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THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON. ) A D.C. SATURDAY, JULY 96, 1991-SIXTEEN PAGES. -_ ~ our American gall—yes, let it bo gall—and do ® great deal of mercantile business. The ina layer that is as mnch as feet thick in THE NEWSBOYS’ AID SOCIETY. bad partially lost his balance of mind. He was if <TC IV \ itted to his duk Beneckie Brothers, or rather the Beneckie covered i — sent to me by Lieut. Amiss of the police force. CYCLISTS IN SCOTLAND |sirs "taser street Setate|THE MEXICAN UNCLE. Bost tsics. “ee S.ee|THE CABBAGE WORM, |Stmsrsiisctases Soe mec [enna an eee manifest injustice ‘of his order prohibiting They have a capital of $400,000, and the origi- twenty feet. OF cour the Institution. ; to cyclists the use of a road over @ portion of nai Beneckies made a big fortane and went known of the existence girl, whose father disowned hi 3 ‘The road in question we under- back to Europe some an agee lea’ the for ever *0 Over WAIFS GATRERED PROM TRE STREETS AXD PLACED Miss Lewis, the police . P jomain. The road in . . “eG The Washington Wheelmen in the | tant to have teen built nix years ago by | How Pawnbroking and Banking Are | business conch «oom, Zonrt Ag, Hearing the Wiping Out Foes of the Crope With| fie state snp ais Tt COMPEREANER Dou —oe aeeruscmon as] maitem Atere fev davvageed hems wes the duke and interested railroad companies, . pire py ey Bet Shirer & Company are also spe . coming upon it. But it was ouly a little while To SEx on TS EW BOR OS B found for her in the country. The agent bas Land o Cakes, and thoaghasmall toll is charged the road{ Done South of the Rio Grande, —_| doing a big business, mud an Aone sre alto Artificial Diseases. ago that some person gifted with the sublime couon. visited her and others in thelr mew homes and appears on all recent maps and 10 indicated in shortly to be opened, which promises to make ‘ curiosity th&t approaches genius thought of | STEZT—orncens oF TRE soctETy. found them happy and contented. ores the guide books as a road open tothe uae — ipeelt one of the leading monetary institutions having the stuif analyzed. ‘Then it wy os “One night four boys (three eclored and one SOME VERY WET WEATHER. | pwc, and is, in iact, used by every other! rrery THOUSAND PATRONS e city. ‘Chis bank will do businoss on numerous “cracker” residents learned how Amor EVERY NEWSBOY AND BOOT- of form of vehicle than the eyele. ‘The beauties of Loch Kutrine do not seem to TROUBLE AHEAD FOR BUGS. white) were found box, covered with @ American principles. It will not have so much black in the city knows Agent Swee red tape us the other banks, and it will not had been living on of what might as well have Deen © neha nie mine while dining upon | the Xi Children’ iety, | They were too cold to talk. T took them to have been really discovered until, in 1810, Scott need an introduction from depositors and the the hog and hominy of ignorant privation. excerpted vrem aie sonny; | homie and let them alcep on the Tag in front of It Interferes With Their Sight Seein; went into poetry over them. ‘Thent! came | To a National Pawnbroking Establishment—| assurance that the deposit will be | Béforts Being Made to Inoculate Cabbage HOW To WoRK THESE DEPOSITS. peterson Cepreearneet sad the fire all night; we have too few beda. For SUL They Visita Good Many Points of In-| fopular and overs poy thc Lrmersof tie | 2 Auctions and Something as to Tta Meth- | COntinuod fora number of months, as the other | Caterpillars With Bacterial Complaints | ‘The method adopted in working these de- payee taper matbernire deer’ bord fone Scegmee oee 1 atrine, quite overwhelming the farmers of the | 7)" 0 \gous nd Bom banke are said to require in order that the taiton taeda “eit rapa aes = ‘driving | Pers ration in the city. The boys are| “A white boy was foun terest Disappointed in the Trosachs—Loeb | vicinity, ypon whom, in the absence of hotels, ning: vate Pawn Shops and privilege of leaving their money may be| %™fecting juge With Disease—Fun- | posit to “sound” the ground by nS | well aware of that fact and they therefore re- | stove in a miserable Ing house among a lot Katrine and Its Beauties. the burden of entertainment fell. We went to} How They Kat Up Their Debtors. grant It will be ‘a savings bank and will| gus Troubles to Order for Cut Worms. into it at intervals of a fow feet a long iron rod epect him. . of drunken men. I ar discover the “silver strand.” We were pos ¥ 3 per cent for time deposite. It will Tith.s sharpened point. When the phosphate | “"its is known to them in all sections of the | f%%4 8 Good place for him in a store om 7th ———— sessed of private ambition to recline upon it. vo the right of safety deposit andthe ware Bett reached ie rod ts witharawn and sake |, 3 om sections : (Copyright, 1801.3 We found two. To make sure we reclined | Spectal Correspondence of The Evening Star. house business and all of the privil- EN M. PASTEUR A FEW YEARS AGO | is stuck in its place with figures on it indicating | Cit, and wherever Ke goes and meets the chil-| “April 21, 2891, a lady came with an appeal Braet The Evening 8 os compen, Wak tac supee atunea to eres Maxico, July 18, 1801. | $9* Granted. to other, banks, save that Proposed to hill off the rabbite of fe number of fet of depth at which, the | dren be i groted with “ello, Mr. Sweeney, | for rele fru woman nd tater chiiven, whe I Correspondence of The Evening Star to compose, but our muse re! fo work. d age ing ni an vernment wi a 'e” has been made. Iu this way district | or “How do yo: 5 i }- | were abou! turned out of their house Srmrixo, ScorzaNn, June 3, 1891. | This shows that the same objects affect differ- Mee GREAT MEXICAN UNCLE 18 THE] not charge it stamp tazee for its business be- | Australia by introdacing among them a con- of more or less extent is “rodded”” und opera youds, Hie. Geman.” Mis teas T WAS AT BELFAST THAT WE SHOOK r “ |. | inability to pay rent. ‘The mother was ill ent poets differently. Some of us, too, with most numerous of his kind in the world. a big build- aia Gs andane maton en tween its branches. It will hacer | tagious disease of a fatal character, humani- tions are begun by clearing away the surface had been cruelly beaten and kicked by her Ge Gne~uat « it was the mud—of | stony, stolid temperaments contemplate un- | Out of the 11,000,000 inbabitanta of the coun- | ing. and all of the materials for this are jo come | tarians disgustedly cried, “Oh!