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CHATHAM* COL. CO.. N. Y„ WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 7. 1906. Ho. 88 •pi i; The Land Under the Rale of Japan. |An Interesting Letter Writ ten by Rev. Chas S. Dem- ing.of Chemulpo Korea, to his. .Brother Rev. F. H. Deming of Chatham. is Chemulpo, Nov. some excitement 19 here There low In regard to political affaire, farquls Ito is here and Lt is rumored j gathered night ID the service. Next morning we started at 8 we passed a lofty wooded hill upon which wag a heathen temple in an enclosure surmounted by a large stone wall. Eongua i s the seat of a very power* ful dynasty. .There are 51 forts on the island. We use the churches for our houses. They are not always roomy or clean but better than Korean houses. In one place where we bunked for the night when we had stretched our three cots side by side there was no standing room on the floor so we bad to disrobe standing on our beds. We bad piayer here wltn the people before leaving and in the afternoon em barked again on the water, after two hours of sailing we landed. On the way we passed a lad who bad a string of grasshoppers to boll for supper. We also passed a house where they were making a terrible din trying to drive the evil spirits away. They have a nice new church at Sonkai. We spent 8 tin day there and baptized 17, held communion and dedicated the oburcb. We beid services morning, afternoon and evening. In the afternooQ we also went out and des troyed the feteicbeB at several houses wbere they wished us tollo this a s a sign that they were sincere in their desire t o believe in Jesus. We sang, built a fire and burned all sorts of old things that had oeen objects of worship tor centuries. Probably $40 worth of propeity was destroyed at each place. Monday mornintr was occupied In quarterly conference In the after* noon we went over a high mountain and stopped at K for the night baptizing and preaching along the way. In the morning we went away. It was was rery cold. We took boat again ;Jtbe water was rough and the waves came in. we were carried by currents and winds, but landed safely and had service at 0 . |ha King is to be deposed. Borne of iur_brightypung men are fighting aad, fourteen of them beaded by eir pastor came down from Kong' iba yesterday with the purpose to ke the blow for liberty even if it aa the last of them. After a morning, of warm conver .on, we persuaded them of the CUtty of any violent measures, e told them that Moses waited ty years tending sheep before od used him t o free his people— nd what they needed t o do was t o ait and if no improvement in Hairs took place within 5 or 6 years e would restrain them no longer. Te also told them they mieht better slaves to the Japanese for 200 fears than to be disobedient to God ind God did not want them t o go tilling the Japs. A Vlllt .to Stool. Trie present is an interesting time :o be in Seoul. Japanese Soldiers ind Korean soldiers are almost ivery wbere. There may be a clash ny moment. This morning before '. left town I beard cannonading. •We presumed the Japanese were (practicing to intimidate theKoreans. T TUe cars are not allowed within the wall. Indeed it looks funny to the trolley bound through the stone gate as though it was afraid it would get its back scratched. The trolley here is by no means a modern affair. It is of the horse car variety with an enclosed room taking about one-third of the car in he centre for first class passengers We passed out of the gate and Followed along the wall. There «re as many Koienns living outside the wall as Inside, After going 7 distance we came-to a break the wall caused I suppose by (heavy rains. Here we clambered p and walked on the inside of the rail -\here the ground comes to rithin 3 or i feet of tlie top BO you look through- the port holes as ujjajta along. We went.tar enough Ret a good via* of \the whole city It was spread out .before us. • ' was the Japanese settle- sfcnt. To the tight were the legation Ulldings. and in -Jthelr midsttne fcJosure of the palace grounds mere the King is now. Right at ur feet was the enclosure ofjhe >al*ce~grounds KQOWQ as the Mul- \ 'titty palace. on~the left was tbej iqalosure of the palace grounds .ever} things-it here the queen was\ killed in 1895j wot * and 1 feel d from which, ibe king fled to thef' ul * or tbo privilege I have In taking tusalan legation near which he P art ln tne ' wort{ of tn,f > fleld - uilt bis'present grounds. In the, Jflpantic Bull, enter is the Korean \barracks from ~_ _ _ . . „ , „ Khicb sajdlets are comln*. A broad T **™V * lffer \ \•»«•\\\• -faSR 'present ItseH to«»e' Japao: 14 aot been awakened by ding right in front of ur to the |her end of the city where it loses if \Tp the haze of the distance, about the point where is the East r ;Thi8. broad, avenue seems, nged-^wltb/ the white robed, n „. .„•..._ - . ... itfrtiititf upland qowa with ^Zr^lP^^, h S *5'» en : .ingWttilng fn the world W v j£W»\JR; ™°*™<* - I#was certainly a beautltui . al * M \' K ?*W filings ln its im- fct^yolcan not Relate the S ^S'^^?.^ V*\} • . ..>« » ti mofor.', this .last week some .ot Some of the Measures Receiving the Atten tion of Congress. The Philippine Tariff Bill Meets Opposition, but the Rate Bill has Fair Sailing —The Statehood Bill in a Comatose Condition— Cruelty to Stock Intensi fied if New Bill Passes. When we stopped TorIheBrght we were pretty well tired out and slept in close quurters. The two churches we visited this day were new organ izations—one church bad 100 mem bers Held quarterly conference. We received presents on tbe way of persimmons, oheBtnuts, oggs,chick ens ana one wild goose. The nest day we were off to the walled city of Kungua, the capitol city. It grew very cold and there was no beat In tbe bouses except Koiean style wblsb ia mote smoke than beat I preached in tbe morning, we had three servlcos, baptized many noblemen and one a great general ln high favor with tbe King. Our work Is progressing wonderfully everywhere. We returned borne Monday by sail boat with a strong favoring wind in tbe midst of enow squalls, rough watets, etc About rozen we landed after a three hour sail. We were glad to get home again ana read our foreign mall as we toasted ourselves by tbe fire. 1 would like to speak of several enar- act'jra I met on the way of men who are wonderful examples of God's grace and power to regenerate, of mep who have given upall to follow Him—money, blab positions ana cettalnly ia a great moreaud more grate- AdmlDlstiatlon measures are run ning pietty smoothly In Congress with the exception of the Philippine Tariff bill. There is every prospect of determined opposition to chat measure in the Senate and one proposition to auoend ft so as to increase tbe minimum duties on tobacco and sugar to SO per cent may be taken seriously. If the bill is amended in this direotion lt sill mean that tbe 8enate has taken tbe bit In its teeth and that there will be a bard right. All of tbe demo crats ana the middle western sena tors as well a s the stand patters are naturally against tbe bill In it's present shape This makes a for midable opposition to deal with The opposition of some of the democratic members is remarkable in tbe nature of its logic. Tbey are tbe most pronounced free traders yet tbey state that tbey will not support the Philippine Dill because it Is a step in tbe reduction of duties without opening tbe whole question of tariff revision. This Is a rather remarkable attitude. Thete ts little prospect of general tariff revision at tbe present session, and one might tbiuk that a tree trader would prefer t o gerbalf aloaf rather than to go hungry. But tbe gentlemen referred to say tbat they would ratber belp to defeat tbe Payne bill tban to go at tbe tariff proposition piecemeal. binge the whole question of the Chinese boycott, it can bo sues that the bill touches much of the export ing business of the United States. There bas been a good deal of mis representation about this measure so It is just as well to explain it. Tbe bill provides tot the exclusion from tbe United States of all Chinese laborers both skilled and unskilled. Tbe measure aa it stands embodies the Presidents Ideu of \doing full justlse to China\ and it i s believed