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CHINA WANTS PEACE.' OFFERS JAPAN S175.000.000 TO CALL IT QUITS. The Amount la Regarded as Large Now that the Downfall of Port Arthur Is But a Question of Hours the Powers at the Celestial Kingdom Hasten Ne gotiations With Japan Records of Ministers Dun and Denby. China's Peace Offering. . Washington, Nov. 23. A cable from Hiroschima, Japan, where the mikado has established headquarters, states that China has intimated her willingness to pay a war indemnity of 100,000.000 taels and, in addition, to pay all the war expenses incurred by Japan. As the war expenses reach 150,000,000 taels, the total offer of China would be 230,000,000 taels. The tael is a Chinese silver coin worth about seventy-five cents at the present exchange, so that the whole payment would be, approximately, 175,000,000, American money. The amount is regarded here as quite large, audit is believed arrangements between the two nations could be ef fected on terms providing for a small er war indemnity. Diplomatists here say that under ordinary circumstances it would take some time for China to formally pre sent its offer to United States Minister Denby, but, owing to the fact that the Japanese are now at the walls of Port Arthur about to make the last blow at China's greatest fortress. China may hurry the negotiations to a conclusion. It is expected that Min ister Denby will transmit the offer by telegrdpli to Tien Tsiu and Shanghai and thence by cable to Yokohama. The understanding is that China and Japan will pay the expenses of the American ministers incident to the negotiation. In accordance with the suggestion of Japan the state department has notified Ministers Dun at Tokio and Denby at l'ekin to transmit such di rect word as China may wish to make to Japan. The cable directions were sent Tu6sday. The advance on Port Arthur is re garded as having an important bear ing on the peace negotiations. Lieu tenant Mioyaka, naval attache of the Japanese legation here, says that the advance movement has been most cautious, as the ground for forty miles around Port Arthur has been found fairly alive with pow der miue connected with electric wires to Tort Arthur. Three days ago the Japanese were within a day's march of the fortress, but it was nccesary to send ahead small scouting parties to pick a route away from the mines and electric wires. The regular roads coifld not be used for the artillery, as it would have been blown up, and accordingly the bier guns have been moved in cir cuitous routes through woods and morasses. It is regarded as likely that his caution march will have been completed to-day, and the Japanese legation is hourly expect ing word that the decisive blow has been struck, though a long siege may be necessary, as the fortress has one of the strongest defenses of modern times. It is believed that Japanese success would quickly close the peace negotiations, but that a repulse would impel China to hold off further. Oflicials'and diplomats are scanning the records of Messrs. Dun and Denby to ascertain their capacity to deal with the questions committed to them. Mr. Dun has had unusual ex perience in Japan. General Capron, , who built the Japanese legation in Washington, wished to send a con signment of fine Merino sheep to Japan. The Duns had a stock farm in Ohio, and the minister's sheep were bought and he went to Japan with them. He remained there some time and finally married a Jap anese lady of high family, by whom he had a daughter. This attached' him to the Japanese and made him a fixture there. President Arthur first appointed him as second secretary of the United States legation at Tokio. When President Cleveland's ad ministration began two years ago, California made an effort to se cure the appointment of minister to Japan for one of her favored sons. At an opportune time, how ever. Judge Thurman, who had been on the presidential ticket with Mr. Cleveland four years befroe, asked the president as the only favor he had to request, that Mr. Dun be promoted to minister. The request was complied with. Mr. Dun's Japanese wife is dead, but his relations ,with the Jap anese are very cordial, which, with his long experience, well fits him for the present negotia tions. Minister Denby is a lawyer of ability, who lias served through three administrations, being appointed dur ing Mr. Cleveland's fhst term, re tained by Mr. Harrison owing to their personal associations in Indiana and the objection of China to Senator P.lair. and again retained by Mr. Cleveland. He has an outward aus terity which has not, liowever, pre vented his being most acceptable to China. MOUNT TACOMA ERUPTION. The Great