Evening Star Newspaper, August 25, 1894, Page 12

12 THE EVE NING STAR, SATURDAY, AUGUST 325, 1894—-EIGHTEEN PAGES. A LIVELY VOLCANO The Hawaiian Kilauea Furnishes a Magnificent Spectacle, A SEETHING OCEAN OF MOLTEN FIRE The Royalist Party Apparently in a State of Collapse. 4& NEWSPAPER’S ACTIVITY ——- —— @pecial Correspondence of The Evening Star. HONOLULU, August 1, 1894. IN! LAST AD- views hence politics heve been exceed ingly quiet. The roy- alist party seems to be in a state of col- lapse, feebly strug- glirg for breath. They are divided in counetis, one leading paper—the Holomua— urging all hands to come in out of .the rain and register for voting, and take an &ctive hand in politics. No use to talk of Sghting—nobody is ready to fight. Bash’s Ka Leo yelps and snarls at its former comrade @s a traitor to the cause.and insists that they Must be true to the queen and each other, and stick it out until the royalist commis- sion sent to Washington; Parker, Wide- Mann and Cunimings, has positively as- ertained the President's intentions. Meantime the royalist leaders are de- fectedly taking counsel together, but are @adly incapable of firding any useful light ™pon their course. It is credibly learned that they met at Jim Campbell's (royalist millionaire) on the 22d, ard again at Wash- fMmgton Place (queen's residence) on the ‘4th, but no plan of action could be adopted. Among those present were Bush, Nawahi, 3. 0. Carter, and, it is said, two British of- ficers from H. B. M. S. Champion. This is Believed to be an accurate statement. The only activity seen or heard of on their part, is in issuing an English edition of Bush's paper, Ka Leo, to fill the gap left ‘Dy the recreart Holomua. The royalist Bul- Wetin is too much on the fence, having too Many patrons and stockholders who desire Political quiet and public order. The Ka Leo appears in new type on fine paper, but Tedolent of Bush’s half-white naivette and Babco English. This Bush is a rather picturesque person. ‘Although now a strong queen’s partisan, in the last legislature he constantly abused her in the grossest manner for putting the chief power in the hands of ‘her alleged peramour, C. B. Wilson. Bush used to be @ cabinet minista- and boon companion of Balakaus with whom also his wife, now dead, was especially intimate by her hus- ‘Band's desire. He was sctoriously dissolute and unscrupulous. On a mission from Kalakaua to Malietoa at Samoa, he main- tained a constant debauch, so that he was ordered away by that monarch. When he Feturned here he found the reform ministry @f 1887 in power. and himself out in the @old. He then became religicus, and joined the Seventh Day Advent Baptists, built a @hzpel and printing office, issued the Ka eo o ka Lahul (Voice of the People), a semi-religious, semi-political daily, and fig- GWres as a zealot of very abusive tongue and pen. He is terribly down on the mission- aries as oppressive kuaves and blood-suck- ers. J. O. Carter is an older brother of the late A. P. Carter, Hawaiian minister at ‘ashington, and ts—in our view—“a good Man gone wrong.” He has always borne @ high character for personal integrity, and for fearless adhesion to principle, but as apt to adopt extreme views and run thin; fato the ground. His wife was from child- hood an intimate friend of the queen, and always greatly devoted to her. Like a umber of the young whites of Honolulu y years ago, she became a victim of the glamor of royalty, and learned to worship it. This was hardly the case with hher husband, although his wife’s adhesion to the wayward queen has doubtless in- fluenced him. Up to 1887 he was a vigorous epponent of Gibson and of the king’s out- Fageous policy. But he failed to fall into line with the reform party at that time, ‘and became soured upon Thurston and his associates who held the reins of power. Mr. Carter's active participation in Minis- ter Willis’ negotiations with Liliuokalani While she was insisting upon vengeance on hher rebel subjects created a very severe feeling of indignation against him, which €aused his removal from his managership ef an important corporation. This has not Served to sweeten his feelings, and there is ibly no more bitter royalist now in mnolulu. Thurston’s Business Interests. Our minister at Washington, L. A. Thurs- ton, was recalled home to assist the pro- visional government in their labors in pre- Paring their draft of the new constitution, and in organizing the convention. During the sessions of the convention he constant- Jy assisted the executive council with ad- vice, and has had a very important chare fm the results attained. He did not, how- ever, remain in Honolulu to witness the Jamation of the new republic on the ‘ourth of July. It is well known that Mr. Thurston was much engaged during the Columbian exposition in promoting the ex- Riibition of a cyclorama of the volcano of Kilauea in the Midway Plaisance. He has Deen for several years the chief promoter ef the Volcano Hotel Company, as well as clorama, in beth of which his s are largely invested, Mr. Thurston ngly embraced the first moment he could be spared to look after his ts at the Volcano, which were much 1 of his