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^Iff. A Lion on the Locomotive. [ Last winter when the snow storm* Krere so fearfuf throughout the mountains in Utah and the earth was covered with snow to the depth of five to ten feet and remained hidden so long Ithe ?rild animals were forced to desperation. The wolves were starved 'add weak, and what is known as the ^mountain lion almost perished from starvation. Its great strength failed it and a man with a knife could soon take the life of an animal that a short *ime before could hold a powerful ox OT VlHTRA nrid malro a maol r\f Viia flooV The hungry animals after a while discovered that food was to be had along the railroad track, where passengers threw bones and scraps of victuals from passing trains. Often two starving coyotes would engage in deadly combat over a chicken bone that had a short time before been ridden of the last vestige of nourishment by some economical person who did not care to pay seventy-five cents for a meal. This was the condition of things. / Engineer Gast had charge of engine . No. 151, which was known as "the helper," from the fact that ft helped trains up the mountain and when at the summit cut off and dropped back down to the bottom ready to help an other. One night when business on the road was slack Gast noticed something wrong with the gearing under the tender and remarked to the fireman that they "would get off and repair it. When half way down the mountain side he brought the engine to a standstill, and the two men went to work at \rhat Droved to be a twentv t i ~ ? y minutes' job packing a hot box on the tender. The tallow pot was left at the boiler's head. After completing the repairs the men were mounting the engine again, only to see a huge mountain lion devouring the tallow and holding full possession of the engine cab. It was a cold night and the 6now drifting. The men had already remained outside until they were very cold, and the ' chances of dispossessing Mr. Lion were very meagre, as he snapped his teeth and flashed his eyes and fast stored the tallow out of sight The only consolation th& men had was that the tallow would not last l^ng at that rate, and even this thought' was not entirely satisfying, as they had no way of determining that one of them would not go the same way at the conclusion of the tallow feast. Finally, after fifteen minutes' further delay the tallow pot was empty, and giving a growl, as much as to say, "I am very thankful, gentlemen, and you ought to be," the animal leaped from the cab aild disatmeared in the hilla.? Detroit Free Press. China as a Great Power. The greatest homogeneous nation Ae -world has ever known is now at fcrar, for to other nation known to history could boast of the 420,000,000 inhabitants that Chinese statisticians allot to their country. Now that the problem is worked out before our eyes -we see that three-fourths of this population is worthless for the present war. It is quite probable that all the forces used will be drawn from the two or three seacoast provinces. A geseral draft from the whole oountry would bring together men of more dialects than the building of Babel brought on us. The striking disparity of about eleven to one in population between China and Japan is not the controlling laotor. Still, the northern sea coast provinces of China are quite populous enough to sustain a war with Japan on equal terms. The Imperial Government is rich enough to enlist a swarm of European officers, arm its troops with the best weapons and obtain supplies from foreign makers. During the last five or |six years the Chinese nave been going tnrougn one 01 tneir periodical fits of egotism, economy and dislike of the foreigner, and have discharged as many of their foreign Bervants as they could spare. All that will now be changed, and a ready welcome will be given to the adventurous spirits of all countries.?New York Advertiser.' BedDe lor Inducing Sleep. Sleeplessness in people who work Lard, and especially in brain-workers, is oHen due to their working up to the last minute before bed-time. They may cure themselves by allowing at least an hour's interval of ease and repose, between sleep and ceasing to work. A little light supper will often aid sleep; and a walk in the open air before bed is also a good recipe for inducing sleep and promoting health. ? New T^ork Dispatch. Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Boot cons all Kidney and Bladder troubles. Pamphlet and Consultation free. Laboratory Binghamton, N. Y. Heavy frosts have done much damage to [ crop? In Nebraska. There la more Catarrh In this section of the i. country than all other diseases put together, and until the last few years was supposed to be Incurable. For a great many years doctors pro* sounoed it a local disease, and prescribed local , remedies, and by constantly failing to cur? 1 with local treatment, pronounced it incurable. Science has proven catarrh to be a constitui ttonal disease and therefore requires oon~*ltu* ! tional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure, man* : ufactared by F. J. Cheney A Co., Toledo, Ohio, Is the only constitutional cure on the market. It is taken internally in doses from 10drops to '? teaspoonful. It acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer one hundred dollars f?r any case it fails to care. Send for circulars and testimonials 'free. Address * F. J. Chesey & Co., Toledo, Q. i^T"Sold by Dnursrists, 75c. , . A Beantilul bouvenir Hpoon Will be sent with even: bottle of Vr. Hoxeit'i Certain Croup Cvre. Ordered by mall, postpaid, 50 cts. Addres?. Hoxsie, Buffalo, Jf. Y. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allay6 pain, cures wind colic. 25c. a bottle How My Throat Hukts! Why don't you use Hale's Honey or_Horehound and Taitf Pike's Toothache Drops cure m one inmate. Karl's Clover Root, the great blood purifier, fives freshness and clearness to the complexIon and ci^res constipation, 25 cts., 50 eta., ?1. !The Testimonials Published in behalf of Hood's Sarsaparilla are not purchased, nor are they written up in our offloe, norarethey from our employes. They are facts from truthful people proving, as eurely as anything can be proved by direct, personal, positive evidence, that Hood's Sarsa. a parilla | Be Sure to get | Hood's v Hood's PUla cue nausea, slot headache, lndi blllotisaese. Sold by all dniggUU. J ... - v; r . - 7?.?" ' ;s : ' ' * ' - f ' ; _":- v ; CRIME IN KOREA. THE HORRIBLE PUNISHMENTOF TRAITORS AND CRIMINALS. The Prisons and Execution Grounds ? Torture of Witnesses and Other Cruel Practices?Some Inhuman Devices. TREASON" is nowhere so terribly rewarded as in Korea, writes Frank G. Carpenter, in the Washington Star. My blood runs cold when I think of the punishment which will be meted out to those who have rebelled against the King, shculd the Chinese become victorious and His Majesty's corrupt officials be allowed to carry out the laws which now exist. I have told how the body of the dead rebel, Kim Ok Kiun, was brought to Korea, how it was cut into six pieces, and how the bloody head, the hands, the feet and the trunk were carried over the country and hung above the gates of the cities as a warning to rebels. Not only this man himself was killed, but his whole family and all of his relatives have been terribly punished. His father did all he could to prevent his boy from rising against the King ten years ago, and after his rebellion he went into retirement. He was old and blind, but after Kim's death he was dragged out and his head was cut off. The men of the family even of the third and fourth generation were executed, and the women, inoluding Kim's seventeen-year-old daughter, were given over to be the slaves of the officials. After this rebellion, the mothers, the wives and the daughters of all who have taken up arms against the King will become the common property of the Government and of the magistrates of the provinces in which they live. They will be dragged from their homes to be slaves. They will have no rights that anybody will be bound to respect, and their only chance of happiness will be in death. I went out, one morning during my . ? - wnnroxo a prison: stay in Seoul, with a Korean noble to the execution grounds. They are sitaated just outside of the west gate of the city, at a point where the maiu roads crossing Korea from the north to the eouth meet, and at a spot which is considered the most public place in the whole hermit kingdom. There is quite a city surrounding it, though it is outside of the walk of the city, and a big business is done by the shopkeepers with the travelers who cross it on their way through the country. This west gate is the lowest and least honorable of any of the entrances to the Korean capital. It is through this that all coffins are carried out of the city for burial, and it is by this way that criminals must go on their way to execution. The Korean who went with me was well versed in the laws of the 'country, and he showed me just how traitors are executed. They are brought from the prisons in rude carts drawn by bullocks, and loaf fln-ca urn fillftri with thfi re Snements of torture. The carts have do springs, and the street through which they are carried is so full of stones that it compares with the corduroy roads of the Black Swamp of Ohio. The criminal is not allowed to stand or sit in the cart. He is tied to a korean jaujob. a cross which is built up just over the wheels and nailed to the cart. This cross is so high that when his arms are stretched out and tied his, toes are still Bis inches from the bed of the pnrf A hlnrVk is then nut beneath them, and this blook is so short that the tips of his toes barely touch it. The road grows rougher as it nears the west gate, and from thence to the execution ground it is filled