Evening Star Newspaper, December 10, 1898, Page 15

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1898—24 PAGES. 15 eed SHIPPING eee I SHEEP MILLIONS INVESTED « ZiN MEAT T0 ENGLAND w however They are in th w. 1 know and there ¢ lamt es them » about as 1. They rs end to th by grazi © Darn w re in the diree- © the w in the mez r sh In som i the Li them. It i garden, but i} fs mutton, his em- aduntry, has u have at e days try an rime to he brick t the ud one-half have ah n brought big tactor- out ns of wets every year meat so that it weet is So goed whi ul s when fresh killed. The mutt tustes as juicy and as swe though fresh t t 2 J am assured that th not be distinguished from ss is growing can he comparative shipments of the years. In 1883 only $11,000 Dp carcasses were sent across In nine months of last year the nted to $1,500,000, and the num- ozen wethers shipped to two and one-half millions. At present abc sheep are being exported every month ‘There are four companies in Buenos Ayres av BUENGS AY RES. and their capital is | I visited was killing | LOKI Sheep a ¢ It is | inent factory. is | he south end of the cliy, near the frozen meat can | sly from it to the | Covers Many Acres. | | The § na factory was one of the }f » he es wed, and it is said that | | already than $4.000,000 gold have been | i It covers many acres, hav- | }) yards and sheep pens. Its house has, I ju more than an | spare. It is of but one story, tl ind a corrugated iron | v= or when | entered it Was ¢ flowing 1 cool In fore being put in the freezi 5 t bste t moment and watehed the kill- | | » quickly dene that in cour min- } utes ane ah y my watch Tsaw 2 shee} es from Dlesting life to the cond {tien of a inned and cletned. ft wes ready fer the meat shop had it not st be first n and then | | \ ARGENTINE SHEPHERD a greater profit. Wool loses from 50 to 70 per cent of its weight In washing, and the Argentine farmers find it better to sell at a lower rate and allow the European buyers to scour ft. Two-thirds of the Argentine wool goes to France, Germany and Belgium, though quite a lot has, until this year, been sent to the United States. Our Jast tariff, as interpreted, laid so heavy a duty up s to keep it out, although the Ar- gentine wool we buy is of a coarse variety and does not, I am told, compete with that raised at home. It is known as the Cordo- ba wool, and is largely used for making carpets. Exports Incre: The Argentine exports of wool are in- creasing in volume. In 1860 the clip amounted to only 45,000,000 pounds. In 1891 it was 310,000,000 pounds, and in 1897 472,- 000,000 pounds, or more than 100 pounds for each man, woman and child in the repub- lic. The product per sheep ts also steadil growing. and the average fleece of today is one-third again as large as it was in i860, The Argentine not only surpasses us in the number of sheep, but it promises to surpass us in time in the quality of the wool and mutton. At present our average fleece per shee higher, but the Argen- tines are steadily improving their breeds by crossing them with the best rams that can be imported. Every day or so there is an auction » of imported rams in Buenos Ayres, and not long ago a fine Cali- fornia merino sold for $2,000 in gold. T hav visited some of the auctions, and Tam sur prised at the fine quality of the animal ‘They are superior to anything I have eve seen in the United States, the most of them j coming from famous farms and well-known | bree of England. 1 am told that ship- ments of so Ned fine tock from the United States to the Argentine have usual- ly in losses to our shippers, as the | stock was not up to the grade demanded by ! the Arg ine buyers. 7 ‘ The wool of the Argentine is changing. For a long time there was only coarse wool put now all Kinds of fine wi » roe duced, and the Argentine merinos are con- sidered as fine as any In the markets. ‘The merino sheep are, however, comparativ few chic breeds ar the Lei Romney Marsh. 1 Downs fords and Cheviot a cross ¢ Leicesters and the merino which gives ol that at the last Paris expe tion the Arg, ood first us a wool ¢ hibitor, reeeiving 102 prizes, of which tw hre gold medals. nto the meat , the Argentin excellent n= wh AND HOUSE, asing in its sh Buenos Ayre and sheep yards, ire transferred from them 1 1 saw a number of a visit there one day. in open pens, mad rudely Knocked up on eamers, Each anir >i Away warm ¢ down. in whateve und with | 5O0 to 2,04 m 2X) to thru rough it steamer, 1 Juseular vein. He then ften bei: fees next sheep, which is al- hip: | 1 there ready for him, killin: vers and | hee I ep at the rate of one and carge of | mer r minu | the first | s as th en kr | y p and | is seized ana skinned. 