty, the one which ruled China before the family of the present emperor came into power, and under which were accom- plished the greatest things that the Chinese have ever done in architecture and public improvements. It was this man who built the wall about Nanking and estab- lished the capital here. The dragon, you know, is the imperial antmal of China You see it on every Chinese flag, and it Is supposed to bring luck or the reverse to every ruler. According to them, a dragon can do anything. It can make itself as bIg as an elephant, or as small as a gnat. It can build up empires and throw down Kings, and when there was an eclipse of the moon here, about a month ago, 1 saw it soberly announced in the Peking Gazette that the people should turn out and make a great nofse on the night of the eclipse, as it was said that the dragon would then try to swallow the moon, and he should be ecared away. Well, the country here at Nanking is shaped just like a great dragon, and the emperor said: “If T can build my capital on the dragon’s back it will last forever.”” The result was that he moved to Nanking and made It for a time the greatest city of China. He planned to build a wall outside of the present one, which should be ninety miles long, but he got no further than the first pillars of this before he died. THE PORCELAIN TOWER. It was this man’s son who built the famed porcelain tower of Nanking, putting it up in honor of his wife. This tower cost more than three millions of dollars; it was built of the finest of glazed porcelain slabs, and it blazed out under the sun of the Valley of the Yangtse Kiang, rising to a Jelght nearly half that of the Washington monument. It was octagonal in form, with u base about half the size of that of the monument, and this base rested on a foun- dation of brickwork ten feet high. It had nine stories, and a spiral, staircase within the tower led the visitor to the summit. The top of it was a great basin of iron, and the colors of its brick were green, red, yel- low and white. At every one of the nine stories a roof of green tiles jutted out, and {o the corners of these roofs were hung bells which tinkled when swayed by the wind. It took nineteen years to build this tower, and it was kept in good condition till about forty odd years ago, when another beggar got up a rebellion and to-k Nanking. —He }ad the idea that the tower was hurting his luck, and had it blown up. Its every brick has since disappeared, and when I visited its site yesterday the only vestige of it re- maining was the great iron basin-like dome which crowned the top. This has been placed upon a foundation of marble. It is a hollow mass of iron big enough to cover the top of the largest haystack ¥ou have ever seen. It would make a bath tub for an ele- phant. And it would today be called a fine Specimen of artistic casting. When it coy- ered the tower it was plated with gold, and could be seen for miles up and down the Yangtse valley. It must weigh several tons, and how the Chinese with their rude modes of labor were able to poise it on the Lop of | the tower, 261 feet above the earth, is a | marvel. 1t lies today in front of the vice- roy's arsenal, where the finest of modern uns are being turned out for the Chinese troops, and the steam whistle which calls the men to work in the morning makes its hoary particles vibrate, and It wonders, T doubt not, with the ghosts of its builders, who are supposed to hang about it, what sort of devils are working at their maglc within. | Other wonders of anclent Chinese art and engineering you see seattered throughout the ruins of the Tartar city, where the monarchs | held their court. There are wide streets mado of great flags of granite as big as the top of a dining table, worn by the feet of generations into the smooth polish of marble. There are five large bridges of heavy stone put together in beautiful arches without a keystone, and the fences which line this highway are made up of stones mixed with broken tile of the imperial yellow glaze and pieces of dragon discs of the green and red porcelain which once adorned the palace of the city, and of the shattered marble which formed the artistic walls of the past. The walls of the Tartar city which separated it*from the common herd still stand in pic- turesque rufn, grass grown and crumbling, and beside a pillar of what was once in all probability the palace of a prince I saw lying the plastered coffin of a coolie whose pov- erty prevented his putting a mound above it. Close by it in the fields worked other blue gowned men Qigging in the soil once sacred to royalty alone, and my boy led me into a tumble down palace and showed me two marble stones streaked with reddish velns, “These,” sald he, “were a part of the floor of the emperor's palace. One of his nobles had abused his confidence by say- ing that which ho should not, and he strajghtway had his tongue cut’ out and there. The blood from his dropped upon the white marble and stained it as you see," TOMB OF THE BEGGAR KIN I took donkeys and rode out Into the coun- try to sce the tomb of this famous beggar King. He was buried under Purple moun- tain, about five miles away from here, and his mausoleum must have been one of the most magnificent ever made by man L comprised In its burial lot an avenue th the country overlooking lifs city more than a wile In length, and this avenue was lnod with gigantic elephants, camels, lions and tigers of marble, .which stll stand in solemn grandeur facing each other in the open flelds. There are In addition to thes giant warriors carved artistically from solid blocks of marble, and each of these warriors is, T Judge, twelve feet in height. 