The Cuero Daily Record. (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 16, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 18, 1899 Page: 7 of 8
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TOOK TO- ME. BRYAN, young girl evangelist. TILE VAST ANTARCTIC.
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ANESE BOY WHO SOUCHT
THE SILVER LEADER.
Story of HU Travels Over Lend and Sea
in QoMt of Learning—Has Been Ad-
mitted to University of Nebraska.—Is
a Bright Youth.
The glamour surrounding the Ja-
panese youth who made a descent on
Lincoln and proceeded to adopt him-
self as the son of Colonel and Mrs. W.
J. Bryan, in spite of their protestations,
has already begun to wear off as the
local and out of town newspaper no-
toriety given him begins to wane. In-
stead of Count Itsu, with a Btrain of
blood not a whit below that of the
Mikado himself, Lincpln’s latest Orien-
tal visitor bears the wholly plebeian
asme of Yamachera Yamachita, the
son of a humble tiller of the soil in his
native Japan. Neither has Yamachita
any more wealth than the Nebraska
law allows. In fact, he was obliged to
spend a solid year in San Francisco
in humble occupation to secure the
wherewithal to bring him to Lincoln.
He is no longer a member of the
Bryan household, but makes his home
with the widow and children of the late
John Fitzgerald.
' The word picture of the flowing
garments of Oriental splendor worn by
Mr. Yamachita on his entree to Lincoln
must likewise be put down as a pretty
piece of fiction. On the contrary, bis
trousers bag at the knees in distinc-
tively American style, and the balance
of his wardrobe is of approved Anglo-
Saxon makeup.
The story of Ms long journey under
difficulties and his present aims is very
interesting. Yamachera heard of Mr.
Efcyan during the presidential canvass.
He wrote to the then presidential
candidate, announcing his desire to
come to Lincoln and adopt himself as
the son of Mr. Bryan, telling of his de-
sires to become a leader of the com-
mon people of Japan and his ambition
to some day enter the Japanese parlia-
ment. The reply sent from Lincoln
was anything but encouraging. Mr.
Bryan plainly and earnestly sought to
dissuade him from making the trip.
Nebraska summers were described as
decidedly the reverse of sunny Italy,
and Nebraska winters of a degree of
frigidity calculated to make the Orien-
tal teeth chatter. Nothing daunted,
however, fifteen months ago Yamache-
ra set forth, and in due time reached
his destination. His manner of intro-
ducing himself to the Bryan house-
hold was circumspect. He Informed
For a we 5k or so past Isabella Har-
vey Hortod has been conducting dail}
and nightly services in the Union Bap-
tist church, Jersey City, apparently
fulfilling tie scriptural declaration
‘Out of the mouths of babes and suck-
lings thou las perfected praise.” Foi
two years Isabella has been a Chrts-
tion worker, but not until recently has
she assumed such a prominent part.
Crowds listen in astonishment to the
girl of 14, hardly able to realize that
they are being addressed by a child
in a style which would be creditable
to men or women twice her age. Her
command of language is simply aston-
ishing and she knows how to use
words with great effect, great earnest-
ness adding much to her utterances.
Up to February of 1896 she was a
public school pupil. At that time she
child became possessed of an irresist-
ible desire to perform church work
ISABELLA HARVEY.
Her wish w^
been so engfc
NAVAL FAIR THE LATEST.
ful, feminine
originating id
s gratified and she has
ged ever since. -
The Newest Idea In Entertainments for
Charity.
Philadelphia Times: The resource-
mind, always so alert in
eas for benefit entertain-
ments, and ip executing without pre-
cedent or prototype to pattern from,
has now another idea that certainly
has a claim tQ novelty as one of its at-
is latest and newest idea
is a naval falir. Produced on/a large
scale, the booths are to be constructed
in the shape of warships, and no end
of artistic ingenuity can be expended
in working out the idea.
