Omaha daily bee., 1889-12-08

knew that he possessed such find stock him
self as he has here this winter. He was
asked the other day why he had not men
| toned TO Palmer the fact that he also had
fine horses. He replied. "Blank II, I did, but
Palmer was so wrapped up in his own stock
raising that he paid no attention to my re-
| mark
Senator Palmer. IL will be remembered,
sent his farm manager, MIR. Cottrell.a couple
! of years ago to Turkey to bring back some
Arabian stations. Palmer has an idea that
| the finest horse IN the world can be produced
by crossing the Percheron with pure Ara.
! Dian blood. His manager went to Jerusalem
| but the result of his Investigations showed
that half OF the Arabian steeds were unsound,
and Senator Palmer found that he had to
| get a permit from the sultan before he could
1 take an Arabian horse out OF the country
| He got this permit and succeeded In bring.
ing one Arabian stallion back to the United
States, but this. / am told has recently died.
Senator Palmer has sixty fine PerCheron
! horses on his big farm near Detroit, and he
likes nothing in tho world better than to
play at farming in his Sl2, 900 log cabin. He
pines for the forests Of Font Hill, the name
by which he calls his farm, even under the
sunny skies OF Spain, aud | am informed by
very good authority, that he will return 10
the United States next July aud will prob
ably resign his mission at that time. He has
immense interests here, and his salt wells.
lumber yards and pine forests in Michigan
are worth millions. He has a great deal of
real estate in Detroit, and this farm is only
four miles from the city aud is at the end of
an electric railroad. This railroad brings it
in close communication with Detroit, and the
city is rapidly growing towards it. 1t may
be advisable to divide 1t up into lots at an
early date, and the Senator's Jersey cows
and Percheron horses also need his atten.
ton. He wants to be back in
america also to see about his
brown stone house on Mcpherson square for
sale. This house has nine mahogany bath
rooms, and its kitchen and laundry are in the
attic, while there Is a fine stable sandwiched
onto its rear. 1t is finished in the finest
wood, and it is the house for which the sena-
tor was charged $40. 900 more than his con-
tract price with the architect for building.
1t cost hioi, he once told me, $4,000, and he
now offers IL for sale with the lot adjoining
it for $685. 00. He does not want to rent it,
and as it Is not sold, the probability is that
itlwill stand vacant this winter.
Speaking of Palmer's probable resignation
of the office of minister to Spain, there will
probably be q number of. changes when the
spring opens. Colonel DENNY, President
Cleveland's appointee as minister to Pekin,
will not be removed before that time, as it
would be impossible for the new appointee
to get to his post before the opening up of
navigation on the Peiho river. Minister
Childs of Bangkok is still in office, and there
has been as yet no change of appointment at
Korea. Thomas Ryan, the minister to Mex
leo. was here a few days ago, and he has
gone back to Mexico to spend some months
there AT least. From a private letter from
Japan l learn that our new minister at Toxic
Is very popular there. and that he proposes
to entertain on a more extensive scale than
did Governor Hubbard. This letter states
that, Governor Hubbard, according to Toxic
gossip, is SAID TO have saved $4,000 during
his four years service at the Japanese cap
ltal. The minister's salary is only SIG, 900 a
year, and IL cannot be possible that Governor
Hubbard has been able to keep up his estab-
lshmennt on 81, 600.
Secretary Allen of the Korean legation is
now IN the Pacific on his way to Hong
Kong, where he expects to spend some time.
He goes on a diplomatic mission for the king
of Korea, and in all probability, intends to
confer there with Prince Min Yong Tx, who
has been living for some time away from the
Korean capital and at Hong Kong. This
prince IS one of the most powerful of tine
Korean nobility. He has been in a humber
OF cases a friend OF the king, and there must
be trouble brewing in Korea or Secretary
Allen would hardly be ordered to take sucn
a journey when his services are needed here.
Korea has its factions, and the relations of
China and Korea have, for the past few
years, been very strained. Lii Hung Chang,
the vicerOy of China, watches the country
through his sharp almond eyes, and the
Chinese ambassadors at the Korean capital
are inpudent oven. to the king
himself. AS it is. his majesty
is advised by Americans. He pays about
$4,000 a year to Judge Denny of OREGON to
counsel him as to diplomatic and other mat
tiers. He has also the advice of our minister,
Hugh A. DinsmOre, who is a fine coustitu-
tionai lawyer and who IS very close to the
throne. Secretary Allen has more weight in
Korea than any other man in the world, and,
starting out to China as a missionary doctor,
he has developed into one of Tie shrewdest
diplomats of the east.
Speaking of Korea, / learn that the Amer.
lean generals are now getting along very
nicely, and that the army is slowly but
surely being put upon a modern basis.
General Dye proposes to stay there
for some years to come, and it is not improb-
aDlet that his family, who are now living in
Washington, will go out to visit him.
Wade Hampton Gibbs is no longer post
master at Columbia, 5. c. and Senator
maker continue not to smile as they pass by.
Their trouble formed the subject of a chat
among the senators not long ago, and while
the most OF them criticised Senator Wade
Hampton for advlsingthe postmaster general
that he could give an appropriate lecture to
his Sunday school pupils on the instructive
story OF Ananias and Saphira, Senator Voor-
hees apparently took Hampton's part, and
said that Mr.. Wanamaker's reply, stating
that Clayton had not been commissioned and
not saying whether he had been appointed
or not, reminded him of the story of a
bright, red-headed boy who lived in
IN. ..This '0q Soy.o a asid s sasaS!il'' voor Tsas.
twas the only son of a very pious mother,
who had a holy horror of card playing and
Iheater going She looked on the door of the
theater as the gate TO the bad place, and
characterized cards as the picture books of
the devil. She brought her son up on this
basis, and when he was a lad of fifteen she
felt she had him well grounded in the faith.
At this time the boy received an invitation to
visit some city friends of the family in Nash.
VILE. He accepted it. 1t was his first visit
to the city, and his friends were among the
best people Of Nashville. He admired the
easy way in which they did things, and when
he found that they played cards night after
night in their parior he could not see any
thing wrong in it and soon took n hand HIM.
self. AS TO the theater he also fell from
grace. The family laughed at his country
notions and he accepted their invitation and
went. He liked the play 30 we'll that
he went again and again, and he
kept this up until he left for home.
When he had returned tn the little
country village he found himself
the only boy who had ever been TO a city, and
he was the nero Of the town. His boy
friends gathered around him IN his mothers
kitchen, and with swelling breast, he told
them of the great things he had seen in the
city, while the old lady looked on admiringly
through her iron. bound spectacles. The
children asked him questions, and he an
swered them all in a sir oracle manner.
Finally one boy asked, ''Did YOU see Romeo