THE OMAIIA SUNDAY BEE: JUNE 27, 100D.
Modern Education is Revolutionizing Affairs of the Hermit Kingdom
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rean, Chinese and English, and every surveyors I see Ruing about Seoul. Holh
character had to be Ju!t bo, for the varia- In the lde atrtH-ta of the cities and In
tlon of a stroka or a point mlKht turn the the country, yellow-faced young men i lnd
word "Lord" l-.ito 'devil." The oriKlnal , hgh black hat, an1 ,on whUe eow,
edition of the dlittonary ha, lonB lnc may bft Sfipn , compaase. and
been out and a la now be- c,rry, cn.lni from ,r. , ace Ac.
Ing prepared. lr. Galo telle me that this ' " , '
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words whloh have come Into the InnutiaKC.
caused by the change n c ivilization an i P10'" B11 for record.
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ONE OF KOREA'S NEW SCHOOLS.
(Copyright, 109, by Frank O. Carpenter.) little fellow la Just the opponit of his half- direction. The authorities require full In-
M.KOt.'U Korea. (Special Corre- brother, who la now on the throne. The formation as to the names and character
1 Kpondence.) The two great latter had hardly been outside his own of the teachers, and also as to the re-
fr I hopes of the Koreans are Prince apartments until he was over 30 years of cetpts and expenditures. All books have
i i Ito and the little crown prince. aK. anl today his only exercises are waljt- to be passed upon by the educational de
lta Js the grand old man of about his palace grounds with now and partment, and the teaching must be as
Japan. He is a confidential ad- ,nPn short horseback ride In them. He the government directs. This seems rather
"t iho mikado and he had much to do ,ookB Pale and enuinlc. and his flesh seems severe, and It causes unfavorable com
wlth training the crown prince of Japan. to be Puttv- This crown prince could hold ment.
The. little crown prince I refer to la the nlB wn w't( little Charlie Taft or Quen- !v
life of the people. 8i-lcntiflc words, such
as telephone, telegraph, dynamite and ra
dium, have had to be aided. All of these
have now their Korean characters, and
they must be defined. The new edition of
the dictionary is being printed In Yoko
hama, and the proofs are sent to Dr.
dale for correction. I have seen some of
them. Four readers go over every sheet
and the greatest care Is taken that each
character Is right. This is done by Chin
ese and and Kortan scholars. After this
Dr. dale sends the proofs to the girls of
the Presbyterian mission school. They have
sharper eyes and quicker brains than the
old scholars and they find mistakes which
the others have overlooked. At first Dr.
Gale offered to pay 1 cent for every cor
rection. After a number of sheets had
come back he figured up the account and
sent In the money. The girls returned It
the same day with a letter saying:
"We girls think we are getting enough
from our teachers and we do not want
any pay."
Korean Surrej-ors.
I am surprised at the number of Korean
that the Korean can do without losing
Ms dignity and as a result, the young
men are studying mathematics and prac
ticing In order to make surveying their
profession. The stores which soil sur
veying Instruments In ChlnB-Go-Kal are
crowded with customers. It Is surprising
where the men get their money to buy
the Instruments.
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ci-own prince of Korea. He Is the brother tln Roo'ovelt. He Is fond of athletics and
of the present emperor, and he Is now to shoot, fish and play ball. At the
being educated In Toklo after Prince Ito's Bttme time he stands high in his classes,
directions. In him and Prince Ito lie the Bntl not averse t0 study. The Korean im
possibility of Korea maintaining Its na- P'r are 'uH ' wnat he Is doing In Japan,
tional existence and not being swallowed nd th PePle ' tn Palac have been de
up In Japan. There Is a strona- Janim... lighted with some blograph pictures which
parly which would liko to see this country
under a military government appointed
from Toklo. They want Korea for the
Japanese and believe In exploiting It for all
It Is worth. Prince Ito, backed by the
nilkado, Is anxious that the Koreans should
have a fair show and he has done all that
he oould to bring that about. He does not
believe that the Koreans should govern
themselves, but be want them to have a
share of the offices and to maintain their
Individuality as a nation under the direc
tion of Japan. In doing this he is opposed
to the money-grabbers and land-grabbers.
The lower classes of the Japanese are com
ing over here In crowds and they would
swallow the country and oppress the peo
ple If their own officials did not prevent.
Prince Ito has so far been the chief safety
valve and he Is training up the little
crown prince in order that he may be the
governor of the Koreans in the future.
Crown Prlnee of Korea.