attention. is the fashion to personify the plutonic so violently active at Kilaues as “Madam Pele.” Pele was the ancient god- @ess of the crater,.a-deity greatly feared. Now, Madam Pele appears to have con- @eived & special regard-for- Friend Thurston, ‘who has so devoted himself to her interests, @fvertising and glorifying her, beautifying her surroundings, and drawing tourists to Worship at her shrine. Accordingly the Goddess got up a special exhibition for the @Mtertazinment of Thurston and his young Bride. her the finest thing ever wit- » by white visttors. There were ten or a dozer guests at the fhotel. W. N. Armstrong, brother of Gen. ec. yas one. The Thurs- Armstrong, . ng a week or more at the ce. The hotel completely overlooks the Vast black pit of Kilnuea, three miles by ‘two in area, and Gw feet deep. That is, it Used to be of such depth, and more than that when I first sew it, nearly a thousand feet. But for forty years the bottom lowly rising, built-up by over- va from the inner crater of Hale- This is nearly cireular, half a liameter. Som: oking pit, 5 s slowly up with erflows, and floods ‘oe layers of These build ars ago It was 700 Now it is less than the ground gently gol southwe until e of the last collapse in 181, the rim of the inner pit was only 280 feet ‘low- er than the hotel. For.a few lays after that « se, noth- fg could be seen in the smoking bottom of the » feet down, but the debris of the walls, which had fallen in when the supporting liquid lava had escaped below | through ne subierranean chasm, which ve it outlet under the desert slopes of @h-oo. Soon the vivid fire reappeared, @nd rapidly rose in the center of the coni- pit. It never fills the whole half-mile This time. as it rose, it made an mous fire lake in the center of the - over S00 feet in diameter. or ten acres | extent. Flooding . it built up a lev floor around the lake, reaching to the sid the pit. Two years ago, this floor was feet down, the lake was in violent ebullition, with constantly throbbing foun- tains flinging spray high aloft. Looking down from the rim of the pit, one could overlook all the activity with perfect con- venience. The Volea Lake. Month by month the lake and its en- eireling floor slowly raised their level, pre- serving faithfully the slightly lenticular form of the lake. A high rim had grown around the edges of the lake, with a slope to the walls of the pit, so that It resem- bled the surface of an inverted saucer. The lake itself was perfectly level. A thin red- hot crust covered the greater part of the surface, broken by long, zigzag cracks of white fire, in continual motion across the lake, and here and there areas tossing fu- riously many yards aloft in fiery spray. At the end of 189% the level of the lake had reached the summit of the encircling walls of Halemaumau, and began to over- flow them. Every few days copious streams woull break through the lake rim, and flood sometimes many acres. Soon all the old walls were covered and obliterated. Still the lake kept rising, growing higher weekly. Where had been the pit was in March a broad, low mound. On its sum- mit Jay the lake, now enlarged to twelve acres. It was orly 70 feet below the level of the hotel, and its whole surface splea- didly in view from it, when not ebbing, as it often did. About that time, three or four months since, besides its copious overflows, the lake began burrowing underground to the north- ward. A great body of lava worked under that part of the low, broad cone and made an outlet three or four hundred feet out- side, flooding a large tract. You know, these floods cool at once, and in two or three days can be safely walked over. Now, this underground lava was much heavier than the part of the hill above it, which was composed of very spongy rock. So it just lifted it up, several acres of it, some eighty feet high, forming a cliff overhang- ing the lake. This subsided somewhat after a while, but remained resting on the great bed of fluid beneath. This wes about the condition of things when the Thurston party arrived and took it in, descending and ascending to the lake, and witnessing its frequent outpourings of fiery fluid. All this was sufficiently im- posing and terrific. This was July 5. On the morning of the llth began the great display. The lake subsiding. It went down steadily all day at the rate of about twenty feet in an hour. The support of the heavy fluid being withdrawn, the sides of its walls began to fall'!n with ter- rific crashes and great columns of red dust borne aloft by the heat. The masses of debris crashed into the heavy fluid with mightly uproar, as the spray flew high aloft, and vast surges of fire rolled mas- sively against the opposite banks. But the grandest action was where the lava had burrowed under the cliff. There the entire ¢ide of the lake fell in by suc- cessive crumblings, until an area of. elght acres had disappeared into the depths, be- ing the whole of the ground previous!y un- dermined and resting upon the supporting fluid. First, the whole cliff subsfed to its original level, then bent downward, large masses breaking off from its overhang. From noon until well into the night