Jlonarch of tho Cascades Strangely Transformed. San Francisco, Nov. 23. Great ex citement has been caused throughout the Puget sound country by what is looked upon by many .as an eruption of Mount Tacoma.. or Ranier, 14,444 feet high, and one of the loftiest peaks in the United States. The mountain has lately been strangclj transformed. The crest of the great monarch of the Cascades has changed, the cone having fallen in, and steam can be seen rising from the crater. There is no eruption, it is believed by those most competent to judge, but great masses' of rock seem to have fallen. The snow -.capped cone has dis appeared and a sharp-pointed peak has risen in its place to the east of the crater. The changed appearance of the mountain is evident from the streets of Seattle, ninety miles dis tant, and thousands of people have watched the great peak all the after noon. But very few people have ever ascended-:the mountain, and at this season of tl?e year the ascension js an absolute impossibility. There is no way of making a thorough investiga tion of the phenomenon. Gold From Various Sources. New York. Nov. 23. The New York Agency of a large Canadian institution has received from its correspondent at San Fraucisco S250.000 in gold within the last two days, and S50.00D in gold lias been sh.ppcel by the Bank of Montreal to its agent in this city for' the purpo-e of subscribing to the government loan. A Wall street banking firm, with Paris and San Francisco connections, is also receiv ing small parcels' of gold from California POSTAL AFFAIRS. COUNTIES. Adams Antelope.... Banner Blaine Boone Box Butte... Boyd Brown Buffalo Burt Butler CT.S3 Cedar Cbase , Cherry Cheyenne... Clay Colfax , Cumins Custer Dakota.. Dawes... Dawson Duel Dixon Dodgo Douglas Dundy Fillmore Franklin Frontier Furnas Gage Garfield Gosper Grant Greeley Hall Hamilton Harlan Haves Hitchcock.... Holt Hooker Howard Jefferson... .i.. Johnson Kearney Keith Keya l'aha.... Kimball Kuo.v Lancaster Lincoln Lovun Loup Madison Mcl'herson.... Merrick Nance Xeninhn Nuckolls Otoe...., Pawnee Perkins Phelps Pierce Platte Polk Ked Willow.... Klehardson Bock Saline Sarpy Sautxlera Scott's Bluff... Seward Sheiitlan Sherman Sioux Stanton Thayer , Thomas Thurston Volley Washington.... "Wayne Webster Wheeler York . ....... Governor. Totals Pluralities.. Postmaster General Ulssell's Annual Re port to tho President. Washixgox, Nov. 27. Postmaster General W. S. Bissell has submitted to the president his annual report for the year ending June 30, 1S94. He briefly outlines the policy of the de partment in the following: "In general I would recommend that the first and most important thing to be done is to revise the laws as to second-class matter so as to place the postoffice department im mediately upon a self-sustaining basis. "Second Avoid expensive experi ments 'like postal telegraph, rural fee delivery, etc "Third Develop the postal service on existing lines of administration, viz: Extend free delivery in cities that now enjoy it; accord it to towns already entitled to it under the law, and quicken railroad transportation. "Fourth Revise and reclassify the organization of the railway mail service and reclassify clerks in post ollices. "Fifth Provide for district super vision of all postal affairs by appoint ment of expert postal officials from the classified service, as recommended in my last annual report" "The revenue for the year was S3, 050,479; expenditures, S34,324, 414, leav ing a deficit 50,213,035. The estimates for tho current year ending June 30, 1S95. are: Itevenue, SS4.427.749; ex penditures, S90.399.4S5; deficit S5,9;i, 737. The estimates submitted to the secretary of the treasury for the next fiscal year arV: Revenue, SSG.907.407; expenditures, S91.059.2S3; deficiency, S4.151.S70." This annual deficiency, the post master general says, could be over come by the increase of postal rates, but he does not believe this advisable. Economy has been practiced, but nevertheless, great care lias been taken that it should not affect the efficiency of the service. The economies have consisted main ly in reletting contracts for mail transportation and in the cost and amount of supplies; also in the abro gation of seven of the eleven steam ship subsidy contract?, which will mean a total saving in the ten years of the contracts' life of S14,431,325. Mr. Uissell recommends the experi mental free delivery projects should be discontinued, and thinks that free delivery in rural districts is not needed or desired by the people, Both these projects were originated by his predecessor. One of the most important and in teresting features of Mr. Bissell's re port is its discussion