Evening Star Newspaper, September 5, 1891, Page 12

12 THE FIRST MAN SLAIN. Lieut. Brownell Talks of the One Whose Death He Avenged. pray in vain, and yet such is my organization, my temperament and the combination of cir- cumstances which have thus far given color to my life that, though naturally of a cheerful disposition, in looking over the record of ten yours, written everywhere I find trouble, disappointment, misery. Not one ray of happiness beams upon me from the past. This is, perbaps, the first time that I have given utterance to these foctingseo plainly. It is wrong, perhaps, but tonight 1 cannot it. [tis not the petulance of boyhood, nor the still more unreasonable egotism of the man trying te shift the burden of his own faults, sins or omissions to other shoulders. It is not this Iam too much in earnest. My life hith- erio has been a complete refutation of such a supposition. 1 have tried to act right; have shauned dissipation of every ELLSWORTH'’S HIGH MISSION. Agony Which He Endured on Account of His Poverty—His Struggles to Get « Firm Foot- ing—His Preparation for the War He Knew Must Come. DWNELL, WHO AT ty summers, be- hero ii able by drewing | kind “as unworthy of one who looks ear- ype Neig rebellion as the | nestly at life and its duties; have denied ella - ¢ Et all pleasures, feeling that as long as avenger of Col. whose best days were devoted to man of mature learned and man of superior worshiper of the 1 ren, were compelled to toil, I had no right to reek simply my own pleasures; wo ve ved, toiled, suilered, right in the midst of is_my witness have I gone so t tyne, rap user | fog without food that, in the solitude of my id his hero is the | own room, I have almost choked myself in the whose life he vaiuly at whose | extremity of my agony. Lhave walked the so quickly t atun-| streets night after uight through the long kuown resim of ete ing of his be-| winter; slept upon the hard boards with no this that L might succeed in in every way worthy. All this but for long months, Tax reporter: city of Chicago | nave 1 endured, not oi that which is | covering at al has neglected to bh | years even, rather than do aught that was un- yet I realize that great »wed | worthy of inyscif. And what better am I to- so fast upon ench other during our eivil | dey I reavived for it? Scorn from “ait ae not to be a sub-| tose whom fortune favored; kicks from those who th nk a man s desires and demeanor should ¥ the tood he eats, the clothes whea fortune seemed to smile to relax my revolution long enough € like a human being for a few days until elf with paltry debt, which 1 was of first mi y fresh im th I want to live le ent erecte I by the ct wor fand the first minds of thi @nough to see a monu: or in the national ca people. Chicago in _ aly ,debarred from paying imme- Zo + celebr tely; with what hearty good will was I ng men under the co pt. | {; notone tosay tome that [had their sym- Elisworth. made the name of the city by the forsooth, becauve all did not under- lake famous before she attained fame - my affairs were not patent ness as the commercial metropol cealag uax diceadonnek: pire of the west; « company whi who knows human nature so ‘the inspiratio: = aero . can ——— » judges so unswervingly, who prates 3 Ww arched du: earnedly of the happiness of success, let ‘h a one sacrifice everything for some great pose, commit no wrong, and receive in re- turn such treatment as I have borne, and see ckly it will destr philosphies. understand my feelings and ac- count for their existence in the mind of the old of twenty-two. I liken my fortune to | tat of a traveler, led or forced onby some in- visible power, who toils along a rough path with "almost insurmountable _difti- ; who anon sees on either side of him nehing off in every direction beautiful roads fing to most attractive spots, which give promise of repose, but at every succeeding at- tempt to exe the one for the other is buf- feied back into the old track to toil on, saluted Jatevery step by the Jeers of all, who, secing ouly the traveler, know nothing of the influence Which surrounds bim.’ sing ef 1300 for the tro arties, “Wik on te tending p Giants and ny which “how little tim: world for who have pas fore, not surprise Present pleasure to read everythin Ing him and to study almost with reveren few leaves of the diary which he le: cious memento to his bereaved parents an ing friends. BE BELIEVED HE HAD A MISSION. “Upor his youthful mind there was the im- Press of a mission for which he had been called A MONUMENT TO HIS MEMORY. into being. Ho foresaw as by tion the | “Is it any wonder, after having taken even civil war, and he, more n any | this little glimpse of the hero whose memory I availabie concert e the prepared himvelf i with | tove, ued Mr. Brownell, “that I say as e contact for the tr cmendons | Tdo, that I hope to live to see the day when his crisis which the nation 4 roses it | monument shall be raised on high, and another Ss Damypeep eer erected to the memory of his Chicago zouaves, lp OW EOE Ses aod tebe unveiled either in Chicago or in the na- hs ring aemcuceteps ota tional e: or in both cities. I lived near oder where he born. Iknow his lif odin gy s pty-hearted, empty transmitted to him the genius of the | Beg Me ye ent ory oe ——— believe that his death was = este Temes een accomplishment — of — his mission, tat boon was dening;#d that his mission was an inspired Figg om Bae Basco After the grief of losing him I settled conviction which has grown into ith, that the tr: sry and ill- adiments of muilitary science himself in drill and dy and sacri- © Were as necessary @ part of the Bog oe heer of omnipotency as was the sudden ditteer se of Lizcolu, who loved him, at the close en cae almost internecine struggle. All these feupektntch ihesony een things 1 recognize as facts and factors in a uni aa wee prea dirs | versal plan beyond the posetbility of human in- asaume command of the Caicts chick he ani | tellizence to fathom, for every man is the in- upon the adoption of rules and by-laws drawn | “l4isent artitices of a work which is not his own. “Do you wonder now that I am_so earnest, | so sincere, day and night, in my thoughts for the perpetuation of the memory of one so great and yet so humbie and unpretentious: see that you are in sympathy with me; you have, after all these years, become d with that ‘old man of twenty-two, his diary has been as potent in its ppeal. to you as it is to me. those leaves Ellsworth, though dead, up by bimsel:. They were: Abstinence f entering drinking saloons, houses of ill-+t gambling hells and all disreputable p der penalty of expulsion from the cozps, publi- cation in the city papers and forfeiture of uni- formand equipments. HE PORESAW THE Wan “With Ellsworth life was real and earnest, | and he determined to organize, equ:p and dr a company which would be Menritdin Ok soca tan sr Frilt, | yet speuketh. I hope that your’ sympathy and ealerusy ohh bis peepielis eet sick jement will aid in the accomplishment cscraleczry Aegean gl pnt on Hiss | Of the day dreata of my life, the object of my discipline was very severe and none but the | C°® rand solicitude. I believe that pie know even thas much of him ey will build a monument which will endure for ev: SUSTICE IF NoT LAW. best and ablest men could long remain in the company. He drilled them for a year, and then--history tells the rest. They traveled ail | over the United States, drilling iu competit ald not be forgotten A Western Solon Settles a Wife Beater and which were far-reaching and timel Without Jailing