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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-04

prised if any one had told him. that
his graceful swoops and dances were
all due to the small boy with the
piecesof string.
suppose that | really was too
eondescending to speak at all with
that common person" thought the
kite. i wonder what my true realm
is and where can shine the most"
GU would better come along with
me, said loud voice right in his
ear The kite looked up and saw a
long-haired man, taller than noun
tains, with f1uttering cloak of gray.
His hair was huttering, too So was
his beard. Indeed, everything on him
and around him was tapping and
whipping and dancing, and the kite
felt that he, too, was beginning TO
futter and that his tail was blowing
out straight in front Of him.
Down below, the small boy and his
friends were trying their best to pull
in the string But they could not
move it and the tall man laughed.
"E1a, ha. hal" cried he They don't
know that the West Wind has the
kite in his arms and is going travel
ing"
The next moment the string broke
close to the ground, and the golden
and pink and blue kite went whirling
away, side by side with black cloud
that had red and green hem of
lightning on her flowing sable cloak.
Hoo, hoo, hoo' sang the West
Wind, bending the treetops down and
letting them whip upward again as
he passed. He stopped to the ground
and took heaps of sand and dust into
his broad arms and threw them high
in the air to rain down again on the
towns and get into peoples eyes: That
made him laugh.
1T was roaring laugh, that puz-
zled the weather vanes So sadly that
they all twisted wildly this way and
that
Goodness mep' crowed the golden
rooster on the town hall steeple. 81
wish that you would tell us which
way you are blowing How do YOU
expect me to do my duty if you laugh
like silly instead of blowing straight
as an honest wind should? Do you
know that you might cause a calam-
ity by preventing me from pointing
right?"
The West Wind laughed so hard
at that that he blew the poor old
weather vane clean off the spire.
"Horrorsf gasped the golden roost-
er as he went hurting over and over
in the air. Nov there will surely
be a fearful calamity"
But there was no calamity at all:
and boy picked up the golden roost-
er and harnessed him to wooden
cart and made beast of burden of
him for the rest of his life.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-04
j A Plentiful Menu.

Probably the most varied diet in
the world, said a traveller who had
just returned from the Malay PENN
sula, is that of the Jakuns of the
Sea, or Orang Lauts, who are the
real Malay pirates. These people have
about all that there Is to. eat, and they
eat everything as. it comes, along.
Although they have ali kinds Of
fine fruits. at certain times of the year
they eat yam which is so poison
Gus that they have to crate ii and
mix it with slaked lime before they
dare swallow it.
In the way Of flesh they eat mon
keys, deer, wild pig, birds. fish, porcu-
pines, lizards. squirrels, rats, mice and
snakes. And they seem to turn from
venIson to rat, or from wild pig to
snake, with equal appetite"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-04

water He fell and fell till all at
once his long tail caught on some
thing. 1t was the mast of ship.
'Ah!' said the kite to himself. I'll
Just stay here for moment and help
them along
The ship was running before the
trade wind, and the kite Tapped mad
ly.
Nobody noticed the kite away up ON
top OF the mast among the sails. So
he tapped and futtered and felt i'm
portant until the ship had gone more
than thousand miles to the south.
i guess this old ship is pretty we'll
frightened at the speed that I've Civ
en- it." said the kite Hey. there.
old ship, am pulling you too fast?"
"Hellol" said the ship. why, what
IS that up there? a lot of rags, as |
livep
Rags muttered the kite angrily.
Rags! That's the. thanks a person
gets in this world"
He Tapped so hard in his anger that
he tore himself loose and off he went
again, heading straight for South
America this time, for the East Wind,
clad in yellow oilskins ali wet and
dripping, had rushed down in his gray
automobile of rain cloud and went
roaring away with him.
hen the kite saw strange countries.
He flew far over Brazil and over the
forests OF the Amazon At last one
day he looked down on great noun
tains, where the Kings of the Andes
sat, each with white crown on his
head; but they did not look at him.
although he swooped his best and
imagined that they would mistake
him for new and beautiful condor.
Then the kite found himself at sea
again, and made believe to be an al
batross But he did not say so to
the East Wind. He did not wish to
be dropped again.
For many days he saw nothing ex-
cept water and sky, until he became
almost i'll from the monotony But
at last little dots appeared far ahead
and then they became bigger dots and
then waving plumes could be seen.
These were the tops of palm trees,
swaying in the Pacific winds
All at once the kite saw a horde
OF brown men appear on the shining
beach They shaded their eyes and
looked at him.
An! SAID the Kite. L am going
to be admired again"
He tried to make a swoop to show
off, and slipped off the East Winds
automobile and went circling helter-
SHELTER toward the island
He heard a shout from the earth
below, and then sharp pain went
through him. One of the brown men
had shot an arrow at him.
He fell on the sand and was seized
by the savages. They carried him to
hut where an old white haired priest
sat among tom-toms and carved idols.
1--WE have caught new God" cried
they.
The old man looked at the gaudy
kite with the golden sun. "Unfortu-
nate ones!" said he You have shot
one of the suns babies Let us hang
it in the temple and offer sacrifices
to it, that we may escape the anger
of the sun"
They hung the kite in the temple,
and ever since then they pray to it.
So that is how the kite became a
Fiji God.
JULIUS MULLER.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-04

