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gained a foothold. This she never re-
linquishes, but bides her time, gaining
larger and larger concessions, until at
last the captured province is a portion
of her ever advancing empire. Thus
she spread eastward from Moscow to
the Ural mountains. Thus she moved
onward into Asia and annexed Siberia.
Thus by struggle after struggle she
took Finland from Sweden. Thus by
partition after partition she absorbed
the larger portion of Poland. Thus by
war after war she wrested the Cauca-
sus and Transcaucasus from Turkey.
Thus by crowding and fighting she
conquered portions of Turkestan,
Transcaspia, Khiva and Boukhara.
Thus by diplomacy she is gradually
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mir, and this was all of Russia that
was free during the two centuries of
the Tartar invasion. The modern Rus
STA, however, dates from Ivan of Mos
COW, who arose at the time the Tartar
inundation ebbed back from natural
causes. Ivan took Novgorod in 147S.
Later he gathered in several other
provinces to the south and east. Fol-
lowing him came Ivan the Terrible.
who gave himself the title of czar of
Muscovy. This title he derived not
from Caesar, as is generally supposed,
but from an oriental name, the Russian
translation of the Biblical king. 1t was
during the reign of this second Ivan
that the first war with the Grim Tar
tars was fought, resulting in their re-
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tendency, hence the reluctance on the
part of her masters to allow her sep
arate representation to a foreign power.
Another difficulty was encountered in
Washington in having the legation rec
ognized. Finally the mission was sue
cessful after two years of labor, and
DR.. Allen returned to Seoul only to be
appointed secretary of the American
legation. In 1893 he returned to Amer
lea in charge of the Korean exhibit to
the Worlds fair, but was hurried back
to his post by the troubled conditions
in the Korean capital. At this time he
was practically at the head of the
American legation and was made so in
fact early in President McKinley's first
administration. He has the ear of the
king as has no other man, native or
foreign. The fact that America has
larger concessions in Korea than any
other nation, with the possible excep-
ton of Japan, is due in large part to
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own, so that her settlements are in ev-
cry important city of the kingdom. AS
a result there is little national homo
geneity, the general attitude of each
man to his neighbor being one of i'll
will. The native inhabitants are gen
orally lazy, the women doing most of
the work. There are two weeks in the
year, however, when the male portion
of the community becomes active. This
is the Clearing up time following the
first moon of each new year, when
there is license for all sorts of fighting
in the streets, and grudges made during
the previous twelve months may be set
tied by the arbitrament of the fist.
These characteristics account for the
frequent political outbreaks and riots
in Korea. The towns are filthy, with
out any sort of drainage or sewerage,
and the houses are i'll constructed.
The women are the burden bearers
and are given little consideration, not
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even being allowed a name, but each
being referred to as "the daughter of
--" or "the wife of -.'' The people
are exceedingly superstitious and are
little more than children in mind.
These were the conditions that were
found by Mr.. Allen when he visited
Korea in 1885, being the first mission
airy to enter the Hermit Kingdom. He
sent back such reports of the possibili-
ties of the work in this virgin soil that
the Presbyterian mission board wired
him to remain. He had taken med
ical course and was what is known as
medical missionary" Shortly after his
advent into his new field occurred
riot in which one of the princes was
dangerously wounded. Civil war SEEM
ed imminent, and all other Europeans
and Americans fed. DR.. Allen re-
manned and saved the princes life, or
at least prevented the native doctors
from pouring pitch into his wounds.
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between the Muscovite and every other
cOnquering nation. Rome and England
have taken colonies wherever they
could be secured. Russia took only
those adjacent. She even sold Alaska,
which, though near, was separated by
water. There is no nation so unified, so
organic, and this unity is not only gov
ernmental, but geographic. Whatever
she takes she assimilates. 1t may be
never 50 much at enmity to her. she
makes it Russian. This process may
require centuries. Her purpose is lon
ger. She may leave the captured ter
ritory the fiction of a separate govern
ment, even permit it to remain ostensi-
bly, under the control of some other
great power. 1t suffices that she has
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tightening her grip upon Manchuria.
Who can wonder that Napoleon, who
had the longest vision into the future
of any man of modern times, said that
Europe would ultimately become "all
Cossack or all republican," He could
have added that Asia will become all
Slav or all civilized.
The original Russia is said to have
been of Scandinavian origin. These
virile Norsemen that gave vigor to the
Anglo Saxon, the Teuton and the
Frenchman also stirred into life the
Slav. In the tenth century all the coun-
try known by the Russian name lay in
the regions later occupied by Poland
and Lithuania. Then in the eleventh
century arose Novgorod under Vladi-
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Minister Aliens efforts. This truly re-
markable man was born at Delaware, o.,
in 1858 and graduated from the Ohio
Wesleyan university there in 1882.
After taking a two years medical
course he went as a missionary to
Shanghai, China, where he remained
only one year. thence going to Korea.
His wife is relative of ex-President
Hayes.
Some estimate of the man may be
formed from an utterance in time of
danger. Just after his arrival at Seoul,
when houses were burning, bullets fly
ing and all other white men were flee
ing for safety, DR.. Allen went into the
hastily vacated home of the American
legation and held the fort. 81 came to
do just such work" he said. 81 can't
leave these wounded people. We shall
live in the legation, with the old flag
flying. and trust the kind Father to care
for u.s. LESLIE W. MAGOUN.