1 stood beside one and reached My finger nails just touched the elbow the stone warrior's folded aris. ‘The phants are as blg as was Barnum's Jun and they are cut from rolid blocks of m: Thelr broad backs are covered with bushels of stones, and the peoplo have a superstition that the man who can throw a stone and have it remain there will have luck from that time forth. At the beginning of this avenue there is a great tower, with four arched gate- 1 ways, and iIn the center of the interior of this sits a turtle of black marble. It Is o large that it would fill the ayerage Americau par upward | lor, and it is made from o single block of 'stone. It Is the Chineso embleri of longeyity, and from its back spriiws a marblo tablet twelve or Aftcon feei th height, upon which are inseribod the Chines characters commemorating the wrouliess s tho empersr who lles buried at the ather end of the funeral highway. 1 dil not count theso immense animals and war- riors, but they stand short intervals along the avenue leading to the tomb in- { closure. - They must each weigh many tons, { and must have been brought from far in the interior to Nanking. = Some of the carv- ing upon them is beautifully done, and the figures of the elephauts and men well executed ng of thg. stono horses has beon thrown @fer, and® it lMer halt suik ) others are some- of them aro The figures but the most in a diteh. what broken, then | mouth | tunnel is so high and wide that a train of passenger cars could be run through it without touching the walls, and these walls are of stone, with a dado of marble artis- tically carved. There was, I judge, origi- nally a temple on the top of this fort-like mausoleum; the four thick walls of some such buildings still stand, making you think of the grass-grown, moss-covered ruins of Europe. 1 ate my lunch within them, sit- ting on a stone, with my feet among the blue wild flowers which were springing out of the crevices between the stones of the grass-grown floor. As I did o I could look out through one of the great arched doorways upon the thousands of grave mounds of the Nanking of today, and the cries of a poorly clad woman who sat and wailed at one of them floated up to my ears. It was the mourning of the present amid the grandest tombs of the past, and I again realized that of all things death alone is the king who rules from age to age, and who, with his mighty hand, makes all men of one size. RS CONNUBIALITIES. June brides are as plentiful as June roses. The engagement of Lord Bdwin Houston of England and Mrs, Ada L. Conner of New York is announced. No young wife is ever satisfied with her husband until she tries the stovewood racket on him to ee whether he loves her. Ex-Governor Alonzo B. Cornell of New York, was married last week to a daughter of the late George Covert of Ithaca. She—Really, now, aren’t you a married man? He—No. Why? She—Oh, you have such a settled look. He—Yes; I've been re- fused by thirteen girls . The wedd ng of Miss Ella Windom, daugh- ter of the lale secretary of the treasur: and Mr. Wirt Warren ook place In N York on the 6th. A son of the late Presi- dent Garfleld acted as best man. Father—Yes, 1 admit that your lover has a geod Income, but he has very expensive tastes, very. Daughter—You amaze me. What does he ever want that Is so very ex- pensive? Father—Well, you, for one thing. Miss Hope Goddard, daughter of Colonel willlam Goddard, the wealthy mill owner of Providence and heiress to more than $20,000,000, was wedded on the 9th to C. Oliver Tselin of New York, a son of the late milllonaire banker, Adrian lselin, and prom- inent in society and yachting circles in the metropolis. He had proposed, but she seemed some- what reluctant to gild his life with the sun- shine of her consent. “If you should hear that I'm half the time before my mirror, what would you say?’ she asked. “If 1 had a face like yours I should be tempted to be thero the whole time,” he answered. That settled it. The most moted marriage seen fn Nash- ville in many days was that which, on the Sth, united William Henry Thompson of Liv- erpool and Katherine Smiley Cheatham of that city. The bride is a daughter of the late Richard Cheatham. once mayor of Nash- ville, and is a descendant on both her fath- er's and mother’s side of some of the oldest families in Tennessee. Mr:. Marle Lemon has married her ldst husband, and in her case the thirteen has proved unlucky. One of the most remark- able matrimonial careers un record started in Cinc'nnati nearly half a century ago, and ended a few days since In California by the death of the woman whose penchant seemed fo be making a collection of husbands. It she did not reach the success in numbers which Is attained by other gatherers of curiosities, she certainly did well in her own peculiar Ine. The marriage of Mrs. Emma H. Ruther- ford and George Crocker on the ‘4th at- tracted a large number of Californians to New York. The bride fs a Nevadan by birth and a most attractive woman of the blonde type. The bridal gown was of the faintest shade of Nile green, with moire antique shading to the pale pink skirt. The plain corsage was trimmed with pointed capes of pont lace, with full oversleeves and a long panel of the same lace caught in at the waist line in front and hanging therefrom to, the lower edge of ‘the skirt, where It was fastened with a huge roette of pale pink chiffon. The bridegroom is a member of the famous Crocker family of San Francisco. PRATTLE OF THE YOUNGSTERS. An amusing story is given in the Ladies’ Pictorfal of a little girl who had been very naughty, so that the aunt whom 'she was visiting had to punish her. When she came to say her prayers at night her little mind was still full of wrath against her aunt, but yet the child did not quite like to leave her name out of her even- iug devotions, so she compromised matters by saying, ‘‘Pray, God, bless father and mother;” then, after a_ long pause, she added, “and bless Aunt Julia, too, but not | much. 3 It is perhaps natural that little children should expect their small supplications to be answered literally. ~We can sympathize with the small boy over his sums, who said to his governess in a puzzled, half indignant voice “I can't do my sums; I can’t; and I did ask God to help me, and He's made three mistakes already.” A young man, just home from collegs, wishing to inspire his little sister with awe for his learning, pointed to a star and sald: “Do you see that bright little luminary? It's bigger than this whole world No 'tain't,” sald she. “Yes, it is,” declared the ‘young collegian. 