there was scarcely a moment when the crash of the falling banks was not going on. As the level of the lake sank the Increasing height of the unsupported banks caused a con- tinually increasing downfall. Often see- tions of the bank from two to five hundred feet long and hundreds of feet high would plunge downward, dashing giant breakers of fire aloft, all with deafening roar and earth-shaking. Most of the falling rock would disappear at once under the bolting flood. Some of the larger masses, however, would float for a while upon the surface, forming islands of considerable size, like houses, which floated around for hours. The sight w: magnificent when such an island would, after its plunge, emerge from the depth, pouring off its rosy robe of fire. Where the clearage of the fallen bank had taken place the surface exposed was left glowing with red heat, showing how the tempera- ture of the molten lake extended far into the sides which it had built up. ‘The Scene Described. As the take subsided, and the falling In of the undermined area at the sorth con- tinued, working far back Into the hill, it ex- posed an interior which, fiftv feet below the surface, was in a semi-molten condition. “From 6 to § o'clock, the entire face of the bluff,” Thurston wrote, “some S00 feet in length, and over 200 feet in height, was a shifting mass of color, varying from the intens> light of molten lava to all the vary- ing shades of rose and red to black. As night came on, and yet hotter recesses were uncovered, the molten lava which remained in the many caverns leading off through the banks to other portioas of the crater be- gan to run back and fall down into the » hotel stands to the | lake beneath, makirg flery cascades down the sides of the bluff. There were five such lava streams at one time.” This night view, which is thus recorded, was undoubtedly the finest spectacle ever witnessed at Kilauea. It was viewed with perfect safety. Although large sections of the bank were splitting off and falling In, the deep chasms, red-hot below, opened slowly, and one could stand securely for a long time upon the gradually yielding masses. There were no sulphur fumes or smoke to annoy or endanger. One could stand almost anywhere and gaze at the daz- zling display which burned itself into heart and brain. After falling 270 feet, the subsidence of the lava ceased. It had exposed a cavern running under the southern floor, which was probably the opening through which the molten fluid had drained off. We shall Probably hear that it has commenced to rise again. A steady stream of visitors is going up to the Volcano House, mostly by stage on the splendid new road from Hilo. A young friend writes me from the hotei how deliciously bracing is the climate. The nights are chill all summer, 4,000 feet above the sea, with the perpetual snow caps of Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa in sight in the near distances. The new road above men- tioned traverses twelve miles of splendid virgin forest, never before accessible to man. The government has surveyed and is selling some thirty thousand acres of coffee lands in this forest, lying on both sides of this macadam road. These lands are from 1,200 to 3,000 feat altitude. The soil !s rocky, but deep and of immense fertility. About 180 inches of rain fall annually. Owing to the porosity of the lava, the,water all Gisappears at once, leaving no ponds, streams or springs, and causing no malaria —not a trace of it in the region. There are more than 100,000 acres of similar lands in that part of Hawaii. The labor of building roads through them will be costly and slow. The beautiful town and harbor of Hilo is their natural seaport. It has an excellent American community, and is destined to a very prosperous future, as its splendid back country is gradually opened up by roads. Upon the Island of Hawaii, which is larger than ail the rest of the group to- gether, it is the fact that not more than ore-half of the fertile lands have yet be- come accessible for settlement. Portions of the fertile surfaces are cut by deep ravines, crossed only by horse trails. Still larger Portions, like the coffee tracts mentioned, are covered with tangled forest, and by the chevaux de frise of aa or clinker rock be- low. Road making in such tracts is costly, and development of the country will be gradual. Upon the other islands the diffi- culties of access are less, but the soils are scarcely as fertile. ‘That clinker lava is a singular formation. Very commonly the molten streams cool in smooth, rounded knobs, covering the coun- try with glossy, flattish knobs and tables of rock. This kind of lava lies bare of vegetation for imany years, before decompo- sition of the stone accumulates soil in the hollows, and permits a sparse growth of plants and trees. Nearly as often, however, the great torrent of lava,pouring from some chasm, rells down the long slopes, bearing on its bosom enormous mounds and walls of ragged and comminuted debris of rock, and a3 it cools, the cutive surface to a con- siderable depth consists of this ragged and pointed debris, lying in shapeless piles and almost impassable walls. Such