In planning an affair of this kind,
the larger the
cured for the
stars and stribe
as a decorat o
interior that can be se-
purpose the better. The
s should be everywhere,
n. The framework of
three ships should be built by a car-
penter, who in
the field of the
that he will
much expens^.
large as the
will allow, p
of the room ai
clever enough to usurp
ship chandler, in so far
produce effect without
Let the ships be as
dimensions of the hall
acing one on each side
d at the end of the room,
opposite the entrance.
The rough
should then
cloth, if in
framework of the ships
covered with white
mitation of the white
squadron, or * ith steelcolored cambric,
YAMACHERA YAMACHITA.
the then colonel that he must hence-
forth regard himself as his father, but
at the end of seven years, if all went
well, he might call the one-sided bar-
gain off.
The persistency of the boy, if noth-
ing else, has aroused the interest of
Mr. and Mrs. Bryan, and they have
seen that his wants are provided for.
He is at present taking special studies
in the University of Nebraska, and
seems to be making progress. Yama-
chera is 20 years old and brighter and
neater than the average of his nation-
ality.
if realism is tD
clearly a matt
white will asjs
The entrarce
a gangplark.
ship may be
taining tbe
suclroccas’ons
extending tve
presided over
would prove
of the rigging
such lucrative
ships may be
and all sorts
devoted to thd
anything of a
songs, bpoks,
place there.
THE LATE
Judge John
wells and peup-shows. One of the
devoted to the mess room
of edibles offered for sale
there. Another of the ships may be
sale of literature, and
patriotic nature or bear-
ing on the la* 3 war, snch as pictures,
■nay find an appropriate
United States District court, who died
A Unique Pontage Stamp.
Canada’s new penny postage stamp
is to be unique. When Postmaster-
General Mulock wag in England recent-
ly he was struck by the failure of the
great mass of the people there toVP"
predate at their true value the por-
tions of British empire beyond the sea.
The thought occurred to him that no
more effective object lesson of the
vastness and solidarity of the empire
could be given than by presenting a
picture on the new imperial penny
postage stamps, contrasting the dimen-
tions of Great Britain with those of all
other powers. Tbe feature of the stamp
is a neatly executed map of the world
in miniature, distinguishing the Brit-
ish empire from the possessions of all
other powers. The British possessions
are printed in red, and these stand out
in bold relief against a dark back-
ground. Surmounting this picture is a
representation of tbe crown, under-
neath which is a bunch of oak and ma-
ple leaves, symbolizing the unity of
Great Britain and Canada.—New York
Evening Post.
Knack of Bnylng Thing*.
How much nicer is this advertise-
ment from a London paper than the
usual form—“Wanted, a parent for a
healthy, homeless girl”: A little blue-
aged girl, in her fifth year, hitherto
confided to professional care, might
presently be glwn entirely to an eli-
gible foster parent of position desir-
ing to avail of such ap opportunity; is
a covetable little lady, of gentlest de-
scant from distinguished ancestry .with
a small provision on coming of age.
JOHN ^
in Chicago rec
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HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO MAIN-
TAIN ITS SECLUSION.
WHITE SLA r£S
HUNGARY,
GHABMISG MOROCCO.
Exploration Again Taken Up—Froi*n
Faatnemea May Have Much of Interest
to Reveal—Advantages to Latter Day
Explorer*.
Persistently, as becomes men con-
vinced of the ultimate success of their
efforts, . a sanguine band of savants
and explorers have beset successive
governments with appeals to take up
antarctic exploration again, says the
London Spectator. Their perseverance
has sp far been unavailing, although
it is not easy to understand why, or
to assign any definite reason for such
strange unwillingness. Remembering
how rich were the results garnered
from the labors of Sir James Clarke
Ross and his gallant coadjutors in the
stanch, but undoubtedly clumsy, old
Sungary Peasants Harnented to Plow
Like Beasts of Burden.