The kite, hurled this way and that
| by the wind, suddenly felf a terrible
tug, and the next minute he was
swooping quite blind1y, till his ears
rang and his brain was upset.
His string had caught in te1e-
graph wire, and every time he swoop-
ed his beautiful tail became more and
more entangled in the same thing.
Let me go, your screamed the kite,
when he gathered enough of his senses
to realize what had happened.
"Neverf said the telegraph wire
hoarsely. Il love you and will keep
you for my own.
Madam, said the kite firmly, but
still somewhat softened by the COM
pliment, Il am afraid that we are OF
such different temperaments that we
could. never agree
Il don't care said the telegraph
wire passionately. Il will hold you
and will never let you go.
There was really nothing for the
kite to do except to remain. The
West Wind saw his predicanent and
laughed rudely, and the black cloud
filled her hat with water and let it all
fall Plops.l on the poor kite, who now
hung detected and miserable by his
tangled string.
The telegraph wire tried to enter
tain him, but soon had to stop in
order to transmit some messages that
were being sent over her. The kite be-
came deeply interested, for the mes
sages told all about the great world
the usso-JRpanese War and the
prospects for the cabbage crop in the
next village, and even about the
storm. Only, to the kites great sur
prise, nothing was said of the kites
adventures or of the loss of the gold
on rooster
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-04
VHE KITE scared in the sky andS
looked proudly downward tol
L the earth
....z.as6


4 the earth.
"How stately l am said
he to himself. Was ever anything
SO graceful, SO Brilliant"
The kite had good reason to be
proud, for he was of the very best
blood. His father was the finest 1unl-
Der, planed and trimmed by patented
machinery, and his mother was SUI
perfne grade of pink and Blue tissue
paper, which looked most delicate,
like all true aristocrats, but was really
very strong.
The kite had gaudy wings attached
of golden paper blazed on his face. He
had an immense tail of twisted paper
and twine, made by the sistero of the
boy who held the kite string.
The kite swayed to one side and
then the other to let the sunlight
shine on the paper sun. That is
right" said he to the sun, ''you recog-
nlze your cousin, see. Although YOU
are not quite equal to me, you are do
ing very we'll indeed, and | shall rec
ommend you to my great friends
The sun only laughed and kept
shining with all its might on the gold
en- paper sun, so that the boys far
below said:
The old kite is like fire up there. .
That is what the sparrow-hawk
thought, too. He closed his wings
and dropped straight down till he was
alongside of the glittering kite.
Good day." said the kite in a pat
ronizing tone. That was really a
very clever bit of flying. | think that
you are the kind of person who can
learn something, and if you wish you
may watch me and pick up any little
hints that you may need
WHO are you, if | NAV ASK" said
the hawk rudely. "You don't look
like any bird that l ever saw before. "
Il should hope not, said the kite.
am very special bird, made with
unusual care. You will notice that |
am so valuable that. they tie a string
to me for fear that | might get lost.
| imagine that you have never seen
anything like that before"
No, that's true said the hawk
somewhat abashed But what kind
of feathers are those that you have
on?"
"Ah!" said the kite, that is what
makes me so different from you. My
feathers came from paper mill,
where several scores of men and wom-
en- worked on them with the aid of
machines worth a whole fortune. |
think that you will acknowledge that
that is somewhat more elegant than
to have feathers that just grow, with
out any expense or thought at all
Il wonder how a queer bird like
this will taste?H thought the hawk to
himself. He tapped his wings sud
denly and shot straight at the kite
with his talonseall ready to tear him.
But just that moment the small
boy far below pulled the string and
the kite swooped i'll great semi
circle. The hawk tumbled over and
over in the air without getting his
talons into anything.
Il guess I'd better not fool with
that creature" said the hawk, there's
something unnatural about it, So
he flew away, and the kite scared
more proudly than ever. The kite,
like many other people, even those
who are not made of wood and tissue
paper, really believed that he had
done it through his own great talent,
and he would have been deeply sur
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-04

