JOHN BELL A BULLY. EVEN POOR CHINA DEFEATED ENG- LAND NO LATER THAN 1859. Rear Admiral Belknap Pricks the Bom- bastic Bubble of Britain’s Greatness and Points Some Wholesome Lessons for Americans to Ponder. “Cor-dially disliked” by Japan, not be- loved by China, "without a friend” in Europe, distrusted throughout the vast - domain of Russia, holding India and Egypt by the sword, carving up Africa, making enemies every day by her cur- rent procedures in Venezuela and Nica— ragua, while one of her ablest writers, Admiral Colomb, mrblushingly asserts that “the British Empire, being the greatest thing in the world, is in a posi- tion to bid defiance to the rest of the world,” what friend among the nations has she? Not the United States, surely, for, independently of many other causes that from Mayflower days to this have made her to be regarded as the heredi- tary enemy of all on this soil, it is not so long ago that Lord Salisbury is alleged to have said, with curt frankness. that- “the United States being England‘s greatest commercial rival. there can be no real friendship between them," an enunciation that the great bulk of the people of the United States will accept with cheerful resignation. and especially those descended from the old colonial stock of Puritan ancestry. The average Englishman is prone to think that the British flag is invincible; that it has never suffered defeat. On such line of belief is doubtless based the opinion quoted to the effect that “in the event of trouble between the two powers," England and Japan, “the meteor flagr of England. carried by English naval vessels and English regi- ment-s. would speedily ‘burn.’ as Thomas Campbell has it, over the sunken navies and scattered armies of Japan.“ Yet we have but to overhaul the log of memory 01‘ our brief day to find that not even the non,goidierly Chinese, who have been so thoroughly beaten in every encounter with the Japanese, on land and. sea, dun ing the recent war. inflicted upon "the meteor flag of England" one of the worst defeats it- ever sustained. And this on the Pei-ho river on a summer's day in 1:359, when the Taku forts beat off. with great slaughter, the British naval force under the command of Admiral Hope. Four of the admiral's gunboats were sunk, forty 3er cent. of his officers and men were killed or wounded. and the gallant old admiral himself was nearly shot to pieces by the vigorous .Irc of the enemy. One-half the pluck and skill displayed by the Chinese on that occasion would have held the J apanese at bay for long and decimating s.» as at Port Arthur and Wei-Hai—VVei. portray s have baffled the arms of Japrn for as long a period ‘as the genius of T odleben kept the Eu- glish and French out of Sebastopol in 1855. _ But the average Britishcr is singularly oblivious to events that occur beyond the confines of his "tight little island.” and it- is second nature for him to boast and bluster and to regard himself as the Lord's appointed regulator of the world’s alfairs and to look upon his country as the natural and invincible master and dictator of modern civilization; but I apprehend that Admiral Freemantle. the commander-in~chief of the British fleet in Oriental waters during the recent hostilities, and his able and alert cap- tains. who have watched with dogged pertinacity and practiced eye every movement of the belligerent; in the Yellow Sea, know full well that, in the event of war between Great Britain and Japan. they vould have to put their best foot 1' )rward to overcome. in any degree, the victory crowned. seamen a: d soldiers who have so humbled the pride of the Chinese. :nl enable them to flaunt or “burn" in triumph the “mete:r flag over the sunken navies and the mattered armies of Japan." They doubtless grasp the fact, too. hat an attempted born- bardment of Tokio by a British fleet would be no Alexandr-'9. affair. and that Gen. Lord Wolseley would furl no easy victory, as at Tel-el-Kebir. in an encoun- ter with the battle seasoned armies of the Mikado. Official England. indeed, is by no means anxious to make the boasted “meteor flag terrific burn" at this junc- ture in a test of arm-i in that direction, nor, I venture to s could a dastardly attack like that made on the Danish fleet at Copenhagen. in lfi'ill. be successfully indulge-.1 in at this day as regards the gallant fiect that won the right at Yalu. On the contrary, the cable and wire apprise us that England has suddenly seen a new light in the East. and though she may not rejoice in the s lll’lt and full- ness of the wise _men who followed the star of Bethlehem in the days of Herod, the king. She has the canny pounds- shillings-and-pence sense to respect its refulgent light and to hasten to get a share of its reflected gloams. Aye, her greed may be counted on for that! The United States are and ever have been a better friend of Japan than C reat Britain, not only in apolitical but a com- mercial sense. The cuszoms returns of Japan showthat. as a customer of the empire. the United States. as contrasted with Great Britain, take the products of Japan in the ratio of four silver yen to one. Per contra, Japan buys of Great Britain, as compared with what she buys of the United States, goods of the value of just the reverse ratio. That is to say, the bulk of the money Japan receives from the United States for her products of soil and loom, she, in turn, spends in . buying from Great Britain. Now, the trade of which country is of more value to the farmer, the artisan, the merchant. the treasury of Japan? There can be but one answer. Nor-is there a more im- portant problem confronting our states- men of to-day than the solution of the best means of wresting from Great Britain a. part of her exporting trade with the valiant Island Queen of the Orient. Would that statesmen of the stanch Americanism of Ambassador Eustis might take “up the problem and master