of class matter. In his last report he referred to the great disproportion of growth of sec ond class matter. He has made a thorough investigation during the year, upon which he says: "The effect of all this upon my mind is a conviction that the statutes and the precedents upon which the business now rest are defective: that thev em- bodv the only great abuse at present existing in me posiai service; anu I that, as this business is growing all ' the time, some remedy should be j applied." ! Of the obstruction of mails hy j strikes, the postmaster general says: "In my last report I called attention to the necessity for legislation such as then was and now is recommended by the superintendent of the railway mail service for the punishment of tram wrecking, and for legislative determination of the definition of a mail train. Such legislation would be of great advantage to the postal service." The postmaster general does not favor the postal telegraph, a sj'stem advocated by his predecessors. He points out that in a country where the territory is so large the cost of- a postal telegraph would far exceed any possible receipts or benefits. Mr. Uissell gives the following daily average business of the depart ment, which shows the vastness of the postal service: Number of miles of post route run .. 1.100.003 Number of stamps manufactured ,300.000 Number of envelopes manufactured.. 1.8-0.003 Number of postal cards manufactured 1.500,000 Number of pieces mailed 15,70-,000 Number of letters mailed 7,100,0X) Number of pieces of mail matter dis tributed and redistributed by rail way postal clerks 27,500,000 Number of pieces handled in dead let ter ottlce 21,000 Daily transactions in money order business $1,100,000 Daily expenses 211.100 The postmaster general Relieves in civii service in the postotlicc depart ment He says, "If the system has produced such good results in the clerical force of the department it is reasonable to inquire whether some thing like it could rot be applied of the boys, a venturesome little fel with advantage to the lower grades j , full of fun as an eg; his report with a request that a new building be provided for the postof fice department He says interest on the cost of an adequate building would be less than the amount of rent paid. OFFICIAL ABSTRACT OF VOTES. The Appended Tabulation is an Abstract of the Yote Cast at the General Election of 1894 as Returned to the Secretary of State and Officially Tabulated. Liect.-Govirxor. Secret art or State. Auditor of Public Accounts. I ? i 1 p 5 Snf i f I I sr 1 ? s? s ! 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A Dnj Who Wont About With Two 'Or Hugo Trees of Considerable Size. A party of pedestrians while tramp inp; along the Wissahicken had theii attention drawn to a singularly shaped tree growing along tho creek sido of tho drive. The tree when a sapling bad evidently been fixed by some medler with nature, who, after penetrating one stem with a knife, inserted the end of a branch into tho hole and left it there to grow The peculiar formation led the party into talking of other peculiari ties which they had observed, says the Philadelphia Times. One of the trio said: "When I was a boy I went with several other boys into the woods that stood back from tho vil lage of Plymouth to gather wild flowers. We tramped through the woods until the underbrush became so thick that we had to crawl in places on our hands and knoes. One ' Hnn:tn7.;i Cold Mine. SroKAXK, Wash., Nov. 2 7. Michaei Shu ma 11, a well-known mining man, har returned- from his mines in the Okanagon district, lie reports the find of a veritable bonanza gold mine at the vcrv summit of the Cascade is of meat, was on the lead, and, all at onco cried out: 'bay, fellers, come hero and see what I've found.' Wo hurried forward and saw him bending over tho skull of an ox which lay on the ground face up ward. From each of the eye-sockets there was growing a small chestnut tree, while from where the ears were once attached a beautiful vine shot forth, intertwining the horns and trailing gracefully about the skulL "We looked about for a pieco of bark or some other object upon which wo could transport the odd We range of mountains near Slate creek. Twoyounj; men from Anacor- i flower-pot to one of our homes, te.s named Karon and t.ernsh, are the succeeded in getting it out of the lucky finders. Shuman says that the 1 thicket, after carefullv niacin" it boys, after a week's work with the , a jcco of bark 'Wh CrUSnnn '"-"Tt ' Tti a cleUranco wo drew lots to lee up S12. 