Evening Star Newspaper, October 16, 1897, Page 20

<fAVANAGH 3 xx ma6 A REMARKABLE MAN Arthur Mac Murrogh Kavanagh Made a Brilliant Reputation, THOUGH CRIPPLED FROM HIS BIRTH Spoke “From His Seat” in the House of Commons. HIS PART IN ACTIVE LIFE Written for The Ever ALL THE . and, in- ed, all admirers of indomitable courage in the face of great difficulties, will be in- terested in the forth- erection of a Nn monument o Arthur Mac Mur- rogh Kavanagh. Rarely has a task of been ed.in the sculp-| s hands as the} memorial in question. . Arthur Mac Murrogh Kava- was born a mere section of humanity. onal ‘¢ of arms and le; fate had as- jzned to him four stump the most ex- of which did not exceed one foot in length. His keen intellect and strong will were, however, superior to this crue! lack of hands and feet, and before his ¢ Mr. Kavanagh hed been the British parliament, a untimely de r of councilor and lord lieutenant of his county in Ireland, beside on no less than two occasions refusing the honor of a peerage. He was long renowned as a s “cross-country” rider, and a good : several brilliant speeches and clever s attest his genius, and the family wart of sons and healthy daughters which he left behind promises to perpetuate his name while it shows no sign of in- herit his ph. a remarkabh ailings. Surely such man deserves some token of recognition at the hands of his the more especially as he was tative of the ancient | aster, and directly descended Murrogh Kavanagh, who enth and fifteenth centuries battled against Engiand at the head of the United Irish clans. A Monument to His Memory. The movement to e€ t a suitable monu- Ment to Mac Murrogh Kavanagh belongs to no political party or religious sect. It numbers among its supporters men of every shade of opinicn, many of whom were Kavanegh’s opponents in parliament or for though a stanch conserva- nti-home ru vanagh was a | ord and a generous foe. Above | one of the pioneers, if not the | very first, to decry England's unjust taxa- tion of Ireland, thereby starting the anti. | which tenant and movement, in home ruler and unionist, rich and poor, are now practically united. After a great deal of discussion it has been decided | to cho: as the form in which the la " rugged feat- ures are to be perpe The decision was widely combated by claimed that » world ebserve his | and that he would have | en the first to condemn the ¢ feeling of natural delicacy cordingly the o's armless and State will not be obtruded upon pre- de- public. The commission for the monu- ment will be placed at once with some well- known British sculptor, and the bust, when completed, will doubtless be placed on a tal in one of the Dublin streets. A Descendant of King The extraordinary cripple who is thas re- called to public notice just ten years after | his death, was born Mareh 1881, at Borris house, County Carlow, Ireland, being | the youngest son of Thomas Kavanagh of | Borris, titular “King of Leinster.” H mother was Lady Harriet French, great aunt ef the present rl of Clancarty (better known as the husband of Belle Bil- ton), and daughter of that Lord Clancarty | who was minister to Brussels during the =n of Waterloo. Younger sons have Same standing (or want of d- | eland have throughout | | rest of the I les, and the arm- ‘Ss third child seemed 4 particularly Indeed, there {s a very strong Kavanagh's birth, the | nurs leving him rous of smothering ihe | n two feather beds. | as heard Kavanagh | elf, with a good deal of | that, on jous family ach, although a portionless and a cripple, was whose fon posses: sound common r her child gave toward success. sh secured for her son d wi he was ef a mot at affe impet Kavang tutor, dy a able to travel intelligently, took him for long ram- bles over Europe. The traveling virus planted In the boy’s blood throve quickly, and in 1849 he started for the far east un- der the care of his more fortunate elder brother. In India they shot tigers—Kava- nagh being, as has been heretofore stated, an excellent wielder of rifle or fowling piece. In India, also, the lucky elder broth- er died, and the cripple hastened home to ireland, only to find that his other brother, Charles, the inheritor of the great Kav- anagh estates, had also departed this life. Thus the “despised homunculus,” as he bit terly described himself, became heir to many broad acres, and the smoldering fires ef ambition began to blaze up within him. In 1856 he married his cousin, Frances Leathley, daughter of the rector of Ter- monfeckey, and during the years 1856 and is7 he served as high sheriff of the coun- ties of Kilkenny and Carlow. In 1866 he Was triumphantly returned as member of parliament for Wexford county. From 1868 to 188) he represented Carlow at West- minster, becoming lord lieutenant of Car- low in 1880 and a privy councilor in 1886. Performed Many Feats. Kavanagh never used artificial limbs of any sort. His arm stumps were fitted wita Screw plates, into which hooks or (for use at table) forks and spoons could be fixed. Through patient striving he acquired won- derful dexterity, and the writer has seen i off a glass of wine without help ns the glass stem between his right stump and his breast, and lifting the brim quickly to his Mps.’ He could aiso pour cut wine for himself, and his hand- Writing (he wrote either with the pen fitted into his stump or by means of a long quill held in his teeth) was quite legible. Dicta- c abhorred. agh was usually carried from place to place on the back of his valet—a mus- cular fellow, whose figure was as familiar in the purlieus of the house of commons as was that of his master. When at home, or in his Londen house, Kavanagh wheeled himself from room to room by means of a sort of tricycle chair. From youth upwar: however, the mode of progression which he loved best was riding on horseback. He was always a bold rider, and followed the hounds until age and increasing infirmity forced him to desist. At first he rode with- out any protection, relying simply on the srip of his leg stumps; but a nasty fall, which broke his nose, induéed him to in- vent for his own use a box side saddle, in whick he was strapped. A short skirt cov- ered the contrivance, and gave Kavanagh a very singular appearance. Shot Big Game. His shooting was done by means of guns from which the trigger guards had been removed. The gun to be fired was laid along his left shoulder, and with his right hook he pulled the trigger. His alm was deadly, as tigers, deer and other big game of which trophies are preserved in Borris house are ample proof. While in Persia, at the court of the Viceroy Mirza Malichus Gn 1849), he defeated fifty-two picked sharpshooters in a contest of marksman- ship. Kavanagh's parliamentary record was an excellent one. The rules of the house of commons had, of course, to be altered in his behalf, and he was permitted to speak from his own seat, without rising. His Speches were infrequent and brief, but al- Ways pithy and full of brilliancy. When- ever he addressed the house he was eagerly listened to, and bis opinions on Irish mat- ters carried much weight. His ringing at- tack it was which in 18¢9 decided the fate of the peor law amendment bill. Twice he was offered a peerage by Disraeli—in 1868 and in 1880, but on both occasions he de- clined. am too proud of being the heir of the kings of Leinster,” he was accus- | tomed to say, “to think of accepting any mere barony or viscounty.” A knighthood he also refused, with the satirical remark that “he ‘Oo constituted as to render it impossible for him to kneel down for the knightly accolade.” His Public Record. Arthur Mac Murrogh Kavanagh was re- sponsible for other suspensions of imme- morial custom in the house of commons. It | is, in that august assembly, the rule that | all members shall vote or leave the house during a division, and that strangers are not allowed on the floor of the house. Now Kavanegh’s valet was permitted to carry him to and fro, between his seat and the lobby—being the only non-member allowed access to the chamber. During a divtsion, however, the faithful attendant could not well be admitted, and so Mr. Speaker was accustomed to avert his eyes and pretend ignorance of the fact that the honorable member for Carlow county still sat in his bench, without voting. Kavanagh was an excellent landlord, and | greatly improved the condition of his es- tates. His children are all well-formed and exceptionally robust specimens of human- ity, the eldest son and heir, Walter Mac- Murrogh Kavanagh, having contested the | County Kilkenny at the last election. So far no dissentient voice has been raised to mar the general chorus approving the project of an adequate monument to Arthur Mac Murrogh Kavanagh, syrely one of the century's most notable Celts. A Sensible Fad. From Harper's Bazar. One of the most sensible “fads” among the girls just now is to save up all their old jewelry, old gold thimbles which have the tops worn off, gold fob chains, gold bracelets and pins, and even necklaces, and take them to some reliable jeweler, who will either melt them down and make what she wanis out of them, or else will ex- change them, allowing her for the weight of the gold. One girl made a collection for several years of broken bits of jewelry, and, with some of her grandmother's add- ed to them, sold them to her own jeweler, and now is the happy possessor of a beau- tiful pearl necklace which she got in ex- change. Visitor—“Well, my man, I expect it must Your nose that color!" have cost you a lot of money to peint Reprobate—“Ah, an’ if Oi cud afford ft, Of'd have it varnished now¥" THE LIMIT OF SPEED Opinions Differ as to Which Will Reach It First. AS BETWEEN HORSE AND WHEEL A Bicyclist Has Already Lowered Salvator’s Great Record. INTERVIEWS WITH EXPERTS Written for The Evening Star. : 8S THE BICYCLE now king, and, hav- ing beaten the horse at the mile, will it continue to hold pre- eminence and always lead, or will the horse creep up and break his own record and that of the wheel? And how much more is the bicycle record likely to be pulled down, what will the horse record become, and what is the probable limit of speed of either for the mile? ‘These are questions which are now being actively discussed in the sporting world. After 38) years of struggling, the wheel has at last beaten the horse. Salvator’s record, which has stood for seven years as the best speed for a mile ever made, except