areas of clinker are at first excessively forbidding to the eye, a dark brown sea of broken stones, large and small, an ocean of unspeakable raggedness, Fortunately, a large part of this ugly ma- terial rapidly decays and disintegrates. It makes the most fertile of soils. Vegeta- | tion speedily takes possession. A clinker flow can often be distinguished far away by the rank forest growth which covers It, while older lava in its neighborhood re- The recesses between the in moisture, to which plant roots penetrate. A native will stick a sweet potato runner right Into a pile of these seemingly bare stones, and it will grow luxuriantly and fill the pile with tubers. To make a road through such a | tract, you must Hterally build it up of the | loose stones, like a wall, digging it out through the higher piles. But once made, such a road seldom needs repair. Such 1s | the new Volcano road, carefully graded and rolled, costing about $3,000 a mile, thirty- one miles in length. One hundred miles more of such road will probably be built | during the next twenty years, in order to oper up the magnificent coffee lands of that part of Hawall (/EHAMEHA. stones re | easily WAYS OF ROM Notes by an American of Life in the Eternal City. SSR THE VANTAGE POINT OF A CURBSTONE Street and Cafe Scenes and the Dining Customs, IN THE PARKS pe cunees So” at eee MUSIC Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. ROME, August 12, 1894. S FAR AS ROMAN ecurbstenes are con- cerned — when there are any—they are ex- cellent “observation points, Unfortunately they are scare, but one can imagine where they would be if they did exist and locate accordingly. When there is a curb- stone it may be two inches high or two feet high—that de- pends on the hurry and fatigue of the pedes- trian. These notes begin from a nice slid- ing curbstone—its especial locale close to “Piazza Colonna"—where ankles are deftly turned and toes sharply knocked if their owners essay to walk by faith, and not by sight. “The queen! The queen is coming!” These words hurry along from lip to lip on that lively avenue, Il Corso. “La regina! La regina viene!”—an unwonted animation is visible among the careless promenaders, and all eyes are directed down the long line of carriages to a bright red spot in the dis- tance, which I soon perceive to be made by the uniforms of the royal footmen. As the equipage approaches all promenaders halt and range themselves on the sidewalks for a better view, thus making an informal cerdon for the royal party, which, advanc- ing in thts mode, between unending lines of subjects, has one ccntinual march of tri- umph. Soon the queen arrives. She is ac- companied by one of her “dame di cor (maids of honor’. They are seated in a jet black calashe, drawn by two splendid bays. The footmen behind and on the front box, bigh up, in dashing uniforms of cardinal red, form a rich and brilliant background to the dark elegance of carriage and occu- pants. Fromm the first glimpse- of her majesty until the last look in the distance Lt see her constantly bowing to right and te left in recognition of the uncovered and in- clining heads of the populace. The que dressed in dark marvon silk, sleeves and ornaments. t head rests a stylish little bonnet, sur- mounted by one short, dense ostrich plu ‘Though continually nodding queen is all the w companion and favorite lady cf the court, the slarchioness Villamarini, Once the royai cortege hus pa reassumes its normal aspe eX« more vivacious chatier of voices, with exclamations of interest and odnira- tion, occasioned by the queen's appearance. Then the Mreaktast Hour. It is now past rcon and many of the citi. zens are already seated at the break table, where the rest will a be by 1 at which hour the Corso will be so deserted that a carnon bail might be shot from one end to the other without meeiing a soul. Breakfast at 1 o'clock! This reminds me of the customs of certain society belles at home. The Romans of today, however, are far from lazy about rising in the morning; many are on their feet at 7 o'clock, though the usual time is an hour or so later. Af- ter the morning toilet all partake of either cafe nero, black coffee, or coffee and cream in our style, with one or two Vienna rolls. ‘This light repast is all that is taken until “Colazione"’—or the breakfast before re- ferred to—occurring a litile after midday. This is not a heavy meal, resembiing great- ly our American breakfast. 