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The Portland daily press., 1895-11-27
PLAYS AND PLAYERS.

Henry Irving opened his engagement In
New York with Macbeth.
Richard Mansfield will probably be well
enough to resume his tour within couple
of weeks.
1t is stated that bad business on the road
has already caused more than rs companies
to disband.
Georgia Cayvan has an option on the
american rights of tVanity Fair" by G.,
W. Godfrey.
Gilbert and Sullivan are said to be col.
iaooratlng on comic opera which will be
produced this season.
.t,S oaAopoWskl, who made fortune out Of
Ermlnle, which he composed, is said to
be practically penniless. :
Miss Sadie Martinot has been enoaoed
20 play the leading role in 'sIn Sight NJ e.
Fauls'" Sutton Vane's new melodrana
Miss Bessie Bellwood has notified TONY
fasIor tha5 she will sail for America
shortly. She will appear at PASTORS this
season.
David Belasco's new play, "The Heart
of Maryland" is by many critics regarded
as the strongest drama ever written bv m
American.
Julius Steger, who is singing in "His
Excellency, has received an offer to create
the leading baritone role in Strauss new
opera soon to be produced in Vienna.
Miss Henrietta Lander has been engaged
to replace Miss Blanche Walsh as Mrs. Bul.
ford in The Great Diamond Robbery''
when that piece starts on it's road tour.
Jefferson de Angels, comedian of the
Della Fox Opera company, has completed
arrangements with Manager Nat Roth ia
star him in new comic opera in 1896.
The Portland daily press., 1895-11-27
Winthrop.

Tuesday noon as E. S. French was
leading his high spirited horse through
the street it became frightened at the
falling of ice from the trees 1t backed
against bank and suddenly reared upon
its hind legs; in coming down fore
leg hit Mr.. French a terrible blow
upon the head, infiioting a severe and
painful injury. The scalp was cut for
three and half inches which required
several stitches to close it.
The Portland daily press., 1895-11-27
Ships in the Bosphorus.

Vienna, November 26-Advices from
Constantinople state that the foreign
ambassador to Turkey sent the identical
dispatches to the respective governments
urging them to maintain in the
interest of dignity. the demands of the
powers for permits allowing the entrance
of the second despatch boat each into the
BosphOrous
The Portland daily press., 1895-11-27
Weak Link In the Chain.

Briggs-Did you ever think of the
amounts of debts 81 might pay in day?
For example, I owe you 81, you owe Wick
wire 81, Wiokwire owes Nudge 81, and
Nudge owes me 81. That is 81. Well, I
pay you, you pay Wiokwire, Wickwire
pays Nudge and Nudge pays me-
Braggs-Hold on, there. 1t is evident
you don't know Mudge.-Indianapolis
journal.
The Portland daily press., 1895-11-27
German Emperor's Denial.

Berlin, November 26-The North
German Gazette publishes officially
authorized denial of reports in cirou-
lation that the Emperor is not in SYM
pathy with the omnstrations of the
fleet of the powers in Turkish waters.
The Portland daily press., 1895-11-27

The worst effect Of sin is within, and is
manifest not in poverty and pain and bod
lily defacement, but in the discrowned fac
ultles, the unworthy love, the low ideal,
the brutalized and enslaved spirit.-E H.
Chaplin.
The Portland daily press., 1895-11-27
Be Sure to Attend.

The great ribbon sale at Larrab ee's
today, and you will have great deal to
be thankful for tomorrow. See the low
prices quoted in the advertisement in
another column.
The Portland daily press., 1895-11-27

DIR. and Mrs c. 3. Allen started this
morning for Brooklyn, 242 Willowby
avenue, to spend few weeks with their
son, @. NJ Allen, who is teacher in
Pratt Institute
The Portland daily press., 1895-11-27

Money is only thus far a standard of
value; that which it can measure is per-
1ahable; that which it cannot is immortal.
--Bovee.
The Portland daily press., 1895-11-27
Chinese Destroy French Mission.

London, November ga dispatch
from Shanghai says Chinese natives have
destroyed the K ensive French mission
at Luih-Siang.
The Portland daily press., 1895-11-27
BRIEFLY TOLD.

