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Evening star., 1909-04-24
The Sp0iIs.

~IR CASPAR PURDON CLARKE. di-
rector of the Metropolitan Museum,
- said at dinner in New York:
The removal of the duty on works Of
art will cause tremendous purchasing
abroad this summer by Americas art-lov
ing millionaires Like locusts, they will
sweep Europe bare
lie smiled.
1T reminds me- he said. of Marshal
Soul's visit to the Duke Of Wellington
at Apsley House.
THE marshal, after inspecting this
stately mansion that dominates Hyde
Park corner said:
How is il. duke, that | see none Of
the Madrid masterpieces here?
''Tne Duke of Wellington smiled.
Marshal. You forget he said. that
my army was only III Madrid after the
one commanded by yourself.
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Why the Hill Was Harder.

-HOMAS MOFFAT the new consul to
Trinidad. distinguished himself.
= while consul to La Guaira, by re-
fusing to sign a local document declaring
the sanitary condition OF La Guaira to
be perfect The town at the time was in
the grip of the bubonic plague.
THE local authorities were angry with
me-" said Mr.. Moffat recently, ''for op-
posing their stupid and baneful policy.
They said 1t was a beneficent policy, but
/ told them that it reminded me, in its
ignorant harmfulness, of a brakeman
oncs. knew.
The man was novice, and on his
first run there was very steep grade
mount The engineer always had more
or less trouble to get up this grade, but
this time lie came near sticking. He
almost lost his head. Eventually, how
ever, he reached the top.
AT the station that crossed the top,
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Keep all food covered and see that your
butcher or green grocer has all mis- food
exposed for sale screened. Keep flies
away from the sick. especially those i'll
with any infectious or contagious dis
ease. Kill every fly that strays into the
sick room, remembering that his body is
covered with disease germs. Screen all
windows and doors, particularly kitchen
and dining rooms. A weekly wiping over
the outside of screens with kerosene
keeps flies from settling there ready for
entrance.
Homemade Fly Potion.
Mix together one tablespoonful cream.
the same amount of powdered blacA
pepper and tablespoonful brown sugar.
Put in saucer. darken the room save
one window and in that set the saucer
containing the mixture.
To Safeguard the Family From the
Fly Paper.
Fly paper is good in it's place. but that
is not affixed to any ones garments rash
enough to sit down upon it, nor yet the
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Not in 1t.
= RS. CARRIE CHAPMAN GAIT,

- RS CARRIE CHAPMAN GAIT,
Nu apropos OF woman suffrage. said:
4v4 Men of that sOrt-men of that
stupid sort-treat us women like little
children or pet animals. They make no
account of us whatever They arc like
old Calhoun White of Ripon.
"Old Calhoun walked down the main
street one morning In his best black
broadC1oth suit, with white rose I'm his
buttonhole and cotton gloves on his large
hands.
Why. Calhoun said the barber, are
You taking a holiday?
Dish ycre,' said the old man. in A
stately voice. dish yere am nah golden
weddin. sab. Ahm saliybratin' hit
But your Wife said the barber, is
working as usual / saw her at the tub
as came out. Why isn't she celebrating,
too?
Herr said Calhoun angrily. She
Evening star., 1909-04-24