1t is generally begun with a light dish of eggs, followed by either ak, chops, or ene of the many Italian stews, seasoned with herbs and wine. A plate of salad or vegetables com- pletes the substantial portion of the meal. ‘The peculiar Roman climate is said to re- quire more abundant individual use of wine than any other point of Italy. It is not considered healthful between meals unless accompanied by some solid food, thouga but a cracker. At “Colazione” a pint of wine is a moderate portion for one person; the ee take much less than gentlemen usu- ally. “Wine from the Roman castles” is the sign seen at almost every tavern. It has been my good fortune to have really tasted these celebrated vintages, but it is nearly impossible to buy them pure in Rome. In fact, the citizens themselves acknowledge thetr Inability to Cirect one to a place wher? the wine is not “fixed.” The only resource is to take a trip to these castie villages and there quaff the celestial beverage in its virgin purity. The breakfast is termi- nated by cheese and fruit, the last thing Is the fruit, just opposite to the American custom. After breakfast cafe nero is served. prwsory d rey the coffee one finds that about an hour has passed since sitting down at the table. . Roman Business Men. To an American this slipping away of the time is a new experience. Add to it the ef- fect of Hght conversation, good humor and absolute freedom from care, and it becomes difficult to realize that one is not at a sum- mer resort or with an excursion party, in- stead of in the midst of a great city. The Italian leaves his business when he goes away from the office. Once out of the door, he is like a child, intent on noticing every little event of the street, and with an ever- active eye for passers-by. To the Roman business man the morning is counted as the best pirt of the day for work—excluding dealers in jeweiry or souvenir goods and all those whose trade depends on tourists and visitors. Some time between 3 and 4 p.m. the Roman business man returns to his of- fice, where business may keep him engaged until 6 or 7 o'clock. Then he drops all work “for gced,” and sallies forth with one or more boon companions for the evening stroll on the Corso. The Romans are extremely sociable, and rarely spend any length of time alone. They walk and talk in twos and threes on Il Corso cr the Via Nazionale until 8 or 9 o'clock (dinner time). During this prom. enade a large proportion of Rome's “signorce di moda” (ladies of fashion) may be seen, either in carriages or on foot. The queen, when in Rome, generally drives out toward evening. - The Clangor of the Bells. Rome 1s the city of churches and natur- ally of church bells. I had been so distract- ed by other things that for a long time the din escaping from the myriads of belfries remained unnoticed. Walking along care- lessly one day I suddenly felt an indescriba- ble sense of inquietude, almost alarm. It was unaccountable and made me appre- hensive of some strange nerve affection. The air seered heavy and the sky to darken, when I thought I heart a low rum- ble as of distent thurder. With soul and ears attent I listened. Soon there came another deep rolling sound, reverberating afar off as from the bowels of the earth. In doubt whether it was real or only in my brain, I acccsted a passerby, who said, “Why, that Is the great bell of St. Peter's, which’ rings only for the death of the pope or a cardinal and for one or two great events of the church.” My heart now beat freely and I realized that the painful agitation had been caused by the unconscious hearing of that pene- trating knell. Since then I’ve been more ebserving and hear bells everywhere. Bells from churches and chapels, convent bells, vespers, chimes; strange peals and clangs in most unexpected moments, at whose sovnd long Ines of priests suddenly file out of some cavernous monastery, or pale-faced nuns in their lonely cells bend down over their orisons. The number of handsome women is truly astonishing. All types, too, are well repre- sented; figures from a Juno to Psych ccmplexions brown as a Moor to those ali milk and roses. The exquisite taste and well-fitting garments of these Itallaw belles display their statuesaue beauty to great ‘ 4 advantage. They know also how to wear the brightest cclors, indeed such tints seem created for these joyous and charm- ing creatures. I never’saw such an abund- ance of fresh, lovély and varied faces. Music in the Parks. Rome resembles our Jarger cities in many ways, for instance, im the fegular public music at the parks, of which the Pincio gardens take the leal.| During these hot evenings the municipal: and various mill- tary bands play also fn the central square of the city—Piazza Colonna. Here gather together millionaires and, tradesmen, prin- cesses and servants. When there is music at the Pinclo tne cocourse is large and stylish, reminding one of ‘those at the Presi- erounds in Washington. II Pincio is rming park sitwered on the hill of that name—one of Rome's immortal seven— whereon is located the old palace of the “Medicl,” the prison house of Galileo, The position commands a superb view of St. Peter's and all that portion of Rome near the Pantheon. The park is full of beauty and interest. There the luxuriant vegetation of the tropics, as as the sturdy life of the far north: theze the palm and cactus shoot out their marvelons leaves and pines from Norway fairly revel under Ttaiy’s si bearing enorm cones as thick as bananas on the bu A most attractive feature of the Pinclo is the vast number of flower-bearing trees. It seems as though every tree was orna- mented, now cones, now berries, now flow- ers. In addition to its unrivaled position, air, poetic gardens and groves, the ssesses a charm in its vast array atuary. There are numerous 3 ups and sculptured fountains, but above ali there are several hundred marMe busts mounted on