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Cores Since Time Out f Mind Has Bean
the Bone of Contention Between the
Two NationsThe First
Invasion,
In the "Land of the Chrysanthemum,"
by Dr. David Murray, who was for
erly adviser to the Japanese min
ister of education, are some interesting
facts concerning Japan's relations with
Corea and China. From China Japan
g-ot everything except certain minor
phases of art taught her by Corean
prisoners and exiles. From China she
got her literatere and her very alpha
bet, the traditions of her art, almost all
iter nigner nie. This is not the first
time she has quarreled with China
Corea, but of that anon. Once China
definitely decided on the conquest of
Japan. It was in the days of Kublai
Kan, who decreed the stately pleasure
house in Coleridge's Xanadn. The Jap
anese allege that Kublai sent one hun
dred thousand men for the invasion,
and that he managed to transport them
in three hundred junks. The forces
landed were defeated by the hero To
kimune, and a typhoon finished oft the
Chinese armada.
The first Japanese invasion of Corea,
as Dr. Murray points out, was under
the Empress Jingo, who was mother
of the god of war; therefore it has to
be taken with salt. Corea, or, as the
Japanese call it, Chosen, was divided
into three kingdoms, Korai, Shiraki
and Xudara. When Jinn-o-KWo lark
ed in Shiraki they all came with alac
rity the Sankan, the three tributarv
countries dependent of Japan. After
this she was emmvss recent, for alvt.,r.
eight years, and died at the age of one
hundred. So complacent did the Co
reans feel about being Sankan that the
king of Kudara Bent an eminent Chi
nese scholar to educate Jingo's son.
The scholar took with him the "Confu
cian Analects" anrl t.hp llTlni,t..nJ
".naracter Ussay," and the future god
of war became a very learned man.
The Emperor Jingo died about 370 IS.
C, and a Japanese garrison was main
tained in Kudara for a trilling nine
hundred years, when the Cor;m t
Shiraki and the Chinese compelled
them to withdraw. With the Japanese
went many of the Corean friends, who
came with them, like the Huguenots
when driven from France, a knowledge
of many arts and a culture which were
eagerly welcomed by the rising Japan
ese empire. They were colonized in
convenient quarters in different prov
inces, and as an encouragement freed
from taxation , ii time. Their hiflu
ence upon the opening civilization of
Japan cannot lie overlooked or neg
lected in our estimate of the forces
wiucn conspireu to produce the final
result.
In another trifling nine hundred
years Toyotomi Hideyoshi, thedugues
clinof Japan, determined to conquer
Corea, which had suddenly discontinued
sending gifts. He sent from one hun
dred and thirty thousand to three hun
dred thousand men under Konislii and
Kato, the interesting feature being that
such a large proportion of the army
were Christians (this was in 1S.V2) that
they had to be humored by having Ko-
ura.ii, wno was a tnristian, in com
mand. The two commanders were
always at loggerheads, and so the ex
pedition was a virtual failure, though
neither Coreans nor Chinamen could
make any stand before the two-headed
sword of the Japanese, until the Chi
nese by treachery gained time to intro
duce into Corea armies of overwhelm
ing numbers. However, all that the
Japanese ever got out of the conquest
and occupation of Corea was three
Dalra i,,t,o f..ll .1 -.M.l ,
1.11 iiuiiii picitiea ears and noses,
the proceeds of thirty-eight thousand
seven hundred Chinese and Corean
heads, which form the ceuter of the
Mimi Zuka, or ear mound in the Dai
butsu temple at Kyoto, and the pris
oners of Nhima.u Yoshehiro, prince of
Satsuma pottery, the wonder of the
world. The great and diplomatic Iye
yasu restored the cordiality of rela
tions between Japan and Corea, as is
testified by the exquisite bronze can-
tieiaora wnieli adorn his mausoleum at
Nikko. Jiut Con-a hus never yet got
over the ravagings of llideyoshi's army.
and then "laying up." liut the most
humane method of muzzling is with a
soft string, a muzzle constructed of
which may be quite effective and at the
same time not uncomfortable to wear.
Care must lie taken not to hurt the fer
ret, as if the string" annoys him he will
endeavor to do nothing but get it off.
occasionally lerrets are worked with a
line attached, but this is an objection
able practice. There may be a root or
stick in which the line may get en
tangled, when there will be digging
and no end of trouble in getting at it.
