Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 28, 1888, Page 9

s | | = J T T L AT A T . T { THE OMAHA ' SUNDAY BEE. 1w | EIGHTEENTH YEAR. LOITERINGS ABOUT TOKIO. Strange Sights and Customs of the Land of the Mikado. BUILT UP BY HUMAN MUSCLE. Bird's-Eye View of the Capital of Japan — Store and Household Beenes—Straw Shoes—Japanese Farming--New Japan. “Carp Letter. okio, Japan, Oct. 10.— [Special Correspondence of Tue Bee.]—The city of Tokio is not down in the geographies of twenty years ago. Now it is the capital of the Japancse empire and its old name of Yeddo is forgotten. The town which for years was the city of the sho- gun, the commander in %W chicf of the Japancse CTFLASME ~feudal army, has become YR8 '~mthe home of the mikado ~and the center of New Japan. In it may be scen better than any place else, how thig most progressive of the oriental nations is putting off its eastern clothes for those of the west, and it forms the center of the struggle of the Mon- golian and the christian _civilizations. Just midway between the old and the new, the aristocrat 1n his European clothes rides in his jinriksha, pulled by a bare-legged brother with a shaved head, and it is the comment of the social world that the empress has lately thrown off her comfortable, airy, loose Jap- anese gown for the tight stays and the bustle of Mr. Worth, of Paris. The crowd UPON THE STREETS is n strange conglomeration of the cast and the west. One Japanese has on an American hatand beside him walks another, his head is covered with a wheel of straw as bigasa boy's hoop,and fastencd around his chin with a straw braid. Both have on Japanese gowns which are open at the chost and tied around the hips with a girdle, but the man with the American hat may have his feet stuck into wooden slits or Japaness sandals while the shoes of the dther are undoubtedly made in & Kuropean workshop. Japancse husbands neatly clad in the latest Broadway or Bond strect styles are followed by their wives elegantly dressed in rich soft clothes of the old civilization, and the whole is a strange, delightful conglomeration of the picturesque, bordering often upon the beauti- ful and now verging upon the ridiculous. The queer Japanese signs over the stores, great square white boards with black tea box characters upon them, or black signs painted in white have in some instances English translations to catch the European eye. Here is one offering: *‘Condensed Milk” for sale, and another offers “*Cock’s Eggs of a Super- 1or Quality.” Here is a liquoresign stating that the store has for sale “Wine, Beer and Other,” and upon the ginza there stood for & long time & sign which rcad *‘Foreign Mon- ackets for Japanese Gentlemen.” This was laughed at so much, however, that it was taken down. TOKIO. "Tokio is a big city. It covers more ground than New York, and it is nine miles long and eight miles wide. Over it are scattered watch towers for the discovery of fires, and a view from one of these shows an immense plain of one and two-story low tiled houses cut up by unpaved streets and intersecsted with a network of wide canals. It makes one think of Amsterdam and the over- hanging caves of the houses, the junlk boats sailing through the city and men act- ing as beasts of burden carry out the idea of Holland. The wind-mills are absent, how- ever, but the Bay of Yeddo stretches away in the distance and the country has that re- markabie green verdure which makes the Dutch land so beautiful. In the center of the city may be noted specially fine buildings. Some of them are of modern architecture and others are ramblimg Japancse palaces. They are surrounded by high embankments on which the trees grow, and these are faced with massive walis of stone. Around the whole runs a wide moat and this is known as the castle. It was‘the seat of the feudal government and in it is now locuted the new palace of the mikado. The immense plain stretching away on every side is filled with houses and there are a quarter of a million homes lying below you. Tokio has a million inhabitants, and a guide book of the town states that it was nothing before the year 1600. It is the youngest great city of the eastern world and it will probably grow under the new regime. TIC SCENES, The streets look more like the bazaars of a fair than the blocks of a city, and their low-ridged roofs rarely cover wore than two stories. The floors are two feet above the ground, and eaves of the roofs overhang so that fully three feet of ground is sheltered before the floor begins. The houses are made of pieces or shdes, and dur- ing the day time the whole front of the lower story slides back, and you can see all that is gomg on within, The Japanese have no false wodesty, and all the operations of the family are visibleas you pass along the street. Pic- ture here an almond-eyed maiden with a skin of that rieh color shown by the cream of the Jersey cow, sits flat on the floor before a lit- tle round mirror. Her dress 1s pulled down to her waist and her upper half is a bare as that of the Venus De Medici. She primps and powders and paints her lips red as I look on behind my fan aud wonder, and at last thoroughly shocked, I