with ruts and great rocks. At the west gate the block is knocked out from under the prisoner,' and he hangs by his arms and his neck. The bullock is then whipped by the driver, and the cart bounces up and down over the rocky way to the execution grounds. Here the criminal is taken down from the cross. He is stripped of his clothes and laid upon his back in the dust of the road. The executioner is always a murderer, and his weapon is a sword, which is so blunt that it mashes rather than cuts the head from the shoulders. There is one sword which has been used for years for this purpose. It is Baid, indeed, to be five hundred years old, and it has hashed up thousands of necks. The worst of the rebels are cut in six parts, as was Kim Ok Kiun. Men of less prominence and of less serious offenses are simply deoapitated. But the bodies of all must lie out in the sun for three : jgg $ V':v days before they can be carried away. All sorts of crimes are terribly punished in Korea. The truth about such matters is kept, as far as possible, from the foreigners, and you will find little information about prisons and punishments in any of the KOREAN 'SOLDIEBS. books on Korea. There is, in fact, but little published on the country, and the information which I give you was only accessible to me on account of the letters of introduction which I carried and the risks which I took in going right in among the people and persisting in my questions and investigations, notwithstanding the objections of the officials. I am, I believe, the first American who has ever visited the Korean prisons. I can't reconcile the cruelties I saw with the many noble qualities which I find among the Koreans. They are in some ways the most polite and moBt refined people. They are lovers of poetry and flowers. They are particu lar as to etiquette, and their souls in most ways are as refined as ours. Still, these punishments are such that they would be a disgrace to the most ignorant and savage nations of the African wilds. Korea is practically a feudal nation to-day, and it is in fact in the same state that China was about four hundred years back. Korean thieves are |||, eb's shins dj koeea. decapitated for their crimes. They are only cut into two pieces, however, and the law provides that their bodies need not lie on the. execration grounds longer than two days before their relatives can take them away and bury them. The thief, when he is first taken, is flogged by the officers. He is then asked as to his crime, and after this is taken to the house of the Judge. The Judge demands what he has done with the property, and if the thief replies that it has been sold and gives the name of the party who has it, it is confiscated. He is then taken to jail and kept there for 100 days. At the end of this time the police give him the option of life or death. If he accepts ' ? ' - ? x :.:i Hie ne oecomes a Bervaui ux tut) juu. for the rest of his existence; if death, he is strangled. The strangling is done in a curious way. There is a hole in the door of the cell just largo enough for a piece of rope about the Bize of e clothes line to pass through. A noose is made at the end of the rope, and this noose is placed around the criminal's neck. The other end of the rope is put through the hole in the door or the wall, and the police pull at the rope until they bring the man's chest and neck above and below the hole and until the neck breaks and the man is dead. The question as to whether a thief be strangled or decapitated depends upon the nature of the offense.' Strangling is much the more respeotable way of dying. Sometimes this io Virnnrrhf ttHnnt. Viv hftncrincr. The " ~u O a thief s neck and hands are tied to a post, So that his feet are some distance above the ground. About his ankles a stout rope is then fastened, and to the end .of this a stone, several times as heavy as his body, is hung. Of course the man dies. Another method of execution is by suffocation, and this, strange to say, is done with paper. The man is laid flat upon his back, and a sheet of Korean paper is spread over his face. This has been soaked in water and fits over the man's faoe, being pressed down so that it makes a veritable death mask, shutting out every bit of air, and the man dies. Any one who has seen the paper of Korea will appreciate how easily this form of death could be carried out. It is made by hand. It is as thick as a sheet of blotting paper and almost as strong as leather. When moisture is applied to it it becomes exceedingly soft, but does not loose its strength, and it would make an excellent molding material. I was told of a curious custom as to policemen who make false arrests, mi j. :vi_ ;e I xuujr ttiu ici'riuij jjuuiauuu/ uuu ia something similar was adopted as to our American Sherifls there would be fewer mistakes made. The Korean policeman who arrests a man as a thief when he knows him to bo