Evening Star Newspaper, October 11, 1890, Page 8

*: ee tee THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON. ‘D.C., SATURDAY. ‘OCTOBER amtaectna ie cro dest ty sit an ath IN A PERUVIAN TOWN. WITH A GREAT -ACTOR. Interesting - Reminiscences of Edwin Forrest. 11, 1890-SIXTEEN PAGES, about it, These seem- ly humble people can keep a secret with the list entrance were om hand. Mr. John C. Rives, Dr. Thos. Miller, Col. Chas, Lee Jones and your correspondent, with some few others, has been pretending to cut it with a short THE BOWSER HOUSEHOLD, scythe that looks like an exaggerated table gagement with Mr. M. B. Brady to be photo- utmost fidelity, being absolutely indifferent to | knife. working perhaps five minutes at a ti: One Day’s Events as Recorded Mra. ee nennaes teomiaeh Sees | ads py tee aI SS sale Tatra bribes or any other inducement At the pres- | and then requiring baif an bour's rest’ Dragon | Bowes. sed [apap 2 eee Mik Mee brane | play Hamle The play was postponed, to our _ ent time it is said that they know the location of | flies are buzzing about and birds in the barley about him he sald during "ie whole. time he | tense disgust, for the night was very stormy rich deposits in various parte of the country, | field are singing short half notes, as if they too A Visit to Puno, Far Above the Level of the Sea. and we had no other like the From Detroit Free Press. place to go. We/were Mr. Bowser came home the other day and te Sam Chilton, who so many of us remember affectionately. Attending court in was engaged with Mr. Forrest, twice a week but will give no information concerning them. for three months, there was never an unpleas- th and, poor as they are, will not work the veins a small were subject to the prevailing sirroch: distance Lake Titicaca, with eclbris . themselves, fearing to share the melancholy | amount of shipping and sacred island and | ¥*%ted the hammer for something. He found oe pr lee —= Soke one of our adjoining counties, a strolling faro fate of poor Don Salcedo. ruined temples. To us the most sacred island | it in the kitchen, where the girl had been using up. was undergone with infinite patience, | banker opened bis ee THE MARRETS. vege eae rocky “amiuenes nearest to the | tase poker for the range. ‘Mr. Bowser gave s Mr, Brady's judge | Oe ane wae dealine (ooking on, seeing that the) AMONG A STRANGE PEOPLE. | Cold as it is the markets of Puno are held in | *2°T®, Surroun F the Dbiueat of blue water, | expression to his outraged feelings. The girl HE WAS MISREPRESENTED. |*"4 deference to} : dealer was dealing from the bottom and other- on whose top poor Orton and his companions seventy negatines dade af tic, impatal were | wise invading the rules, said to Sam: “Why : tho open air, the Quichuas occupying one | await the resurrection morning, Paniont | Feplied with @ good deal of spirit, and after "t you stop playing here? Don't you see he finished in highest style of art. for which he | 40't yo y Don't paid Mr. Brady 2,000. He designed them for | #8 dealing from the bottom?” “Yes, I know friends amd for the home he had so ardently | it,” said Sam. resenting the interruption. “but desired to make attractive to those tor whom | ¥2at canIdo? There's no other piace ope! he had endowed it, but that it is not 80 Tam | That was our case,and we held a council of war plaza for the sale of their goods, the Aymaras another, The sales are cacenay”f conducted by ho sitonthe ground in rows, each small stock of chunos (frozen pota- Supper she got her wages and walked off. Had I been the cause of her going Mr. Bowser would have read me a lesson forty rods long. Ashe ‘Was the cause it wasall right. He'd like to see rene 3 Faxxiz B. Warp. LONGFELLOW’S POEMS REVISED. dg Version Which Will Not Bring a Blush Insight Inte His Hidden Life—His Re- spect for rything Sacred—Charity and Generous Praise— Despondentand “High Living” in the Line of Altitude Onty—How Effects of the Dry Air—The Loftiest . . J | sand the hired girl who could ran his house while a and decided to invite the company to George | Cathedral in the World. led up in little heaps on a bia to the Cheek of Innocence. om 4 7 With the ‘sector ie tucsae Gabel of Boston Kensett's. where the Johnson House now is, P @ fixe rice, which never he lived—dida't Propose to take “sass” from a —_— oo Peete esreee Written for Tas EVENINe Stan Y ATTENTION has been called to an article in a Sunday journal on Edwiu Forrest, in which he is made to ap- pear as a very irreverent man, and the SF remark attributed to him by the ‘writer no doubt shocked many of those who Fead it. I desire to protest against the attitude ali of the spirit of Forr cution of his designs. for many years, PRAISE FOR OTHERS, There is probably no more frequently re- peated charge made against Forrest than that he was jealous of the membors of the profession he admired and to which he was so devoted. Ihave heard him speak in glowing terms of Booth the elder, Vanderhoff, the father jt went out of the exe- They had been friends to sup with us deadheads, and we had a very pleasant evening of it. JOE JEFFERSON'S GRANDFATHER. Great heavens, that’s fifty years ago! But being im for it as an antediluvian, I admit having seen old Mr. Jéfferson, Joe Jefferson's grandfather, atthe American Theater. The play Iremember perfectiy, though oniy about eleven years. old, was “The with David Ingersoll, a really gr in the From THE Stan's Traveling Commissioner. Poxo, Perv, September 7, ERU'S Tumost town of Puno is not \n attractive piace, lying, as it doos, ‘more than 12,500 feet above the level of the sea, with no vegetation in its vicin- ity, a line of barren mountains om one side and storm-swept Lake Titicaca om the varies, whatever the fluctuation of the market For example, a heap of dried peas which you might hold in two hands costs 10cents. If the market falis the heap is enlarged and you get atew more; if it rises you get a smaller heap; but 10 cents you must pay every time. Neither have these women the remotest idea of selling their stock in the lump or at wholesale. Should you ask one of the women what she will take for ali the eas on hand she cannot tell uutil all the bas etful has been From the New York Tribune. It is rumored in the literary circles of Boston that a revised version of the pootical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfeliow will shortly be pisses, on