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phia and DR.. Hamilton in New York, and
at o'clock the next morning a special
train bearing DR.. AgDew drew into the
Pennsylvania station here, and two hours
later DR.. Hamilton arrived from New
York.
The first convention returns received at
the White House over the Government
wire came during the convention which
nomin ated Garfield. The night before the
nomination was made President Hayes
was in the teleeraph-room with Mr.. Mont
gomery, who has charge of the telegraph
service. until very late hour. 1t was
after midnight when he stopped reading
the bulletins and went to bed. His family
was with hun that night. The next day
was Cabinet day, and all the members
of the Cabinet were present when the
news of Garfeld's nomination was re-
ceived. 1t came at 1 80 o'clock, and the
time was marked on the bulletin which
Carl SchuTZ read TO the little group in the
telegraphIroom before the operator had
formed the last letter of the message.
81 80 Garfield nominated" it said. There
was a buzz of comment from the Presi-
dents friends. The President returned to
his Office aud little later lie sent in 10 the
telegraph-room an autograph message of
congratulaiion to Mr.. Garfield. Mr.. Hayes
received the news of Garfeld's election in
the telsgraph-room. Webb Hayes. who
acted as his fathers private secretary.
handled the bulletins for him and later
brought them TO him in his library.
The next important occasion when the
Government wire was called into use was
when President Garfield was lying near
death in the White House. There was no
clerical work done in the Presidents Office
during that sorrowful time. Business in
all the Government bureaus was paralyZed
and the paralysis was most complete in
the White House. All the interest CEN
tered in the telegraph Office, and the ope-
rator was kept busy receiving and sending
messages. When the famous specialists
were not in Washington they were always
within quick telegraph call. All the bulle-
tins about the Presidents condition went
out officially over the Presidents wine.
The most important of these were the
bulletins sent by Mr.. Blaine over his own
signature. The country learned to rely on
these for its knowledge of the Presidents
condition. Every night at 10 or II O'Clock
Mr.. Blaine came to the telegraph-roOm and
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wrote the bulletin for the day on piece
of the State Departments official blue
paper. At the bottom he wrote the name
Blaine in bold, firm letters. After he
had written the bulletin he would hand it
to the operator and have it read aloud to
him to assure him that it was going out
correctly.
There was an intense interest in the
proceedings of the Chicago convention
which nominated Mr.. Blaine for the Presi-
dency and no one had d livelier interest
in it than Mr.. Arthur. for he was a candi-
date against Mr.. Blaine for the n ominatiou.
The wire which runs into the White
House was connected with direct wire
running to the convention hall, and the
action of the convention was known in the
White House almost as soon as it occurred.
Mr.. Arthur was in communication with
his lieutenaDts at Chicago too, and he
talked with them over the White House
wire. Most OF the bulletins were taken 10
Mr. Arthur in his office or library by Mr..
Phillips, his secretary, or Mr.. Mont
gomery. When the news of Blaine's NOM
ination came-news which had been anti
cipated by those who were watching the
course OF tho couvention-Geuetal George
III. Sharp of New York was standing in
the telegraph-room and he carried the
message to Mr.. Arthur. Mr.. Arthur was
never demOnstrative and he took the news
coolly. though his defeat was bitter blow
to him. Mr.. Arthur received the news of
Cleveland'S election sitting with group
of friends in the lower hallway of the
executive mansion, a part of which had
been converted into smoking corner.
During the term of Mr.. Cleveland there
was no great occasion which called the
telegraph into play, though for that mat
ter there is never lack of important bust
ness for it to do. All of the elections which
occurred during the four years were bull
le;ined to the White House direct, and
Mr.. Cleveland aud his Cabinet yeople
read them usually in the library. When
the St Louis convention was held there
was comparatively little interest in the
bulletins, because the action of the Demo-
cratic party was cut and dried. But when
the election news was coming in there was
lively interest in 1t among the White
House people. Mrs. Cleveland's interest
was quite as great az that of her sband,
and the wives of the Cabinet officers were
invited 10 dine at the executive II ansion
and to hear there the result of
the voting. 1t was pretty evident be-
fore the evening came with its de-
tails of the result that the tide was
againstS Mr.. Cleveland. The President
had not given up the fight when ne sat in
his office at o'clock in the evening, sur
rounded by the members of his Cabinet,
and studied the returns as they were tab.