innocent is liable to be caught by the man's family, and his eyes may be burned out by tnem with red hot pokers or iron chop sticks which hava been heated in the coals. His eyes have not seen truly in arresting the wrong man, and it is thought to be just that they be put out. Another way of performing this punishment is by laying the policeman on the ground with his face upward. A tube of bamboo, just about one inch in thickness and as long as a pencil, is fitted over the eye, and the otner end of it iB pounded with a mallet until the eyes are squeezed up into the bamboo tubes. Such cases are not common, but a policeman who in ;r- " f . " _ ' - ' ' . ' '. < ': ; tentionally arrests an innocent man is liable to thiB treatment Among the most terrible of Korean crimes are those against your parents or ancestors. There is a prison in Seoul that is devoted entirely to prisoners who commit crimes against their parents. If a rich son refuses to support his father he can be sent to jail, and the boy who strikes his father can be whipped to death. The parricide ?? unrl if ia -ir* TTnraa XO UU1UCU bv UCavU) ouu *v *u JAVAVM much the same as in China, where the killing of one's parents subjects the child to be sliced into thirty odd pieces or carved up by inches. The torturing of prisoners to make tbem confess iB common in Korea, and it is wonderful what inventions of torture are sometimes in use. Think of tying a man's bare feet to a stake in the ground and burning his toes with powder. Think of all sorta of flogging and pinohing and cutting, and you can get some idea of the powers of a Korean magistrate. In the prisons you will find iron chains, stocks and all sorts of manacles. These Koreans know how to whip so that the flesh is raveled off of the bones, and I have a photograph of a man tied in a chair, with his knees bare, and a jailer whipping his bare shins, l'n one of the prisons which I visited I saw three men fastened in stocks. The stocks ON THE BACK. consisted of a log of wood about fifteen feet long and at least a foot in diameter. This had been split in two, and holes had been bored through it just large enough to hold the bare ankle of a man. The three criminals each had one foot fastened in this log, and the jailers, when I appeared with my soldiers ?nd photographer, tried to move them out into the sun so that I might get a good photograph of them. As the? pulled them along I heard one of them utter a cry of pain, and I saw that the features of all were contorted with agony. It made me sick, and I desisted. I told the jailers to let the men be, and that I would not take their pictures. I took a photograph, however, of one of the prisoners, who was wearing the Korean cangue. This is different from the articles used in China, and I have never heard it described, nor read of it anywhere. You will find no description of it iu the i books of travel I do not suppose that many know of its existence. The Chinese cangue consists of a square of framework or board, in the centre of whioh a man's head is fixed, and which rests upon his shoulders, jutting about two feet out from his neok on every side. The Korean cangue is a plank, often longer than the man himself, with a hole in one end of it, in whioh the neck can be looked. If the man wishes to move about he must hold up this plans witn nis nanas, ana when he sits down its heavy weight rests upon his neok. I found it in the jail's of many of the magistrates which I visited in the country districts, and it is by no means a mild instrument of torture. Paddling and flogging are the most common punishment. This prevails everywhere, and the official is very low indeed who cannot order the common man down to be paddled. Every magistrate has his professional paddlerc, and many officials, when they go about, have officers who go with them, carrying these instruments of torture. In passing the front gate of the palace one afternoon I saw a number of these kesos, as they are called, with their paddles beside them. Their master had probably gone in to see the King, and they were waiting outside. These paddles are about six feet long, five inches wide, and perhapj an inch thick in the centre, tapering down to a thiokness of perhaps three-eighths of an inch at the end. They have small handles, and they are made of a white? hard wood, which is very flexible and elastic. These paddling kesos have a regular guild of their own, and the business often descends from father to son. They are wonderfully expert in the use of the paddle, and the officers carry from two to a hundred of them with them, according to their rank. 1 Had one or two witn me during a large part of my tours, but I, of course, did not use them. Often a half dozen men are paddled at the same time. If there are no planks handy, they are laid flat on the ground on their faces, and their feet are sometimes fastened in this position in wooden stooks, so