that such a law will meet with the approval of tbo Chinese government j and put an end to tbebocyott wbicb already bas workt-d great injurv to American trade nod wbicb* will do much greater injury If It is not checked WHY FARMING PAY. DON'T An Article That it Will do no Harm for Any Farmer to Read, it may Have a Moral. Deputation\ of cattle men from the far west have been here during tbe past week urging tbe passage of a bill extending tbe time tbat cattle may be held on cars without food or water t o thirty-six hours. Under tbe present law tbe limit is twenty- eight hours and considering that [.these animals in tbe natuial state eat fully half tbe time and chew tbe cud or masticate tbe rest of tbe time, twenty-eight hours of hunger, thirst, fatigue, bewilderment and terror would appear to involve agony and torture enough. Protests from people who do not live by beef alone are pouring in upon congress. It is impossible to transport live stock on cars economically without ex treme cruelty, and the solution of tbe problem i s to establish slaughter houses at the shipping places instead ef sending them ailve to the mammoth shambles at Chicago, St Louis and Omaha. OAPITOTiENE. The rate bill on tbe ethor band looks aa I hough it would have ratner easy sailing. It is auid chit tbe Senate Committee Is waiting to get the Hepburn bill hefore it in otder ta frame a measure along tbe same- Wnee- -before it reports any bill to tbe Senate. If this is truo, It ought to be very easy for the conferees to come to an argeement. But it ia to he strongly suspected that the Sonate will want io frame a measure that while it has tbe outward semblance of the House bill' will contain some essential features capable of various interpre tations when the measure gets into the courts' as it eventuully is sure to do. Therefore tbe members of the Houso wba think tkoy faave embodied the most of the President's ideas in the bill are watching care fully io see what sort of a companion measure tbe Senate turns out and to find whether tbere are any \jokers\ concealed ln it before giving lt tbelr sanction. western civilization--as Japan bas. 'The people ure easy going and few of them have any backbone in en terprise. The; sjtuply let tbe Jap anese walk over, them and roll them ' Tn the dust of the street. fn^ueuiuu^aeou.. -*«,«. ««« » tfe8 Vthat/ t he' Yftbjpe^^idrige^ Mfrifa Riandeot to the whole^. ^ . ^^J^ Ja ^fe *»\ 0B «* «w DO* for sellih^tMptoperEy: ,r £ j:Our^trlp was to the ionguha • do,-^ot5w'6^BSf^l>attd : itands'4 ,ffe leK Friday morning 10 \hM^io ^^&$^QvrtA^&- grMtifpS^,-: The - ..Japanese -were u V 6 li l^wwirifaj^!. paear^oo shot^ld- eee^befteW *tWHH «^p%te ?B^teplE' , ^#l »rp ^^i ^w ^rlB^aJb water; • j g palil ,i \wiI ^Jlfi^hj^^hVn '-^l«t| a^^^pTp^tfw ^ggggD; K ^Jrst^op .was ^ayotit ^Tjl ^ftO 'm^^. '•y^^sy-iiQftj^l The statehood bill is ut present ID a state of coma. Tbere,ls bitter opposition to i t both in tbe Boose and tbe Senate. It is being pro claimed as an Administration meas ure. But It Is doubtful If the Presi dent would ever have given it bis acanotlon had he knowD bow strong was tbe hostility to It both in Arizona and ln some parts o( New Mejlco. It Is just possible tbat the bill'will be defeated ln tne Senate and it It will relieve congress of a good d«aJ of embarrassment and will not be mucn or an anti- administration viotory either. It is rather nubeard of performance to bring a state Into the union against its will or with conditions attaohed tbat make statehood little short of us. But the bill as It now is strictly a party measure a^ri'c|'Vlt may be forced through in ypjtejjf all-opposition. \i ^Onaijpr thejoornlnally minor bills; {•^i^etone that^will -mean a gn£t 'cj^|.tio\nearIy' eWry part of tlie stand* coiiDtiv .dlTihTa^.FoSter bill, now ^p A SUCCESS. New Gasoline Electric Car Tulfiikd AO Expectations. The Hrst teat- of the powerful sras- oline electric car built bv tbe General Electric and American Locomotive companies, of Schenec tady, was made over the Schenectady branch of the Delaware & Hudson railroad Saturday and proved to be a complete success. While tbe car Is not designed