it! . GEO. L. Bum-nun. “-‘ a w HE ii. 1.. Y-NOR WALK -GALE1‘I‘E. TEACHING JENNY TO PLAY. Parlerewski \Vrltes of the Faults of Par- ents and of Teachers. It may seem strange, but when it hap- pens that a teacher of pianoforte playing does understand that profession thor- oughly and is most anxious to faithfully and conscientiously discharge his entire duty to his pupils, his patrons, as I have been told by many teachers. entertain such peculiar ideas of the divine art of music in general and of the manner in which pianoforte playing should be im- parted to young ladies in particular, that they present powerful obstac-les to his doing so. The majority of parents who employ music—or, more properly speaking, pianoforte~tcachers for their daughters, are entirely ignorant of music themselves. The mother, perhaps, ma y have played the piano 3 little in her girlhood, but she has given it up years ago, as most ladies do after marriage, and she has entirely forgotten what little she ever knew. The father in most cases has no percep- tion of music, and only consents to the employment of a teacher of the piano- forte for his female oifspring because he knows that it is the correct thing for girls to “play," and that it is customary for them to take “music lessons,” and because his wife tellsrhim that if Jennie doesn’t “take” she will never be able to hold her own in “society" against. their neighbors” daughters. Prof. t'xciiwigze- beer is engaged and Jennie takes her first quarter, N 0w, it may chance that the professor is a scholarly and conscientious instruc- tor, young in his profession, and he is resolved to teach his pupils correctly, and to make them skillful players and thorough musicians if possible. He keeps Jennie hammering away at scales and exercises all through the first three months. She is a bright girl and has splendid musical ability. and Schwi’g- zebeer congratulates himself on having a pupil who will one day be a really fine pianist. But J ennie’s momma is by no means satisfied. "I begin to think that Schwig- zebeer is no teacher at all," she exclaims to her husband. “Our Jennie has been taking of him for a whole quarter and she can’t play a tune yet, while there’s Sallie Smith, next door, has only taken six lessons from Prof. Pretalo and she can play the ‘Racket Galop' just too lovely for anything.” "Very well," said pater i'uinilias, “I shall have to speak to Schwigzebccr about it.” And, sure enough, when poor Schwig- zebeer come: the next day he is given to understand that unless Miss Jennie is forthwith taught to play “a piece” he will be minus a pupil. Poor fellow! \Vhat is he to do? He has so few scholars that he cannot possibly all'ord to lose one. No; love of his art, conscience, duty to his pupils best interests. all must be sacrificed to bread and butter. The next time he comes he brings with him a simplified copy of the “Racket Galop,” 5.11;, having nurrkod with a lead pencil the lingering of all the notes, he stands over Jennie while she tries to “drum it out," teaching it to her just as a parrot is taught to say "Pretty Polly.” ' The result is that Jennie‘s musical talent is never cultivated. her ambition is destroyed. she begins to pick out tunes by and probably never touches the piano half a dozen times in her life after she gives up taking les— sons. In teaching the pianoforte great care should be taken never to tire the pupil. Especially does this. apply to very young scholars. In teaching a very young child, for example, it should be your constant aim to make his lessons pleas- ant and attractive to him, and never let them scorn like an irksorne task. If you can make them seem like play, all the better. I once heard of an excellent and thor- n, n in _‘ terested them deeply in the most intricate scales by telling them stories about her different fingers as they traversed the keyboard. For instance she would say: “Now, the fingers of my right hand and of my left are members of contending armies. One has put the other to rout and is chasing it. eager to secure prison- ers and spoil. The forefinger of each hand is the leader of the army, so he will run ahead and lead all the others. Look out, now, 0E they go!" and away would dash the nimble lingers up and down the keyboard, while the little pupil, with her interest aroused to the utmost, and no longer regarding her pianoforte lessons as an irksome task, looks on enthusias- tically, eager to see whether the right or the left h... . l army will win in the con- test, and (t. Fermines to practice unceas- ingly till -.~ ., .n play such a “splendid game all l ..o:'.—.'elf.” PADEREWSKL A Good G 11053. The gripzuan of a Third av nue car and , l r l the driver of a big two horse truck be- . came involved over the delicate question ' of social precedence, and travel on the ,. avenue was temporarily suspended. The driver descended from his lofty perch, and the gripman, who wouldn’t take a dare from any one, jumped over the rail of the front platform and enthu~ siastically sailed into him. A Bowery crowd rapidly collected and cheerfully urged the combatants on with pointed and impartial advice. W'hile theexcitement was at its height, and the two men were rolling about in the mud and slush, pummeling away at each other for dear life, gallant Officer O’Reilly arrived on the scene of action. He pushed his way through the crowd until he obtained an uninterrupted view of the arena and the desperate strug- gles of the two infuriated men. After a prolonged and silent inspection , he turned to a bystander. “Phwat is it?" he observed, with Ian- guid interest. “Is it a scrap?”