'hen why don't it keep off the rain?" was the triumphant rejoinder. A little fellow of 5 years fell and cut his upper lip so badly that a doctor had to be summoned to sew up the wound. In her distress the mother could not refraln frum saying: “Oh, doetor, 1 fear it wilt leave a dlsfigur ing scar. Tommy looked up into her tearful face and ald: “Never mind, will cover it.” Mr. Fu questioned | curiously, “can your bref tall?" |~ “Why, no. my little man, why do you ask | such a question?” "Cause 1 heard ma say sary for anybody to tell he | your bref spoke for itsclf.” mamma, my moustache the litle by, it wasn't neces- you drank; that Mrs. Flagg—Tommy, If you don't be a better boy you will never get to heaven. Tonimy—-And It I be real good and go there, will T have to keep on being good after 1 get there? Boy (from teat)—Hey, fellera! run homs and get de money to come in, even If yer iave to steal it! Tt's im-mense. Do standin’' on Lis head an’ de baby sckin' a pink o' popeorn into 't yer wisht yer wuz me? COMMENCEMENT. Memphis Commetelal, White waves of tulle and souls as white, And ty wreaths of floatiig luces, Aivl tender blooms of flowerlike che of tlowerlike faces, Ights and | Aspasinu wisdom tald in speech hat bicaks trom searlot threads of smil- e Deep dore hey reach Jetwean. the e souls beguiling; Philosophic nes, And Cicero hissing, From | waknt Ax ¥ o » | Ana 1oty prophecies of deeds { TOf woiaw's frecd roul's high begetting, And Inward know that the needs Of | nre DIpa couguetting. High hopes that otrike the Lukniig stirs, Ambition that shall mever falter, Until_ns ending of Hie's wars Palias surrenders at the witar, & A aves of tulle and gleams of light, And cliuging wreaths of mist 08, as perfect todny @s when they wero first erectod four or fiye hundred years ago 'he tomb, however, 18 in rulos. It covered weveral acres, aud at Its end there are the remains of & gre of solid mazonry, pierced in_ the a tunnel walled with marble, which runs from the ground upward at an angle of 4) degrees, Thls 1 And dreums and hopes that live tonight, And gentle hearts and flowerlike faces My prayer fur you and all shall be, Thit cvery angel within hearing May keep yYou what you seem to me, In spite of Wl my oynic sueering. time she realized that the mere touch of her friend’s hand was enough to banish all pain, and from then on improved rapidly in health, and within a month had more than regained her normal strength. One of the conditions exacted before this Interview was granted, was that this man's ONE OF NATURE'S VAGARIES Fxtraordinary Faculties Developing in a Michigan Girk. \dentity should not bo revealed. This is regrettable, as he would prove an important = | aid In evolving new facts in psyshic science, A PSYCHIC WONDER W\ HER TEENS | because. judging from the hundreds of well ' authenticated reports of experiments and oc- - = currences fn France, England, Germany and this country, 1 can remeber none where the dominant force was so quick, absolute, and 80 completely in harmony (en rapport) with 8o perfect and submissive a_subject. The bond between this man and Elfa i unques tionably hypnosis, but of a higher and differ- ent order than any I have so far met with or of which I have any knowledge through other chapnels. He put Elfa in the som- niscient state by a mere look and light touch, and what she is capable of accomplishing in that condition s not far short of the miracu- lous. In the course of the first week she de- veloped clairvoyant and clafraudient powers that are astonishing, and day after day her extraordinary faculties are increasing and developing new phases, When. atmospheric and physical conditions are’ favorable she is able to describe objects that are at any distance—in other cities, on persons or in fixed positions, She has deciphered writing in unopened letters that were in houses a mile away, but more than that, she reads thoughts and impressions in the minds of people whom she has never seen, and who Distant Objects Accurately’ Deseribed and Thoughts of Persons jo Her Unknown Read—Occalt Powels Wttle short of the Marveldas. Within an hour's ride of! Detroit, on the banks of the pretty Clinton fiver, lles Mount Clemens, one of the handsomest little cities in America. The fame of /Mount Clemens waters has spread far andjwide, and well known people from all pants of this country can be met at the baths, and numerous well- appointed hostelries during all seasons of the year. Mount Clemens has never been af- flicted with a boom—it needed no artificial stimulus to advance, and during the worst of the recent panicky times there has been no evidence of any depression among the mer- chants, nor of hardships or poverty among those who are compelled to labor for others. I e A (o v are far away. She appears 1o ” There are many noteworthy features In | [, ‘through a record of thoughts in an- and about Mount Clemens, but the object | oper'y mind as it she were turning