Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 26, 1886, Page 13

12 A LETTER FROM SCOTLAND, A Bootoh Country Scat—@lasgow and the de—English and American Sailors, IN GREAT BRITAIN LOW WAGES Beotch People, Their Dress, Lte.— The Hunting Scason in the Highlands, Eprsnure, Sept., 1886, —[Special Cor respondence of the Cleveland Leader.] The Scoteh are the most hospitable people 1 have ever met. [ have now spent week in Scotiand, and have received nothing but smiles and kindness every where. People walk out of their way to show strangers the places they inquire for, and al e ready to give informa tion. There is little of tl uflness and boorishness of the [ ish about the Scoteh. They area people who seem to have as much brotherly love for their friends as the Germans, I met friends near Glasgow and spent some days with them in their residence on one of these old Scottish estates. The house was a fine, rambling stone structure, with large rooms, wide halls, and groat windows looking out upon acres of velvety lawn filled with old onks, the branches of feh hang fow and spread out widely. "he furniture was of old oak, beautifully carved, and turned by time to a rich, dark hue, and everything about the place seemed saturated with an air of home comfort. The estate numbered hundreds of acres of wood and park. It had romuntic wilks throu the forest along little streams filled with fish, and past he and there a waterfall, It had a fine winding drive from the porter's lodge to the house i its garden and green- houses wer wonder to American eye: The garden, comprising about_on of ground, was surrounded by a_high stone wall, and in it were all kinds of vegetables and flowers 1s, such as I have never seen at home, had been planted at different periods so as to fur- nish green, new, fresh peas for months, and the same was the c with the vari ous other v bl ‘he wher str vines were lTonded with rich, lusciou berries much larger than the best ot our American product, and gooseberries the size of plums hung from the bushes. On Is were currants tramed to_climb cand over all the fruit nets p away the birds, nufacture the w like a vin were stretehed to ke My friend w Paisley ce for his sum- mer nt the furn- ished mansion and the whole estate, ser- vants and all, and it is only twelve miles by to his business. Such an estate outside of New York or Washington would bring at least $2,000 a month, and I doubt not the owner could name his own price. The landlords of Scotland have been having hard times of late 3 and these old est depr ed in value. ny of them now being sold, and commercial men and manufacturers are buying them. tes have greatly 2 N The Clyde forms Glasgow’s entrance to the sex, and Glasgow lias made it one of the fine harbor views of the world Originally it was a sluggish and unnavi- gable stream, but by the dredging of fort years it now admits the est ocenn vessels, and at the wharves of \SZOW you will find ships from all parts of the world, The harbor of Glasgow is two and one-half miles long, and below it ship-building yards line the Clyde fc many miles on its way to the sea. Glas gow is the ship-bwilding center for the world, and she builds ships for every na- tion of note. 1t Britain has per ccnt of the carr the world, and her stc sed in tonnage over 200 per cent within the t She unen s ailors of , and gets more out of 1c them. ce wages of English sailo anmum; those of Amcri per annum. So that the ailor gets $200 more a year than his British brother, I find wages low all over Ireland and Scotland, and T h visited many fac- tories and talked with both managers and laborers,” The hours are long and work, in many cases, very hard, and the ro5 very low. Rents are high in com- son with the accommodations, and only thing I find cheaper than with us 15 clothes, Good food costs the same, and meats are fulty as high. The labc ing classes nve on a cheaper kind of food than our workingmen do, and they have less of it. Whole families often live onc or two rooms, ahd taese cost way from $25 to $50 per year. They live in the citics in flats, and thewr conven- iences are very fow. ‘Ihe wages of me: chanic skilled lubor run from $1 a v to #2 a day, and it 1s a very min, indeed, who gets tho latter. newspaper proprictor in Dublin tc me that he could get good reporters for from $7 per week, and they would be short-hand men, antd well educated. The managing editor of the largest paper e inIreland, in Dublin city, i i rand | , ets only $2,000 a ye Lis salary is considered a large one, 1 saw men working on the road in T lund breaking stone at twenty-five cents and many of the women in the fac- torics'of Belfast get no more, and work from 6a. m. to 6 p, m, Here Inborers get from $4.50 to §5 week vl board themselves. penters, printers. coopers and carn ubour §7.50 per weok, makers the samo. The plumbe only 0 per week in ( tuilors only 25, Many hoy: girls are employed m tho the whole tamily works to ki from the door. Still, unde s receivo wsgow, and little an b the wolf of these disadvantages, the Seoteh blood makes fortunes, and there are numerous in- stances of poor boys beec wealthy right here amid such surrounding: y fine look- t strength e time mueh res h girls are excep- , and even mmong §0@ very many re- finod fac In he stores there are lady clerks who would pass muster as well- bred girls anywl of the bar-maids in the whisky shops dve beau- These Seo leare ve ties. The women of Scotland do a gres dosl of work. A white-capped, middle: agoed, rosy-cheeked lady usuall eside; lurgest Wiy re over ecach of the nearly all of the r: and e maunged by women, Hoth soxes in Scot- land have, as a rule, good healthy physiques. ' There ave more tall men wud women thin in A . They have better tive walk, and arve, J heslthicy, Speaking of Seotch girls, I saw great numbers of them in the trip [ todk down the Clyde to Rothsay, which is the great summer ¥ ce of Seotland, T'hey, us