The New York police commissioners
yesterday, three to one, dismissed Cap
tain Joseph B. Eakins from the depart
tain is dismissed were neglect of duty in
permitting the existence of disorderly
houses in his precinct by the Parkhurst
society. Col. Fred D. Grant was the
commissioner voting against the dismiss
sal of Captain Eakins
The municipal election in Providence
Yesterday resulted in the election of Ed.
win D. Meg uinness, Democrat, for
mayor, and the Democratic treasurer,
overseer of the poor and harbor sslnaster.
The Independents probably gained 10
seats in the city council. The good
government people scored a big triumph.
The Portland daily press., 1895-11-27

We give only a al
Paul Resal, Chef of White G.
Louis G. zeega Chef Hotel Ponce
Gustav Beraud, Chef
AL Piauet Chef West
A. Caller, Chef Hotel Brunswick,
Mrs s. T. Rore Principal Philadelphia Cooking
Mrs Hariott T. Ward Special
Miss Corneia Campbell
And 200 whose
~N' w.
The morning call., 1895-02-10

they give of the makers and their lives.
Minstrels and troubadours and the glamour
of distance have combined to surround
the high-born lady of the age of chivaIrv
with a halo of poetry and romance; but.
after all, was the semi-conventual existence
of the Lady Margaret, or Eleanor, or Rosa
mond of lay or ballad, as she embroidered
away her years shut in by thick castle
walls, really as free and rounded out as
the lives of women in American pioneer
DAYS. or in country life to-day?
Is not the lot of the backwoodsman's
wife or daughter in her log house, with
her marigold and larkspur border in front,
and it may be a cluster of tall suntlowers in
the back corner of the garden, with a life
of hard work, homely fare, and the sim
plest Joys and sorrows, a far more enviable
one than that of the noblewomen of the
medieval castles?
Less sweet and wholesome, too, by far.
was the career which lay before those same
noblewomen than that which offered itself
to our stately colonial matrons, or that
which awaits those who now toll at our
latter-day tapestry whether they are wo-
men in quiet village homes or in roomy
farmhouses, east or west, on valley farms
among the mountains of Tennessee or
North Carolina, or in Southern mansions,
shut away from the neighborhood of busy
towns by long stretches of cypress swamp
or pine NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Magazine.
The morning call., 1895-02-10

were burning. The room was about twenty
feet in height, and great lanterns hung
from the ceiling. There were drums and
gongs here and there for the waking up of
the gods before praying to them, and there
were mats scattered about, upon which the
priests slept later on.
While we were getting dinner the chief
priest, the highest Buddhist in Korea,
came down to see me. He was man of
about so with head as bald as billiard
ball and complexion like that of we'll
beaten drum head. He was withered and
wrinkled, but his little black eyes twinkled
out of their buttonhole Sits, and he was
affable and pleasant He squatted on his
heels on the floor for time, and then,
upon my asking him to take dinner with
me, he sat down cross-legged and we dis
cussed matters together while our aged
rooster was cooking. 1 had good variety
of wines with me, and l offered the chief
priest a glass of champagne. At first he
refused, but upon General PAX telling
him it was not like Korean liquor he gulped
down great swallows, rubbing his stomach
the while as the sparkling liquid sent
warm glow through his veins. The truth
is he finished the bottle right there, and
General PAX made him present of it.
There is no glass in Korea, and the chief
priest considered this magnificent gift.
He bumped his head on the mats before
me in response to it and after this there
was nothing in the whole establishment
which he did not offer to us. l asked him
some questions about his religion. He told
me that Buddhism came into Korea from
China, and that about 800 years after
Christ the first Buddhist monks came from
that country. l spoke TO him about the
revival of his religion in Japan and of the
movement which is there on foot to send
the Buddhist missionaries to Korea, in order
to bring back the country to its old faith,
but he did not seem to have much interest
in the matter, and he was more intent upon
watching the getting of the dinner than
in talking of Buddha. He ate with wooden
chopsticks, and he seemed to like my rice
and chicken soup very much. AS soon as
we were through, as politely as possible I
signifed to him that / would like to lie
down and be at rest. I had been riding
since o'clock in the morning on a razor
backed pony over very rough road, and l
was almost tired out. The Koreans don
use beds. Night clothes are practically
unknown, and the most Of the people sleep
on the bare floors, which are as hard as
The morning call., 1895-02-10

