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COVER YOUR LEGS. ‘SOET WNOA HHAOD SOET UAOA HAAOD ‘SOET U, SOUT ¥ 'SOAT HA0A HHAOD “SOET HNOA HHAOD “SOET WIOA HIAOD 'SOET HA0A ¥ “SOETT HAOA HHAOD SOE'T HA0A HAAOD @1 H SOAT H Cover \eur Legs For 10 days only, choice of any pants pattern in our house to ord - PLYMOUTH ROCK 408 NORTH 16TH [HE LAND OF GREAT SHAKES An Earthquake for Every Day in the Year and a Few on the Bide. IVEN THE EARTH IS LIVELY IN JAPAN [he Experlence of a Tenderfoot In One— Disastrous to Life and Property— The Actors and Theaters of Jnpan—War Sketches. (Copyrighted, 1895, by Frank G. Carpenter.) I had my first experlence with a Japanese sarthquake. The great earthquake at Tokio sccurred during my visit, and I came within & stone’s throw of being killed in it. I had ong waited to be in an earthquake, just to see how it went, you know. My longing is satisfled, and I laugh at earthquakes no longer, Japan is the land of earthquakes. The country has at least five hundred shocks svery year, and there have been years when ihe shocks have reached as high as 8,000. The most of these shocks are very slight and [ lawghed at the terror which the people showed at the least vibration, and could not anderstand it. This big earthquake, however, opened my eyes. It rulned thousands of houses and killed many people. It was one of the groatest earthquakes that Tokio has ever had. It caused great fires, It cracked the earth, and it came near ruin- ing the American legation. This Is a large frame structure, and is surrounded by a big ~brick wall. In the same compound is the house of the secretary of the legation, Mr. Herod. The earthquake threw over the chimneys. It moved the walls so that they loft their places and bent over as though they would topple. It cracked the plastering all oyer the house, and it sent the china and the bric-a-brac flylng. It was the same in Mr. Herod's house, and in all of the foraign bulldings of the city. I went through the Houses of Parliament. They were filled wigh mortar and debris, and there was a hole through the roof big enough for an elephant to have passed down through without touch- ing the edges of the hole. The great club . house of Tokio had a porte cochere of stone and within this a coachman was sitting with his horses at the time of the shock. The structure went down and the horscs were Kkilled. At the first evidence of the shock the driver tried to whip the horses onward, but they were paralyzed with terror and re. fused to move, At the Imperlal hotel, where I was stopping, the heavy chimneys came flying down through the roof, and one of them fell into the dining room just after it had been vacated. BARTHQUAKE AND THE PALACES, The shocks came at about 2:05 fn the afternoon. I had an appointment with Mr. Tokioka, of his majesty's imperial household department, and I had gone inside the palace grounds, and was in this building at the time, It was an old-fashioned Euro- pean building, built of stone and brick, and badly constructed. Mr. Tokioka and myself were talking togetber on the second floor, and he was giving me the photograph of Donjuro, which he had gotten for me, when walls began to move. The air was thick nd stifling, and 1 could feel the floor rise and fall. At the same time the halls were fllled with hundreds of running clerks and Mr. Tokioka sprang to his feet and said: “It is earthquake. Let us run.” And we ran, We went down two steps at a time, and just got outside when nearly the half of the building went down. Many were injured, and ouo man was killed. Stoues were thrown hundreds of feet away from the building, Outside the shock continued. ‘The ground rose and fell. Men riding iIn jinrikishas were thrown over, and when I called the same atternoon at Count Ito's, who has a large foreign residence not very far from the American legation, 1 found that his house Lad been badly injured, and that his wite was terribly prostrated by it. INHABITANTS DON'I' LIKE THEM. 1 found iu discussing the earthquake that those who had been longest in h"" feared the earthquake the most. man connected with the legation who had been there for many years became as white as chalk when the shock occurred, and some of the older Japanese were prostrated with terror. Those who know what an earthquake 1s appreciate its terrible pos- sibilities, and during the remainder of my stay in Japan I trembled whenever a man walked across a floor over me, thinking that there was going to be another earthquake, and wondering whether I was to be swal- lowed up in it. This earthquake affected the railroads, It twisted the rails here and there, and people on the trains said that it sounded as though two trains had come into collision. It ruined one large tea fac- tory containivg many girls, who were killed in the debris. It was a curious earth- quake in that there were only two or three shocks, and in that it was confined almost to the vicinity of Toklo. Many of the earth- quakes have from nineteen to twenty shocks following each other, and there is always more than one shock. This earthquake caused several big fires, and there is never an earthquake in Japan which does not re- sult in more or less conflagration. The houses are, you know, nearly all of wood, and coal ol is now used very largely for lighting. Lamps are thrown over, and