From the London Mail: Stephen Var-
konyl, the leader of the peasants’ revo-
lution which convulsed Hungary dur-
ing the early months of this yean*, has
just been sentenced to one year’s im-
prisonment for high treason. The
movement which was inaugurated by
Varkonyi was a revolt against the
remnants of serfdom which still exist
in some parts of Hungary. In these
districts each peasant is compelled to
work fifty days in the year for the
landowner without pay. These fifty
days of compulsory labor are not suc-
cessive or at fixed intervals, but when
the landowner has work to be done he
sends a drummer through tbe village
and every male inhabitant is obliged
to respond to the summons. There-
upon so many men are selected as re-
quired. The landowner almost in-
variably exacts this labor in the sum-
mer, when the peasants’ time is most
valuable to him. In summer the peas-
ant can earn as much as one shilling
SULTAN CUTS OFF HEADS OF
TAX DODGERS.
Kloody Trull Mnrk* HI* Progre**—If De-
linquent Taxpnyer* Cannot B« Caught
flelple** Saoject* Hava to Lose Their
Upper Storle*.
Erebus and Terror, and how vast was
the field opened up for the subsequent a day. winter not more than ^our-
workers, the far* that from then until pence or sixpence. In winter the peas-
be adhered to. This Is
er of taste, but the
1st the gaslight effect,
to the ship is made over
Around the deck of the
Arranged the tables con-
ajrticles usually sold on
A flag-covered counter
full length of the ship,
t>y middies in sailor hats;
effective. On the ropes
may be pinned house-
keeper’s llnenu. The portholes afford;
mysteries as fishing-';
JUDGE SHOWALTER.
W. Showalter of the
now no attempt has been made to fol-
low up this great work becomes utterly
inexplicable. Yet, believing, doubtless,
‘that all things come to those who will
but wait,” for half a century all those
interested in this great question have
■waited, scarcely ever relaxing their
efforts to awaken the powers that be
to some recognition .of the pressing
claims of science to be heard in this
matter.
Beyond all question, the present time
is peculiarly opportune for the prose-
cution of antarctic research. For it
must be borne in mind that in that
vast and almost unknown area, more
than twice the size of Europe, one
expedition, however well equipped,
cannot, in the nature of things, hope
to do more than settle a portion of
the problems that silently await solu-
tion. What is undoubtedly indicated
as the ideal treatment of the antarctic
question is the establishment of an in-
ternational polar commission, such as
attacked arctic problems in 1882. A
cordon of expeditions surrounding the
southern polar regiors, representative
of all the great civilized powers, and
working in harmony upon preconceiv-
ed lines towar-7 definite ends, would
add more in one season to the needed
data for the solution of the world prob-
lems involved than isolated efforts
could do in a great many. But since
there are now two separate parties at
work in the antarctic.and a third will,
it *.s hoped, shortly be on its way
thither, there must be much valuable
collaboration, as well as many thous-
ands o? simultaneous observations tak-
en at far-distant points. This might
have been the case at the time of Capt.
Ross’ voyages, when the French and
American expeditions were both in
high southern latitudes. Since then
science has made such gigantic strides
in the direction of instrumental equip-
ment for such work, to say nothing
of the invaluable adjunct of steam,
that even with only four parlies at-
tacking the problem on differing mer-
idians, the most momentous results
may be expected.
After all, this planet of ours under
the distance-destroying touch of these
latter days has dwindled Into a very
small place. And it seems preposter-
ous that a region like the antarctic
should have been allowed to retain
so long the secrets It undoubtedly
holds. The illimitable sea of stormy
waters that rolls its unhindered way
right around the globe, where.no busy
keel ruffles the wave or smoke of pant-
ing steamship mingles with the pure,
keen air—how strange that it should
for so long have been allowed to main-
tain its primitive seclusion! Those
appalling barriers of apparently eter-
nal ice. along which Ross sailed for
hundreds of miles, watching with an
indescribable fascination the baffled
billows hurl themselves against the
glittering cliffs that rose sheer from
the sea for hundreds of feet—what lies
behind them? Those burning moun-
taisn flaming high amid their frozen
fastnesses and lighting up the gloomy
sky for many leagues throughout the
long, long winter night, have they no
story to tell? And. in spite of all be-
lief to the contrary, it may be that a
land fauna will be found, that some
animals may have been fitted to live in
that wonderful country, which, as far
as is yet known, is absolutely sterile.