for high speei, it easily made Torty-^ve miles an hour and could have attained a much faster rate. Carry ing a party of Delaware and Hudson and General Electric oQlcials, tbe car started from the. station here at three o'clock and made tbe trio as far as Bnllstoo 'at an average speed of u mile In one minute and thirty- seven seconds. Engineers of tbe General Electric company say that the car will revo lutionize railroad work and will within tbe next few years be adopted on practically all of tbe short line runs of the principal rail roads. Tbe car is sixty five feet over all and in appearance is similar to a regular combination baggage and passenger coacb. At one end f tbe car is a gasoline engine driving an electric dynamo. Under neath the car are motors and these are governed by tbe motorman in the cab'. The groat saving operating ex pense by use or a car of this charac ter Is shown by tbe fact that it consumed but one gallon of gasoline for each mile, even when running at. the blgbest rate of speed attempted Saturday. It is probable tbat tbe car will be placed on the regular, service and tests will be continued while it le being run on the regular trips between Scheneo- tady and Saratoga. Rotors Willie Used on Central. The New' York Central ia prepar ing to revolutionize travel -on Its short, branches by the establishment «*-rnntor~car service. The com'- pany Is now-.having a car-con structed that resembles a large street car. Its Hrlylhg power, however, is Vastly different, fo>thfttaria equipped wltfi.'a .gS8oIineVbaroIri 'g' raecbaQisra lllc^tbBt/w^c^vMn^tt will; ibe;^<jpj£ flbi .ah;<ojffi61til : ;test within i .alk !welBlr|^an^i^li^^]^^ toSmVkY arr^ to'. As I was going into tbe village laundry tbe other evening, says a writer in the Michigan Farmer, I met my hired man comiug out. We grinned but said nothing. The hired man bas heard me complain a good deul tbat farming does not pay, while he has been equally free to maintain tbat lie cannot save anything out of bis waces. Wben I was a lad, in my father's time, the house In wtiicb my hired man lives was tenanted by John Wilson, who owns the next farm to mine. He saved money enough, duriog the felw yeara he worked for my father, to rent and stock a place of his own. Tnen 'here was no Chinese la unary roan in tbe village hustling to make monev enough to enable him to go back to Hong Kong and live like a nabob, and John Wlslon's shirts and- collars were laundered by his wife and be was content My father left me this farm, cleir, and money besides. He always seemed to have tbe cash on band to pay for bis feeding cattle and anytniug else he needed. He never gave u nute io nls life. I cannot say as much and yet I work a s bard as did my father. Tbere is some thing wrong somewhere. I wonder if it Is tbe trust? , I.am strictly up, too, In my farm ing methods. I take all our milk to the creamery; and I buy gilt- edged creamery butter—at a gilt- edged price, t o be sure. I sell my wheat at Joses' warehouse, and tbe village baker supplies us with ftesb bread every morning. And It beats all, bow that Dutchman is getting on, When he name to tbe village a few years ago, be was ao poor tbat his clotues would scarcely stay on him Now he owns a fine bakery, and a spunking ream of horses. and last spring he bought tbe Myers farm It ean't all be on account of tbe alum be puts In bid bread. An old fogy neighbor, who is forever croaking , told me one day tbat It costs Just twice as much to buy bread from a baker as it does to make it yourself, but I don't believe it. When I was a lad, butchering dav was a busy time. We did it by the old-fashioned, clumsy method of heating the water in toe scalding tub with bot stones, and using tbe overturned cart-bed for a work table. The neighbors helped ; aud a ami plodding, and tuev smelled of the soil We live now In the age of tbe automobile, tbe pucklne house, the creamery and tbe 90-dav nots. WH are going several miles an h .ur fuoter tban those who im- meilihtWy preceded us. It will doubiless work out all riabt, but I sometimes think that a ''stop, I > OK. listen ! \ eign might do us nurae good -while