has about it the look of humble prosperity
and homelike comfort which is good to see.
The proprietor of this Tom Thumb of a
building Is Louis Cravre, a native OF Turin,
who came to California some fifteen years
ago and by steady work and good habits
has managed to amass modest compe-
tence, one hundred dollars of which he
applied three years since to making him
self home where no landlady or camp
cook can disturb his peace or tritle with
his digestion.
He is quite a large man, this Louis
Cravre, but he cooks and eats and sleeps
and receives visitors in a space which is to
say the least somewhat limited. Indeed,
when one sees him standing on the grassy
slope outside his little domicile, it almost
seems as though he must fit into it as
tightly as terrapin fits into its shell.
1t is astonishing, though, the amount of
room that there actually is inside thas tiny
house! The proprietor has evidently
made study of the art of living in close
quarters, and his achievements in that
line are simply wonderful. That ski in
terror contains a No. stove, three
quarter bed, four-barrel, large trunk, a
set of shelves for dishes, primitive laun-
dry outfit and a comfortable chair, besides
numberless odds and ends incidental to
bachelor housekeeping, and yet there is
elbow-room enough and to spare. The
fourbarrel sta nds under the window, and,
covered by large pastry-board, does duty
as dining table. The well-polished stove
stands just opposite, and on the zinc plat
form under it and on the nails behind it
are the various pots, pans, skillets and
other utensils belonging to the culinary
department.
The china shelves are squeezed into one
corner, the oyergrown trunk into another,
with the proprietor's best clothes hanging
on pegs over it, and everything is what
But where is your bed?" was asked.
"Surely you do not sleep on the floor!
There isn't room for you to do so, in fact"
And then the host laughed in his CHEEKY
way and pointed upward.
The room is unceiled and over in the
corner above the trunk on the crossbeams
is to be seen something which looks like
the nest of gigantic barn-swallow. 1t is
three-quarter bedstead with its legs am
putated, and upon it is a well-made and
decidedly comfortable looking bed. A
light ladder, resting against the wall,
shows how this aerial perch is attained,
and although the slant of the roof is such
The morning call., 1895-02-10

spent night last spring in the biggest
Buddhist monastery of Korea. 1t was
founded 100 years ago, and Korea had
Buddhism while Japan was still worship
ing the sun goddess of Shintoism. The
fact is that Japanese Buddhism came from
Korea. This was about 500 years after
Christ, when one of the Korean kings gave
a golden Buddha to the Mikado. He popu-
larized the religion, and Japan was soon
filled with Buddhists, monks and nuns.
The religion became popular, and to-day
Japan is one of the great Buddhist coun-
tries of the world. Korea, on the other
hand, has sunken into barbarism. 1t is
the land of infdels and superstitions. The
Buddhist religion, which was so strong in
the past, has fallen into disgrace, and,
until lately, the priests were not allowed
to come into the city of Seoul. There are
no Buddhist temples in Seoul, and there
are not great many over the country
The chief center Of religion is in the eastern
part of the peninsula, and the monastery
which l visited is one of the richest and
largest in the world 1t had hundreds of
acres of forests connected with it. 1t
owned vast estates, and it had build
ings or temples which made me think OF
those of Japan. 1t was made the imperial
monastery about one hundred years before
the discovery of America. The founder of
the present Korean dynasty was born near
it, and was taught by one of its priests.
The result was that when he became king,
about five hundred years ago, he favored
this monastery. He gave it imperial rank,
and its priests have been getting fat off
presents ever since. This man planted
some trees along the road which leads to
the temple, and I rode through these on
my way to the monastery. They are i'm
mense pines, almost two hundred feet in
height, and opposite them stand stone tab
lets commemorating this great monarch.
There is an old prophecy in Korea which
The morning call., 1895-02-10