the market. His publishers have learned with emotion that one of his most fa- | miliar poems, ‘The Building of the Ship.” has proved a cause of offense; that it has been in- dicted as calculated to start a Blush on the cheek of Innocence. Now, the members of the anybody—wished he had discharged her out- right, &e. All ti happened on M 3 is our wash day. T didn't think of it until after the iri had gone. Then I said to Mr. Bowser “You'll have to hunt around in the and get me a washwoman. It would have bees better to let the gir! stay a day tonger.” : 3 j : Hantil all firm 6f Houghton, MiMin & Com; ¢ | “Til fad a woman or do it myself.” St places Mr. Forrest in before the world. | «nd son, and others, and on one ‘oceasion he | title role, Mr. Jefferson as /¥/-r an Mra, Chap- | other. Yot there is a fascination about it which See waa: piles and theie value com | Cot) cubs Seen ck woly men’ so naturally | After breakfast he took a walk through the knew him well, and saw a good dewl of him in ‘tn of Charles ie Triplett “Peg = Legs = oe se v said, “the most] inclines the traveler to linger, however un- puted per pile. they are anxious to do the square thing by — where washwom abound, but his offington” as one of the best pieces of acting | talented member of the Jefferson family,”) a8 Lge PATIENT MARKET WOMEN. quest was a vain one. # the last few yoars of his professional life, and | on the American stage. Mr. James W. Collier, | Mrs. Zia! er. ? SJ comfortable ho may be, end impresses every a. ote come task to Ge after his retirement, some years ago, had who was in his company for several years and Herr Cline, botween the first detail of the surroundings indelibly upon his One day in Puno I was much interested in The delice: revised ve hi house about 9 o'clock and said: y i a “Mrs, Bowser, I have decided to do the wash- the pleasure of spending some time under his | had known him for yours, tol me ho had heard | farce, in which Mr. Jeffer-on b memory, though many more beautiful of the saiperroahaaaen Fag Rategred ia es here and judging from the advance shects he has | iM myself, roof on Broad street, Philadelphia, and in | Mr. Forrest say: “I would walk ton miles in | formed on the tight rope aud walked a rope | constantly shifting scenes of his long journey | Yomen, 0 a lark on the performed his delicate task in a highly credit. | “Y0U wash?” 3 poviogen thiag of | * ROW storm to see Macready in Werner,” seretehed from tho sao to the gallery, I sub- | are forgotten. I: is essentially an Indian town, | frosty ground of a big, bare plaza, their Hamas | Performed his delicate task the space to give |, “Iwill. I'll do it asa matter of principle. aii my intercourse with him nothing is letter I came across the other will | sequently saw Mr. Jefferson as Mi faily nine-tenths of its lation (about 5,000 | tethered behind them, waiting for possible cus- | Tore than a few of hie felicitous alterations of | I don't propose to have this house fmm me: him remains so indelibly fixed upon my mom} intocest our older citizens and disprove the | in “The Robbers Wie” and Aipperien in" rd is Popuiation (about 5,000 | tomers, but with nothing in the world to sell ory as the reverence he ever displayed toward allthings sacred. He was not a religious man, im the general acceptation of the word, but his intercourse with the Sisters of Charity. who pur- @hased his Fonthill property, that is now Mount Saint Vincent, and the liberality he displayed im that transaction toward the institution, en- eared him to them. His portrait hangs con- harge of jealousy: “My DEAax BRoTHER: T contemplate @ highly dramatic treat for the Philadelphians if you can make an arrangement with Heoth to perform with St about ‘his. 1 thi . the drama {would | ance as 4 rocompe: Sprigs of Laurel."" NOODLES GOr If He Had Been Earlicr He Would Have Avoided a Most Annoying Coniretemps. Joun F. Corie. HOME LATE, O YOU KNOW, said ail told) being Aymaras and Quichuas, The former tribo is most. numerous, but both are well-to- after a comfortless fashion of their rally owning their own houses and nough to eat, such ag it is, At any rate there are no beggars in Puno, though many Peruvian cities that are apparently richer are swarming with tiem, except some small bunches of barloy. Yourig women and old were dressed exactly alike, in short dresses of dark blue flannel, spun, woven and dyed by thomselves; the very full skirts shirred down over the hips, the short jackets of the same material mecting at the bosom, but showing the white chemise beneath the large slecves gathered slightly at the wrists aud hanging loosely in wsthotic style and large Lats the original text, but our selections, we are sre, will convince the intelligent reader that the revision will supply whatever popular want exists for it. 1. The Building of the Ship. This poem as at stands calls the sea the bridegroom of the It also deals with another couple com- posed of sentient beings, to wit, a young man who is evidently engaged to the ship builder's cause one hired girl gets her bael its,” up and qv ce washing go and I'll find a woman i “Not by a jug-fall! That washing will all be on the line before noon” rub the skin and make a off it muss of it.” “Mr. Bowser, you can't wash; you will your knuckles, lame your back, Sood! daughter, and that young lady. In the revision | “I Will, eh? That's all you know about it! fe a We could at least average Noodles, in the hearing iis of the same blue flannel, elaborately trim- se Now, then, I don’t want you to come ees paces whens et gk has pot Nene ta hich would Ieave a handsome profit to of a representative of Lovey med with red woolen “rick-rack” braid. Ail | ‘te Sea is spoken of as the grandfather of the y the day or two to the late saintly Mother Jerome and her sisterhood. I met him on one eccasion when he had just returned froma Visit to Mt. Saint Vincent's, and ame time be fighting the goo ti . Ldesire you would Tur Stan at the Platypus Club, “I had the most zether demnable ex- Though solittle can be raised here—wheat not at all, corn never ripening, and bitter potatoes growing no bigger than the end of your thumb— were barefooted. but looked perfectly comfort- able, and, though they did not taik much and seldom smiled, seemed happy and contented. Hour after hour they patiently squatted there, ship, while the young lad in the vessel on its initial v ary to the