Him. their effects. Hie greatness will be bet-| pron the Chicago Trits ter understood when I inform yo . gdocr-somer ° from his diary, that durin tinea, | _ Zhe western police justice admitted that he imaportant days of 'self-ubnegation, self-sacrifice and rigid discipline, Dimself as well as upon hi Ellsworth was so y deal of the time upon is an extract from bi 14, 1859: “Bought 245 for $14, and ndulge my ideas order im arrangement of my papers Paid of my own money and borrowed 10 of James | Clyberne. Two years when very poor, | Clyborne and two friends comyelied me to step | W back with them into a restaurant which I hat didn’t know much about law, but he thought 2 knew as muck about justice as any one who j ever sat on the supreme bench. So he looked © | wise when the big brute was brought in and he looked solemn when the little woman with a | bandage over one eye, a cut on her cheek and a big bruise on her neck admitted that her band did strike her, but said that he was good to her when he was sober, which ‘t want him fined, judge,” she left. They ordered oyst I de- | said ¢ “Just make bum promise not ‘ined, for always make it er to 8 rinciple never to whiea | The justice looked over some old law books, reane seek ught | hemmed and hawed a little and then said with stews for the entire part in it, and I sat down to ¢ Th Fant on business, but had ¢ gloriously every Tad tasted in was | all due dignity: lf| “The court eannot find that the law ade- quately provides for cases of this description. ing. How | As my friend Blackstone once said, there are first food {| eases in which the presiding judge must lay When I | legal lore aside and trust to his own discretion ommion Bense. ce left the bench and approached the may pocket, 1 paid Clyb. said that I owed him, b remember. W gave it to me c 5 Have written four hours il Fotads crackers. sleep on office tlour tonight. tire 11 o'clock. : the j which iw nut rat the bar,” he said, “if you were this court would fine you $20, derstanding of the court from at ¥ your wife.” ed up against the table tice’s fist ianded on his left eye. if you were just drunk and disorderly,” finued the justice, “this court would send LS AXD HARDSIIPS. T that I love the memory of “He was | vou up for ten days, but two witnesses swear ion of the | th a hit your wife with your ave the Union | ch nnd at the Bioltke solved tt F Fame almost e whining. youbad thrown a rock through some- 8 window,” continued the justice, “this rt would make it $10 and costs, but there is ntrovertible evidence that you kicked your landed ina heap on the floor - The prisoner yelled so that he could be heard | wck- | four blocks as the justice’s boot landed on his vuld | ribs. 10 Inght | Then the justice ascended the bench ag: bi var | and aft LY cam} hi whing the toe of his boot with his olemnly said: uding of this court in full session lly studying the law in the up the rulings of the supreme w cireuit court of appeals, that y one way to punish a wife beater ishing the wife. The prisoner is am,” to the wife, ‘if he ain bring him here and I'll dis- Bet enough abe of some kind. ‘Poor bey sol his moist began Ells as a thought flashed across his mind, c death was | he called o but the cui unto whieh | there any more wife beaters in the be was called by Divine Providence. box? I'd like to dispose of all such A SENSE oF — cases before taking up the minor crimes of “Suiy 21. —A sense cf my utter loneti- | 8708, horse stealing. highway robbory, &¢." 3 Ress came over me toniz! myroom My embarrassing position, a that 1 have to co tend with, swept ac shone brightly aud Tributaries to Elk Lake. received at St Paul, Minn., e music students and experts fo me Ly a baz expedition state that discovered two tributaries to lake at the head waters of the Mie ppi, which are not laid down on any map a have obviously escaped the eye of influence of a spell gave full reiu to egiuation and it pictured to my mi, scence of happiness as I fear I may never en). I saw the dear old homestead, embosoued lorious trees whose widespreading | Pt@vious explorers. The expedition is now with gentle cignity, ex if conscious of | Me, aud surveying parties are noting the their noble beauty,’ the river, in its | Sepsh. velocity, length and other peculiarities islands, the grecn clad hillsafar off. the great Duteb bara with its denizens ull, the pouttry, Yogs, and even old Mink with bis soft ey: aming with almost human intelligence, were it to ri hen in boykood I my eyes as whe yh them and tried to pictare to myself thereat world beyond and the part I should pingn it. 1 tried to fancy may beloved parents pyment of all this becuty and undie- surbe yy care: but alas the picture brought with fxg much of ae reality ‘that the drvam ite in ite place E beheld another which a8 caine nei aaeie | working ans ving for existence.their tortured by anxiety ior the fare of @ son at home; for the welfare of mother too long absent: of desires pon whicheven angels would smile, and of the sum tota.of all that goes to fill to the brim the cup of micry, from which it seems we aro Of all Mississippi river feeders A “Pat” Fine. From the Philadelphia Muste and Drama. An incident showing the severity of Pat Gil- more’s discipline is related as occuring at a recent rehearsal of the “great and only band.” iy desk. ‘The band immediately stop Turning his gaze npon a tig German wombs er. who was hide behind Virumcut for shame’ Sf. Ginens ees “Karl, that was very bad. ‘The his in- beers are on — ‘SOME OF THE LARGE REAL ESTATE INVESTORS— JUDGMENT OF PROPERTY VALUES AND TEE DIFFICULTIES IN THE WAY—OTHER MATTERS. Six figures representing the amount of s real estate sale is regarded by brokers as constitut- ing a first-class transaction. Even in the sea- son, when the real estate market is active and customers are plentifal and sales numerous, 9 sale involving such a large amount would be a notable event. When, however, a transaction of this character is recorded just at the close of the dull period of summer and at the begin- ning of the autumn season it is looked upon not only as something remarkable, but as a promising indication of an active season. This is the way the sale of the Linthicum place, which was made last week by Mr. M. M. Par- ker, as mentioned in Tae Stan, is regarded in eal estate circles. Sey x 2 actual amount paid for the property by Mr. Henry F. Biount is $5,000 in excess of the $100,000." At any rate Mr. Blount has secured a handsome home for himself, as those who are familiar with this historic and beautiful place well know. The house is a tine old mansion, built in the generous and comfortable fashion ofa period when ground was not so valuable as it is now. Though a fewalterations will be made by Mr. Blount before he occupies itas a residence the old place will remain practically unchanged. The house sets back some distance from Road street, in the midst of a fine lawn, which is adorned with splendid oak trees. Al- together the place contains about six acres of land, and calculating its value by the square foot, which is the most familiar basis of valuation, as the Rock Creek Park commissioners are no doubt aware by this time, Mr. Blount paid about 40 cents per square foot for this property. The sale Husttates what hos been &'thmillar fact for some time to those acquainted with George- town property, and that is values in that sec- tion of the city have been steadily advancing. Recently a portion of tho Linthicum property on Road street, just north of the residence, has been subdivided into lots and sold for 75 cents per