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II Il reluctance OF RUSSIA
d 5=11=,171F to admit American and
:: :: 8: =: !: :" =. !:
- other foreign consuls
EN:: into the Manchurian
:s: capital, Mukden, and
=: !, d;S the Yalu river towns
Edia.nIIut I'LL e of Antung and Tatung-
kow in accordance with
the terms of the recent treaty between
the United States and China gives
pointed illustration of the motives and
purposes of the Russian empire. Never
in the history of nations has there been
another such example of persistent ex-
pansion as that afforded by the Slav.
It was only about four or five centuries
ago that he emerged from barbarism
and Monaghan rule. at which time he
possessed a territory but little larger
than the other nations of Europe.
Tirelessly and unremittently from that
day to this he has gone from step to
step gathering tract after tract and
kingdom after kingdom until now he
possesses the largest amount of con-
tiguous territory of any government on
earth.
The means by which this land was
taken have varied. Sometimes by war,
sometimes by diplomacy, sometimes by
settlement, he has reached his ENDS.
airy matter. To secure the land was
the primary object. He did not hesi-
tate at butchery if butchery were nee
essary. He cheerfully lied if lying
would forward his purpose. He To-
mented internal discords in the coveted
kingdom if he thus could come in I'M
der the guise of peacemaker and take
the country for his own. If it were
necessary to reach his goal by indirec-
ton, then the indirect route was fol-
lowed; if he was compelled to seize his
prey when the other powers We're not
looking, such seizure was made; if he
had to wait century before achieving
his object, he waited patiently and
stoIidIy. Beaten back at one point, he
reached out at others, but always and
everywhere he kept in view one thing
to get the land. Cars were born and
died, but the Russian purpose was
deathless. Governments changed but
this one vital, central policy was
changeless. Ivan, Peter, Catherine, AL
exander, Nicholas - these monarchs
personally have represented the widest
divergence of makeup and character,
but on the line of expansion they have
followed one course.
Russia can be compared to a lake fed
from some invisible source and ever
increasing in its area. Sometimes it
has crept foot by foot, sometimes rush
ing over some impeding embankrnent,
it has swept over leagues and leagues
of plain. Sometimes a human upheaval
has crowded it back at one point. Its
waters increased at others. Whatever
the incidents attendant upon it's prog
ress, it moved on. Like the lake. too it
has only spread over contiguous terri
tory. This is the peculiar difference
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q
TX -. ~ vested in the COM
$3.50 S1sa3ab pleted work. in fact
will considerably ex-
coed that sum. as the new canal
through a portion of its length will
follow the beds of the present Erie,
Oswego and Champlain canals, so that
to this extent the expenditure will sim
ply represent improvements rather than
original construction.
The thousand ton barge canal, for as
such the proposed waterway is known
comes about as the result of an act
passed by the New York legislature
submitted to the people and over
whelmingly carried at the last general
election in the state. The estimated
cost of the enterprise has been placed
at S101, 10000 and before DO Is could
be issued to secure loans to cover this
enormous outlay it was necessary for
the voters to pass on the question at
the polls. The bonds issued by the
state comptroller are to run not more
than eighteen years and to bear inter
est at per cent. 1t is believed by
State Engineer and Surveyor Edward
A. Bond, who has the work in charge
that the actual task of constructing the
new canal will occupy about five years
The Hudson river between Troy and
Albany is to be deepened, as is also
the Niagara river. The present canals
are to be enlarged to IS feet minimum
bottom width. with an average TOP
width of about 122 feet and II feet
minimum depth, while the face of the
minimum water cross section will be
LIPS feet. At aqueducts. cities and
towns this may be slightly reduced
In rivers and lakes the minimum bot
tom width is to be 200 feet. with 2.400
square feet cross section. The locks
are to be 32S feet in length. % feet in
width and II feet in depth. They will
all be single except at Waterford and
Lockport.
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ical adviser of the emperor is trusted
with state secrets and is treated as a
member or close friend of the royal
family of Korea rather than as the dip
lomatic agent of a foreign power.
Horace Newton Allen, a grandnephew
of Ethan Allen of Revolutionary fame.
was mfssionary-or perhaps lis" would
be the better word, for he still regards
himself as a missionary. Since leaving
college practically his entire life has
been given to Korea and Korean affairs,
so that he has been identified with ev-
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more than this, as there will be an
army of engineers, designers and other
skilled workmen needed. But at an av-
erage of even much higher wage
there will still be enough demand on
labor to increase the price and to make
condition of prosperity extending
throughout and even beyond the terri
tory contiguous to the line of the pro-
posed work.
Another element of interest is the
fact that this is one of the largest en-
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that is to come from the enterprise. In
the very nature of the work the larger
portion of the s1O1. 100000 to be spent
on the canal must be given out for la
Dor. But, even on the supposition that
only half of it is SO spent, that would
still leave enough to employ 20, 600 men
for a little over dollar and half per
day during the entire five years that it
is estimated will be required to com
plete the task OF course very many of
the men employed will receive much
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terprises ever undertaken by an Amer
lean state, if not altogether the largest
Now that there is so much agitation in
the direction of the state or nation TAX
ing a more immediate part in industrial
affairs the public construction and aft
er that the public operation of this ca
nal will attract the attention of all
students of political and economic
questions.
Still another feature that lends the
undertaking an additional Importance
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Allen an American the Most Powerful Man In Korea