I have had a good chance to study the
present emperor, through my audienoe with
him and talks with the officials who know
him best. He is a weakllna in the hands
Literary Awakening;.
The Koreans have always been a literary
people. Much of the old learning of Japan
came from them, and they still hold
scholarship In the highest respect. Indeed,
the common word here for Mr. Is "School
man." The Koreans call each other School
man Pak, Schoolman Te or Schoolman
Klm, instead of Mr. Pak, Mr. Ye or Mr.
Kim. In the past the better classes of
the people have been well up In Chinese,
&nd I have seen picnic parties of young
of the Japanese. He is compos mentis, but the new one" of th6 JPan'M overnment
his mind Is so little that a wooden man.
if he could be automatically worked, would
have just come showing the little prince
on the hunt. The papers describe the pal
ace which the Japanese have given him.
They state that his little hlgness sleeps In
lilurnneAn bed In a room kSDt warm by
an electric stove. His nalace Is furnished Korean gentlemen engaged in writing Chi
throughout in foreign style, and he has Ptry under the trees. They would
mechanical toys of all kinds. He has rid- uk text and tT who co "ak he
ing horses and all sorts of gymnastic ap- bel,t rhymes. Such young men are now
pllances, from punching bags to parallel ""dying the modern languages and set
bars. His palace Is guarded by eighteen nCft; They hav a Confucius and
foot soldiers and ten court policemen, and Menclus and are reading the New Testa
when he goes out he has an escort. His B,fn- ha " translated by the
instructors are selected from high das. "'on"l"r and a'B? a .nttmb!r,f 0ter
Japanese professors. The mikado himself b"ok" f a turned into Ko
is interested In him. and altogether the A lit Q arfi. eld was recently pub-
.in,im,.i.ofhlmiman llshed. and also the 'Story of Madame
,....,. -. - uoland." A popular book Is Bunyan's "Pll-
( gTlm's Progress," which was translated
by the late Mrs. Oale and a young Ko-
tean named Vanlr.VI-Tatlr v v. n i
When this boy becomes emperor of Korea ha(J Bome troubIe wlth tn, JapaneBe gov.
he will have a new nation to govern. These ernment The ..p,lfrrIm.s Progref,s ha
people are just beginning to appreciate our ha(1 ,arre ,a, ftn(, ,t lf) gong ,nto ft new
civilisation. Their almond eyes are open- eaam,,,,, x understand that several Korean
ing to the needs of modern education, and noveli haye been ,Mued the twQ m0Ht
schools are being started In all of the olties. p0puar now current being "Spirit Voices"
Those of the missions, which have been in and Deei& yree Flowers."
existence for years, are overorowded, and $
Korean Dletlonary.
have, more than they can do. There are One of the greatest works performed, by
several thousand boys, and as many girls, Americans In Korea was the making of
as wetl as a monarch.
Korea's Mew Schools.
the retired emperor by the late na morning u
father is bright Intellectual V" wearing caps and gowns, and bare- years residence in the country, and corn
no more backbone than a a bar.h.adM trl. with their book, pi..- It within fiv. years. Prior to that.
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Suppose that next Sunday morning every
pastor In the United States should arlsn
In his pulpit and say that a new book of
tho litble had Just been discovered and
that It would be given to the people that
week. What a sensation It would create
and how all would be alive to learn of
the new message)
This Is the condition today in Korea.
Until very lately the people have hnd
nothing but the New Testament In their
own language. Tho 1150,000 Christians here
have been confined to that book, and it is
only within a few years that they have
had the Proverbs and Psalms. Today the
Old Testament is being translated by Dr.
Oale and Dr. Reynolds with one or two as
sistants. It conies out book by book, each
new volume making a sensation far greater under the h"", of Natur Notes. Here is the work of the missionaries, the rellglou.
than the first selling of the new novel. on translated: Japanese are not idle. The native Chrls-
In our country. Genesis, Isaiah and the "r hear tne uck0 "Pap-Cook! tlans of Japan have a mission here, and
Psalms have already been printM, and PaP-Qook! Pap Gook!" the Buddhists have built a large temple
Exodus, Numbers, Job and I and U Samuel Thls Is really the song of a bird here, under the shadow of the headquarters of
win .non ha tn .h. hana f h. n.nnia I ut the Chinese character which ex- the resident general. They have a mission
Dr. Gale says that the translation of the iessea H means also "Restive king
whole Bible will probably be finished this dom."