ulated for him by Colonel Lamont Ten
o'clock In the evening showed him that he
was beaten. aud when some optimi.t
said, "Wait till We hear from Illinois, +"
Mr.. Cleveland is said to have responded
tersely: illinois? HIP Perhaps
Mr.. Cleveland recalled that dialogue W hen
Illinois gave him her electoral vote four
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his mouth, which shows through a rather
thin mnstache ana whiskers of black, is
strong and yet pleasing. He shook my
hand in American fashion, and addressed
me 10 English. He chatted with me
Sbout the growth OF Japan and he told me
that he thought the country was just on.
the edge of its development and that it
had great future. He referred to the
japanese troops which he was then send
ing into Korea, and when | asked him a
to whether be thought that there might be
war between Japan and China he
shrugged his shoulders and SAID "Who
can tell? We are sending our soldiers To
Korea 20 take care of our people and if
the Koreans should ask us 10 help them
pat down the rebellion we might possibly
consent. There ia one thing that is GER
tain and that is that if our soldiers are at
tackled they viii fight, and as it is now
China has already been the aggres .or.
But you know L can hardly talk on this
subject just now. The situation is critical
and no one can tell whether there will be
war or not"
This was three weeks before the war vas
declared, and there is no doubt but that
Count Ito at that time had all his plans
laid, and he gave me TO understand during
the interview that it would take very little
prOvocation TO bring his men into battle.
A few days later the japanese transports
were carrying thousands of troops into
Korea, and the condition OF the Japanese
army shows that Japan had long had war
in sight. The military department was so
thoroughly organized that 100000 troOps
were slipped out of the country without
creating more than ripple upon the waters
Of the social and business life of the Japan
esq empire, and the troops which were sent
TO Korea were thoroughly equipped, both
for fighting and for reforming the coun-
try. They carried telephone and tele-
graphic material, and while the Chinese
tried to live off the people, they carried
all of their own provisions and took coolies
with them by the thousand to aid them in
transporting their baggage. In connec-
ton with Count Ito and the different par
ties of the Japane se mpire, it is curious to
state that both the administration and
the opposition parties delegated men to 90
along To report on the actual occurrences
in order that they might use the same as
political capital, and all of the newspapers
sent corps of reporters. A few days after
my interview, however, Count Ito made
the censorship Of the press even more
rigid than it had been in the past, and
the papers were warned that any CON-
ments upon or news of the war which
might be published without first
going through the hands of the censors
would subject the papers to immediate sus-
pension, and the editors to fines and i'm
prisonment. This has been the policy of
Count Ito throughout the struggle, and the
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little deeper, but not until fifty had been
hitched to the plow did it move through
the soil at any sort of speed. AT best il
moved very slowly. and it took four men
to hold the handles and make it stay in
the furrow.
Horses were cheap in Kern County at
that time and feed cost nothing, so the
pillow was little saving after the men had
learned how to handle il, so it did OF Gu,
more than eighteen or twenty inches deep.
The next season it was tried with oxen,
aud it took seventy-five of them to do the
work. On the whole the pillow was not q
success. and after being tinkered at for a
few years, was finally discarded and al
last given place in the stable-yard, where
il could be preserved as curiosity.
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boys then started to 60 back to the ship, but
Count Inouye found that he had lost the
diagram. They walked the streets OF Lon
don for hours. and it was dusk before they
got to the wharves. They ate their bread,
however, and the next day messenger
from the merchant to whom their money
was consigned came for them and took
them in charge. They used their time well.
They spent some time 10 studying English
manners and customs. They looked into
the army and navy, and their bright minds
soon grasped the fact that Japan could
never make a successful struggle against
such wealth, and such a mighty nation as
that about them. They considered it their
duty TO go back and tell the Prince what
they had learned.
