Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 24, 1895, Page 16

16 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1895. RUSSIA ON THE PACIFIC Advance of the Great Trans-Siberian Rail- road to the Coast. THE NAVAL STATION AND TERMINUS A Visit to Vindivostock, Tts Peculiarities and Wonderfal Harbor—Colonizing an Emplre—The Russlan Volunteer Fleot. (Cops Aghted, 1895, by Frank G. Carpenter.) Private letters which I have just received from the capital of Corea state that the Russlan surveyors are exploring the harbor of Gensan, on the east coast of Corea. This harbor is one of the finest on the Paci 1t 48 In about the middle of the east cc of the Corean peninsula, half w betw Fusan and Viadivostock. It 18 open through- out the winter, and the Russlans want it to use as a terminus for the Trans-Siberlan rallroad. Vladivostock, their present harbor, 18 on the southeastern edge of Siberia, and it I8 frozen up for about five months of the year, so that no ships can land, and so that the Pacific is practically shut off from Siberia during the winter. 1 visited both harbors last summer, and it was from Gen- san that 1 sailed to Vladivostock In order to investigats the condition of the Trans-Si- berian railroad. If the Russians should seize northeastern Corea, as is supposed to be their intention from the fact of the above survey, Gensan will be one of the most important ports of Asia, Its harbor is large enough to float the navies of the world, and already there is a great trade connected with it. The gold mines in Corea lle not far oft, and the country surrounding it, though 1t is mountainous, has many well cultivated valleys. It has now a pop- ulation of about a thousand Japanese and fitteen thousand Coreans. It has a missionary station, and Russian, German and Danish exporting houses. It Jhas a little Japanese hotel, where I stopped while I walted for the steamer, and it has one Japanese bank. This ‘bank, however, has not much faith in foreign letters of credit. It cost me three hundred thousand cash (or about one hundred dollars) to make my trip across the country. And I Janded In Gensan with fifteen silver dollars in my pocket. I had a letter of credit with me, and I tried to get some money on it at the Japanese bank. They looked it over and jabbered in Japanese, and at last gave it back to me and told me they could glve me nothing. 1 tried to get trusted by the Japanese steamship agency for my passage. They looked at the letter of credit and then looked at me, and told me it was no go. The fare was just §14 to Vladivostock, and by persuading my hotel keeper to wait until T came back I was able to buy a ticket and have $1 left for incidentals. The ship was the Tokyo Maru, one of the greatest of the Japanege steamers, which runs from Kobe, Japan, to Siberia regularly. It was about 2,000 tons, I judge, and though the sailors Were Japanese, the officers were English The accommodations were good, and after a voyage of two we found ourselves in the great harbor of Viadivostock. THE KEY TO SIBERIA. Viadivostock is the key to eastern Siberia Jt 1s the great Russian city of the east, and fs one of the most strongly fortificd towns on the globe. It is the chief Russian naval statfon on the Pacific, and it is now the terminus of the Siberian railway. It fairly gwarms with soldiers and officials. The military governor of eastern Siberia, Includ- ing millions of square miles, lives here, and it has an admiral who governs the shipping. and who Is independent of the governor. It Yias scores of police, and you can't throw a stone without hitting a gencral. The town now contains about 20,000 people, in addition to a large garrison of soldiers. It grows like @ green bay tree, and It Is a slice of Buropean Russia spread out over the mountains of Biberfa. The houses are of brick, stone and Wood, and it has many fine buildings. It Has magnificent dry decks, and its new float- ing docks admit of the largest vessels being laid up for repairs. An immense ocean steamer was under repair during my stay, and the harbor was filled with all kinds of shipping, including two Russian men-of-war and an American sailing vessel from San " Franc'sco. This last had brought a cargo of wheat and flour to Vladivostock, and the captain, who was a bright young fellow from Malne, came cn board to inquire his best route home by way of Japan. THE VLADIVOSTOCK HARBOR. “Thero s no more picturesque bay on the Pacifio than that of Vladivostock. Tt would float the navies of the world, and you could put all the shipping that comes into Liver- pool in a year within it and have room to gpare. It is known as the Gulf of Peter the Great, and it has a length of about fifty miles, while its width at the entrance is moro than 100 miles, This gult Is divided fnto two large bays by a hilly peninsula, and tho Russians call the straits which sepa- Tate this peninsula from the islands in front of it the Eastern Bosphorus. Vladivostock i8 on the pen'nsula, which they call the Golden Horn, and the city has quite as beau- tiful a location as Constantinople, I lived on the ship during the week that I spent in Viadivostock, s there are mo good hotels. We were anchored about two miles from