THE houscfy. stealing from his narrow grave
Druggcd with the opiate that Novembel
gave,
Beats with faint wing against the sunny pane
Or crawls. tenacious. ocr its lucid pane.
%. W. Holmes.
Great fcas have little Heas
Upon their backs TO bite 'em,
And little fcas have lesser ieas,
And 81 on ad infinitum-
James Russell Lowell tBigelow Papersl.
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last year amounted to more than So.
900, 900. and over one-third of this came
from the United States. All the roads
have American bridges or bridge ma
terial. The one on which crossed the
Han river consists of ten spans of about
coo feet each. and it was made by the
Carnegie Steel Company. The most of
the spikes of the roads north of hero
came from the Illinois Steel Company.
and the ties are largely American. On
the northern route many of the bridges
are of wood. built on piles. They were
constructed Il military necessity, and
will have to be replaced by better ma
tcrial. The bridges between Seoul and
Fusan are of steel. Last year sixty spans
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back in such a way that the burden some
times rises above the head. This frame
IS called 'the jggy" and it is in common
use all over Korea.
l found jiggy men at the wharf at
Fusan ready to take my trunks their
backs. They rested their iiggies o.
the ground. propping each with a forked
stick while they put on the load. They
then knet down and thrust their arms
through the two padded loops which
fastened them to their shoulders. and
rose, carrying the weights with them. I
am told that the average porter can get
up with two or three hundred pounds on
his back. and that he can carry five hun
dred pounds at a pinch The average
load for long journey is hundred
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an hour or so later were landed or
the pier of FuSan.
The railroad fares in this part of the
world are lower than ours. On all
trains there are first. second and third
class cars, and the rates are under >
cents per mile. Over here in Korea. a
frontier country just opening mp for
trade. the third-clasS fares are far be-
low those of our immigrant traffic.
Up to fifty miles such passengers pay
] Il cents mile and from that distance
to one hundred miles onc-quarter of
a cent less. The rate for trip OF
from 100 to 200 miles is only l cent.
and for one of 800 miles or more
one-half of l cent per mile. At these
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nese. and they have owned it for the past
ten years. This is the short line from
Seoul to Chcmulpo
The road from Fusan to Seoul was built
by a private company bnt the govern
ment guaranteed its bonds and controls
II. During the war with Russia this line
was extended three hundred miles north
ward to the Yalu river. and ii now has
branch which connects that terminus
with Mukden and the Transsiberian sys-
tenn.
Another road has been hegun from
Seoul TO Gensan on the eastern side of
the peninsula. This will go right across
Korea, connecting the. west and east
coasts. The construction was started
some time ago at each end of the line.
About three miles have been built out
from Seoul. and also a short strip west
from Gensan Just now on account of
the hard times. this work has temporarily
stopped but the commercial prospects
brighten II will be taken up again and
pushed to its completion 1t Is expected
that the other roads will he re!aid with
new ties and rails. and that the whole
system as far as Mukden will he made
ffrst-class In every respect As 1t is now
the section north of the Yalu is a dinky
narrow gauge with cars little better than
omnibuses. The track is SO poor that the
trains do not 20 at night, and 1t Is cur
rently reported that the trains stop two
hours at noon to allow the employees and
passengers time for siesta.
Railroad building in Korea is far diff
ferent from the same class Of engineer
ing in the United States. In the first
place the rights of way offer strange
complications. All the way from Fusan
to Seoul we passed grave mounds. and
the road here and there went through
graveyards. The road from Chemulpo to
the capital necessitated the removal of
more than 1000 graves. and the city
lots of the dead cost more than our city
lots of the living. The average grave
did not cover more than square yard.
but the railroad company had to pay
from 81 to So each for the cost of re-
moval and got at the same time the Ill
will of the families Of the deceased The
Koreans have a queer way of planting
their graves anywhere. They have few
fixed cemeteries, and they select such
spots on the sides of thS hills as the
nccromancers tell them are lucky, and
there lay away their loved ones. Many
families take care of their graves from
generation to generation. and they deep
ly resent any injury to them. 1t is the
same In China. which is without many
railroads today largely because Of this
sentiment.
The road from Seoul to Chemulpo was
constructed by Korean labor under
American engineers That from Fusan
to Seoul was built by Japanese and Ko-
Evening star., 1909-04-24
Futile Work.

~OL. ASA GOULD HUMPHREYS, at
veterans banquet in Duluth con-
~ demned the abolition OF the canteen.
Those temperance ladies who caused
the canteens abolition have accomplish
Cd" said the veteran, what? Only this:
The drinking soldier now drinks. instead
OF the mild and pure beverages supplied
by the orderly canteen, rank, fiery stuff
in demoraiizing places.
THAT is what these ladies have accom-
plishcd. They wanted TO do the soldier
Evening star., 1909-04-24
A True S0utherner.

~ENATOR BENERIDGE was praising
the sayoir-faire of a southern con-
- greSsman.
never deserts him I once sat next him
at a banquet Suddenly there was a
Gathering fall and clumsy waiter
spilled n plate of clear soup down his
back. He just bit his lip.
1T was thick soup l asked for. he
said. in a slightful reproachful voice, to
the man."
Evening star., 1909-04-24
The Sacred Cat.
<<~ IERPONT MORGAN lunched will
me at Assouan during his tril