turn my eyes across the street I seo & mother sitting nearly as bare, on the floor of the house op- posite, giving & meal to a naked three-year- old boy, who stands up and tugs away like a lamb, 1 start from the neighborhood but the same sights greet my eyes in every quar- ter, Inone house sprawled at full length upon the floor I see the father of a family Iying upon bis stomach and kicking up his bare legs. About him play half-naked child- renand on the canals fullgrown men scull great boats in the clothes that Man Friday wore before he was dressed by Robinson Crosoe. In another house Isce the family cooking going on and in another a party is squatted down at dinner. There is with it all but little dirt and the anatomical display 88 on the whole is not unpleasant. STOKE ROONS, The etores and the private houses are mixed together and the rich and poor to a large extent, live side by side, 'There are certain portions of the capital populated by the workiug classes only, but Tokio' has no slums, good order is everywhere. The store kcepers, as a rule, livein \heir own houses, and their box like shops contain the goods they sell piled up around them, The small his legs a la Turk, can reach overy article he _ bas o scll, and Lis oor is bis counter, His. customers sit on it as they buy, and they are not allowed to enter the house without drop- ping their shocs outside. Ths ceilings are low and the houses are in long lines or blocks. More of the poorer class, which are formed of wood, burn like paper during a fire, Their partitions are thin, and paper has in most in- stance taken the place of glass. Thousands of the houses look like gigantic safes and vaults, They have barred windows, and these at the second story are closed with doors made exactly like those of the Ameri- can bauk vault, These are warchouses or fire-proof structures, They are kuown as o downs, and every Tokio merchant has one of them, STRERT ETIQUETTE. The streets of Tokio are not narrow like those of China or of the older parts of Euro- pean cities. One is not jostled as he moves along them, and the crowd of slunt-eyed men and women clad in dressing gowns of all colors of the rainbow is a good-natured ono, and they laugh and bow low to each other as they meet. The Japanese back is clastic. The India rubber man at the circus would wear himself out in Japan, and the Japanese bowers seem to never get through, They salaam and salaum, and the lower classes knock their heads against the earth asthey go down on their kneos in paying their respects to their superiors. It bothers one to be the recipient of %0 much attention and the American fecls his awkwardness when he atfempts the Japanese bow. It is, however, not unpleas- ant, and with it all ‘there is little servility and fawning. 1 am_ struck with the open kindly expression of the Japanese face. They n to treat travelers as brothers. They welcomo them and are willing to con cede that there are other good things outside of Japan. They are manly about it and the only unpleasant thing is the curiosity which one excites among them. Whenever I walk along the streets of Tokio a crowd of men and boys follow me, and if 1 stop to buy 1 find that the street s soon blocked. ON A STILT SANDAL Clatter, clatter, clatter! What a noise the people make as they go along the road! They all wear wooden sandals, and their stockings are a kind of a mitten with a fin; for the big toe. During wet weather t sandals become stilts, and the whole Japan- ese nation increases its stature by three inches whenever it rain These sandals are held to the foot by straps coming over the toes, and there is a straw sole between the foot and the sandal of wood. A tall Japancse on a stilt sandal closely approaches the ridiculous. He sometimes tucks up his long gown under his belt to keep it from being spattered by the mud, and the backs of his bare calves seem to be walking off with the man. The Japanese walk is peculiar. The men put their feet straight in front of them, like the American Indian. They lift them high off the ground and they have a get-there-air about them, The women wabble and wabble; they bend over as they walk and they have what 1s now in Am a, the fashionable stride. Their little feet in sandals tura inwards and all fe- male Jupan is pigeon-toed. Your Japanese beauty is not averse to showing her ankle and the soul of the Japanese beau does not flutter when he sees a two-inch slice of cream colored skin above the three-inch foot mitten. The Japanese shoe store is one of wooden ware rather than of leather, and the cobbler mends his shoes with the chisel and plainer. MODE OF STR The whole nation is :n at the chest, and only the aristocrats wear underclothes, The gowns of the men and women consist, in the summer, of a loose flowing garment which wrap about them in folds and fasten at the waist with a sash. In this sash the men carry their pipes and their pocketbooks, and you may often a curiously shaped brass tube with a head at the end of 1t sticking out of their belt. This is a penholder, and it contains an inkstand and brush. The sights of an American street are missing. There are few carringes and fewer horses. You may not