the shore, and were in a harvor surrounded by Rhills and spread out in the shape of a fan, with Viadivostock built upon the handle, On all sides of us were great fortifications, and tho hills were crowned with what looked like fmmense factorics or machine shops. They had many windows, and an army of men wa continually marching about them. These ar: the barracks of the Russian soldlers, of whom there are 8,000 in this city alone. Two thousand of these belong to marmes, and the “other 6,000 ere of the land forces. I saw otlier barracks and soldiers in my trip over the Trans-Siberlan railroad, and there are now, I am teld, about 30,000 soldiers in east- ern Siberfa, or more than we have in our army. RUSSIA ON THE PACIFIC. As soon as the ship came to anchor I took & boat and was rowed to the shore We went through all kinds of shipping. There were great Russian steamers from Odessa, on the Black sea, which were filled with immigrants and stores, There were ghips from Japan, in the passenger and carrying trade, and there were hundreds of Chinese junks, which had salls like bats' wings, and which had brought vegetables and fruits from Cheefoo and ale. There were Corean boats, with stralght alls and wooden anchors, and there were dozens of Chinese sampans, which were seulled through the water by swarthy Martars. It was in on> of these that I rowed to the shore. At the landing I scemed o have gotten Into a mixture of China and Russia. There were droschky men, years ago. lions, and the'r cabs were driven lke mad through the streets. There were Chinamen by the hundred, who had come to Siberla to , and there were dozens of Coreans, with packs on their backs, ready I hired worl for the summe! 1o take my baggage up to the city. a droschky and took a ride through streets, The roads were as muddy as those of the Black Swamp, and our two went on the gallop. the main street of the city. This Is about two miles long, and the town runs around The houses are of two stories, with w'de porches in front of them, and there are some substan- The biggest houses of the place outside of the barracks are those the police station the hills on the edge of the harbor tlal business blocks. of the governor general, and the new railrcad depot. A CALL UPON THE POLIC My flest call was, of course, upon police, the view with the chief of police. Swi Wwho has one of the biggest houses in Siberia. He has large intercsts in timber and mines and he is one of the most influential men the country. It was with wverns all police matters of this port t) ers and policemen. nghal for who wore hats like inverted spittoons and who had long blue gowns, for all the world like the coachmen I saw in St. Petersburg three Their horses were Russian stal- horses We first drove through e | in_gold. You can do nothing in Siberia with- out a passport, and I knew I would be in danger of arrest until I had had an inter- 1 had letters of introduction to Mr. J. Bryner, a wealthy who had marricd a Russian lady and in him that I went call upon the high milltary officer who | The stailon Is a big, two-story, red brick ding, which looks for ull the world like a court house. and which Is surrounded We took off our and our rubbers and combed our hair with our fingers before we went in to eall upon the official. We went through room after room filled with pompous soldiers, until we came into the presence of a short, stocky man, with a head like a cannon ball, and with eyes as sharp as a shoemaker's awl This was Colonel F. Petroff, the chief of poilce, without whose assistance you can do nothing In eastern Siberia. Every permit has to pass through him, and my passport, vised by the Russian minister in Corea, was laid beforo him, while Mr. Bryner fntro- duced me us a respectable American citizen and as his friend. Nothing was said about my belng a newspaper correspondent, and the chief was told that I wanted a permit to go over the Trans-Siberian railroad. He re- ceived me very politely, and after some time, which I suppose was spent in looking up my record, 1 was told that my credentials were good, and that T would have a permit issued to me to pass over the road. THE SIBERIAN METROPOLIS. The chief of police told me that 1 could not start on my railroad journey before the next day, and I spent the meantime traveling about the city of Viadivostock. It Is one of the queerest places I have ever visited. The hills are as steep as those of Kansas City, and the houses are built at all sorts of angles upon them, Back of the town I found three Asiatic settlements, One was a Japanese quarter, with buildings just like those you find in Japan. Another was made up of Chi- neso houses, and a third was a collection of dugouts and huts, which were occupied by the Coreans. The town proper looks more liko officers’ quarters than a commercial set- tlement. It has one pretty Russian church, which was built, T think, when the present emperor made his trip through Siberia several years ago, and dug the first spadeful of earth that was thrown up for the first trans-Sibe- rian railroad, 1 found one large German bus- iness house, known as Kunst & Albers, where 1 was able ta get my letter of credit cashed, and was thus supplied with plenty money for the rest of my trip. This firm docs business all over Siberia. 