short pillars, of Italy's great departed ones. These likenesses, executed by able artists, consti- tute an ever-present company of genius. Here is the visage of Dante, with Glotto and Maceo Polo at his rizht and left: Pom- pey and Caesar are side by side: Rellint and Ressini, GariLalal end Napoleon the Great. Petrarch and Tasco, the De Medici, and many more from the time of Virgil to the day of Cavour. ‘The Dinner Hour. On musical evenings the Pincio is full of animation, its winding walks and shaded aisles are crowed with vivacious pleasure seekers. At 7:20 the park music ceases, and the gathered throngs descend to the city, some to Join the moving masses on the Corso, others letsurely wending their way toward hore and dinner. Dinner time ranses from 8 to 10 among the real Roman balmy People; outsiders and foreigners generally ine earlier. This meal is full of unconcern end jollity; all cares, unpleasantnesses and ye welshty thoughts are compietely cast aside. A Noman fermily, with relatives and guests, ferm a most hospitable gathering, and in freedom and simpileity are like a party of children. The various viands arc keen relish and partaken of with tion. During the Ittle deloys ot table these admirably bal- anced people do not become impatient, but continue cniapletely wrapped vp in the sub- Discussions are sys- fect of conversation. tematically av opinions on a exceedingly qT nversation: stures and body may witess little 1 taverns, which to mind the “father act’ in Hazel Kirke. ‘The disputing companions may be heard half a square away round the t they ch fe cious eountenances that fidw the next mo- ie? time they late, with si Ing the na r soup, a ¢ lee. stantial courses of fish, ment, ete.. come the tn ble cheese and fruit. A favorite cheese—Gor is of the kind termed plzzicante, the sound of the word alone almost speaks its meaning, which Is referrin: “flipning” or vinchin: Ing eect of the chee: a quality i aged, the more y the more wine you vent to drink. If the wine is only pure onr taste not vitlated. you are all at so the Italions say, and an fearlessly eat and drink as much as you please. My experience leads me to think that a healthy palate Is a very rare possession: that verv few can discriminate between the most delicious thines and those which merely have the name. As for me. T would be delighted to happen in for dinner tomorrow at a well-to-do Maryland farm- er’s. in preference to a sumptuous dinner at the Cafe Roma Coffee following cheese with such reeu- larity they become in thought related. Lamentsbly enough it ts the same story with coffee In Rame as with wine, there be- ine but a half-dozen cafes where the pure to the bit- te. Tt is hen ‘well article can he had. When it comes to Java, Mocha or Gratemata, thev are simply un- obtainable: Porto Rico, however, is used and makes a pretty fair cup of cafe nero when mixed with another crowth., and It is this quality that is cenerally served In pub- Vie and private hovses. At rare Intervals a dish of pastry or cake appears. The Ttalians care verv little for “sweets.” nroferrine frult. When a cake or pndding does come vpon the table It is almost a sure sten of a birthday or some rrest festival, and is the sienal for snectal follifcation. The nicht is day In Rome to a vast num- her of neanle. who never think of retiring before midnirht, and regard 1 or 2 a.m. as a reenlar bed-time hovr. Many are content and thrive on five hours’ sleen. The late pours after dinner are reculariv nassed In the cafes by many gentlemen. There much business is promoted ‘and political moves planned. Tn summer time concert cafes snrine up in all parts of the city. which are resorted to by the younger neonle. The evening fs enent Hstenine to French and Viennese variety sincers, naw ond then snp- nlemented by American minstrels. The fin- est onera houses and theaters are closed during the hot months. — We Cannot Fly. From the New York Sun. The two most active and most promising leaders in the study ef flying machines for man, Maxim and Lilienthal, have within a menth or two proved in practice the failure of their experiments. Both of these inventors have tried to fly by the use of an immense area of wing. The Maxim machine, or aeroplane, which has at last come to grief, has an extreme spread of about 125 feet, and is driven by a pair of two-bladed propellers eighteen feet in di- ameter. It weighed about 8,000 pounds when loaded with men and stores, and in- cluded an engine producing a horse power for every six pounds of weight, a marvel in mechanics, The fuel was gasoline. The body of the machine way a,fat car running en tracks with preventer bars to keep it from rising beyond the Braek’s guidance. Carrying Mr. Maxim and two other men, the machine started, ériven along the track by its great canvas propellers like an ordi- nary railway car. As !