He most influential man
in Korea is an Amer
lean. Notwithstanding
the fact that he is the
official representative
of another government,
being the minister res
ident from the United
States. he is the Dolit-
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is the radical reduction it will effect in
the matter of freight rates. Transpor-
tation tariffs on the canal will be SO
low that railroads cannot hope to COM
pete, thus especially affecting the coal
carrying and grain carrying trade from
the northwest and abolishing differen-
tiais of from 20 cents to dollar per
ton now existing against New York as
compared with some other ports.
1t is planned to begin work on the
canal about the LIST of May. The state
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he construction of a
$1O1,O0O,0OO canal is
the gigantic task that
now confronts the
state of New York.
The real amount in
vested in the COM
pleted work. in fact,
will copsidaralolv ax
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HE reluctance of Russia
to admit American and
other foreign consuls
into the Manchurian
capital, Mukden, and
the Yalu river towns
of Antung and Tatung-
kow in accordance with
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-09-10
Actors Youth Well Kept

of us might have been injured But
one night, just as the scene got fully
under way, the light man switched
the glim upon the leading woman and
kept it on her till the scene was over.
l was good and angry, and made no
bones of saying so; in fact, | called
the light man blooming incompetent.
What was my establishment to hear
him muttering to one OF his COM
panions later:
lump, calls me a bloomin' incom-
petent, does he? I'll have him know |
worked the lights for his father when
/ = played old Gaspard in The Chimes
of Normandy, and he never made no
kick. His father was a real actor,
too
IL had to find what compliment |
could in his tremendous emphasis on
father New York Times.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-09-10
Damage by Forest Fires