Fiji Isiands— being the elder sister, a good deal freckled “who is going out age as a mission- represented as around. Don't you show your ‘heed ‘ie ane basement until the last rag is on the line.” Mr. Bowser a vest, change: ~ at lake ii = , y appeared down stairs at once started a fire. himeolf im euch terms of reverence that tt is | perience last evening that fusnishiwg plenty of sh anda | BOsly epianing wool of brightort hues, using | py,TerY, Sood of the Soung man, The ship | FRbvorcd, down wairs and at onoe started ere. impossible he could have used the language Thave met with since 1 d with wild fowl of many species, | 220d spindles, which they twirled rapidly be- | 11, oon = seta be, “we will buiMd this chip, Tas at the barn for wood { ran dows and ree- attributed tohim. We all knew his devotion puta n friend of und in the neighboring yg sc Sie ti ox walkeal teins Lay square the blocks upon th cued most of the fine clothes. He didn't notice to Shakespeare, his daily companion for years. | °v"/ ave been doing very, well, cousiderin mino to bed in tho tourta story ot Fret nna A EHOM | eat™bks ning they eouldicetapesine seer ce | ooterar main cake poedrmatgy ell wg tolling, aad tee Dut he could never have given to this earthiy | weather and tae cou Ss wre om fiw. ireesainnes es cep are raised in the viein at the | t y Mine, Ses Here toxether shall ¢ : J 4 @bject the devotion due to our Divine Lord. | this afternoon for gnts.and| the wrong ho You remember the | jy diaus eat mutton only aiter thas been frozen | E°Rlish ot Spanish, and your scribe is not And the day that vives ler to the sea water was no sooner hot than he filled the He was never an irreverent man. ‘The nearest | return here to produc for which | Champagne and oyster supper Puppsby gave | and dricd, Peas, beans, peppers and other | Yersed in Quichua, so conversation languished. | Your six boiler helterskelter. I heard him at it and approach to it Irecall was when he cams to say | tere isa great exritemont; from here to-Annay- |x last night, of course: you wore there, | staples of Peruvian life are dil teonghtp tong Pein preg rl Pre em eee ope = peared the young mi started down stairs to tell him that clothes by and to thank the Intelligencer for a 8e- | ee ase en eat encit be Sith tor ence | Boodles, and you too, Smiley. Well, I was | the coast, as they cannot be cultivated ee this | f are about alike the wide must be rubbed first, Fiesof my able criticisms. which were written on hope the above arrangements may ve fairly con- feeling just comfortab: hilarious when the chilly altitude, “They cannot even be cooked world over, whatever may be the envirouments. And ranning home hi = rere Hi hs : 4 “Go right back!” he yelled as I struck the " ; cometh CE Seudee alsa Slisn wall as ave | Every one of those unsmiling. strong-feature he rst stair. edged their justice and thanked Judge an (God forgive me) is in} Self on my way home with singing a little Such ng as an ogg rq | ostty aud interest in the (to them) peculiar cut weer; you shouldn't—” Barnett for ‘them. When he was leav- | —bad odor here—may he long continue $0. roundelay composed from recent burlesque cannot possibly be had here. Flour | Of my garments as had Selppesvcdeepr “I know my business, and you go back! If I ing 1 asked where he would spond ie | eee cor of the em orrea tbowertal | operas. It was not until I reached the door- | lias falien n good deul in price since the rail. | @iring attention of each was instantly attrac don’t know more about washing in one minute fecreation, as the theatrical season was ever. He said he had made no plans and I suggested his going abroad, he was so fond ofart. “On, no,I hate the sea, No one ever went to sea willingly. The only time our Di- made the sinall fry Jackson, is well. Tb: the other day. He ond term. You have heard of the re} aren, * 7° letter torn)—will be next Vice President Tell me step of my boarding house that my pleasant feeling was uncomfortably checked by a sad- den recognition of the tact that I had not my latch key with me; had left it in my other way now brings it over the mountaius. but, it is still much too dear to be used by the lower classes, CLIMATE AND HOUSES, Though the nights are always cold, the toa bracelet of Mexican coins on my wrist. One offered me all the wool she had spun in exchange for it; another wanted to swap her brand-new hat, a third her poncho, and others pointed to their Hamas as possible mediums of The ocean old, Centuries oid, With bis snow-white hair and trembling Feels like the grandfather of the ship: So as fondly toward him it leans aud lurches He moves away And :s heard to say than you do in a week I'll eat these sheets and table cloth: He boiled the clothes about balf an hour, and then came up and rum! around the pantry. Isuppose he had read of some sub- i y - aaa astaes a = - exchange. stance t 1 bbing. vine Lord went to: ‘sea, He gotoutand walked, renthlgaten rng mega and what | waistcoat when I changed my clothes and put | thermometer descending from fifteen totwonty | But nobeay came to buy their poor little mast but he rd rl wohnge degre troy Ho there. as = ‘in met ie the familiar and | 221 sisters and a great deal of civility to my | ou cvening dress. The sitnation was uncom- | degrecs after sunset, and Sometimes, even at | bunches of barley, and still they spun on con- Phould rise and reimark as mad as s hoy fore took a half-pound can of baking powder feapropey manner socommon, alas! SS last night 1) fortable. consivering the time of the height of the season they miscall “sum. | teutedly. At length, as twilight was deepen | Tat 9s" relations tales calis | 21 sifted it in to the last pinch. I heard him Pesasection with that expression by Mr. | DAZSd,\he monk scene in, ~Vonice Preserved” | nico tuo fact that 1 ad ‘ot: mopey 4 mer,” touching th freezing point, there is not | 18, an old mam strolled over and purchased | ,,2 very little revision, Ooi Cen ot em calls | upstairs, and half suspecting what he was Forrest recurs to me an incident showing an Epwix. | ™Y po Ay for room aca hotel. It is}a house in tho town which contains any ar- | the entire stock on the plaza, for which he paid eiteanecen a equal love for Shakespeare by Judge Barnett, one of the best Shakespearean scholars I ever “Yours, “Washington City, 8th Feb., 1832, TREY DID NOT APPEAR TOGETHER. a mistort the average young ge hington is ei ntle. rangement for making a fire, beyond the adobe ranges for cooking pu:poses, A South Ameri- Precisely fifty-seven cents, I saw the money counted out and divided, and then five women is to be altered, slightly altered. This is the one: after, ran to “Mr. Bowser!’ head him off. but too I called from the late. head of the d basement stairs, “are you putting that eal-soda sted by the editor of a lead- can range is merely a mound or shelf of sun- | hoisted the bundles on their heads and bore into the boiler? aap beh amsenerl to interview the judge | The desire of Mr. Forrest to play the first | wear good cioti.es wit dried mud, extending across one side of a | them away to the corral of the purchaser. : frowied in | reply. on the question of Bacon vs. Shakespeare. | engagement with Mr. Booth was uot realized, | spare dollar in iis pa kitchen, with small places hollowed out at SLOW WORKMEN. usiness When it was under discussion and I asked him as on the night named Mr. Booth appeared as fter duly con ering the predicament I “When I don't know my I will apply tervals, in which the Pano housewife burns | A group of Indians in front of the house were tered ber little breast, for information’ aaah . “ de up my mind to round by the back |} di hi ii i : A irde within their nest Mr. Bowser knew that bluing was and fegive me his views on that quostion he said. | Jago for the benefit of Mr. Wilson, who played | M&de Up my n R re toln’ OF the twigs of « mountain shrub | repairing a bit of broken pavement, and though ~ tas ‘ae mon pub omotmordiy “Ho; 1 will’ not discuss the ques- | 4°q°", engaged at the Chestaat | WaYs chim’ up by the gi to the third att repairing roken p: , ong’ ue hawk frighted? ° tion even. I would as soon undertake to de- Street Theater. Me, Forrest played an enga: story—no dient ber of he houses, with their enormously thick the workmen numbered half a dozen and the By In the revised parcel of the laundry business. He b lace to b ded eas a version this will read: seen a tub of blue water. At what stage of the fend the authorship of ‘The Sermon on the | ,.. th an athletic eind hie uyself—and make m and few windows, have an inner atmog- | Pace to be mended was scarcely -two yards TL wooed the blue-eyed maid, game this biue business came in he didn't Mount” ‘How Forrest was misunderstood and | ment st the udow, Which L kx damp and cold as that of a vault in the | S2usre it took all day to do it. First they eat Bat the was sore afraid, know ‘and he was too obstinate to inquire. misrepresented! I do not doubt he felt it | $22 en, the room to whi ery. When the sun shines the people | 4@¥2 0m the ground and hollowed out the He took the clothes direct from the boiler and keenly. but would not seek to change the opin- the equal of ays wisely stay out of doors; then, in order to keep he space with short-handled wooden shoveis which Tloowed up lauky. ©, it was «weet to see sozzied them into a tab of cold water. and, not 3 3 ieee : looked much like butter ladles, collecting the Us two beneath a t knowing how much of the biue to ion of those who were guilty of these misrepre- The Gamester’ b with no very great | warm, they go to bed v early and arise lato | !° a otis actin owing how much of the blue to use, sentations and misconstructions, He had spells | oid american Theater with Jone ie. Scott as . in the morning. Among the wealthier one-| dirt in their | blanket oe ee wor wscarasd baa cided to empty in the whole bottle and be on Of the deepest despondency, and then he was} Siukeiy and Miss Cooper (w 10 sitbscquently ty gre tenth of the commanity there are many pleas-| Stet. Sadie thelr eorere Bld wie of | .& Excelsior. it will be remembered that | tbe aafe ee en, Naas peey Ott are t almost unapproachable. married Robt. Tyler «nd presided at the White pling ¢ ant people, matuly the families of English and | cae oe a the hero of this poem while on his way to the | *Titing fluid when the water was stirred up, 4 SIGHT WITH FORREST. House during Mr. ‘yler's administration) German mercitants and American employes of | 8toues. Then they sat on the ground again . At this A night I spent with him, with the late Col. Forney,gave me an insight into his hidden life, which filled me with compassion and admira- tion, too. It was during one of his long en- gagements at Ni some days in on one of his “off nights.” He was full of ge ity aud we discussed every theme almo: ou all of them he was interesting. A poem by Aldrich had just appeared and he recited it played Mrs. Beverly, and soon after that I saw at the Bowery Theater, New York, with Hamlin as Beverly, Edward Eddy as Stukely and Mrs. Hamlin (Mra. Shaw) as Mrs, Beverty—all this par parenthesis. AMID POLITICS. The date of Mr. Forrest's letter from here, 1832, was near the close of Gen. Jackson's first term. Mr. Van Buren, in the reconstruction of the cabinet occasioned by the escapade with You can imagine iny di window fast locked. However, there was other to the left, and I was gratified to that I could readily push it up. Swinging iy self across the ‘wiadow ledge I was suddenly checked by a most appalling yell, and [aw a white figure leap up im the gioom of the apart- ment and rash away. With that presence of mind which is in myself a distinguishing trait I perceived the situstion ataglance. ‘The rear of the block in which my boarding louse is the railway and steamship lines, Most of their homes, however unprepossessing outside, are large and commodious, and contain unexpected luxuries, ce, Pianos are universal . though these instruments cost ten times as much here as in the United States, having to be imported from the other side of the world, and uatil recently having to be brought up from the seacoast on muleback. I have been astonished more than once onen- and carefully laid the stones in place, remov- ing them many times to make them ail fit snugly, and at last pounded each one down with another stone of the same size. They have no use here for hammers or mailets or wheelbarrows, AN ANTIQUE ARCH. One day, when acclimatization had somewhat abated the terrors of sirroche, I made a pil- grimage through the town to an antique uplands receives an invitation from a young lady: Ty he A tear stood in hi: But still be answ The revisor felt that this was not the sort of “Mr. int I calied to him: weer, how far along have you got?” “Don't you worry about