foot. Lots in the same vicinity have sold at higher figures, aud for property nearer the carliuesand the center of population prices have been obtained which would astonish those who have net kept up with the progress that old Georgetown has been making of late years. There was atime when Georgetown had a feparate municipal existence that its proximity to Washington seemed to be # disadvantage, but since it has become a part of the city it shares in the prosperity which the entire trict now enjoys. IMPROVEMENTS IN THE LOCALITY. To the north of the Linthicum place Mrs. Okie has reeently purchased a square of ground, which will shortly be improved by the ion of a house. New houses are going up in all parts of Georgetown, and the old place is stretching beyond its original borders and fill- ing up the suburbs. Over in Georgetown, however, people are still old-fashioned enough to believe in having plenty of room about their houses. It is a good fashion, and oue that is slowly coming into vogue in the Washington part of the city. Every one will rejoice that the generous old lawns of the Linthicum place are to be preserved. The new owner, Mr. Blount, likes to have plenty of room about his home. ' He has been a resident of this city for the past five years, and during that time he has lived in the large old mansion which in former days stood in the grounds which surrounded the old buildings of Colum- bian University when it was located at the head of 1ith street. This houseswas the residence of the president of the university, and when the property waa sold and the grounds eut up inte building lots the presi- dent's house was allowed to remain. Prev to his coming to this city Mr. Blount had lived for several years in Europe. He has not only made his home here, but, like other men of wealth who come to this city and spend an time, he was quick to see the advantages whic! real estate here offers as an investment. He has investei largely and successfully in Wash- ington real estate, and owns not only business propezty but suburban property. SoM LARGE INVESTORS. That the number of such men as Mr. Blount is increasing cach year is one of the gratifying facts in connection with the prosperity of the capital. Itix recognized that the fact that men of this class select this city as a place of residence and also invest their means here is « substantial evidence that Washington is highly esteemed, both as a place of residence and as a place to profitably place money. Recently it Was mentioned in Tue Sran’ thet Mr. H.C. Nevins of New York would erect a fine residence here for his home. The other day a permit was taken out for building this house, which wiil cost over £50,000. He paid $25,000 for the lot, which has.a frontage of some forty fect on Massachusetts avenue just west of 17th street. It will adjoin the handsome residence which Mr. Sidney A. Kent, a wealthy citizen of Chicago, recently built. One of the most striking residences erected on 16th street in recent years is the one which is just being completed for Mr. Frederick’ C. Stevens. Like Mr. Nevins, Mr. Stevens has been living here for several years and occupying a rented house, but he concluded to have a house of his own, and he has built one that is not only elegant in all its appointments, but is large and spacious. There are a great many similar instances of men of wealth who have made their permanent homes here. Mr. B. H. Warder, who is now #o thoroughly iden: fied with the ‘interests of the city, has been a liberal inyestor in real estate ever since he came here. Last yeur it is estimated that he ex- pended in the purchase of land and the erection of houses and business buildings $100,000, and before the present building season closes he will have invested a similar amount. He is now one of the largest property holders in the city Mr. Johu K. MeLean has extensive property interests here, while Mr. L. Z. Leiter paid ¥54,000 for the lot upon which he is now erect- ing a residence, which will probably cost in the neighborhood of $200,000. Mr. J. Fairfield Car- ete THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C, SATURDAY, - GRANT'S SHARP GTICK—A HOMELESS HEBREWS * SAD STORY — THOUSANDS RETURNING FROM EUROPE—RVA MANN To STAR. ‘Bpecial Correspondence of The Evening Star. . New Yong, September 3, 1891. [7 SS BATHER A DISCOURAGING FEATURE of our political life that men who have the frankness and the intelligence to speak their real mind on public topics are almost kept out of the race for honors, because their utterances are thrown up aguinst them in any campaign. We are likely to have a striking example of this in the candidacy of Andrew D. White for gov- ernor of New York. No reasonable man would doubt in private life the entire appropriateness of Mr. White to fill the governor's chair. He would maintain the dignity and the interests of the empire state as few could do. He is a mil- lionsire. a man of profound learning, of most unspotied personal character and wide expe- rience in politics, diplomacy and society. Yet, naturally, such a man has had his notions on current topics and has expressed them freely and forcibly. CANDID VIEWS. Mr. White bas always cherished 2 political ambition, to be sure, and hence has been more cautious in his utterances than he might other- wise have been. At the same time he could scarcely help viewing life from the standpoint of the scholar and the eritie, and hne written some very candid sentences about certain sovial abuses which your hack politician treats very gingerly indead. One may notice, there- fore, on all sides an undertone of anxiety lest Prosident White's candidacy might not lead to awkward quotations that would lose votes. Some of the democratic papers are crying “Hush” to their colleagues and slyly ogging on the republican party to nominate a man whom ba 3 eee eee A Visit te = Prosperous and Promising Con- tral American City. ‘MANAGUA AND ITS PUBLIC BUILDING@—THE AP PROACH TO THE CAPITAL FROM GRANADA—A ‘STOP AT MASAYA—THE GREAT LAKE—PROORES- IVE NICARAGUA. ~ Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. Mawaova. Nicaraova, August 15, 1891. Wwe APPROACH MANAGUA, THE CAPI- tal of Nicaragua, from Granada. This stretch of narrow-gauge road,adistance of about thirty miles, forms third part of the railroad system of the republic, which is owned and operated by the government. Coming from the region of the San Juan river, where the wet season but seldom allows the rays of the sun to show themselves, the scene is » transformation. In the former region the river is lined with a ‘most luxuriant vegetation, hanging vines,droop- ing palms and graceful ferns of enormous size, forming at every turn of tie river ex- quisite scenes of tropical beauty. But should We arrive west of the great lake in the dry season, beginning in December and lasting six months, tho vegetation would not suggest that we are within eleven degrees of the equator. From Granada to Managua we pass through a Series of cattle estates, only occasionally patches of country coming in view that show signs of cultivation, these growing plantains, Indian corn, yuca and tobacco. When our journey is half accomplished we havo arrived at Masaya, at the base of the vol- cano of that name, and here we wnit for half an hour.for no purpose that is apparent. Oranges, mangos tiste (a popular drink of the country, being s concoction of ground corn, chocolate and sugar in water) are for sale by native women. ‘The latter stand at the side of the station, a structure of modern style, and making this drink offer it for