1t has ships which go 1,000 miles northward to the mouth of the Amoor river, and which sail a long way up that 'mighty stream. It does a banking business and all kinds of exporting and im- porting, and it is a type of the big business houses of Siberia, of which there are perhaps a score. I met all sorts of people who ‘ad had all sorts of adventures. My friend Bry- ner, for instance, had come out to Japan as a boy from Switzerland. He had been in business in diffcrent parts of China. He had traveled all over Corea and Siberia, and he spoke fluently Chinese, Japanese, Russian, English, Italian, French and German. _He was only 40 years old, but he had made a fortune in trade and mines, He told me of the wonderful resources of Siberfa, and said that the world knew nothing about’ them. He referred to one gold mine of which he knew, 200 shares of which sold not long ago for 000, and which were now worth $1,500 per share. He has wonderful steries to tell about the coal, fron and timber resources of the country, and I will give some of his state- ments further on. With him I went to the Marine club of Viadvostock and met many of the officials. T found that the town has a hospital, a gymnasium, good schools and a colloge. ' It has fairly good society and the Dpeople who live in it seem to be well satisfied with thelr condition, BASTERN SIBERIA. In connection with Mr. Bryner I made some inquiries into the resources of eastern Siberiaand the possibilities of the great Siberlan railroad. Few people have an mous extent of the possessions s in Asia. They number all told more than six million square miles, or about twice the arza of the whole United States. Siberia alone 1s twenty-five times as big as Germany. It contains forty-eight hundred thousand square miles, or nearly one and one-half the arca of the United States. It has a population of less than one to the square mile, and {s one of the richest coun- tries in mineral wealth on the globe, Bastern Siberla alone is almost as big as the United States, and its resources are practically unex- plored. All along the line on the Trans- Siberian road there are rich gold mines, some of which produce nuggets weighing a quarter of a pound, and the grains of gold there average as large as they do anywhere in the world. Mr. Bryner told me that the govern- ment of Russia insisted that all gold found in Siberia should be sold to it, and he told me that many men were making fortunes out of the gold mines. The mining is done in a curious way. The foil of all Siberia is frozen for more than half the year, and the gold-bearing rock is often in a per- petually frozen state. A hole is dug and a fire is built on top of it, and when the soil is melted It is cradled out or shaken out in iron barrels which are made for the purpose. These iron barrels haye sieves within them. They are made of boller plate, and they are from ten to seventeen fect long. They are 50 arranged that they can be whirled about by machinery and steam, and they are laid upon an inclined plane and a sluice of water run through them. The water is introduced into the barrel by means of hose, and the inside fitting of the barrel is such that the sand is ground up and the small particles of ®old aro saved by means of mercury. There are vast gold mincs along the Amoor river, and in some regions of eastern Siberia quartz mining is extensively done. Mr. Bryner says that the completion of the railroad will lead to the exploration of a large part of un- known Siberia, and that the eountry may yet produce enough gold to raise snver to its old tanding. The mines are not confined to the east, but they seem to exist throughout the whole country. They are found in the Ural mountain, and in the northern part of the country the gold has been frozen for ages, and it 1s said to be in the same condition as it was in the glacial period. Today there are something ke 40,000 miners at work in Sibera, and the industry increases every year. COAL, COPPER AND LEAD. Every one knows that western Siberia has great copper mines, and the iron mines of the Ural mountains produce some of the best ore in the world. I am told that there are fron deposits of vast extent throughout eastern Siberia, and there is a great deal lying along the line of the new railroad. I rode through veins of coal in my trip over the line, the grades being cut right through the coal flelds, These are not far from Viadivostock, and there yet may be great manufactories in Siberia, The Island of Saghalien is said to be underlaid with coal, and there are vast coal mines near Tomsk, on the line of the railroad. There are, In fact, coal mines all over Siberia, and the silver and lead deposits are very large. There are ninety different mines of silver in one region alone, and there are lead mines in the eastern part of the count There are 400 different copper mines in an- other region, and it is almost impossible to estimate the mineral wealth of Siberia. The western part of the country has been pro- ducing silver for years, and the Altal moun- tains are one of the richest mining regions of the world. SIBERIAN IMMIGRANTS, Siberla