me, Mrs. Bowser. T'li have the whole shooting match on the line in half an hour. He put the washboard into the blue tub and began to rub the clothes in the cold water. He might have hada faint suspicion that some- & proposition to be addressed toa young gen- tleman distinctively bent upon the higher life. He also was penetrated with the conviction that it was calculated to start a Blush on the thing had been left off the program. but he made up for it in energetic rubbing. He went wash! wash! wash! for about twenty min- b tering what appeared to be a poor hovel, des- ‘ cheek of Innocence. Hence when he gets| We) amd then there was en awful With marvelous tenderness and pathos. Mra. Eatou, had been sent to England and the | 1ocated prevents so unbroken a simiitude cach | titate of the commoncat comforts, with earth sccbions Billiton, which wistaned Commanded | ‘hough with the verse it will have this fore,” | 0PDing and splattering, aa if « dozen - Good night! I have to say good night to such a host | Senate, under the leadership of Mr. Clay, re- | B0USe to its neighbor that in moving one win- | floor, straw roof and wooden shutters in lieu of | DY. cages aps He was rinsing of peerless things; Good night into that snowy hand, all queenly with its weight of rings; Good night tw fond, delicious eyes! Good night to @hestmat braids of uair. fused to confirm hun aud he returned to ac- cept the vice presidency ou the ticket with Gen, Jackson, which was elected. Mr. Forrest was an ardent democrat and refused a nomina- dow to the left I had unwittin; k the dwelling next door to mine. Lhad frightened a young woman out of what would have been her boots, had she had them on, and she had glass windows, to tind inside both a piano and 4 sewing machine! EFFECTS OF THE DRY.AIR. crowded street of Puno leads thereto, up a sharp incline, lined on either side with adobe cottages, whose inmates docked to their doors in amazement. It takes a good deal to arouse “O stay,” remarked the maiden coy, “And rest thy weary head on the breast of s district nGet thee to Brvokl ied the lad, “Get thee to Brooklyn,” cried the Then I—"twas a way he had— were playing im the water. clothe: basket full of clothes to hang on the He wasn't over five minutes about it, and then he appeared in the back y: tha lime. At sight of him I had tositdown. The clothes were plum-blue and Mr. Bowser was plum- bluer. “The and only tattooed man” ‘Excelsior! The second line of the above is pretty long, but then so is Art. as Mr. Longfellow himself At this altitude the dry thin air is as hard on furniture as on human beiags, causing wood mi en me for a burglar. “TL called after her gent Iam nota robber,” but there was no response. Now, when a gen- Good night unto tha: perfect mouth, with all its sweetness nestled there. These snowy hands detain me; then I'll have to tion for Congress tendered him by Tammany Hall. In 1855 be delivered the Fourth of July ofation before the especial interest in these constitutionally sleepy people, but the rare spectacle of a woman wall. say good night again, But there will come a time, my love, when, if I read our stars arigat, I will not linger on this porch with my adieus; but ow good night! ‘You wish that time w: blush to wish it ‘You would have blushed yourself to death to own as much 4 year ago. These snowy hands detain me; then I'll have to say good night again. Aftera talk upon these and other poems of tenderness he recited one of Owen Meredith's, he said. but I have not found it in the volume of poems before me. “How many joys I owe theo?” the grass, And if wou'lt count unfailing the green blades as now? and I; you do not Come hither on we Or the leaves that stir and tremble in the sweet wind of the w @r Ge ripples in the river. or the sunbeams on its breast— FU count the joys I owe thee, my beautiful! my “How many thoughts | give thee?” Come sit where waves run higa, And count the heavy billows as they break on the shore aud die; Or the grains of sand they fondle when the waves are overblown; Or the pearls in the deep sea caverns; or the stars in the milky zone— Ani Iilcount the thoughts I give thee, my beauti- ful! my own! His voice was never more musical; its tones Minger in my memory yet; but soon the light which had so brightened us died out; he grew sed and gloomy and turned on us the somber Side of his character, with which the public was most familiar. The conversation took on the game hue. He talked oa the future, into which, Be said, he seldom pried, content to rest on th: nany Society. I saw in the Historical Society library a gold medal presented to Mr. Forrest by the citizens of New York at the couclusion of a long engage- ent. ‘These memo: have so crowded on me that the e diverted me from the purpose I in- tended—to defeud his memory from the gross libel which so shocked his is, whose re- mempbrance of him is fall of incidents showing his reverence for sacred subjects. ANOTHER DEFENDER, Tam sustained in my defense of him by one of his old friends with whom he spent much of his leisure during his engagements here. The Botanical Garden and Mr. Wm. R. Smith's library were his favorite haunts and in bis con- versations, Mr. Smith told nie, he cannot'recall an instance of irreverence, but on the contrary his memory retains many evidences of his deep recognition of the Divine Savior and his de- pendence on Him. He talked of Shakewn-are with the most earnest devotion and regarded him, as many others do, as an inspires writers an evangelist, bat the idea of placing him be- fore the Redeemer Mr. Smith, Mr. Brady and every friend here denounces as false und ut- terly at variance with his character. During a long engagement Mr. Forrest played here ip 1809 or )360 Mr. Wm. A. Rhind, who for years was Senate reporter for the Na- teonal Ielligencer, contemporary of Mr. King- man, Mr. Agg and Mr. Wheelor, was lying very il and expressed to me a desire to seo Mr, Forrest, whom he had known years before. I went with Mr. Forrest to sev his old friend and as we entered his chamber the old gentie- 8 loudly man, raising himself, almost shouted, as luis weakened voice would permit: cus, my bor, I am so glad to see you. ativetic meeting. They had bcen friends, as tleman realizes that an imprudent action on his owa pa “given rise toa misapprehen- sion there is only one thing for him to do. Therefore I decided at once to wait until some- body appeared aud offer an apolog nied by an explanation of the cx h hadled tothe unlucky utretemps, g° to sit upon the window jedge, with ngling over on the inside, 1 coolly rette and proceeded to muse. While I was ged in mu I heard a voice, spparentiy coming from the floor below, say- in; 2 ‘Did you get the gun?’ I¥ apprehension has always been keen, and it d:wned upon me with paintul suddenness that 1 was likely to be made a target for deadly weapons without having an opportumity to ex: | press the apologies Iwas so desirous of mak- My dear boys, I had climbed up that bor with expedition, but the celerity a I thereupon proceeded to descend e astonished au orang-outang. My e s not ill-calculated, since i had hardly ched the ground when two ioud reports of rms broke the stillness of the might. As I have subsequently learned, the two men of tho household no sooncr ‘hed the room which I had so undesignedly entered than they blazed away, om4 of them with aderringer and the other with a shotgun loaded with slugs, point blank at the moonlight that streamed in through the window where I had been sitting a moment before. “I fled to Willard’s Hotel and spent the rest of the night in trying tosiecp on a settee in the lobby, consoled somewhat by the reflection that, at ail events, I could uot be subsequently identified with the affair. You may imagine my astonishment and disgust when, upon re- turning to my hoarding house this morning, I tocrack and curl up as quickly as it shrivels the skin and wrinkles it like a dried fig, mak- ing a girl of twenty look as old as her grand- mother ought to, Bureaus, tables, &c., are bound to split very soon; chairs lose their rong and fall apart in no time; drawers cease to fitand floors and ceiled walls shrink wide apart, leaving unsightly crevices. Billiard balls have tobe kept in oil when not in use, and a bar of polished iron may lie out of doors indefinitely without danger of rusting. The washerwoman does not bother herself with clothes lines, nor even does she spread the wot linen out on the grass; she merely wrings the things and tosses them down in a heup, where q pyepeeally dry. @ patios and court yards of the better casas are paved in elaborate patterns with small black and white atom brought from Titicaca Islands; as, for example, a wide circle of jet black stones’ surrounds a large, man; rayed central star made of snowy white ones, the outer edge of the black circle bordered by @ running vine, with leaves and flowers made of white pebbles set into the black ones. The effect is as striking as it is uncommon, and the work is durable enough to outlast a entury. BUILDINGS, Before the late war with Chili there wasa famous college in Puno, where many eminent Peruvians and Bolivians were educated. * It is defunct, now that the country has become so poor, and no public institutions are maintained here by the government beyond a couple of schools, the big hospital of San Juan de Dios, and a border garrison, Considering ite small’ ness, the town is exceptionally rich in spacious plazas, and there are no fewer than five hand- some fountains—-one for every thonsand in- habitants, Its cathedral, which is said to be ing abroud and alone without the customary manta enveloping her head will do more in that direction than an earthquake could, being a less common occurrence, By dint of considerable effort and stopping often to recover breath, though the littie bill would hardly be minded were it not for th titude of Puno, ¢ goal was finally reached. How I wish I could e you see that quaintly peaceful scene as it lay spread out in the August sunshine! The very tall old arch, built of painted and plastered adobe over the ‘high- way leading to Lima, serves the triple purpose of a gate to mark the incorporate limits of Puno, a monument to some local heroes, who fell in the war for independence, and to adver- tise the patriotism of the Jefe Politico under whose administration it was erected. An in- scription near the top says it was built in the year 1847, in honor of the heroes aforesaid, whose names are inscribed, together with the battles in which they figured. On either side of the road an adobe wall bulges out in semi- circular form, with a seat, or high step, all around its outer edge. Above this, on both sides, isa very wide terrace, also half-moon shaped, backed by a higher wall, with two rows of seats, one above the other. ‘The cres- cent-shaped terrace was originally paved with small stones, but grass has sprung up thickly between them and even found root in the dust of years collected on the adobe seats and walls. Built into the center of the outer wall, on one side is a slab to the memory of the good Jefe Politico, who flourished nearly fifty years ago, and in the opposite wall is a queer old fountain, with water running into its adobe basin from some unknown source. URCHIN AND DONKEY. Presently s boy came along leading a donkey to the fountain trough. The little beast has reminded us, Besides, as the revisor justiy holds, priety. 4. Endymion, In the unexpurgated edition this poem is inclusive of a sensational statement concerning Diana: On such « tranquil night as She woke Endymion with When, sl-eping in a grove, He dreamed not of her love. Those who have felt that Longfellow needed to be taken in hand by a judicious revisor will be delighted at the transformation which this quatrain has undergone: Qn such a tranquil night Young Fndymion sleeq,. q So, fearing What might betall him, She hired a mau to cail him. It is not impossible that in the final revision the iast two lines of the above will ran: Bo she woke him with many a call And her proddiug parasol, 5. The Courtship of Miles Standish. Pris- = 's searching question addressed to John Al " Why don’t you speak for yourself, John? is to be stricken out as in the last degree unmaidenly, not to say brazen. In lace will-be puta question which has not yet been decided upon. But it will probably be, Don't you think we're going to have an open winter, John? Or, What's the best news up your wa: John? Or, Do you happen to know a good eu: for a cold, John? 6 The Day is Done. This poem has never been accused of starting a Blush on the cheek of Innocence. No; but the revisor thought that while he had his hand in it might be we: an the interest of s ‘distinctively American’ literature, to alter its last verse a bi And the night