sale, together with the assortment of cakes and pies, cheese being an ingrediont that takes u prominent place in the pastry thus sold. ‘The train starts they regard as so vulnerable. A few days ago his nomination seemed to be agreed upon, but perhaps these demonstrations may induce the Party managers to select some neutral nobody oF a moreconventional and machine representa- ive. This week has been devoted to fixing the blame for the terrible disaster in Park place. Interest in the tragedy itself had somewhat abated, whon Mayor Grant, in the role of Hal- roun Al Ruschid, went poking about in the ruins with his cane and himeelf uncarthed two more corpses that everybody hud overlooked. ‘Then he sat down, as his irascible predecessor, ayor Hewitt, might have done, and wrote a ing letter to the board of Kealth wanting to know why they had been go remiss. This brought on another spasm of research, but fortunately the worst wasalready known and no more victims appeared. WHERE THE RESPONSIBILITY RESTS. It thon remained to find out who was respon- sible, and this has been pretty clearly shown, though the owners of the building have dono their best to defend themselves against the heavy burden of blame, both moral and pecu- piary, which must rest upon them in case the inquest proves that tho building fell from its own inherent weakness. ‘To read the testimony one is astonished that human beings would take such chances as those did who remained in the doomed structure, month after month and year after year, when certainly in their own opinion it was so unsafo. But in most cases ey wore “prisoners of poverty.”) They lind to work at what they could find todo and where & Job offered. That any one who had a choice in the matter should have stayed in such a tot- tering structure is amazing, but there are pris- oners of stupidity as well as of poverty—men who disregard all signsand marry andare given in marriage,while prudent Noah and his family are entering into the ark and it is already be- ginning to rain. HOMELESS AND HELPLESS. A pitiful ninoteenth century version of the tale of the Wandering Jew goes on here fre- quently since the Russian hostility to the He- brews drives so many of them to scek shelter on this side of the ocean. A typical cave is that of Lazarus Katzur, who was brought in by the Etruria on Monday. He is adeformed ped- dier, old, crippled and penniiess. ‘The story of what he suffered in the lund he fled from seems more like a dark and lurid tale of medieval in- humanity thaa a chronicle of the nineteenth century. ‘Turee times was his peddler’s pack stolen from him and he was beaten into unconscious- ness. The beating was renewed when he re- orted himself empty-handed to his employere. Tine third time he did not go back to them, but under cover of darkness stole to his poor homo, packed up, his few belongings and fled: He captured, however, and both he and the friend who sheltered him were strung up by the arms toa tree and clubbed almost to death. Katzur was then taken back to his own town, Slabotky, hung to a tree head downward and terribly beaten on his naked body with stout whips, his Christian neighbors relieving each other in the agreeable task. He was then sentenced by the authorities to be banished to Siberia, which one would fancy would be a leasant retreat from the civilities of his n: own. His guard, thinking him too helple movo, were not very vigilant and that night he managed to escape, and, with incredibl> effort | and suffering, made his way to Liverpool. He and the rest of his countrymen think that in reaching Amerien they have come to the promised land, where the government will pro- vide them with homes. When they are turned back by the immigra- tion authorities as paupers likely to become a public charge they are in despair and say they are driven back to Russia to their death. While they are detained at the barge office they are faithfully cared for by the United Hebrew Char: ties, which society finds its resources pretty well taxed by the needs of their numerous un- fortunate countrymen. THE LATEST HISTRIONIC GENIUS. 0 penter last fall paid $93,500 for # building lot, although he owns the very handsome house on 16th street where he resides. IMPROVEMENTS IN RESIDENCES, Some changes are being made in the resi- dence of Lieut. T. B. M. Mason on Con- necticut avenue near Q street which will ma- terially add to its present ample conveniences The high steps are being removed and the mara entrance will be on a level with the street, in the style of the English basement houses. ’ In this respect it will be similar in design with the adjoining residence of his mother. ‘The resi dence of Maj. Bailey at the corner of Connecti- cutavenus and Kt street is also being improved. There will be a change made in the high porch at the main entrance and the veranda at the side will be inclosed and the space added to the interior. The alterations in both instances ré being made under the direction of Mr. Charles A. Langley. BEAL ESTATE VALUATIONS. The value of judgment in regard to real estate values is being put toa rather severe by the lawyers representing the different in- terests in the hearing before the Rock Creek Park commission. ‘the experts who are asked to give their opinion of the value of the prop- erty proposed to be taken for the park are also expected to stand a rigid examination of the reasons upon which their opinions are based. It is not an easy matter to determine the value of property. ‘The judgment of men of ex- tended experience is sometimes entirely at fault when it comes to making property valua- tions. It is frequently the case that the only basis in a good market is what the property will bring, and that is what may be regarded as a speculative value. Then, again, the basis may be what the property will pay; what revenue it id. ‘This is an investment value. The speculative value often becomes the value of the property as un investment, as has been demonstrated time and time again in the history of real estate in this city. ‘The present ruling prices, for example, five years ago would have Leen regurded as wildly speculative. In other words, there is a wide difference between what property is worth now and what it may be worth. Ifa man is called upon to say what, in his opinion, property will be worth in the future he must tke into consideration, among other things the probable growth and pros- perity of the city during the next few years. The tax assessors, who are now engaged in re~ viewing property’ for the purpose of placing a value upon it for assessment purposes, are not bothered by any rations 0% what the future may be, or, for that matter, the condition of the present. ’ Their definition of value “is that amountin lawful money which There may be some doubt in most people's minds as to who is the most famous woman in America, but the woman who calls herself “Mrs. Robert Ray Hamilton” has no hesitation in an- swering the question and boldly announces her- self as that conspicuous individual. After claiming to be Mrs. Hamilton and the most famous woman in the land it requires very little additional nerve to claim to be wn actress and to bill the small New Jersey towne with lurid though somewhat tautological announcements that she wiil appear in “ber beautiful, realistic aud pretty romantic drama, entitled ‘All a Mis- take.” The drama gives her version of her disgrace- ful story, but seems to omit a number u! ortant incidents which might have been made Eighly realistic, though nether beewtiful nee pretty. It is witcerely to be hoped that