that it is quite evident that the occupant
of the couch must roll in and out OF 1t
lengthwise Louis earnestly assured his
visitor that it was s'varry nice up there, "
and moreover, ''varry much out OF the
way"
As housekeeper Louis is decided sue
cess. He knows how TO cook excellently
we'll; he keeps his dishes clean, and as he
is far from miserly in disposition, he sets a
table which is really tempting, There Is a
cellar under the house, reached by trap
door in the floor and here, In separate
compartments, are kept meats, vegetables,
and small store of the red wine dear to the
Italian heart. As Louis sits at his solitary
meals he looks from his open door down
on the city far below and across the beau
tiful blue bay, over to the far-off Berkeley
hills. No mansion in town commands a
fairer or more inspiring view, and Louis
has enough of the artist about him to APP
preciate this fact thoroughly.
II like it," he says simply, 1T SUITS me
to look over it ALL" And well it may.
One comes away from a visit to TINS
pleasant home filled with the conviction
that it is simply absurd to burden oneself
with the care of an establishment OF the
ordinary size, since Louis. Cravre Demon
strates daily how decently, happily ana
comfortably even big man can i've III the
very tiniest house in town.
The morning call., 1895-02-10
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Copyright, 1895.
THE FUR SEALS.
They Have More Than Paid the Cost of
Alaska.

They Have More Than Paid the Cost of
Alaska.
The fur seal tits name should be furry
sea lion) is the most celebrated of all our
fur bearers, and the United States Govern
ment has been as active in protecting it
from destruction as it was Indifferent to
the fate of the buffalo millions. If our
great international dispute with England
and Canada over the fur seal had arisen
seventy years ago, before the days of
peaceful arbitration, there would surely
have been war over it. Nor is our inter
est in our fur seal to be wondered at when
we stop to consider that from 1870 to 1890
our National Treasury received $4,000 600
from the Alaska Commercial Company as
royalty on the animals killed (six-sevenths
OF the purchase price of Alaska.)
When to this we add the amount re-
celved In 20 per cent import duty on the
dressed skins as they came back to us
from the English dyers, the total revenue
derived from the fur seal in twenty years
amounts to the enormous sum of $S, SOC, 600.
Such an animal was worth saving from
destruction. No other animal ever became
such bone of contention between two
great nations for a long period, the discus
sion winding up with high and mighty
conference of arbitration.
AS usual, the whole trouble arose
through the greediness of a few irresponsi-
bic and lawless individuals. The seaiers of
the Pacific coast insisted upon taking fur
seals by shooting them in the open sea, by
which wasteful process seven were lost for
every three secured. But if it were not for
the loss of money revenue derived from
this animal it is quite certain the Govern
ment would have allowed the wasteful
slaughter to 60 on until the last seal was
dead.-St. Nicholas.
The morning call., 1895-02-10
Furnishing Careless coachmen.

When an omnibus or cab-driver runs
over foot passenger in London streets the
possible loss of license exercises a whole
some restraint. The private coachman and
the driver of the bridesmaids cart have far
less conjunction in teaching an old gen
tleman to get out of their way by running
him down. At the worst, they are fined
not infrequently their fines are paid by a
sympathizing employer. But no one pays
a poor cabman's fines, and the loss of a
license in addition means the loss of his
means of livelihood.
In Paris, we believe, the driver of a
fiacre is generally allowed by the law to
run over one bourgeois in the course
of year; in London magistrates are less
lenient. Moreover, the law makes
an unfair and arbitrary distinc-
ton between the claimants case and
that of the unlicensed driver. The former
is liable to be removed from the box for
good and all; the driver of the cart may
continue to urge OH his wild career, though
he destroy several citizens in the course OF
the year.-The Spectator.
The morning call., 1895-02-10
They Never s1eep.

According to observation by scientists
there are many creatures which live with
out sleep. This is the case with some MEM
bers of the insect tribe, such as the may
fly, which only live for a limited number of
hour, and spend their short term of a sin
gle days existence in flying over the sus-
face of some stream, never pausing to rest
or sleep, with some fishes, and also, with
the animalcule. These last, which in
crease in division and subdivision so rap
idly as to make their numbers almost past
belief are in ceaseless motion, never rest
ing, and sleep in their case would seem to
be entirely out of the question. Fishes are
not generally supposed to enjoy sleep, al
though many species do periodically rest
for about couple of hours at time. Ex-
periments have shown that the salmon.
pike, goldfish and angler fish do not sleep
at all. Fishes have no eyelids like the higher
mammalia, and their brain is very small
in proportion to their size. Animals which
have no real brain cannot be said to enjoy
true sleep, the chief feature of which is the
cessation of automatic activity of the brain.
On the other hand, there are some animals
which obtain an excessive amount of sleep,
such as snails, which have been known to
sleep for four years at time.-Brooklyn
Eagle.
The morning call., 1895-02-10
A MOTHERS PICTURE.
1t Was the Means of Saving a Son Give1
to Drink.