autumn, and that tt will ba In tha hands The next line follows:
of the Koreans soon after. The work Is "And what does thla voice mean but "ean- Th1" la "trange. Inasmuch as
being published by the British and Amerl- the .ouls of the dead patriots who are Buddhism came to Japan from Korea. To-
oan Bible societies, and It will be sold all thus speaking to us through the birds."
ovsr the country, both by agents and by The second verse reads: "On the sum-
KOREAN SCHOOL BOY3.
situated on one of the main streets of the
Japanese section, and are doing what thty
can to revive Buddhism among the Ko
day the Koreans despise their priests. They
call upon them with contempt. There are
the book sellers who are to be found In alt mer air I hear the sound of Kun datl Kun "l '--
tha iar. citie.. v.... rr.. a.,,., Koreans. One Is for superiors, another for
m unit 4. u. u 1 1
This character means army, and the
line below adds: "What U this but the
Korean Newspapers.
A few years ago the only paper pub- aouii of our dead finding uttcranoe.
llshed In Korea was a little court clrcu- The last verse follows:
lar which gave the commands of the king,
It was printed with a brush and its cir
culation numbered but a few hundred. To-
"In the air I also hear sounds of rob-
equals and a third for servants and beg
gars. The priests are always addressed
in the lowest language, and that even by
children. Until the Japanese came, priests
were forbidden by law to enter the capital,
and this has been the case for 000 years.
bery, murder and oppression, and what Is The Buddhist priesthood today is recruited
all this but the ghosts of the thieves and largely from the lowest classes, and from
have as much foroe, and he would more- now ,n attendance at the punno scnoois oi tne .orean-i,ngiisn dictionary. This was
over, be cheacr to k..n th- .. Seoul. They all wear uniforms, and night done by Dr. J. S. Gale, a Presbyterian
the son of the retire r k .k. i and morning the streets are filled with missionary. He began It in 1892, after four
Quen. Hiu
fth h. i. i.,v.,- . ..... in th.ir hands. Each boy has a little brass there was no means of intercommunica
or honestly, and his long adminT.tratloa ae hl" wh,oh mrk th chl 11 betwen he foreigners, and th. na
,. k " -?lnl'trUon h. b.lon. All the boys have tlves, except through the Chinese language.
Th. little crown prince is the son of this their hair cut short. Instead of wearing it The work of making th 'on prinCB ITO Off JAPAN AND THE
retired emperor. He Is the half brother n on bra,d down th,lr baCk', M " en0rmOUa Th "toM were in Ko- CROWN PRINCE OF KOREA,
of the man on the throne, his mother th 0,d Kran custom, and the girls wear ,
being the notorious Lady Om, a favorite n v"a' wnlon w QU" K"
consort, but not the wife, of his majesty, ideas of the older Koreans.
After the empress was assassinated thla The government school buildings are
Lady Om, who has been brought Into the muon ,lk th0Be of JaPan They ?
palace as one of her attendants, became equipped with furniture like ours, and each
tha favorita in tha i-tir.A w has Us gymnasium. There Is a large
She has ousted all the other ladles of lior
class, and she holds the old emperor In
the hollow of her hand. Her power was
strengthened upon the birth of the little
crown prince, about twelve years ago, and
she U still at the head of tha retired em
peror's establishment.
The crown prince has been going to
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He is learnln. Janane.a. an all m. Primary schools had about 10,000 pupils
large centers, and In Seoul there are four robbers of the dea1 fl"l'nir expression." those of that class who can do nothing
dallies printed in Korean. The capital has
also three Japanese dallies, and an English
newspaper, the Seoul Presa, owned and
edited by Mr. Zumoto, a very able Japa
nese journalist. The Pres. Is looked upon
as one of the organs of the government.
and at present It is the only foreign news
paper published In Korea. Not long ago Imperial City. It started out as an anti
there was an English edition of the Daily government journal. A fourth, called the
News, an anti-government organ, but this Empire, Is purely Korean and 1. half
has been discontinued for financial rea- Independent The Empire has a large
sons. circulation and is greatly read by the
The Korean Dally News, printed In Ko- common people.
" V u jMiiio it . his parents were too poor to support such
party. It Is a bright paper and well edited, favor of the government, but all must a ,arge famlly they ,iad gvon hm over
It has the ablest of Korean writers and go to the censors before they are Issued. t0 the Buddhists. Theso Korean priests
Its circulation Is large. Like all news- Notwithstanding this, objectionable para- are ignorant. They shave thlr hads and
papers, It Is subject to the government graphs sometimes creep in. In such cases go about with begging bowls In their hands.
cen.orhIp; and may be suspended, without the police are sent around to collect and Thy are full of superstition and have pmc-
notlce, at the will of the officials. For destroy the papers, and if the offense is a tlcally no hold on the people at large. Tho
mis reason us writers nave to De carerui grievous one the journal may be Bus
ts to their expressions, and many of Its pended.
