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t } ! 'Vc Must ' Apologize.
° : t ' \Ve had do idea we were so popular.Vc
: ! ! never dreamed we wnuld have such a rush , and
k although we engaged a number of extra salesmen
t ' for f Saturday , we could not wait upon the people
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. , You were too many for us. But by Monday
i ' morning all that will be remedied and we'll have
; plenty of help and seats , too \Ve wish you would
t ) ; come tomorrow-you who were disappointed yes-
terday. .L P. C\RTWHHiJlT & CU
I - WF . ARE GOING TO MOVE \ away from
. . our present 1 location to the northeast corner
t OF FINP SHOES of 16th and . Douglas street s - 1tlor6men are now
: ' ' busy modeling the store to suit onr fancy-we
4 ' , _ open up there on March Ist with the newest , I
: ! brightest , cleanest lot 1 of Fine Shoes in Omaha-
: all wc' now have must be sold out this month
t Any of the present stock.of shoes to the new location -An these shoes \ve wont have - we haven't been in business , long --0 trashy I
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shoes at a - as fine as there is in to\Vl1 no\v-- There's a whole lot of people who kno\v our shoes -they'll buy them , if you don't - But
velcoI11Plore than that we'll make it 1 for look the Facts-
you are wC C0in r - 01 e most tnighty : interesting you-Let us at -
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1 . Men's S11oes- SpecialsLadies' Shoes. Misses' Shoes . Children's S110es-
121) ) pairs ! men's Enamel calf shoes We have still qultc a number ! oC those ' " '
needle and IIllrvlml toe Cor- anti Phis state t has I 1\ 'l.plttatlol1 of ninny 1 ) 'CI\1's'
p tee tpe ; . g4U0 . g0A0 lIud gUUU welt shoes , III ( , 1I1S.
mar pl'leo $0.00 ; wo can ' t move 4 00 'Vo have only 03 pair oC those heavy snot ] ! sizes that wc firc closing out 98missesennmclcaltlaco-awry pretty standing ! ; on chlldlcn footwcl11' People I comc
thelll , so they go at . . . II. . . . . . . . . . $4 English walking shoes left They at . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 50 shoe-our rlgtilnr price . 2CiOj , to add formitcsandwiles the coltnh'y round to buy
11-1 palr8 men's winfor tan shocsdoublo have been the talk oC the town . tIllS Those flue baud turned ! ) shoes III more fuel to the hottest shoo silo ever honest John Ct'amcl"s school shoes " 'c need
solo ' painlcd tan , former price $5.00' season . NOI mail , woman or child in ' common sense told oxford . lasts , that recorded in this city . wo will soil this not take tip 11101' space not timc. Ir you wilt
just' wo'll ' sell [ Omaha but has hoard of Cartwright s wc sold ycstel'lIn for U5c : : to shoo without l'eeoUl'se-mndo by P. '
just to matte happy . nr6Wl' c proved $ 1 5 0 buy them once will other . 'Vc '
you m1n\ H\T 1ea'i : Vc
lIa"l :
buy
t them till theY'l'e 6 mme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3 . 50 I'snollsh „ walking shoes. Our corn- be wlnner . and tomol'l'ow we shall - Cox Shoo CO'1 Rochester , at. . . . . . II. : you no : " : '
pot tol'S would I gladly pay us $000 . for male 1\ desperate effort to close them 100 1nll'sehlhl's . , .
. a 1hl and straight tt
'I\'oub tg paylus ]
129 air I men ' 1'1 ' French 1 calf P stunt e\'er ' pair , but. we are going - to give . " . ' . button' geut
pa every pa go ng- nn out. Conic early . for tI " will /
ea\ .or they b
Y. LC \ \ 95 l tt , the sizes I aid widths ' not
leather narrow toe , all wldtns and our il'lond the preference first ; to- not last lon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 0 72 pairs misses calC [ taco and bntton oxautl . IS zeb r :1 : . are n ,
, to$4 00 _ lmtg..g . . exae Y regular butthc ' nrul.rnmora 1
sizes , former price O,1iO ; just to give morrow they w11 , go at only . . . . . . . . . . spring heel made by P. Cox Shoe Ca , o
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pan Idea how much we prefer 'g gL05 . toumroty will buy shoes that you : Rochester ; ne\'er was known to be sold gends , that sold from $1.50 , $1. W and : . .
yon an ' . have never I1.1hllesR that $ ,1.00 forr . . . , ? $2.00 , they will move at his moving .