SEEDS SOWN WITH ARTILLERY.
How Gunpowder Helped to Plant Trees
dn a Kooky Crag.
Alexander Nasmyth, the landscape
painter, was a man fruitful in expedi
ents. To his mind the fact that a
thing could not be done in the ordinary
manner was no reason why it should
be given up. Ilis son relates the fol
lowing interesting example of his in
genuity.
The duke of Athol consulted him as
to some improvements which he de
sired to make in his woodland scenery
near Duukeld. Among other things, a
certain rocky crag needed to be plant
ed with trees, to relieve the grim bar
renness of its appearance. The ques
tion was how to do it, as it was impos
sible for any man to climb the crag, in
order to set seeds or plants in the clefts
01 tne rock.
A happy idea struck mv father. Hav
ing observed in front of the castle a
pair of small cannon, used for flrino-
salutes on great days, it occurred to him
to turn them to account. A tinsmith in
the village was ordered to make a num
ber of canisters withcovers. The can
isters were filled with all sorts of suit
able tree seeds. The cannon was load
ed and the canisters were fired up
against the high face of the rock.
They burst and scattered the seeds in
all directions. Some years afterward,
when my father revisited the place, he
was delighted to find that his scheme
of planting by artillery had proved
successful; the trees were flourishing
in all the recesses of the cliffs.
Highest of all in Leavening PowerLatest U. S. Gov't Report
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WAYS OF THE POMPANO.
Ho Is a Frisky Jumper, as Well as Deli
cious Food Fish.
One of the most delicious food fishes
of the semi-tropics is the pompano. In
size and shape he is not unlike the
flounder of the northern estuaries, but,
unlike the flounder, he swims edge
wise instead of flat on his belly. In
color his scales are gray, white, gray
ish blue and golden yellow, and when
he leaps from the water, as he fre
quently does, the glinting of the gold
en scales In the sunlight forms a beau
tiful sight. A traveler just returned
from Lake Worth, on the lower east
coast of Florida, writes to the New
York Herald; "As we approached the
mouth of the canal the fish appeared
to be more numerous, and thev made
long jumps into the air all about us.
They were chiefly mullet and pom
pano, and once I counted five in the air
at the same time.
"Before we reached the dredge boat,
six miles from the foot of the lake, we
had four pompano, all of which had
jumped from the water ant landed ac
cidentally in the bottom of our boat.
One of them struck our boatman, lien
Able, in the breast, and the blow was
of sufficient force to nearly wind him
for a minute. Since ice factories have
been established along the Indian
auu on 1ane norm, pompano are
siuppea mi me northern markets In
large quantities. They 'run' through
out the year, but make the liest eating
during the winter months."
seen the sixth part of the infantile host.
In other words, the babe that had to
be carried when the tramp began, would
be able to walk when but a mere fraction
of its comrades had reached the re
viewer s post, and whan the year's sup-
ui urines was drawing to a close
there would be a rear guard, not of in
fants, but of rompinir six-vear-old W.
and girls. This will be rather a start
ling calculation to the many who do
uuv uautue in ngures.
LORE OF THE WOODPECKER,
SomooQuaint Notions Entertained In An'
olent Times Begardlng the Bird.
The beliefs and convictions that eon,
stitute the folklore of the woodpecker,
or sapsucker, as it is sometimes er
roneously called for its boisterous op
erations occur solely in quest of in
sects mat ne concealed beneath the
bark, and are never injurious to the
trees are, in fact, very many and va-
rieu, ana many of them can be traced
pack to a somewhat more venerable an
tiquity than is usual in such motto
Probably, says an English journal,
every one remembers having read or
heard, at one time or another, the
story of the transformation of the
pagan god tlcus, the son of Saturnus,
to the Woodpecker by the witch god
dess, Circe, in revenge for his coldness
ana nonrequital of her love. The tale
of itself is of little importance, and
is but one of the countless fairy
legends that compose the lesser and
and extremely poetic mythologies of
uhj ureeas ana Komans. Jiut it hap
pily serves the purpose of illustrating
the connection that evidently existed
in the Roman mind between birds
the supernatural and the unknown in
general. And it would seem that the
relation in different forma was almost
universal in ancient times, for the
image of the bird which was used by
the Romans to represent the perse
cuted deity already mentioned after
whom the family is named incident
ally, iu ornithology and by the aug
urs and priests of the city as a sort of
symbol in foretelling coming events,
abounds in many of the marvelous and
complicated juulptarM and jonrvlnrs of
wjuircu inneriea and I'eru. and hn
even been found in some of the South
Sea i.slands and other parts of the
world in the form of wooden charms
and fetiches.