€actfuired speed, the air pressure against its slanting wings and its ascending force became go great that one of the preventer wheels, holding it down to the track broke; and, onte released from the clutch of the earth, or,"{n other words, so soon as it began to fly, the thing slewed round, tore up a portion of the rail, lurched uncontrollably to one side, and fell, a wreck in itself, but without “injuting the three imen on it. * The conclusion of Industries and Iron, which gives the most detailed account of the accident, is that our attempts at flying have carried us no neater its accomplish- ment than we were before 'we began them. However pleasing may be the trick of pass- ing through the air for a little way under certain conditions, as Maxim and Lilienthal have done, flight by man on the lines at- tempted, namely, those of the bird, using wings which, in man’s case, must’ neces- sarily be so vast as to be unwieldly, and Gcomed to destruction by even moderate violence of wind, is a dream. Until we are able to sustain ourselves with compara- tively a‘tenth or a hundredth part of the surface exposed by birds, or until the in- crease of our ability to produce force is so enormous as to amount practically to the creation of a new force, man must stay on the ground. eee Theory and Practice. From Puck. Mrs. Scaird—“The marriage relation needs reform. Don’t you think that both parties should have an equal voice in regulating their joint affairs?” Mrs. Graymare—“What! let my husband is much of a say as I have? Not AS THE BREEIE DED AWAY[AUGUST FOR HEALTH| poo Sk Fe Lab Se AE a Sag Herbert D. Gallaudet in Romance, It wis a hot midsummer afternoon. The sun danced from wave to wave, and the wind still blew steadily from the south. Now and then a team rattled along the bluff, and the faint whistle of a steamer echoed across the water. Many schooners and sloops, and smaller boats of every sort, dotted the sound. About a mile from shore a little two-mast- ea sharpie was beating close up into the wind. Its sails drew full, and the waves rippled under its bow. Tom Lockarby sat in the stern, with one hand on the tiller and the other braced behind him, his duck trousers shining in the sunlight and his blue tennis shirt setting off a tanned and hand- some face and big, brown hands. Tom had learned to sail nearly as soon as he took off kilts, and used to tip over almost daily, to the perpetual! terror of his dea> mother and the great disgust of the old sailors whose boats he berrowed. His capsizing days were long since over, but Tom still loved this quiet, do-it-all-yourself sailing. He would tack about for hours in his neat lit- tle sha-:pie, alone with his pipe and his thougbts and his castles in Spain, soothed by the sound of the waves beating against the beat, th soft wind blowing in his face, and the beautiful things around him. He loved it all; it was so restful, so quiet, so beautiful. And today he sat stretched over the seat enjoying this beauty and quiet. He seemed to have forgottea the girl opposite him. But she did not mind his apparent indiffer- ence, and was looking out over the water, quite as contented and happy. as Tom. They had known each other for years; so there was silence. Tom watched the tops of his sails as if he saw his Spanish casties there, and Rosalind gazed out over the water at the schoone-s dotting the horizon. I won- der—and you would have done so, too, If you had seen them—I. wonder how Tom kept his eyes fastened so intently on the tips of his sails, when, almost without turning his head, he might have looked at such an ex- tremely pretty girl as Rosalind Lorne; a tall girl, with soft brown hair and a face that was attractive, not only because beau- tiful to look at, being regular in feature and charming in complexion, but because there seemed to be so much beneath the surface, such meaning depth to those gray eyes, and such strength and tenderness of character in every curve and line. Her white duck dress and white straw hat were rather be- coming to her, though her face and hands were so brown. Her white pa-acol kept off the stn, But Tom still watched his sails as they tacked back and forth. At last the canvas began to flutter a little. Then Lockarby looked out over the water. Near by the waves still danced merrily, but out by the herizon Tom could see a calm stretch. ¥ “The wind is dying away,” he said; “we'll make one more tack out toward the reef and i hate to scull, you know.” looked ov: at him. “This is your last sail, isn’t it? I'm sorry you have to go back to the city tomorrow. How hot it must be there! I shall miss you,” she added. “You are pretty good company, af- ter all, though we always do disagree so.” ‘Tom looked up, or rather down, from his sail-ends. “Miss me! Oh, I guess not. There are pienty of men here,” he said. with a smile. “And [ adore them all, I suppose?” she asked, dragging her hand through the wa- ter. “Well, there's Bildon, the lawyer,” Tom eested, Who has a celfish old cgress of a moth- er, and who thinks he is going to be a great man one of these days,” the girl added. “He is welcome to be, I'm sure. You knew I caa’t bear him.” “Young Gotrox, then,” Tom again. “Who can’t do anything, and doesn’t pre- tend to, and doesn’t want to, except spend his money,” Rosalind put in. “Well, then, how about the young col- legian, Shadford?” he persisted. “Who tries to w-ite poetry, and tells us six times a day how near he came to get- ting on the crew last spring and how well he knows