well, though 1 don’t thin ie style of our Ameriean g r Loald gear i ¥ qui sometimes in bad te fashionablo thing here seems 10 be'to wenr mon's eaps and to choc the ug ros and styles you ean find., A fuvorite one is u tlat skull cap with a lang vim behind in front. It hides the eyes and is nof il pretty, Another 'lo1s o oap, used a grent deal on the right givl it is kaiue may be said of the Scoteh tuarbs This turvan is used Loth by wem and wowmen, Still another siyio bas long rib- bous bunging down the back, and it is of the sawe stylo used by the soldiersof some of we Highland regimcuts. ‘These sol and the | so than the '(HE diers are bare-'eg red fellows with short plaid dressos nfi they torm aqueer sight as they strut along, working for glory, at twenty-five centsa day These soldiers of Great Britain you meet everywhere, and very pompous fe! lows they ar I'he Highlanders are less others, who come from the low lands, some of whom dress in red coats and white partaloons, and others who have short red waists and little caps stuck on the sides of their heads This 1< the great shooting son for Great Britain, and the highlands are full of gentlemen huntin I have secen hundreds of men on their way to their estates for this purpose, and the boats ind cars are full of men dry d for the moors. There is more individuality of dress in England and Scot in America. Every man has his suit cut to please himself, and a favorite costumo short sack cont, pantaloons rather full above the knee and fastened tight around the leg just above the ealf. Then a pair | of long thick woolen stockings come up il the | When | ¢ breeches end, and the I'his makes if the wearer is to where the kn feet are elad in stron very stylish costume, shoes, tall and has good legs. It is worn every where, and even gentlemen going about ' with ladics” on the strect are o clad, Add to this a helmet cap or a Derby, and yon have a pretty fair ide. of one ciass of Scotch or English dress, Many of the swells about the watering places wear elothes of colors as brig! those of Dolly Varden's, and I have se some young men clad in wide red and blue Stripes of soft flanncl, others in suitsas white as snow, and othersin jack- ets of plush and yelvet. There seems to be w mnch larger gentleman of leisure class here than with us, and in the Tros- :hs and about Loch Lomond, where I went to sail throngh the region made famou by Sir Walter Scott, I rode for miles and miles without hearing the word business once, This ride goes across the moors and through part of the hunting regions of Scotland. We took it by a great four- stage, and had @ good chance to see the count coteh hunting is a gentleman’s occupation. The poor ds not shioot the game which runs all about them, and the rabbits as tame as Kittens, Great estates are kept here for nothing else but shootim They a not farmed, and ¢ often of thousands of acr Somctimes these estat e let by the year or season to gentlemen who wish to shoot, and it has been estimated ‘o average cost of hunting deer in s 2500 per stag killed, Ttis grouse season, and the region wehs ure full of them. They' are found upon the moors and hunted” with dogs. These Scottish moors 1 nad al- ymething like the ways supposed to be sth, 1 was_sur- np or m that they are mountainous lands covered with grass, nd the low bushes known as heth These bushes look like little sprigs of pine sct into the ground, and they have little blue bio soms on them. Highlands wveculiarl beautiful, and I ean comp: it to noth- ing but great hills erowned with beautiful dark green plants, with here and there a poteh of ricl rk olive brown. Ther: 1s a velvety tint to the grass here, which we don’t get in America, and the great moisture of the wr keeps the grass grec here the year round. In Ireland and England there is some sturage all winter, and there are no s built for the shelter of stock and sheep. The Scotish highlands ly used for sh Sing y is n ood, weed one, the pasturage excellent. Hay is left out in the open all winter, both here and in Ire- land. It is put into small stacks and around with In ay st rule, ridge- shaved instead of roun Scottish Highlander, with his bare is a continuous subject of interest 1o 11 look at every one I s . I note of hiskn you may sec one fantasti dancing, and this is one of the sigh the country fairs. The Highland soldiers cre, and I note that ar called Soei rice, Queen Victoria's favorite r, never blushed while her pretty veled over a whole regiment of ¢ logs during her visit at DPuarkhurst other d. i l!nlm’ 5 Be: o graciously ofli- ted as judge of the dancing, and also examined the men in the competion for the best dressed Highlander fu this lut ter task the princess fook 1 gzood deal of pleasurable interest, scrutinizing every vortion of clothed anatomy, and accu- y measuring with he ¢ the inches of bure legs displayed. Nor did her Royal Highness blush the while, but the lIaddies did, furiously, and were evidently relieved wlien whe cagle gaze of the young rried lady was removed fro their lant persons Fraxk GEORGE CARPENTER AN AWAKENING, “Will you come down to our place next Monday, Churhe, tor u couple of days’ shooting?” ““Monday? Y. Delighted, old chap.” Then the friends proceeded to settle de- ta They would met at the station and 2o by the 5:30 train, which would land them in comfortable time for dinver, Now, if Charlie West had a weakness it was that he w prone to be a little oblivious about time, and was in the habit of running his engagements rather fine. The Monday afternoon, to beguile the time between luncheon and the train, he cailed on a'pretty woman of his acquaint- ance, and sho was so amusing that he stopped antil the last moment and then jumped into a hansom, telling his jehu to drive like the devil, Unfortunately his own wateh had stopped (he forgot to wind it up the previous night), and how could he know that his Iy 5" clock w u quarter of