These articles are beautifully written '" The monasteries largely take the
and the Korean are delighted with them. Places of orphan asylums, fatherless chll
Another Korean daily Is the Tai-Han- uren being made over to the monks for
Shlmoo. or the Korean News. This Is lucaUon as priests. I give this on the
one of the organs of the government, and authority of the Rev. Mr. Bruen. a well
Its circulation Is largely confined to the klown Presbyterian missionary In Talku,
In mn.t, . t.' t' 1 S I
officials. A third dally Is entitled the -. ":
i nave spent mucn time in the monas
teries and have asked many priests how
they came there. One told me that when
he was small his father died, and, as his
mother wished to marry again, she made
htm a priest. Another said he was the
youngest of eight children, and that as
most severe articles are those which have
to be read between the lines. This morn
ing, for instance, I see several editorials
Buddhist la Seoul.
Speaking of translation of the Bible and
missionary work Is done entirely by tho
Japanese Buddhists, who are of u fur dif
ferent character and who aro copying our
methods of modern church work.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
Explorer Baldwin to Raise Vegetables While Drifting- Across Arctic
(Continued from Page One.) but also dispatch messages toward, If not make our way speedily to the nearest and the other directly ahead. The towers, rectlon would foroe our ship to one side of
manual training school run by the Japa- drifted across the polar sea The drift of the 10 lne outer rlm or tne 100 Duclt- whore poru ln 11118 manner ln rara mcreasea naving rope ladders to tne tops, win do them as effectively as It did to Fram In
nese government, and there is a Japanese shipwrecked German expedition for a thou- many of them wlU be plcked up by whal" ,u P'0-8 trom an average of two miles stations for signaling and observation pur- passing Frana Josep Land and Spltiber-
academy where young men are taught aand miles off the southeast coast of ",,u vesueis in mo summer a a u. cigm u u nHotutu iue nu. m- ......... v. p;en. cut we would expect to be carried
Korean In order that they may act as ad- Greenland without loss of life similarly ea8on- M' aronautlo plans are based on west coast of Greenland. mmensions, io oe ereciea in tne vicinity or ci0se enough to the new lands to explore
vlser. to the native officials. demonstrate, the .ecurlty attending this my "Perlence with the Baldwiu-Ziegler "We shall give special attention to mag- the ship, wlU enable us W conduct slmul- them.
Our rnlwlon schools are scattered over natural method of travel Again Captain ePedltlon. when fifteen balloons were in- nctlo work, our purpose being to make a taneous observations from the three cor- ..Tn, art8tlo possibilities of the voyage
Korea. There are. all told, 60 primary
graded schools, which are supported by
the Koreans themselves, and eleven In
flated and dispatched from Franx Josef series of magnetic observations relating "i ir.ajigio, aim wm ub pari oi our In paintings and photographs will be nro-
Land. Numerous messages borne by them to the direction of the compass needle with wireless outnt. We shall dispatch mes- viaea tor wlth Bpe0ai ,-0. Tne cnemat
rauA .v.. 1. . .i.i.. a . ,.fnn. h tr... nnrth h. Hin nf tha sages by wireless to our station at Point . ....... ' .
children for 1,800 miles upon toe floes dur- .m ------ a..i,. ... . h 0raPn win oe rreeiy usea to record or-
ln. more than an entire Aretlo winter and 01 ,nem wou,a undoubtedly have come to magneuo neeo.e ana me r r - '"" . CriZ. "1. .T':.. ' .7" dlnary and unusual event, of the forty
Tyson, after the loss of the old Polaris,
drifted with a party of men, women and
studies are carried on In that language.
His chief work Is being done at the Nobles
school In Toklo, but he has also private
tutors, and he will have as good an educa
tion as any prince of Japan. It Is whis
pered here that upon his graduation he
will take one of the Japanese prlnoesses
as wife, and that when he comes back to
Korea, at the age of 10 or so, there will be
another shuffle of the Imperial cards, and
last year, and at that time there were
nine high schools for young women with
BOO students. There are also Industrial
schools and schools for the blind.
