The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-12-28

reading has been very varied. and and read
accoTulng TO my moods. I can eniov
myself in almost any of the
neios OF literature. / can spend =
peasant sober hour with Seneca, and can
Ii a,.oyy laugn the same evening over the
letters OF my friend, William. or as he Is
more commonly called, Bill Nye. / have
my iun with Puck, and I become ac-
9ua'nted with my soul with pleasure over
the pages OF Emerson. I don't mean to
say ! read one the same as the other. /
nave sometimes to read page of Emerson
get at its meaning. and sometimes I never
get at II. But the fault in this case is. /
am convinced, with Joe Jefferson himself.
ing oA - o"n
Mr.. Calvin Brice, the New York million
are, who will take Henry B. Payne's place
as the next senator from Ohio, has been in
the city this week. He is clean-cut. red
whiskered, blue-eyed young man. with a
hard smile and Western manner. I re-
member him when he began his money
making career about ten years ago, by
pushing the Ohio Central railroad down
through the rich coal fields of that state.
he was then often seen about Columbus
WITH his pants in his boots, SLOUGH hat
on ms head, and with, by no means. the
pest OF clothes covering his angular frame.
Last night, at the Arlington, he wore a
SIX hat, a broadcloth coat, and
every sign OF his clothing. denoted
worth nothing. Now he is supposed to be
worth millions. Ten years ago he was in
ueDt to Governor Foster, and il was Foster
VINO lent him the money and gave him the
boost which enabled him to climb the tree
o. fortune Now that he has plueked the
Iruit, however, he seems to have little use
Tor Foster, and / am told that it was his
money and his efforts that caused Fosters
defeat as candidate for congress this
year. If this is true, the future senator has
shown himself to be the incarnation of In
gratitude. Ex-Congressman Samieson, of
Lima, once told me that Brice, when he
was worth practically nothing, owed Fos-
through additional money which Foster
put INTO enterprises in which he gave
Brice share that enabled him to pay this
debt. He did pay it finally, and came out
with $l35, 900 ahead. 1t was this money
that enabled him to organize his nickIe-
plate scheme, which enabled him TO make
somewhere near three 10 i've million dol
lars and establish himself as big nnancier
Brice was asked by Mckinley during his
visit how matters were in New York He
replied: "A dollar in New York is now as
big as the moon. 1t keeps growing bigger
every day, and money is SO tight that we
have nothing for Christmas. II wish it
had been so before the election" replied
Mckinley, and tllereat the two statesmen
laughed, and Brice laughed the louder.
Colonel Moses p Handy has refused the
consul-generalship to Cairo, and he is
happy in his newspaper duties in connec-
ton with the Worlds fair. He tells me
ne got the two appointments on the same
day, and preferred the Worlds fair posi-
ton because it enabled him to remain at
home. Handy would have made good
consul-general, and he would have been
refreshing change TO some of the men who
have occupied the Cairo consulate in times
past. Schuyler was good man and Card
well, who preceded him. was above the
average of the country editor, the position
which he left TO take the place under
President Cleveland. Wolf was accused
of leaning toward Arab Pasha, and
as for +. IL. Butler, his mission
to a America r lie ' Was drunk during
the greater part of the time that he held
the position, and when he got out of funds
he would go to the Khedive and ask for
loan or present on the grounds that the
United States government did not give
him enough salary TO live upon. America
ought TO have very good man at Cairo
ness of the country, and about 1000 Amer
leans visit Egypt every winter to see the
country and to enjoy the delightful eli
mate. There is no doubt but that the
proper man might be able to make an
opening there for American trade, and the
bulk of our goods which now go to Egypt
are sent TO London or Holland, and there
forwarded on TO the country under new
labels as Dutch or English goods.
DR.. Edward Bedloe, our new consul to
Annoy in China, writes me that he is much
better, and that he will leave London in
ten DAYS for his post. Bedloe is an ac-
complished linguist. He has occupied
position at several of the consular ports of
Europe, and he viii be very popular in the
far east. He proposes to learn the Chinese
language, to make study of Chinese liter
ature, and to open the country, as far as is
possible, to our American manufacturers.
His address will be Annoy, China, and he
is in the most thickly populated and in one
OF the best parts of the empire.
American manufacturers who have
any products that might be of
value To the Celestials, will do well to write
him, and they will find their interests
pushed from the word go" Bedloe is
member of the Clover Club, of Philadel
phia, and this club is fast becoming a
diplomatic institution. General +. Burd
Grubb the new minister TO SPAN, is one
of its members. Charles Emory Smith,
who represents the United States at the
court of the car, is another,
and Colonel Tom Doneidson, the
census taker of the redskins, is a
a third. Major Handy is also a member
of the Glover Club, and understand that
Bill Nye will be elected as one of its men,
bers at the next meeting.
Corea has at last buried the queen dow
ager, and my mail of today brings ME a
letter from the capital stating that she was
planted in great state on the 18th of last
month This letter speaks very highly of
the old lady and describes the funeral. 1t
seems that she at one time held the seals
of state, and that she made three kings of
Corea She was woman of extraordi-
nary ability, aud the reigning king was
her adopted son. The funeral procession
was grand in the extreme, and it must
have been very strange 10 American eyes.
Nv letter describes il rs follows:
1.-THE procession bearing the body to the
grave was composed of two parts, as dis
tinct as life and death. The forepart in
cluded eatables, beautiful banners, ami
mails regally comparisoned and other
things, making up numerous retInue of
horse and of foot, as though the queen
were going out 10 picnic. Behind this
was the funeral procession proper, con-
tanning the ca;afalque accompanied by
large military escort. Many a thousand of
official red lanterns lighted the length of
the procession, and the king caused GER
tain places along the line of the procession
10 be prepared for the use of such of the
diplolnatsc representatives who desired 10
see something of Eastern pageantry. The
American minister had an escort of marines