that they cannot move. They are laid out in rows, and each man has his paddler beside him. Each paddler's arms are bare to the shoulder, and they work in unison. They have their paddles raised back over their heads as far as their arms can reach, when they are ready for action, and they bring them down at the cry of the under officials, who, with swords at their sideB, stand at the head of the line of half naked men and yell out a sort of a chant, which sounds something like this: La-hoo-aa-hoo-oo. The paddles are raised at the first la, and as the final 00-00 is uttered thoy ore brought down with a crack like a pistol on the bare skin of the men, and the executioners grunt with the exertion. They have a way of pressing the paddle down on I < ?? THE CANGUE. the quivering flesh, and of pulling it off with a rub before they raise it. The first strike usually makes a blister, and at the close of the second the Tjaddle it wet with water or blood. V;/"' ' W * ' . V - Vv y. :V ' ' ' P: As these executioners drag it of? they rub it into the sand, pressing it there until the kesos again cry La-hooaahoooo. Then the paddles are raised UgttlJl, UUU UO LUCjr CUO Uiuuguv this time, they are covered with sand. They pound the particles into the flesh, and as the men drag them off they take away the skin as though it were sandpapered. I can give you no conception of the punishment, and when you remember that any official has the right to paddle any man below him, and almost any one of prominence can paddle those of lower rank, you can get some idea of the condition of affairs in this country. I be- ' lieve the people must be naturally kind, or life here would be a hell to the masses. As it is, sometimes men are killed by paddling. Fifty blows would surely do it, and the ordinary dose is about twelve strokes. Much paddling will reduce the flesh to a jelly, and even after slight punishment men have to be lifted up and carried away. They cannot rise of themselves. This paddling goes on in the army, and a general or a colonel can paddle a private, and the privates paddle the citizens, and so it goes. There is such a thing as bribing the cn +Via+ t.Viotr tn kill the man, bat moderate the stroke as it comes down and only punish him slightly. In fact, bribery is possible from the top to the bottom of Korean official life, and there "will have to be an entire reorganization of the whole system'of government here before the people can have prosperity or peace. Shorthorns. Shorthorns have done more to improve our herds of native cattle than all the other breeds combined, and it is with pleasure that we note a marked revival of interest in them Bince the Columbian test demonstrated the pos-* sibilities of the breed at the pail: In England it has always been regarded as one of the principal dairy breeds, being preferred very generally to the Jersey, which it defeated at the last English dairy show. In this country shorthorn breeders have hitherto improved the beef capacity of the breed at the expense of the dairy qualities, so that they have of recent years fallen somewhat in the back* ground. That their milking qualities could soon be regained there is every reason to believe. If they were as general in the breed as in England, the shorthorn cow would soon become the favorite dairy animal with thou sanas 01 American iarmers. Some judicious importations of shorthorns bred for dairy qualities would greatly improve the breed. Our illustration represents a choice specimen, Baron Lavender, 106324. This grand bull was bred by William Duthie Collynie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, imported by John Miller & Son, Brougham, Ont., and sold by them to his present owner, the Kellogg Stock Farm Company, Claridon, Ohio. He is of noble ancostry, having been got by Leonidas (53260), out of Lavender 46th, by Dunblane (47792); g. d. Lavender 20th, by Pride of the Isles (35072), and when his grand conformation and excellent quality are considered, it will be seen that he is a PRIZE SHORTHORN BULL. decided acquisition to the shorthorn blood of the United States. He is a youngster yet, having just passed his third birthday, and will doubtless render good service for years to come. ?New York World. Tiie Outside Cellar Stairs. As usually constructed, the outside cellar stairs become very much dilapidated after a few years of use, and many serious accidents occur by falling or slipping from and upon the decaying steps. If stones of the right length can be obtained, they are the best possible material for the steps, the nest best being plank, though ? - - nnloaa u turner utiu uo ucpouucu uj^uu ? the whole epaoe underneath the steps, dovm to the level of the cellar floor, be laid up in masonry. Where only small stone, eithei round or flat, is at hand, lay up the stairs of this material thoroughly imbedded in mortar, making the steps of the needed height. When this is