meet a cart ina morning's walk, and the street car, a new institutton here, 18 seen only on the 54, which is Tokio's Fifth avenue and Broadway all in one. The avaricious cab man 18 miss- ing, and the Jinriksha man has taken his place. These bare-legged, big-hatted men dart here and there throughout Tokio, and they will run their sturdy legs all day fora dollar. You may hire them for 10 cents an hour and you can have two men to pull you, or double far There are 80,000 of them in Tokio alone. They are in general use al! over Japan, and China is fast introducing them, I felt rather ashamed at first of using a man as a beast of burden, but one soon gets used to it and urges the human horse to hurry. The average jinriksha costs about §20. HUMAN MUSCLE. Japan is a land made and run by human muscle. The cattle and horses are few a human sweat makes Japan's bread. The mail wagons are pulled by men, and the streets and the castle grounds are watered by push carts. These are filled with great buck- ets which, fastened to bamboo poles, are dipped by the water carriers into the moats, and the water pourcd into the carts. Some of the streets of Tokio are watered with buckets, and 1 saw bare-legged and bare-chested men carrying two big wooden buckets of water, each of which, [ udge, held about four gailons. One of these uckots was fastencd to each end of @ pole about four feet long and as thick as your wrist, and this pole was balanced on the bare shoulder of the mom. As he walked along he turned a stick which made the water drip through & number of holes in the bot tom of the bucket. He carried his load up one side of the street and down the other, and thus laid the dust. His wages were, | am told, somewhere between twenty and thirty cents a day, and out of this he paid his house rent and kept himself and family, HUSBANDRY. It is human muscle that cultivates Japan, Cattle and horses are no part of Japanese country scenes, and an American plow, which I saw in a Tokio store, was pointed out as a curiosity. If it is used at all, it will probably be pulled by men. As it is, the land is made fallow with a sort of mattock, which is very heavy, and which has a blade about six inches wide and two feet long. The rice flelds of Japan are living monu ments of human labor, and every grain of rice you eat represents ‘a ccrtain amount of human muscle. The fields must be flooded again and again with water, and the plants are transplanted from their first growth into rows. | have seen men and women by scores bending their backs and hoeing this rice, and I'am told that their wages run from 10 to0 20 cents a day. BURDEN BEARERS. Human muscle carries nearly all the bur- dens of Japan. Brown skinned, slant-eyed men and women with baskets cotaining sev- eral bushels each upon their backs, pass by my window as I write, and others follow with great loads balanced across their shoul- ders on long poles. Six-ycar-old boys carry two four gallon buckets of water in this way and loads of heavy merchandise are pushed along the roads in carts. Two o three men are harnessed up n front, Se eral push behind with both head and hands Their muscies stand out like thick cords they work. The sweat rolls down their brown skin in streams and their faces look out from straw hats as big around as a wo- man's parasol, and their feet are soled with straw sandals. The few horse carts one sees upon the streets are always led rather than driven by the men and Japan seems to do everything in the hardest way. It is a curious thing that nearly all THE HORSES IN TOKIO and Yokohama are stallions. They are black, thick-necked ronlu. aud Uiy are used, as rule, for driving or riding. The best class of horse flesh makes a fine show in Tokio, and the turn-out of a Japanese aristocrat is worth nothing. He has usually A betto or out-run- ner who goes ahead to clear the way, and his coachman 18 stiff and pompous. Speaking of the stallions, some years ago, I am told, it was ordered by the government that the stal- lions be kept in certain districts, and the mares in others, How this may be I know not, save that at Nikke, in the interior, I found all mares. The Nikko horses were beasts of burden chiefly, und they carried reat loads in puck saddles on their backs. 'he cart horses here are very curious. There comes ‘onealong the narrow business street of Tokio now. He is led by a rope halter in the hands of a brown skinned old man who bas a ttét round piece of closely braided straw TRAVEL, as big around as a good sized parasol on his head. His feet and those of his horse are SHOD WITH STRAW, and the straw_shoes are in both cases tied around the ankles with straw rope and are made of ordinary rice straw biaided so that they form a sole for the foot about a half an inch thick. These shoes cost about acent a pair, and when they are -orn off they are thrown away. Every cart has a stock of fresh new shoes tied to the Lorse or to the front part of the cart, and in the country here it was formerly the custom to measure distance largely by the number of horse shoes it took to make the distance. So many horse shoes madea day's journey, and the average shoe lasted, if my memory serves me, for about