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less $ .60 at
mono" month at to . shoes . . . . . . ' . . we'll . . . . . . soil . . . all . . . . . this . . . $3 . 75 , , . . They arc malic on the ( new Chicago , gott ' move than,50 ' ou - you exeeptattll1sgorand sale ; we will close i 50 stdoat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85e
" S t ] immense I trade t made b. ' $1
Saturday's big .
UJ s mmense rate ma 0 n. ' .
a lay _ tg I'iiladel ddn nod OllCI"Ilasts ) nod
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r 1 OllCI"I\ 1 arc t' . . . . . . . . . . .
. 220 men's clIlC [ lace and congress plain hole In those $ ,1,00 , $ .OO and O.OO beauties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1 . 9 5 . the entire lot 1 at. II II 150 pairs child's i ) e b 1 pro goat heavy half
and tip toe , double and single sole shoes , that we are selling for $ a . .00 ; 2.10 tomorrow will buy II pall' or those . double sole CI'umel' shoes that our \
Bhces , thoroughly reliable : you have still wo can fit a few dozen men anO heavy skating shoes you have beeu GO pairs chih1I'el I and misses' fine grain selling price In size 81 to 10a ] ; was $1.50j ; .
our word for It . , and Its good , you largo boys yet ; It would surprise you . pnylu $4.00 for nil winter. Now Is button shoes , made by P. Cox Shoe at this priceless moving sole they must - . .
never saw their equal sold for less to see the hundreds of mon that wore the time for slmtln , ntllli now Is the Co und sold by us at $1.50 to 43.00 : ! : wo goet 0Ilt-$1.0" , You need not ask U9 . / '
than $3.50 during this cash removal both II smile and a pair } oC 0.00 shoos time to buy 0. pair of achoice shoes be. ) will sell until ono-and the won't : . if this ii cost 01' below , for aint . /
r Bnle they will ; go at. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2 . 50 away for only . . . . II. . . . . . . II. . . . . . . dl2 . 00 . fortt h cy ' arc 1111 1 gone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ) e'$2 ' 40 4 last long-ull wi gone-ami ths nnd sizes they , at . . . . a.110 - giving thu t away. , . . . . . . . . . . . . are . . . . . . . $1 . 05 -
f : Warm Goods All our heavy warm goods will be closed out at 80e on the dollar-Shoe dealers considered them cheap
o o s - and bought them of us at our regular price-.W will they think of them newt !
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The Corean magistrates are In reality the
' cause of the great war between China and
I ' Japan. - They are a sort or petty Icings , 1111(1
' they rule trio villages of this hermit king-
a dour They pay the high officials of Seoul
: for their offices , and these put a portion of
the amounts received Into thc royal treasury
' a and keep the balance. The magistrates collect -
, lect the money tram the farmers In the
D shape of taxes , and they do thlg In the most
arbitrary way. They are the judges and
r' the courts , as will as the tax gatherers ,
s and the man who docs not obey them can bo
I * called up on all sorts or charges and tor-
; , tured and filletl There Is a system of laws
liS to taxes , but this Is evaded In every pos-
slblo way , and the people are at the mercy
of these little potentale The law Is that
, " ' every man must work a certain time during
' d the year for the king , and ! the magistrates
& + decide as to the tlmo he must labor. Many
' " of thom own slaves , allll they all have what
In Corea are considered very swell estab-
. lishmenls , with scores or scribes each of
" whom has his own rank , allli who Is a fort
oC n. political strllter. These scribes hero
y ; . Ii dress of their own. They wear long white
gowns , which fall from their necks to their
reet , and little plug hats of black horse hair ,
C which they tie on to their crowns , and which
fit on to the head much like a woman's bon.
a t not. These hats are fastened by black rib.
bans secured under the chin , and the gownl
Bro tied by silk ! cords which run around
' ! the waist Their sleeves are tight , and In
" . Corea only the high oUlclals and gentlemen
r can wear full sll'Oves. General Pak my
i Interpreter during my trip through Corea ,
had sleeves of about the size or a two.bushel
h'lI ' and ho considered himself much above
" thee - t overnuient clerks.
t now CAItPENTEIt WAS TREATED.