7 exported #live to En- | s thrown >» one plac | rope, and last hout a quarter of a | 1 shipped to ny for | million cattle and half a million sheep were The kidneys their | sold in this way | a er, for the ney f: | The Argentines are now ralsing catrle fe making a sort of ari milk and for export, and the: improv- | ere largely sold for cooking, jing their cattle as’ well as r sheep. | &o to the markets of Bue | There ral bulls in the try which t and heal © cut off | cost ,000 gold, and the past gues and hearts are year as many as 1,600 bull imported. left + neat ‘o steer ts accepted for shipment. which 1 see best | Weighs less than 1,320 pounds, Tonot a { heme. It is dressed after fashion of | few are shipped which weigh 1 The English markets, a matter so important | average price paid by the shipper is about fac ry has a Killed Lo: end this don mar- superin freezing: the Carcasses. freezin, 1 in great ¢! mber ‘ w Will hold 60,000 ca asse on he chambers have | walls of wood and sawdust a foot thick. | | The ling of each ts covered with | coils ef pipe, in which flow ammonia $20 gold. The wild cattle of the Argentine pampas of which you have read in your ographies have long since disappeared, and questions about them create considerable laughter. A | few months ago an American resident of Buenos Ayres received a letter from a fessor of one of our leading American colleges stating that hi peeted to take a& hunting trip to the Argentine and would like to know if he could shoot the wild c tle near Buenos Ayres without a licens and brine so arranged chemically that they |The man evidently had learned that fill the room! wits aie ERICH ts 30laberecs ry beast in this country has an owner ee Nag It takes three great =ngines io | ald that the stock is now as carefully he pip ied, and these work on | ¥#tched as our stock at home. tae aa Whe Gdllee Sheik aes FRANK G. CARPE? we covered with inch ae chamber was intensely cold. Paper Bath Robes. nf m hooks with th: From the New York Herald. ward the x r ship- gineer who down to show uld stand alone, pat it w flesh was as hard ston=. vizht hou : being put in | oom the reasses are p:-r- After they are frozen they are white muslin cloths and twa rem twent st about used from fifty The freight to London costs nis a pound, and the ten cents and upward per h of the work possible hinery, but the m than at home. slaughterers, skinners men is less than $1.10 a day | men receive less than &2 per d I won- would like 0 butchers a the r nef the blood. is sob used for making glycerine, boacs for knife handle button | combs, and some of the entrails form * gut” for fddle strings. The sheepskirs dried and sold in bales, and the tongu and hearts are frozen for export. In th | same factory partridges and pheas | chickens, turkeys, ducks, fish and arm: | los are frozen for shipment to Europe. In the Wool Market. Leaving the frozen meat factory, T dro | to the Mercado Central des Frutos, This = the great central market of Buenos Ayres, where wool, hides and grain are sold {in wholesale lots. It is the largest produce | market of the world under one roof. It covers many acres, and millions of pounds are handled in it every year. It is building of three stories, lying near » docks on the Ricachuelo ri » int t of Buenos Ayres called Barracas. Bar- Ss means wa nd Barracas is the part of Buenos Ayres where the great | export business of the Argentine is Gone. | The wool and hides are taken from the | market house to the warehouses and there Prepared for shipment. At shearing time Wool comes in in train and ship loads. There are scarcely enough cars to haul the crop. and the vast market house is so full that you can hardly get through Its Ubree floors are jp The are it. “ked with stacks of dirty, greasy wool. Carts and wagons loaded with wool obstruct all other traffic, boats of wool are being unloaded in the river with steam cranes, and the cars are run right into the } market itself. Each man’s wool is put in | a pile by itself. It is taken out of the bales and left loose in a stack, so