by a locomo- tive, 1.35%, has just been lowered in Eng- land by the Englishman, J. W. Stocks, who is one of the phenomenal short-distance riders of the world. Stocks clipped 1-5 of a second off Salvator’s mile, and in conse- atence cyclists everywhere are predicting that the horse is behind the age. Horsemen rather unwillingly acknowi- edge that tae machinery of the bicycle m: Prove too much for their favorites. The racing wheel is physical strength plus mechanism, they say, while with the horse there is the animal alone and nothing arti- ficial to help him along, that is, in a run- ning race. However, hardly a man can be found who thinks that the horse has reached his limit. There are still seconds to be ¢ p- ped off, they contend, and the reason Sal- vator’s record has been untouched for so long has been that racing men d breed- ers have not given their attention recently to running against time. What they are striving for is to have their horses win in ccmpetitions, regardless of moments and seconds, and since Salvator made his great run down at Monmouth Park in L Ww, on a straightaway track, especially prepared for him, there has been absolutely no at- tempt to lower this time. Can Bring It Lower. That the horse can do it, conditions being favorable, there is little doubt. It is worth noting, in this connection, that though the record has not been beaten, the speed of running horses, as well as trotters and pacers, has steadily increased. When Sal- ator made his famous mile, 141, over an ordinary course (oval), it was great time. It is exceedingly ordinary time nowadays, and any number of “selling plate (to use a turf term, meaning ordinary, ave: Bced raccrs) can beat it. Time and again a horse that has no reputation at all, and never will bave, does a mile on a circular track in 1.39 and a fraction, and there are many timers in the 1.88 clas This is as well as a bicycle can do on a circular track, even when properly paced. The honors, therefore, betwixt the bicycle and the horse seem very nearly even. The great point that needs to be considered is the way the bicycle has for several years past been pulling down its own record, how it does it, and what the chances are of a still further drop. The gain in bicycle racing speed has been altogether phenomenal. It has steadily dropped since 1890. Early in that year W. C. Jones pulled the mile in 2.20 3-5, from a standing start, the custom of those days. What followed statistics best can tell. At the close of 1891 the record was reduced to 2.15—still with a standing start. In 92 the flying start came i and 2 3-5 e At the end of 1893 the two-minute mark had been lowered, and John §. Johnson, paced by a running horse, had cleared the mile in 1.56 3 During 1894 Johnson made a record of nine seconds better, and in 1805 Berlo cut the time down to 1.40 2-5. The following sum- mer it looked as if the limit had been reached, W. W. Hamilton making the time of 1.39 1-5. This year, however, his record was aesailed. E. A. McDuffce lowered it exactly one second, and later J. Platt- Bett: a famous rider of England, made the mile in 1.37 3 This stood until Stocks the other day passed the winning post in No cyclers in America have a better knowledge of the capabilities of the bicycle than A. G. Batchelder and “Eddie¥ Baid. Batchelder 1s the official handicapper of the L. A. W., a cycling writer and a man who sees every contest and knuws every racer. “Eddie” Bald’s record does not need comment, nor does he himself need introduction. A. G. Batchelder’s Opinion. “The end of cycling records,” says Batchelder, “is not reached yet, nor is it in sight. What will be done later it is impossible to say, but I am confident Stocks’ time will be beaten. It looks as if the horse’s limit was practically reach- ed, but not so the bicycle. The machine itself is now all it ever can be; there is no chance for improvement there, the rider can hardly be trained better. but the speed of racing has been increased and will con- tinue to be because of the new racing ma- chines, the multicycles. The use of these multicycles for pacing a man has rapidly developed. The greatest improvement in cycling the past two years has been in the building of these muchincs. They are highly developed pieces of mechanism, «nd the modern racer nas thre2 or four of them with crews carefully trained. Sextets und quads make up the racer’s pacing out- fit. It has been found that a sextet is about the limit for speed, as a larger ma- chine would find {t difficult to get around the turns. In these pacing machines lies the whole science of racing today. For fast time the main thing is well-drilled pacing crews. “The mile record is a curious thing to talk about. Stocks’ mile is a greater achievement than Salvator’s, for the rea- son that the horse made his mile on a straightaway track, and the man ran on a track three laps to the mile, having to make twelve different turns. As a matter of fact, a fair comparison between the speed of a forse and a man has never been made on a regular track with regular offi- cials. In September, 1895, or thereabouts, it is said (it is not part of the official rec- ords) Johnny Johnson did a mile straight- away on the Tonnawanda_ boulevard in 1.35 2-5. A few days later E. F. Leonest rode over the same course in 1.35. There ae a bushel of other stories of even faster imes made on a straight track since, but none of them are official, and they are re- garded as fishy tales. This much is known, however, that ‘Mary’ Anderson, on a stretch of the Southern Pacific railroad, on a straightaway track, constructed for the occasion, alongside the rails, made a mile behind a locomotive in 1.08. As a record this is not taken, for a rule of the L. A. W. only permits man pacing. In France élec- tric pacing machines are used, but these are not regarded as fair tests here.” Will Come Down to 1.31, Bald, like other cyclists of reputation, agrees with Handicapper Batchelder as to the lowering of records. “Certainly, I think that Stocks’ time can be beaten,” he says, “and the horse will be left out of sight; 1.30 or 1.31 I regard as quite pos- sible time, considering the perfection to which the multicycles are being brought. There is a limit to the horse, it seems to me, but I don’t see why there should be to the cycler. Remember how much the rec- ord has been brought down in three or four years. That was without the ald of machines. Now there is a new opportunity to lower records. “I have never tried riding inst time myself, but if I should, ly paced, I am confident I could get below 1.35 in time. Men are said to have done much better than that on straight runs, you know; me the figure. there have been reported instances of miles done in 1.16 and 118 on a straight track, only these runs Were dot official. I look to a lowering of the.record far beyond where the horse can néver get.” Of the horsemep of the present day there is no man moré!of gn expert than A. J. Joyner, Gideon's trainer. Joyner’s views upon the horse versus/the bicycle are short and explicit: & “Under present conditions, no," he says. “I think Salvator's time will stand. You see bicycle racing and horse racing can’t be fairly compared. If your horse had the wind at his back all the time, if he was shielded from the wind as a cycler is with his pacing machines, it would be different, but a horse runs all alone. Yet on a spe- cially prepared track with a trifle of a slope downward, as seme fast tracks are built now, a straightaway track, mind you, and with everything in his favor, I think a horse could be found today who would beat that time of Salvator’s. It should be pos- sible to bring the record down several si onds. The general run of horses are cer- tainly faster than they used to be. The only trouble is that none are trained to beat time now.” Favors the Horse. Representing the west as a trainer and owner, though he now spends much of his time racing east, is H. Eugene Leigh, enormously successful recently on the turf. His success as an owner and manager of horses may be best appreciated from the fact that he was the man who made a $- 009 sale of Kingston to Keene about a fort: nignt ago. The value of Leigh's opinion in a matter of this kind is that he knows the great racing field of the west as weil as he does the east. “The tracks of the west are faster than those of the east,” says Mr. Leigh, “and very many horses out there can do the mile on an ordinary track in under 1.40. Where there was one horse that could run in the 30s a few years ago, there are now a dozen. In fact, we think very little about it, and time is not being considered now- adays. In England now there is no such thing as official timing on the tracks. All they care about is competition, and we are ing more and more to that view. horses are certainly becoming though they are not bred and The pacing and the trot- “Yet faster, trained for that. ting records are being iowered, and I could pick out a dozen horses today that { am fairly sure, under good conditions, could b the running record. A bicycle track is built for speed; ours, on the contrary, are not. You seldom find a track with banked-up turns, and there is no such thing as effective pacing. If a horse could be paced and the wind kept off him, with the track in condition for records, he could certainly do some seconds better than Sal- vator did. Just how far the record could be made to drop I cannot say. But there ig no attempt being made to lower it just now.” eS 'THRASHING OF MELONS. Seed Houxes Depend Upon the Semi- Arid Belt for Their Supply. Kansas City Letter to the Chicago Record. The watermeton harvest is on in Kearny county, and for a month there will be such scenes in that prairie region as weuld make colored folk groan in me anguish to witness. Possibly they grean in bodily anguish we for if they chose to fill themselves to the groaning point, there would be none to say them nay—provided they saved the seeds. For the seeds are the crop, and all else is waste, to dispose of which is the trial of the seed farmer's life. They grow melons in Kearny county as corn is grown in the cgrn coun! by the hundred acres. The settlers at first tried to grow corn and failed: because it wouldn't rain when rain was fieeded. Frost and chinchbugs Killed the wheat and grasshop- pers ate Up the gardens and alfalfa. Walt the people becamé discouraged and went back east to “wife's foiks” in “L!enoy, “Mizzoura” or “Ioway.’ Before all had gone it ocurred to a big eastern seed firm that western Kansas was just the place to grow melon seed. A -representative w sent to Kearny county to make contra: with farmers. Only a few were so nearly sulfmerged in the depths of despair that they could be induced to grasp at so frail a straw, but those who did have not re- gretted it. Paradoxical as i¢ may seem, !t was dis- covered that a country which is so dry that it won't raise an average of half a ton of crn to the acre, even in the best ye will produce from twenty to fifty tons of melons, which selentists tell us are more than 99 per cent water, and do it with a certainty that makes the best agricultural sections of the east blush for their short- ccmings. From small beginnings the industry has grown until now a good portion of the farmers of Kearny county and some in the neighboring counties are engaged in it, and arly all the melon seed used in the U ed States comes from that seni-arid region. One farmer last year had 150 acres in melons, and numbers had in more or less than 100 acres. The cost of growing an acre of melons is little more than that of growing an acre of ccrn, and the cost of harvesting is greater chiefly because there is usually little corn to harvest in that county, while the melon yield ts always beautiful. The profits are frcm two to five times greater than could be realized from any other crop that the treacherous climate of western Kansas will permit to grow. Separating the seeds from the melons ts an interesting process. It is done by “thrashing,” but not with the ordinary thrashing machine. A spegial naciine is built, having a huge hopper, at the bottom of which 1s a cylinder armed with stout sharp spikes. The cylinder ts run at high speed by means of an ordinasy sweep hc rse-power, with tumbling rod connection. The melons are thrown heavily into the hopper, so that they break as they fall, and in a twinkling the cylinder teeth have torn them to pieces, releasing the seed- bearing pulp. The hopper discharges into a great cylindrical screen, set at a slight incline, in which long arms revolve on an axis, stirring up the mass of rinds and pulp and seeds, and continually pushing the seeds and pulp through the serzen into a vat as the mass moves from the hopper down the incline. By the tine the mass reaches the lower end of the incline it has lest all the pulp and seeds and consists only of rinds, which are thrown with a scoop onto the waste pile. When the pile of rinds becomes so large as to be trouble- some, it is not moved, simply because it is So much easicr to move the thrashing ma- chine. When a thrashing machine runs steadily, it is necessary to move it at least every third day. ‘The seeds and pulp which come through the thrashing machine together are stored in great vats or tanks, water added and the whole left for two or three days to ferment. In the process of fermentation the pulp separates from the seeds, which sink to the bottom of the tanks. The pulp is then ladled out, the seeds washed several times with water and spread out on sheets in the sun to dry. After that all that remains fs to sack the seeds, ship them to the New York, Phila- delphia or Detroit seed house ‘or which they were grown, and study up ways for spending the money which they will bring. The Boy in the Bundle. From the Chicago Recerd. An Towa boy recently passed through an experience which he will not forget if he lives to the 100 years old. He is only five years old, and one day when his father went to the wheat field to drive the har- vester he took him along and perched him on the high seat at his side. z For a time all this Was very interesting, but presently the, little fellow grew tired and began to squirm and complain. And then, just as his ‘father was leaning over to look more closely at some of the ma- chinery, off tumbled the little feilow to the conveyor. He shrieked just once and his father tried vdinly.ito stop tne horses. But before he could even slacken the speed the boy had been driven up through the elevator canvas with half a bundie of wheat, the binding twine kad twisted swiftly around his neck and fegs and he was rolled out on the wile carrier securely bound in a wheat bundle. He was almost choked and there was a tiny bit of skin torn from his shoulder, but otherwifs he was unhurt when his father cut the String and helped him up aguin. But a worse frightened boy would have been herd to find. —_—_——_+o——_—_ In the Museum. From Puck. Visitor—“Excuse me, mister, but there's one thing I would like to ask you.” ‘The Armless Wonder—‘‘What is it?” Visitor—‘How do you manage to steer your wheel?” = —<—==== meang'much inthe meget to, leak ge to. for this trade mark cut into every Dlece of cut glass you buy. _ CONSTRUCTION NOW UNDER WAY. ——= A Fearful Experience. RS) PRES Ant FOR A POSTMASTER LOSES THE USE oF HIS LEGS AND ARMS, Edwin R. Tripp of Middicficld Center Meets With a Hazardous Encounter Which Renders Hi Helplexs, From Otsego Republican, Cooperstown, N. ¥. Mr, EAwin R. Tripp, the postmaster at Middle. field Center, N. ¥., recently had a dangerous ex- perience which left him in a helpless st Nis system was so much shattered that It