is a very rich country agricultur- ally, and Russia s colonizing it as fast as she can. It bas millions of acres as fat as the Red River valley, and it will evenu- ally be one of the great, wheat-raising countics of the world, There weve 100,000 Russian Immigrants in 1892, and the czar has now a special line of steamers, whose business it is to carry Russians from the Black sea and the Baltic around to Siberia, They take them in colonies and land them at Viadivostock, or at the ports of the Amoor viver. They are given great advantages as to land, but the land is usually parceled out to the communities, and the villagers own land in common, as they do in Russia. This, it scems to me, 18 a great mistake. No coun. try can bo deveioped to its full extent except by individual ambition and individual effort individual gain. The chief trouble in Russia today is In its land system. If the land of the Russian empire were held by in- dividuals instead of by villages the country would be one of the richest on the globe. As it 18, It s only half farmed. No one cares to work when he has land in common with his neighbors, and the most sniitless farmer on the globe today are the Russian peasants. Land in Siberia I found to be sold very cheap. The rates are less than those of our govern- ment lands, and if 1 remember correctly they are 3 rubles per deslatine, or about $1 an acro in silver, or less than 60 cents an acre The' laws of Siberla are such that individuals can buy land if they wish, but the peasants seem to like the village system best. They stick to their old habits, and Siberia is likely to be a second Rusia. SIBERIA FOR THE RUSSIANS. I was struck with one thing in my visit . | to Siberia, and that was that the Russians , | propose ta hold the country for themselves. They don't intend to throw it cpen to the world, though they are glad to have citizens | who will take an oath of alleglance to Russia and become Russian subjects. The laws of the country are now such that only Russian citizens can acquire property, develop mines or do busiuess. One of the requiremtns of citizenship 1s thet the applicant must be able to speak Kussian, and the pesple do not 87 R RN EY YOU shoes for now. location in 5 more days. the Cramer's make), $1.50-$1.75 DPUHCE—10W (\iuiiinnn Tlere are 33 pairs of those Enamel §6 men's shoes left, them all out at goat ..... 62 ladies' fine vicl kid, erimped vamp, patent tip, opera toe, lace; price $5. 78 hand welt ladies’ shoes, ope London lasts, patent leather, and $5. All that is left go at closing them all out at Ladies' patent leather tip, new toe. You can't buy a shoe for $3 in Omal all out (per pair). . There is still some of those $4, $5 now a You ought to buy one or more pairs of e elegant children’s shoes (John All our men's French calf, razor and needle toe shoes—§6 and $7 shoes What is left of them go at Ladies’ cloth top, Brondway last patent leather tip, button; former price §3; lace shoe, Moving them fadies’ plain toe shoes; selling them (per pair), small sizes. To our new store, N. E. corner 16th and Douglas, March 1st. After March 1st it will take money to buy Shoes. slioe former Some $5 French closing former 1 and tip, $4 been better Misse and $6 at re toe and opera toe, mostly $4 few, pairs of our tan shoe: ter get a pair weather RRTET) All the $6.00 men's lace shoes, IPrench ealf and with cork soles, will £0 now a Men’s congre sell for Ladies’ front lace, tipped, opera toe shoes, widths, Your choice, $1.00. and children’s button shoes, such as we used to sell $2.00, £0 now at $1.10. T. P. Cartwright & Co.’s '‘Moval Sale cloth and kid top lace shoes, Moving them all out at. ... men's heavy elling now at $3.50,bet- for early pring Men's invisible cork sole shoes. The $F comfortable, we will sell them for $3. .00 shoe that is so neat and As long as they last 20. This Tot includes all our $3.00 and $4.00 men’s calf congress shoes, with double soles, at the never-heard-of- before price of $2.50. in $4.00. shoes that we used to 00 and bunched in one lot to go at $2. patent leathet in narrow than $3.00. worth more fine grain, in all sizes and widths, it and propose to make deeper cuts than ever in this removal sale, are getting used to seeing goods leave our shelves at a great los $1. $3. $3. $2. $4. $2. $1. $1.10 T. P. CARTWRIGHT & CO., 1415 Douglas St. Yet. Going to move to 16th and Douglas Street March 1st. 75 pers, hest quality Our $3 grade "Moval Sal All onr steap 50 One lot of fine kid, han 20 sizes, go at .. Ladies' ng heel some with patent tiy ome dongola kic some pebble 50 and $3.00. 50 00 00 One lot of men's embrof former price, $1.00, § "Moval sale pric One lot of Iadies’ Moval price ... One lot of ladi forner price, Mostly small ' high t )0. 708, 00 One lot of odds and end £3.50 and $4.00 shoe price now ; (Mostly large sizes.) Must sell all their shoes before they move. All our patent leather one strap Slip- in Slippers, very latest style of last, all at one price. . 