i I despair of being able to describe my
" experIences with these government clerks
and the magistrates In the trip which I
1 ; tool right across Corea from the capital
to the east coast. The letter or introduction
which 1 had from the king was In a great
+ blue envelope , and It described me I\S a
, mighty American , who was traveling for
t pll'asure. I would not wish to say that
General Pal WnB a most accomplhhCll liar ,
but 1 fear that he stretched ) matters In
presenting mo to the ma"lstrates. . 1 do
not know what Il ! g told them. lie may
have said I was the Eon of the king of
' America or the nephew of the president
OC the United ) States , b\l.t \ at any rate the
olllclals got down on their knees lo me and
: " Iny treatment was that or a prince Cen
oral Pak told them how I had visited the I
king nt the capital and had had the honor
or going through the klng's gate oC the
i palace and I could see that he enforced
l their 'rcsll'ct when they did not voluntarily
tender t It. The magistrates' establishments
.ro usually at one end of the \'lIIal . and
\0 rode with our retinue right Into the
vernlllent court yards and turned out
. the government clerks frolll the best apart'
ments. Each establishment consisted ' oC a
= half dozen or more one-story 1uIidlp Ils ! lwltp
heavy tiled ooh There ws the big
bodes In whleb time ( magistrate lived and
n.tar this surrounded hy a wall , another
Let 01 houses where ho kept his wives and
bill concljblnes. There were also other
hOllies for the government clerks , and a
lot or dwellings , which looked more like
pit pens or cow sheds than the homes or .
humn beings , which were filled with shoves ) I
u and fernnts. There were scores oC pot
z bellied , haIC.naked chlllrcn squalling about.
There were babies by scores lied on the
backs ) of their sbtera or aers'antr antic
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government clerks were everywhere. Each
magistrate has a number or large rooms
which are devoted to these clerks. In these
they do their writing , using paint brushes
and Idnla Ink , and the rafters of the roof
were all covered with lists or names and
accounts. General Pal always rode to the
best of "theso establishments and cleared
out the clerKs. He put on alt sorts or airs
and strutted about as hG talked In the most
grandiloquent way , alt the limo pointing
to me The clerks made up their beds of
rice bags for me to sleep on , and the servants
cleaned up the rooms for us. Under each
floor there were flues , and these were filled
with straw and lighted so that the houses
soon became comfortably warm.
GENERAL PAIL AND TilE CLERKS.
It was queer to see Pak swell about with
these otilcers Ho had bought a new suit
of clothes for the occasion , and he always
put on these before he went to call on the ,
magistrates lie would first send my
Chlneso visiting card and the letter from
the king and then would go on with his
toilet There were usually about twenty
clerks looking on , and forty almond eyes
were watching his every motion with interest -
terest Still , ho got out of one suit Into
another without loss or dignity ; First he
would take oft his gown and then his : ,
Jacket , leaving hlmselr bare to the watst.
lie hall a fine silk vest which tool the place
or the jacket , and his gown oC the most
delicate sky.blue went on above this. The
next was the change of his pantaloons.
There were so large that they would have
made a suit or underclothes for Darnum's
rat woman , and Pal tied them so they
hunt down In zouavo style at the ankles.
Next ho had wadded stockings and kid
shoes or light ; color. Now putitng on his
hat he would lake a pipe as long as him-
self and squat on the floor and smoke as
h6 tallIed to the clerks fie moved back.
ward and forward as ho talked , never
taking the pipe out of his mouth , but let-
tine the bowl rest on the floor and prop.
ping the stem against his lower front
teeth , lIe was a regular Corean dude for
the time and I could see that the scribes
were greatly Imprestl'd. The chief trouble
was with the eooiling. lie thought It beneath .
neath him to do any labor Ir there were
any nobles about , and my servant was of
no earthly good The result was I had to
do the cooking 1II'self.
COlmAN GASTRONOMY :
I found Il hard to get enough to eat dur-
lug this trip over the country The chlck-
ellS which were furnished us were oC an
uncertain age , and the same was true of
the eggs 1 boiled one chicken : for two
hours without making any Impression on
toughness , and I afterward \ ( found that
the people do not like to sell to the magistrates . -
trates , for the reason that they seidomi pay
for anything they get. They will seize
what they can find and take It as a rhht.
1 was distinguished traveler , and they
thought of course : I would not pay. We
round very poor rice at most or the Inns ,
apd ) I was more than half starved during
much of line trip. My birthday occurred
on time journey and my birthday dinner
consisted of toast , rice , a fi\'o-ycarold
chicken and n. bit or currant jelly which 1
hall brought with mo from Seoul. 1IIy dessert -
sert was n ltttlo tablet oC chocolate , and
this formed one of the best meals I rot ; on
tlle trip. Time sleelllng accommodations
* ore poor 10 tle extreme , M the 'countrf
Inns \V o had to sleep on the stone floor ' and !
were half baked by the straw fires beneath
us As soon as time stones were warmed ,
alt forts of creeping things came out , and
1 finally compromised matters by taking
out the slllllnc walls oC the room and prop.
ping them up on logs In the center of time I
apartment so that Issas to a certain ex.
tent away frem the walls and the floor I
There was no privacy whatever and chll
dren by scores watched Ino make my toilet ,
and the government clerks fingered nmy ward.
robe. n"h : a..4 : r'f't. i . . . . . . -
DRn.mlXQ WITII 'I'HE MAGISTRATES .