back that will interest the public more particu- | {ne leaves of @ olearly printed book. She is developing a perfect mania for the study of the human braln and mind, and the nervous system and magnetic forces which are plainly visible to her. Without any speclal knowl- edge of anatomy she gives a graphic and comprehensive description of any part of the human system, and states with a most convincing air of confidence what parts are in good order and which are not. She de scribes the course of vaccine virus or other foreign substances through the circulatory system, tells where it entered the body and how far it has progressed. Her descriptions of the formation, action and condition of a Jiving brain, its throbbing, the latent and dominant characteristics, determining the di- Tection of its greatest usefulness, etc., are beyond the power of mortal conception, and Nowever at varlance with all former knowl- edge of the supposed limit of the mind and Sonses, there is such a convincing air of genuineness and absolute innocence and truthfulness about this girl, and so clear, calm and positive are her statements, that a rising doubt appears only to come as a barrier to a new knowledge, and no one loses thereby except the one who stops short in the face of an opportunity to emerge from the condition of universal ignorance. Elfa converses freely while in the som- niscient state, and gives ready answers o Qquestions upon subjects of which it would Be hard to believe that a young girl, still al- most a child, could have any knowledge. When asked to give some explanation as to the source of_her information she repiled, “They tell me.” Lately she has frequently complained that “they” will mot help her Thuch, “they" giving her as a reason that she must exercise her faculties independently in order to develop quickly. The “they” re- ferred to are voices that are audible to her, and she has impressions that give proper di- Tections in regard to things and localities, and similar impressions again enable her to Get the true meaning of words and signs in foreign tongues of which she knew absolutely nothing in her normal condition. She writes communications that are given her by in- visible friends, and these are full of wisdom and ‘the highest sentiment, She writes fast and plain with, her, eyes olosed, and bandaged larly at this time is a young and most charm- ing little lady who is rapidly developing very extraordinary occult powers, While in Detroit I had the good fortune, writes a correspondent of the Globe-Demo- crat, to run across an old friend who had left his crutches at the famous Michigan bath- town, and who was passing through Detroit on his way back to his far distant western home. Our meeting was limited to less than ten minutes, because the carriage which was to take him to the depot was already at the hotel entrance. After a no less hearty than brief salutation, he said with .an iinpressive emphasis: “If you want to be put on the track of a wonder that will prove a hard nut for sci- entigts to ecrack, run up to Mount Clemens and hunt for Elfa.” Taking a card from his case, he wrote thereon a brief introduction to one of the most prominent men in the charming sub- urban city named, who had afforded him the opportunity to witness something so ex- traordinary that he evidently could not think of anything eise, and, unlike other individ- uals, ~ould not be induced to speak of his re- markable transformation from a groaning cripple into a sound and cheertul man. He exacted a promise from me that I would hunt up this wonder; his last words were: *“‘Don’t forget the Mount Clemens fairy,” and he was gone, I then—for the first time—looked at the card and read: “Mr. E. R. Egnew—Dear Friend: I ask, as a special favor, that you arrange to afford the/bearer an opportuty: o converse with Blfa."" I put the card in my pocket and went to my room to finish a report that must go in the morning mail. I began to write, but found it difficult to concentrate my mind— somehow the name of “Eifa” would appear on my manugcript, written without my will. I erased it three times, and then concluded to give up a hopeless struggle and go to bed, When I awoke, that name Elfa flashed through my head the first thing, and an irre- sistible impulse determined.me to make as carly as start for Mount Clemens as train service would permit. It was still early in the day wiien I presonted my friend's requests| f.any doubt is cnferlained, her face averted, to Mr. Egnéw, who 1ooked somewhat puzzled, | and her tablets on her lap, While she is ex- If not annoyed, when he read It, but after a | tended at full length on a couch in & posi- moment’s hesitation he said, with a reassur- | tion in which it would be impossible for any ing smile that had a decidedly warming ef- [ one to write with eyes open. fect, ‘I would do almost anything for She sees nothing when objects are pr but this s more difcult: than he can Im. | sented to her eyes, and hears no sound ad- agine.” I then learneg that those In charge | dressed to her ears and recognizes -no voice of the young lady were much opposed to any | except that of the man who puts her in the and all notoriéty: the more as the very pecu. | somnisclent state. "All her perceptive facul- liar faculties developed in her were of so ex | tles appear to be centered In (e pit of tha traordinary a character that mo conclusion | stomach, and they are wonderfully acute. could be arrived at as yet what this strange [ Men who profess to know much about hypno- power might signify. 