Many firmly believe that a warm
polar region exists at the southern end
of our earth’s axis, but with recent
light upon ttm theory of a warm arctic
sea within the encircling barrier of
ice there can be little expectation that
any v^ch marvel will be found in the
antarctic. The explorers will be fir^l
February. 1895,
to the federa
Cleveland. H<
was one of ti e
in the United SI
A C
“He is wedd
that wasn’t tru«
was that?” “V*
elor of Arts.
ai
ants are compelled to act els beaters in
the magnates' hunts for a wage of
twopence a day. The occupation is
a dangerous one and the time is not
counted in the anual fifty days’ com-
pulsory labor. The wives of the.peas-
ants are required to sweep and scrub
the local manor house once a week
without pay. Finally, many landown-
ers use the peasants as beasts of bur-
den, harnessing four men to plow in-
stead of two oxen.
Stephen Varkonyi, who instigated
the revolt against these degrading con-
ditions of labor, Is a sort of Hungarian
Wat Tyler, He is the son of poor peas-
ants, was educated in the farmyard
and graduated in the fields. He Is quite
a typical horny handed son of toil, is
physically tall, stoutly built, and small
eyes, with their suggestion of the Mon-
golian slit, and has that rough kind of
natural humor which appeals to the
simple peasant mind. Varkonyi,whose
power over the agricultural population
of his country is unbounded, is one of
the most interesting figures in modern
Hungarian life.
A Useful Dot*
Intelligent dogs are many, but not
every dog, even.though intelligent, can
be taught to gather flowers for its mas-
ter as a certain Gordon setter named
Norah is said to do. Her master, Mon-
sieur Barbat. writes of her in the
Chasseur Pratique: In June. 1895, in a
walk beside the ponds of Liton, Savoy,
a friend and I tried to reach some wat-
er lilies with our canes, but without
success. Seeing still finer blossoms
out in the water. I called Norah. and
threw stones toward them in order to
induce her to go for them. She seem-
ed to understand at once, plunged in,
and coming and going brought flowers
enough to fill the basket. The guards
present could hardly believe their eyes.
The dog lowered her head beneath the
water so as to cut the stems at a cer-
tain distance from the flowers. This
same dog was useful to her master in
another way. One winter morning she
entered his study with a stick of wood
held between her Jaws. She deposit-
ed the wood in the fireplace, went down
the steps and brought another, and
continued her occupation until, the
supply of wood seemed to her sufficient,
when she returned to her place by the
fire to enjoy the results of her Jabor.
c She certainly seems to be a dog of a
practical turn of mind.
LoromotlTM That Bnrn Oil. *,
The locomotives working through
the Arlberg tunnel, on the Austrian
State railroad, now burn oil entirely.
They are specially designed heavy en-
gines, two-cylinder compounds, hav-
ing cylinders 550 mm. and 800 mm.
diameter md 625 m. stroke. They have
eight wheels, all coupled, the wheels
being 1,300 m. diameter. The engines
formerly burned Bohemian coal, but
it was found almost Impossible to ven-
tilate the tunnel. With the oil fuel
very little difficulty is experienced. Tha
oil burners used are of the type de-
vised by Mr. Holden of the Northwest
ern railway, in England.
(Special Letter.)
The sultan of Morocco is going to
prevent his subjects from evading the
payment of their taxes, even if in doing
It he has to behead every tax dodger in
the country. * In his majesty’s domain
tax dodging by the rich is well-nigh
universal, and well-informed students
and travelers, knowing how corrupt
and rapacious the sultan’s government
is, do notydoubt that much of it is jus-
tifiable. But the sultan looks at the
matter in a different light. He de-
clares that there is no excuse for tax
dodging, that it is criminal, and, more-
over; that he has hit upon a punish-
ment to fit the crime. Mr. Frank E.