<<@ IERPONT MOHGAN luncneu Will
W. me at Assouan during his triI
1 up the Nile said Chicagoan
"He advised me to beware how l bougnt
curios. They are apt to be bogus, you
know.
.He said a fellah sold New York girl
one morning the mummy of a sacred cat
The girl paid some fifty or sixty piastres
for it. That's ten or twelve dollars A
piastre's a nickel.
After the fellah had gone the New
York girl. pleased with her purchase
noked q small hole in it. A bit OF parch-
rnent-like stuff came out-in fact. bit OF
paper on which could be distinguished
the printed phrase passionate kisses.
.Curious. the girl continued her inves-
tigations to the end. This sacred cat
supposedly five thousand years old,
turned out to be stuffed with the pages
OF Three Weeks
Evening star., 1909-04-24

good. But. in their ignorance. they
worked as vainly as old Mrs. Crewe of
Salem.
Mrs Crewe at the height of the war.
astonished my colonel by sending him
barrel of pebbles.
j have read She wrote. that a peb
bic held in the mouth is splendid REM
edy for thirst. Will you please accept.
my dear colonel. this barrel for the use
of the troops at the 'front.'"
Evening star., 1909-04-24

SEOt L., l.Ar
HEN l first visited
Is orca ii took me
seven days by
steamer to come
from Yokohama to
Chemulpo and a
day more by chair
Ia make my way
overland from the
seaport to the cap
ijal. | have just
arrived i'll Seoul,
having covered the
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of iron sirders were imported from our
country for the system and more are
wanted.
All of these roads are operated with
American locomotives. There are now
more than 100 in use. the most Of them
Baldwins, made at the Philadelphia
works. There are forty-nine Baldwin
locomotives Of fifty tons each on the
line between Seoul and Antung, and
some of the cars came from the United
States. The rolling stock now employed
here is more than half American. and it
includes rot locomotives, 80 passenger
cars and something like 600 freight cars
The Japanese find our standard
gauge far better for their traffic than
the narrow gauge which now prevails
throughout Japan proper. There are
over 5000 miles of narrow gauge rail-
roads in the island empire of the mika-
do. and they are by no means sufficient
to carry the traffic. In an interview
which l had with Baron Goto. the i'm
perial minister of communications. he
told me that the roads would have TO
be standardized and that eventually
they would have the same gauge as
ours. The government Is very anxious
to do away with the bad strip between
the Yalu and Mukden so that through
sleeping cars can go from Fusan to
Such cars would travel GOO miles over
the Korean peninsula and hundreds of
miles further before they reached
Russian territory. AS it is now, the
accommodations are so bad from ko
rea to the Trans-Siberian system that
passengers come down to Dalny and
there take ship for Japan or go out to
Vladivostok and get steamers there
which. in the course of a few days,
land them at Nagasaki.
With the new road there will be only
the ferry at the Korean straits to cross,
and this is done in a night with no
more trouble than the voyage from
Boston to New York or from Buenos
Aires to Montevideo. In coming here
my train reached Shimoneseki at 8
o'clock in the evening. BY daybreaK
the next morning we were in sight OF
the thirsty mountains Of Korea, and
Evening star., 1909-04-24
Nnecdotes Concerning We'll Known People.

but the old immigrants account 'of It
was true. Its churchyard is full OF
Kings and Princes-they are the two lead
ing families-and down the villages one
street flows a rivulet that is bridged be-
fore each cottage with a slab of Derby
shire marble"
Evening star., 1909-04-24

ro,1rses-while no bounty is awarded for
its capture and trophies of the chase are
not in demand for hall or library adorn-
ment, the one who is vigilant in pursuit
and capture or in DETECTING these small
and unwelcome visitors into other fields
and pastures not your own is doing good
work for home and fatherland.
And first on the list of disease trans
rnitters the ordinary house fly. Not so
long ago, mothers used to Sing TO their
babies:
Bahy-bye. here's fy.
Let catch him. You and /.
Ii"re he goes on his toes.
Tickling babys nose
The up-to-date mother doesn't wait
for Master Fly to tickle baby's nose. for
does she not know that single fly may
be carrying in his mouth and on his legs
more than 10000 OF the most disgusting
bacteria not only capable, but in many
cases bound to transmit the germs of
typhoid or some intestinal disease to
..Baby-Bye?
AS for that other oft-quoted bard who
bade the fly freely welcome to my cup"
he should have taken a view of the fly S
feet before he wiped them on his cup
and perchance his welcome would have
been less free.
Having its origin in filth. ii carries with
II the bacteria which breed in filth and AS
n moves about crawling first over refuse,
then over the food on the table. flying
from the lips OF the cancerous or tuber-
culosis patient to the rosy lips OF some
mothers darling. ii becomes more danger
ous TO modern society than as though all
the wild beasts from African jungles
were turned loose I'm our streets. lnfan,
diseases which chiefly prevail In the hot
season when flies abound are due. now
saw the scientists. to the flies themselves
and not to the hot weather which We
formerly accused.
An English health officer, in giving his
experiences in the Journal Of the Royal
Evening star., 1909-04-24

looking out Of his cab, the engineer saw
the new brakeman and said, with sigh
of relief:
81 tell you what, my lad, we had
job to get up there, didn't we?'
1--WE certainly did, said the new
brakeman, and IL I hadn't put the brake
on we'd have slipped back
Evening star., 1909-04-24