1 soon learned enough | tism claim that Elfa is simply a very e¥ec fo stimulate my curlosity to the utmost, feel- | lent subject, and that she Is developed by a ing that T would discoven a rara avis of no | master who has reached the highest phasos mean order. of psychic science in that direction, but the T will omit a detailing of difficulties that | spiritists are sure to claim ler as the very had to be overcome before permission could | revelation for their doctrine, bacause cf the bo obtained to meet Elfa In such a way | invisible beings who seem to be at her beck that ‘my story would have eithcftany | and cail at all moments and in all places. sclentific_or decided. interest for the ordi- | ‘That Eifa is one of the greatest vagarles hary reader, or both. It will be sufficient | of nature ever heard of cannot be refuted— to say that I considered fnyself amply re- | and that she would prove the very best pos- warded for my patience and perscrverence | sible medium to settle many of the numer- when I finally did succeed’n obtaining the | ous conflicting theories in regard to psychic coveted privilego of an wnrestricted inter- | Possibilities cannot be gainsaid either. view. ! An effort is now being made to secure the I will preface the account of my in- | little lady for a series of progressive experi- quiries and cbservations by stating that I | mental tests, and it {8 hoped that the en- am not an impressionable novice in the line | deavor will be crowned with success. of phychic researches, and tnat I have read | Aside from the unquestionable scientific many of the latest and be:t treatises, com- | Yalue of the proposed investigations which ments and contributions on the various sub- | can_and will be made during the progress jects that will have to bo touched upon in | Of Elfa's rapid development, this line of this report. I know that this charming | Work will prove of the greatest possible in- girl 1s destined to help solve at least some | terest to those whose minds are open to of the most vexing and dificult problems | bigher spiritual possibilities. The projection that are now under discussion among the | Of the spiritual self from the material body wisest and most useful workers in the world | to- some distant point seems to be already of sclence; the men who have had the | @ fairly well substantiated fact in the case of Gouragoe to' free themselves from the thral- | this remarkable girl, and if I am not seri- drom st bogotry and prejudice, and who are | ously at fauit in my surmises, the question ready and willing to leave tne beaten track | Of relationship between hypnotism and spirit- ism will be brought nearer a satisfactory so- at any point where thore is a fair prospect of obtaining light that will benefit man- | lution through Elfa than any ever reached kind, 1 deem it necessary to say this much | before. -~ to give more welght give m ght to such: opinions as I e may be forced to include to make this re- port moro useful to the many who arc now everywhere looking forward eagerly to re- tiable information on all the lines including and_diverging from phychic study. Elfa_is but little more than half way through her teens, and those in whom poetic thought and-fairy lore have not been entirely extinguished too practical contact with That a quick-witted sense of the ludicrous may often lead its possessor out of difficul- ties was evidenced not long ago in the case of a certain George D—, at Oxford. D—— was one of the brightest men of his class, relates Harper's Drawer, but unfortunately his intellectual Dr. Jekyll bore. dally com- pany with a mischief-loving Hyde, whose diabolical tendencies frequently got him into disgrace. Was there trouble with the towns- men the night before, it was D— who was first questioned by the dean. Was there some unique bit of deviltry played on a first- by tho world may recall some ideal picture of the sylphlike creature, with all the charms of face and form belonging thereto, and ac- cept the vision as that of the little lady in question, She is modest and retiring, ex- ceptionally bright, has had a superior edu- cation. and I8 an accomplished musician, Although fully aware that he 1s most | "Ity Eve of susplcion was turned, He was, as usval, “on the ragged cdge of susplcion,” when one Sunday morning. at churel time, in his third year, he was de- scried by the dean sitting at the open window decidedly different from all the rest of the little wirld surrounding her. and that she Is subject to awe-lnspiring fnfluences un- recognized by others, she I8 poverthele X ey yaterat and sree ghayeriheless | of his quadrangle room in his shirt slcoves, Straint o sumber homgnte sin the sab. | calmly sinoking a long Duteh pipe and drink- Joct; on the. contrary. Hher faes lights up | N8 beer. © The dean was on his way to church and the cool public irreverence of the shocked him. The next morning he D—— to his study. “your irreverence is ou mean by this with an exprossion thatidenotes the atmost | faith and pleasure whem he speaks of her | 27 experiences In the realm whereof the aver- | Summoned age mortal has not even o lveamtike con- o', 8810 'ha dedn, ception, and that which to hef Is o reality Yoot do disgzaceful. 