The Young Men's Christian association
Is doing a great eduoational work here lp
Seoul, and one of the finest of the new
buildings, which Is now going up, is a
Korean college being built by Korean
money and backed by Koreans. The na-
ing more than an entire Aretlo winter and
with meagre protection. The drift of the
Jeannette for two years and of the Fram
for three years without the loss of a soul
proves the reasonable certainty of provid
ing for the health and security of our ex
pedition for a longer absence.
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hand if I had been able to enntinna in. ure of the forse exerted by the earth's oouoi nave me cneerrui co-operation ..,, . . . .,., "
qulrles for them In the northernmost parts magnetism ln compelling the needle to set of the American missionaries located there, p Kn-"0L I discovered
of civilization after my return. One of itself in some definite direction and not at and who have been conducting meteoroTog- p a' ,11,-
these dispatches, dated June. 1302. was haphaaard. This work will be in harmony leal observation for the government for e83l'cln
picked un on the northeast coast of Ice- with that of the expedition now operating "everal year.. From Point Barrow mes- h " ,nten"
SrhTttt Fran. - the lower latitudes under th. SeTrJ'S.K
,of the Carnegie institution, and " . m mum uu ug ,J ... . . ' "
tlvaa realtaa that tha Jananese are now
this boy will be put In the present em- br,,ht.r than they are, and they feet that
tAFni' OiimVj Sk MkaknarA aai . 1 . ....
"" - " - e. their success comes rrom the new eauca-
doubtedly benefit both Korea and Japan. ton, In the past the Chinese classics
The people here will then have an em- wera the only standards of scholarship,
peror who can speak Japanese as well as Today our modern .studies have taken the
Korea, and who will be abreast of the piac of the classics, and all Korea Is
new civilisation. He would have the good studying the multiplication table,
of his own people at heart, and will be f
able to act for them, and at the same time Mission Schools vs. Government,
be an efficient lieutenant for the mikado. juit now there Is some excitement
Prince Ito tells me that the crown prince among the missionaries on account of an tlo regions. With our pilot balloons we will
has extraordinary ability, and he predicts imperial edict which provides that all prt- not only determine the velocity and direc
that he will make a good monarch. The vate schools shall be under government tlon of the air currents at various heights,
t.,u t tl. v. 1 1 ..wi.u ' - i ausnlces
"Owing to the slowness of the drift- 7 dro7Ded on the ice nack and for which the nonmetalllc yacht, the Car- while we are ln the midst of solitude. noa w-as to wrap the machine In
about two mile, a day. or one degree a UBt tnenL bTne to Iceland In was constructed in Brooklyn. W. never before trodden by man, even at the heated blanket while outdoor exposure,
month-we .hall be able to conduct side b " ' he'e ''tt"dfl ". shall therefore realize the dream of Alex- Pol .
expeditions along our course. A line of f 6 " t , ander von Humboldt three-quarters of a "I believe that before the voyage ends we occupied for .cientlflo and artls-
-? . , baen set adrift to the northward of Behrlng " "T ... ! . . hn om. i .v,. tie work, on the out viva foe lmnHt
century agome compiecion 01 a genertu w ..- - - - -
magnetic survey of the globe, embracing board of our course, lands forming the discoveries. having comfortable living;
sea and land, within a comparatively short counterparts of New Siberia, Frans Joself quarters and perhaps a dally wireless new.
period of time, Instead of intermittent and Land and Spitsbergen on our port sldo. servioe, horses and dogs as companions,
desultory work spread out over many de- It Is reasonabla to suppose that the ex- Kood bunting and fishing and a garden
cade. pected southerly curving of our course will on the Ice providing us with fresh vege-
"An Important Item ln the autumn's be caused by land mouses on our starboard tables in the summer, I do not see why
stakes erected at Intervals, say, for a dts
tance of 10 miles, both to starboard and
port, will not only serve as guide posts
for our field parties, but also as means
of determining the relative position of
the ice floes. Observations from captive
and dirigible balloons, as well as by means
of kites, will facilitate our efforts ln this
Behrlng
strait in 1900, reappeared upon the north
east count of Iceland, while another cask
set afloat off Cape Bathurst, away to
the eastward of the mouth of the Macken
zie river, was recovered on the north coast
of Norway ln 1908.
"When we have drifted with the solid program will be the erection of two frame indicated on the chart The crowding of we should not enjoy our four years so
respect. In his way, too, we will acquire pack 10 th other side of the world and towers, each at least 100 feet In height, the ice pack against new lands ln that dl- Journ on the bosom of the Arctic ocean."
vast amount of nieteoro.k-ical data per
taining to the upper air strata of the Aro-
reach the more loosely ' aggregated floes These win be located about thirty miles
on the edge we can get up steam and from the ship, one on our starboard side
Exploring for Oil and Natural Gas in Nebraska
Quaint Features of Life
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Lost and Fond.