* What will pilin the most proming spoteand quarcving oat | 1" ke ae that is doing so much | husband. Some of our ladies voited her and Ireland from our Sect. Berifaat bide fair | Moved and without # murmur the grandest | try ¢aity 10,000,000 patronize the pawn shops | i2#ree of duty, and there is no doubt of its suc they think of aimilar plans which bid fair to be | the material. Process is like auy other | 00d on the charitable contributions of the and mo b orks @ 5 c oe found her in a delicate and critical condition, She was confined to her bed, the children were hungry and there was no food in the house, cess. As the only savings bank of any im- portance in the country, and the only one in Mexico City, it cannot fail to make big profits snd it will run and pa- tronized by men of large means One of the incorporators is the firm of Morris & Butte of Kaneae City, who have ‘an immense packing house here in connection with Mexi- capital, and who buy from €80,000 to ,000 worth of Mexican exchange’ every week. The profits on hero are im- monse and the crodit system of Mexico ought to develop a great banking business. BANKING IN ITS INFANCY. ty and | ia population. The ship- erests are becoming especially im- ortant, an Glasgow, though still furnishing ost of the materials, must look to it that she ie not outstripped by ber young rival in the industry. For some reason we had always pictured the Fiver Clyde as ofa deep blue in color, with bright green banks shaded with trees of regular furm and uniform size, having most eharmingly brown-tinted trunks, while dark a business a to be the greatest cit; and y@m can spout anything from a silk hand- kerchief to a $100,000 diamond. You find these pawn shops in every village and city and there are more than sixty hero at the capital. ‘The biggest of these is toa certain extent un- der the government. It is known as the Monte de Piedad and it has been in operation more than 160 years. It was founded as o philanthropic institution by @ Spanish count, who endowed it with a capital of $300,000, and this Capital bas since then been doubled. It has millions of dollars’ worth of goods in its picturesquely cloqueut over so insigni thing as a collar button in a setting of sweep~ ings under the bureau. DISAPPOINTED IN THE TROSACHS. The Trosachs, as a Scotch gentleman who has visited almost every nook of his country said, are by no means as pretty a piece of scenery as is to be found in Scotland. We were greatly disappointed, as is usually the case when 80 much is said of a place that one is led to expect agrent deal more than it is possible to real- ize. “‘Iristling country,” it is to be sure; sharp, abrupt wooded elevations, but on « scale that open quarrying, the blast being supplemented by the pickax and the shovel. Before the substauco is ready for shipping it is dried in kiins in order to free it from all | moisture, after which it is put on cars and for- | warded by rail to Fernandina, Tampa, Punta | Gordo and some to Atlanta,Ga. At these Poluts itis loaded aboard vessels bound for ‘rope or for New York, Baltimore or other American ports. England is large buyer of Phosphate. "Upon arriving at its destination— say Baltimore—the material is ground into a fine dust and treated with sulphuric acid, so that it is transformed into a powd which public, Agent Sweeney may be seen at almost any je in company with several of his flock. He takes them to places of worship and amusement and a number of out-of-town trips have been enjoyed by both young girls and boys under his care, and often at his own expense. Tn the cold weather the children attend church with him, at the church festivals, fairs aud entertainments be is seldom missing. Many of the young ones for the first time in their lives have been taken to such places, Where the surrounding influences have com- widely adopted before long for wiping out various bugs that attack the crops? There is the “cabbage worm.” for example— an othetwise innocent creature, about an inch and a balf long, witha special appetite for the yegetable in question. It is subject to a aingu- lar and very deadly disease, caused by bacteria, ‘&s consumption and typhoid fover are in man. Does the latter sympathize with the unhappy caterpillar on that account? On the contrary, scientists aro forming a plan for spreading the complaint among cabbage worms in general to Duiluing pe homes or secure their admission to the in~ dustrial Home School in Georgetown.” These are specimens of the work that is com stantly going on. It has been supported thug far by the generous charity of its friends. The average expense has been less than @100 @ month, including rent of home, agent's salary, Banking is in the first days of its infancy in would be termed by a chemist an “acid phos-| pletely changed their whole o f thought | 0d and fuel. Clothing for the children baa hed cows, such as ono gets | gives none of that grandeur one would hope to | vaults and great many of tho wealthiost fam- Mexico. “The aswearliy of the Hedpey st) such an extent that the species shall beex-| phate.” This powder is then mixed with other | Gndaction "ON" Cours? Of HhOUSEE | Lally bon sent by our frienda, and om special | pencefully plucked the | nd. The most striking portion is that about | ities loan their jewels to it for safekeeping. It days of the revolutions and until about twelve | %f™inated. Prof. Galloway, who superintends the arm of the lake where, at a rustic pier, the little steamship-modeled’ steamer. Rob Roy, makes its landings. This region was the stamp- ‘occasions there have been liberal contributions of food as well as of funds. 4 LITTLE GrnL’s ort. ingredients, so as to compose fertilizing prepa~ Tations for various purposes. ‘The frui wants one mixture, the vegetal other, and #0 on. quite » chromo- inesour disappoint- The Xrw nome. The new home of the society is being far- @ goternment plant hospital, has just re- - the years ago was such that the people buried their ot 0 « Stan reporter ie infor aa u money instead of depositi ‘and thore are to ° However, the ingredients | nished by a number of merchants, and the| yy z " rever, fanging on the wall in the parlor of the im Lrow: jored | ing ground of dor Ro} i per cent per annum, and it ‘y millions upon millions of dollars | consignment of germs of the malady | mentioned are eiiher nitrates, the nature of nt announces that articles of any kind will i rown, muddy, coffee-col << pollen be Bh his | $1 to. $10,000 at a timo'on a single article, | {2 the hands of the rich haciondados | from Florida, where the insect commits | which will be presently deritedy oe setae er meaktiny aun ‘ rs grin agreninng stitution isa picture which Mr. Sweeney prize fa there were some green | yen eo tae Ei under the sun is accopted asse-| which’ are buried in the ‘ound | Rreat havoc, ‘and he is propagating them | fron: Packing works, in the shape of bones, | nted. ‘The mew home ie mented at Kor ate e | Raccount of the history attached to it. It ie shady trees, these were so soon a curity, and the appraise: ite worth | or hidden away under the of | by mytiuds artificially in corked tubes diled | horns, blood and all manner of corruption, re. . where there is plenty of room |®, Picture representing “lending a band,” im ied by the ship yards and other manu- Bad Sees yeas, lord shove aud Ine Pawn shop loans two-thirds of the | their homes. These men have for years beon | With gelatine. It will be easy enough to prepare | Uuced dessicating processes to pulverized . iii ™ | which an aged man is rowing a boat and a litte ves, with the din of hammereand pufting to jend below. value they: pat upon it. All loune must be | making money and hoarding. They don't know | ® quantity of beef tea—on that dict all bacteria | jnoffensivences ‘The building ies three-story and basement | Sit! Of tender years hash