done cut a plank step of the proper width and length for each step and place them on top of the stone step, as shown in. the accomDTTEABLE CELLAR STAIRS. panying illustration. Upon each side fit a retaining board, and the result will be steps that are durable and generally satisfactory. If possible, make the steps from two-inch pine plank, nnrprino fhn whole with folding doors in tho usual manner.?American Agriculturist. The 3Iost Original Wedding Present. By way of a London paper it ig learned that an American woman haa lately received what must be termed | the most original of wedding presents. I It is a musical dinner service, of which oach plate begins to play a tune when put upon tho table. The soup platea are accredited with marches as suiting the temper of tho guests at that moment of solemnity, but as dinner progresses and the oourses do their enlivening work, the harmonies brighten accordingly, till at dessert tho covers are ringing out the maddest of polkas and galops.?New York Dispatch. Colonel Casey is called the corn king of Henry County, Kentucky. He owns 1560 acres in corn, and has been ficuring on 62,400 bushels. Highest of all in leavening Pow< ' ABSOIIffl The Salt Flood Helped Peach Trees. The unusual floods of last year, which resulted in great destruction of wharves and other property contiguous to the water courses of Kent County, have resulted in a very important question being forced upon the attention of the Eent Oounty peach growers. During these floods hundreds of acres of fanning lands TPGTa flnn/lo/1 and ma.T>T7n?a/?V> nroViarda stood "with their roots covered with the ealt waters of the overflowing streams. With scarce an exception* or at least in very many oases, the trees which were flooded by the unusual tides are the only trees in the county which this year have any fruit on them. A gentleman said that a portion of his Orchard was under the tides, and that to the very tree which stood under water there is fruit. Any one, he said* could mark the exact semioirouJar outline of the water in his orohard by the presenoe of fruit on the flooded trees and the absence of fruit on the trees which the waters did not touoh. Similar results are reported, and these circnmstanoes force the question upon peach growers, Do the trees need salt? An extensive peach grower proposes to try the covering of as mucin of his peach orohard as possible with the grass and vegetation whioh accumulates along the river shores in immense quantities during the late summer and fall, and says that he is confident of most satisfactory results.?Baltimore Sun. The National Library. The annual report of National Librarian Ainsworth E. Spofford reveals the fact that the Congressional Library now numbers 695,880 volumes and 223,000 pamphlets. This is the oak that has grown from the lit tie aoorn of Thomas Jefferson's Monti cello library of 7000 books, purchased afte* the Washington fire of 1814. A disastrous conflagration in 1851 also reduced the library from 65,000 to 20,000 volumes. Aside from a small yearly oongressional appropriation and the oopyright income the only aid received in all these years has been the gift in 1882 of the 27,000 books, together with as many pamphlets, of Dr. Joseph M. Toner, of Washington. This public-spirited example might have been emulated by other donors had it not been for the restrictions in the use of the Oongressional Library. A million volumes and pamphlets will require moving into the new Library Building two years hence and this vast labor is to be oerformed bv the means of a temporary railroad in a tunnel, to be constructed from the crypt of the eapitol to the vaults of the new library. This will be the most remarkable transfer of books since a regiment of soldiers marohed tnd counter-marched with the multitudinous tomes?a&?he Library of Ber[in. ?Philadelph^^"?i. 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Gov't Report Baking Powder E1.Y PURE The New Guns Are Dangerous. Some interesting articles have been published by the Vossische Zeitung on the small-calibre guns, and the researches of various professors as to the effect of wounds made by these gum at different distances?effects that are horrible. The oonclusion is that la any future battles there will be incomparably more dead and severely wound? Ofl fVlQT* OVA* VujIaha in Via VTV4 WViUAO UA VUO TT UiAU Q UAJT" tory. And, as the new guns shoot far, the treatment of the wounded on tht battlefield and their transport to tht hospitals will be much more slow, difficult and dangerous.?London News, Hen Fruit Statistics. In the United Kingdom 20,000,000 hens lay on an average ninety eggs each per annnm, of which ten are reserved for hatching. It follows that the home product is 1,600,000,000,whioh added to the number imported gives 2,700,000,000, or seventy-three per inhabitant.?New York Advertiser. 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