000, with plentv of the same , , ... ,, , rich dirt in sight. Xcarlv all the who shonld own tho find- lh lot miners in this seetion of the country ! leu to me ana tuo otner Doys Helped have flocked to the new Eldorado and staked out claims. lfecortler Owsley May Io Kemoveii. St. Louis. Mo., Nov. 27. To a re norter to-dav Governor Stone said that he was not ready to announce I look like one. what he would do in relation to Ke- ' gethcr they grew into each other. corder of Voters Owsley, but he said go out to the old place every autumn me to carry it homo, where my father planted it in tho irarden. The vine died, but the chestnut trees grew to be large trees. Tho skull long ago crumbled to dust and formed a fer tilizer for the trees, which to-day Growing so close to- I he is of the opinion now that he had not the legal power to remove Owsley. He declined to talk further on the topic, but stated that he would de termine within a very short time what his legal pawers in this con nection were and then he would be in a position to say what action he pro posed to take. and gather chestnuts under the tree which tho owner is kind enough to call mine. Last autumn 1 found that the treo had been slightly injurea during tho summer by being struck by lightning, and I ma' arrange ments with the owner that if it should die I am to get tho timber, which I shall have made up into furniture. Part of the trunk I shall take to a carver and have him carve from it an ox's skull, from which I shall have miniature artificial trees and vines to grow, and shaH give it A Fatal Jump. St. Loris, Mo., Nov. 27. While tht family of Colonel H. Phelps, who is connected with the legal department nut .irivw rtHMar afternoon, the the st place m my library. horse took fright and ran away. .Mrs. Phelps became panic stricken and jumped from the carriage, receiving injuriis from which she died soon after. Four Rivals for Senator Do ptu Portland, Ore.. Nov. 27. Senator Dolph will not have clear sailing for re-election to the United States sen ate. Already the names of four as p rants have been put forward, and in all probability will be presented to the leirislature. They are Gowrnor- -xnat's really a curiosity," re marked ono of his companions, "but it don't come up to what took place when I was a boy in Haddington. A neighbor of ours had a pet crow that was up to all sorts of mischief. My mother got me tor gather her a lot of acorns one fall to make fancy work for an approaching fair. One day while she was sticking the acorns on the outside of a box, the crow hopped over into tho yard and up on tho porch and watched her work. As soon as she turned her bacR, elect W. P. Lord, Congressman Uinirer Hermann. C. W. Fulton of Astoria Jim, as we used to call Mm, jumped and T. II. Tongue of llillsboro. ! up on the table, picked up an aebm and made ojf. Jjko, ta thief., Mother threw a' smalle'tick at him, and it struck him on the head. The poor bird tumbled over and we thought it was dead, but it came too in a little while and hopped away. It was never seen again till the next sum mer, when tho neighbor tore down an old frame building, under which the decomposed carcass of the crow was found. Upon examining it a small oak tree was found grow ing from between its upper and lower bills. I carried the carcass homo on a shovel and planted it carefully in tho garden, where itgrow rapidly. "I saw the tree last month and it is as pretty an oak as can be seen anywhere. Up where tho branches shoot out there is a peculiar lump, which when viewed from a certain direction is an exact resemblance of a crow's head. The limbs look for all the world as though the gigantic bird was holding its mouth wide open." "Did I ever tell you about our orango tree?" asKed anothar of the company. "Well, I think it is tho greatest vegetable wonder I ever heard of. Father, while eating an orango ono Christmas, took several of tho seeds and placed them in a sore that was on our old dog's back. A horse doc tor told him tho seeds would cause an irritation which would make the soro heal up. Well, sir, two of tho seeds took root and grew and that dog moved about for more than two years with tho twin trees growing out of his back. "Tno sore healed up, but poor old Ponto got horned by a steer ono day and was so badly injured that he died. Father cut a chunk out of his back and transplanted tho trees in a box. They grew splendidly, and while they never bore any fruit they had plenty of bark." TEMPTS THE THUNDERBOLTS. Whlto Rhinoceroses. From a letter addressed by that re nowned sportsman, Mr. Selous, to tho Field, it appears that that curious and rare animal, tho white rhinoce ros, has not yet gone the way of tho dodo and the great bustard, though some have ventured to give Mr. Sel ous' authority for saying that he is extinct. It is to the