the burning oll runs through the bulldings. Thousands of houses are destroyed, and the damage by fire is often as great as that by earthquakes, TALKS ABOUT EARTHQUAKES, T met during my stay in Japan the greatest earthquake authority on the globe. This is Prof. John Milne of the Imperial Coliege of Engineering at Toklo. He has made a great study of earthquakes, and has invented ma- chines which show just how the earth moves at such times, and as to its effect upon all sorts of structures. According to him, it makes a great difference as to how the build- ings are built, and the Japanese are now resting some of thelr foundations on rollers and iron shot o that they will move as though they were placed on the ball-bearings of a bicycle, when an earthquake occurs. He suggests that the chimneys should be made of sheet iron instead of bricks, and people living In earthquake countries should have heavy tables under which they can crawl in case of a shock. They should have earth- quake lamps, and in some parts of South Amerlca he says the people have earthquake coats, which lie beside their beds, and in which they can skip out into the open air with some kind of protection at the slightest warning The ordinary Japanese house is of wood, and instead of having laths and plaster it is lined nside and out with a wattle-work of bamboo, and this is plastered over with mud. It is more like a basket than a house, and it is much safer than brick and stone. EARTHQUAKE HORRORS. Still the damage that is done by earth- quakes In Japan is terrible. All through Japanese history you will find records of vil- lages being swallowed up, and of thousands of men being killed. I have a list of Jap- anese earthquakes before me. Almost the whole of the city of Tokio was destroyed between two and three centuries ago, and at this time it is sald that 200,000 people lost their lives, At other times mouatains fell and lakes took their places. The last great earthquake that Tokio had was in 1855. There were elghty shocks felt within a month, and the city was one bluze of fire, One hundred and four thousand people are sald to have perished, and 14,000 houses were reduced to matchwood, ‘The earthquake in which I was was by no means so serious. Still it was net to be suneered at, and my own Japanese servant came to me in great trouble, saylug that his house had gone down, and that his wife and boy had been injured. THE BIG BEARTHQUAKE AT GIFU. One of the biggest earthquakes that Japan has ever had occurred about three years I had a number of friends who were in it, and it was horrible beyond description. Thousands of buildings went down, and thousands of people were killed. The rail- road was twisted as though it had been made of sticks of half-melted taffy. Great faclo- rles were thrown to the ground. Some of the most famous potteries of the country were destroyed. ‘Temples were buraad. The embankments of rivers fell in, and about 200 Buddhist temples were reduced to ruins. This occurred near the great eity of Nagoya, and it affected builldings in ¥obe. One man whom I know was the French teacher in a school In Nagoya. His house fell down, his wife and himself had to flee in thelr nlght clothes. They lost everything, and ad | The face of onein this earthquake 250,000 people were ren- dered homeless and a vast amount of prop- erty was destroyed. The horrors of the earth- quake cannot be described. People were cut all to pleces by the ruins. The earth half swallowed some. Great cracks and fissures existed everywRere, and the earth was seamed and wrinkled and torn. Donjuro, the famous Japanese actor, is as celebrated there as Henry Irving is in Eng- land. He is the Edwin Booth of Japan, and he owns the biggest theater of the empire. It is known as the Kabukiza theater, and it will seat 3,000 people. It has a stock com- pany, I venture, as large as that of any theater In New York, and its nightly rom ceipts often run into thousands of dollars. Well, this man Donjuro donated the receipts of his theater for one entire week for the benefit of the Red Cross hospital, and all of his actors threw in their services. They played from 10 in the morning until about 10 o'clock at night, and the house was packed. I had a box in the second gallery, Wwhich cost me $7, and there were at least $5,000 in the house the day I attended. Sup- pose one of our greatest actors should do- nate the servicés of himself and his troup to the Red Cross for a week, and you get some idea of what these actors did. JAPAN'S BIGGEST THEATER. It takes a big house to seat 3,000 people, ‘We have only one or two theaters that large in the United States, and we have none like that of Donjuro’s. It has no chairs, and the people. sit on the floor in little square pens about four feet wide. There is usually a little box of charcoal in the middle of each pen for the lighting of the plpes, and there is no objection to smoking. There 18 an im- mense pit and two galleries, and the walls in the summer are open, and it is more like an open-alr concert hall than a theater. The stage Is made in the shapo of an Immense wheel, which Is turned by man power at the change of the scenes, and which moves one set of actors behind the scenes and brings another before you, The supes come in during the play to fix the clothes of the actors, They