0 Slippers, mostly small shoes, cloth leather, button; former pri Now Only 5 more days to buy Shoes and Slippers at a small fraction of their values. In fact our money cannot come within a mile of buying shoes—after March 1st for what we are offering Did you know that leather has advanced? We don’t want any more removal sales in ours, loosing too much money; but we are in Don’t forget new $1.75 $2.00 75¢c e pric a turned $1.50, We have ome plain : some strajght goat. Former Moval price.. $1.50 50c¢ - $2.50 $1.75 HEEE $1.50 dered slippers; 1.50 and § top, an lace shoe propose to be overrun by a fot of foreign- speaking allens as America is. The mines are open to all the Russians with the single proviso, as I said, that the government have the first chance af the output. It has already established smelting houses and assay stations throughout the country, and it takes gold and silver at its market rates, taxing it a certafin percentage, I believe, for the czar. I was told that the gold mines of Siberia turned out last year §45,000,000 worth of gold, and that there is a single mine not far from Vladivostock which has produced $3,000,000 in a single year. 1 met some rich mine own- ers in Vladivostock, and I heard all sorts of big stories. One mine, which was originally listed at $40 a share, has stock which is now worth $40,000 a share, and large fortunes have been made out of silver. The timber resources are enormous, and after America is denuded of its forests it is probable that the world will have to go to Siberia for its large timber. A WORD ABOUT THE AMOOR. I was much surprised at the extent of eastern Siberla. I had an idea that the Amoor river ran Into the sea not far from Vladivostock. It always looked to me so on the map. I-told Mr. Bryner that I thought I would take a little run up the Amoor, and he informed me that I was about four days' ride by stcamer from its mouth. He told me that the river was one of the finest in the world. It s nine miles wide at its mouth, and vessels drawing twelve feet of water can sall up it 600 miles, while vessels of light draft can 80 1,200 miles into the interior on this stream. I met one young man, who was in business at the town of Nicholievsk, which is the chief city of the Amoor. It is a town of 3,600 p2ople, and it does a big business with all northern Siberla, There are forty-seven ships which sail up and down the Amoor, and the Russian-volunteer fleet, bringing immi- grants, comes there many times every sum- mer. This town, like Viadivostock, is to a large extent a military settlement, and the czar has_his soldiers scattered all over Siberia. I was told that he had something like 75,000 men in the eastern half of the country, and he is systematically making it a Russian empire by colonizing it as he does. Every year or so the boundary is moved a little further south, and there is yet a possi- bility that Russia will take more from China than she has done in the past. The great Trans-Siberian road, which 1s now being pushed at three different points along the line, will form a line of communication by which Russia will be able to control the Aslatie trade, and there is no telling as to whether she will not rontrol a_great part of the territory of Asla as well. This road was begun_at Viadivostock, and it 1s now being pushed to the west. In my next letter I will describe the queer experiences I had in travel- ing upon it. &t A, Codfuntas She Made Ono Mista'e. She was a blonde of Juno-like form and carriage, and wculd have attracted attention anywhere, even if she were not costumed in a man-made gown with Immense sleeves, which looked the more glgantic because of the tiny hat surmounting her clustering curls, Every seat in the Broadway ecable car was occupled as ehe entered, says the New York Advertiser. She had not taken the second stride, however, before half the seats were vacated, and a score of men were beckoning to her to accept their places. opped in front of a handsomely attired young man who had risen to his f “Do not rise,” she sald In a musical volce which would have pleased even Lady Henry Somerset. “I prefer that you keep your seat.” Nincteen discomfited gallants reseated themselves, but the young man persisted in standing. “I {nsist on you keeping your eeat,” sald the blonde, with much decision. “I prefer to stand.” “You can stand if you want to," the young man, “‘but I want t Won't you, please, let me pass? _— Extracting Teeth by Electricity. Trials bhave been made at London with a new apparatus for the extraction of teeth by electricity, It consists of an induction cell of extremely fine wire, having an inter- rupter that can vibrate at the rate of 450 times @ second. The patient sits in the traditional arm chair and takes the negative electrode in his left hand and the positive in the right. At this moment the operator turns on & current whose Intensity is gradu- ally Increased till it has attalned the ut- most limit the patient can support. The extractor is then put in clreuit and fastened on the tooth, which, under the action of the vibration, 1s loosened at once. The opera- tion 1s performed very quickly, and the patient feels no other sensation than the pricking produced in the bands and fore- arms by the current, replied get out here, She | LITTLE MR. THIMBLEFINGER. By Joel Chandler Harris. (Copyrighted, 1895.) XIIL HOW BROTHER LION LOST HIS WOOL. Mr. Rabbit shadeddhis eyes with his hand and pretended