occupation of Northern Mashonalahd, which kept the native hunters to the west of the Umniati' river, that this gentleman attributes the fact that in this part a few specimens still survive the con stant persecution which in the last twenty years has utterly extermi nated them in every portion of South Central Africa. "There may yet," Mr. Selous adds, "be ten, or even twenty of these animals left, but cer- tainly not more, I think than the lat ter number." Worth it. Briggs Fine suit of yours. Griggs Yes; business suit "How much?" "Nothing." Don't mean to say you got it for nothing?" "Yes; I did; my employer gave it to me." "What for?" "For minding my own business." Texas Sittings. lCioger of the Washington Monument and Its Good Luck. It is" for electrical engineers to say whether there is not danger of a catastrophe in the great monument of granite-and marble which the peo ple of America have erected to the honored memory of George Wash ington. Tho monster obelisk, capped by its aluminum tip, is supported on the inside by eight immense iron columns running from top to bottom. That represents tons of metal piled heavenward to the height of 555 feet, as if to tempt the thunderbolts. To be sure, there are lightning rods on the outside, but they are pigmy bits of wire compared to the mass of iron within. One of tho attendants told mo the other day that there never passes a severe thunderstorm with out some electrical disturbance in the monument. Usually it has no more serious effect than to make the wires and electric signals in the shaft act better for some days following. Sev eral times, however, he says, he has seen tho iron columns wreathed with fiery snakes with such a crackling and hissing of blue-forked llame as might well frighten a man with sim ple tastes. On ono occasion the at tendant assured me that he saw the electric bolt leap from an electric column and disappear down the well hole at the base of the shaft. Two steps farther and he would have been directly in its path. Now, the question is, and it would seem worthy of serious consideration, whether according to the laws of probabilities, such an accident will it, take placo one dav or another wncn the elevator, with its human load, is on tho way up or down, says tho Illustrated American. Tho car holds thirty people and makes a com plete trip every thirty minutes dur ing six or seven hours of each day of tho week except Sundays. The car passes so near the iron columns that ono can touch them easily with the hand. Imagine an electric storm and a bolt shooting into the elevator car. The probable results are not pleasant to contemplate, and the only thing which reassures one is the proverbial good luck which has at tended the monument ever since its corner-stone was laid forty-five years ago. Not a single human life was lost in its construction. There were no accidents, and have been none during the eight years it has been open to the public. No suicide has been committed within its precincts, no crazy jumper ha3 tried to throw himself from its height. A SENSIBLE ELEPHANT. It Soon Detected That the Pomp Trough Wat Not Level. In India domesticated elephants are usually given drink from large wooden troughs filled with well water by means of a pump, and it is commonly an elephant that fills this trough. Every morning ho goes regularly to his task. While visiting a friend at his fine residence in India a correspondent of a paper saw a large elephant engaged in pumping such a trough full of water. He con tinues: "In passing I noticed that one of tho two tree-trunks which supported the trough at either end had rolled from its place, so that the trough, still elevated at one extremity, would begin to empty itself as 6oon as the water reached the level of tho top at tho other end, which lay on the ground. 1 stopped to see if the ele phant would discover anything wrong. Soon the water began to run off at the end which had lost its sup port. Tho animal showed signs of perplexity when lie saw this, but as the end nearest him lacked much of being full, ho continued to pump. Finally, seeing that tho water con tinued to pass off, ho left tho pump handlo and began to consider tho phenomenon. He seemed to find it difficult to explain. Three times ho returned to his pumping and three times he examined tho trough. "I was an absorbed looker-on, im patient to see what would be done. Soon the lively flapping of the ears indicated the dawning of light. He went and smelled of tho tree-trunk, which had roiled from under the trough. I thought for a moment that he was going to put it in its placo again. 