HE WAS TOO MODERATE.
And He Afterwards Blamed Himself far
Praylnsr for in tltiln.
The Syracuse Post tells this storv of
. OTl rtU , ... "
uuiureu man in mat city who
works in a stone quarry in that vicin
ity. Not long ago while blasting was
in progress he lost one of his eyes. Be
fore he was examined by the doctors at
the time he said he wanted to pray be
fore any operation was performed upon
him. "Well, hurry up," he was told.
And so he began to pray in his strict
Methodist way for the kind Lord to
save him his eyes, and if he couldn't
save them both to save at least one of
them. Then he prayed for one eye; lie
wanted only one eye; so long as he
could see, that would be enough.
Finally the operation was a thing of
the past and one eye was saved. JSot
long after some one saw him on the
street with a patch over one eye. He
was growling and grumbling. "What's
the matter?" he was asked. "Mattah?
Why, Ise made a fool ob dis vero nin..
gahl" he growled. "And how?" "Why,
wen I done got dis here eve blowert
out well, y' see, I taut dat 1 motight
lose both eyes, an' so I prayed dat one
eye, anyways, would be left to me.
Hell, de Lord answered my prayer;
but Ise made a fool ob mvself. 'Ax an'
shall receib,' says de Biblo. Well I
axed, an' 1 got wot I axed foh. De
reason Ise a blame fool it, dat I didn't
ax ior two eyes instead ob one!"
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FERRETS AND FERRETING.
now tne Little Animals Are Handled
Where They Are Mad to Work.
In England ferrets are more for work
than as pets and are used for making
rabbits bolt from their burrows. To
do this scarcely any training is neces
sary; the three young ferrets which we
used the other day worked as well as
their more experienced parents. There
are various reasons why white ferrets
are to be preferred as opposed to the
brown polecat varietv. Thev u-a
usually more docile and pleasant to
handle. A brown ferret is apt to be
nippea up Dy a sharp dog in mistake
for a rat or rabbit, while a white one
is always apparent, even when moving
among the densest herbage. This
specially applies to night time, md
l.ence poachers invariably use white
ferrets. Oamekeepers who know their
business prefer ferrets taken from
poachers to any others. The noachcr
carefully selects his ferret, and from
the nature of his trade he cannot afford
to work bad ones. Some ferrets cause
rabbit to bolt rapidly, while others
are slow.
Sometimes a ferret will drive a rab
bit to the end of a blind burrow, and
after killing it win not return until it
has gorged itself with blood; and more
trouble is added if the ferret curl
itself np for an after-dinner sleep.
Then, of course, it has either to be left
or dug out; if the former, it is well to
bar every exit and ntum with dead
rabbit when hunger has succeeded the
gorged sleep. Ferreting is mostly
practiced in winter: and it is to guard
against such occasions as these that
working ferrets are generally muzzled.
A cruel praatica used to obtain of
stlwhina1 trtflrlhef tha lipt of the fr.
Nt to pri&t tfciir worrTinj nW.u
HORSES.
They Are, as a Rale, Fat from
Brewery Grain.
Did you ever see a thin, square, cadav
erous, bony horse pulling a brewery
wagon? Probably not in New York,
though such a thing could happen,
though it would not pass without no.
tice. The reason for it is simple, says
the New York Sun. These horses are
fed on what is known as "brewers'
grain," the residue of the brewing proc
ess, a nourishing but unsalable prod
uct of the brewery. When the labor
of beer making is ended gallons of
these grains iu liquid form are noured
into cioseu wagons and carted to the
stables, where they are fed to the
horses. They are fattening, and give
brewery cart horses that rotundity
which is the marvel of many, who do
not understand the true cause of it.
It is estimated that nearly seventy Der
cent, of brewers' grains are water and
unavailable for transport, except at
large expense, for considerable dis
tance, and, more than this, they spoil
easily, so must be used at once as they
come from the brewery, hotand steam
ing. In some places, especially out of
New York, these brewers' grains are
fed to cattle with very good result,
but in this city the supply is taken up
i-iueiiy in tne Blames of the largest
breweries.