Jackson, a globe-trotter of 30 years’
experience, has recently made a tour
of North Africa, including the acces-
sible parts of Morocco, and in a per-
sonal letter to Mr. Frank L. Dingley
of Lewiston, Me., a brother of the well-
known congressman of that name, he
giv%3 a graphic account of the sultan’s
bloody and desperate method of proce-
dure. While in Tangiers, Mr. Jackson
learned that the sultan, at the head of
a large body of troops, was marching
through the country collecting taxes,
and that at Laroiche he had decapi-
tated a large number of tax dodgers
and spiked their heads above the city
gates, to serve as a warning to othert
who might not be disposed to pay
their dues promptly. “A company of
five was formed,” writes Mr. Jackson,
to visit Laroiche and see if this ghast-
ly report was true. The party consist-
ed. of an Englishman who spoke Ara-
bic, a German and three Americans.
We boarded a small steamboat at Tan-
giers, and sailed down the coast to
Cosa Blanca. There we engaged mules,
donned Arab costumes (a very prudent
thing, to do), and early in the morning
started to Laroiche, about twenty-five
miles inland. It was a beautiful coun-
try through which we passed, fertile
and well cultivated, the monotony of
the desert relieved by the fig and olive
trees and the stately and ever-present
palm.
“But it is a country enturies behind
modern civilization. Women are still
sold into virtual slavery, and not in-
frequently to take the place of beasts
of burden. More than once along the
way we saw & farmer working hia
land, his wife and a mule yoked to-
gether drawing the plow. We reached
Laroiche about noon. It is Impossible
WAS A Hi
Queen Victoria appi
This la clearly
fact that 8he> considered
Lathom, who h&$ Just died,
somest man in England,
of the same opinion; and
his Oxford days to the
striking and imposing a]
deserved such admiration. At
was fag to Swinburne, while at
he was a very well knoi&cj
and rowed in the house eight,
he became lord-ln-waklag, ta
taih of the yeomen of the
under the last three coi
emments, lord thamberlain.
1874 the privy council has known
as a member. Anything in the way
sport always/ interested him
was a fine shot as well as
keen yachtsman. He was
colonel of the Lancashire yi
and of the First volunteer
Loyal North Lancashire
president of the Sussex
lege. From 1874 to 1891 Lord
was deputy grand master of tl
lish freemasons and In 1891
provincial grand The
cldent to his wife, who was
year by being thrown from
m
THE LATE EARL OF’
riage, affected him deeply
the breakdown all the
deceased passed away
Bo*(tmoafli Adi
The Australian papers
have a good deal of
Rougemont. The i
“Louis de Rougemont**'1
In the Sydney Daily
the very same day various ]
ed at the office to gay that
represented a man they knew
He
by the name oi “Henri
Strangely enough,
to describe the sickening sight whicii J daughter Blanche a
met our gaze as we rode up to the main { chlld had DreTi0uSiy
entrance to the city. There above
us,
in a ghastly row, were fifteen human
heads shriveling in the broiling sun.
We rode around to the other gates, on-
ly to find the same grewsome display.
In all we counted 45 head spiked to
the board arches over the city gates.
And not all of the heads were those of
tax dodgers; some were of old men and
women who had never possessed any-
Hi
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PERSONALITIES.
Frau Charlotte Embden, the only
; surviving sister of the poet Heine, has
| just celebrated her 98th birthday.
Carolus Duran, the well known
! French portrait-painter, has been
I elected president of the National So-
! ciety of Fine Arts, in place of the late
| Puvis de Chavannes.
Lady Alice Montagu, who. it is said,
will spend this winter in New York,
is one of the twin daughters of Con-
with the thought that whatever their j ‘•nelo. duchess of Manchester. She was
hardships, a virgin field lies before the most admired of ail the -belles of
them if by any means they can get I the past London season and is noted
behind .the icy barrier that seems to for her beauty.
SHOWALTER.