The West Wind and the black
cloud and the gorgeous kite went
whirling on through the town At
first the kite was highly delighted at
being in such fine company, but soon
its sense of dignity was hurt severely,
for the West Wind went scampering
through the streets, tearing down
slgnboards and banging shutters to
and fro SO that all the nervous oldest
inhabitants said:
This is the worst storm in our
experience"
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-13

the haunted life which he has led. In
order to show what his mental attitude
has been to all around him. If his
greatest fear has been that of the as
sassin, the return of exiled Korean no.
blemen in Japan has been the second
greatest, and in a way the two are one
in substance. for the return OF pre-
tenders to the Korean throne would
mean assassination. Thus. he has
feared that friends about him were
traitors in disguise and would make
away with him: and he has feared
that traitors, known TO be desperate
men. who have been exiled would re-
turn and kin him. And friends and
enemies have played these fears Off one
against the other OH his majesty
through many years TO gain many
eads.
The government Of Korea is an un-
limited monarchy: the present dynas-
ty has existed since the founding Of
Seoul In 1882. II Is an interesting fact
IN Korea that each new dynasty POUNDS
new Seoul, which means capital"
The Kings have been deFoOts. and the
present Emperor has ordered the be-
heading Of many men even unto re-
cent days though u - not legal 20 do
20 to-day.
Hnd FinancteF,
Win Korea the raising of tha
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-13
/ The MISSING MAN
By MAPYR.P. HATCH.
Author of
"The Bank Tragedy"

though not so sick but he'd gone off
to walk last night, If Dan hadn't fol-
Tered an fetched i'm back"
Mrs. Fry. 1 wish Dan would Just
look after him a little in gentle way,
you know. and not let him come 10
my house."
Your house! You don't say he
never went to your house?"
Just into the yard. Mrs. Fry, and
under the trees, where he stands look
ing in at the sitting room windows" i"
That's sassy piece of business,
an Dan shall put a stop to it right
Off" said Mrs. Fry. Indignantly.
But tell Dan to be kind about it,
The poor man means no harm. of
course. He only likes to look in. I
think he took fancy to Clare at
church, that is all. But, you see,
am just a little uneasy"
Sure enough, an no wonder; though
as you say he don't mean no harm.
He's dreadful fond of children. an
has sight of patience with Johnny
Wall. Dan'll see to that, Mis- Hamil-
ton"
Yes. Dan is very kind; and tell him,
please. not to let Mr.. Edes know that
I said anything about it. He might
show him some other places of in
bS1Gol, SOltlG SltGGNSg yOu uillSI-
stand, to take UP his attention"
"Oh, yes, Dan is real cute. He
will know what to do"
And now. Mrs. Fry, I want to tell
you something that don't want you
to mention to any one. 1 have per-
feet confidence in you"
"An' wall you may have. Wild horses
wouldn't git out of me anything you
didn't want told"
well, it is this. I am constantly
haunted by this mans resemblance to
my husband, though no one else seems
to see it. But seem to look beneath
the surface. / see this man as he
would look with light hair and
straight, upright form, in my mag
ination, you know, and then he looks
like Vane."
But his hair amt light, Mis- Ham
ilton."
II want to be sure of it, and then
the resemblance will not trouble me.
Doesn't he color his hair? l will sit
here, and you look for a bottle of hair
dye in his ROOM"
Mrs. Fry tried hard to conceal her
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-13
MRS. K. KING.