I found ) the magistrates well disposed ,
and aside from their pompous airs and
queer CUltollls , they arc gentlemanly and
refined. I remember one old fellow who
gave me a dinner , and who furnished mo
with his trumpeters , who had musical In.
Itruments II long ue themsel\s ! to toot
mo out 01 the town. lie tell < < In tote with
nmy bottle of whisky . and mixed It wth : II
pall or .0 01 l1hartreuse. lie treated me
10 some hot Curean wine and between the
drinks elfered ) Il\t 1110kll.1 ) nllil candy lie
I I test about a . quarter III 1\ mile from the
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guest house , and ho came down to call
upon me In his own royal chair , which bad
a leopard skin coverIng its back , and he
swayed to and fro and licked his chops as
ho talked with mo about America. 1 told
him about our ' great railroads , our big ,
houses and the wonders of steam. I could
see that he thought I was lying , though
ho was much too polite to say so. At the
close of his talk with me' "General" Pale
gave him a present of an empty apolllna-
rls bottle , and this ho considered a really
great gift , as there Is no glass In Corea I
had some hairpins with mo and a little
looking 'glass and I gave these to him for
the ladles or hIs family. This had to bo
managed very adroitly , for It Is not polite
In Corea to ask after the wives ot your
friends , and the French legation In Seoul
bad almost an Internstlonal complication
time other day over one I r Its servants , who
peeped over the walls 01 a noble to look at
the girls. This m ; lstl'ato served his dinner -
ner In brass bowls These are used almost
entirely for cooking allll eating In Corea ,
and the spoons are of brass , and also time
spittoons and other unmentionable arti-
cles. Every high official carries his spit-
teen with him , and each man has a knife
and chopsticks oC his own , which are so
made that they fit Into one another , the
chopsticks being fastened to the aide of I
the knife The meals are served on little '
individual tables , about a foot high and
not 11I01'0 than fourteen Inches In diameter
In most cases 1 was brought a bowl of
charcoal and an Iron pot , and was com-
pellell to do my own cooltlng. The servant
would gel down on his knees and fan the
charcoal Into a blaze , sprinkling time
chicken with Its ashes In time attempt
Once or twice 1 tried to get Pak to do the
cooking , but upon his asking mo as to how
much sugar ho should put Into the chicken
SOUl , 1 lost faith In his culinary ablllt ) ' .
In one or two villages WO could not buy
chickens : at alt on accQunt of a recent
cholera epidemic. The laws or time country
are such that no animal rood can bo sold
during cholera , and In most places' we
could get nothing but a very coarse rice.
PAPEH RAIN COATS.
During the great part or this trip through
time country the rain came down In tor-
rents , and wo hall to cover our baggage
with oiled paper In order to keep It from
being soaked , The Corean paper Is all
nlRlle by hand It Is about as thick liS
blotting paper , bat It Is as tougll liS leather ,
and It costs about 5 cents n. sheet , each
sheet beIng about the size of this news-
paller. When oiled : , It makes a splendid
waterproof cloth and 1 hall circular Dr
cloak of yellow oiled paper , which I tied
around my neck and whtch hung to my
feet . _ My , pony , vas not .much , bigger than a
Newfoundland dog , and It almost covered
"General" Pak and
hhm our gorgeous
servants had sImilar coats and our hats
were covered by cornucopias of this same
oiled paper which entirely protected them
irons the water I noted that the inside
lining of my coat was covered with Corean
characters , and I asked Pak what these
were 110 said the paper hall been used by
'Iho ol1ce.seekeu ! In writing thelr essays
for the icing In line civil service examinations
tlon'll which were held once or twlco n
year In the grounds of the palace , and he
told me how the cabinet ministers make a
nice thing out of selling these rejected ex-
IImlnation papers. All the appointments
are supposed to b6 made through such ex-
aminatlons Time o ! ee.Eeelters have to
write their essays In poetry and they
dOl1' know time subject until they lire on
the ground. Each line must bo just so
long , and 1 think that twenty.slx verses
make up 11 poem. Time fellow who turns
out the best jingle Is supposed to get the
best office , though there Is undoubtedly a
great deal of frauIn \ the apportionment
and bribery and Intrigue are COmm2J11 1
afterward saw these examlnatloh papers I
everywhere and used for all sorts or pur-
poses 1 slept In some rooms which were
carpgtell . . with thelll , limo paper being oiled
and plastered do\VI1 on the stone8. It made
beautifully polished and not unpictur-
es\uo \ looking carpet , and It was not affected
by the heat of' the flues beneath It.