Very few persons have stopped to
compute the extent to which horses
are necessary in the brewery business.
The largest of the city breweries has
two hundred and fifty horses constant
ly in use in delivering kegs of beer to
customers distributed about New York
city and Brooklyn. The next largest
has two hundred horses, and so on
down the list, the total number of
brewery horses in the city footing up
five thousand.
BABIES OF THE YEAR.
Their Cradles Would Form Lt&a Around
the World.
Could the infants of a year be ranged
ln oradle, aays a statistician, thaora
dles would extend round tha globe.
The same writer looks at the matter la
a more pieturosque light. He imagine
the babies being carried past a given
point in their mothers' arms, one by
one, and the procession being kept up
nigm, ana day until tne last iiour in the
twelve months had pa.'.sed l.y.
A sulueiently liberal rate is allnw,l
but even In the going poet at the rate
of twunty a minuto, twelve hundred an
hour, aunt jr the sntitt , the w
ivtt at hi P9t vouM obIt ht
KEPT AHEAD OF THE TRAIN.
A Moose Able to Travel at the Bats of
Forty Miles an Hour.
The morning express on the Itangor
A Aroostook from lloulton had a race
with a moose one morning recently,
says the Boston Herald. Between
Island Falls and Crystal, about thirty
miles out of lloulton, the engineer saw
a huge moose on the track, watching
the approaching train and evidently
undetermined whether to derail it or
jump off and let it go alxiut its busi
ness, I he engineer blew a succession
of sharp blasts with the whistle, and
this the moose evidently took for the
wortl go for a race between himself
and the train. At any rate, he turned,
and, with the train not more than a
dozen rods from him, he started down
the track. The train was moving at
the rate of forty miles an hour, but the
moose flew like the wind and kept his
distance, liie passengers heard the
warning blast of the whistle, and knew
that something was on the track, but
not until the train reached Crystal sta
tion did they learn that they had been
racing with a moose.
For a quarter of a mile the big ani
mal kept up the almost incredible pace
necessary to keep ahead of the train,
and' then, as if satisfied that he had
convinced his competitor that there
wasn t anything in the steam engine
line that was coming into Aroostook
could outdo him in a sprinting match,
he left the track and plunged into the
woods without so much as looking be
hind him.
It Halls Originally from China and Used
to Be Played In Europe.
What is called the "Game of the
Devil" dates back to China, whftrfl It l
called Kouen-gen, to a very remote an
tiquity, and has been played in France
at different epochs of modern times.
especially at the beginning of the
present century.
llie "devil" is thrown into the air hv
means of a string which the player
keeps taut by the skillful use of two
sticks, and upon which he is to catch
it. "I remember having often seen
this game in the hands of one of my
friends," says a contributor to a French
periodical. "According to him, the
game was in great favor in Belgium in
ins ooynooti, atiout fifteen years ago,
especially at colleges, where the young
men often got up genuine matches be
tween two and even three players.
"The devil's form varies a little from
that of the 'Kouen-gen.' It is made of
two tin cones connected by their apices,
and provided with apertures for the
production of a humming sound when
the devil revolves very fast. A good
strong player can easily throw it to a
height of more than forty feet."
something less than a quarter of a
century ago this game was much
played at Paris. The devil was made
of two hollow boxwood balls.
A Fishy Story.
Pyeng Yang, a city in Corea, was
founded three thousand and sixteen
years ago. It is known as the well-less
city. Within its walls is not a single
well, and all the water of the city is
carried up by watermen from the river
which washes its southern wall. Tra
dition shows that this has always been
so, for it is said that when a Chinese
general besieged it two thousand years
ago, believing that he could compel its
inhabitants to capitulate by cutting off
their water supply, he was led to give
up the attempt because the soldiers on
the wallB took fish Bcules and went
through the motions of the baths, and
the scales, glittering in the sun, looked
in the eyes of the astonished besiegers
t6 be drops of water.
The firemen of Walla Walla, Wash.,
have elected as "honorary members"
the firemen who perished in the eold
storage fire in Chicago.
CmcAcio street cars carried 94,000,000
persons during the six months of the
existence of tha world's fair. On Oc
tober 9, Chicago day, thoy carried
7011,000 people.
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