shall be filie¢ with music, Aud the cures t 8, , what is lost in rythm is gained in pro- great couldn't hold a candle to him. Just as be ap- peared in the vard a farmer's wife, who sells us eggs, opened the back gate and walked in. Lor’, but what is this?” she ejaculated, “Good as she stood é only with open mouth. me, been washing. “Washing what? Why, man, you've spoiled everything there, to the last di sick, dead or run off?” “Aren't these clothes right?” “Man! Man! but even a heathen would know better! doin, through the alley in » buggy. replied Mr. Bowser: “I've of Mr. Bowser's down-town Is your wite He could see over the fence and when he saw Mr. Bowser he pulled up his horse so quickly that the animal almost fell. “Is that you, Bowser?” he called. “yes. “Well what in the name of past ages are you nothii a ing. “Nothing! I'll bet ten to one you're fitting yourself fora museum freak. Sey, old man, you have hit it! Just file your teeth to « poiut and you'll pass for a genuine cannibal!” He drove on and the egg woman backed 01 © gate and said: ‘I've been furnishing you three dozena week and I've never missed a Tuesday, but I give you notice that I don't come no more. It would be taking chances. A man as is light 1a the head may be all right one day and werry wiolent the next. Love to your excellent wife and I'm sorry for her.” Mr. Bowser entered the kitchen in three jumps, I sat there laughing until I could hardly breathe. He towered above me like a mountain over mouse, and after choking and gasping for # minute he roared out: a : re Bowser, you have finally done it, " <geersy he most elevated building of the kind in the | sc: bled up over the high seats as if accus- nd ently steal ” mercy of God. who had placed him here. He | Piithcheu essa S wha was informed by my landlady grimly that 1 | : " rambled up igl ' ‘And as silentiy steal away. oar then argued upon the irresponsibility of hein [ecu oe eke pitbape: forty | Was tue oaly person who could reasonably be | ¥old, i# really » magnificent structure, with a | tomed to it and drank thirstily, while tho urchin] ‘The Arabe'be. thet ie te say, what have we ‘bat have I done?” bear in this world—the pains and « herent to human life—wouid will end in tones of the deepest sadness said an angel from heaven, commissioned i y our Heavenly Father, came to me with the axsur- ance of an eternity of bliss if | would live over again my blasted life and ali I have endured, I w refuse the gift.” He sunk into, I might say, his moody melancholy and we said good ebeerful and said when we ‘eft him he read an hour or two, though it was nearly daylight years, and at that deathbed, for Khind did not recover, I was a wituees to the deep devotion which pervaded his nature and with which he consoled his oid,friend. Mr. Smith tells me Mr. Forrest was anxious to have « work prepared on Shakespeare as a botanist, as Lord Campbell (was it?) treated him in his work, “Shakespeare as a Lawyer,” and he devoted a good deal of time in finding passages where the knowledge of botany was exhibited in his works by Shakespeare, CHARMING COMPANIONSHIP, Another instance of Mr. Forrest's charming suspected of having tried to make my way into the apartment of the maid next door, the new paint oa the rear shutters of her own house having been couveyed in the shape of finger murks to the white Bush of the maid’s window aforesaid. Furthermore she gave me a week's warning and added the pleasing information that the people next door proposed to swear out a warrant against me for burglary. “Now, can you imagine a more unpleasant Position for a young gentleman to be placed in? In desperation J went in to see the people next door and tried to explain matiers; but the lady whom I saw was amiably incredulous. She particularly handsome front, Be year 1759, it was built entirely by the Indians, at the command of the Vege without a cent of pay for their labor or materiula It fronts the main plaza with its stately foun- tain; on one side of it is the quartel where ragged soldiers are always lounging, and on the other is the street down which runs stream crossed by many fuuny little adobe bridges, which serves as a dividing line be- tween the Qnichua quarter and that of the Aymaras, Short, coarse grasa of « peculiar pale green color covers the plaza and oye rings up thickly among the stones of the cathedral rested himself by lying flat on his stomach and kicking up his bare brown heels. A young chola with a baby in her arms and another olive branch tagging at her hecls sat down near me. The older child, whom she called Guillermo (Spanish for William) in common with all Peruvian small boys, carried a sling, with which he continually shied pebbles at birds, beasts, passing pedestrians or whatever chanced to attract his attention, general hitting the mark amazingly well. Nobody pai the slightest attention to him, however, and en- dured the pelting quite as a matter of course. I tried to talk with the mother, who seemed to got to do with the Arabs? the revisor is under- stood to inquire as he adopts the amendmen‘ And the night shall be fill Aud as silently steal We have exhausted our space. But it is safe to say we have made it clear that the revised Longfellow leaves nothing to be desired—save Possibly the other edition. It is only to be added that the entire civilized world will unite in the prayer that the day may never come when the cheek of Innocence may lack champions. What have you done! and give wash: ing iti Got me to de the yeelf away for an infernal at me! Look at them duds m the ‘Mr. Bowser, didn’t Itell you not to try it? Didn't I do my best to keep you from try- i i A by oe eee But Mr. Bowser is still with me and I have Fovelation ats ife-so hte eee mice | SomPanionshup is brought to my mind by Mr. | kindly agreed to withdraw fram her intenuon | tiePton in vor Austtorm, Just outside, of | be inlined to be communicative, but as her | Certain Attribute of @ Gentleman, | acnater pomeer le sill with together. Fevelation of a life so little understood, so mis- | John F. Ennis, who recails a dinner given us— | to prosecute me for burglary, but immediately e main pags : Aaeh 48 @ tall wooden | vocabulary was an odd mixture of Indian and nah = satan - pererencsecinivnahtid cacao asi fudged, and for which but little sympathy the late Mr, W. H. Ward, Mr. Ennis, air ._ | took off the edge of my relieved