an hour slow? When he arrived on the vlatform he was met by his servant, who, with a countenance inexpressive of emotion, pleasureable or otherywise, i d him that the train had do Capt. Leslie wath it. The Captain ha t word that he hoped Mr, West would coma by the next t hich was not until 8:30, and reached D——-at 10:15, e would drive the dogeart over to meet him-—it was six miles from the station, Charlie swore exhaustively. He was not ill-tempered, but surely, if & man might be justified (which L by no means admit) in” mdulging in bad language, here wis a caso in poiut. ‘Lo find your: self in the eust end of London, with two Liours and fifty minutes on hund; to huve leasant dinner and ovening; @ put your host to great inconven ience, and probably to have given a | impression to his family before your ar o, ly rival-- all these things are extreniely vex- ing, _But, having a_telerably happy disposi- tion, Charlie, after his of writh and disgust, took itvery well. He ot into nother nansom, returned to s clubat the West End, read the papers, dined lightly, gnd took excellent care to be i time for (e 8:80, It was a slow train; it stopped at nearly v ion, and arrived at last thirty- His friend, who had 8 first fesling of re- onfounded ncon- tes late, had time to recover h | sentient at Charlie's sideratencss, met him very cordially. The dogeart was capacious, and they { managed to eraw in the servaut and lut{- zage, and went e at a spankin race 0 ho court, The nicon shone brightly; tho roads waro excellent. Jove!' uttered Charlie, drawing a long breath, “How good everythlng OMAHA DAILY smells, and wh out of London They drove through a long aven ind came to a big, old hi red house with a great mere shinin, amirror in front of it. “I expect,” said_George Leslie, we shall find everybody gone to_bec my people are tremendously early,’ Andsoit a blessing it is ¢ proved. The friends refreshed BEE: o get | dozen questions and was quite intercsted about you, and this mornimg flics off nue of | without stopping to set eyes on you." ioned A smile (-ullvg Charlie's lip She is & like [ lovely,” he said. “It is very unkind of “‘that asty little vixen!" retorted Lestie, 1; all In his heart Charlie was secretly pro- 14 voked, Leslie's sisters wers nice, cheer, fresh-looking girls, but they could not themselves in the dining-room tete-a- | hold a candle to 1 n. He was dying to tete, then returned to the smoking-room, | see her again. He had never felt such and the hour of 1 had given tongue from | interest in a girl before. Sie did not the stable clock before they thought of | make her appearance that eveniy and turning in, Lesliec showed ™ Charlie his | the following morning at breakfast she room, spacious and tapestry hung, and | was still absent. He was piqued. It was the young gentleman, having drawn | simply ridiculous for her to go on shun back the curtains which the housemaid, him on account of a stupid little after the manner of her kind, had her- | contretemps that might have happer metically elosed, and thrown one win- | to any one dow wide open, retired to bed, to sleep [ **I'm_afraid,’’ he remarked with a the sleep of the just tonch of pique, as they were standing in He awoke en” sursaut by hearing his | the hall'waiting to start on their shoot name, “Charlie! Charlio! ‘do wake up!” | expedition; ** ['m afraid that it is | wh It was a pretty feminine voice; am driving Miss Fane out of the house Charlic was not in the habit of be: * Humbu, returned Capt. Leslie called in this fushion. “Why should you hen, as o sudden He started and looked up. What he | thought struck him, he turned on his heel | saw was a slim young lady, with a very | and went i rning room vretty figure, in n blue cotton gown, and “Mother ‘ask Mrs. Grey to the baek of a charming head with golden | dine tonight agyd make Lilian come back, plaits. The fair one was looking out of | whether or no.™ the window and apostrophizing him at As Mr. West was a gentleman of inde. the same time, pendent fortune, and she had three “Itis such a glorions morning: aren’t | daughte Mrs. Leslic was not altogether you ashamed of yoursclf, you great idle | displed the pretty cousin having ab- creature, to be lying there missing all | sented herself. this lovely sunshine? Do get up and Of course T will ask them, my de! y with come out with me before breaktast,” she replied; ** but they are so bus Charlie is not shy, but a¥ery decided | their bazaar that [ am not at all sure I feeling of embs ssment erceps over | shall persuade them to come.” him, Of cou itisa mistake. He has “If you don’t,” observed Leslie pe known somer young lad; but never one who would | his room to cali him before she had introduced to him. But how on wis he to intimate to her t histime ve come into she was in ed] s West will fancy you are ke Lil'out of the way on ¥purpose. been | pr ure he thinks so now." earth Georg laimed his mother in natly, ‘“‘how can you s error ahout his identity? She had called | absirdy? him Chariie, too! Leslie’s nume was “Well; t advice, and hav, Geo nd he had no brothers. In any | back ton, + Leslie dey ¢ it was rather a strong order girl to come intp any man’s room who for a | without giving his mother any time make any rejoinder. W \(1-' x.<j‘_l|.-|~ [} .'_ulil('r.