she will ind her expectations of gaining money and fresh notoriety from this venture to be indeed “All a Mistake.” THE TRAGEDY OF THE TRUNKS. People are pouring back to New Yorkina steadily swelling stream, and a prolonged howl is going up from a multitude of afflicted wo- men who can not get their trunks. Pelion is piled on Ossa at all the ferries. Alps on Al; arise ut 42d street. Groaning porters hurl the cracking trunks upon express wagons with loud thuds which would be sickening to their owners could they hear them, and reduce one accumulation only to tind themselves sub- merged beneath another avalanche brought in on the next train. At the Grand Central sta- tion there was nine times as much baggage re- ceived lust Saturday as on the preceding Satur- day, but there were not nine times us many men to cope with it, and many hundreds of re- turned travelers watched anxiously in vain for the arrival of their Sunday gowns. When one will get one’s trunks in New York is at any time a problem that would tax a skilled mathe- matician, but anywhere around the ist of September he might as well put it aside with perpetual motion and squaring the circle as one of the things no fellow can find out. STAGE SETTING AXD WINDOW DRESSING. “Imperial Cmsar dead and turned to clay” might have thought himself somewhat re- duced in circumstances when he stopped that hole to keep the wind away, but his ignominy was nothing to that which’ has befallen Mra. Astor's famous gowns. You have all read the tragic tale of the additional duty levied upon them, of the Spartan firmness with which their owner refused to puy it, of the Roman severity with which the tor ordered them to be sold at auction. Two, a ball gown and a under adverse circumstances.”” {ificalties in the'way of ee judgment of values even from this standpoin ‘but thoy ure alight compared with. the trek of determining the present worth of property. If an accurate forecast of the future could be AIRS atiereat Sacnap Concent at Bar Rivas Sunday after- such property would probably bring at forced sale ‘There are ar accurate noon, Septeuiber 6, by a superb chorus of ‘Traine from B. and 0. station at 9:85 wish taceeera eae day, Marabal} Hall Bee ely. = dinner gown, fresh from Felix, with the bloom ot Paris still as! One will embelish the suppotably fair form of “Jennie Joyce,” while tho other sinks, if possible, evon lower. It will figure in the show window of a big $d avenue em- off again, running at the rate of twenty miles an hour, making frequent stops for wood, which is the only fuel used to run the engine. Ar Masaya we have reached the highest elevation on the Tine of the road, over 700 feet above sea level, and here go through a cut of some fiftéen feet deep, then descending 500 feet in twenty miles. Several mountain peaks are in sight, the ex- tinct volcano of Masaya being on the left. The railrond passes. over the lava bed of this vol- cano, about cighteen miles from tho crater. An eight-foot cut was made through the lava, which shows the formation of the flow. Near the surface the mass has a porous and spongy appearance, but six feet from e top the ' pressure from above hardened it toa compact form. The material from this cut has been used as bedding for the railroad at every place where grading is made. though there is ‘but little of such work from Masaya to the capital, and at the latter a sea wall is being constructed of it for the protec- tion of the pier extended into Lake Managua, on which the track runs and whence lake steamers ply to Momotombo, there connecting again with the national railway extending to Corinto on the Pacitic, THE GREAT LAKE. Upon nearing Managua a glimpse of the lake is had before the city is reached. Crossing the great lake the traveler is impressed by the broad expanse of water, ninety miles long and half that width, buthere the scenery is more contracted and the water is hemmed in by ai almost continuous mountain range that gives it the appearance of but few miles across it. The Mountains are bleak and about 3,000 feet high. in the evening the sun setting back of the city tinges the rugged heights and throws back a flood of light that would rival a sunset in color- ing, the reflection from the cliff of the bare summit varying with every slant of the rock surface throwing them off. Finst VIEW OF MANAGUA. Approaching the city the first view is of cane huts and one-story structures of sawed timber. The latter innovation has been introduced by the saw mill on the lake by which the road passes, and if it be in the interest of progress docs not improve the picturesqueness of the Scene. Adobe and cane houses, tile roofed and alike as so many peas, tucked in here and there among groves of orange, plantain, mango and other tropical fruit trees, blend with the scenery wonderfully well. The modern steam saw mill here, the firstand only one in the country, has been turning out lumber for some three or four years und a ready market at fancy prices is found for all it cau produce. Elsewhere lum- ber is only turned out in the crude manner of bygone times; one man standing on and another under a great log suspended over a pit saw by hand, and their combined work, consun:- ing days, could be done in almost as minutes by machinery. PROGRESSIVE NICARAGUA. It may be said that Managua, the capital, represents the progressive side of Nicaragua. Here it is that the first two-story houses of the country were built only a few years ago, and now building operations are in progress on ail sides, almost all the houses being of two stories. It is also the only town here that has an ade- quate system of water works, the water being pumped up from the lake and distributed to the houses all over the town. An ice machine is here and is making a small fortune for its owners, its product being sold at five cents « pound, or 3 per bundredweight. Ice is be- coming more and more populer and at hotels it is freely used. Among tho innova- tions is a theater, such a place of amuse- ment established in Granada a year ago having become so good an investment—paying 90 per cent—that the enterprise was introduced here. It is a wooden building with a gallery and commodates 600 or 700. ‘fraveling” Spanish troupes perform here and they have crowded houses." Twelve dollars for boxes of six seats and €1.50 for adinission to the best part of the house is charged. While the experience of ut- tending the theater is a novel one business is prosperous; but it is yet to be seen how well the patronage continues when this clement is wanting. CENTER OF THE COFFEE TRADE. It is not alone the presence -here of the seat of government that gives the place its lead over other cities, but it is also the center of the cof- fee trade, which is now the life of the whole country.’ ‘The advance in the price of the bean has given coffee land a boom, and so riches have been thrust upon many'a planter who previously only got a bare living from the land. The bulk of the incomes so acquired are spent in this city. Consequently, the stores have taken on proportions never before equaled. ‘The trade 1s divided between natives and for- eigners and the place is thoroughly cosmopol- itan. Asin all the Central and South Ameri-, can countries, England and Germany are mos' largely represented among the business houses™ Houses being erected now show the influence of the foreign clement. 