are dressed In black, and you are not sup- posed to see them. Right through one side of the house there is a_ board walk of the height of the stage, about five feet wid which forms a part of the stage, and som of the actors will step off and come down on this walk above the audience and play their parts there. The acting 1s different from ours, but it is strong in some respects, There are no better fencers In the world, and these people have remarkable power of facial expression, The Japanese appreclate good acting. They roar with laughter over the comedies, and a strong plece of tragic acting brings shouts of applause, and the people | tear Off parts of their clothing and throw them Into the stage, expecting to redeem them with presents of money at the end of the play, There are no ticket offices, and you get your tickets at the tea houses near by, Ladies bring their fine clothes to the tea houses sometimes and put them on there before they go in, and many order lunches sent in to them and eat during the acting. The plays begin in the morning and last until night. “The shoes are all left outside in the hall, and on going in you pass by three or four thousand wooden clogs which are marked with checks. The Japanese women g0 bareheaded, and hence they have not the trouble about theater hats that we have'in America. JAPAN'S GREATEST ACTOR, I attended the theater fn company with Mr. 8. H. Tokioka, who is connected with the household department of the palace, and with him made & call on the famous Donjuro. It was between the acts that we made our way down under the stage, and on through wheel after wheel until we came into the dressing rooms. In some of these there were actors hali naked taking their siestas. In others they were making up for the next act, and we had gone through about twenty, | Judge, when we came into a little den looking out on a beauiful garden. It was a room about twelve feet square and was carpeted with mats, The walls were filled with clos- ots, and there were swords and different cos- tumes lylng about. In the middle of the room, lying on his elbow on the floor, was a long, " thin, sallow-faced man, with as refined features as I have ever seen. He had bright eyes, a very high forehead, large ears, al- mond eyes and a very long face. His was the soul of simplicity. It consisted of 4 blue cotton kimono, which was open almost to the waist, and it was about as near noth- ing as possible. This was the great actor Donjuro. He rose to his knees as we e tered and bowed gracetully in Japangse style. Wo got down on our knees and bowed our heads to the floor, and then sat on the floor and chatted for a time about Japanese art and acting. Mr. C. D. Weldon, the well known American artist, was with me, and he and Donjuro had quite a discussion over art topics, and the great actor was surprised to find how well the art of Japan had become known to our famous artists, and especially to Mr. Weldon, who is perhaps the best posted foreigner on the art of Japan in the world today. Donjuro is an artist as well as an actor, and he makes me think of Joe Jet- ferson in his many accomplishments. He is a man of the highest culture, He stands well in Japanese literature, and he writes poetry. He made some remarks as to the difference betwecn the Japanese and the Amerlean stage, declaring in favor of the former, and he said that he was really sorry that he could not accept the generous offer which he had to come to America and act at Chicago during the World's fair. He after- ward sent me his photograph, writing his autograph below it, and I found that there was just as much demand for the pictures of actors in Japan as in America, and that the people had their favorites, BEHIND THE SCENES. Leaving Donjuro I made a call on Shinzo San, who is one of Donjuro’s favorite pupils, and’ who Is, perhaps, the brightest of the younger Japanese comedians. He received us in his dressing room. He had to go on the stage within a few moments, and he made up for his part while be chatted. His gown was pulled down to his waist, and he was ab- solutely naked as to the upper part of his body. “He squatted on his knees before a lit- tle glass on the floor, painting and patching and turning himself from the modern Jap- aneso gentleman into a bridegroom of the olden time. He had his servants to help him, but he did the most of the work him- self in the most artistic way, painting his arms and his eyes and his neck, and patch- ing up his head so that he looked like an old Daimio. He finally. put on a gorgeous suft of light blue silk, and stood before us as the hero of the dual marriage, or, as it might be called, of the play which is known in Japan as “The Knight of the One Pantaloon.” As he stood there I happened to remark that 1 wished that I could have a picture of him, Whereupon he replied: *Why don’t you take it? There fs my camera.” I looked, and I saw one of the finest of modern cameras, with tripod and all convenlences. He di rected his servant to put it up for us, and Mr. Weldon took the pieture while he posed. As the button was pressed the call for the act came, and he left the room for the stage. We took out the platel holdbr and went back 1o our seats, It was pot & minute after the picture was taken before we reached them, and the house was In' rbars of laughter. Shinzo