heads upon tee { asthinatic river eraft, that we quite forgot| Bold Rob and his wife lie side by side in the | renewed within eight months, and if they what intorest means and they sell their crops | 8teedily feed and multiply—and transform it| Elsewhere in Florida Great beds are found of | structure witht eatery sero ea and is ad-| F and she believes that she is assisting ber poe charch yard at Balqubidder, about ten miles | not the goody are put up for sale at the ap-| and work their selves yourn ‘year and pile | Within a fow hours by sitaply introducing afew Phosphate in a different condition. In the | Tnirably suited for the pretense eich its | aged father to reach the other shone The pice had some cauny Scotch | north of the Trosachs, but when he died or | praisers’ valuation. ‘They are sold at suction | away the surplus. Iti the saute with many of | 48 0 ingrediont into solution, every drop of | Iniddie of the state, over an area covering hun- | ow ceed. Jn the 4 tem tay ro the rooms | te Was purchased with money left the insti. Ce ee er ee | aera ea porn is not certainly known. It ie | for as much as they will bring above this, and | the poorer classes. Bowe of anees oie niches | which contains thouesnda of lively aoior dreds of square miles, the soil is underiaid by | Wherc'the bore wesbarement are th end { tution by a little girl who was souch interested, jasgow through « minty, driz-| conjectured thathe died in about 1733, after | these auction sales are held once a month. If | thed they look, ‘and in the coffee dis- | All that theoretically remains will be to spray | a stratum as inuch as fiftecn fect thick in some road story books of a strictly frotal’tene ong | tt. When che was taken sick and know ene steamer, Dearing the delight: | having lived the allotted threo score and ten, | the goods fail to sell they are marked down for | triete ‘T° hele wot eden! dying who were nid, av if it were any insecticide, upon : ‘l story books of @ strictly moral tone, ani slowly swang around and | for it is known that he lived to a good old age, | the next mouth’s vale, and this marking is con- : places of the same material in the shape of pebbles densely strewn in a whitish clayey | tmatrix. Buried in this | ure discovered Great masses of the remains of huge animals supposed to have nothing, and from 15,000 to €100,000 discovered about their mud huts. ‘This represented the sccumulations of years, aud the secret of ite oxistence was com- infested cabbages, and wny worm that is touched by a particle of it must die. HOW THE BACTERIA ATTACK THE CATERPILLAR. also where they can play noisé they please. Very few restrictions are put upon the boys, as by not doing so the agent is better able to Tas going to dic she had @1.40 that she bad saved and she was anxious to leave some’ to the institution, and so with that money the picture was purchased. nd make ail the the wharf by way of ¢ however bad his younger days may have been. His claymore and musket were secured by Scott and are tobe xeon at Abbottsford house tinued until they find a purchaser. If the goods do not bring ay much as the amount of the loan the appraisers must make up th § more uncom- ne of these little t ; The manner in which these bacterie attack | ¢xtinct for ages—particularly sharks which | }\ sie ahnbeneat nea ° raga An securing homes for the boys Agent Sweent among numerous like antiquities collected by own pockets. This pawn shop municated from father to son. Every ol4| and consume tho caterpillar ia quite astonish | Were, doubtless seventy or ciguiy’ fect in | Heats the ir charsotor and con ts i sanch etter elueys iota ant Or ae, weedy ey rng a with five other persons to | the poet and noveiist, who seems to have gone | loans $1,000,000 a year and it has about 50, Spanish family has its strong box and Ameri- — qv length. One gets some notion of the swarms | P ee rts and possibly add to | into that sort of thing pretty heavily. debtors, #0 that the average loan is about €2. “ ing. As a rule, they begin by assailing the are large double parlors and in them it is ex- rtanderevive shut up tight! The district round about Lochs ard and Ven- can merchants aud drummers tell me that aps f the i The lonus average 900 a day an of these ferocio bout one- no matter how far from here the place in. iants of the deep that ex- the A ak He cates one case in which jon. Jesse D, rs pected to entertain the ebo! and boot- Pearancesare very deceitful here and that you | third segment of the animal from the tail. | isted in that antediluvian age from the finding | blacks this winte: asthe & f the | Carr of Salinas, Cal., sent here tor « colored pt at ventilation. | nachar and the town of Aberfoyle, southeast of | third of the articles loaned are never redeemed, | P&*t ety 1 ‘i ite fleshy | of 8 | blac s winter as well as the iriends of the Wis ge.es, bequsge | Lecgh Katvina; teaitons desratseton het oo | eer eae nena Bre UE offices in ali | org face Sow Tich one of these rough-looking | They literally eat it up, transforming ite fleshy | of their great teeth. each longer thane man's | yarns Sk tas teak Ge Stin nemee teas old farmers is by his clothes. BUSINESS DONE ON LONG TOKE. As to credits, all business in Mexico is done on long time, and even where the people have the cash lying away doing nothing they prefer to buy on from six to nine months or ‘a year's credit. In the wholosale business of the coun- try at least one-half of the sales are made on time, and one of the reasons that American boy. Mr, Sweeney remembered thata colored boy named Tom Leewood had brought a white boy to him and asked thet Le becered for, He did not seo Tom for along time after that and one day when he met him Tom showed leas sigus of prosperity than he did when he disaps peared and made the request for the white boyy He was on his uppers, so to «peak, and when asked wiiy he had not been around his response was, “Ub, 1 didn’t like to impose on you.” ndeck under @ tarpaulin. | ar with a three-pence would ater, A PIS DINNER. hotel to which we took our disconso- sand other traps we in- the antiquated waiter of the establishment, the task of getting up a dinner, | «l @ mysterious monster known us the pie and of a very ferocious disposi- According to accounts a water keipie in the form of a finely marked horse once appeared tox number of children playing on the shores | during the past two weeks and I attended of Loch Vennachar and by his apparent gentle- | one of its auctions this morning. It looks more isposition tempted them tv mount him. | like @ great juuk shop or auction room whole flock were securely ke the big banking institution it is. Fur- ure of all kinds from pianos to clea substance into so much decomposed matter, 0 quickly do they do their work that the victim is dead usually within twenty-four hours after it is first inoculated, It turns gradually from bright green to bYown and finally to lack—a loathsome corpse. Within four days the worm isso completely absorbed by the mor- bid process that nothing is left of it savo lit- erally a grease # Specimens sent to P of Mexico, and the chief shop at is just opposite the great cathedral id within a stone's throw of the nutional pal- ce. I have visited it a number of times hand, in the phosphate, as thickly distributed | as plums in ® pudding.’ In the same deposits | aro found countless bones of the mastodon, the megatherium, the elephant, the hog, the | horse, the muskrat, dc. They ‘are immense | graveyards of ages long gone by, preserving | for the contemplation of man the’ remains of the mighty beasts and fishes that roamed the | earth und navigated the waters before his time | is a good-sized room which is used Toom for the boys, who are alway and to whom the agent is always willing to lend » helping hand. ‘The rooms on the upper floors are titted up as dormitories for the chil- dren, while one of them is occupied by Agent Sweene: ‘There is water onevery floor, as Mr. Sweeney's When for he had an extensive dining: Motto is “cleanliness,” and the boys after be- you.’ a 2 Galloway in wooden pill boxes have disap) had even approached. These phosphate “land | Insts ins . hte A Sane a cone for ue to pat dows, to sccthe eur wounded chromos, bicycles and mirrors, suddies and | trade not more extensive here is | entirely within a week, euch individual leaving | pebbles,” ter they ace called, aro supposed to | 8S # Mis charge a few hours will understand waleerroacgeage) spirits. Re fain is apt to discourage | day. there was al harness, shawls and clothing were mixed up in | that our merchants will not. give. the z. hy a th a heter a n only a small stain to show that once there had | have been originaliy derived’ from the “rock” ‘Thinking Tom a proper boy to send to Calle even the most persistent cyclist after a while. @ plunged into the water an & heterogenous mass,and men and women Sandy—we Sandy, b $ . With his seant andy gray hair b hed primly forward from isis bead until it looked ike a horn but, as wo were saying, Sandy, for religious faces, and it being . net consisting of Scotch broth, @ Pleasant tasting compound, followed by fish anc p terward, clos a It was a fish dinuer, Sandy sid, and he thonght it would be inappropriate to have any dessert other than cheese, cheese as loud and boisterous as any we ever met. There were sole which nature has knocked flat as a pau- cake, and whiting with their tails in their mouths, and founders with bones as large and Jong and sharp as darning needles. All this sandy dispensed to us, hovering sbout likes motherly old hen making a great fuss over a very small brood of chickens, for we were his only guests at dinner. The butter is wanted and Sandy parades around the table with the butter. The bread is wanted ‘and Sandy parades back the other way with the bread. More potatoes are wanted and Sandy Uueages the potatoesand bears them grandly around to the potato fiend. To Sandy's mind there is nothing go essential toa good dinner as care d efficient serving and no office more worthy of a careful performance than that of a waiter. “What you do, do well” is Bandy # motto, and he does it. hman is not as curious as your ad man, even if the uld race of me from the north of Ireland. Who | what you are is of little conse- | quence to him, and after one has been scanned for weeks by curious Irish eyes it isa relief to find one’s self of less interest to the populace than traveling freaks. When next, however, we visit the United Kingdom of Great Britain aud Ireland in the character of wheelmen we shall be careful to disguise ourselves in the bases, knee breeches, tweed jacket and soft, woolly six sizes too smali, of our Britieh brother of the wheel. The Scotch street musician, with his zither- like instrument, doesn't play “McGinty, “Listen to My Tale of Woe,” “Aunie Rooney” or any others of the doleful ditties to which we are subjected at home, but plays to order your | own favorite, anything in the line of Scotch hed him play by the hour reels, igs and everything At thi Pass up his contribution. THE KILTED scotcH. Of the kilted Scotch one sees, of course, none in the cities but the highlanders of the British army, who, resplendent in white gaiters, plaid- pattern skirts, decorated infront with several dangling shaving brashes—at laest they look like shaving brushes—and beneath which his hairy k y peop, white or red jackets and a jaunty eap, which sits on hia head like the comb of a rooster, goes forth to smite with Cupid's darc# xusceptible Seotch maidenhood. The highlander of civil life seems to have taken to trousers completely or wears his kilt nly in the out-of-the-way districts or reserves eccasions. Atany rate the visitor trav- cling over the tourist-beaten tracts in the southern highlands seea nothing of the kilt unless, perchance, he happeu upon a rural pie- nic party dancing in the road. when he will usually find the piper in the old typical coe- tume of the highiande The Gaele language is going with the kilt, and where ‘hirty or forty years ago it wae the common speech it is now almost unknown, none Dat the older folk retai Ye tongue-twistiog, ja ng pecuiarities, A person wiio ean «peak and understand Gaelic el with almost the same interest as an accompl sbed linguist. We have read in Queen Vietoria’s published if her first visit to Ireland and other ions in Scotland and elsewhere with the Jate Prince Consort some complimentary re- marks upon the prettiness of the Irish girls, Bat we saw no mention of the Scotch girls, and we therefore rise im their behalf. rhay beauty as declined im Ireland with the popu- lation since the queen's visit, but although the Dublin gir!s are, with some reason. rather proud of themselves, the girls of Scotland ure easy winners. After we had purchased rubber capes to ward it off tho ra dour party of twofound opportunity to get ont of Glasgow for Loch Lomond and the smaller lochs lying to northwest. Never say “take” “tek ol the “e ores we obtained many Tite finely wooded and rugged Lomond, one of the loftiest nd, standing out grand banked shy. bs BEACTRS OF LOCH RATRINE. Loch Katrine, just east of Loch Lomond, and at the eastern end of which are Ellen's Isle, f (rlaagow, the water be‘ng conducted tens of t An intertict of « gentleman known as the Duke of Wontrose, who we think must bea rather unreasonable. arbitrary sort of person, interferred somewhat with our pinns for viele” owas = goodly portion. tia section owas a goodly thie ef the carta. but wo summoned « quantity eas g& are sure hi# name must have been | bs, se persons in the crowd | melusion of each number | who ealied for i was supposed to | his den, where he devoured all save “‘one lit- tle boy,” who managed to escape and place this story in Girculation. In_ this nncharitable age yarns of this description are usu: tributed to what is vulgarly termed a nakes, or toother species of dementia. Bat it different in the old days when our an- cestors were young and could tell such whop- pers with thé same impunity that they ploy- tull y spitted each other on lances, made pin ons of their personal enemies and per- other barbaric capers. There were even educated men of the day, churchmen, who devoutly believed all the trash afloat con. cerning these alleged supernatural people. LITTLE WIGHLAND CATTLE. As he climbs the ‘bits of braes” of the High- lands one cannot fail to notice the little High- land cattle with their Texas-steer style of horns and so shaggy of cont that one might think them wearing buffalo robes. In color they are usually » lightish brown, while a few are nearer lack. They are rather more heavily built than the equally small Kerry cattle of Ireland, or perhaps it is their extra long heavy bair that gives them this appearance. The calves look enough like young lions to deceive a party of ladies who saw some of the queer little woolly creatures. ‘The encouragement of the use of water as a beverage is decidedly more Seotland than in Ireland. 