1.-The two boys had some trouble in get
ting back to Japan, and they finally made
their way into the presence Of their Prince
and told him their story. 1t was by no
means well received. for he was fighting
the foreigners at the time, and his hatred
of them was great. The soldiers were ex-
ceedingly angry at the suggestion that the
foreigners were stronger than they and
equally brave, and when Inouye left the
castle one night be was set upon by a mob
and slashed and hacked and left for dead
by tie roadside. He recovered conscious
ness and was able to crawl to his mothers
house, and it was only by careful nursing
that he was brought back to life, and he
bears on his face to-day the scars of
the wounds he received during that
night. Shortly after this time the
Shotgun was put down and the revo-
luton was organized by which the Mix ado
again became the real ruler of the
people, and the western civilization gradu-
ually worked its way in. In every move
ment toward modern progress both Ito and
Inouye have been in the front, and it is
due largely to them that Japan now stands
shoulder TO shoulder with any modern
nation on the globe. Count Ito has long
been the most influential and powerful of
all the Japanese statesmen, and he is now
pushing the civilization of which he got
his first knowledge in this romantic way
into the land of Korea. and there is no
telling but that his ambition may be the
eyentfui revolutionizing of China itself.
He is certainly most remarkable man,
and all the diplomats who have met him
sneak of his wonderful ability. He had
an interview with Ii Hung Chang not
long ago, and during it Ii changed his
views of Japan, which he had thought up
to that time was dangerous to China, but
Ito told him that Japan and China should
be friends, and that it was to their inter-
est to work together. | am told that Ito
at this time really believed this to be the
case, but he has since evidently changed
his opinion"
| arranged, strange to say. for my talk
with Count Ito by telephone. Think of
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little talk that l had with him is probably
the last that will be given to any news
paper man until the war closes. | have
received letters from Japan within the
past few days, saying that no news what
ever is given ont 10 correspondents, and
that it is almost impossible to get any
thing authentic regarding the war. The
Japanese outside of Count Ito and his con-
tidential officials know practically nothing,
and as for the Chinese, they systematically
lie in regard to such matters as reports of
their battles.
During my conversation with Count Ito
the question of Japan's industrial develop
ment came up. and he spoke of the growth
OF Osaka and of its cOtton-mills. He said
that most foreigners in estimating Japan's
possibilities forget TO put in the women,
who are equal with the men ip almost all
manufactures, and who practically double
the working force of the japanese nation.
They do great deal of work in the cotton
mills and they have hand in the making
of nearly everything that is shipped to
America. AS TO cotton, Count Ito told me
that Japan bad thirty years ago about 5000
spindles at work, and that this NUN Der
had risen in 1883 TO over 10000. Within five
years from that it had doubled, having then
S. 600 spudles. This was in 1858, and there
were twenty-four mills then at work -Four
years later the sriDdles nun bered 400, 900,
and there ara now forty-six great modern
mills, with COO, COO spindles. 1t is impossible
to estimate the growth Of Japan's modern
manufactures, and the greater part of her
Gotten now comes from America, though
much of IL first goes to London and is
| thence shipped to Japan. During the talk
Count Ito referred very kindly to the Uni
ted States. saving that he had spent
some time in Washington looking into our
monetary system, and that he had been
awarded every facility by the Treasury
Department. He spoke of the financial
situation in Japan, telling me that the
country was in splendid condition not
withstsnding the fall in silver, and he re-
| ferred with satisfaction to the prospect of
the treaties being revised in a very short
! time. Since then England has made new
treaty with Japan, and it is probab tina {
! the other countries will follow within a
short time. Japan every day rises higher
| and higher among The ranks of the nations,
and the day has passed when size could
be considered anything else than the equal
/ of any of the countries Of Europe.
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THE COBURGS.
1t VIII Not Be Long Before They
Will Reign Over Most of Europe.

From the accession of the Prince of
Wales the British royal family, by British
custom, will be called the Coburgs; and
had it been the lot of the little Lady Alex
andra Duff or any future brother of hers,
TO found new line, that would have
been called the Dnffs, alike by historians
and by the people, prospect which in
spired no pleasure. The CObCrgS are
better liked; they are supposed. and so
far rightly supposed, to accommodate
themselves more easily than any other
reigning family TO constitutional mon
archy; they are royal by descent, and
they have had the strangest good fortune
in their alliances.