GLIDING nearly half the population OF
Peshtigo, at that time town of 1000
inhabitants. Other fires of about the
same time were most destructive in
Michigan. A strip of about forty
miles wide and $50 miles long, extend
ing across the central part of the
state from Lake Michigan to Lake
Huron, was devastated. The esti-
mated loss in timber was about A.
000,000,000 feet board measure and in
money over $1O,000,000. Several hun
dred persons persisted.
A destructive fire of more recent
years was that which started near
Hinckley, Mimi, Sept. 1, 1894. While
the area burned over was less than
in some other great fires, the loss OF
life and property was very heavy.
Hinckley and six other towns were
destroyed, about 500 lives were lost.
more than 1000 persons were left
destitute and the estimated loss in
property of various kinds was $685.
100000. Except for the heroic con-
duct of locomotive engineers and
other railroad men the loss Of life
would have been far greater.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-09-10

rival, he could enhance the chances
OF a speedy success with the woman
by his side.
do you notice the gentleman sit
ting alone in the box opposite?" he
asked as the curtain fell
YES" answered Jessie, raising her
eyes and looking at Blake with
puzzled smile. why do you ask"
That's Arthur Morris, the banker.
Would you like to meet him?"
II shall be delighted" exclaimed
Jessie, who could not resist the temp
tation.
At that instant Morris directed his
opera-glass for the first time at the
Blake box. The smile of joy when
he recognized Jessie turned to one
of blank amaZement when he saw
James Blake. In response to Blake's
signal the dazed Norris was picking
his way through the crush. Blake
led Jessie to the rear of tie box.
miss Garden. permit me to present
my friend. Nr. Arthur Norris
Jessie smiled and offered her hand.
I'm glad to meet any friend of
Mr.. Blake's," she said.
by Jove, old man, this is a joke
on you, or me-or both of u.s." STAN
mered Morris. Charmed to meet
you again, Miss Cardenl How are
you, General Garden? This is a
good one on you, Blake! I've been
acquainted with Miss Garden for
years-five years, is it not, Miss Car
DEM"
Jessie's laughing eyes admitted the
truth and Blake looked properly con-
fused.
"I shall have to forgive you" Blake
said to Jessie, but you are taking
an unfair advantage of a wild West
erner"
"You have the reputation of being
lucky" said Morris, laying his hand
Familiarity on Blake's shoulder, but
I didn't know that your good fortune
extended TO an acquaintance with
Miss Garden"
There was a shade CT insolcnce in
his tone, and an air which did not
escape any of his three listeners. 1t
limited that he was General Gardens
employer; that the latter was under
obligations to him, and that Jessie
was pledged to pay the debt. But
Blake was a good actor in the little
comedy between the acts. He held
the key to the solution. OF all the
figures in this complicated drama, he
alone knew the motives which infiu-
enced the other players.
II might say the same to you, my
dear Morris" said Blake with airy
confidence. Were it in good form
would willingly wager a supper q st
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-09-10
Speed of the Salmon

father met him at the station saying:
II have got your fly and leader all
right, Frank. found them in the jaw
of a twenty-six pound salmon which
| took from the weir at high tide to-
day. II was just 1910 when | dipped
the fish from the weir into my punt.
What time did you lose your rig?"
On comparing watches, father and
son learned that the fish had gone
from a mile above Bangor to Bucks
port Center, distance of thirteen
miles, inside of half an hour. The
tide was flowing up river at the time
at the rate of three or four miles an
hour. After making due allowance
for every condition, it was proved
that the salmon had covered the dis
lance at the rate of about twenty-eight
miles an hour.-New York Sun.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-09-10