7 most thoroughly appreciate tl not afford to experiment with liquids with which he is unacquainted. “Ale und stout” signs have no allurements for him after he has once imbibed a huge beaker on an empty stomach, eight or ten miles from the ol of the day's ran. The irregularities of the rond redouble. and ite width and strange actions are something astonishing. Public drink- ing fountains are, to our mind, the greatest mark of respectability a town can have: and ony municipelity, whatever its pretensions, that forces the thi: to assloon bar or to re ing to the various light alleged thirst- yaenching drinks devised, had better retire from business at once. Let our temperance workers and prohibitionists and our other we- totalers at home direct their efforts more in this direction, the establishment of public drinking fountains and plenty of theut, and the cause of temperance will receive a greater im- petus than any prohibitive law could possibly give it. Evoexe E. STEVEXs. = eo Another Craze Coming. There is another craze which is hovering over us and threatening to drop on us at any moment, and that's furniture painting. It has made its way into the art stores, where women buy their china outfits and that sort of thing. where cuamel paints appeared fully two years before they struck the furniture and uphol- stery trade proper. The craze has for some time prevailed in England and will undoubt- edly be but a short while free of it, says Upholsterer. The wood is selected in the and is in wereens, over mantels, cabinets, cases, tables, cupboards, corner bracke! rails and articles of light ware. and the idea is to paint them in frivolous styles or apply to them poker work, gesso work or other decora- tions, a A Weary Deacon. From the Chicago Tribuat “Been a deacon in achureh for fifteen years?” echoed the passenger in the check suit. “Thi along time. I dare say you have passed the contribution basket through the congregation ‘great many times?” “Hundreds of times,” replied the passenger in the black alpaca. “And I sappose-ba! ba! ia? great many—eb? 5 The di intensely weary look from his pocket and spection of the man in suit a time-stained card on which was printed in large letters the following in- scription: "Re er found in the contribution box a but- ton of any sort or kind in my life.” — x How to Rescue a Drowning Person. T. P. Donaldson, a teacher of swimming, gives some timely advice in the New York Ke- corder. He says bathers should not go beyond the breakers unless it is absolutely necossary. His advice to rescuers is: er, under any ¢ircumstances, facea drowning person. He is sure to seize you, and then you are worse than helpless. Once you are in the grasp of a drown- ing person little short of amiracle can save you. Always get behind a drowning person, ‘and, if possible, seize him by the hair. Then tread water until other help arrives. Don't attempt to swim in and drag your burden with you, for you will soon find that you need both arms to make Any progress. ber, too, that grave efforts are not necessary to a body afloat. Youcan keep @ person on ens by placing the typ of the fi under the body. Keep passive and you not sink. ‘You are bound to go beneath the surface if you - It Saved Him, From the Philadelphia Thnes. . a “I smoke, darling,” he told her, “bat you certainly will not say it is not less objectionable than drinking?" indeed itis, James, and if it “Oh, indeed. it, James, keeps you | loans or any man Sivell i docs, Melinds. Because every ot Sea the Samm take a cigar, you ‘I think it is a bless- round know.” were examining them and looking at the tickets which contained the prices fixed by the ap- praisers attached to them. As one found what he wanted he would point it out to the auc- tioneers and they would put it up and show it to the rest. If any higher bid was gotten the auction went on until it was sold, but asa rule it was knocked down to the first applicant. In another part of the room were great store cases containing hundreds of gold watches, thousands of dollare worth of diamonds and pearls and articles of jewelry set with precious stonesof every description. “The appraisers’ valuation was attached to each of these articles, and they were auctioned off to the highest bidders. noted that the clerks of the establishment always told whether the stones were true of false. ‘The sales were fair and in most cases the goods were very cheap. Fora longtime this pawn shop gave all ite profits to the church. Then for atime they went to the government and now the institu- tion is run to a certain extent by a private cor- poration. PRIVATE PAWN SHOPS. In addition to the Monte de Piedad you find private pawn shops all over Mexico. At these the loans are much more costly and 5 and 10 percent a month is not uncommon. They take any kind of property as security, and they are in reality often fences or receivers of stolen goods In no country in the world will you sind more petty thieving than in Mexico, and se pawn shops are largely the cause of it. ‘rhe fexican peon is naturally a sneak thief. He is not a robber, and while he would nave no compunctions about stealing a towel or # band- kerehief or a suit of clothes he would not touch a package of a thousand dollars if he saw it lying in your room ut the hotel. The penalties for stealing are exceedingly heavy in texico and the majority of thefts aro of things that would not pay the expense of conviction. The Mexicans ure expert pickpockets, and I have met a half dozen Americans who have lost their watches in Mexican crow.!s. A favo ite place for stealing is in the churches, and at one of the big fensts which occur So often in differen: parts of the coun- try one needs to watch very care- fully after his pocket book and his watch. In slecping on the ground floor it is always ne sary to guard the windows or you ma} your bed clothing and your pantaloons gone in the morning. In stops at the stations for din- ner the windows of the railroad cars are always put down and the dgors locked, und in carrying 4 small valise it is best to keep it under your feet. A friend of mine who has just loaned his revolver for $12 at one of these pawn shops showed me his tickets this morning. For the use of the mouey he pays 6 cents on the dollar for the first month, 13 cents on the dol- per cert amonth, Of cou — he eapects to redeem tye gun fore the end of the first mouth, but he ix natural spendthrift and it is easy to see who will own that revolver. THE ONLY BANKING ESTABLISHMENTS. N bauking establishments of the greater part of Mexico. In the smaller towns there