The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-08-19


a table in the corner of one of the two
rooms in the half cottage, half hovel
home of the delinquents and watched
the men as they threw out the furnish
ings.
A BIT OF GALLANTRY.
One of the family was a girl, and a
bit OF simple carving over the fireplace
was her chief treasure. A burly fell
low was just pitching 1t out on the
sod, where it might break in its fall,
when the girl ran toward him with
little cry. saying. Let me take it,"
The man struck her in the breast and
started to throw the carving through
the doorway, but went through a win
dow instead. in which. fortunately for
him, there was no glass. The Norman
upper cut and ear-warper had both
struck home.
When the Pail Mall correspondent
stepped outside with the girl and her
household god he had another fight on
his hands. The colonel was furious and
demanded satisfaction for the broken
pledge. He was attended to, and later
in the day the village gave dance on
the green i'm Norman's honor. When
he was going away the poor folk gave
him a small Greek cross Of gold, which
he still wears as a watch charm. They
followed him for three miles along the
turnpike, nor would one of them, even
the driver, accept a farthing.
Norman's book on what he saw in
the Irish hamlet excited the ire of Lord
| Salisbury, who said it was all lies.
The young author asked him to repeat
that assertion outside of parliament.
where privilege" protected him. The
| prime minister declined.
In Egypt, whittier Norman went to
write letters to the English public on
| how the campaign under Wolsley
| should be conducted, Norman did not
win favor, at least not with the mill
| tary. He went armed with letters from
the leaders of the party then in power
and felt secure in his position of critic.
INVITED TO DEPART.
The army men wearied of his COM
ments, however, and one night lieu
tenant and four men called at his tent
and asked him to go home. Norman,
reused from a sound sleep, murmured
that he could not think of getting up
then. and, referring to his letters of
great power, said he thought he would
stay. The lieutenant said that unless
his letters were in excess of five man
power he thought he wouldn't. Then
| Norman admitted that he was not
much at mathematics, and possibly
| had miscalculated the force of his
epistles. So he packed up and went
down to a launch that happened to be
waiting for a passenger, with consid-
cradle luggage and many letters, and
steamed down the Nile for home. The
lieutenant said that, considering the
reputation as a conversationalist which
his distinguished charge possessed, he
was singularly poor company on the
way down to the landing.
| In 1887 Mr.. Stead sent Norman to
Newfoundland and then on through
the United States and Canada to Sar
Francisco, and over to Japan and
China, to study the far East and make
tour of the world. He made things
hum along the route and kept the wires
warm. In Frisco he jumped off a
yacht to rescue a womans glove thai
had fallen overheard. The Examiner
had flaming STORY" the next day
in which the woman was not used ov'
erwell and Norman, armed with
rawhide, made diligent search for hi:
"Old Puddin' Chummy," William r
Hearst, the owner of the paper. A
half dozen murders at once would no
have excited the town so much as thi
episode did.
PRESENTED TO THE MIKADO.
In Japan Norman was the first pri
! vate citizen ever presented to the Mix
ado. The presentation was before
body of imperial troops on the Toyamt
Gakko drill ground. Normans pro
Japanese sentiments, acquired from
| Captain Brinkley, editor and proprie
tor of the Japan Mail, excited the ir
of the Yokohama merchants, who as
sembled after his departure and threat
ened to kill him. Norman, however
, was then in Vladivostok, physicall
intact. The merchants had inluenc
enough, however, with the Ministe
Resident of that frozen port to pre-
, vent his summoning the czar to NEE
Henry on his frozen lawn.
Tiger shooting on the Kings pre-
: serves in Korea next occupied the Pa
| Mall special commissioner. Then h
went to China, where lucky specula
tions put him on his feet again, an
| | he proceeded to Siam. The king too
, | a fancy to Normans ingenious politica
: Rotations, and gave him six gol
l mines, seven elephants and compan
of troops wherewith to search for tn
) mines. They were found in due course
{ and a company formed. Norman sol
: out, and, after a trip to Japan. wer
2 home with a comfortable fortune c
4 some 100000.
The merchants of Yokohama wer
E out IN a special train with the man c
I wealth to Enoshhna and picnicke
I there eleefully. Among the party wer
S Sir Edwin Arnold and his daughte
; Old scores were forgotten.
a Norman produced two instructiS
!; books out of his experiences in Easter
s Asia. One. Real Japan" is an author
@ lty on Japanese government and ge
Il sha, and 'Ihe Far East" is an eXceIler
:, general summary of Far Eastern poll
2 ical questions.
On his return to England he wer
on the staff of the London Chronicl
married a celebrated beauty and al
t thoress. made his famous Venezuel
. scoop" and is credited with brinein
r on the Greco-Turkish war.
$ TO A MILKMAID.