One of the great forest fires was
the Miramichi fire of 1925. 1t began
it's greatest destruction about
o'clock in the afternoon of Oct. 7 at
a place about sixty miles above the
town of Newcastle, on the Miramichi
river, in New Brunswick. Before 10
o'clock at night it was twenty miles
below Newcastle. In nine hours it
had destroyed a belt of forest eighty
railes long and twenty-five miles wide.
Over more than 100000 acres al
most every living thing was killed.
Even the fish were afterward found
dead in heaps along the river banks.
Five hundred and ninety buildings
were burned and number of towns.
Newcastle, Chatham and
DOuglastown, were destroyed. One
hundred and sixty persons persisted
and nearly 1000 head of stock.
Peshtigo's fire of October. 1871. was
still more severe than the Miramichi.
1t covered an area of over 1000 square
miles in Wisconsin and involved a
loss in timber and other property OF
many millions of dollars. Between
1900 and $500 persons persisted, in
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-09-10
Record Locomotive BuiIdina.

The Stra;ford works of the Great
Eastern Railway, in England, have the
record of locomotive engine built In
ten hours-a large freighter with a
tender. Before the actual construc
ton was begun the various parts were
:aid close at hand, ready for fitting to-
gether. The workmen began early in
the morning and continued until the
breakfast bell rang. Then the part
ly-built engine was photographed.
After half hours rest the workmen
returned to the task and continued
till the dinner hour, when another
photograph was taken. Thus the
work proceeded till the engine was
completed, with the exception of a
coat of paint. This was quickly laid
on by a spraying machine, and in less
than half an hour was perfectly dry.
The locomotive was then sent on a
trial journey a few miles up the line
and all proved satisfactory, so it was
sent with baggage train. It has
been in active service ever since.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-09-10
A Pre- 1het Without Honor.

The late Hugh Stowell Scott, ia
nous as, Henry Seton Merriman, au.
thor of 1.-THE Sewers" The Vultures"
and other novels, was a man of extra
ordinary reserve and selfcommand.
The following story is told of him:
His father, who was a director of
the London Graphic, had an unac.
countable objection to his sons fol-
lowing a literary career, and tried to
make a business man of him. His
son wrote in secret under a pseudo.
nym, and, although his work was sue
cessful, he never betrayed his literary
identity to his father.
On one occasion his father placed
before him one of the young authors
own stories, saying. Now. IL you could
write a book like this, It would be an.
other thing altogether"
And still the son kept silence
Harper's.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-09-10

Green, travelling over to Little Bethel
schoolhouse for to preach next Sun
day.
The young folks will have 1t they
must be married. for pa is pursuing
them with the plow mules and the
blackboard. So Rev. Green. after hest
tations, marries EN- in farmers par
To-. And farmer grins, and has in the
cider, and says "B'gum!" and farmer
ess sniffies a bit and pats the bride
on the shoulder. And Parleyvoo Pick
ems, the wrong reverend, writes out
a marriage certificate, and farmer and
farmereess sign it as witnesses. And
the parties of the first, second and
third part gets in their vehicles and
rides away. Oh, that was an idyllic
graft! True love and the lowing kline
and the sun shining on the red barns
it certainly had all other impostures
| know about beat to batter.
suppose l happened along in time
to marry Buck and Miss Maloney at
about twenty farmhouses. | hated to
think how the romance was going to
fade later on when all them marriage
certificates turned up in banks where
we'd discounted 'em, and the farmers
had to pay them notes of hand they'd
signed running from $500 to $780,
McClure's Magazine.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-09-10
Just a Wild Flower

All, me! All. me! II was long ago. but
how their memory clngs!
1t was only a wilted daisy dropped In a
city street,
But il lay, that night. i'm the little hand.
while dreams surprising sweet
Fitted, like gay-wnged butterflies,
through the little sleeper's mind
Dreams of the dear. green country she
had always longed to find.
o, children who dwell in the midst of
fields where the wild flowers grow
so sweet.
Think of the child whose only field is the
sitting city street!
Gather and send the daisies fair to the
drcary tenement place,
Where little hearts are hungering for the
wild flowers dainty grace.
1t Is little to do. but the blessing that
goes with the gift you send
VIII brighten and gladden. a little life
and Il precious JOY will lend
To the cherries home to the dreary
child. to the mothers life of woe,
For It carries breath from the beauti-
full fields where the daisies love to
grow.
Los Angeles Times.