Caruthers, the great pitcher. Tom," Rosalind said, “you know I can't bear any of these men.” Tom knew, of course. suggested “I'll only mention one more,” he said, “your friend, the professor.” “Oh, do you mean Mr. Dundee?” the girl asked, rather hurriedly. ‘Tom had taken his eyes off his interesting sail-tops and was looking at her very in- tently. “Oh, he might be bearable if he were not so frightfully bashful. You know I don’t like him, either.” “Do I? Dundee was a great friend of mine im college, and is a much finer fellow than you seem to want to think,” Tom remarked. Rosalind said no more, but gazed out over the water. The wind was growing lighter; the sun hung low in the sky; it was 5 o'clock. Lockarby turned his sharpie toward the shore. A hundred yards away a rowboat was gliding over the water. Its sole occu- pant was a large, muscular-lookirg young man, with a light mustache and a heavy coat of tan, who managed his oars well. “There goes Dundee now,” Tom said. “He looks as if he had had a long, hot pull; probably been over to-Pirate Island to see that levely Miss rane,” he added, with a sly glance at his companion. “If I take him in, you will try not to eat him up, won't you, Rosalind?” Rosalind smiled. She looked anything but a cannibal. So they hailed the oarsman; and Dundee's skiff was soon bobbing along be- hind the boat, and Dundee perched on the side of the sharpie carrying on a rather desultory conversation with Rosalind. Tom ¢id not seem disposed to help them out any. He still stared at those weather-beaten sails ef his, but he was thinking of something else. ‘They were nearing the pler now. ‘The wind freshened a little, yet it was only a dying gasp; Tom could easily see that. But he swung the boat slowly around, neverthe- less, and started out toward the reef once m “nough wind for another tack,” he ex- plained, The waves still rippled under the bow; the boat bent slightly before the breeze. It was very pleasent. “Sam, take the tiller a minute,” Tom said, when they were almcst a mile from shore, “I want to fix that foremost sprit.” Dundee took Tom's seat, and the latter clambered forward to the bow of the boat, where the sails hid him from view. Sudden- ly a splash was heard. It is a simple thing to fall into the water. Lockarby found no trouble in doing it most naturally. Rosalind and Dundee laughed unsuspect- ingly as Tom's shining head appeared above the surface several yards astern, like Nep- tune stilling the tumultuous seas, as Sam suggested, only the “tumultuous seas” were as level as a fleld and the fleet of Aeneas was wholly lacking. Tom climbed into Dun- dee’s boat and sat there dripping, with his clothes clinging to him in a most ludicrous manner. “You poor, wet, clumsy fellow,” Rosalind cried, laughing. Tom laughed, too. “Well, sit still,” the girl went on, “and we will take you right in.” But Tom objected; he wanted to row in, to keep from catching cold, he said. The others, very naturally, scoffed at such an idea, and Rosalind signaled shyly to Tom that she did not want to be left alone with Dundee. But Tom persisted. So at last Sam untied the rowboat painter and threw it to him. The wind was growing alarmingly tight. Lockarby pulled hurriedly sway. “Don't go out much further, Sam,” he called back, “unless you want to scull home.” He thought they seemed a trifle more sociable than they had been at first, and he noticed also that the sails were only half filled with wind. Tom laughed softly as he tied his boat to the pier. Half an hour later Lockarby issued from the hotel, freshly arrayed. Mrs. Lorne was standing on the edge of the bluff. She had a telescope in her hand and was trying to focus it on a pretty little sailboat that drift- ed idly on the calm water about a mile from shore. Tom thought he recognized the boat. He joined Mrs. Lorne and recounted his af- ternoon’s experience. “I can’t make out what they are doing,” said she, trying to look through the tele- scope again after Tom had finished. “Here, you try? Are they sculling? It does not look quite like that to me.” Tom tock the telescope. No, it did not look quite like sculling to him, either. Where were they, any way? Rosalind’s par- asol was the only sign of them Tom could see, except a small portion of one of Dun- dee’s shoulders. Tom had never realized before how large a parasol could he! “Come, let us go in to supper,” he said, shutting the telescope with a bang—a happy bang—and offering his arm to Mrs. Lorne. “If they don’t know any better than to be becalmed a mile from shore, why, they will have to take the consequences. And,” he added, gayly, to himself, as he rs. Lorne walked across the grass, they won't care much, either. Dundao—it sound very well" nd Mi oS soees Rosalind It Must Be Whether You Take a Vacation or Not. Take Time Now to Strengthen Nerves and Body. See That Every Part of the Body Becomes Well Fed. Eleven months for business, for money-making, for alvorbing work. Take August for becoming strong and well. Get back to your proper weight; relieve the tired nerves of thelr irritability; fill the body with ruddy, vigorous, serviceable blood. 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