. 1I0W TilE COHEANS SHOE HORSES ,
It Is almost Impossible to give a good
idea of Corea. Everything Is so different
from anything we have In America. Take
the horaeehoeing for Instance. One of our
ponies had to bo shod and another time
we put shoes on the bull which carried the
bag"age. The pony was first thrown OD
the ground and his four legs I were tied
together so that b6 couldn't possibly kick
Then the btacksmlth pounded hoop Iro\ .
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shoes on his feet with a rude Iron hammer.
1l was the same with the bull , though one
man had to sit on his head while ho was
being shod. The Iron seemed to bo very
good , and It comes from the mines In time
northern part ot the country. The tools of
the country are all made of II , and the
farming tools are very Ingenious , the three
and rour-pronged hoes being quite as good
as anything we have In America. They
were malting tools In this blacksmith shop ,
and all the tools and plows are made by
hand. The blacksmith had a rude bellows ,
which was worked by a boy , who stood
on a see-saw , and by moving up and down
pumped the fire Into a blaze. In other
places 1 saw bellows which boys worked
by pulling a stick In and out lIke that of
a squirt-gun and every thing Is rude In the
extreme Sometimes horses are shod by
being strapped up to poles , so that only
two ot their feet can rest on the ground ,
and time band which goes around time belly
( holds the horse up while ho Is shod
ALASKA VERSUS COREA.
I saw many evidences In my tour through
Corea of a relationship which seems to exist.
between our American Indians and the
Coreans. Time probability Is that some
ot these people made their way to the
north , and crossed time Bering strait Into
Alaska. The cheekbones of the Coreans are
high , and I saw many faces which made
mo think of our Indluns They are , of
course , far more civilized and better edu-
cated , and they are a higher typo than the
savages or the west Outside of each town
I found rows of wooden posts , which "Oen-
eral" Pak told mo were generals stationed
there to keep out the spirits. These posts
hall hideously carved heads upon them ,
made In fantastic representation or the ,
, human race. They looked very much like
the totem sticks which you find In front of
every Alaskan house , and 1 found other
shnllarltles hero and there In my tours
through Interior China I saw many Indian
faces , , and I met Tartars who looked very
much like time noblest of our Indian chiefs
It Is a curious thing , by the way , that time
Japanese look much hike time Mexican Indians -
dians and the ethnologists may find aver ) '
Interesting study In tracing out the con-
nection and the origin of these rnes. ! : The
complexion or lure Coreans Is different In
, different parts or the country , largely due ,
I suppose , to exposure. The gentlemen of
Seoul have sldns of a delicate cream , and
I saw some In which the roses came out
and tinted time cheeks Time laborers In the
field are as bronzed as our Indiana , and
some of the coolies at time seaports are as
black as the negro. I saw many noses that
were almost fiat , and the cheekbones , In all
cases , were high. I was surprised at the
difference In the faces according to rank
and condition , and. this difference exists
net only In Corea , hut' also In Japan and In
China The higher classes of time three
peoples have refinodl ItltelllJent faces Many
oC the gentlemen rot' Corea have narrow
hIgh foreheads , and ( ) Srou see every typO of
life \ on the streetS' Dr : a Corean city that
you do In Amerlca Theme Is the rich offi-
clap who swells about' and puts on airs ,
There Is lire scholar , who evidently burns
his midnight oil , and there Is the keen ,
calculating traIler'I1'a watches his "whit-
tling" business quite as well as our mer-
chants do their larger ealabllslunents The
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men have slight .boartls , and their whis-
kers do nol seem' to grow until after they
are thirty. "Oont't1lI" , Pak had a mustache
which made me think \ : of the old COmiJarl- I
son of time dudo's mustachio to a base ball
nine. There were nine hairs on each side ,
with one In time middle for umpire. lie
caressed these often , Sand also the stray
curly little hairs which X'orated < his chin ,
and one day he said1 : do love lilY whiskers -
kers ; I think they grow very much "
' n : 'i'm1.r : : ; : $ TIIE JAILS x ± yvr . . . .