__________ ontly, had been ill with
pneumonia. Judge Showalter was born
in Kentucky ir 1844. He was a grad-
uate of Yale. He came West in 1867
and practiced law in Chicago until
when he was appointed
bench by President
was unmarried. He
best-known lawyers
ates.
shut off Antarctica from a prying
world, and that alone, anart from any
discoveries they may make. i3 sufficient
Inducement to adventurous men to
make them face any hardship. To
stand where human foot hag never
before trodden, to come with £ie torch
of science into the very penetralia of
nature, for this men in all times h&ve
risked all that life held dear, and in
so doing have rendered .incalculable
services to their kind. One by one
the closed doors have been flung wide
open, the secrets have been made man-
ifest and now at the close of the nine-
teenth century only this one remains.
pntradlctlon.
1 to his art.” “Then
that I heard.” “What
hy, that he is a Bach-
icago Record.
Hard Luck Story from K*n«*«.
When'the Kirby bank failed in Abi-
lene a Santa Fe conductor had in it $2,-
400, which represented the savings of
many years. In the course of time he
received $1,000 in dividends from the
bank receiver, and this sum he depos-
ited in the Cross bank of Emporia,
which In turn failed.
Nikola Tesla is the foremost living
original investigator in the field of
electricity. He was born in Servia
about thirty-five years ago and is a
Slav. His father was an eloquent
clergyman in the Greek church, but it
w*s from his mother he inherited hia
genius for invention. Mme. Tesla in-
vented looms and churns and other de-
vices while her husband preached.
Young Tesla was educated in the poly-
technic school, at Gratz and it was
! there that his attention was centered
„ on electricity. After he left school he
became assistant In the government
telegraph engineering department at
Budapest and then drifted to Paris.
Coning to-the United States he entered
Edison’s shop and later set up his own
laboratory in New York. Since then
his career has been part of the history
of the advance of electrical science.
W/
MR. JACKSON IN ARAB COSTUME,
thing worth taxing. It seems the sul-
tan had vented hie spite on them after
learning that a number of the wealthy
residents of the city had been warned
of his coming and had fled to the
mountains, taking their cash and other
portable valuables with them. These
murderous raids are made once a year
by the sultan, and it is said that he
nearly depopulates some of the dis-
tricts through which he passes. Upon
trustworthy authority we learned that
what we saw at Laroiche may be seen
in the wake of the sultan at evfery
city along his route. If more bloody
heads are gathered in one place than
can be conveniently disposed of there
these are caried on to decorate the
gateways of the next city.
mont as her father. Oi
was passing the Enmore
end stopped for a m<
the window. ThefT
World Wide caugbt her
gazed at the picture qf
spellbound. Theri enl
costing the propfU
Ruble, she asked te be i
the book in the ’Window,
book?” a*ked Mr.
with the picture
lng what she
showed her the
If she was
“famous traveler.” The
the reproduced Jiken<
mont Intently for
remarked to the
“I Know who that te.
Rougemont. It is
SOLD IN BROOKLYN
It is generally
no more exists in
America, but by
close study of such
promptly
mistake. In San
are said to be 800
are, so fat as they
trary, the property qf
Brooklyn quite
tractive young woman, v_.
with pictured, was sold to
laundryman for $600. The f>
phase of the Chinese
prevails in this county
times do not seem to
ness of their condition,
m
Why doesn’t a blacksmith create an
animate being when he m&kee the fire
Qaeen Wilhelmina In Another Light
Little Queen Wilhelmina appears in
aYlew light in a story which the Ger-
man papers- are printing about her.
Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands
summoned the German artist Lenbach
to Amsterdam to paint a life-sized por-
trait of herself. Queen Wilhelmina had
arrayed herself in a gaudy Dutch na-
tive costume, full of colors, which did
not in the least harmonize with each
other, and the horrified Lenbach asked
that the qijeen should choose a more
artistic dress. Queen Wilhelmina,
however, sharply directed him to paint
her els she was. Lenbach then rose
and replied: “Your majesty can com-
mand your own subjects, but I am a
German, and beg leave to withdraw."
Without waiting for the answer of tha
astonished queen, Lenbach left tha
room and the palace and took tha next
train back to Munich.
AN AMERICAN
much prefer to remain
are than return to their
and its daily grind fbr
result of each day**;
in doubt.
“There are no
“Certainly not
Bostonian yet of
fully be eald
bgnna/^-Boaton
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