are no banging institutions whatever, and Mexico City with its 300,000 people, its’ immense busi- ness and trade and its numbers of wealthy peo- ile, ne less than & half dozen legitimate bank- fag'inetitutions. Tt soams to me thet there ies big thing to be made out of banking in Mexico, and he wonder is that a good American bank has not been established here. — Savi banks ought to poy in every city of thie eoun- try, but so far I have heard of only one, and that at the little city of Jalapa, which lies iu the mountains between here and’ Vera Crnz. ‘The American population of the capital is almost large enough to warrant = good American bank, and New York is the monetary center of Mexico today. Nine-tenths of all the exchanges go through New York and drafts on London are sent to New York for collection. The same is largely true as to drafts on Paris and. toe certain extent, so of Spanish drafts, though the steamship line which runs between Spain and Mexico decreases the Spanish business. —_ a I can learn the aor ico City are making © great deal of money. The Bank of Mexico and London, 80 one of ita chiefglirectors tells me, made 20 per cent last year and the stock of this bank, which as at present constituted was or- ganized only a few years ago, has more than doubled in value. “It does a business of about €18,000,000 a year on a capital of a million and ahalf and it ins ® large reserve fund. The president of this bauk is a Scotchman who Came to Mexico poor and who is now said to be worth anumber of millions. His name is Don ‘Thomas Braniff and he is president of the rail- road that runs from Vera Crug to the capital and is a large cotton factor and extensive real estate owner. THE NATIONAL BANK OF MEXICO. Another of the big bunks of Mexico City is the Banco Nacional or the National Bank of Mexico. This, like the Bank of London and ‘good everywhere when they are issued in Mexico City and not by its (tees over the country. All notes of other banks are discounted when ont of the terri here take their own notes from their bra ata discount. This seems {s made on overything in Mexico, but a small ground for an extra ty Ft it | i i i ci Peat; ir F i 5 Li ier i i aE theless these pawn shops form the only | credit demanded. ‘The merchants don't seem to object to high prices, but they do object to pay- ing cash, which is sometimes aaked even before they see the goods, and their motto in business is just the reverse of ours. We believe in quick sales and small profits The Mexican prefers slow aules and big profits. He is content to wait and he gets rice. Mexican crodit is, I am told, very The people pay their debts and business failures are very, very few. This is so in both Mexico City and throughout the country. Mexico never hada aay Hinancial panic, and so tar no city in the land has ever known what we calls boom. The people do not speculate, though they are invet- erate gamblers. ‘They live simply and they arc as sharp business people along the lines that they have been accustomed to as avy people in the world. ‘There are no Jews in business in Mexico, and this is aid to be 80 because the Mexicans themselves are sharper than the Jews in business. As far asI can learn he Mexican is honest in rusiness methods, If he has a fixed contract he will carry it out, and if youdo not attempt to take undue ad- ntage of him he will treat you fairly. He be- es that all business is done with the eyes open and expecta to take such advantage us the law allows him. XO STANDARD COMMERCIAL AGENCY. Iwas surprised to find that Mexica has no standard commercial agency. The country hasa number of big cities. Leon has 100,000, Guadalhara has 109,000 and San Louis Potosi must have 75,000 people. All of these towns and dozens’ of others are centers of trade. Still you cannot go into Mexico City, which ia the wholesale distributing point, and find the standing of any merchant imanyone of them. The banks have their own private correspondents, but tl large have no means of obtaininy mation. Notwithstanding this the system of giving is very geucral, and both whole- sale and retail dealers give it, eat many Goods are sold on installments and a great deal of money is loaned on chattel mortgages, As to mortgages on reul estate, these are few and according to the laws of the country hard to reali ‘The titles to the prop- ertyare often bad and the expense of drawing up the papers with the heuvy stamp duties in great, in the ease of chattel morignges the property usually goes into the hands of the creditor un- til the debt is paid. For thix reason many of the old iamilies have w great deal of wealth in their family jewels. These aro ensily concealed in cavo of w revolution and they are always available for loans. At the time of Patti's siaging in Mexico quantities of these jewels appeared that had not been seen for yours. Ihe young ladies of the swell families then came out inall their glory, and many a diamond necklace was taken fromthe vaults of the Moute de Viedad to glorify ite owner and the occasion. IMPORTS FROM THE UNITED STATES. About one-half of the imports of Mexico 0. The trade amounts to about $50,090,000 a year and that only 5 per cent of this ia handled by our citizens ‘shows thia conclusively. ‘There is a prejudice here against American goods, and the Enghsh and German merchants fostor this prejudice and ran down American goods when- ever they can. They are very jealous of us and they are banded together against us. Amer can merchants should handlo their goods os fur as possible through Americans, and not through foreigners. They should send their own agents wherever possi- ble to Mexico and should study the markets and the people. With the proper care in pack- ing and in welling thero is an immense field here for almost every kindof product we make, but the trade will Have to be pushed. Goods should be advertised and prices regulated on a credit basis and not on a cash basis. ‘The Mexi- cans will demand the credit at any rate and they will pay the prices, At present the chief and only things in which wo have the lead is in coal oil and machinery. The Standard Oil Company and the White and IF 40 machines you tind all over Mexico and you wil see Aultman and Taylor th tiaehines and Studebaker wagons everywhere coming in. I meta Mr. Nose who represented the Squier Manufacturing Company of Buffalo, who told me he had sold $250,000 worth of sugar mille aud other machinery d the Your and | Sengur, of Mozico City handle i ‘and are, so they tell me, having » trade in electrical plants, steam atin ae rious kind, Hammond and Remington type- writers, plows and American paper.’ This frm Hint fer Uncle Jerry, From the Springfield Republican. “Unele Jerry” Rusk should not be over- partial to balloons and dynamite in his efforts to make it rain. Let him try all ways before tained deciding which is the beat. Now, there is the | lime and Slay peas- | su their way Bessarabian method, used by th Suts in the Balkens, "The sleye soit damon.” It consists Eight prove quite na Revered Her Memory. "PEW te anno op, de't ou takea marca eae been a caterpillar. Not only docs the sprinkling serve to dis- seminate the fatal complai:® but the latter is spread also by every infected worm wherover it goes, so that half adozen might distribute the epidemic through a whole cabbage patch and so rid it of every caterpillar within & few days. The bacteria aro readily procured for propagation from the cadavers of the insects alled, which are filled with germs, of course. A platinum wire introduced into the sub- stance of one of tho black and shrivelled bodies and thereupon touched to some gelatine ina tube will produce a thriving colony off hand. ‘The truck gardener cau easily be taught to manufacture his own bacteria solution, half a barrel full ata time, for distribution with an an atomizer, and the natural spread of the dix- éase will clear whole districts of the worms more or less permanently. Such, at all events, is the theory. TO EXPERIMENT, ON THE CHIXCH BUG. It remains to be seer. what will result from similar measures that are being taken aguinst the chinch bugs in the west, which do such enormous damage to wheat, corn and other grains, gotting into the fannelshaped part of the leaves, where they Join the stalks and suck- ing the sap of the planis until they die. Pro: Snow of Kansns is trying, with the aid of $7,000 appropriation. to introduce among then two different bacterial diseases of a fatal ni ture, and surprising accounts are given of the manner in which » few inoculated insects die tribute epidemics far und wide among their kind, causing destruction to myrinds, bugs elsewhere in the thought that the malady ao deadly to the eab- bage worm may be equally fatal to other ob- noxious insects of diftcrent species, and at the presont time experiments are being made with a view to inoculating the boll worm of the cot- ton with this very disease. ‘The latter, secret- jug dtselt in the Doll of te plant, is not easily reached by ordinary insecticides. in addition to the two bacterial, 08 Te- ferred to the ruthless scientists of Kansas are trying to inoculate tho chinch bugs wholesale with a fungus complaint. Insects ure very lia- ble to troubles of this sort. When you see a fly stuck upon a windowpanc and surrounded with a sort of halo or white cobwebby substance, the ter is a fungus by whied it hasbeen de- youred. Often you will find moths afflicted in like manner. Abroad, for some years past, efforts have been made to exterminate locusts, cut worms and many other destructive bugs by spreading fungus discases among then, with partial success, A creature corresponding to theJune bug of this country does great damage to forests in Europe, and it is at present being attacked by the same means. Germs are casily got by soaking the fangi in water, and can be propagated like the bacteria for spraying. Aloreover, every insect infected distributes the spores of the fungus, corresponding to seeds, wherever it goes, und thus the affliction is dis” tribute ‘The most remarkable bug-eating fungus is 4 mushroom that grows out of a cut- erpillur, literally transforming the animal into a vegetuble, Itis much prized in some parts of the world asa delicacy for eating. Nature so provides that whenever an insect destructive to vegetable lite becomes over- abundant it is immediately attacked by dis- ease, fungus or bacterial, which breaks out spontaneously. In 1886 the web worms were ‘so numerous in Washington that all the trees in the streets and parks were stripped by them to nakedness. Immediately bacteria and furgi attacked the caterpillars, killing 90 per cent of them, according to reckoning of the De- partment of Agriculture, and the next year there was hardiy any. ‘wo bad chinch-bug years never come together. As quickly as they reach such numbers as sto overset nature's balance of life epidemics wipe them out wholesale. It is the samo way with all sorts of other bugs. The inevitable epi- demic each time reduces the aoe to a few, which grow in numbers year until the season comes for another plague to reduce them to the bottom of the scale again, and so ad infinitum. ‘To illustrate the rapidity with which microbes multiply, it is stated on eminent scientific du- thority that if all the oceans of the world were composed of beef tea a single bacterium would fill them up solid with its progeny within thirty days. THE PHOSPHATE BEDS IX FLORIDA. An expedition of the geological survey has just returned from Florida, whither it was sent to investigate the newly discovered ph beds in that state, which are undoubtedly the —— deposits of their kind in the worl deposits, being fragments washed to their pres- ent shape by tively. ‘THE NITRATES IM CHILI. The nitrates of which mention has been made are obtained largely from Chili, where the supply is practically controlled by Col. friend of the Prince of Wales. They are sim- tained in solution large quantities of that ma- terial. At present it is simply necessary to dij itup, put it through suitable processes an ship it atsomuchaton for fertilizing pur- great water shed and has no outlet save by evaporatio: about, Hence the nitrate deposits referred to. great percentage of phosphoric ac its wonderfu! value as a fertilizer. for any couste, famingoce, divers, penguin: during countless’ generat innumerable. been found bones of these animals, and fertilizing supplies have drawn, uot to mention the use made of them from suci powder. ——_—_+e-—____ A TELL-TALE SIGN, Married Couple. From the New York Recorder. Scene: A railroad in. Station he does not look up or cast a glance through the window. But he has that queer him that people sometimes have in the midst scious of a great shout and muck ianghter out- side on the platform. The laughter waslargely feminine, and the melodious din was punctuated imy and laughed a good deal through their window. Then the train started. As it moved awa: the man with the newspaper fi esting thing he flectively. He saw ished the inter- front of him a young he had read. ‘The young man wore alight derby hat. Ho pushed it on the back of his head to mop eated forehead. As he did so there was a lit patter on the newspaper that lay in the lap of the man who was ruminating. ‘The man who was ruminating looked down and saw that this patter had been caused by some tiny grains of rice. The discovery broke the chain of his reverie. He looked up again with a highly in- terested expression. He saw the young man half turn his head as if he had heard the patter on the The girl was very pretty. She exc lance with the young man that made t observer have » warm feeling under the left-hand upper side of his vest front. Then she leaned over and whispered to the young man: “T've got some of that down my back!” ————_oo ‘How easy it is to change one’s opinion, par- ticularly if one is @ woman, and the large dif- ference it makes whose ox is gored were in- stanced one day last week. It wat carly even- ing and the Erie day express from New York For a period covering so many millions of | {* years that no one would ever think of trying to reckon the time, these beds were being formed under the sea by billions of generations of mol- h other shell nd — died and added their remains to the stead- fly increasing deposits. ‘Thus when the ocean retreated banks of lime appeared above the surface, innumerable