to believe that there might be a wooden horse trying to catch Tickle- My-Toes after all. But Mrs. Meadows said that there was no danger of anything like that. She explained that Tickle-My-Toes was running away because he didn’t Want to hear what was said about his story. “I think he's right,” remarked Mr. Rabbit, “It was the queerest tale I ever heard in all my life. You might sit and listen to tales from now until—well—until the first Tuesday before tne last Saturday in the year seven hundred thousand, seven hundred and sev- enty-seven, and you'd never hear another tale like it.” “I don't see why, ows, “Well,” replied Mr. Rabbit,. chewing his tobacco very slowly, “there are more reasons than I have hairs in my head, but I'll only give you three. In the first place, this Sparkle Spry doesn't marry the king's daugh- ter. In the sccond place, he doesn’t live hap- pily forever after. And in the third place— Mr. Rabbit paused and scratched his head— “I declare I've forgotten the third reason.’” “If it'’s no better than the other two it doesn’t amount to much,” said Mrs, Mead- ows, “There's no reason why he shouldn’t have married the king's daughter if the king had a daughter, and if he didn’t live happily it was his own fault. Stories are not expected to tell everything.” “Now, I'm glad of that,” exclaimed Mr. Rabbit, “truly glad. I've had a story on my mind for many years and I've kept it to myself because I had an idea that in telling a story you had to tell everything.” “Well, you were very much mistaken,” said Mrs. Meadows, with emphasis. “So it seems—so It seems,” remarked Mr. Rabbit. “What was the John. “I called it a story,” replied Mr. Rabbit, suggested Mrs. Mead- story?”’ asked Buster cold weather, the coldest I had ever felt. I happened to be out one day browsing around, when I saw blue smoke rising a little distance off, so I says to myself, says 1, I'll go within smelling distance of the fire and thaw myself out. So I went towards the smoke, and I soon saw that Mr. Man, who lived not far off, had been killing hogs. ““Now, the funny thing about that hog killing ' business,” ~ continued Mr. Rabbit leaning back in his chair and smacking his lips together, as old people will do some- times, “was that after the hogs were killed Mr. Man had to get their hair off. I don’t know how people do now, but that was what Mr. Man did then. He had to get the hair oft—but how? Well, he piled up wood, and In between the logs he placed rocks and stones. Then he dug a hole In the ground and half buried a hogshead, the open end tilted up a little higher than the other end. This hogshead he filled with as much water as it would hold in that position. Then he -set fire to the pile of wood. As it burned, of course the rocks would become heated. These Mr. Man would take in a shovel and throw in the hogshead of water. The hot rocks would heat the water and in this way the hogs were scalded so the hair on their hides could be scraped off. “Well, the day I'm telling you about, Mr. Man had been killing hogs and scalding the hair off. When I got there the pile of wood had burned away and Mr. Man had just taken his hogs home in his wagon. The weather was very cold, and as I stood there warming myself, I heard Brother Lion roar- ing a little way off. He had scented the fresh meat, and 1 knew he would head right for the place where the hogs had been killed. ow, Brother Lion had been worrying me a good deal. He had hired Brother Wolf to capture me, and Brother Wolf had failed. Then he hired Brother Bear, and Brother Bear got Into deep trouble. Finally he hired Brother Fox, and I knew the day wasn't far off when Mrs. Fox would have to hang crape on her door and go in mourning. All this had happened some time before, and I bore Brother Lion no good will. “So when I heard him in the woods sing- ing out that he smelled fresh blood, T grabbed the shovel the man had left and threw a dozen or so hot rocks in the hogshead, and BROTHER LION IN HOGSHEAD, “but that is too big a name for it. I reckon you have heard of the time when Brother Lion had hair all over him as long and as thick as the mane he now has?” But the children shook their heads. had never heard of that, and even Meadows sald it was news to her. “Now that fs very queer,” remarked Mr. Rabbit, filling his pipe slowly and deliberately “Very queer, indeed. Time and again I've had it on the tip of my tongue to mention that matter, but I always came to the con- clusfon that everybody knew all about it. Of course, It doesn't seem reasonable that Brother Lion went about covered from head to foot and to the tip of his tail with long, woolly hair; but, on the other hand, when he was first seen without his long, woolly hair, he was the laughing stock of the whole district. 