eight miles of travel. It is the same with the coolies. They throw away their shoes when they are worn out, and last night when I was riding in one of these man- power baby carriages, my ostrich-like steed stopped, threw away his straw shoes and went bare footed. As he did so, I watched the roadway and counted eizht pair of worn out straw shoes in a single block. THE MARNESS of the work horses is as queer as their shoes, The saddle is as big as a lady’s side-saddle, and 1t is fully eight inches high. The crup per is bound with cloth, and it 18 as big around as your wrist and it raised the horses tail up as though he had achestnut bur under it. The carts are as rude as the har and n kot weather there is a sort of straw mat- ting cover stretched over the horse by means of two long poles extending out from the front of the cart to protect the horse from the rays of the sun. The same is done with the oxen, who here work, as a rule, single, or in single file, and the oxen are shod like the horses, with straw. Animals, however, are very few, ahd man power runs the country. They run it very well, too, and Japan is a land which shows what man can do without any beasts of burden, to speak of. Here are fine_bridges, big temples, great moats and good roads, all made by human Jabor. Here is a country which ILOOMS LIKE TIE R OSE in California, and whi is kept as clean as a market garden, and which does not look less fertile. It is a’country with a history run- ning back for tens of centurics, having o literature, a history, a_theater, and a_poetry of its own. It is a land which has made such a stride 1n certain branches of art that its curios command aready sale all over the world, and its silk worms spin their cocoons and its maidens we: their product into silks for the nations. Still, until a very few years past, it was as bare of outside help ns Robinson Crusoe on his desert island, and steam did not lighten its labors, nor did the four-footed beast furnish it either muscle, food or fertilize: TILE SOIL OF JAPAN. I am told that only a small part of Japan is cultivated, and the authorities state that two tenths of it has as yet not_been brought into use. Still the land that I have seen is carefully cared for that this seems almost impossible. The country about Tokio and ‘Yokoham: divided into garden patches, and there is not a weed to be seen anywhere, The s0il is a8 black as that of the Nil lley and it is as deep as the top soil of the state of Kansas, which Senator Ingalls says is so thick that you can push your arm down into it upto the shoulder d pull out earth which is as rich as guano, in your fist. I soil of Jupan is kept in this st almost _entirely, by the the water ef Every nigt soil 1s and the s is carried in bu and carts and s he land. This is done nightly and at n hours of the evening Tokio smells than Naples. There is no system of sewerage in the city, save that of surface drainage, and it is' a wonder to me that cholera and typhoid fever are not more often epidemic. The smells from the fields and the rice paddies are as bad at certam times of the y as is the city, and Japan has much to learn on sanitary ‘matters. With such conditions no_country can have a pure heaithy water, and in many of the homes here the wator closet and the well are side by side. Foreigners do not, as a rule, drink the waters of Japan without having th first boiled and filtered. [ carry a filter a an aicohol stove with me, and I never touch the water outside of my hotel. i Speaking of works. Here 18 a city of a_million tants and according to the latest census of 1885, of more than 250,000 houses. Still, of all these houses, not_one in @ thousand, if any, have what are called modern improve ments, and there are no water or gas pipes running through them, The water of Tokio is not conducted into the houses, but it exists in wells along the sides of the streets. These wells are of wood or stone above the ground, and there is about one or two to_the block, big around as a_small hogshead fect from the top and the hed to long bamboo poles. One of the hts constantly before your eyes here is a semi-naked man or woman tugging at these bamboo poles to get the water for the house supply, and it is from these wells that the supply for the daily baths are taken. FRANK G. CARPENTER, I would fice from the city's r From its fashion and form And go where the strawberr straw, And the gooseberry grows on its goose, Where the catnip tree is climbed by the' cat As she crouches for her pry The guileless and unsuspec On the rattun bush at play ut loose, Erows on ng rat T will watch at ease the saffron cow And her cowlet in their glee, As they leap in joy from bougn to bough On the top of ‘the cowslip tree; Where the musical partridge drums on his drum, And the woodchuck chucks his wood, And the dog devours the dogwood plum, In the primitive solitude. ON! let me drink from the moss grown pump That was hewn from the pumpkin tree, Eat mush and milk from a vural stump, From forin and fasbion fr New gathered mush from the niushroom vine, And milk from the milkweed swect, With luscious pineapple from the piné— Such food as the gods might cat. And to the withwashed