‘ A He had, however, said quite enov wrlic buried his head under the | nMyg! Loslie forthwith put on her bon clothes, and awaited the denouement. It | yn4'went down to the rectos . She fo! was not long in coming, Mrs. Grey and Lilian sitting unde: “‘Cnarlie, a 1id the fair one again this time I voice indicated th face was turned in his direction, don’t wake up this instant T will thr wet sponge at yon! You are a lazy Then he heard her proceed t washing-stand and dip aspongein w and partly wring it. Ne unusually good aim for a girl, it bot on his head, which was protected by the bedelothes. t moment, tre > together making a languid prete of needlework. Mrs. Lesli rted L = affectionately. “We l»:u-m-ulm-l_y W ' | you to come up and dine with u Pig night,” she said to the rectoress. * ) the | this naughty truant must not rer vater, with nced n. ‘0, Aunty, we are so, sobusy! ¢ int- ing an dig- y anything so i rted e to igh. nnet und roa nse oth ant ;any longer,” smiling sweetly at the young lady plying her needle vigor- St : ously. Charlie smothered a laugh; it was be- | “SYou must not quite torget, my love, coming too ridiculous. S that you are my guest,” suid her aunt “Very well, then, id the voice, ap- | \ith certain ainount of dignity and a pr 1 shall’ come and drag the | fone that implied reproof. clothes oft you.” e must aet with prompti He raised himself a little, and put clothes just r enough back for h saiiant to see his langhing blue eyes damsel stopped midway in an expression of ston into her her carcer; horror flashed Lilian understood it and colored de tude. | 1y, Y. t the | i ghall be delighted to dine,” s 8- | posed Mrs, Grey “And you n The | | in Lilian’s time.” y “I do_ not blame anyone,’ retur Mrs. Leslio suavely. “'But 1hope to sep- ter- st )lame me for monopolizing so much ot ned see son, and, uttering an agonizMg lttl2 | You hoth at dinner. tonight."” gronn, she turned and fled” So. s Miss Lihan had do desire to of- Charlie laughed all the time he v tend her aunt, she overeame her repug- getting up. He could not help wonde nance to mecting Mr. West, and to that ing how she would meet nim at brea gentleman's great delight, he had the fast. By Jove, what a pretty creature of taking her in to dinner that she was! Would she tell any one or | ening. Two or three neighbors would she ignore th u:l:l(-n * He would | | been invited. But although Charlic m her. “The family were | jid an immense fund of smafl” talk and assembled in the breakfast-room roputed oxcellent company, ho failed icn he came down, and he was pre- other in inspiring any interest in sented to his host and hostess; to threo | L fair nel ghbor. She appeared, as she nice, fresh-looking girls, Leslic’s thoroughly uncomfortable, and wbout h cousin the fourth, his ck and a faw young fell hight and coloring But where w visitant? Ther at the table, and breakfast came wentand she did not appear. He | the other girls address the cousi rlie, and comprehended that tl o the young gentleman for whom he had tid not quite ap- been mistaken. Still b prove of a girl, such a pretty girl making so free with a cousin. brother is all very well,” ete, I evident thnt no one kne syllable the event of the morning. ~ Every the door opened Charlie looked to it; his eyes wandered over the was no other place la) lawn into responded to his sall with mono- e | gelfabl ming | [t was a glorious moonlight night,and after dinner some of the young people & went out into the gardens. éll:lrliu heard hed his opportun an, keeping heren tion until they were separate tle distance - from the othe zed in conve ed some 5. Then W nd pounced on it 1 he said suddenly and not without a sligltt , 100, | flutter at his heart: “A “Why will you not speak to me? Surely t was [t js notmy faultthat such a stupid little about | gecident should have occurred. Why time | need you bear malice because I was put ward | jn’ thé room your brother had been oceu- pying?? the den. He w § . In the moonlight he could see th you any moresisterst”! he asked | crimson racing through her fair skin. as they walked together to tho “I—I shall mnever, never get over ‘“*No, only those three,” replied L “and quite enough, 100.” Charlie was completely mystified. straight as usual; hi shoot as ere di -haired creature who™ had rc i from his slumbers. He could ve dreamed it--no, there was sponge on the bed wlhien he got up. The o strolling homev smarvt little 1 nony, came toward them, is is our parson’s wife,” said Li did not rd along the And as he 1 L steer, she pulled up, Eaw her companion was of the morning., “How are you, Mrs. G lie, cheerily. ‘“‘Let. me id Cl; ?7 eried st " Lil, Mr. W e apart from the father cted by the prefty hooting was over; he and Les village cart with a and freighted with two a good sort—I must introduce you ign to ‘the fair friend c C introduce my friend West to you. Mr. Grey, Mr. West, roud, He had t she ame friendly pleasure of histening to he her cousin had called it, left the court he wa her. He had up to this rooted aversion to matri he could not g pr wait and see how he nd when cslie. time entertaine mony- en 1 harhie ol wis| swift 5 she saxd, putting up her hands to cover | the flames that were burning her face. eslie; | What can you have thought of me. If— if any one were to know it, I should He | neverhold up my head again.” “I hope you think I am a gentleman,” cried Charley indignantly. ~ “I suppose oused | you don’t imagine that one word would 1 not 1ips on the subject?” the wet ou swear it said the discom- fitted maiden. And he swore by all his goods. After the divine voice, he madly in love with d a 10W te make up his mind to pose to Lilian, but :huu;:’hlt Lie would s de- Les- | Iighted to find that she lived in_ London, and struck up a tremendous friendship ner and many otherent, inments, with her brother, whom he bade to di ol made tho slightest motion of her | ry day after he was parted from Lilian head, without meuting Charlio’s ey he felt worse and worse; he began e ic indunlged in some with Mrs. felt slightl, gay badinag though lie 1, tried to 1 to think that it was the best thing in world for a young fellow to settle do ke [ and that the constant presence of a ven the wi, do* rgation with “lissi Ll £ (Bhotian: fi mogt must make heaven of earth, N and nover ooue e ioceusion 1e- | So when Lilian returncd 10 London, o mud nover: once raised her ¢yes | Charlie, nided and abetted by his name: hisE000, gty | sake, contrived to see a great deal of o, come uprand dino tonight, Mrs. | Bor™ Wl invited to dine at - her voo pentrentod aslios, "y