3 The first oddity about hemselt of wiicy | Public disrespect of the Lord's day she became aware wag (hat birds appear “I was not aware thut drinking beer and 0 have no fear of her Wl st Is absolutely | #MOKIDE A pipe was—sg wicked,” sald e SISTYIRD faame, ubundod Ry aies thandared Tha i to her for help and protestion, and when r t5, sir," thundered the dean; “ard stored to health remalnel near fier during | I 8YEr See you in your shirt sleeves drinking the Test of the swmmer, always ready ty | beer and snoking a pipe again on Sunday, i on hor LRl whew ontstrotched | your counection with the university coases.’” that purpose. She Wlaick, thal aside from | D=== bowed his head respectfully ~a some thoughts and lmpressions of which she | Went out. The following Sunday the de mado no inention to- ufhiers, bacauso siie never | fook partisuiar, palia o Bochairifie 18\e for heerd any similar \leaw or fcelings talked | ¢ Nl to pass by young D——'s win- of, she romarked na especial Qifforence Qow. What was his aniazement to discoy lerself excopt, perliaps, @ Ligh degreo thas worthy lolling on his window cou sensitiveness--and. a feeling \hich can | moking and drinking! o was furious, bo Itkened o an untulfiliel wikh for an wn. | SUch impudent deflance of his orders! Ho fsnown ebject, ' When ating s she | \:‘\.Iul\. expel lit the v.v”hnvl: l':.;n-‘ hu‘&”:“‘l-v‘vi has always be Nanidy ant decidedly at- | approched ucarer his anger ohange tracted or opelled, bt peyer becamo; wware | Wonderuent, and then, ns ho quickly walked that auy one coull cxeeelsc any ekpoctal | bY. hia sense of humar brought a smile to power or Influence dver ker until ¢ s fa The leiter of the law had been cently, -when she nist) o pmei Loy | obe Young | witk faultlessly ar she folt drawn by at uieantrdlabl | \ his dress st ehampa ml imipuive. Her frivaidy glaitn thix meoting | and smoking a cigar! to have heen a p ontak one, but - Elfa inalsts upon it that i 7. Hammond Trumbu gether was ordercd by a g librariun of the Hartf but fo#® others have aa: | s universally all event It appewrs that this o | attaton was momentous to hor. Ie at once [ rubjecta sight became her Intini nd | bias a vast und she a amost eager pupit. When first | tion and y LA wih u(n-y Ium »L.-‘ was safferiag from the oTect | variety of topic of & long everc illuess, and subject to | Two clergymen of the New York Presby- many pains and physical, as well as conse | tory ot long 8go. beeaige luvolved in the Quent mental disturbances. In & very ucrtj old-time theological controversy cn the ques- | tween bia teet tion of infant salvation or damnation. One of them, finding that his antagonist was Iikely to get the better of the argument, re- slized the neceselty of fortifying himself with he best avaflable information bearing upon his own side of the discussion, He there- fore telegraphed the following request to Mr Trumbull, which was promptly honored, to the subsequent discomfiture of his theological opponent “Please mall mo at once the contents of that damned infant pigeonhole of yours. ——— e EDUCATION AL, Commencement week at Yale begins on the 24th. Commencement exercises began at Cornell yesterday, and will contjnue through the present week. Willard Fiske, scholar and linguiit, has presented to the Cornell university ilibrary one of the most complete Dante collections in the world. The University of Pennsylvania demon- strated its strength as an edueational insti- tution by adding to its long list of graduates from the college course 207 graduates in medicine, sixty-five in dental gurgery and twenty-two in veterinary medicine. The system of term examinations in the law school at Cornell has been modified. The written examinations are to be held at the end of each term as before, but the oral examinations will occur only once a year. The junior class will have oral examina- tions ‘at the end of the fall term, while the senfor class will be examined orally at the end of the year, and then on the entire work of the course, The big statue of which was presented by the World's fair commission to the University of Pennsyl- vania has been set up on tha college cam- pus. Deside the statue a speakers' plat- form has been arranged, from which, on Wednesday next, at the grand gathering of the alumni, Russell Duane, & great-grand- son of Franklin, will deliver the presenta- tion oration at the unvelling of the statue. The secretary of the University of the State of New York in his annual report, ad- vance sheets from which have just been fs- sued, gives a table showing from what states and counties New York draws students to her colleges and special schools, Out of a total of 21,805 students, 18,246 come from New York. From the North Atlantic states come 2,625; from the South Atlantic, from thie South Central, 302; from the North Central, 1,134; from the mountain states, 163; from the Pacific states, 149, and from all foreign countries, 731. By schoals, medicine leads, - with 2,012 students outside of New York, and co-educational colleges draw 1,057 students to the state. The most important function of the mod- ern university is to create and advance learning. Individual investigation and re- search by graduate students Is the method of increasing the sum total of human knowl- edge. For the encouragement of graduate study most of the universities have estab- lished fellowships and graduate scholarships. Cornell was one of’ the earliest of our uni- versities to see the wisdom of thus encour- aging advanced specialization, and has al- ways had more fellowships than other in- stitutions. At present it has twenty fellow- ships, affording an annual stipend of $500 each, two of $600 each, and sixteen graduate scholarships of $300 cach. The fellows and scholars for 1894-5 were chosen last week. Of the total number, thirty-sight, Cornell graduates obtained nine. The annual report of the superintendent of public instruction of Illinols shows the cost of high school tuftion and incidental expenses, per pupil,. ranges from $11 to $125.20, the average being $88.25. “This is a rather surprising showing,” says the Chi- cago Herald, “and while {t’ does ‘not consti- tute an argument against the maintenance of high schools it certainly shows that they are expensive luxurles, It does not follow that the abolition of high echools would re- Benjamin Franklin sult in corresponding advantages to the primary and grammer ~ grades, but there = would certainly ~ be more money available for the lower schools, and money after all is what keeps educational Institutione going. It is pretty certain, too, that unless the sitnation in the primary schools is radically improved there will be a popular disposition to lay violent hands on the high schools and divert the money thus obtained to the Instruction of children in the three R's rather than in Latin, Greek and the ornamental branches.” The census bulletin dealing with &chool expenditures, state and local, shows that out of $139,000,000 spent for public ichcols in the United States the slave states contributed but $17,000,000, or less than one-efghth. Al abama pays only 87 cents per head of popu- lation, the lowest in the union, and Arkan- sas, Texas, Louisiana and Tennessce, in 1880, 50 cents per head or lesn All those seven states average 94 cents per inhabitant for education, equal to less than the 2 cents de- posited each Sunday in the preacher’s col- lection. South Carolina pays 41 cents per inhabitant, and from Delaware to Florida, in nine Atlantic states, the school tax per census inhabitant is only made 98 cent: by the District of Columbia paying nearly §4 per head, more than double the rate of Maryland and Delaware. On one side of Washington the state of Virginia sacrifices for education 95 cents, and on the other side Pennsylvania spends $2.44 per head. The rate devoted to education from Maine to Mason and Dixon's line is $2.74 per head, but the young western states and territories eleven In number, piy even more, or $3.35, while the twelve clder western states pay $2.51. Bducation costs, per enrolled pupil, in Arkansas less than $5, in Alabama less than $2, In no southern state but West Vir- ginia more than $5. But the average per scholar enrolled in the cast is $11, in the we:t $13, in the far west §20. One scholar in Colorado costs us much as twelve actual scholars in North Carolina. Al A LITTLE HOUSEMAID, Good Hou pted—a little housemaid Just to help mamma today; Hair tucked neatly in a braid, Aproned, capped and smiling’ gay— Here she comes as prompt and neat As a household fairy sweet! pIng. Chairs in every round and chink Shall be dusted perfectly; Hearth swept clean, before you think Baby's scattered toys will ‘be Quickly put away in place 1y this fairy household grace. Then she lias her wages paid Promptly ry penny, too— Trust winsome little maid! She gets paid in coln 80 true— Praises, kisses, loving words, Till shé's happy as the birds, B One-N| able Gripmen. “All the gripmen necessarily must be muscular,” said a big cable train driver to the Chicago Tribune, “for the physical ex- ertion 15 great and a weak man could not stand the strain. It's a sort of one-sided trade, though. If a fellow sticks to it long he gets bigger on the right side of his body than on the left, for the pulling and push- hauling and jerking are done mostly with that side. 1 don’t know any man who's been at the work long enough to become roally deformed by it, but I've seen many | gripmen who were plaiuly larger, heavier, nore muscular on the right side, especially in he shoulder, than on the other side. No; U've never seen the phenominal en- argement—the ‘gripman’s arm,' the boys call it—on the left side, for the simple rea- son that the builders of grip cars don't tuke left-handed men into thelr calculations. There are no left-handed grip cars; conse- quently there arc no left-hunded gripmen, “he Lighthouse Dog. owned by Captain Orcutt, keeper of (Me.) light, has become of late It Is customary fer passing steamers to salute the light and the keeper returns it by ringing the bell The other day a tug whistled three times The captaln did not hear it, but the dog did He ran (o the door and tried to attract the sin's attention by howling. alling to do thix, he ran away. and then came a sec- ond tinie with no better result. Then he de- cided to attend to tho matter himself, 8o he the which hangs outside, be nd began to ring the bell. A Qo Wood feland the famous o solzed rope, THE GRAND ARMY OF LAB'R Fight of Local Coopers Against Goods Made by Convicts, DISPOSITION TO ENFORCE AGREEMENTS Attitude of Workingmen Toward the Platte Canal o~ How me of Omaha Are Fighting Agninst Hard pm the Kield of Toll. Sohel There I8 no labor organization in Omaha that has faced more disadvantages than has Coopers Unlon No. 10, but the union seems bound to live despite all the efforts that have been put forth to put an end to its existence. In every legislative year for several years this union has taken a part in the election of members to the legislature with the hope of doing away by legislation with the coms petition of convict mude cooperage, but des spite their efforts this class of goods has so completely been used in filling orders that the local coopers have found very little, to do but heading and trimming, which Is very unsatisfactory to a_workman in the coopers® trade. It is somewhat like putting a harness maker to work repairing shoes. The union started in some time ago to agl- tate the question of using Omaha made cooperage and n this it was aided by the Central Labor unfon. The joint committees were successful in getting several agreements signed to use nothing but Omaha cooperage, but from the facts developed at the last meeting of the Central Labor union it would seem that the union will be compelled to hire a lawyer to enforce the agreements. Several of them -were reported broken. The members do not seem discouraged, however, in the least and say that they will enforce every agreement il #t takes every dollar In their treasury. They promise also to take a prominent part in the legislative campalgn despite the discouragenients met with hereto- fore. the Canal. The action of the