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in every sense of the word"
Not only is this remedy prescribed for
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down wonanly system at any time.
The crucial epoch of woman's life
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The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-13

surprise, and partially succeeded.
''I think you had better come, too,
and then you will be sure that I've
searched thorough" she said, and Con-
stance, though not without hesitation,
arose and followed her to the apart
ment occupied by Primus Edes.
A small, sparsely furnished room met
her gaze, but 1t was neatly kept, and
Mrs Fry surveyed it with some pride.
Them cuttings will be in the wash
tub a Monday, though 'taint great
while sense 1 washed 'em; but 1 will
keep neat If ! don't do nothin' else.
See, here's his brush, with a few hairs
sticking to it," and she held up one
for the inspection of Mrs Hamil-
ton, who sat spellbound, it seemed to
Mrs. Fry What was the cause? She
knew many months later, but not then.
There amt no light color to the
roots ont" said Mrs. Fry, striving to
attract her regard.
No, there was not The hair showed
no indication of having been colored.
perhaps he attends to it every day."
said Mrs. Hamilton, arousing herself
and shaking off the occult influences
of the room.
"Well, then, the hair dye must be
round handy. Shall I look in the
trunk? The lock is broke, / see."
But Mrs. Hamilton stood looking out
the window and apparently did not
hear her, for she did not reply. But
wave of color swept over her face
when Mrs. Fry lifted the cover and
began to rummage the trunk without
any qualms of conscience since Mrs.
Hamilton seemed to have none.
mot thing here that would color a
rats whiskers," she said. you look" "
"Oh, no. said Constance, shrinking.
you are right, I presume"
'Well, here's one of them marked
shirts l told you about. Amt that
H. A. ?"
Constance came eagerly forward and
looked at the initials put on with in
delible ink.
''Yes, you are right The letters are
II. A. If they indicate his name it
cannot be Primus Edes."
mot less the shirt b'longs to some
one else. Mebbe it dooz. / don't know.
Some one might a-gin it to him."
s''Yes, it might be-"
"Wall, you see there amt no dye
stuff in the room, an no signs of
none," said Mrs. Fry, Strengthening the
room a little preparatory to leaving it.
do you want to look any more?"
mo" said Constance, rising from her
seat at the window as If to follow her
from the room. But as she passed the
bureau she deftly extracted from the
hair brush the few strands that clung
there, and with them hidden in her
hand went down into the sitting room,
as she thought, unobserved; but Mrs.
Fry had seen the act as she chanced to
glance back.
CONTINUED in Next Sundays News.)
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-13
Ra9time Barred at st. Louis.
From Golfers weekly.

IEOIl OOllAEI 3 w GtkIT.
After extended deliberation and num-
erous conferences, the officials of the
ST. Louis Exposition have decided
against the rag time song, or even the
ragtime music without words to ac-
company it. The musical director of
the exposition, and the chairman of the
musical programme, have issued an
edict that all songs, either in the state
pavilions, Festival Hall or along the
Pike, shall be strictly classical and mod
ern, if possible, but all element of the
ragtime music hall style of singing
shall be eliminated.
II have no personal feeling of en-
nifty against ragtime," says the 'musi-
cal director, but l think too much
of it is a bad thing. 1 believe the
people like good music. There are
many beautiful and popular selections
from the classics. Because music can
be called classic does not necessarily
imply that it should be heavy or gen.
popular music of to-day is the lighter
music of the classics"
The chairman of the musical pro-
gramme says that one reason the rag
time was eliminated from the exposi-
ton was that, like the measles, the air
that is given sentiment in these tunes
seems contagious, and the people
would wish for nothing else, once the
ragtime tunes began.
The decision of the exposition Off
cials to exclude ragtime has created
a furore along the Pike, where it had
been arranged to have some very new
and up to-date songs with a ragtime
air about them. The Pike concession
aires have held meeting and have de-
cided to take up the musical PROPOSE
ton with the Worlds Fair manage
ment.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-13