we ate in the process or read justment to the new order of tblngb There's a screw loose somewhere I raise bigger crops than my father did, and have lesB belp ln harvest, and yell can't save mouey tbat he did. It must be the trust, to be sure I never run afoul of a trust, to my certain knowledge, tbouprh one. perhaps, would nor Know it as be does wben lie runs up against a skuDk. But it must be tbe trust tbat prevents a man who works, hard fr-.iu saving monev. COUNTY NOTES. LOCAL OPTION. Leaders in Legislature' Give in to Anti-Saloon Plan—No License for Two Years on Request of Ma? jority of Voters—Courts Have Review Power. good dinner, topped off with mince pie and washed down with cider, was the chief recompense. We used every bit of a hog, as Mr. Armour now does in bis packing house, and nothing got away but the squeal Hams, shoulders and sidetneat were preserved tor tbe distant future, and tbe rest went mainly Into sausage and scrapple and lard that could be eaten without suspicion. Butchering time was not exactly a Fourth of July picnic wito red Jemonadev vanilla ice cream and skyrockets. It meant a week or more of pretty solid drudgery for both tbe men and women folks, Jbtit In the end we bad honest pork and lard whose antecedents we knew. Since I have taken bold of tbe farm on my own account, we sell our hogs to the packing houso; and it cosra more to raise pork now creamery gets all our 8enator Tully and Assemblyman Walnwrigbt have Introduced a bill, by tbe terms or which places for trafficking in liquors could be abolished by petition. It confers local option by excise districts, to be carved out by tbe petitioners themselves. Tbe standing of the introducers insures respectrul consideration for the measure, says tbe New York Times Notbicg, eave perhaps tbe insurance legislation, gives promise of such a fight as this proposal. The measure represents tbe compromise between tbe Antl Saloon League on one side and Senator John Haines on the otbet, with Senators Tullv and Lewis aud AssemDlvinen Wuln- wrlgbt and Whitney of Oswego aa intermediaries. Tbe Anti-Suloon League interests, which have demonstrated great btreugth in Indiana, Ohio, Hod Illinois, si-t forth tbat tbe plan ..f petition is t-heaper than ao election Also it it true that persona will GIRO a petition to abolish traffic iu liquor who wi»uld not tro to the pi.ll-> and vote in abolish It Tbe bill pluvides in gem ral-terms that, whenever a majority of the qualified electors of auy residence district shall pica and (lie with tbe Judge of ;b< tbe City of Judge of tbe City Court, a oetiin'.i remonstrating against tbe sale of liquor in any or all of tbe following forms, tbo sale oT liquor in thnt form shall be prohibited as in tbe case of a negative vote on tbe fame proposition or propositions under the exleting law ln IOWUB Form 1 The sale or liquor to be drunk on the premises wbeie sold Form 2. The Bale of liqour not to be drunk on tbe prcmi-ies. Form 3 The ssle of liquor bv a pharmacist on a physician's pre scription. Form 4 The sale of liquor by hotel keepers only The district blocked out in tbe petition must not contain (a) any block or area bounded by three or more connecting streets in which 50 per cent of the foot frontage is used for business purposes; (b) any property abutting on a street be tween cross streets when 75 per cent of the property so abutting is used for business purposes; (c) more than '5,000 voters; (d) less than 100 voters, in a town, or 300 io a city. Opportunity to be given for a bear ing before the Judge with whom Items oi More or Less Importance. Colombia and Rensselaer. state Engineer Henry A. Van AistviiH, uf Nurtfi ('nHtl)uin. «vas ul his unVt' Mrindav for cb- lirst time sincf his injinv while a passenger on thp Albajjv <t Hudson train whh-n wa-s iu tbe nuideot on Deceuiin-r M last Mi V-iu Alstyne has been in St Augustine, Fla , for severul duys The Christian Advocate states tliut Bev Elwaril F Uarlow, a former pastor of the M E church io Philmont. dicil lust (K-tober, nt Stamford Mr Burl iw was pastor In Philmont in lK«l-]s>-i und was the first resident past\i of tbat charge, Philmont