17S POLITICAL LOCATION. Managna is not an old city and never would have assumed proportions greater than that of asmall pueblo had not two political factions been located on both sides of it. Leon and Granada, the former of 40,000 inhabitants and the latter half the size, are the largest cities of the country. The former is near the Pacific and the latter is on the shores of Lake Nica- ragua. The seat of government was shifted back and forth, first atone and then at the other place, many times, when finally a truce was formed and they located it per- manently at a little Village midway ‘be- tween the two, and so Managua has become a city of 18,000 inhabitants, with more modern contrivances than any other place in the county, if we except San Juan dd Norte, where the canal company is now at work. Iu no way does it show its modern origin more than in its location. In order to secure pro- tection against attack by water we find noother towns built on tho shores, ‘They are locatod threo or four miles from the shore, but Managua ruus down to the beach and’ the resident's house has a full and close view of Manague. ‘ihe Nicaragua Canal Com- pany is obligated to build a six-foot canal con- ‘Recting the {wo lakes by the terms of its con- De THE PUBLIC BUILDINGS of Managua aro comprised in two structures, the chief of which is the president's house, where not only resides tho presidential family, but in it are also located the ments anda iy number of soldiers, who are sill plentiful he So ie cou. Tae borer oe Tiomesbaciana ates venenen ae Seta having been made and pain’ tately looking group of gentlemen are the excpresidenta, some In the plain garb of the Planer, others actired in the frills of the dress of Europe of half century ago. All the Presidents of the republic since the independ- ence of 1821, about a dozen in number, are represented. The palace, barracks ‘and cathedral front on the principal plaza, which is alawn with paths worn across it by pedes- trians. It is a popular place for the gutheri of venders of tiste and pastry. chiefly dis of to thesoldiers. A public museum is THE HOTELS are all kept by foreigners, mostly English speaking. The one most frequented by gov- ernment officials was conducted by an Ameri- can, who died a year ago,and the place has now passed into the hands of an Englishman. On the first floor of this‘hotel the sun-burned brick is the material of the floors, and the rooms being latge generally three or four beds are arranged about the sides, mosquito bars being provided. Travelers are supposed to provide their own bedding. ore are many fine views of scenery to be had by driving back of the city into the hills. Mountain and lake scenery combine to make the locality « beautiful one. No more fitting spot could be selected for the capital, which is rapidly adding attractions that are destined to make “it one of the first cities in Central America. CEE ————_+e+_—___ THE OTHER SIDE. A Solid Business Man's Talk With » Tailor Who Demanded a Deposit. From the Kansas City Times. He was a substantial and well-known business man of the city, and when he walked into a tailoring establishment on Main street the other day he asked in a business-like way to be shown some plain gray goods for a business suit. The second piece shown him struck his fancy and he asked the cost, told how he wanted it made and had his measure taken. Then, handing the tailor his card, he said: “Your place was recommended to me by Mr. —, who always deals here.” After asking when he should call for it he started out. “We always require a deposit of €10,” gested the tailor.” — mi “A what?” “A deposit of $10. You know sometimes People forget to come after clothes and they ve to be sent to the misfit man.” “You meat ‘Yes, sir; it’s necessary ‘Suppose you make a jing. you want me to pay €10 down?” in our business. out. “Now see here, Mr. Tailor, euppose you get things mixed and cut out my cloth ‘on the pat- tern of that slab-sided, ” slope-shouldered, bandy-legged dude you just measured, do vou suppose altering would do them any good? Not much. Now you have had a square whack at me; you have gone all over my anatamy with that string and triangle. You have punched me in the side and poked around to find out where the joints were, and if you haven't done it right I don’t expect to pay for it. Hear? I'l tell you what I'l do, though; I'll give you a $500 bond ‘to be here on time and take the clothes if they fit, leaving the question of fit to 4 committee of three selected tailors. But you will have to pay the expenses. Or I'll do this: Tl pay you tor the suit now if you will give me a bond of the same kid to make the clothes fit or return the money with interest. But you must pay all expenses. If vou don't want those terms, partner, you can look me up in Brad- Street's and fiud out who { am and make the duds, or you can pay me for the trouble of sub- mitting to this measuring business. See? But you don’t get any contingent fee out of me on '& suit of clothes.” ‘The tailor took the risk. ————+e+____ REAL SKY-SCRAPERS. The Sort of Tall Buildings Which Chicago is Reaching For. From the Chicago Post. The plans are announced of an Odd Fellows’ temple, to be erected on a down-town corne> to the dazzling height of 556 feet, an eminence which surpasses the Washington monument by one foot and the spire of the Cologne cathe- dral by forty-five feet. The so-called temple Will, in fact, be a business building, except as to that comparatively small portion used by the Odd Fellows for lodge rooms, There is no business building of this size now in existence. The Masonic Temple, now being erected in this city, will rise to the height of twenty stories, or 275 feet, and the Auditorium tower is eighteen stories, or 270 feet higk. But pile this Ossa atop of this Pelion and the sum- mit would still come eleven fect short of the projected Odd Fellows’ Temple. Of other build- ings hitherto considered high Chicago has no lack. The W. C. T. U. Temple is 200 feet high, the Chicago Hotel 169 feet, the Monadnock building 204 feet. But the combined height of these three surpasses the Odd Fellows’ Temple by only 17 feet. In New York a twenty-cight- story office building has been projected for a lot on lower Broadway, but this is to reach the trifling altitude of only 556 feet. ‘The millions invested in the sky-scrapers are not paid out for sentiment, but to the end of earning dividends for the investors. In this commercial age that fact must be accepted as an excuse for their existence. For, however interesting they may be as feats of architec- tural enginecring, these lanky structures are essentially ugly and offensive to the eye. a WORK OF A CAMER«. The Giant Strides of Photography in Half a Century. From the September Outing. “Photography,” it has been said, ‘is one of the three great discoveries of the age—the steam engine, the electric telegraph and pho- tography. No ive centuries in human progress can show such strides as these.” And photog- raphy, let us remember, is the youngest of the three. The pursuit of photography gives exercise to the body, while it diverts the mind, and de- lights with ever a higher joy the sense for all things beautiful. The amateur photographer is shown things by the camera which he never dreamed of before, and is led by it into the secret haunts of nature, of whose existence even he was previously ignorant. Truly it isa fascinating art, any one that benefits ‘in the most vital and lasting ways, while it gives jure to the devotee. And wonderful have been the achievements accomplished in less than fifty years, for the daguerreotype—the method which underlies our modern process—was not made public un- til 1839, Dry-plate photography is about ten ears old, and most of the process