dairy I'll turn, Where the dairymaid hastening hies; Her ruddy and golden red butter to churn From the milk of ner buttertiies; And I'll rise at morn with the early bird, To the fragrant farm yard pass, ‘When the farmer turns his beautiful herd Of grasshoppers out to gras: e A Dollar 1 Week and Board. Siome Bohemian laborers had agreed to go to work in a tinshop in Philadel- phia for $1 a week and board. They had made a contract on shipboard with the owners of the tinshop, who were passengers, binding themselyes to work two years at the sum named. They were very anxious to land and get on to Philadelphia for the $1 a week bo- nanza that was promised them, but the collector said no, the agreement wus a violation of the contract labor law, and their dreams of opulence in the land of the free and home of the brave were rudely shattered. A dollar a week and board does not seem much a windfall,and yet there are hundreds—I might say thousands—of men in New York at this moment who would be glad to get it. The other day the Herald modestly al- luding to its value as an advertising medium, mentioned the circumstance that one advertisement in its columns for an asssstant bookkeeper brought some 375 applications for the place. The Evening World lately had a reporter tramping all over town, day after day, applying for employment to persons who had advertised for help, aud then writing up his experience, the sum and substance to which was thatevery place he a&)phed for was taken befare he eould get around to it. For the ten thousandth time the warning may be iven to men out of work to stay away rom New York unless a place has been secured before they come, A BREEZE FROM THE PACIFIC “Silver” Stewart Makes a Great Speech. —_— FACED BY PAUPER LABOR. The Swimming of the Gilbert Islanders—Los Angeles Real E tate Operations—Cleveland' Death-bed Repentance. SAN FrANcisco, Oct. 22.—[Special correspondence of THE BEg.|—The Gil- bert Islanders have left us, returned to their native specks of rock amid the blue waves of the Pacific. Two of them gave a great swimming performance at the Cliff House, before they embarked on the schooner Addie C. Hazeltine. The two best swimmers of the party, or rather, to be exactly truthful, the two whose coustitutions best resisted the cold of our waters, were named E-gee- bor-wa and Narkada, and they went through the vehement surf that beats around the CIliff House like veritable mermen. But there was sailor who swam witb them for the fun of the thing, and who made justas good ashowing. He had been wrecked on the Gilbert group and spoke vheir lan- guage fluently. He was consequently a great boon to the people who had paid their fifty cents to see the swimming from the veranda and windows of the CLff House, and it was from him that I learned their names. E-gee-bor-wa sounds somewhat Digger Indian-like, and the men somewhat resemble the Shoshones, who are the best specimens of the race, as the Diggers of Northern California are the worst. There was a second exhibition in the afternoon, and Egeeborwa ' climbed this time onto seal rock, giving those creatures a fearful seare. Narkada was taken with a fit of coughing when in the midst of the breakers, and if he had not been promptly rescued by the sailor and the other native, he would have lost his passage home beyond any doubt. All the islanders were suffering from colds and bronchial trouble. which seemed strange, for San Francisco has .n remarkably free from fogs consid- ng the time of year. Lee, the sailor, d that they would all have died from consumption if they had not been sent home. So that shows pretty plainly that there is 1o real safety for a pulmon invalid north of Santa, Barbara. And yet people from the eagt who have weak lungs come and settle in this city and all along the Contra Costa range on the other side of the bay,and expect to be all right. It is clearlv a mstake. LOS ANGELES .RBAL. ESIATE OPERA- “TIONS, There is every reason why southern California should’ became a great and populous community, but the real estate men, particularly in Los Angeles, take, in my opinion, & wrong way. A combination -of tham publish in that city a paper, which is distributed gratuitously in whole or in part. On the editorinl page are statements about lots which I copy ver batim. *Five years ago lots on Downey ave- nue, in Los Angeles, were sold for $100 which cannot m-du;' be bought for #10,000.” **Less than nine months ago lots in Meadow Park were selling for $30 each, and they are now eagerly sought after at #3850 eac *‘Lots in the business center of Pasadena ure selling for $1,000 a front foot, and lots opposite the new opera house are now bringing from 85,000 to 8,000 each. I took the libgrty of asking a P dena journalist’ whether these state- ments were true. “True?” he answered in a flame ot rage, “True? No indeed! This is not journalism, it is sheor lying. And 1t is not business enterprise either. but nmitigated seoundrelism TO FACE WITH PAUPER LABOR. is clear thdt from common sense principles there gin be no wisdom in en- deavoring to obtgin” enormous prices for builaing lots.