was feared he might never recover. In au interview with a reporter of the Republi- can, regarding this experience which had attracted considerable attention, Mr. Tripp stated: “In March, 1882, I was taken with what T after. Ward learned was locomotor ataxia, and was un- able to walk, and I kept getting worse until I lost the use of my arms. I doctored with two skillful doctors. but received no benefit, and also used a galvanic battery, but kept getting worse, and the doctors told me thes could do no more. Tals was in May and June, 1892. TI gave up all hope of ever having the use of my limbs again, and did not expect to live ¥ery long. I was nnable to drees or undrews myself, and could not get around the house unless I was moved in a chatr, “I think it was in June that I read of the case of @ man in Saratoga county, > who was taken very much as myself. He had taken Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People, which con- tained in a condensed form all the elements neces- sary to give new life and richness to the bleed and Testore shattered nerves, and bad been cured by thelr ase, “I learned that the pills were Witkams’ Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. And only cost 50 cents a box, or six boxes for $2.50, at any druggist’s, and sent for two boxes. I used the pills fuithfally, and they gave me an appetite. I thea sent for four more boxes, and be- fore I had taken all of them my feet and legs, prepared by the D TRIBUTE TO PARIS Exposition of 1900 Will Work a Per- manent Transformation. FOR THE WELFARE OF THE CAPITAL ee An Evidence of the Foresight of the French People. ee TO UTILIZE THE SEINE a Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. PARIS, October 7, 3: I TIS ONLY A NEW and hopeful country whose people can build a white city for the short life of an exposition and des- troy it. The white city rose up like a dream, and, like a dream—perhaps a bad dream — disappeared. It will not be thus with the Paris ex- position of 1900. whose works, three years before the fact, are already in hand, and whose chief features have been de- signed to remain as a premanent embellish- ment to the French capital. The thrifty and self-centered Parisians are willing to storify thelr country and instruct the peoples of the world by means of expo- sitions, but they contrive to make the wel- fare of the exposition identical with that of their beloved capital. In the present instance the idea of caus- ing the show to pay tribute to the city is being pushed to the point of the sublime. The exposition of 1900, novel and amusing as the laying out of its grounds may be, means the splendid remaking—or comple- tion—of the most beautiful part of Paris. The city is generous in its subvention to the exposition and its share of the work of transformation, but when all is done Paris will have reaped more than she planted. “Tribute to Paris!” This is the continual cry of the Parisians to the outside world. Perhaps the most novel feature of the actual exposition will be the use made of the River Seine. As everybody knows, the Seine, a deep, well-banked-up little river, across which, in Paris, a good base ball man could make a fairly easy throw, runs in a curving course directly through the center of the capital. Its bridges have been always noted for their beauty and their number; but, strange to say, the Pari- sians had never, heretofore, turned to the river for their pleasures. The vistas of the Seine are beautiful by day and romantic by night; but its banks had never yet been chosen for the promenade and fete grounds to which they might be so easily and nat- urally adapted. The right-hand side of the Seine between these bridges has a parapet and shaded walk. It is, however, a mere street, while the left bank is positively regged and ugly, with industrial dumping grounds and steam boat landings. This is, in a measure, true of the banks of the Seine between the bridges forming the higher rungs of the ladder also; though where the river bends at the top of the picture, by the Eiffel tower, there are the gardens of the Trocadero, of Course. It is along these banks, therefore, that the exposition will work one of the greatest of Parisian transformations. Watery Paradise.- The river Seine, transformed into “Tue Street of Venic will be to wondering visitor and delighted resident what prom- Ises,to be a scene of the utmost waterside splendor. From the Eiffel tower to the bridge of the Place de la Concorde the riverside on either hand will be banked down with broad, low marble steps down to the very wavelets. Statuary and foun- tains, shade trees and flowering shrubs, flower gardens and gayly canvased pavil- ions will out-Venice Venice immeasurably. While through the waters will be darting any number of gondolas, as practical as beautiful, manned by the most expert Ve- petian gondoliers. The immense amount of promenade space which will, therefore, be found along the river and on its bridges must be looked on as a part of the exposition grounds proper. Indeed, the river itself becomes a highly important section of the exposition grounds between the bridges. And it is here that the really greatest innovation in the mat- ter of world’s fairs must