in this de- lightful art-ecience has, heretofore been ac- ‘compli within the past decade. The dry plate made possible instantaneous photography snd all the lator advances, and simpli led tho rocess to such a degree that any bright boy or Zirh of ton can enslly sasted 1 inatew daya, ‘or the older onesit is a refining accomplish- ment that is easily acquired and affords no end of amusement and benefit. ©” Acomplete togray outfit can’ pur- chased from any relisble dealer @bundred dollars, and tho for from ten to 4 GRITTY TENDERFOOT. How the Boys Tried to “Do Up” the Nerves of = Young Englishman and Failed. ‘From the Philadelphia Press. “I've done some b'ar hunting in my time, I reckon,” said Grizzly Bill, pulling his shaggy red beard , “and I've laid out "bout ‘5 many of ‘em as most; but the b'ar hunt that we had right here, less'n five years ago, ‘ud lay over any show as I ever seen in the theayter in Frisco, and this was how it was: “We'd got » young Britisher just cum to the ‘valley that time who war death on shootin’ and carried nuff guns and pistols with him to kill ‘every critter as cum out o' the ark. He had good stuff in him somewheres, I reckon, for he givaheapo’ dollars to them sick folks down Fever Hollow aray, and be could rough it with- out gruntin’ and growin’ at suthin’ every minute, likesome on “em. But be did put on airs, that's a fact. To bear him talk you'd he though: the tallest shootin’ in the Heckies warn t in it along 0° his'n, and at last the boys got mad at his crowin’ and me and two or three more ‘lowed we d show him some sport and sce what he war made of. “One night Breakneck Ben cum in and said he'd sighted a b’ar trail on the hill above our gulch, 80 we sent off Scalpin Sam full split to ‘tell the Britisher. “Wal, reckon that tenderfoot had grit in him, though he war sich an etarnal fool. Sam “lowed the b'ar war bigger'n a buttier, but the Britisher warn’t skeered a bit. He just whipped = his rifle and came running up the gulca for be war worth, and him and me and Ben and Sam we all sot off together to find the b'ar. ne ‘we went along I says to Ben, thoughtful- ose ‘Ben, warn't it right here as we found that half-eaten feller whose name nobody ever knowed? ‘ou bet,’ says Ben. ‘He'd slipped down atwixt two rocks and stuck fast so ms he couldn't git out agin, and the wolves they cum around and gobbled up all the top half of him, chunk by chunk, and when we found him there warn't nuthin’ left but his iegs, cause they couldn't git at them.’ ~ ‘And up yander, by that white stone,’ chips in Sum, ‘was whar the Dutchman dt the grizzly.’ He'd let drop his gun down the eanon and had only bis bowie to fight with; 80 the b'ar got a holt of him and giv him « hug that bruck bis back justas he run the bowie | plumb into the b'ars heart. It war an even game atwixt ‘em, I reckon, and the honors war “And so we went on, one worse’n vother: but, say what we liked, we didn’t skeer the tenderfoot worth # cent—he'd got grit in him, make no mistake. “Wal, pretty soon we got into jest as mean a Place as you could think of to meet a b'ar in— & tong, straight canon as deep asa mine, with rocks on each side that a catamount couldn't climb—and whatever you met—no room to dodge or ran—you'd got to stand squarely up and fight it out. “I was jest saying to Ben, ‘Pard, if the biar catches us here it'll be mighty rough on some of us,’ when there came a suort and a, growl overhead and a big b’ar cum tearin’ down the gully full gallow right at us. B “We boys let strip, but we must ha’ been kind 0’ nervous, for we all missed, and ‘fore the Britisher could fire I gripped his arm and said, “Hold in till I give the word, for if you miss he'll lay out the hull lot of us “The tenderfoot clinched his teeth and stood ready, and down cum the b’ar! But just as he ot within ten yards I held out my hand and jollered, “Up! and up got the b'ar on his hind legs and begun to dance a hornpipe. You see it was a tame b’a: d got from French Pete of Dogtown to git the laugh on that Brit- isher, and Pete himself cum along with it sud let 1t loose down the guily jist at the right minute. “Wal, if ever I seen a feliow look sick it was that Briticher jist then. Fact, he felt so bad that we were Kind o' sorry for him a’ter ull, but ‘fore he quit he killed “three genuine b'ar himself and could laugh at that trick same as we a 4 MUMMY PIT. Last Winter's Discovery in the Necropolis of Thebes. From the London Academy. On February 6 a discovery was made in the | necropolis of Thebes second only in importance to the discovery of the royal mummies at Dehr- el-Bahari by M. Maspero in 1881. About half a | mile from Debr-el-Bahari « pit has been found containing several hundred magnificent mum- mies. These, like the roysl mummies, had evidently been removed from the tomb and concealed in this receptacle. as a percaution, by the servants of the priests, probably at the same time and for the same reason which caused the royal mummies to be placed in the receptacle where they were found by M. Maspero. This | Temoval is believed by M. Maspero to have | taken place in the reign of Aauputh, son of Shasang, of the twenty-second dynasty (curoa The coffins hitherto found all belong to the twenty-first dynasty and are those of the priests of Ra-Amun and tieir families. The pit is about forty-five feet in depth, at the bottom of which are two corridors filled with coffins ‘und treasures of every description, In the lower corner—which as yet has only been explored — it is computed that there are some 200 coffins, and the second corridor is believed to be not Jess extensive. ‘The shaft is forty-five feet deep, its mouth is about twelve feet in diameter and its sides are of rough limestone. One of M. Grebauts native assistants, who was superintending the work of hauling up the mummy cases, told me that he had been the first actually to enter the corridor where the mummies und treasures lie. The shaft had then been excavated only as deep as the mouth of the corridor and he crept iz on his hands and knees and stood on what he describes as being like a palace of en- chantment_ ‘The corridor, he said, is some ten or twelve feet high and 250 feet long. It rans in a north- erly direction froi the shaft toward the Theban bill At the end there is a short corridor branching from it at right angles, and at some height above the floor at the end is the entrance to a second very long corridor full of treasures, which has been sealed up for the present by M. Grebaut. Groups of mummies are placed at intervals in families. The number in each group varies from two to six or seven—tather, mother and children—and around them, exquisitely ar- ranged, are vases, models of houses, models of dahabiehs, cases and boxes fuli of ushabtis, statuettes and every conceivable treasure of ancient Egypt. Without even a speck of dust upon them, this profusion of treasures had re- mained unfooked at by any eye for nearly 4,000 youre He said that photographs had been taken of the place im its undisturbed state, which he declared to be that of a perfectly kept and well arranged museum. “Oppressed Labor.” From the New York World. There were five hard-looking men seated on a bench in City Hall Park yesterday, and while four of them were asleep the fifth sat looking at hisown toes. By and by along camea man who halted to ask: “Do any of you men want work?” “What's the pay?" asked the fifth, aftera long silence. “Why, Pll give $1.50 a day.” “Whai’s the work?” “Digging a cellar.” “I don’t want it.” “Don't any of tho rest want a job?” “I think not, but if you'll