donnected ] with all ot time magistrates'
establishments 'I found jails j , and there were
paddles and stocks scattered IIbout. These
are used very freely to 'ItJueezo money out
of the pEople , : and a magistrate has really
great power over his subjects. The Jails
were about , eight feet 1qnue. and they
were closed with doors much like those of
a cowshed. There Is a hble In the door
about as big . as 11 dinner plate , and jn this
time food II put for the prisoners The
Icrlbes do the paddling , and the people lira
squeezed out of all their IIl\rplus cash , In
the trip acres : the country I saw signs oC
poverty everywhere , but no starvation ,
fho people were good . natured , lazy and
hlftlen. They have no Incentive to work ,
for II they get .n little money ahead and the
maglstratel lad ( It out . a charge Is trumped
.Ip alaln3t tmttn amid they have to give ,
up a portion ot It to the officials. The
Japanese will attempt to reform all this ,
They will organize , Ir possible , a good government -
ernment , and property rights will bo made
safe. I believe that the people have the
clements requisite to time malting of a
strong nation , and that from now on they
will steadily Improve. The change will not
bo Immediate , for centuries of shiftlessness !
cannot be repaired in a night , but they
have a rich country , and they will begin to
develop It as soon as they find that the re-
sults of their labor will not be taken from
them , and that they can permanently bet-
ter their condl tlon.
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IlBLIOIUUS.
Bishop Whltalter or Philadelphia , Episcopal
bishop or Pennsylvania , Is laid up with a car-
buncle.
Time 'Vorld's 'oman's Christian Temperance
union Is called to meet In biennial convention
on Juno 14 , 1895 , In Queen's hall , London.
Rev. Henry Preserved Smith , the [ Cincin-
nati heretic , ts spending the winter ut
Helonan , Egypt , sixteen miles north of
Cairo.
Now York Episcopalians are In favor of
creating an archbishopric after the example
of England , Bishop Henry C. Potter Is
talked of for archbishop.
In the Protestant Episcopal church there
are sixty-eight Institutions , not Including
four celibate orders of men , five schools for
deaconesses , and twenty sisterhoods.
Time ministers oC New York are exceeding
wroth ' at Dr. Depew for his action In .stop. .
ping the practice oL furnishing half fares on
the New York Central railroad to the gentle-
men oC their cloth. / .
Rochester papers declare that the Episcopal
church or time Good Shepherd In that city Is
probably the most ritualistic Episcopal
church In the country. It has a confessional
box , and throe sacrament Is reserved for the
adoration oC thc fatthful.
The Presbyterian Ilenomlnatlon has 1.G22
communi can I ! ! In Africa , 6,4761n China , 1,795
In India , 4,8261n Japan , 141 In Cores , 4,512 In
Mexico , 2Gn In Persia , 1,907 In Slam , ln2
In Syria , 4,109 In South America , fifi3 In
Canada , and tort ' -nlno In Guatemala
The GIIIeral ) Assembly or the Presbyterian
church of Irelalllt has recommended a scheme
of church lire Insurenco ThIs Is limo result
of Investigations which showed that , during
five years , In which they paid UOOO , In premiums
mlums the totlll loss by fire was only $ IfiOO ,
Time Roman Times of January 12 says the I
United States bishops lately sent a memorial
to the pope for the recalling of bigr Satolll
and the alJpolntment of none but American
born bishops In America 'Tho memorial was
entrusted to Cardinal Gibbets who , prey n'cd
from coming , sent It to the propaganda ,
where Il will bo kept for future reference
Rev. Thomas McJ . Brown of New York Is
probably the "most Roman Protestant" In
this conntry. Ills church Is a vIne covered
building , with a blrd's nest of a rectory next
door Father Brown wears the black soutane
and cassock which characterize the Catholic
priest , and his services , as Car as ceremonies
go , are Identical with that or Catholic
clarclmes .
Tile statistics from 335 college associations
Indicate that 32,000 men In round numbers
are members of evangelical churches In the
colleges with which the associations are con-
nected There remain apparently 43.000 men
who are not professors of religion There are
altogether , It Is said , 200,000 young men In
limo Institutions or higher learning on this
continent.
The English Baptist handbook for 1895
gives the present membership or tube lIenoml-
nation In limo United Kingdom as 349G88 ,
compared with 312.507 last year , being an increase .
crease of 7,181. The Melropolltan tabernacle
Is still by far the largest bureh , with 5,079
members The number oC churches Increased
by 'rorty.slx ' , chapels by sixteen , the addl-
tlonal accommodations provided being 21,979.
There are In Spain representatives of fourteen -
teen Protestant churcbell and societies , and
they report twenty foreign male , and twenty-
nine female ndslonarles , Corty-one Spanish
pastors thirty-seven evangelists , 3GOO communicants .
municants The American board and the
BalJUst Missionary union are the only American -
can societies at work The others arc from
England , Scotland Germany , Sweden and
1I0Ilan. . .