was playing one df his great parts, and 3,000 people were doubljng themselves up in ecstacy over his acting. HOW IT FEELS TO HE BLOWN UP, I bave just recelvéd tWo very curious sketches from Corea. (| They are made by a Japanese artist, and ey filustrate the bar- barities which the Chinete used in their treatment of the Japauése prisoners. One of them shows how Lioutgnant Takenouchl, who was captured by the Chinese when in harge of an advance guatd of twelve Jap- nese, was barbarously ltortured. He was first dragged through U kown by a string which was run through his nose. His hands were tied behifid' him, and a China- man held him back (byja rope, which he jerked occasionally, o, opder to intensify the pain of the striig through his nose, which was pulled by another Chinaman, who walked in front. - Soldiers with flags and spears went along in front, and criers carried the heads of the Japamese privates, which had been cut off. After he had passed through the town of Pinyang his ears were cut off, and he was agaln led through the streets. At the third trip his nose had disappeared, and what became of him after that no one knows. The dead were horribly mutilated by the Chinese, and the actions of the Japanese at Port Arthur were almost forced by the horrible treatment which both thelr living and thelr dead re. ceived from the Chinese soldiers and mob. When they entered Port Arthur they found the mutilated forms of their brothers lining the streets. 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METZ, Mo., Jan. 5.—By the explosion of a boiler in €. B. Wilson’s sawmill four men were badly hurt, two of them probably fa- tally. The injured are: C. B. WILSON, badly scalded and seri- ously injured about the head; fatally. W. W. SMITH, onc arm and one leg broken; severely scalded and injured inter- nally; fatally. P. C. Smith, scalded about face and should- ers. E. Gillespic, about head. The engine house was blown to atoms and parts of the boller and engine were found 100 yards distant. The boller dome was shot into the air like a bullet, and was found a quarter of a mile distant. e CARRIED AWAY THE SAFE, Robbers Enter an Express Car Durlug the Messengor's Temporary Absence, DES MOINES, Jan, 5.—While the north- badly scalded and bruised { bound passenger train on the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railroad was standing at the Coon Valley mines, six miles south of here last night, and while the messenger, Frank rarrode, was outside his car, robbers entered it and carried away the heavy steel safe, con- taining $216 in money and valuable packages. A brakeman, noticing that the lights were not burning in the express car, gave the alarm. The robbery was discovered and a searching party of fifty miners spaedily or- ganized, Half an hour later the safe was found a short distance away unopened, the robbers having become frightened. Pl Al L An llegal Loan Soclety, SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 5.—Attorney Gen- cral W, H. D. Hart has prepared a com- plaint against the Denver Savings and Loan society, The complaint alleges that the cor- poration cannot do business under the laws of the state of California, that the certificate is practically a term policy of endowment Insurance, that its representations to the public are false and untrue, as it cannot possibly live up to them, and, furthermor that it is impossible for the society to make the accumulations suficient to meet its obll- | gations as they mature, Fell Among Thieves in 'Frisco. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 5 omas de Puy, & prominent lawyer of Seattle, Wash., was brought to the Golden West hotel by an officer. A deep bruise over his left eye told the story of a sandbag or a fall. Deceased came 1o the coast about five years ago and has since been practicing law in Seattle, - Killed by Stone. HUNTINGDON, W. Va, Jan. Chaflin, proprietor of the Hotel Dingess at Dingess, Logan county, was struck on the head with a boulder thrown by a man named Cullom a few days ago. Mr. Chafin has been unconsclous since, and died from the effects this morning. 6.-~Harry ——e Killed Through Carele UNIONTOWN, P4 5. works of the W. J. Ralney afterncon six foreigners were At the Moyer corapany this seriously in- jured and John Vinski was fatally hurt by an explosion of powder, the result af carc. lessness, The buliding was wrecked. | romane HONORED BY POPE LEO XII Named as One of the Counts of the Court of Rome, MANTLE FALLS UPON JOHN A. CREIGHTON Formerly a Kulght of St. Gregory, Ho Now Steps Up Higher — Something of the Life and Work of Mr, Creighton, News comes from Rome that Pope Leo XIIL on December 6 ult. created Mr. John A Creighton of this city a Count of the Court of Rome and Papal States. The decree and insignia will be forwarded at once. Some years ago the pope created Mr, Creighton a Knight of St. Gregory, His friends, and they are legion from New York to San Francisco, will rejoice at the splendid recognition which John A. Crelghton has re- celved at the hands of Leo XIIIL, and their verdict will be that nothing can be too good or great for him, and that the country would be blessed If all the wealthy people were like unto him, Hon. John A. Crelghton was born 62 years ago In Perry county, Ohlo, and after re- celving his primary education