that the buyers can easily examine it. The shippers tell me that the woo! crosses the ocean better in its unwashed state, and that it thus brings Bath robes made of pape factured, and their use is a fad. ‘The kind of material used resemb! ting paper. It quickly dries the body, and as paper is a bad heat conductor the much dreaded cold after the bath can be avoided. Whele suits are made of this paper stuff, inciuding coverings for the head and fee! One advantage of the fad is the cheapness of such a garm: making it for the poo! person to own one toe ant work read the ¥ Star are now manu- becoming quite ot- possible If you of The unt columi esate <s A Usefnl Caddie Bax. From Harper's Bazar “What an enthusiastic golfer Snobberly ist He passes every morning on his way to the links, (Twelve o'clock, noon). of mortification if the chaps should see mo carrying @ vulgzh lunch basket.” “Weally, I'd die MAILED MONSTERS 10 x The New Battle Ships To Be Built For Our Navy. WILL BICEL ANYTHING WE NOW HAVE Stronger in Armor and With Far More Powerful Batteries. ——— ee DETAILS OF CONS! RUCTION Written for The Evening Star, NLY WITHIN THE past few days have the final details of the three battle ships last appropriated for by Congress been set- ued, and now we may well be interested in what these really fine fighting ships are to be. As originally called for by the depart- Ment’s advertise- ment, the ships w duplications of the Wlinois and class, but, owing to popular appeal, a premium was placed upon the contractor offering higher speed, and the eighteen knots guaranteed for these vessels was the con quence, To secure this rease of two knots over the department's demand the ships w lengthened by the addition of twenty fe placed right in their middies, so to speak, and the adoption of water tube boilers for the motive power. The added twenty feet not only gave the room needed for the more numerous boilers—without which it would be impossible to make all the steam demanded by the faster working engines— but, incidentally, gave the vessels finer bodies, both fer speed and speed-keeping in a seaway, and permitted of a heavier bat- tery and the carriage of several hundred tons more of coal than will be possible for the battle ships just preceding. ral dimensions of the three v nd th are: Length on load ‘S feet; beam, extreme, fest mean draft, 2% feet 10.25 inches; normal displacement, 12.50) tons; maximum indicated horse power (estimated), 16,000; speed in knots an hour, 1S knots: normal 1,000 tons; total bunker ca- tons; complement, 600, Hull Consteuction, The ships have the same high freeboard of 19 feet characteristic of the Mlinots, and the same ing bow, which promises to make the vessels a great deal drier in a head sea than is possible with the generally s nt-up-and-down form heretofore in vox The hutis will not be sheathed, and their double bottoms throughout the great will rise to the ching fore and aft t length of the inder edge of the wate! armor four ‘feet below the normal There is, of course, the usual construction of water-tight sub- compartments throughout the body, and there is nl pemping or fire in any will be paringly, not exposed to the weat proofed by some satisfac ory take the place of decking of Unoleum, tubber tiing, wire mat- cement will constitute safe sub- stitutes, while thin metallic bulkheads of corrugated steel will form the. divic walls in the living spaces, Splinters the risk of 1 re to be reduced to a mi m id before the ships are finished ey- vodwork now con Stromser Armor. n the shi 1 practically in for but of armor as it now will ditfer is in the in thick ses owing to the greater defen- sive quali cel theated by the Krupp process t carries the face hardening to a greater depth, Whereby t plaling equals the hea Harveyized armor. Congress will | be asked to make the additional appropria- tion t the added expense of Krupp- ing the 1 for our Jatest ships. The water-line belt, which is seven and one-half feet wide, extends from the bow back to a point abreast the water turret. From turret to turret this armor will have @ maximum th: ess of twelve inch te a depth of four feet, whence it will taper to eight und one-haif at the lower edge on the armor shelf below the line, From the forward turret to the it will graduated to two inches where it merges into the ram. Diagonal, athwartship bulk- heads, extending from the