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TIlE STORY OF BRAVE NEY
Doubt Ol\st Upon the Accepted Accounts
of His Death ,
DID HE ESCAPE THE GUARDS ?
Nnpoleon' Dashing General ; Sal < l to have
Passed Away In nil lIumbte Soutnorn
Towll-The Itcsearehes QC
. a Surdent
That Marshal Ney , who , as every school-
boy knows , was one or Napoleon's bravest
and most brilliant generals , didn't die a
traitor's death by being shot In the gardens
of time Luxembourg on the morning of December -
comber 7. 1815 , hut that ho died at u vener-
able age In a IIttio town tn North Carolina
In 184G , a refugee from France , under the
name of Peter Stewart Noy Is time assertion
and belief of an investigator , who adduces
many facts to show that ho Is right.
In time Presbyterian cemetery adjacent to
Cleveland , N. C. , one Peter Stewart Ney , n
schoolmaster , was burled In 1R16 , aged 77
years , and over his grave a monllment stands
today which bears time InscrIption :
. . . . . . . . . , . . . . " . . . . . . . . . .
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NEY. '
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' AN OFFIClm OF N.\I'OrFON. : '
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I. . . SIII. . I1 . SI . S . ISIS S.
For many years previous to Peter Stewart
Ney's death . says time St. Louis Post.Dls-
patch time rumor of his Identity as Na-
1I0leon's famous Marshal Will ! current among
the , residents or the Carollnlls living ( In the
vicinity of the schoohnaster'a grn\'o.
Rev J. R. Weston , rector of time Episcopal
Church of the Ascension at I1lclory ) , N. C. .
has been at work for ten years , both In the
Carolinas and In Europe , gathering InCorma-
tlon concerning Peter Stewart Ney , time
schoolmaster , and Marshal Michel Noy , with
the result that tOday ho III In possession oC
sulllelenl testimony ! , as ho believes , 10 estnb-
IIsh the Identity of Ney oC limo Carolinas :
with Noy of France
Tire main thread of his argument , In a
book he has Issued , hl'glnll with Ney's treason -
son to time ICing or Franco and hili Incarceration -
ceration In the Luxembourg prlson
Against the advice of the Duo de lUeho-
lieu , the prime minister , and against the
protest of limo duke or wellington , Ney was
sentenced 10 ho shot on time morning of no-
eemher 7. 1815 , by order or the king Mr b
Weston ullllzes the discrepant details oC
this execution as a means or proving that
history here has made a big error
The omclal report or NeY'1 ! execution states
that when th6 battalion of solellers fired ( he
fell with three bullets In his heart allll nine
In' his body 'fho report states limo body wus
left lying on the ground for "tlrteen minutes"
after the execution , where all could sea It ;
then It was removed on a stretcher and taken .
to time Maternity hospital , from whence It
was given burial by friends : \ In the cemetery
of fore la Chaise
While In I.ondon the author says that Sir
William Frazier told 111m that Mr Quentin
Dick , a member of Parllan/Jllt / In 1.815 , who
Is now dead , hall wltnened the execution ot
Ney , and bad described the circumstances to
him.
him.Mr , Dick said that Ney was Immedlately-
not after fifteen rninulea - placed Oil the
stretcher and carried away , the entire proceedings -
cccdinga from the time Ney took his position
till he was borne off on the stretcher not occupying -
cupying more then "thr"O minutes "
j < 'urtJlermore ) , the author has secured direct
testimony to the effect that the soldiers subsequently -
sequently confessed to friends ! In America
that Ney fell before the men fired , and that
they had Instructions to aim blgh , the bul.
lets passing over his Ilead. Friends carried
him to the Maternity hospital , where II dls-
guise was obtained for him , and on December
9 , 1815 , he sailed from Bordeaux for Charles
ton , S. O.