Within few years the three greatest
thrones in the world. those of Great Brit
ain, Germany and Russia, will be filed by
defendants of the Prince Consort. while
seven minor thrones. those of Belgium,
Portugal. Greece. Hesse, SaXe-Gotha, Rou-
mania and Bulgaria-one of which two
last may reign at Constantinople-will all
be filled by men of Coburg blood. posi-
ton of that kind is a very great though a
very peculiar one, and when the change
oecurs-may it be long first-the English
will have no need to explain whence their
dynasty springs or how it got there The
feeling for pedigree. though it is unexpli-
ca BILE, for after all the founder is usually
the greatest of his line. is permanent and
indestructible; and There was therefore
universal pleasure when it was announced
that the Duchess of York had been safely
delivered of son, ana that the line of
Coburg was, humanity speaking, destined
to continue.
England, some people think, will be
republic before the new baby becomes a
monarch-say, fifty years hence; but dy-
nasties are long-lved. England has been
nearer republcanism than she is now.
and within the time of men still living
new rampant has built itself around the
monarchy. When the royal standard Is
pulsd down the empire will be pulled
down, too, and it is the empire that the
people delight in rather than IN any dream
of a federation in the English-s peaking
peoples, which would transfer all political
initiative from London to some city across
the Atlantic. We do not see why Ian
guage should be much OF bond. and we
do not see that the Spanish-speaking re-
pnblics are friends of Spain. For any
thing any one can forecast NOT only may
the newest Coburg reign in Great Britain
and India, but his tenth descendant. Tha
hold of the word republic" over the
imaeInat of mankind has n OF increased
of late years, nor the evidence that democ-
racy and monarchy are inherently incom-
patible.-London Spectator.
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At the recent meeting of the British
Association an instrument applicable TO
structures already in position was de-
scribed that can measure longitudinal
strain as small as 1-100, 000th of an inch.
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The State Geologlst of Minnesota in
sists that there is underlying Minneapo-
lis never-failing river of pure water
abundant for the supply Of the needs of
the city for all time.
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NO COON FOR HIM.
He Wanted One With Moro Ability Than
That One.

Ao Wanted One With Moro Ability Than
That One.
man who had full grown coon I'm q
DON was showing the animal Off the other
uay on Gratiot avenue. Ills object was to
make SALE but it was u long time before
anybody became particularly Interested
Then fat and jolly looking man came to
a halt, inspected the coon for u minute and
fDquired:
My friendt, who vhas dot?"
mat Is coon, Sir" replied the owner
II ketched him on my own farm, out here
about II miles"
"Do you like to sell hcr?"
! That's what brought him in for That
coon is well worth $40 of any mans money
but as times are hard and l want cash I'll
take S.. He's n big bargain Mt that price"
"Vhas he good for something's"
WAS he? Well, l should say he wasl
In tho first place, coons are mighty skeerce
around here, and, in the second, he's trick
coon I've spent more than six months
learning him tricks"
"Vhell, guess take him." said the fat
man rs he felt in his pocket II belief 1
like to buy some trick coons."
Where will you have him delivercds"
"Shust wait minute. i like to know
about dose tricks. Does dot coon walk on
some tight rope?'
"Tight roper Ihave never tried him. but
think he could. a coon, you know, is rs
Intelligent us Il dog"
Yes, know dot. Does he say to you,
An, dereP and Where you got dot hat?'"
mo, of course not Coons can't talk.n
docs he hang by his tail, like some
monkeys i'll der woods?"
He could, suppose. I'll guarantee him
to furnish you more amusement than any
10 monkeys"
Dots fine. vhas great hand to be
amused. If haf some coon to amuso me,
sit oop nights and laugh. Can dot coon
sing me funny songs?"
"Singl Who ever heard of a coon sing
ing?"
"Vhcll, doan' see Why. If he could sing
to me, it makes me feel better. Doan' he
call out to peoples like u parrot und say he
WANTS IL cracker!"
My dear sir" said the coon man, won
evidently expect too much of u coon. A
coon is not u bird. If you get him for S..
you are making the biggest bargain of your
life Next spring, when the money market
is easier, Fll be glad to give you $40 to get
him back.''