15ut it was not. as I soon understood, the end which ran over that disturbed his mind, but the end which he found impossible to fill. Kaising the trough, which he then allowed to rest for an instant on one of his huge feet, he rolled away the second supporting log with his trunk, and then set the trough down, so that it rested at both ends on tho ground. He then returned to the pump and completed his task." How .1 Wh:il Fights. Approaching a whale at all times is liko going into battle, notwith standing tho abandon of the fisher men. Have no fear that the right whalo will swallow you. He could not do so even if he were so disposed, as his gullet is only large enough to admit a good-sized herring. Tho sperm whale could swallow a man if he desired to do so, but he is nomoro inclined to swallow a man particu larly with his clothes on than you would bo to swallow a small bird with its feathers. But ho will crush you in his ponderous jaws, if he is a fighting bull, and eject you in detail. He will also chew up and spit out pieces of tho demolished boat, break up tho wooden utensils floating upon the water, and every pieco of wood, until more than seven baskets of fragments may be taken up, and hav ing tired himself out in this way, he will lay off, angrily slapping the water with his fins, and challenge somo other boats, or, perhaps, in rare cases, attack the vessel. Wav crlv Magazine. THE AFTERNOON NAP. risneries on tno Paeinc Coast. The oldest industry of the Atlantic coast, the fisheries, is the newest of the Pacific Until a few years ago the fishermen on the northern coasts of California paid no attention to the vast quantities of sturgeon and halibut there, regarding them as worthless, and it is only within two or three years that tho majority of places further north and down the southern coast now making money in fish have paid any attention to the industry. Last year (5,000,000 pounds of sturgeon were taken from the Columbia rher, and shipped Fast, and altogether 103 or so car loads of this one kind of fish went East from that region. Consensus or Opinion Is That Its UUI-. lty Depend on the Person. The editor of Wisdom publishes the opinions of a number of eminent correspondents concerning tho value of "the afternoon nap." The corres pondents are described as "brain workers," which term seems to mean literary and professional men. Tho replies aro as such replies aro usually. Our medical readers well know in this, as in other mattors, tot hominus tot usus. Ono man can work long and well on hours of sleep which would fail to restore another, as one man can use the tobacco or tea which poisons his neighbor. Some who cannot, or will not, work by day work by night Now, other things being equal, tho value of morning sleep is less than of sleep by night; it is lighter and moro open to disturbances. He who reads and writes at night finds, at three score or sooner, that he has undoubtedly taxed his strength; for such a person "the afternoon nap" is clear gain it adds to the sum of slctsp of a set. Elderly people and bad sleepers often wake very early, and remain awake in spite of the friendly sand wich; for these the later nap is use ful. There are, too. hard-worked men of naturally feeble powers who benefit greatly by an addition to their hours of sleep; but for the ordinary man who sleeps of an after noon, the judicious physician will prescribe less luncheon. Finally, tho value of casual slumbering to per sons sulTeriug from "insomnia" is not sufficiently well known. It is too often supposed that sledp'i's a fund which must be hoarded up for use in duo seasons. On the contrary, sleep breeds sleep, and tho warm feet, tho incurious mind, and the raised posi tion of the chair may offer what tho softest pillow refuses, and thu tho sweet custom of sleep is b lishcd. lie Was Innocent. Mr. Justice Maul once addressed a phenomenon of innocence as follows: "Prisoner at tho bar, your counsel thinks you innocent; the counsel for tho prosecution thinks you innocent; I think you innocent. But a jury ol your own countrymen, in tho exercise of such common sense as they possess, which does not seem to be much, have found you 'guilty,' and it re mains that I should pass upon you tho sentence of law. That sentence is. that you be kept in imprisonment for one day; and as that day was yesterday, you may now go about your business. Argonaut A Suggestion. "How do you pay theso rammers? asked a wayfarer of a paving con tractor. "By the day," said tho contractor. "You ought to pay them by the pound," said the wayfarer, "thet they'd pound oftener." Why She Hadn't Accepted Illin. "Have you accepted him?" "No." "Then you aro foolish. He is well to do, and would make a good hus band." "Yes, but you see he hasn't pro posed yet."