Mr. Weston says that from December 9 ,
1815 , to October 1819 , he has been unable 10
'find ' any trace of the man Peter Stewart
Noy In America , although ; the schoolmaster
was 77 years of age " , ben lie died and , COli-
aequeufly . WU barn ) III 1769 , wblch II the
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year or limo birth or Marshal Ne' DurinG ;
these years , the author explains , Ney probes
hly wandered about this country In close \
disguise fearing detection or recognition
Mr. Weston says that Peter Stewart Neal \ ,
always carried with 111m a portrait ot Na- K
falcon , which he had painted IIIm5elf , and . . : ,
another of the Empress Josephine. - , \
Time fact that the supposed marshal had r
dropped the name or Michael for Peter Is explained -
111alnell Oil the grounds of required caution ,
allll Is especially slgnillcant , hecauseNoy
was familiarly called "Peter the Hed" by ,
the emlleror's soldiers ,
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JIll' Weston claims that Ney was recognized - "
nlzed by time I'rellch , refugees III Georgetown
N. 0. , III 1819 , and he hnmedlately tied to
Cheraw Captain Rogers traced ! the Identity
of Marshal Ney when he turned up at Fior -
enee , N. C. A brother or CaptaIn Rogers
Colonel Benjamin Rogers , In the autumn or
1819 , lived In Urownsvllle , S. C. , and at that
tlmo Peter Stewart Nay walt I'milloyell by I
him to teach , and lived with the Rogers ralll- I
lIy A son oC Colonel Rogers , who has since
died , related these IJerEOnal recollections ot y
the schoolmaster to Mr Wcslon
"Olleo ho told ) my father that ho was a. .
French refugee , In 1821 I remember when
a newspaper was handed ( to him hy one ot
the scholars In the classroom contalnlnc an
announcement of Napoleon's death , he Cell
to the floor In n. faint. Jlly falher nexb
morning found JIIr. Nay In bed with a severe
wound In time neck , where ho had ! stabbed
himself with a pen 1m Ire. a portion or time
blade breaking off and remaining ! In the
flesh When my father reproved Ney he re-
plied : 'Oh , colonel , colonel ! with the death
of Napoleon my last hope Is gone I' . .
It Is a hlslorlenl fact that Manual Ney
was the greatest swordsman III Europe , and f
In connection with this JIll' Weston cItes the ,
testimony or his scholar , Dr John S. Rogers '
who said that Peter Stewart Ney was fanlous )
limo country round as a swordsman lie was
also a tine horsemian
Amid a mass of writing which the author
lies gathered In a scrimp book belonging to
Schoolmaster Ney , containing clippings of
poems and / articles written for limo local
papers of that time , there Is n distinct bear-
brig through all oC them upon time wrlter'lI
love for Napoleon
JIll' Weston reproduces some verses pub-
shed ! ! In the Western Carolinian and written
by Noy shortly after the news or Napoleon'
death.
'fho hnpresslon which ' the Ileath of Na-
1I0lelll : mule upon Mr Ney Is with uneven
force expressed ! throughout one poem , and ,
as Mr Weston urges , It would seem probable
that only an olllcer of time cmperor's staff ,
IIIte Marshal Nc ) ' , could express the senti-
menl which JIIr Ney did
Colonel Honston , who was one of Peter
Ney's scholars when ho was teaching In
Iredell county ; North Carolina , says that Noy
informed him In n burst Jr contldence that
ho had Inlllvidually requested Napolean to
retreat from Moscow
The schoolmaster died In limo homo DC Os-
horne J , I.'orele , located about u mlle Cram r
Cleveland , N. C , The circumstances of Ney'a
death were given 10 Mr. Weston personally j
us coming : Cram Thomas D. Gralmnl now :
dead , who resided near Davidson college
where ) Ney used to co for books , Thomas '
D Grahalll said :
"I was with Peter Stewart Ney when hI
died About live hours ! before his death Dr. )
Matthew Lotlmo . his Ilhysiclan , came Into
Ney's room mind told him he had not long
to live.
"Mr. Ney , perfectly calm and rallonal
raised himself up on his elbow , und , looking
Dr. Locke full In the face , said : 'I am J\iar \
shal Ney or Tarance . ' Two hours later ho
died "
While true hanllwrillng or the marehal Illt.
( era somewhat from that \ of the scliooimaeter li
Mr. Weston urges that this Is merely duo to
lemlleral lie tutes further that Nfl )
III America would have good reason to con-
ceal the characteristics of his original hand-
wrlthug The signatures arc stranlcl alike
Not Much hIffereuco. , l
Chicago Tribune : "What'8 thus ? " Ilemand.
ed the guest , IJolnllngto one or the aide
dishes the waiter had brouuhL ;
"SauBal\es , sir . " answered limo walter.
" 1 didn't order : any "
"I thought you did , sir. "
"I ordered sauce , Gall't you tell the differ ! ,
once between sauce 01\11 saueagest" ! ; "
' " \'es , sir " said tire waiter ath.rlnl up
lima : rejected dish wJlh unrullltd dignity "Ue-
Iween sauce and lIuuugea there II merely 0
difference of 1ljt'tI. ; Wish coffee 'Irl"
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