Central Labor union at the last meeting In passing a resolution op- posing any subsidy to the canal company has brought out considerable discussion upon that subject in labor circles. The members of the union maintain that they will stand by that decision, as it was made after a long and careful discussion. There are some who do not think the action wise, but they were in the minority at the meeting Wednesday even- The chairman of the committee on legis- ing. lation says that it is the intention of the unions and assemblies to send men to the legislature who will amend the city charter o as to permit the city to vote bonds and construct the canal, and he thinks that it could be bullt as soon in this way as by the private company. He does not think it proper to support the measure as now befors the people and thinks those who. favor th canal should fall in line with the working . people in trying to secure the necessary legistation for public ownership. It Is further argued that If the bonds are voted to pay for constructing the entire works, provisions can be inserted specifying the number of and the price to work should be If the canal - is said these could mot be ses . hours to be worked per day be paid, and also that the done by electors of this state. is built by private parties it provisions much-wanted cured. ping The present hard times_have caused many of the Omaha working people to work their Dbrains as well as their hands in order to be able to make a living for themselves and their families and it may be of some interest to the reading public to know In what way many of Omaha's workers are getting through the depression. In some respeots the business -depression has had a good effect in making men think how they can make a living witlout depending upon some one else for work. A number of the clgar makers who found themselves out of employ= ment have started factories of their own and in this way they employ themselves and it is noticeable that nearly every one Who has started for himself is now doing better than he did while working for some one else. With a few dollars a supply of tobacco s bought and the home is used as the factery and the product of the labor is offercd to the groceryman in exchange for eatables, which. transaction suits the mer- chant better than to pay cash for cigara. Jough is sold for cash to buy more raw wterial and in this way the onc-man face \s kept running, the family has plenty eat and instead of being in despair for to want of work, the owner is encouraged to greuter efforts, It is quite probable that the final result will be that some of these one-man factories will in the future and pos- &ibly in the not very far distant future, de- Velop into large employing establishments that will make their owners rich. In the same way journeymen horzeshoers who found themselves out of work have established shops of their own and in each case get enough work to live upon. Several of the ldle printers have estab- lished job printing offices and others have clubbed together and started a newspaper in order to give themselves work. Unfortunately all of the tradesmen cannot ewploy themselyes. While a number of the painters and paper hangers have estab- lished shops of thelr own and in many cases been benefited thereby, they cannot make work when there is none to be done. “The machine woodworkers in Omaha who found themgelves idle got together and es- tablished a unfon mill on the co-operative plan and are doing excen well. Be- Sides making a Mving for each of the mem- bers of the co-operative company they are enabled to Bank some of their profits. . The mill is now getting the best jobs in the clty and will no doubt In a short time be a large hlishment. he cases mentloned are certainly inter- esting and may be followed In other cities with profit to the workers. Laws In the Interest of Labor. The constitution of the Omaha Central Labor union dircets that the committee on Jegislation shall consider what laws are best to be enncted iu the interest of the laboring people and provides that no measure hall be pushed by the committee until it has re- celved the endorsement of the central body, This part of the constitution was adopted early in the present year and was con- sidercd at the time as the most progressive of the new rules, It is now the fntention of the union, so many of the leaders say, to goon begin work vien the measures that will be pushed at the next winter's session of the state legislature and an effort will be made to have the measurcs asked for en- dorsed by all of the political parties and, further, to secure an Agreement from the candidates to vote for the bills when introduced It s thought now that an amendment to the city charter will be asked that will enablo the city to construct and operate the pro= pesed Platte eanal. The laboring people will also work for an amcndment doing away with the contract system on all puble ! works aud substituting the daily labop ystem as advocated by the Knights of | Labor fn thelr preamble ral other very fmportant matters are to be considered and with the present state of organization in Omaha the working people hope to elect men who will properly represent them and sive them the laws so generally demanded in tabor circles Drops of Sweat. The Chicago Trades and Labor assembly has organized & univn of sate and machinery movers, Two new labor papers have been estab- | iished In Chicago, The Purveyor and The Workman | The State Federation of Labor of Ilinols | has issued a call to all labor organizations | of the state to meet in conference at the | stute capital July 2, 8 and 4 to consider the political program of the American Fede: tion of Labor and other matters of i portance,