make the pay €9 day and the work picking strawberries T'll take the chance of waking thom up.” “‘nock down,” untrammeled as they were by registers or bell punches. Finally a new super- intendent called all the conductors before the condustor of cor Sere: -odd conductors on the Jine of them admitted that habit of Out of six! about ASSYRIAN LIFE. Girls Sold Like Chattels, and Swapped fer Camels and Sheep. From the Chicago Herald | Men live on 6 conte a day in Assyria. Aseyr | fan women, after 100 years of Christian labor, | are bought and sold; are made to work with ‘oxen at the plow, and bave as little liberty as in the days of Cadmus. Men who pay e6 | day to live and ladies who ride to shops in wie | torias thought over these things as they left | the Lincoln Park Congregational Church Sam- | day night. Amen asi, bora on Mount Lebe- | non, told these things in broken English. | Amen Resi isa tall, handsome Assyrian, with | Sakfa as rich as the ciunamon silks made at the | foot of the mountain on which he was bor | He looked into the curious, bright eyes of girls end told them that had they been born j Assyrians, in Assyria, they could not go upon } the streets unless their faces were concealed: { that they could neither receive mor make a call comment, jong Women without their husband and thet if at any tme, even b cul were seen by any man or in any ho ane would marty thom, He said that once two couples—e tall man and a stort woman and Woman—stood beto Woman together and ‘none of the four knew whet = hot, neither of them knowing the other. But } the parents hastily objectou and placed the tall | man by the short woman and the short man by the tall Woman, a» that was the way of the con- tacts, ‘ then Mr. Rasi showed wero made. He left the pulpit and presently @ man wrapped up in rich Assyrian raiacnt went up and sat upou the floor. Mr. Kasi came back and squatted beside lim. _“L would very much tik girl who is yours to L. how these contracts he ssid, “for me Wile omy son Isaac. * returned the man, hablo American accent. ‘ou? “L would be boner with & very uum. “How many bave y Tres. sars have they?” 42h Hiteen, one twenty and one twenty- | “Don't talk to me about the twonty-fve nor the twenty; they are never fit to m How much do you charge for the little one: Five Camels, tour horses, three sheep and | bh! Tecan buy 100 women for #o much.” But no little one. “Ob, I think wo.” * ri, YoU can't have mine for a cent less.” ¥. But even then Imac did not get the little one, | Because a few minutes later Mr. Kasi retar ae nnother man, and by doubling the price cured the giri tor his ron Jacob. Then Anen Kasi looked at the young men, Whose patent leathers cost them €7, and told j them that people in Assyria spent 50cents fora suit of clothes. The common peuple, be said, | paid 25 cents a day for house rent, 8 conte fu iwenty-tive pounds of cabbage and 4 cents for five po Fiity loaves of broad were turned out at a baking and men some- ‘mes ate four and tive joaves at « meal, Batted fora moment aud then, turning to @ biack boy bebind him, suid, “The Yare so big, j and he drew @ circle that would inclose ® | Thanksgiving plac | — | KAFFIRn WOMEN. Graceful Beauties Whose Charms Rival | Cleopatra of Ona. | Anobserving correspondent who has been udying the maids of Kafiriand, Africa, writes: The Kassacatumas are more cleanly in their habits than any tribe I visited. ‘They keep their huts in good order, and their trips to the river for bathing purposes keep a path well trodden down. I saw several specimens of female beauty among this tribe, such as often have driven men mad, caused the overthrow of Monarchs and the downfall of nations, whose | charms might rank with those of Cleopatra of old. Many fuir-skinned ladies might envy their acts of coquetry, little graceful tossings of the heud and sly glances of large black eyes almost hid by heavy eyelash In looking at the fine chiseled chin and fore= | bead, at ihe develops as perfect as nature ts the scantiness of (weir consists of a girdie around the loins profusely | Ornamented with beads, and to this long strings of shells, beads aud tusks worn around the neck and shoulders, and you have « native | maiden tm full dress. Hair, a dark, glossy | black; deep, uquid eyes; teeth o:” matchless | whiteness that peep out like pearls between | Tuby lips that smile as they greet you with the | phrase of their country, “Si-a-goctande wouw (ove to you), makes it no safe atmosphere for the nerves of a susceptible bachelor. As oe “ Wanted to dcil Her Carls, | From the New Fork Recorder. One cold afternoon in the winter of the biz zard a pretty little tot of about five years, with Jong golden curls, eutered the shop in which I was then employed, and, approaching me, tamidly said: “I want to det my curls tut off?” I locked at ber incredulously, as did the many customers who were present, and naid “Why, my cadd, do you waut to have your pretty curis cut off. Does your mother know of this? “No,” she replied, “but I am going to give I det tor the wirls. you want to do this my chila7” mammia the mon “But why do Tasked kindis “Well amy mamma ts 0 sick and whe said | yesterday she would like to hav the doctor, and she needs medicine, and ob, we need so many thin for my ‘ithe suster and myself, and the mau what keups « hair store on our corner aid be would div me $5 for my turls, and I want to det the €5 aud div st sGgeapowenill " ou may well suppose we were deeply touched by the ciild's recital. "I did not stk be-“turls,” but the hat was pussed aroun and 1 counted $12.60 asthe result. One of those present took the child to her home aud found her story but tev trae. a Alfonso Xi1I and His Little Ways, From the Galixuani Messenger. From August 1 the infant King of Spain is to be placed under the charge of a governor. Alfouso XIII has now completed his siith year, and up to this time has been entirely under female management. His majesty is now giving sigus that he requires.a firmer hand to guide him, and « recent exploit of bis at a garden party has caused the queen regent to “decide that the time has now arrived to put her son under stricter discipline than he’ has experi- enced hitherto. ‘The littie king is very fond of gardening, and last yeer Queen Isabella pre- sented her grandson with « miniature copy of a manual engine, such as is used by q nese tire brigades, so that he could water bis flowers. The king, however, determined to put his engine to amore entertaining use. Al @ garden party, which recently took place at the palace, he pretended to be minocently engaged in gardening, and, waiting for bis opportunity, be called acertan distinguished oid general who was attired in his full unitorm to look ab his flowers. As soon as the oificer came near enough the king turned the squirt upon lum completely drenching him. Monsignor Merry del Val,the son of the Spatisi ambassador in Viexna, who was attracted to the spot by the king's screams of deligh*, wax served in the same man ner. 111s uot reported whether these two geutle- men gave the youthful monarch the thrashing which he richly deserved, but as Monsdguor Merry del Val is from August 1 to have’ the eutire control of the king, perliaps be may ag Tange the matter with bum later on. tS to pay A Stickler for Form, From the Detroit Free Press Biufeigh—“Good morning, Swellery. You will pardon me, I hope, but I have some bad news for you.” Swellery—“Pway, don’t tell it tome, old boy; I cawn't heab it, don't you know. It's such ad fawm, don’t you know.’ Blufleigh—“The deuce you say. How do you make that out?”