lit Was the Means of Saving a Son Given
to Drink.
A lady sat for Paris portrait painter
Wearied by constant social exertion and
tortured by hidden family trouble which
threatened momentarily TO burst like a
volcano through the crust of their social
position, she unconscIously allowed her
face during the time of the sittings to relax
from the rigorous mask of pleasantness
which she forced her features into for the
world to see. Three times the artist faith
fully painted the face before him on the
canvas, to discover each time that he had
lined the face of an old woman haggard
and drawn with psin. The last time, with
a dash of his brush across the picture, the
artist set it aside, and having guessed at
some temporary mental anguish of his
model, which, though making such an I'M
pleasing portrait, had not destroyed the
likeness, suggested that she defer the sit
tings for few months and resume them
after short rest
Rumor makes the romantic continuation
of the story send upstairs the prodigal
son, who was one of the immediate causes
of the care-drawn lines, which the I'M
willing artist had copied into the mothers
likeness, and staggering with intoxicated
laundering into the open doorway of the
painters studio, instead of that of one of
his cronieS on the next floor, was con-
fronted by the face of his mother above the
long, white shroudlike blur, which was
meant to have also obliterated the face
The shock is said to have sobered the
young fellow, and, after convincing the
artist of his sincerity, persuaded him to be
allowed to carry home the disfgured paint
ing, where within the year, he hung it on
the wall of his own room, and beside it
little miniature of the same face with all the
pain smoothed out by his own reforma-
tion.-New York Herald.
The morning call., 1895-02-10
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keep off the evil one. / saw several table
rocks on my trip across the country which
are used for sacrifices in times of cpl
denies, and one immense stone of this
kind, about twenty feet square, was told,
saved the country from smallpox. The
Koreans believe in astrology They have
their lucky days and their unlucky days,
and they think that the spirits hover about
them and work them good or i'll. AT the
cross roads | often saw straw effigies
which, | was told, had been made by men
as guard against evil diseases. In such
straw men are hidden pieces of money, and
the parties who make them say prayer
over them, asking that they be delivered
from all diseases and misfortunes for the
next twelve months. They then give them
to the boys, who tear them TO pieces to
find the money. The more the figure is
torn the greater the efficacy of the charm.
The Koreans consider nine to be lucky
number, and they have all kinds of rain
prophets and dream signs.
| found many boys in this big Korean
monastery. They were studying to be
priests and the chief priest took four of
them and posed them, in order that /
were bright little fellows, and they went
over the prayers of Buddha quite gibly,
not knowing what they mean. The children
form one of the most interesting features
of Korea. They are bright and good-na-
tured and very polite. They tagged at my
heels wherever went, and gave the chief
amusing features of the whole trip. In the
summer children under 6 wear little more
than little jacket, which comes just down
below the armpits. They eat great quanti-
ties of raw turnips and pumpkins, and the
whole of baby Korea may be said to be pot
bellied. The children have all kinds of
games, and they delight in the flying of
kites. Their kites are made differently
from ours. They are square in shape with
hole as big around as tin cup in the
middle. They let out the string by a reel
and they have kite fights. They use great
skill in this amusement, and two rival
kites will fight like live things hundreds of
feet up in the air. Each one of the fight
ers tries to entangle the other kites, to
break their strings and drag them down to
the ground. The greatest kite-flying time
is during the New Year holidays, and the
men as we'll as the boys have their kites.
The Koreans are fond of gambling, but
the laws provide that there shall be no
gambling except at funerals, and then only
among the friends of the deceased. This
makes the dead man very popular, and all
who have any claim whatever to friend
ship or relationship with him appear at