¥ Southern California offers unusual inducements to men pre- pared to deal in dried fruits, in sweet wines, in ins and nuts, both almonds and walnuts, “#nd’ its climate is so be- nignant that the rhcumatic suffever loses his pains, and the consumptive re- gains health and strength. But though things ingrease the population cannot largdly increase its wealth, isno greag fortune to be made even in raisins, for though the demand is great, the cofpetition with prices low. Many u rirl has tried her hand at picking mus- s, and found that she could hardly livingexpenses. How often I have vd stories of gupposed wrong from people who had gone south to work at raisin making. he fact is that in al- most all the products of Southern Cali- forma, the proddécer comes face to fa with the paupeg labor Europe and wages must be low. not like to say that southern Califor must be peopled with poor families i all, but the faets squint that wa) Thevefore the booming of the Los An- geles veal estate men is sickening folly, C of Southern I do CLEVELAND'S DEATH BED RE ANCE. The administration has suddenly awoke to the fj mad clear throy; series of hosti t that California was soby a long 1 studied ne- glect. Allof a has been a change, a sort of eleventh hour refor- mation. Some ust have informed the president the Californians n ecstacil on bill, a chance for hi opinion of the P some attention t of that section, It is, after all, States, though gotten it, and deutly never ku the United Stat ithat there was a 10 regain the good ific slope by paying the wishes and wants ) part of the United . Cleveland had for- cretary Whitney evi- it. Dr. MeAllister, commissioner of migration in Frigeo, took upon himself to pose_as the ch@npion of the Chinese, and to do all in W§s power to frustrate the workings of the bill, more particu- larly with regard to the return of the coolies on the Bong Kong steamer: His appointmen promptly revoked and he woke ong morning to find his head in the officihl sawdust. The office was conferred m Wilhiam H. Thorn- ley, who is the fate commissioner. happens that Mef\llister ought never to have been ted, for the United States law on th bject says explicitly that the chief immigration commis- sioner of every state shall also re- ceive the fedqral _.appointment, so that therp e mo - clashing of authority, cnever prompt ae- tion Lesomes necgesary, - Still iv " OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 28. 1888.~SIXTEEN PAG is a sign that Cleveland feels either re- morse for the past, or inquictude for the future. Another significant straw with regard to the change of base of the administration is furnished by the treasury rulimf on fruit juices. Arpad Harazthy and all the viticulturists have contended that the duty ought to be 82 a gallon for all such™ liquids when they contained alcohol, and a clear showing was made that cherry juice was largely used in the manufacure of fraudulent wines. The treasury has ruled at last that cherry juice must y a duty of & per gallon. ad this been done before, Cleveland would have had the vote of the wine men of the north; had Cleveland been from the first sincerely anti-Chinese in sentimeat, he would have had the vote of California solidly. But these appeals for votes made so unblushingly now, disgust and we feel contempt, not gratitude. ILVER” STEWART MAKES A GREAT SPF . If California and Nevada have been stamping grounds for millionaires who wanted to buy a senatorship. everybody must admit that the two states have turned out two men, Stewart and Jones who are authorities on the silyer ques- tion. They never speak upon that topic without being listened to with great at- tention. Senator Stewart made, a day or two ago.agreat specch at the re- publican wig and he fairly let himself out, just as on occasions a blooded trotter will do his utmost. After ho had spoken about the Chinese, which comes first as a matter of course, he looked round humorously at his audi- ence, giving a shake to those reddish- gray locks of his. **Now shall I spenk about silver or the tariff¥” “Oh d—-n the tariff!” cried someone, giving Henry Watterson his right change, ‘“‘let’s hear about silver.”” Then all the audience rose up and yelled “*Silver, sil ver.” Your eastern men will never listen to the mining side, and say, its all self-interest. Of course the eastern Jd rimlms have no interest on the other side! The real question is where the publie inter lie. Stewart scored Cleveland in the most dreadful manner recapitulating every hostile act of the man. He wound up by saying: *‘Cleve- land is the tool, the servant of the gold ¢ of Europe and be elected, gold standard contraction will go on, s he will veto every bill that looks toward the rase of silver. His schemes in the silver conspiracy have reduced property 33 per cent; they have made tens of thousands poor; and have put more and more w in the hanas of the rich.” Then that would have made bi the sky. so mighty was the concus- sion of theair. Blaine himself could not have evoked more enthusiam ON MOUNT IAMILTON, Lick’s bequest for the great ob- ¢ on Mount Hamilton is begin- ield substantial resultsalready. Professor Holden, who is the director of the institution, took every night, dur- ing the month of Augusf, when