T is not necessary
TO so 10 Africa to
find game at this
season. The most
of US can locate 1t
on our own pre-
serves, even If they
be no larger than
a city fiat. While
the game" we seek
Is small and not
scheduled in the
n a ure st u d y
Evening star., 1909-04-24

class cars and there was a colonel or
general who travelled first class. Delega-
tionS of Japanese and Koreans came
down to meet and refreshments were
served to the common soldiers at many
of the stops At Taiku. a city of 10000.
and at one or two other large stations
the Japanese school children came en-
masse, TO pay their respects to the troops.
and they marched up and down. drilled
by their teachers. crying: 'Banzai.' or
May you live 10000 years. At the
same time, the masses OF the Koreans
were separated from the station platforms
by fences and could only look through
the stats.
The road from Seoul to F'usan is well
built. 1t crosses several ranges OF noun
tains and has one tunnel 1000 feet long.
There are about fifty stations along the
line. the average distance between them
being less than six miles. / understand
that the Koreans are using the road more
and more, and that the freight is steadily
increasing. This is so on the road north
OF Seoul and also on the line to Chemulpo,
which is now yielding profit.
Both here and in Japan the railroads
have a big competition witt. human mus
Gle. All along the way from Toxic TO
hauling great loads in carts from town to
town. They were harnessed up like horses
and they bent half double as they pulled
their vehicles onward. There were carts
drawn by bulls or bullocks. and not a
Few by stocky ponies. saw an old man
and young woman. the latter with a
baby on her back dragging a load Of
wood. and passed hundreds Of women car
rying great burdens. l am told that six
or seven hundred pounds is an average
cartload for two persons and that twelve
miles is fair days march. Bullock
carts are usually drawn by only one ami
NAL and horse carts likewise In such
cases the driver walks by the animals
head. instead of sitting on the load, as
our people do The freight bullocks and
horses are shod with straw. and in the
interior these straw shoes cost about I
cent apiece.
Here in Korea, where the railroads are
only a few years old. the transportation
sands OF years these people have carried
all their goods from place to place, on
the backs Of men or pack animals, and
they do so today. There are bullock carts
In the cities, but the country roads are
little more than bride paths. and about
everything is packed from one place to
another. The porters have a regular
trade, and they have one of the strongest
guilds or unions Of the country. They
carry their loads on a framework made
of forked sticks which is fastened to the
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same distance In less than TWO ddSs
Japan has railroad line which practi-
cally reaches from her capital to the
capital of Korea. Her imperial railroads
now take one in day from Toxic to
Shimoneseki, where there is A ferry across
the Strait of Korea to Fusan. There the
new Korean railroad begins and in about
ten hours one is carried in comfortable
cars northward to Seoul. The whole rail
road distance is just about far as from
Now York to Chicago. and II is now COW
cred by fast express trains.
:: ::
In this letter ] write of the new rail-
ways of Japan and Korea. Tie trunk
lines of both countries are now under
the control of the mikado. They have
Japanese officials, conductors and train
men, and are practically Japanese. All
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NN the Fast Express From
~ Toxic to Seoul - The


Road to the Yalu, Which Has
American Locomotives and
Rolling Stock = Engineering
Difficulties - The Line to
Chemulpo and Its Two
Thousand Graves Queer
Features of Travelling in
Japan and Korea - Railroad
Fares at a Half a Cent a
Mile and Station Lunches
at Seven Cents - Something
About the Diners.
Copyright. 1909. by Frank G.. Carpcnter)
Evening star., 1909-04-24

haint got muffin to do with it. She's NAH
fouth.'"
Evening star., 1909-04-24
The Bather.