ends of the thickest portion of the side belt, will ter- mina gainst the barbettes of the two turrets—effectually blocking a raking fore- und-aft fire from an enemy. These bulk- heads will be ten inches thick, Protective Deck. On top of the six-sided armor formation— consisting of the thickest of the water-line belt and the diagonal bulkheads—will be laid a flat protective deck of steel two and thre er inches thick. Behind these walls, beneath that protective deck and many feet of coal, and below the sheltering Water, will be placed the engines, the borl- ers and the various magazines. A slanting continuation of the protective deck will run forward to the bow, forming the .great ram's backbone, and aft to the stern. For- qua ward it will be three inches thick, and aft four inches. Throughout the space of the ‘midship six-inch battery of five guns the sides above the heavy belt will be rein- forced by five and one-half inches of steel, extending continuously inboard and form ing diagonal, athwartship walls to shield the batteries from fore-and-aft fire. Bands of cellulose will supplement the protection ready provided for the water-line region and the neighborhood just above and throughout the length of the ships. It will take n one happy blow to h als’ the vessels even at modera at the distance of pro: on, would in all likelihood never get down 1 low the protective deck. © Fighting Force. The fighting force of the vessels is, in each case, to be centered in a main battery of four twelve-inch rifles, a secondary bat- tery of sixteen six-inch rapid-fire rifles and an auxiliary battery of twenty- six-pound- ers, ne-pounders, four Gatlings and one twelve-pounder fleld piece. The four twelve-inch guns are to be mounted in two balanced barbette turrets, having face plates arrgnged deflectively at angles of 42 degrecs. The barbettes which reach from the ‘proteétive deck up, and form the armored: passageway for the am- munition and the shelter for the loading und turning mechanisms, and the turrets ‘© to he fourteen inches thick. These twelye-inch guns are to be of the newest pattern of modern high-powered designed for the use of smokeless powder, and while each piece weighs nine tons less than the thirteen-inch guns now in service, they will have a muzzle energy of nearly 20,000 foot-tons greater, the dif- ference in weight going toward a larger supply of ammunition. «In fact, the weight ved by the change @f ammunition and the use of smokeless! powder, combined with the lighter guns, will result In an in- crease of 50 pen cent; in the number of rounds for each of these guns, while the added ease of working and thelr great pow- er will more than balance the loss of 250 pounds on each projectile fired as against the 1,100-pound shot of the thirteen-inch rifle. These new guns are to have the ar muzzle velocity of 3,000 feet a second, against 2,100 in the pieces now in serv- ice and. at the muzzle will haye a striking energy equal to 55,030 foot-tons. The pow- er of all four guns will represent a force equal to Mfting any of these great ships bodily into the air, in a minute's time, to a height of seventeen feet. A Marked Advance. The batteries of the ships are distinctly speedy even up to the twelve-inch guns, and are great advances upon their immedi- ate prototypes. There will be two torpedo tubes of the Submerged type, placed well forward and behind the shelter ef the water line armor, where It will be difficult for an enemy's shot to reach them. This is a distinct ad- vance upon our pert, and a very decided lessening of the danger of being hoist with our own petard. The ships will be driven by triple-expan- sion engines, actuating twin screws. Each ship will have two of the engines, in sep- arate water-tight compartments, and when making quite 126 revolutions a minute will induce a speed of elghteen knots an hour. To stand in the path of one of these ves- sels then will mean to take a blow of 17 000 foot-tons from her ponderous ram, a death stroke even worse than the point- blank massing of all four of the twelve- inch guns. The toughest fabrication of steel would bend before that thrust like meadow grass in a gale, and the whole ship would either be cut in two or bodily carried under the surging waters. Water-Tube Bollers. To meet the greed of the throbbing en- gines each ship will carry as many as twenty-four water-tube