the moon_is notably resplendent, and is Old servate ning to called the harvest moon, a series of photographic views of our planet’s satellite with a large photographic lens, THe in diameter > are move than five inches and show all the elevations and depressions with startling minute- ness. It is customary to eall these e tinet voleanoes and plains, but at first the student only sees things that are inexplicable to him. Professor Proctor would have enjoyed these photog could he e seen them, they realize startingly his viction that the moon is a dead world, without atmosphere, without water, henc thout life. The director says that very few other local- ities would have permitted such contin- uous photographing rep enting the satellite from the first faint cress roung moon to the last faint cres- of the old moon 1 the morning The University of Southern Cali- has de d to go in for nomical observations also, and to erect an observatory on Wilson's peak. It is unnes sssury to say that the pres dent, Dr, has determined to vato or perish, negotiating with Alvin Clark, big lenses for a forty-two inch lens, whereas the lens of tne Lick telescope is only thirty-four inches. The total cost of the Bovard telescope will be about a hundred thousand dol- lars, and it will be stecred by Professor Pickering, tronomer of Harvard college, meisco does not feel unhappy at the prospect that Los Angeles will have a lurger telescop as in that case California as a staf will then have the two largest tele- scopes in the world. There can be no doubt that great things for astronom- ical science will be accomplished by both. A CITY “CORNICHE" ROAD. Dear old Frisco is much more like a European city than an American. Its roots were developed when its popula- tion was intensely cosmopolitan, and the result has been most delightful to every one who has in nim a good spice of Bohemianism and artistic feeling. If you look at the be sails of thel you might eas 3 some nook of the Admatie, the waters and the the coloving of }lrnjurl has ocomotive i ‘ you see the lateen 0 blue are air, and s0 rich the mountains, A been advanc for a almost similar to the corniche tramway of Marseilles, which is one of the most be loved institutions of that famons city. The idea was taken from the mountain road two thousand feet above the level of the sea, which follows mnecessarily ry contour of the alpine heights, an bears therefore a faint resemblance to ng. from which it name. A company has put up a half millions for the immedi- truction of a belt line of rail- road along all the wharyes. and to the North Beach, and thence to Channel street. The lawyer of the company at- tended a meeting of the harbor commis- sioners and made the proposal. He stated that when the work was com- pleted it would be turned over tothe state as a free gift, with thesole proviso that any road entering San Francisco should have the right to share the track and that no road should be excluded. The harbor com- missioners did not congider that they had authority in the matter and the question was referred to the state attor- We feel pretty much like old am, or some other Trojan, who feared the Greeks, even when they brought gifts. Our railroad companies are noto- rious Greeks, and have given us good cause to fear them, Otherwise the road would be a blessing, and would be largely patronized by tourists. TiG. R Dom Luiz, king of Portugal, who trans- lated “Hamlet” into Portuguese some years 0, has just published a translation of the **Merchant of Venice.” The monarch, in aadition to being.a linguist and poet, is & vir- 1U¢80 OB Various iustriwents, the cornice of a c takes it E THE EVENING BELLS OF HEAVEN, [For the Sunday Bee,) When down the mystic gloaming falls, And carth her dusiy curtain draws, When all reposeful is the hour, We mount imagination's tower, To catch the strains of far off chimes 0 on the breeze from sunny chimes,— The evening bells of heaven. Now soft and low they come and go, In rhythmic music—ebb and fow While blended in the clear refrain Voices long hushed we hear again, They breathe a cadence through the soul Of blissful rest, our final goal, Those evening bells of heave:, With chant of saints who sweetly sing, Exultant now they joyful ring, And high through heaven's starry dome Victorious peal the welcome hor Where flow neads, all trouble o'er, Invites the w evermore,- Those evening bells of heaven, Ring on, chime on, celestial bells! Of faith' and hope your story tells; Peal on the trembling evening air, Surcease from toil, & call to_prayer. And when we slecp in death's dark night, Ring on, and lead us through to light,— O ,evening bells of heaven, M, A, C. We, i it LOVE MUST CONQUER- San Francisco Cal Ldward Stan- hope, after graduating from Harvard and spending five 's on a pleasant tour in Kurope, was called home by the sudden death of his father to find that he was left penniless to hammer out his own living. He had been educated to be a gentle- man, and therefore no husiness man wanted him. At last, when all hope was ebbing away, he happened to attract the notice, one day in the street, of a Boston merchant named John Jame. Martyn. After some questioning Mrs Martyn