ARK TWAIN was censuring the ex.
III travagance of the American multi
Evening star., 1909-04-24

Copyright. 1909. by Frank G. Carpenter. }
Special Correspondence of The Star.
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-06-18
His Responsibility.

what are you crying for, my lit
tie MANI"
please, mum = boo-hoo! - /
daren't go 'ome."
Cant go home, my child! Why?"
"Muvver's got a new baby-boo-
hoo.--and father always blames me
for eyerythin!"-London Opinion.
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-06-18
Immensity of tle Universe

Suppose that a row of telegraph
posts, twenty-five thousand miles
long, were erected around the earth
at the equator-suppose that a wire
were stretched upon these posts for
this circuit Of twenty-five thousand
miles, and that then another complete
circuit were taken with the same
wire around the same posts, and then
another, and yet another-in fact, let
the wire be wound no fewer than
seven times completely about this
great globe-we should then find that
al electric signal sent into the wire
at one end would accomplish the
seven circuits in one second of time.
T~elegraphing to the stars would,
however, be a much more tedious
matter. Take, first, the case of the
very nearest of those ~twinkling points
of light, namely, Alpha Centauri.
The transmission of a telegraphic
message to the distant sun would, in
deed, tax the patience of all con-
cerned. The key is pressed down,
the circuit is complete, the message
bounds off on its journey; it winds it's
way along the wire with that velocity
sufficient to carry It one hundred and
eighty thousand miles in a single sec
ond of time. Even the nearest of
the stars is, however, sunk into space
to a distance so overwhelming that
the message would be four years on
the wire before reaching it's destina-
ton, and there are stars so remote
that If the news of Christ's birth had
been telegraphed from Bethlehem in
A. D. 1, it would now have been
speeding on foc nineteen hundred
years without arriving.
Yet 1t would take but eight minutes
for a telegram to reach the sun
The Christian Work and Evangelist.
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-06-18
LIGHTNING STRIKES CHURCH
One Man Killed and Many Wor.
shippers Burned.
Edward Duchane Loses His Life nj
Bay Settlement, a Fishing Village
in Observation-Disclosures Injured.

Green Bay, Wis. One man was
killed, two probably mortally injured,
and fourteen others were hurt IN the
small Catholic church at Bay Settle
ment, a fishing point north of here on
the Green Bay shore. There was a
panic after lightning struck the
church, but those hurt were all
burned by the shock, not trampled In
the stampede for the doors. The
dead man is Edward Duchane,, aged
twenty years, of Bay Settlement.
Annie Steppelin, aged twenty-five,
was badly burned and shocked. John
Greenwood, of Green Bay, was struck
on the right shoulder by lightning.
and a deep hole burned through the
flesh, the injury extending across his
back to the left hip. His right leg
was burned also.
There were about 200 worshipers
in the church. There was a terrible
crash as the bolt Of lightning struck
the steeple of the edifice. The metal
cross at the tip of the steeple was
hurled to the ground and the light
ming ran around the steeple to the
roof along the ridge pole, and down
each side of the main entrance of the
church. All of those who were
shocked and burned were in this part
Of the church. a
In an instant there was a panic.
The women screamed and rushed for
the door, and the Rev. c.. Mickers,
the priest, shouted to the people to be
quiet, but they did not heed him.
When the o~nornpation ranouor,d
from the scare the injured were
speedily cared for.
The first thing Father Mickers did
after the rush raj over was to go out
into the churchyard and rally a res
cue party. He led it into the church
and one by one the victims of the
bolt were carried out and taken to
their homes for treatment.
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-06-18
PENIS GROVE, N. j.. FRIDAY. JUNE 10. 1903. MI
NEW JERSEY STATE NEWS
Police Capture a Robber.

The Montclair police captured
James Fowler, who stole 1921 from
Miss Elsie Bedford, cashier for a
wholesale grocery house at Boonton.
Miss Bedford took the days receipts
OF the grocery house to her home at
Boonton at night. Fowler followed
her into the house and saw her lay
her purse, which contained the
money, on a table in the dining room.
When Miss Bedford left the room
Fowler grabbed the purse and fed
The Montclair police were notified
OF the robbery. Roundsman Richard
Walters boarded a car of the Verona
line and saw a man doing in the cor
ner who answered the description of
Fowler. He took him to Police Head
quarters. There the prisoner was
searched, and when 1921 was found
In his pockets he admitted that he
was the man sought by the Boonton
police. Fowler is out of prison on
parole. About a year ago he was
involved in the hold-up of an Italian
a Boonton, in which the victim
lost 5000.