boilers, each boiler with three large hungry mouths to be fed constantly with coal, that these great caldrons may be kept up to their working pressure of 250 pounds. Aside from their capacity to generate steam constan..y at the proper pressure, these boilers are able to raise their steam quickly. and this factl- ity may mean not only economy in between times, but victory, perhaps, in the sudden coming of battle. The full coal supply 2,000 tons will give us a radius of action equal to the 15.0W)-ton battle ships of the British, while the difference in boilers will give these later vessels quite double the endurance of the Hiinois and class having a coal supply of 1,200 ton i The contract price of and machine only for the Maine and the Missouri juild- of ing, respectively, at Cramps’ and a! New- port News, is $2,885,000, and that for the Ohio, awarded to the Union Iron Works $2,890,000, The First Ohio. This modern Ohio of fifty-one gv in name, recalls that doughty old seventy- four-gun ship of the line, Ghio, built in 1820. With a battery of twelve eight-inch and seventy-two thirty-two-pounder guns a total of eighty-four—she represented the typically fine fighting craft of her day, and with her water line sides thirty-two inches through, of seasoned oak, she was really proof against her own guns at x mile. ‘The modern Ohio’s battery of six-pounders. a thousand yards aw would tear righ throu: h sides of such a cra s t of y whiie a thickness of mild steel of five-t s of an inch would have qui the defensive virtue of eaken side Ve original cost, com a TSU, The contrast is an object lesson in the cost of modern warfar well, 00, as an instructive picture in the national advance- ment of eight decades. The old Missouri, built in “41, ard at Gibraltar in ‘43, the fifth of our steamships, had aming s\ seven knots an hour. arrie of t nch anc ight-inch ale-loacing sn s, and cost com plete about stepping stone to the modern craft: she deserves an honorable position her short life ut her feipation with her in the Mexican war. ROBERT G. coe NDEAVOR NOTES in ou sister pa CHRISTIAN E The topic for ce he Minor V writing upon nd speaks mortar in which tues the thu In Suther the nanliness is itr that weighing of consequences w tinguishes the wise man from is the power to keep the werk in hand, wh: the or large, believing } nearest at hand is the dut us do. Perseverance is ru r set before us with sustained energ ing unto s the tien upon author and fin 3 that itude of sou God and w ming seems to b; window of s light ce © the proud ¢ n his knees sees fu osopher on his tiptc Wednesday ze Dr Fiske, pastor of Gunton Temple Preshyt rian Church, gave the people of his church a lecture on his travels in E B er > room ane ce hau 1m, where were received from Miss’ Kathe ¥, representing the juniors: Miss Wise, representing the intermedi- ates, aud Mr. John BE. Dawson, the young people. These were a short summa wor dent of the Y. P. S. or. wout, and an addre the S. H. Greene. Tuesday evening, the 6th Dr Muir, pastor of the E Bapt Church, addressed the Y. P. S.C. E. of Caivary on the subject “The Outlook f Missions.”" A large company was present, vitations to many prominent city - ers having been sent out. The Literary Union of the Church, under the leadership of Mi White, looks forward to a profitable pleasant season's work. The Concordia Lutheran is preparing for its third early next month. Next Friday evening, the auspices of the Junior C. District, there will be a rally xc bth, under the Union of the n Mt. Vernon Place M. E. Church. Rev. Prof, L. Ewell, D. D., will deliver an illustr story of the Bible and histo: rt and personal travel in Judea, At the Y. M. C. A. parlors, 1409 New York avenue, at 10 o'clock next Monday morning, will be held the first conference of pastor: which the Christian Endeavor Union of this up. city has been instrumental in getting This one will be conducted by Rev. T S. Hamlin of the Church of the Cc and one of the trustees of the Unit ciety of Christian Endeavor. interest both to pastors workers will be discussed. The Tenth Legion enrollment reached 11,957, and the Comrades Quiet Hour, 11,65 At a meeting of the officers and teachors of the Sunday school of Mt. Vernon Place M. E. Church South Wednesday evening, held at the residence of the superintend=nt, has now of the the Rev. F. A. Stier, the following corps of subordinate