nared by an American missionary and
sent secretly to the palace. Thus,
taking the years through, the old Ko-
rea general asleep at his table, with
his straining eyes staring straight
ahead. is a very fair picture of the
state of mind in which the Korean
Emperor has lived these many
years.
one night, seven years ago, 1t was
rumored in Seoul that mob was to
attack the palace on a certain night.
lacking ali confidence in the staying
qualities of his soldiers and guards,
the Emperor sent post haste for three
americans to stay with him during the
night. He and the Crown Prince
remained in their sleeping rooms,
while the three musketeers" played
chess In the ante-room. The moving
rhadows. cast on the paper walls
which divided the rooms, told the
guards that His Majesty and SON
were anything but restful
Guarded with 0-shootera.
The night wore on until at last,
with a prOmpfnesH that would have
done credit 10 a South American rev.
0lutiOn, the noise Of the emeute with
out the Palace walls could be heafd.
Instantly, the Americans entered
the royal bedroom and surround
"a the Emperor ana Prince, ana
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-13
vi HUNG, EMPEROR
OF KOREA
He Is a Man of Many and Constant Fears
Assassination Is His Greatest-His
Financial Worries Are Perennial.
By ARCHER BUTLER HUBERT,
Formerly Editor of the Korean Independent

History tells of a Korean general
who had so many enemies that he was
afraid to sleep like other people at
night, and was also afraid to sleep
naturally in the daytime. According
ly, he trained himself to sleep sitting
bolt upright at a table with his eyes
wide open, and a sword in each
hand.
The present Emperor of Korea, vi
Hung, does not sleep with his eyes
open, sitting upright at table, but
he comes pretty near it. Since his
accession to the Korean throne in
1854, he has had many desperate enc
mics. Indeed, after the murder of his
Queen in 1895, he did turn day into
night by sleeping then and holding
his cabinet meetings at night. For
some weeks, when rumors of assas-
sination were ripe at a certain time
a few years ago, all the food which
passed His Majesty's lips was pre-
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-13

the number of six-shooters in evil
dence in their hands and their belts
would have excited the envy of
Mexican cowboy. The uprising was
quelled, because the authorities had
been warned and prepared, but as the
tumult resounded in the streets and
along the walls and gates, the in
tensect excitement reigned in the Pal
ace. The Emperor and Prince posted
themselves between the Americans,
and in their agony seized their guard
ians hands. Their terror and their
attitude brought home to the foreign
ers, in an ocean wave of pity a closer
appreciation of the continual strain
under which the Emperor lives, and
his ever present fear of an untimely
end. Figuratively speaking, the poor
man is like that General who never
slept except with his eyes open wide.
Lives a Haunted Life.
At the present crisis this impotent
potentate attracts the attention of the
world, and to give any fair picture of
him, it is just to hint at the start of
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-13

to-day. Nor is the marvelously ridi-
culous story, which had large circu-
lation in the northwest recently to the
effect that d Wisconsin girl is EN-
press of Korea. The story affirmed
that Miss Brown, missionary, had
been married to the Korean Emperor.
There was never a missionary by the
name of Miss Brown in Korea and no
American woman has married EN-
peror VI Hung A little piece of
Seoul gossip a short time ago was to
the effect that the King had pur-
chased foreigners home in Seoul in
which to house one of his quarrelsome
wives the house was of two stories,
the first of stone and the second of
brick; the wife began her career by
having the second story pulled down.
as it made the house $50 high" Ko-
rean houses are all of one story
only.
Besieged by Emissaries.
The subject of the Korean Emper-
or's relation to the wider affairs of his
little empire is a tangled problem
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-13

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