mother | nothor's house, and one evening, when Moty ooy S0, tully yloased, T £0 | o had inveigled her into the ghrming it ey, b note from her it you | conservatory that lod out of the drawing . O008BRTY, 1 S room, he, in the midst of pretending to (Mrs. Gr ppeared to waver; then | pinnte a flower, turned suddenly to her, Chavlie distinetly saw Miss Lil pinch her | ynd, in a voice that was a little unsteady riond in * Many | oxelnimed: : he ot pos- | g, Lilian, can't you see how awfully sibly manage it tonight,”” Mrs, Grey an- | in love T am with y;‘m,_,r, t Awered, ave 5o much to do still [ 'pljan looked down, She made no re- OF kB0 0l to his words or to the pressure of “Lil, you young puss!” cried -Lesli what' do you mean by deserting us this way? [t 1s very poor complimes West, here.” “We are so busy settling bazaar," replied the youn Wl 1 suppose you are some time tonight, “Shall I v and feteh you!” (e thou 1y ing home wlk down Spons the hand w. h seized hers, in [ “SDon't you care n little for me, dar- L0 | jingy ho asked. {8 tha an turned away her head “You liave quite forgiyen happened at the court, haven't you?' pleaded maladroitly She dragged her h ud from his for what ' he and et Mrs. Groys but again West | turned a vair of flashing eyes upom him, g vontitl s o ol T e re remind me——"" ghe began, i:;‘;vl“1?[:“~11’1;"-mmm pinch, and Miss Lil “No. [ won't, I won't,” he il!‘vl',,'l'lu'll e, Mok don’t. Mr. Grey will soo | her But don’t you ste, darling," ant me home. 1 do ot know when I'shall b | Just the least twiukle of mischiovousness Toadyyt e e T s e Alte bony was gotting impationt. | put quite’straight by you marrying mo. 3, D Aes. Lrey. | phon you may throw any numbér of wet *Tommy is in a hurr; Aud away flew, ““What do you think of our parson’s wife?" asked Leshe, **Not mueh the eat of a pa; replied Charlie. **By Jove!what afi and what a fit her j; as!" ‘“She’s the right sort,” would bo a deuced good move like he to repentance!” and he lau “Who is the young asked Charlie, trying to sp ently, "6. that is Clprlie's sist A friend’s breast. YOI he said, with a gasp of rel “ Tiresome, capricious monke, claimed Leslio, { Ler bead all of a sudden this morni fly oft bafore breakfast down to Grey. Itis all rubbish about the ba it is not to be for auother month. becanse ['wanted you to meet her. jobif ther. is oupital company aud sings divinely. Ylkou woraan, Last night asked a Juat Leslie, Bring a lot more sinners hed merr y with her? ak _indifle) lian Fane, my cousin, ) weight scemed taken from his *3he must take'it into y they Bponge ience afterwards, his was too much. Lilian tore self from lim and rushed into _the dr: ing room. He followed her. Mereif for him no one else was there. “Forgive me, darling youdo care a little for me, ing her hand for the thi igu he plea d time. ed, 5 i e “Think now,” he said, kissing whether she would or no. him happy. at me without having any qualms her- AW ully nd say that ded 1—J will think about it,"’ she murmer- her And ultimately she decided to muke e —— A Massachusetts rascal who hath no of. music in his soul has for several weeks ex- Braintree by each we bothered the Congregationalists of South k disabling many ng to Ei])rs of their church organ so that on Mrs. | Sundays it gave forth uncertain sounds. azaar; | A watchman discovered the vandal the Just | other night after he had removed forty or ‘She | fifty pipes, but inhis haste to capture him put out the light he carried and the fellow escaped in the durkness. TWELVE PAGI 0S MINCT L DERS and ancient calling of usurer. A soldi THE PRINCES OF - PERSIA: | S oo (0 et Aot dice sum in_small fractions o poor peoplo, i taking from their clients generally 13 10 Some Interesting Stories About the Sons 0"; 20 l"“r cent ‘I'”””‘”" ud in this way the small eapital above mentioned ($15) the Shah. suflices in itself, with the fow needs. of the lowe family from the oflicers, Irom the N Persin THE AMBITIONS OF A DESPOT. n, starving. know this s ib down to the to Their 4y keop a soldier’s superiors, otit lowoest by 1t feu '\ CAPITAL SUMMER RESORT,« Fa | BESIDES Where Embryo Butterflics and Political Bores on Potomao Breezes. IT HELPS THE PURSE. Getting Rid of a Rival—A Queer | tenant they alt “eat™ (the;Persian techni 1dea of History—The Reward cally calls this form of stealing “Khor- | The Quiet Contentment of Summer of Duty. il”-l':! " to |¢I~Im Hn»” y]v:\\ Iu: :‘\ vwvv(m\'w'\ n Washingto ihe Votavies ¢ ¢ coloncel, again, “eats” a | " i - part of the captain’s and lieutenant's puy, of Vacation=8cencs About Wolf von Schierbrand in the San Fran- | #nd the general and commander-im-chiof | tie ity elseo. Chroniclo: Nothing. to my mind, | (CAt” & part of the pay of all of these, ( ironicle & » [ Wien the soldier does get his pay, often |y yes & an gives as quickly and accurately an in- | nine-tenths or more has been “enten’ by ASHINGTON, Sept. 20.—[Corresponds sight into the mannecrs and habits of a | the ravenous superiors before it gets to | ¢0e¢ of the Bek ] —Those who think e nation as anecdotes picked up | him Washington a dull, stupid place in sum- from their everyday hfe. Thavein the [ oo & SEGEE BXCEPHION mer, when congress is not in session and text ot my former lotters to the Chiront Dl ]‘:vj\::‘n\‘l;‘-‘ .ty‘i\p'\‘;”” ”vy!f\‘v ; the pre sident, his family, the cabinet and cle given you quite a number of t « | get their money to a shah for reasons other officials of note a out of town I'he present effusion, however, L mean to | quite plain. This last winter one of the | Ar¢ mistaken. We can live without these make nothing but a string of these stories, | Fegiments was tran red from Kerman- | things and thrive, Of course we miss The youth of Shah Nusr-ed-Deen was | S1ah to ‘Teheran. They staved at the | the street-walkers and lobbyists, and the StFelY $A4. enoHEl, And b Himsoll latter city six _month id dnring that | gireets are quict at night ¢ policeme! ih, 1 Sc whole titiie got only six krans (90 “cents) | | L ght, our policemen to suf so much om the injus The other 390 krans were *‘ea tup by | have achanco to take longer naps, but his father that one would naturally think | the Naib. “The generats ander h | Inspite of these drawbacks to peace and he would not be guilty of the same ¢ the colonel, major, captains and | comfort we man: to exist and be fense. Yet so itis that he behaved ex- [ ants, not alone that, however, but the | happy. Indeed, we who have been in ctly as his sire, Mehmed Sh did, [ soldiers, were lent o part of this money | town all summer havo had n del shtful “The present ruler of Persia has five sons [ first stolen from them to lend it out on | -0 G0 S \ sl gL fiving (tho doron or 86 of daught ro | their part usurions interest, whicn | Hime of it. “There is an independence of no account cither in history or in so- | they did,dividing their interest with theiy | about staying home in summer time oial dife there). These son ssoud [ superiors. [t is said that the Naib cleares which too hi value eannot be placed Mirza, the eldest, about 3 old, | m these six months n-.uu"lh:n one regi- | upon. First place your bank account 8 whose titie_is Qil'es-Sultan— »w oof | ment alone in ten” - money and | poavier, you oan wear 3 the, kitig, Tlie Baconil 8on 18 usurions interest derived from At the | Getien § wear your thin old ed-Decn, about 83, called whdl, or | modest sum of 6,000 tomans (£9,000) and | €lothes, and for that matter go around fa Bieir apbarent. The third is Kaumran | the way he did things with this one regi- | shirt-sleeves and Mother Hubbards withe Mirza, called officially Oaib-es-Sultanch, | Ment hie has done and is doing, more or | out fear of being arrcsted. We should or yice-regent of the kingdom. ‘The re’ | less, withall. No wonder the number of | like to compare our diavies with those maining two are babies between the age | his beauties, of his slaves and cunuchs, kept by peovle who have boen crow of fand'4, and are ot no account s yet. | O his horses and his swels :;Illtl 1§65 BRIV Hiles BE MAtnts "”]‘"“"‘ PHE ELDES gardens, is steadily I is cHe LA 5 U ogn, Long The oldest son is the ibest and resem. | stmmer'seat of Kamrenich near Tehe- | Branch, Newport and other like abodes I»‘Ic.-o his father ||-lv mu.\‘llin lh»:uu; s:llu} r:m.lh\\!uitl.‘(m; !!':" ||_>I:\u‘ of ..;tn.(mh unn| of heated nnser called “'summer ro- characteristies. He has the bow legs o e Vienna, with fountains, statues and | sorts.”" Strange inz pooplo at e Kudyars and his fathers dark i | Orango grovés.beats anything of the kind | 1oy sy ‘_'mf;';h{“:‘f Willing: peoplo are watehful eyes, the same eurions hesitation | his fathcr owns AR AL AL e in speakingz, the same stricent voice and |, A REMARKARLE THSTORIAN, day for abject miscry, just to be in peeuliar inflection. He even speaks his The shah, like all other Oriental ruler: IN THE WORLD OF FASHION, w with the same strange iceent as ;1[014]. keeps a historian in his pay, who | Our summer his been deliciously cool, father. But this son was born of & l-'*l‘fljfx nutacture history of the U1 with plenty of rain to the dust for ve or rather a sceghay, a temporary | and present. The historian is a great BRI avoTe b, and is therefore not entitled to be | donkey and gigantic ignoramus, -~ e [ moonlight driving and keep trees and helr. He is very low of stature, but very s only Persia and Avabin,and neyver | plants fresh and green as spring time, strong and of a cat-like springiness iything in s life approaching [ To be sare we have had a few hot davs J The lh.‘.‘r, )L;umn r;-):l_»]h-q i m” all }..u.‘-‘u"r‘:n-l“:“'lylri\».i'u l(l;;lz_l":* I«II,:.I;- .]':'ll;.'fx;" and a good many caterpill but our respeets the inferior of his senior brother. s 4 g the past thirty | inactive colored people S it oot i ook and mocssnat do. | years that he now believes himeolf whiy | tctive colored people and dreaming banches of the vilest and most unspeaka- | he writes and says. I made his acquaint. | Seientists (lots of them in - Washington) ble kind have played havoe with a consti- | ane nd hestraightway began to tell | Wouldn't thrive without these blessings tution once vigorous. e keeps three | me yarns, the like of which Fiiever ex- | m disguise. but what's a Washington sorts of harems and is rekoned to be of [ peet to hear again—yarns against which | eaterpilar compared to a Saratoga bore? deprayed morals even with a people of | Eli Perking’ and a”Chicago drumme wriiles Lhe —caterpillar s up guch 10w norils anfl annRtIE are fecole attempts. In speaking of§ the | leaves and green things and canses sen- the Persians. He is complet present shah'’s resources, for instance, he | timental young ladics to seream, while the dominion of the priesthood, who ¥ told me g y that his revenues yielded | the S bore consumes your time, with him as with a puppet. He is a g him so many picces of gola that nobody | dulls your ear, eats up your patience, drinker and hasheesh smoker, and his | could count’them, but “they had to be | liver, very soul, sets men to damning and vices are condoned and made light of by sled into the strong room for fifteen | the attractive young widow faints on th the mallahs in conside n of his doing nd nights by six men, carvefully | Spot. The tinie is not for distant when tly in other respects as they wish [ Watched. rmies, he sud, were Washington will be a ¥ of innumer P ins of sand on the SUMMER RESORT THE YEAR AROUND, T BOY. seashore. And suelirot as this he write: it s people from the fur south come The third son, the Nub, is the hand- [ in downright rnest into his hoo! of to spend their summers, believing somest and most_good natured of the | history, and the shah swallows it. Well, r beautiful city aflords more rest, and three, and has of late years become his | the shih, like many another man, has t enjoyment than any other place un. father's