officers was appointed for the ensuing year: First intend=nt, A. L. Dietrich; assists second nt super- ist Miss Florence Bell; secretary, Wm. Smith; assistant secretary, R. D. Beard: treasurer, J. Everett Baird; supervisors, edult department, A. L. Dietrich; senior department, J. E. Baird; junior d+partment, ©. P. Clark; intermediate department, D. H. Reed; primary department, Miss Annic F. Walker; home department, Mrs. W. J. H. Robinson; Ubrarian, S. T. Mur sistants, P. L. Zimmerman, M. O. Eldridge, W. J. La Varr>, John Duf- fey, A. S. Johnson; librarian, primary de- Partment, Mrs. A. L. Dietrich; pianist, Miss Florence Ball; assistant, W. Scott Macgill. The committee representing the C. B. Union and having in charge the prepara- tions for the quiet hour mestings to be conducted by Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman, February 20 to March 4, 1890, is very ac- tively at work on the preliminary arrange- ments. The monthly meeting of the Men’s Club of the New York Avenu2> Presbyterian Church was held last Tuesday evening in the lecture room of the church. The busi- as- . L. Howard, ness meeting was followed by addresses by Gen. J. C. Breckinridge upon “On the Fir- ajor Eugene A ing Line at Santiago,” and M Fechet upon “Three Years in Egypt.” musical program was also rendered and freshments served. SS Christmas Eve. (Copyright, 1898, Life Publisking Company.) “Auntie, dear, may I borrow one of your stockings?” IN WINTER QUARTERS. Where the Gypsies Go When Cold Weather Comes on. MANY HIE THEMSELVES 70 THE CITIES —— Others Manage to Live Comfort- ably in Huts and Wagons. THEIR VARIED PURSUITS Written for The Evening Star SRE IS A rent to of summer. roads CHARM all in the gypsy in Then the good, the are green, > is pasturag? on strips of on a are i s-land, and aj tent ts an ideal shet ter. But when win- ter comes it is anoth- er matter What do the gypsies do then? In Scotland, as any- may who ad Guy Ma > the gypsies hay: villages or perma- camps to which they resort in. th: winter, and ia which for the last century ov more they have remained most he the year America Bypsies hav> no quarters, and they if selves as best they An in many There are ain families, the ¢ les and rtons and others wh travel southward as autumn approach-s and pass he winter in Florida mz th coast. I have met th mped by } leve out of . and in M | They y ‘ 1 te y to pe ing. mit of for Her» they live much as they rn states in ths summer. Th: f California and t Zz th cast have such 2 mil that ithward tion is un Rut it is th: gypsy whe nerth who is confronted by lem, wh solves in various ways. and Wagons. Some families there are who by r | Rardihood live through the winter with » oth sheiter than huts and w Plato Buchiand, a gypsy, made fam the writings of Groom» in England, pass sucha r when he first visited Ameri With his family he rem in the me tains of castern Pennsylvania when snow wa up to the hy of the wa 1 He had small portable sioy th | und hoards were put down whorex Ie beneath the straw to Keep the fer m coming in contact with the froze Paths wer> cleared at ihe tents and wa and a ¢ zh sh ro Was improvised for the horses. No one com- plained of the hardshi 1 there was no ss in the camp.’ The mosi se m was the word the horses; hay 1 other feed had to be purchas is there Was no pasturag Just out of Philadelphia Ton son psy families living in a px w r camp. Poard floors jad be dewn in the tents, and there were carpets nd chairs, and a stove that hea 1 very comf ably. The t en- ough a low stibule-lik FE old roofing tir boards, which | \ to Keep out the air, and fr j the ar of the tent a Vestibule con- t 2 sleepin nt. A part of deen away (o . which a sh r of and roofin tin had b r xnd chickens. are frequently to | camps, where they domesticated and earn not tov from the tents. When a famity is travel ing they are put into a coop. Bantams and fancy chickens are most frequ | met with ip the possession of the rovers, j who keep them rather as pets than | the eggs which they lay. | On the Road in Winter. | I have known a gypsy family travel m Denver to California in the d er with no other shelter than their tents and wagons afforded. The dangers | of cr ing the mountain passes at tha | season did not deter them at all. ‘Th« are, therefore, not a few gypsies who k to the roads as well in ¥ ras in m But for the mest Fs who do not go