engaged him to teach French and German to his invalid daughter who had gone south for her health on a Virginia plantation. In his bluff way the merchant asked Stanhope to promise on his word that he would not muake love to Rena, his daughter. ‘‘She is too young to beany- thing but romantic.” he said. S0 it was that Edward Stanhope came to be a member of the Martyn family and through Serena’s aunt, Mrs. Con- var, regarded him askant at first, she was compelled to own that he was a voung man who knew his place. The daughter, a wilful little blonde of sixteen, was & bewitching pupil, but, though wonderfully quick in catching the conversational language, was stub- born about rules and routine. *'I want to read and talk,” she would say, ‘‘and I wont learn whole pages of horrid verses and rules.” So they read and talked, and Stan- hope, in'spi lutions, soon found himself hopelessly in love with his pupil. It was a year before matters came to aclimax. Rena had been ill, and in her delirium her aunt heard words that v ' to send Edward Stanhope away they were prepared to give this one pet idol of the household to his loving care. Tt was not Mr. Martyn’s nature to mince matters, and he sent for Edward Stanhope to come to his private sitting- room as soon as he underrtood the case. “I find we must part,” he said very gently. “and I regret it deeply; but I will send you to Boston as our corres- ponding clerk, if you will accept the position.” “Part! Go to Boston!” cried the young man. “Is it not best for you?” “Yes. You are right! You have guessed, then, the secret I thought I guarded so well.” “That you love Rena?” Let me tell you my story, Mr. You think that T am a pre- Sumptuous fool, but perhaps you will ige your mind. Tama gentleman by birth, but my parents were lost at sea when I was a boy. One of the pas- sengers on the steamer saved my life and brought me to his home His own wife and child were lost, and he became fond of me. He was wealthy, and he adopted me. giving me his name and leading me to suppose that T would be his heir. [t was wronging no one.as his nearest relative was @ nephew, who i immensely rich, and has lived for in California. There was no expense spaved in my education, and yet 1 was taught nothing pre sticul—no’ trade, no profession, by which I might earn ‘my bread. When I left college my bene- factor, whom I had called father for many long veuars, took me abroad, and we traveled together for four years. Then for the first time we separated, as he grew homesick, and I was wild to visit the eastern lands. He returned home, almost forcing ma to join a party who were bound to Uricului countries. Aftera year or more of travel I re- turned to Paris to find a summons, two monthsold, to return to America. When I reached my old home my dear adopted father was dead, and I was thrust into the world penniless. The lawyer who attended to all of my benefactor’s legal affairs told me there was surely a will, Jeaving me everything, but it could not be found. The nephew claimed the en- tire estate and sold the homestead. T left Novfolk stunned and came to my old home to find a stranger i posses- soul! Your adopted fatk happen to be Wainwright, did it? This didn't happen to he the homestead, eh? And your name isn't Edward Wainwright, is it?” *You know me then?” “Not a bitof it. But why didn’t you tell me your name instead of masgue- rading under another one?” My name is Edward Stanhope. When I lost all else Mr. Wainwright intended to give me, I gave up the name I held only by his adoption.” **Oh, that’s it. Well, Mr. Stanhope, T had not been here a month w I found the will of Mr. Wainwright in that queer old desk in my bed room. Rena wanted the desk, and when we emptied it we found this important document be- hind oue of the drawers, very snugly hidden, but quite accidental, I judge, 1 sent it to your lawyer, who informed me t}mt\"u]mslg Mr. Wainwright had disap- eared,” B The property is mine, then?’ *Yes, [ suppose there will be some de- lay about selling the house again,and it is a bother to me, since 1 really feel at home here.” “But why need you sell 1t again? You know my love for Rena. If she will listen to me now that I dare speak—" “Oh, yes, bless me, how forgetful T Yes, ves! You wont want that position of corvesponding clerk.” *But I will never forget the kindness that offered it to me.” *Yes—yes—and you wont take my lit- tle girl quite away from me. The house is large enough for all of us.” There was a ‘‘nine days’ wonder” when the missing heir appeared, but Rena “‘listened when Edward dared to speak,” and when the “'prince came to his own again,” a sweet-faced princess reigned at his side, . NUMBER 136 Liberal Patronage. You made us welcome with a g(‘,h(!rmlS grilsp. It was home from the start, We got right to business. The trade temperature is go- ing up and up. We had a double purpose in our advertising; to make the better quality of our Tailoring known, and make you sure of saving money. We could do it twice peditiously by being sens: al; that plan of trade getting we detest. We want no varnish on our speech today that will peel of next year. 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