at the public schools attended the College of the Domin- lcans at Somerset, O. In carly manhood he went west to join his brother, Edward Creighton. Together with his cousin, Mr. James Creighton, he becdme general manager of Mr. Edward Creighton's great enterprises, superintending among other works the build: ing of the Pacific telegraph line from Omaha to Salt Lake City. KFor some years Hou. John A. Crelghton was a resident of Montana and his life there as told by himself would form a blography as thrilling as most concerning ploneer life in the far west. He married Miss BEmma Wareham of Dayton, 0., and took up his permanent resi- dence in Omaha. He was for some years in the grocery business, but upon the accumula- tion of his fortune he withdrew from com- merclal life to look after his estates and moneyed nterests, and, most of all, to make good use of his wealth. He and Lis cousin James superintended the erection of Creigh ton college, the free classical college of Omaha, founded and endowed by the bequest of Mr. and Mrs, Edward Crelghton. John Crelghton and his wite became the patrons of the free college, contributing large sums to erect additional buildings and to cquip the sclentific department and the observatory. Shortly after the founding of Creighton college John Creighton donated land and built the monastery for the Poor Clares at Omaka, At the same time he en- larged the old St. Joseph's hospital. Upon the death of his wite, six years ago, he bullt in her memory the Creighton Memorial St. Joseph's hospital, one of the finest hospitals in the land. Three years ago he founded and endowed the John A. Creighton Medical college of the Creighton university. These have been the principal of his large bene- factions; it would be impossible to enumerate the rest, for everybody who knows him knows also that he does not know what it iy to refuse an appeal to either his charity or his generosity. It may safely be said that John Creighton alone has done more for the Catholle churches and institutions of Omaha than all the other Catholics of this city put together. More than that, no other one man, with the exception of his deceased brother, Edward, has done more for the advance- ment of the city of Omaha. IS A BUSINESS MAN. Few would imagine that the everlastingly laughing and joking John Crelghton was, together with his nephew, John A. McShane, the originator of the South Omaha Stock Yards company, or that he was the creator of Courtland beach, Omaha’s only but magnificent sum- mer resort. Though always ready for a joke, he is every inch a business man. Very few know that his right eye takes a complete survey of his financial interests every day of the year, and that he knows exactly where he stands. His charity might by some be called his weakness, such is his unvarying liberality to every comer; but as there is no advertising about it, in his case, it is literally true that his left hand does not know what his right giveth, An intimate friend of his said that the aggregate of his charities to aficted petitioners would amount to certainly over $20,000 a year. In “Off the Face of the Earth,” written by a journalist, John Creigh- ton is placed among the rare ones at the gates of heaven, but with one leg longer than the other from pulling it, metaphori- cally, He does not object to such deformity, not even to its aggravation. Though bes yond 60 and silvery white, he Is as vigorous as most men at 40, and hopes to live long enough to carry out still larger and more beneficent projects in the future in the cause of charity and religion, e, Industrial Statistics, A valuable document has just been fssued In the shape of the “Fourth Blennial Report of the Bures or and Industrial Sta- tistics of Ne omplled under direc- tlon of J. . I uty commissioner. A large portion : |5 devoted to an ex- hibit of the a ity which s set forth in % we learn that gages during (h wis 24,4 which 22 amounting to $16, lands there were ing $9,2 roending May 31, i 18,265,26, of the latter reducing tho ar by $8,354,100.58. Of chattel mortgages there were 118,187, ag- 107.01, of which 61,068 have he latter aggrega al value of reul agg sessed ot $115, or- ship of f: wn to farms cultivate; Gl t of the farm- amilies own subject o imcum- d 48,01 cenl free of incum- 1 the seven cities of a class Lav.ng ore bitants 6283 per cent of % hire and ril average be 7.7 wides a varlety of many of national Interest are in the volume, 1ing the nt are sh own show . Be- Hlutistics, incorporated New Men at tho He s of Bt. Joseph's branch . 3, Catholic Mutual Henefit association, installed last Fiiday evening, are as fol- lows: President, Willlam Maher; first vice president, T. M. Halleran ond vice president, J. chi recording secretar; i H, Ko it secretary, Boschert; V. Burkle clal secreétary, J. 1.'Quinlan; ma h J. ¢ Kinsler; trustees, J. J, itzmorrls, J. D, 1 . Koesters; chancelloj Has Been water works compx to the injunction Switzler, stating | al rt and that it cannot b ried the district court. Hwitzler petitioned the injunction because the company had threatened to shut off the water cons nections because he refused to pay the bill whereas he claims that he has always paid the agreed rent, but that the cowpany had tried to raise water rate, ed., 1y has filed am prayed for by al the case fs in for