south come in to the citi and towns at the approach of cold weath psies Later I visited trem at their city quar- ters. There was the young husband and his old mother and father, and a number of brothers and sisters. They were living in two rooms at No. 9 Weehawken street, in New York. There they had brought their silver in some big wicker hampers, and their clothing in boxes and trunks. It was a strange medley of richness and squalc Once when I took dinner with them I had splendid silver before me, and a professional woman tramp from. Scot- land, called Bessie, sipping her tea from a cestly mug at my elbow. These gypsies were very fond of the theater, and I re- member taking them all one night to see a play in which some of their own people figured as characters. During the first act t quiet and attentive, but when the curtain went up on the second act, which S a very realistic representation of a encampment, with hooded tents, campfire and all, it was too much. Slowly, one after the other, they arose until four zypsies stood in line looking down upon the scene from the first balcony, utterly forget- ful of the eyes upon them. In winter, if the gypsy has had a prosper- ous summer, he is fond of seeing his wife array herself gypsy-fashion and go out to visit among any of her own people who may chance to be staying in the same town or city. This gypsy friend of mine was Wont to attend the theater clothed in sea!- skin and black silk. Rare old shawls and gaudy dresses they are sure to have; the oriental love of color ts still strong among them. Rare jewels, too, are not infre- quently displayed. Coral and amber, sil- ver and gold, and diamonds and pearis. I have seen a diamond ring on the brown hand of an old gypsy queen, the value of which was $900. If the rovers are staying in a town where there are no dime museums to engage their prophetic services, they sometimes adver- tise themselves in the local papers as being pacoaret. for a stipulated sum, to reveal he past, the present and the future, to set- Ue love differences, to procure proposals of marriage, to reveal the hiding places of lost articles, etc., and they generally do a good business. George Borrow, the famous Romany Rye of England, the author of Lavengro and the Romany Rye, the first man of education to take @ deep interest in these nomads, and to Introduce them into Mterature as they really are, George Borrow himself Die time, and Charles Leland, his successor iM knowledge of the gypsies, in bis, have beth prophesied the speedy disappearance of t gypsy from the world. Neither Mr Bor- row nor Mr. Leland belleved that the gypsy could survive modern conditions. but the gypsy is still here in numbers unabated, and in characteristics unchanged and wn- changing There are a number of gypsy who have grown rich, like the Sta Dayton, Ohio; the Coopers of Si Mass.. and t Hickes of Holyoke These families own house: which they 1 s summer approaches to betake themselves to the reads In luxurious vans en when the frosts come they return to ie tty homes. They are none the less tr aye s because they own houses, and th love the free life none the less because they escape some of the rigors of winter within doors EXPOS THE PARIS ITION Commissioner Peck Tells of Consideration Extended to Him. At a banquet given in his honor in Chicas go Thursday night, Ferdinand W. Peck told of his success as United States commis- sioner to the Paris exp Mr. Peck said art “We b en to a foreign lar ” a mission of national importar Ve have met with quarter and for t cordial rec and in privat fro n officials fr an citizens t Re- =] t for our nation has caused the re- ntatives of the French government and States roevery athen vent in Paris « pening oft tury Whi wt , f magn r beyond an « pred cessors; and, though we have succeeded taining our fair proportion ef exhit space for ihe American sectt onside our distance from Frz = 7 her nations, yet a inadequate: “and those it r asibi ty must mak rious fe A policy of most cz f weler eXtreme condensation 1 < must ar constant effort. ‘There are righteen ups comprising 120 classe which pr vision is made lor every kind rt, indis- ury 1 manutz ures In order to see } the St efficiency we « jens Ereat exhibit departments will « uh a director f A Who Wil be entire- the port made to t to Congress we have i and have se ' ES. a SEC t t which our When we reacaed