1 know mighty well he was the most miser- ablo looking creature I ever saw. “It was curious, to0, how it happened,” Mr. Rabbit continued. ““We were all living in & much colder climate than that In the country next door. Six months in the year there was ice in the rivers and snow on the ground, and them that didn't lay up some- thing to eat when the weather was open had & pretty tough time of it the rest of the year. Brother Lion's long, woolly hair be- They Mrs. longed to the climate. But for that he would have frozen to death, for he was a great hunter, and he had to be out in all sorts of weather. “One season we had a tremedous spell of then threw some dirt on the fire. Presently Brother Lion came trotting up, snifiing the air, and purring like a spinning wheel a- rurping, and dribbling at the mouth, “I passed the time of day with him as he came up, but I kept father away from him than he could jump. He seemed very much surprised to see me, and gald it was pretty bad weather for such little chaps to be out, but I told him I had on pretty thick under- wear, and besides that I had just taken a hot bath in the hogshead. ““I'm both cold and dirty,’ says he, smell- ing around the hogshead, ‘and I need a bath. I've been asleep in the woods yonder, and I'm right stiff with cold. But that weter {s bubbling around in thelr mightily." “‘I've just flung some rocks in,’ says I ‘How do you get in?' says he. “ ‘Back in,' says I “Brother Lion walked around the hogs- head once or twice, as if to satisfy himself that there was no trap, and then he squat- ted and began to crawl Into the hogshead Vackwards. By the time his hind leg touched the water he pulled it out with & howl, and tried to jump away, but, somehow, his foot slipped off the rim of the hogshead, and he souzed into the water—kerchug! up to his shouldbrs. Mr. Rabbit paused, chuckled to himself. “Well, you never heard such howling since shut his eyes, and you were born. Brother Lion scrambled out quicker than a cat can wink her left eye, and rolled on the ground, and scratched around, and tore up the earth considerably, I thought at first he was putting on and pretending, but the water must have been mighty hot, for while Brother Lion was scuffling around all the wool on his body came off up to his shoulders, and if you were to see him today you'd find him just that way. “And more ‘than that—before he souzed himselt in that hogshead of hot water Brother Lion used to strut around considera- bly, Being tho king of all the animals, he felt very proud, and he used to go with his tall curled over his back. But since that time he sneaks around as if he was afraid somebody would see him. “Thera's another thing. His hide hurt him so bad for a week that every time a fly lit on him he'd wiggle his tail. Some of the other animals, seeing him do this, thought it was a new fashion, and so they began to wiggle thelr tails, Watch your old house cat when you go home, and yow'll see her wiggle her tall forty times a diy without any reason or provocation, Why? S'mply because the other animals, when they saw Brother Lion wiggling his tail, thought it was the fashion, and so they all bugan it and now it has become a habit with the most of them. It is curious how such things go.” “But the queerest thing of all,” continued Mr. Rabbit, lean'ng back In his chair, and looking at Mrs. Meadows and the children through half-closed eyes, ‘‘was this—that tho only wool left on Brother Licn's Lody with the exception of his mane, was a little tuft right on the end of his tail.” “How was that?”’ inquired Mrs, Meadows Mr. Rabbit laughed heartily, but made no reply. y “I don't sec anything to laugh at,” said Mrs, Meadows, with some emphasis, “A civil question deserves a civil answer, I've always heard,” “Well, you know what you said a while ago,” remarked Mr. Rabbit, “I don’t know as I remember,” Mrs. Meadows. ‘Why, you sald pointedly that it was not necessary to tell everything in a story.” Mr. Rabbit made this remark with great dignity. “And I judged by the way you sald it that it was bad taste to tell every- thing.” “Oh, T remember now,” sald Mrs. Meadows, laughing, “It was only one of my Jokes.” “But this 1s no joke,” protested Mr. Rab- bit, winking at the children, but keeping the serious side of his face toward Mrs. Meadows. “I took you at your solemn word. Now, here Is a tuft of wool on Brother Lion's tail, ‘and you ask me how it happened to be there, I answer you as you answered me- ‘You don’t have {0 tell everything In a story Am T right or am I wrong?" T'll not dispute with you,” re dows, taking up her knittin “I don't mind telling you,” remarked Mr. Rabbit, turning to the children with a con fidential air. “It was simple as falling off a ‘hen Brother Lion fell into the ho iot water the end of his tail glipy ough the bunghole. This explanation s such an unexp ed one that the children laughed, and so did Mrs. Meadows. But Mr. Thimblefinger, who had put in an appearance, shook his head and re- marked that he was afrald that Mr. Rabbit got worse as he grew older, instead of bet- ter. replied narked Mrs M (To be Continued.) e Another Swindl arrival In_Wash Charles Baume of Fort Worth, Tex., “I no t a fellow successfully work a e which 1s as old as the hills in cur section of the country. It is that of selling a bras finger ring worth about 10 ¢ some unsophisticated person on the plea that it was an heirloom In the family, but he must part with it to keep from starving. The first time the game was ever brought to my notice was when 1 was conducting a little jewelry shop In o small town in Texas. I had @ lot of brase finger rings in stock, an day a fellow stepped