feeling by tell- | °TO88, Dearing about it a. e implements and | Castilian, was unable to get much information | From Cardi Essay: aad charity were displayed. AFTER MIS FIRST RETIREMENT. Mr. Forrest retired from the stage in the very senith of his fame and successand devoted five years to study. pursuing it in the most tematic manner. He read frequently twelve day and sometimes eveu more, taking Pequired exercise in long walks and actually training If to endure the labor. He re- tarned to the stage iu 1558 and made his first Sppearance in Baltimore under the manage- qent of Mr. John T. Ford. at the Holliday reet Theater. in Richeleu. Col. John W. ferney, Jonah D. Hoover, John F. Enuis an went over by invitation to see him in that great character. There were some other grademen im the party whose names we escaped my defective memory. The opening was an ovation, the house crowded to excess. A large number of the audience were from Was! and in the next box to us sat Howell Cobb, Jacob Thompson and other mem- i ing and other: t Delmonico’s in New York by James T. Brady, in return for the hospitality extended to him here while defending Gen. Sickles, There were about twenty at the Gen. Meagher, Judge Brady and other distin- guished guests, and Mr. Forrest joined us after his performauce at Niblo’s and was ‘‘the bright particular star” —in one of his best and brightest moods—reciting and telling stories and anec- dotes, and, in fact, doing all that made that evening memorable. I could multiply instances which would throw the light of truth on the character of the great, the test actor who has trod the American boards, but I trust these WHEN THE THEATERS SUFFERED. ‘The social life of Washington at parties, din- ners and other entertainments, or, as Forrest rewses it, “the counter tide of “a ing me that the two brothers of the youn; woman whose privacy I had violated had stayed away from their work for the day for the sole Purpoge of bringing an action against me on some account that remains to this moment most unpleasantly not understood. Iam rather ex- | to find a policeman awaiting me when G0 home tonight, and I am rather disposed to go somewhere else to sleep on that account. Already L experience all the sensations of a jail bird in embryo. Believe me when I say that if I only succeed in getting out of this scrape without serving a term in convict's stripes I will uever againcommit such an im- prudence as to forget my latch key. 2s acim leone adjuncts of that gloomiest tr: ly of history. Perched on the top is the cock that crew to repentant Peter; there is a handful of nails and the hammer that drove them; the scourge, the — ® sponge and pitcher of wormwood. ven the diee with which the Jews raffled His raiment is there (the latter neatly bones one side), showing that “double mxes” ROMANCE OF THE SILVER MINE. Pano owes its origin to some fabulously rich silver mines in the vicinity, which were dis- covered and first operated a little more than two centuries ago. the first-worked lode, the gist of which is about as foliows: A young ard good tamily won! except such as smiles, shrugs and gestures could convey. INDIANS WERE CONSTANTLY COMING and going —silent, picturesque figures, hurry- ing along bare-footed behind their troops of Mamas, the latter shy and voiceless. as them- selves, There is never any stir or sound of labor here as in other countries, thi busy iselessly on If he engages in controversy of any kind his disciplined intellect preserves him from the binndering discourtesy of better, perhaps, but less educated minds, who, like blunt weapons, tear and hack instead of cutting clean, who volved than they find it. He may be right or wrong in his opinion, but he is too clear-headed to be unjust; is as simple as he is forcible, and as brief as he is decisive. Nowhere shali as its strength, ite is be an unbelicver, he will be department here has received information of «clerical error in the McKinley bill recentiy passed that mean a difference of several hundred thousand dollars to the tobaceo mann- facturers and dealers of this district alone. The old tax on twbacco le beg rn itated very much against the theater and for assen' €200,000 te bers of Mr. Buchanan's cabinet. We supped ¢ with Mr. Forrest that night at Guy's, a protty Jone there oine .Stent attraction ‘aan religion, and it con: from the large party, among whom I recal! old friend ow gone and whose name comes up from the wells of memory, connected with the early @ays of the war and his imprisonment in Fort Warren—Col. George P. K: array benches when the curtain rose. Daring the financial troubles of 1841 the every- where suffered. The Park Theater, ag the late James Brooks, then the New York correspond- teries without [ t mente of the cathedral, Society. a tof the National Ih wrote, Port, marshal of police, sheriff, &c. oud ous Galier toile, “48 the box office’ and at aren, Bat from Lyneb. Forrest was in the vein that aight, and we | the Bowery and the ‘Cbathaes more ny tans Soo peepee py a ag -~4 Spent some hours filied with enjoyment—en | auditories to concert. The filesof the Iniels, of alloy. To get rid of the @assant. Cobb and his crowd supped next us ‘of show that to ry Suried thems the vacant Some and passed us in the hall, but such was the bit- | 27 Of that period ptt per yoy wore afterward found, and pane Senee, casinet Forney ent - on Gladiator on the poms sent aad, failing to ‘a shrine was built Oe eee ae “we as we 4 vived it, however, and the sheate’ of laughter jeesnarlfagerwir sor bend — ed atoned aoa from our room must Lave shocked the quiet | Syepa "per an oe pany which many Suc ieee it —— a een in theirs. “The Old | estebb. “The country was im the deepest finan- whiles mem- Func.” as George Sanders called him, | cial difficulties, the banks had all wuspended; a tele ence ht Pre i | aes ye tn oh ne ee con & before he rehearsed Richelieu he read and rk ee eee - Senator Daniel. = be ond , | Team beat the record made by Mr. Brooks io som ‘Chile in bis. library one “ay, he pointed. ov: | his correspondence from New York.” ‘The Peck Evel f military were Afty-seven volumes in French on Ric ‘esate, he says, cloned with e dollar taken int we sit on Gbich, he suid, he had studied before playing | ins box office. 1 was one of a very select audi- ‘well in the ‘addresses et ” NOT OVERBEARING, BUT PATIENT. po ey weet mig iy Ct py eed pate ed _ i