Paris we ne ritory. We demanded it and were We waited and worked for wer IU presented ftself in from the United States of Amt Cambon, and a dinner given 1 the American chamber of 60: diy and potent aid of the sppertunity ‘orded the main facts that secured thie Some Telling Statistics. At this dinner we imy statis e of our es that pe have be ing could not n used under mmstance store their wagons and tents and betake | ‘ see sconce ac {them to very humble and inexp | officials of the French republic ani of lodgings in some quarter where the the exposition were informed in 4 wwe likely to be free from observation. j of the American and French ambassadors men of the family haunt the horse markets ‘sympathetic American citizens that | and sales stables, trading hor: 1 Was nearly Thu: the in summer, or making them: manufactures of the United in various ways. The women ounted to 35 per cent or from house to house telling fortunes or se- total value of the manuf eure a tion in some ne museum, | products the world; that our agr wher sit in a little conventional | tural resources represent neariy 40 per cent tent and tell very shert conventio | of those of all countries combined; that im tunes to the stupid pe who come to | oad transportation the mileage of the stare at them. s exceeded that of whole Once. eling hungry for the sight of 4 Surope: that our mir produc nore @ark face and for the sound of a word of those of any nation on earth, «s much the Romany tongue, I went into one of | indeed. as those of all Europe i that these places in the hope of tinding a gypsy. | there is a steady export trade of pig tron There, true enough, was the little tent and and of iron ore to England the crowd of galderly gorgios (green gen-| that the wealth of the United States tiles), and within a dark-skinned young | amounts nearly to 409,000,000,000 francs, oF woman with black eyes. I waited until (he | twice that of France, equal to that of Rus- crowil moved away to another room, and ! sia, Austria, Italy and Spain combi and ad the little ter and held cut | cent more than that of Great Britain hand. “Pen mengy, if mandy'll be | We a'so told them that the sp: shaday pawdel for chorin yor nash- | to France at the Columbian exposition. » for morin a gay mu ked in | about 26 per cent of the al area assig &ypsy, quoting Charles L« et) | to foreign nations, while the allo ment made of conven nal words and the cc ito the t ed ates the Pf exposttion mile both ceased in an insta: iw bout 10 per cent of eserva- {placed by a gasp and a stare, for ion for foreign countries asked, “Tell me if I'l be transport These 1 many other facts stealing a horse or hanged for. killi | the imporiance of our nation and policeman.” {of our « S at their expe We soon became very good friends, as | laid before them. The Freneh yp it appeared that the young fortune teller | lished the startling figures presented and was married to a nephew of one of my | they were known throughout rop best gypsy friends. Within forty-eight hours after this ba oa quet the French government officially re A City Home. quested the exposition authorities ta con- to the Unite States the demands we had made as far as was possible. I was the greatness of our country thai s+ n the results achieved, thus increasing our exhibit area over 40 per cent. A Period of Expansion. “This is a period of national expansion. The hooming of the guns of Admiral Dewey reverberated around the earth and ned all Christendom to the fact that reat American republic now reaches the globe and that the nation of the tury is rising on this side of the Therefore the approaching peace festival in Paris is most opportune, e1 abling as it will our artisans, our m facturers and our producers to plac resources and wares of our nation befor the eyes of the world which are now rive ed upon us, and thus keep step with our Seogrephical expansion. “The industrial and commercial interests of our entire country from ocean to ocean must, without fear or favor, have equal rights and equal representation at the great new ¢ Auantic. u- the forthcoming exposition of #00 that will commemerate the passing and beginning of a century.” —_—- + What He Needed. From Leslie's Weekly. Flowery Fields (with a groan)—“Bill, I’m feelin’ al) busted up. I Cink I'll hey ter see a Goctor.” Weary Wililam—‘Doctor! Great heavens, Fields! Wot you need is a plumber.