in and sald that would give him one he could raise enough on it to get him something to eat. I passed out one of the rings and the sharper stepped over to a cattle ranch and sold the worthle plece of jewelry for a $6 b'll to one of th boasted smartest men fn Texas on representa- tions that it was gold and was the bequest of a dead mother. The fellow wanted me to take something for the ring, but I told him I had been fully repald for his taking in the man he had duped.” e He Was on Top. Adame Freeman: An aged Irlshman was walking down a grade, when suddenly he slipped and swatted the earth with himee “Ab!" sald & wag, “that's the time the s walk downed you, Mike." “Not by a jugful,” said the witty fellow. brushing the snow from bLis coat fails, “‘wasn't I on top?” “Since my gton," sa'd nts f to | 1 one | i RELIGIOUS, Dwight L. Moody was once a traveling salesman for a shoe house, and was a first class drummer. He began evangelical work in 1860, Miss_Eily 0'Connell, Mary Be! 0O'Connell, at Waterford. Prof. Briggs of Union Theological seminary, New York, recently lectured in St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal church at Newark, N. J. Dr. Briggs received a warm welcome, The Intercollegiate Young Men's Christian association, founded in 1877, now includes and during the last year of the war com- ing and is represented by a membership of 72,000 etudents, Archbishop Kane, the Catholic prelate of St. Louis, officially recommended the affiliation of Catholic temperance women with the Protestant Young Woman's Christ/an Tem- perance union in temperance work, The New York Freeman's Journal confirms the report that Bishop McQuaid of Rochester, N. Y., has been reprimanded for assalling Archbshop Ireland. He is required to apolo- gize for a grave breach of ecclesiastical etls quette, R obje of the in religion Mother gna, the granddaughter of Danfel ied lately in the Ursuline convent Henry Loomis of Japan says that alt fon has been removed to the possession scriptures or_their use in the higher normal schools In Tokio. He estimates total adult membership of the Prot churches in Japan at the closs of 18 37,398, an increase for the year of 1,801. Bishop Schereschewsky, Episcopal, who Is one of the foremo. Chinese scholars in the world, since he resigned the missionary bish- opric of China been living in Cambridge, Mass. For the last seven yeers he has been engaged in translating the bibl= Into the liter= ary language of China. It has been estimated that Christendom has introduced 70,000 gallons of rum to every mise sion: In the great Congo Free State there are 100 drunkards to one convert. Under the maddening_influence of ting _drink sent from New 00 Congoans slaugh= tered eac! lon of rum caused a fight in which fifty were slain. Rev. Dr. J. D. Davis, who is now professor in Dohisha univers'ty, Kioto, Japan, served four years as a union soldier in the eivil war, and during the last year of the war com- manded a regiment. He has been a mission- ary of the American board for twenty-three years, and a professcr In Doshieha for nines teen years, According to the statlstic church in the United States, as furnished by the official Catholic Direc ¥, the member: ship of the church In this country Inereased 175,832 during th year 1804. The flgures furnished by the chamcellors of the various dloceses show that the Catholic populat'on of the United States is 9,077,850, In the whol count h are 17 archbls! 5 bishops, 10,053 priests, 5,659 churcl resident pastors, 9,650 mizsions with church:s, 209 churches in all; 6,194 stations nd chapels, 9 univergities, 28 sem naries for ular students, with 2,120 &tudents, 77 sem= tnaries of the religlous orders, such as the Jesuits, Franciscans, ete,, with 1 474 stu- 182 high schools for boys, 609 high o for g 3731 parochlal schools with 070 puplls, 259 crphan asylums sheltering 30,867 orphans, 821 char'table institutions, The total number of ehildren In Catholic ingtis tutions Is 918, of the Catholie making 9 4 in A Library. famous ship Rous- Ship's Figur The figurchead of the seau, which, when broken up in 1893, was tho oldest vessel in the world, has been placed the New Bedford public library, under the b of the late George Howland, n 1834, bought her in Philadelphia took her to New Bedford to be fitted 9 a whaleship. The old ship was bullt In 1801, suys the Providence Journal d was in active service for cighty-seven years, She a 1 when she was des | molished for the copper that her old hulk contained her floor timbers were as firmly on ber keel when was launched to become the pride of Stephen Girard, the great philanthropist and merchant prince. | " When tho Rousseau arrived at New Bed- ford she underwent some changes to fit her cut for the new business she was about to ent Her figurehead at that time was & bust of the famous infidel whose name she bore. Her unew owner's religlous tralning rebelled at the thought of permitting it to { remain on a vessel of his, and he promptly ordercd it to bo removed and thiown Into the dock. It was replaced by the one which was especlally carved to take its place and which now adorns the library. The figure= head is & notable example of the woed carver's art in she