—-Puck. Intimidation. ‘ Mrs. Figg—Why do you let me' call you three times before you answer? Tommy—’Cause I dassent make you stop—Indianapolis Journal: , made them oughly capable lady teacher who had ; some very juvenile pupils, and who in- ‘ “- TURNED T0 STONE. ' An Insight to the Mighty Operations of Nature “’lrich Produced It. ' The Yellowstone National Park is called the Wonderland of America, and since the destruction of the New Zea- land geyser area, it is, perhaps, entitled to be called the wonderland of the world, for within its limits the most va- ried of nature’s workings may be ob- served. Its hundreds of hot springs and geysers, its precipitous canons and rush- ing cataracts, its snow capped mountain peaks and mirrored lakes, making it of. surpassing interest. The lover of natu- ral scenery may linger long over its beauties and its wonders. , From the geological point of view it is also of great interest, for here may be found rocks that range in age from the most ancient of which we have any knowledge to those in process of forma- tion at the present moment. The super- heated waters .of the hot springs and geysers hold a large amount of rock making material in solution, which is deposited about the openings of' the springs on the cooling of the waters, and in this way building up a mass of great magnitude. These springs and geysers are con. stantly breaking out in new places, often on the borders or in the forests of living trees. The trees are killed at once by the hot water, and on becoming withered and dry, begin soon to take up FORESTS the rock making solution by which they . are bathed, and thus to pass into the fossil state. Conditions similar to these, or at least favorable, to the preservation of fossil forests, appear to have existed from a remote time, for there is evidence to show that the fossil forests were pre- servedbefore the most active of the hot spring phenomena were inaugurated. These fossil forests are located in the northeastern corner of the Yellowstone National Park, at a place known locally as Amethyst Mountain or Fossil Forest Ridge. This is really a mountain some ten miles long and rising nearly or quite 2,- 000 feet above the level of the valley. If I it were possible to out a section down ' through this mountain, as a slice is cut from a loaf of broad, there would be found a succession of at least fifteen fos- sil forests one above another. That is to say at some remote (lay, geologically speaking, there grew 3. great forest which was covered up by the ejected ma- terial from a great volcano, rivaling in size Mount Etna, that is known to have existed some miles to the north. The trees were entombed in an upright po- sition, and under the action of silica charged waters were fossilized. The action of the volcano ceased and quiet was restored for a sufficient length of time for a second forest to be developed above the first. Then came a second outburst from the volcano. and this for- est was buried and fossilized like the first, and so in turn have the dozen or more forests flourished and been en- gulfed. __ ._._ MRS. CLEVELAND’S GOODNESS. Her Acts of Consideration to Old Friends and Schoolmates. Mrs. Cleveland is very kind to all her old classmates at “Tells College, but she is more than kind to those of the num- ber who are obliged to support them- selves. At the Pure Food Exposition in Washington last fall a classmate gave lessons in cooking. She was a guest during the ten days of the exposition at Woodley. the President’s country place. " “The President’s carriage," writes the Washington correspondent of the Chi- cago Record, “brought her to her duties every morning and carried her out again after the close of the exhibition at 11 o’clock p. m. “llrs. Cleveland was 2 regular atte - dant on the classes, which, of course, fashionable. The cooking room was decorated with flowers from the White House conservatory every morning, and nothing was left undone by the President‘s wife to promote the success of her classmate." Miss Cat rerlne Willard, the niece of the apostle of temperance, Miss Frances Willard. was a roommate of Idrs. Cleve- land at Wells College. She has a re- markable contralto voice and supports herself by singing. While she was vis- iting Mrs. Cleveland circulars were sent from the White House to the society people announcing that ‘ Miss V’Villard would give three concerts at the resi- dence of Secretary Lamont under the pa- tronage of the President‘s wife, to which season tickets of admission would be furnished applicants upon the re- ceipt of $10. For several days after the sending out of the circulars carriages filled with fashionable women rolled up to the en- trance of the President’s house. A large audienCe greeted Miss lVillard at her concerts. _________ Sublime Self-Sacrifice. “You look pale,” said the sharp nosed irl. “I feel pale,” sighed the flufiy girl. “But I am happy, anyway. You know that stingy little Chollie Tapetie? Well, he did open his heart enough to take me to the food show, and, of course, I sampled the samples. \Vhat are sam- ples for? And after I had eaten this and drunk that and the other till I just couldn’t stand any more we started home. Then he thought he saw his‘ chance. So he asked me to have some ice-cream.” “And did you accept?" asked the sharp nosed girl. “Accept? I ate three plates. cake. And' lemonade. With Discriminating Wisdom. A correspondent thinks he has discov- ered a discrepancy in the Bible because one verse says, “Answer a fool accord- ing to his folly lest he be wise in his own . conceit,” while another verse says, “An- swer not a fool according to his folly lest thou also be like unto him.” Solomon probably had in view the fact that there are two kinds of fools, each kind requir- ing different treatment—Albany Times- Union . . 1;: 1d Jib” I g \ . \ ; ‘._ . . f. Made only by all _ v laws .’ :. , . CHICAGO, and - MY .‘w . . “i“ ;gwnpmmamwmx nonrandom-.13.: Militant You Will a . never need another dose of Dyspepsia Medicine after a meal, if your food is cooked with Cottolene, the new vegetable shortening, instead of lard. 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