favorite. He, too, is very de- | some ideal rulers whom he in his modest | der the: sunof the same longitude s voted to the mamifold dutics of his ex- | Way tes. Tl the ezar, Peter itude, (plenty of tensive harem, and it is suid that he has | the G the Great and | require it). While wo hay good taste in the matter of female beauty | Bmpe an’thear enough | shore to be surt find has certamly more attr: ies about them, and has la num- in his anderoun than his father, (a thing s of portraits, busts and med-lions of not very diflicult, as the current opinion | them in his possession. of all those who have scen the Shah’s A MODERN 1A N AL-RASCHID, women is to the effect that there is not a | One fine evening, however, this histo- single pretty one among them.) The 1 of his had ol him some remarka- Nuib don’t amount to much tellectu- e stories of the Caliph Haroun-al-R ally, though, and has no great quali chid, and about his nightly visits in dis ither for good or evil. e has h Tvlu»c wbout the streets and avenues of r's stinginess, and besides a loy This tickied the Shal’ kinds of petty meann: He cheats and | 2nd without communicating iy swindles generally on ny one, he went out the O dréssed up like a common Per Now, then, there used to be a fourth Now prince, who played quite a role while he asted. This was Kissim Khan, the son of a slave mother, a low, coarse woman, whose voeation—that of dancer—is held to be the most desperate for women to pursue. She was not handsome, judged y our standard, yet she swayed a power over the prince which before nor after her has. She pos a dogged roun, et Teh Ark, the entrance to whi ting When he L at and again he and gen kind of persistence and made her royal | dozing inattentiye. At last one lover ¢o what she wanted. Her son,” it | night he struck Tartar. The man R EChalheTe a beautiful boy, | would not let him pass, Invam the Shah tod and high spirited, and in accom. | showed him his costly ‘underclothes and Lishments he beat his other brothers. Lrying with his cypher. The man This boy tae Shah heeame inordinately ud, wtar, and deaf to Per- fond of, to that extent that he serionsly v 1 he did not understand), as planned making him his heir, supplant- | Well as to the Persian mode - of persn ing Mouzaffer-ed-Deen, whom he never | sion. He kept the Shah all night in his | sared for. Now, while the Shah is an | little sentry hox, and it was not till this irresponsible despot in all other things, | faithful sentry was released at 6 o'clock h in the matter of suceezsion he is bound | that the mon was released. M by the treaty of Turcomanehai, conclu- | While, of course, the absence of tho Sh ded with Russia is 1828, at the close of | had been discovered and had occasioned the war which gave to the northern colo- | mnch ;.an.zmm).m in the anderoun one third of Persia, including Baku, | among the ladies and ennuchs. They AN OBSTACLE OVERCOME. all were delighted when the Shah, in 3 In one of the provisions of the tr sorry plight, fecling “all bunged un” the matter of suceession to the Pers and shame-faced, came back. throne is regulated so that the Shah no HE BEWARD OF DUTY. longer has the right to exercise his dis- If the Shah had b sensible man he cretion or go by preference, but tying | Would have rewarded that euardsn him down So that the fivst legitimate” son | the only watehful, energetic soldier he is, son by a frec born woman of | had metwith so far. But instead he had al blbod) must bocome the heir, The | the man bastinadoced (“Fellak khordan’ , howe! tried to overcome the ob- | they eallit, meaning *‘to eat the stic stacle, working tooth and nail for years | Drocess at which the feet of the delin- to obtain the consent of all the Kuropean | Yuent ave lifted up from the ground and diplomates to have Kassim Khan de >H‘4l|7)ln-'(l to a horizontal bar and then clared the heir. He_ did finally obtain | the stick applied to the bare soles. In- this consent, and this joyful cccasion was et T 0 celebrated, consummated and ratitied by | 18 What the Shah T:‘“" DHEIFH- Ol a general dinner given by the Shah to all | stances, even when these quihtic the foreign ministers, ' was about | used for his benefit, During one of twenty years ago. The lias been | campaigns against sh a dinner smee or b in in, | north n brovinees n sergeant sayed ‘e cooks, the and the plat the whole camp by his| pt action imported fi aris, the game and pres of mind from ng mur- from all over Persin and the Caucasus, | dored I, H;‘ r sl oD, IA~ arew ”rld_nnf and the fruit from tho far down south, | Scrgeant hud nforwand his woso and ears | huh himsolf drank to the health of | out offy it belng considerod {hat he was his heir, and the diplomates responded to | #ltozether too fresh. Another common The Shah, for the fivst and | soldier in Meshed during the of it standing, time that town by the T'wo in his life, was dru weeks later the young prince, for whom | gurison during apanic when all his | all this hullabaloo had been made,died in | superiors had fost their heads by putting | convulsions under circumstances’ which | himselfat the head of the troopsund de | scomed to point to poison. The Shah | feating the cnomy, Ahe soldior was | nce then has given up all scheming, | priv d as being too am- bitious, H o lets thing take their course, AN AMBITIOUS TYRANT. The oldest son, Massoud Mir SRR b b SRl boew governor of the whole south of Persia | Sunday is dull day in this teoming | for twenty years or more, and has ar the business portion—known s the | Amassod g foFtuso-—] ale killing, | 38T 5N Tedurted o (he Sabbath torturing und extorting—estimated at | 0 R S ons are crowded | 16,000,000 tomans (§24,000,000), wields | U, [k ud vening by the excursion- really more power thun his father, aud | F0E 0T SLOE W0 for fresh o, has a smaller but much moro efficient | 4% VUSRRE QUCOT W, T W B army than the one of his fath Ile ho bare for the morrow’stoil. 