see fowl occupied them, for yurposes ‘their manure eliy substance. ‘This manure con- : FEE iy i 58 4 FE eees i i fi d Water; but no one kuows posi- North, the “nitrate =, S who issuch a great) ply doposite of nitrate of soda in the beds of lakes long ago dried up, which originally con- poses. Whena lake receives the tlow of a ioz, its water naturally accumulates and precipitates on the bottom the chemical clements filtered into it from the soil around Bird manure, as has been said, contains a nd hence | ‘ well was | this appreciated centuries ago that the Incas of | ancient Peru declared death as the punishment | \¥ one who killed even one of the birds | hich deposited guano on the islands off their late years many of these guano islands have been stripped of their precious matecial, aud before long none of it will be left, although in pluces it was as much as 100 fect in depth, being composed of droppings of ud other seu fowl s, together with their carcasses, and the excrement of seals, sea lions end marine animals of various sorts | would be giver plenty to ent and too! | until they could better their condition and se- | cure a home. Many considerable deposits of bat guano have in caves in various parts of the United States, made up of the droppings and i beds been extensively | #8. I. B. Hood, Mrs. Ogden Wyckoff, Sire during the war as mines for the production of saltpeter from which to manufacture gun- How He Found Out That They Were a New- A man in a certain seat is deeply absorbed in | newspaper. Although the train stops at a half-consciousnesa of what is going on about | of the most serious reading. - He was half-con- by a series of slight reports that a person who gave full instead of half of his attention might have recognized as kisses. Then the man dimly felt rather than saw the seat in front of him re- ceive two occupants, and recalled afterward an ression of the two occupants having shouted reading and looked up re- m and a young woman, still without associating thing with them.’ He was thinking of what his ttle No FIXED SET OF RULES. There is no set of rules to govern the institu- tion, as the agent believes in allowing the boys | to have their own wayas far as practicable. No objection is mado to a little or even a big noise. so long as itis all in fan, nor is there y stated time for retiring, although 9:30 is the hour when the children are supposed to be iu bed. If, however, they are enjoying them- selves when the time for retiring arrives they are not interrupted in an abrupt manner and put to bed, but are treated as though they were all members of one family and are permitted to remain up a while longer. “ There is no sign of a prison about the build- ing, such as is seen at many institutions, there not even being iron bars over the basement windows to protect the place from burglars. NO DISCRIMINATION. Those who are temporarily provided for are permitted to go and come when they like, and, unlike many other charitable societies, the chil- dren are received there upon a moment's no- tice, no discriminetion being made on account of sex or color, although chiliren over sixteen years old are not desired there. If, however, a boy or giri ever that age should sppear they ced after It is the intention of the man- agers that it shall be a home for the homeicss, and the agent certainly shows himself to bea fatuer to the fatherless. OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY. The society was organized January 24, 1885, and was incorporated one year later. The Present officers of the institution are: Presi- dent, Mrs. T. 8. Childs, 1308 Connecticut avenue; vice presidents, Mra. H. C. Metzerott, Mrs. H. M. Teller, Mra. Wm. Orr Cunningham, S. Lamb; recording secretary W. Curry, 1510 9th street; corresponding secre- tary, Mre. Ernest F. King, 923 M street north- west; treasurer, Mrs. 1. ¥. MucFarland, 1727 F street northwest; Lourd of trustees, Hon. Henry Strong, president; Dr. E. M. Gallaudet, Dr. T 8. Chilus, Mr. Crosby S. Noyes, Mrs. H. Metzerott, Mrs. Samuel Thomas, Mrs. J. Flint, Mrs. Ogden Wyckoff, Mrs. Ernest King. Tho first names in the board incorporators are those of Chief Justice Waite of the United States Supreme Court and Justice Miller of the same court, both of whom have since died. ‘The active work of the society has always been done largely by ladies. ‘Lhe first president was Mrs, Darwin R. Jai wite ot Hon. D. it ‘ agent was Mrs. ow, d most efficient Service until cho was called to the Industrial Home in Georgetown. THE WORK OF THR SOCIETY. ‘The work of the society was at first limited to the newsboys and bootblacks of this city. It was soon evident, however, that there were many other children, boys and girls, for whose wantsno proper provision: cxisted in the District These ure the miserabi> poor and destitute, homeless orplians, or worse than orphans, the neglected and abused Waifs, estrays, runaways, children just touching the border line of crim or having actually passed it, for whom our inst tutions of penal imprisonment for older and more abandoned criminals are no place. These children have been gradually included in the operations of the society. "No distinetion is made in race or sex or religion. The only question asked ia, “Does the child need the re- lief that the society can give?” The agent of the society devotes himself wholly to the work. He receives the children constantly brought to the home and cares for them there. He looks up their cases and if they have parents or friends to whom they should be returned, he returns them, not in- frequently sending’ home children that have wandered from or are seeking friends in other places are sought for them the country or the city. So far the society acts as reau. Industrial education if é iH H i ie fornia Mr. Sweeney put a good suit of clothes on him, gave bim €2 and sent him out with ins structions to report twice day. The boy re~ .d been instructed and conducted during the week that be was ia. Being ouly sixteen and vent across the continent, arriving at Lis destination all right, Since he arrived there his em) ‘Written a letter of thanks to Agent which he paid a high go to Calitorni was com) it to the re ‘The boy erevele Sith BE employer wharerae he goes and on his drives through the count | ee crane to open gates, Mr. Sweeney expects to ove th® ‘@ wealthy citizen, ———— Written for The Evening Star. Bees and Ports. ‘Ye bees, that, through the suany hours, Mauut the sweet bosoms of the flowers, And mix with music your light toll, As thence ye draw your golden spall Ambrosial; lo! for others you ‘Your pleasing, airy work pursug; Even as singers old for me Bived stores of prectous poeey, Which with the palate of my anima T taste, at ease, with Joy refined, ‘The while to your melodious hum Tiisten as ye go and come; And, loving, like yourselves, the time Of Summer, Weave, myself, this thyme, ‘Thankful to poets, and to you, Blithe, busy noney-gatnerers, too, Mr. Slorboy, having decided to walk uy for a change, encounters ® gang of men are laying a cable. ta A little farther on the street is Weing oxen vated for anew pavement.

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