YES, dots so. belief she vas n big bur-
gain vhas trying to buy n coon for moro
ash 20 years. How Was dis coon about
burgarst''
"Ilow do you mean?"
why, if some burglars got in my house,
What does he do nit 'cm?"
dol He won't do anything. What can
you expect him to do?"
"DOan' he bark and scare 'em away?
Doan' he go r-r-r-r-r-r-r like some burglar
alarm"
mol Look here, man. You seem to have
some queer ideas about coons. AS told"-
All right, all right doan' took him! l
doan gif you even 81 for himl If he doan'
keep burglars away, how vhas he any good
to me3 How vhas he any trick coon? No,
sir. l doan' buy him for 10 cents, und
like to see you go to shall for n shwindler!"
Detroit Free Press
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TRUSTEES, SALES.

PY VIRTUE OF A DEED OF TRUST DATED
- ~ the 9th day of March,, 1898, and recorded in
March, 1898, in deed book SO, page All, whereby
Galen H. Coon conveyed to me as trustee the
hereinafter described property in trust to secure
o. Howard Roger, trustee, the payment of the
following named Gums of money:
h EYE I'VE H nun dollars payable sixty days after
gotiable note dated March 9th, 1923, bearing in
terest at the rate OF six per cent per annum, and
payable to .. Howard Roger, trustee
Five hundred dollars, Bile one hundred and
twenty days after the 9Th day of March, 1885, evil
denced oy negotiable note payable to the said o.
Howard Roger, trustee, bearing INF crest at the
9th day of March, 1888
Seven hundred dollars, payable in one hundred
and evidenced by negotiable note bearing inter.
eft at the rate Of six per cent; per annum. pay
Seven hundred and fifty dollars, payable I'm two
hundred IAN and forty days after the 9th day OF
able to the SAID o. Howard Roger, trustee. bear.
Ing interest at the rate OF six per cent per
annum, and dated the 9th day of March, 1893.
three hundred days after the 9th day OF March,
1885, evidenced by negotiable note, payable to
the said o. Howard Roger, trustee, bearing In
dated the 9th day OF March. 1899
sevcn hundred and fifty dollars payable in
tnree hnndred and sixty days after the 9TH day OF
March, 1898, evidenced by negotiable note, pay
able to the said o. Howard Roger trustee, bear.
ng at the rate Of six per cent
seven hundred and flftyy " d March' ioySi
four hundred and twenty days after the 9th day
OF March, 1893, evidenced by negotiable note pay.
ing Interest Mt the rate OF six per cent per an.
mum, and dated the 9th day OF March, 1898
And default having been made in tho payment
OF portion OF the said note for the sum OF $7CO
aforesaid, 1900 having been paid thereon on No.
vember D, 1893; and In the payment OF the first
two $3.50 notes above mentioned, due and pay.
able In 24O and 800 days. respectively, after the
9TH day OF March, 1893, and having been required
by the said 0. Howard Roger. trustee, so to do,
MARCH, 1891, AT IL O'CLOCK H., ofrer for ssit
to the highest bidder, ut public auction, In from,
OF the courthouse OF the city OF Roanoke, viz,
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TRUSTEES. SALES.

meuec north ~ degrees - con lis west 2,G bT-1CO
ieet to the place OF beginning contnininy sr
s us saIu iahd being part or the land sold To the
EH, nt iron and Land Company by hristian
S neeM OIL correction, which was recorded February
90 ls'5 IN the CLERKS Office OF Botetoart coupfv
court for bctfti description
TRIMS: Cash sufficient TO pay the cost n, 49,,
eu.lng TINS trust including five pcr cent commits
10 me trustee, ano the cost Of chanccry suit
Deoow and ais injunction. and to discharge n
S e, negotiable note, bearing date August
=, ,o'W lor $40 o. with interest from date. subject
20 credit 81 $50. June II, 1873. and S75 August
- ISIS iSa AZ SG25 on the 9TH day OF September
50 a,id each month thereafter including March,
rcar. anu ~, INC balance, IL any, in and two
u tiust OF the land purchased.
,oo., @. II. VINES
'0''0s Special Commissioner