be iooked for. The exposition of 1900, immeasurably more than that of 1889, will lie in the heart of the most beautiful part of Paris, inclosing Which had been cold, began to get warm, “Twas a tacmber of the Town Board that sum- mer and had to be carried and put isto a wagon to go to the meetings, and, in fact, was helpless, as my neighbors know. In August I could walk around the house by pushing a chair. I kept get- ting better and managed to move around more, until at election time that year I walked with a cane to the polis, « short distance from my home. I continued to take Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for within its walls a whole section of the town. The exposition of 1889, lying really cn the left hand side of the river, was content to take in the Trocadero grounds on the right- hand side, with the one bridge leading to them. The exposition of 100) will inclcee seven bridges, the whole rigat-hand side of the Champs Elysees between the Place de la Concorde and the Alma bridge. In a Ps Peopl iu ol hte m3 word, the river will flow through the cen- cana Re gag pipers arma rh apie ter of the exposition grounds as it flows Gs anh Maik biniacs OF enk , 5 through the center of Paris. aly mad wns as Ge ee mile, three thes a day, and attend to my duties 28 postmaster. “In the spring of 1893 I was elected town clerk, The Old and the New. The Eiffel tower was the center of the old exposition grounds. These lay, for the | ®ulch office I held for three ye previous: most part, along the left side of the river. - ee eee a Hise gon They will be preserved, with many of their | {um py" gy cers Of 8 Asulgtonel oa buildings. But the exposition’s walls, em- | um fT wont ae een ae hee bracing them, will then creep down the left | atie to do work in us garden mow ant naw ttt bank to the bridge of the Concorde again. | of my wool. I convider that mys The taking in of the river Seine, it will be | health ie duc te the ue ut Dew. therefore seen, has been one of the main ideas of those who planned the grounds. And 1s this not taking a leaf from the book of the white city? The waterways of the Chicago fair suggested it undoubt- edly. These are the transformations of riverside. They will remain, to the manent embellishment of Paris; and p! ably points to this glorified riverside as a new Parisian razzie-dazzie ground, with music halls, cafes and aquatic distractions Pills for Pale Peopie. “EDWIN R. TRIPP.” Subseribea and swora to before me this 234 day of June, 18: HOMER HANNAH, Notary Public. tal, and thenceforth {t is the matter of a cab. There are no connections. The passenger fr England to Belgium, say, must de are Saint-Lazare galore. The Boulevard—‘the” Boulevard; Sac cate to eae that is tojeay. the great Parisian prom- | Gere am Nord. In the matter of caburian enade—ig already extending down the Rue | ines it is no better. A trolle enterprise Royale, in the western movement of the | Was’ magined bet tis ores eT prise Sepiel 3e 1s mek SOlnesy. therefore, CAE) Cerek framchis te GaERIA eke the future tourist will write home of the dozen lines from Paris to as many outlying towns. This was a year ago, and they have not yet been able to comm: tions. The whole 5 objections of Parisians, not only to trolley wires and poles, but even to an increased number of street car lines. As to omnibuses, two truths are axio- gay life by the river, as he now writes of the gay life that stretches from the Mad- eleine to the Porte Saint-Martin. The exposition will make other changes, however, far more important architectural- ly. They ere all of one piece, though com- prising four distinct parts. These are the building of the new palaces of the Champs 7 ar atic. First, there are not enough omai- Elysees, tre construction of the new ave- | Ma . nue, the erection of the new bridge and buses. Second, there are too many omni- transformation of the Place of the In- | buses. There are not enough for the traf- fic, but too many as obstructions. Metropolitan is, therefore, a crying neces- sity to the Parisians. But it has been a crying necessity for years. It will have needed nothing less than a world’s fair such as that of 190) promises to be to force a people who love elecance and beauty, rather than the saving of their time, to have accomplished it. An underground railway running through Paris, cutting the fair capital into four quarters like a pie! It will be the exposition’s strangest sight. STERLING HEILIG. ——_—_. How to Wear Corsets, From Harper's Bazar. Wear nothing under the corsets but a silk or Hsle-thread knitted vest. Over the vest put on the drawers as smoothly fitted to the hips as possible, all fullness drawn smoothly back, with the yoke edge below the waist line. Nothing else belongs under corsets. With a pair of long silk laces lace in the usual way, but with the draw holes a little lower than the belt line. Open out the lacings to their utmost stretch, even all the length of back. Take a rough Turkish towel, double, and hold one end by the chin pressed against the breast, so that the towel hangs doubled over the front of the body, almost to knees. Hook the corsets loosely around the body, with the towel inside. Begin slowly at the very bottom to