beinu at that time separated from the church at Claverack *'• Bert Beynolds. who Kept a hotel in Meilenville was Monday declared by a jury summoned by Sheriff Jessup, to be incompetent to manage his affairs. Tbe hearing in tbe case was befoto Coruuiiseioner John L. Crandell at the Court Bouse. The unfortunate uaa'q will be tteated Iu tbe Hudson Bivet^State Hospital at Po'keepsle. — Hudson Republican. Frank X Phillips, ag°d 74 years, for ueatlv half a cen'ury ensngea in tbe butcher business in Hudson,~tbe oldest market in the citv. died Sun day morning after a abort illness. Mr. Phillips bad not been in rugged health for tne past four years but be was able to attend to business at his maiket, and not until a week ago was be obliged to elve up busi ness entirely. Former Superintendent of Schools in Hudson, Frank J. Sagenuotpb, who hue occupied a eimllai position at St. Albans. Vt., «itb much suc cess tor tbe past two years, has r^sicued his office there and will take * barge of the work or Ginn Co , of Bosti u, tbe big school book. • publishing house, in this sectien ojt/' the sta'e. Mr Sagenuorpb will\\ letdde/ in Hudson The Albany Game Club with 4*5, \s seeking game league to County Fish anjitrgi* its membership o'f-|'V^ tn form a lish and'j.y,: composed bf?^ he representatives of tjie niue incorpo rated rUb aud wine clubs in Albany, l !i nsselter, Columbia, Greene/ Schen«ctady and Haratocn counties. County Court, or, HIUWHI 1) Wliisb aud J H. Callanap New lfork, nitb am have been ap;- minted » corauikteeio euufer with similar committeesOt the other tlutis to perfect tbe organ izai ton Dreamland,located between Albany and Troy, which has been thes.|Mlj»\-^ jeer of much litigation 6incevJ»«£ ~~ summer will be reopened under.T)eir^ J ' management. The new companjrf T ^ has been incorporated with tbef^^ secretary of State, with a caplt^l'tof^'\ $65 ,cu0 The debtors of the ol& company have been offered stock . in the new concern double tJbe - amount of tbe. bills owed them.' \ Tbe company bas been incorporated - under tbe name of The Hudson Biver Amusement Company. since tbe skim-milk. We buy our bams (we have \no Jaae for-'shoulders), and to tbe Apellate Division what-we get when we buy store lard ' only the packing house people know. As for tbe sausage and scrapple— tbe' least aaid of them tbe sooner digested. It wa9 100 immortal \Sam Waller\ who observed of vt>al pie that he \wouM not say v*al pie waa made of-dogs, but he would say ttiat where that veal pie .came from tbere ain't no more dogs.'' I have .been told that nothing goes W waste ic the average pack- ihgj bouses \and -places where sau Peter J. Gardner, aged 77 years, ! was round dead io his barn Sunday I morning In Hudson. He was bcfm . in the town of Greenport and resided tbere until after be married, which | was when he was 21 years old. He I tb«u removed to the to»yn I Claverack and continued to reside there for a quarter of a century,. I following the occupation of a farmer, I In which be was very successful, owning at the time of bis retirement the petition is Jlled and an npped f roc n agiiculture one of the beat Supreme Court. After two years, but not before, a petition favoring the sale of liquor , may be filed in the same district. Canine Mourners. Our Lebanon Springs correspon dent writes: \An unusual mani festation of canine friendship waa witnessed a short time since and farms in the town of Claverack. Mr. Gardner Is survived bv hia wife and one daughter, Mrs. Everts Ten Broeck. Body Identified. j4^ewBr>' . JEk ^^at)tj|^41 ^^^i ^Qf |u ^reiitjf M ^o^^'^^Sig^^.^fKii into lrta grave three feetdeep, near 'tjie [ot her ^btf^Archie Mta. John Clapp, of PitttflelaVp HISB ., went to Albany Sundayarndi^ identified the body of the bnfc«mkii;|^ who wa« found injured and Jiptenfgj. along, the B. & A. tracksTveajt^bt|g5 occasioned by the IOSB of a pet dog, | PittaQeld and taken to ^AlbVny^,^ belonging to parties in ibia vinageJ-wheTre\* he died- Satordar^ft^^i buried ^wltb hononf'itue Homeopathic *•—»^-^->^- which .was lrta ff „ ^e,^n]o^,, ? ^eli M^ha, whj ^yMjag. The same evening ^dogaj 'yeara. -Meactwaa a married rnanl^