1tis ast often avowed his intention of fighting his [ PRI FUH 0 e tvo million of peo- | way to the throne when the old man dies. |05 Fyonaon™ who neyer @o to church., He'is also popularly eredited with having | 5 Jate 0 e leavo on the been instrumental in the denth of his [ ot Qe e N Pl sire rival brother, Kassim Khan, T} il [ OUSAR AR AR A S TR have sufficiendy painted, His is gover- and more crowd the stewmboats nor of Azerbaijan, and resides at Tabriz Vitig on tho Lhamos bolween Kew aud the wealthest and largest town in Pers vesond ' He will not be able to fight his brother | “HVCSSR: o 1 e mbering several Massoud suceessfully, beeiause he lucks | o 50 S0 M mareh with full par- | troops and purpose. ‘The Naibis com- [\ horiatiato the various depots—or sta- | mander-in-chief of the army, it is true, § ;o000 nere—nttraotod | and holds some of the most lucrative | 4 iy ™ ickets issued by the offices, with bis_residence at Teheran, | o> M0 G GRS oo Thaaes, the | but he is too vacillating, and is incapuble | TGS PTG 0 Gl ieos- | of forming great projects, still more of | &1 Ly executing thew. Wihon Shan dios, | ¢ there may be a triangular war between | {700 inel baske these brothers if Russia and England do ‘I,:;,.‘(',‘” R not step in and settle the thing by pole and “blucking:be nexation,arbitration or the force of ¢ the double pur M 4 THE OHAMPION MEAN MAN tucle for t and b How mean a fellow the Nuib ‘,., Loudoners spend will show the government ra, but for life taneh is a fow stories soldiers here hire out tc not for a term of r pay, nominally. is qute large for a p country like Persia, They have, besides, so little to do sud the discipline Arinking and gossiy their ding Correspotident find u jour system VK is s0 that they can keep their families | Lean's Liver and Kiduey with them, can trade and become arti y and effec ans, shopkeepcrs, ete. The bulk of thein, | the poisou fromi your sy though, profess to pursue the huuumblel per vi at midnight they w morning he had” them punished. ich inst the Tar Turcomans suved the - ) W castle, is sty a qu is guard, ed sions Sunday in London, ly the W v const rying Al 0x,"” whi s Seut i t. A full mi the day b their fricnis homes ¢ an 81, the complex building: making up the Shah’s led ud dependence of mind and prompt action mans in the fo, (1 angle, od by these sentinels asleep, and next Again by night, ntinels were found night, mule ‘he sen- cum- re tl | for dinner, ve the war ides those th (he W the country. ~ Shaw of our good people HAVE by the barrelfull stor 0 bu hington? THOSE W10 are hotel el wore low-ne last winter HAVE ks, od ( aroom on the fist the departments loc and the dudes and n are out of a_job wit sout of town, tion as they pl vie e spare the ma ows. You reader Waskington” will 1 enterprise and nwe do for i out [E 1] to the highe bidder often find There is somethin in one of wins will load t New York or Omai you dead, or | offic Washington, or wi ke brain work" enough to t m all the way from 4:50 Washingt consides natuy begin 1o turn timg 12 he G the we that with much benefit to lif as for mineral wate ill IT IN THEIR C] and there 1 d over in the capitol for winter use LONC barhers and those wha )stles floor ok CWSD: h the but s we are por be imps out of our | nouned Potomac flat sent s) and we manage to get up bree: an be taken with a grain of salt, and L well, we | largest supply of any summor: re Suratoga's mine water and the Hot Sulphur springs water candic to the Potomie water can’t hold and mir | water drank every suloon in Washington. ontingent weling fine: Who wouldu't Tun a br ce to come to congres i to con- health, and ve the et and sold in Why, some LARS s lof of it zood seasons of the year in this cli- mate and helps digestion wonderfully when en before breaktast. Many of our tired-out statesmen b in their committee rooms—there is a contingent fund to it with. O, my! what fund” doe 1d sum- nd liy VACATIONS Joo costumes They uced long vi We miss the artistic smile and glitte: dinmond over the bar us we eull for an ba nu s of 1 untruth wi hidds hem, papel e which is about the si you till Itisa good fashicnahles aine tl clovke from 4 tll 5, the s who tike life ¢ dine fre 1l bouts; business n [ fien they enn hay | But people, black 1 boys will rin Driss 1o sun, at the of lov Phese Marine band conce tended and enjoyed 1o soe pr vls, a1 the: ¢ usually send to o1 rimslf sold the wwinl to contemplate le n over knows on their untiring eneray res that you have rope on o pleasure trip for " n i Lty ng 8 , and tions. ng a mint a our julep, and the heads of some of some of rather unkempt, reporters 'Ostler Jog g those tly willing as long o right well of news s from sewonders Iness more their be sold and the highest, 1CWS nani- in what and fer- ) tnke up a ul read that Jgned from » thing in gonie to t from cn't monoy a_ pleasure trip to youy TIand Tady for a receipted bourd Will, “and what yoir brain needs s healthy ‘work, i5 most astonshi the leist, Yes we are glad th have t ni clur of news take n long vacation. They never will be missed in'W FOI SUMMER AMUSEN we have had light, bright, airy and enjoy sind opeta house, with s ton for the stur of the cvenii She s light of weight as a musician; as an actress and charmer heayy Aped Lo drive dull care ny ibled brain, of the oil oftice holder, Joeannie has made wmany an old head give up his summor vaeation foreel his aiserics in fly time. Alns: how little st takes 1o make somo folks happy. And thero tha Marine band concerts at the white housa grounds just at that time o day when the sun gots the mo tont on scorching— and 1 sonon incon- v for poc who ire hungry We dine here in Washingtou T ble elusses o till 6 and N tramps Jod ehaneo, small ul, Bun oy v dinner o well at- PILERE ARE MOKE PRETIY GIILY | from the ages of fourteen to twenty to be seon du Washington than any in the werld. 1 The best O r, when o d the leny nnd eve hined up <