draw in the laces. Stop, bend forward, pull the bottom of corsete down with one hand, at the same time pull the towel slowly up with the other for a space of a few inches, then draw a little tighter the bottom of the lacing. Bend forward and draw up the towel while pulling down corsets, first on one side, then on the other. Work the hips into place by twisting to right and left. In this way draw up the towel while tigh ening the laces from bottom up. When the towel is drawn out pull the laces taut, tie firmly either at back or crossed and drawn to the front and tied under one edge of busk. The back opening must present a slender V-shape, meeting at the bottom. Don’t wear a corset cover except when it is fully boned as a blouse Mning. The upper skirt should not have a band, but be flatly fitted to the hips; a small hook on the busk prevents the skirts from riding up in front.. Except for slender figures, I advise the under skirt basted to the lower edge of corsets. I do not think that a few hours of tight corsets put on in this way can injure a woman fr there ig no dragging weight at the same time. For ordinary house wear I believe in no corsets nor health waists of any kind. The body re- quires to breathe from the pores of the skin. These suggestions to plump women are given by an artist who has made a study of the subject in her own case. —___ +e+_-___ Dear Drugs. valides. All are works of the most perma- The nent and solid character; and they will ab- selutely change the face of the most beau- tiful part of Paris, adding unimaginable beauties and conveniences. An Exposition Worth Having. An exposition that is capable of inspir- ing and warranting municipal governmenis of this magnitude is, indeed, worth having. But, as I have repeated, these transferma- tions of Paris are to form the real attrac- tions of the fair. The Parisians, instead of saying to the world, “Behold the white city which we have raised and are going to destroy!” say, “Look at this remodeling of the Champs Elysees quarter! It is®all done for you!’ While their unspoken thought is at the same time: “For you to look at now, since you are paying for it; but for us and our children after us, for we are the Parisians As one drives out the avenue of the Champs Elysees today the long facade of the Palais de I'Industrie—the reiic of a for- mer world’s. fair—attracts his admiration just as he is midway beiween the Piace de la Concorde, the beginning of the avenue, and the Arch of Triumph, which is its end. It is still a noble and serviceable building, heretofore the seat of the annua! art salon, the horse show and many a small local show yearly. It must go, nevertheless. And when it goes there will be plowed throvgh the space it occupies a broad and noble avenue that Is to push relentlessly down tc the river, to join the greatest of all the Seine bridges, the new Exposition bridge, whose cornerstone was laid last year by the young tsar. This bridge, which is to be three or four times wider than any other, will, during the fair, contain a midway plaisance all its own. Along its sides will be ranged booths and pavilions for all kinds of shows, as did the old Pont Neuf of old-time Paris. And then, continuing across this astonishingly wide bridge, the avenue will meet the now bare parade ground of the Invalides, whose sacred building, with its gilded dome, will be inclosed within the exposition grounds. Underground Railway. The one remaining work of a permanent character, the Metropolitan underground rajlway. is that which leaves the most to be desired at the present moment. How this gigantic task is to be completed, even within the three years—or, strictly, two years and a little over that remain—is mat- ter for wonder in the minds of a slow peo- ple. The municipality of Paris has com- mitted itself to such an underground road; it 1s declared by the tcst authority that such a road is absolutely nécessary for accommodation of the crowds; and plar enovgh have been presented and discussed. But up to the present time little has been done but to pvt off the actual undertaking, the property interests involved, the magni- tude of the labor and the fear of mutilating Paris standing always in the way of action. The mutilation of Paris! It is not to muti- late Paris that Parisians undergo daily in- numerable annoyances in the matter of lo- cal transportation. -Look at the mere affair of the railway lines that center in the cap- ital! But one—that having its terminus in the Gare Saint-Lazare—really enters the city of Parii ‘The others pass the fortifi- cations, it is true; but their great depots are not allowed to obstruct the city proper. They deposit their passengers at points around the edge of the enlightened capl- Frem Puck. Dobbins—“These druggists are robbers. I just had a prescription filled, and they charged me two dollars for it.” Bobbins—“Oh! That is easy! Why, I had a doctor’s prescription filled the other day, venty-five dollars!” the doctor prescribed a bicycle for my wife, and I had to get it for her.” +0 + Phil. May in Punch, No man ever got a dollar’s worth of ex- perience for ninety cents. = ‘Well, and I now weigh 170.” Books en Ulood and skin diseases mailed free te, S and sk =