PPLYINO for a pension after she
had mourned her husband as
dead for forty-three years, Mrs.
Annie Kdv ards, 71 years old,
of Philadelphia, received word
from Washington that her hus-
allve and Is himself drawing a
BORINQ FOR OIL NEAR BLOOM FIELD, NEB.
awaORK is now In progress near
"B A T Bloomfleld, Knox county, Ne
yV braoka. on an undertaking that
1 promises much for the future
IO TC of that section. For a long time
surface Indications of oil have
been noticed in that vicinity, and, finally,
It has been determined to make a thor
ough test, to develop whether oil or
natural gas to paying quantities exists
there. A company of exploitation has been
formed, and the work of drilling was com
menced two weeks ago on the farm of
Julius Stahl. just west of the limits of
Bloom field. The contract with the borers
calls for a depth of 1.000 feet, but the pro
moters are prepared to go down I, M0 If
need be to make sure of whet they have.
The boring outfit Is one of tha heaviest
ever set up la thla country, and th work
Is under the control of experts from the
Pennsylvania fields, so that the outcome
will not be left to chanoa alone. The work
is being prosecuted night and day, and
definite reports are looked for very soon.
The Bloomfleld Oil and Oas company ha
been organised with a capital of t&V.OuQ.
H. D. Van Campeo la president. W. E.
VanPelt Is secretary and Martin C. Peter,
la treasurer.
band Is
pension.
Mrs. Edwards was also Informed that he
Is living In Mississippi and that more de
tails will be given if riVslred. When this Is
at hand Mrs. Edwards will get Into com
munication with her hu.sbund.
A few years after the close of the war
Edwards, then living In Camden with his
wife, went to sea us a first mate. He
wrote her for a few months and then his
letters ceased. When Mrs. Edwards failed
to get any trace of her huMhaivl she con
cluded that he had been killed.
Kittens t'outent with lien.
Frank P. Urey of l.4 Ashmore avenue,
Trenton, N. J., has four kittens which
"lodge" ln a hen coop under tho watchful
eye and warm feathers of a "chlckless"
hen, and "board" where nature designed
they should. Urey fli.t noticed the pecu
liar Inclination of the kittens when he
saw the mother cat loitering ln an Inter
ested muniHT In the vicinity of the chicken
coop. At first he thought she was looking
for nice, tender chicks, but, hearing uh
chlckenllke noises emanating from the
coop, he made an investigation and found
the four kittens snugly ensconced under
the wings of a lien.
Ths mother cat viwits tho coop regularly
at meal time, but in the Intervals the
little felines seem perfectly content with
the hen. '
nnke Milks n Cow.
After finding his cow had already been
milked every morning fur the last week
when be went to the pasture to milk her,
John Bassett of Georgetown, Del., discov
ered the thief to be a large blacksnake
which had grown fond of new milk for its
breakfast.
Bassett arose earlier than usual and hid
la the pasture near the cow. He was as
tonished to hear the old cow begin lowing,
while at the signal a big black snake
crawled up to the cow and began to drulu
the milk.
The old cow seemed to be as fond of the
snake as If tt were a calf and was with
difficulty restrained from following it
when it escaped through the grass.
Her Wooden Leg; Seised.
Because her wooden leg had been listed
as household property, Mrs. Charles Har
ridtn of Ies Moines was compelled to un
strap the niechankal member at the knee
and lay it on top of the other humble
household goods w hii U v i re carried away
under a mortgage f ureclosure.
Bobbing. Mrs. 11 a rr 1dm pleaded with the
loan company to leave her the wooden leg,
as she would be helpless without It, but
her entreaties were ln vain. he hid it ln
the bed, but the hiding place was found.
Why II(Tiuut Married.
A 900-per-aiinuin clerk ln one of t'nele
Sam's departments at Washington was re
cently approached by a coworker who
asked if it were true, as rumor had it, that
the 'm0 person was about to marry.
"It lo," w as the laconic response.
"Surely, old man," said the other, with
that freedom permitted an Intimate friend,
"you don't think that your present Income
Would justify you in taking a wife."
"To be perfectly frank." said the other,
"I do not."
"Then what on earth can be your reason
for taking this serious stepT"
"I have no reason," vas the calm re
spouse. "I am in love." Lipplncotl'a
Magaxlne.
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