Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 1, 1889, Page 23

""TRE RULER OF THE GREERS. CGenial King George 1. a>d His Beau- tiful Queen. DEMOCRATIC IN HIS MANNERS. How He Received Some Americans in Linen Dusters Who Wanted to See “Mr. King"'—A Royal Love Match, Every Inch a King. |Copyrighted 1569 by Frank G. Carpenter.] Arnexs, Greece, August 15.--[Special Cor- #espondence to Tuw Bre.|—T had an inter- view with the king of Grooce fn his royal | palace here in Athens. The audience w arranged for me by the Hon. Walker Fearn, the American minister, and it took place at 1 o'clock this afternoon. The palace of the King is on the highest vart of the Athens of to-day. It is a great barracks-like building of throe stories, covermg perhaps two acres of around and facing the great square known ns the Place de la Constitution. Its material is pentelic marble, the same as that from ‘which the old Greeks made their statues and out of which thé Parthenon was cut. This marble has tirned through age to a cream yellow, and thé palace appeats almost as old 08 do the tall pillars of tho temple of Jupiter, ‘Wwhich loox up av it from the valley below. Behind and on both sides of the palace there is a large garden-like park, the trees of which are covered with rose yines and from which the sweet perfume of orange flowers 18 contiuually wafted into the win- dows of the palace. This garden covers many acrés. ‘It has romantic walks snd Bbady glens, and there is a pond within it filled with the largest and most beautiful of calla lilies. It has beds of daisies, which graw like rose bushes, so that single plants have blossoms upon them, making daisy bou- quets, each as ‘largo as a bushel basket. Some parts of the garden ara CAMPETED WITIl VERDENAS, others are great bedsof red poopies and roses ns big as saucers look out from the branches of the trees overhead. About the palace and through these gardens are s tioned gorgeous soldiers, whose dress is o cross batween that of a ballet dancer and a drum major. They strut jauntly about in skirts reaching from their waists to their thighs and formed of dozens of folds of white cotton. These skirts are starched and they stand out from the legs so that their width at the bottom 18 from six to twelve inches. With kneo breeéhes and leggins with em- broidered vests and red caps, they march flercely to and fro, and a guard composed ot them stands at the entrance doors of the _palace. It was past these two that 1 went this morning, mounted the marble steps and found enother drum major in skirts ready to receive me at the door. I passed through a great vestibule in whioh liveried servants stood, and was taken 1nto a reception room ‘which was then occuvied by two German arons, u statue of Apollo and by the aide- e-camp ot the king, This last gentleman shook me cordially by the hand and told me that his majesty would receive me within a fow moments. In the meantime [ watched the young barons. They were in the full dress of the army officers of Germauy. They wore high caps with tassels upon them. Their olive green coats were covered with gold lace, and each leaned as he stood upon a silver-handled sword in a silver scabbard. Their presentation occurred before mine and I cannot describe the twisting of the mous- taclies, the strutting and smiling that they rur!oruwd as they bowed themselves back _into the room. At this icoment the aide-de camp took me in charge and I followed him through one room after another until we reached an office-like studv. I entered and after a word the aidede-camp left and I stood alove with tall, straight, fine-looking man of apparently mot more than thirty- five years of age. He wore a suit much Like the undress uniform of a general of our army. His coat, buttoned high at the neck, had but a little gold on his callar, and there was nothing about his costume to make that devinity which is supposed to surroand a king. Still THIS WAS GEORGIOS I, ‘who for the past twenty-six years has ruled Greece, and who, tho .gh a foreigner, is to- day one of the most popular monarchs of Europe. The son of the king of Denmark, he was only eighteen years of age when F¥France, Great Britain and Russia, as the Grecian protectorate put him upon the throne, and he then kuew but little of Greece and its people. He took the oath to the Greek constitution in the presence of the high Greek officials, synod of the Greek chorch and the parliament, and he has reigned well from that day to this, He as made himself a part of the Greek peo- le and under tim his kingdom has ad- wvanced steadily in civilization and power, He has seen his capital spring from a village into a city with the mausions, museums, chools and fine streets of the modern capi- Is of urove. He has seen the railroad and the telegraph cover the busiest parts of his country, and has watched the Greek flag Bpread out 8o that it now covers a great part of theshipping of the Mediterranean sea. . Ho has seen his people grow in wealth and o bas seen Greek credit so raised that Lis ua- tional bouds stand well in the stock markets of the world. He knows that the Greak peo- Ple are advaneiug in every way year after year and ho belicves with other Greek states- men among ‘them that Greece is but at tho beginning of its new era of prosperity and power. . King George is|one of the fluest looking monarchs of Europe. He is about five feet ten iuches in height, is straigut, well formed and slender and his blondo head is wel set on a pair of broad shouiders. He has a high forehead, bright, open, honest eyes and o long blonde wmustache shows out over a well cut mouth. He is forty-four ears old, but he' looks ten years younger. 'he Greeks pride themselves upon being the most democratic people in Europe, and there 18 no more democtatic, ruler than their king, He extended his' hand to me with more cor- diulity than does President Harrison to ono of nis constituents. from wayback, and he put me thoroughly at my ease. His first Question showed me that be keeps himselt AWELL POSTED ON AMERICAN POLITI pd American matters. He asked me if I had attended the Washington ocentennial oelebration at New York, and expressed some surprise that. an Ameriean could miss such a stirring ooccasion. He referred to the American school whicu is now in ex- istence in Athens, and complimented it highly. He told me that notbing had as I)e; been decidea us to th) excavations st lelphi, but said that Mnister Fearn ‘Wwas very anxious that thoy be made by Awericans. Upon my referring to Mycenao and the wonderful excavations of Dr. S many, he replied fhat there wi room for excavatibn at that p me that it was impossible to appreciute the rulus which are still buried throughout Groece, 1 spoke of the new railroads and the Isthmus of Corinth, and the king seemed t0 think there would be no doubt of their wmrlsunu and that the march of Greece would be steadily onward. He spoke highly of the patriotism of the Greeks and told me that wmost of the fino buildicgs of modern Athens had been built from the donations of wealthy Greek citizons in Athens and 1 other parts of the world. I referred to the marriage o the crown prince ‘which is to take place in Octoberand his ma LY told me that the crown prince had just ft for Germany and that he would visit . Borlin, where it will be remembered his af- flunced Sophie, the sistor of the emperor of Germany, lives, ‘The audience throughout was of this same democratic nature and the maonners of his Abajesty are SIMPLE IN THE EXTREME. As one of his friends said to me to-day, {king Georgo is what would bo eonsiderad L3 olub man any where. He is a man of more than ordinary ability and he is as oul- tured us any king in Burope. Ho speaks Eoglish, Frevch, German and Daaish with unl fnumkly and be talks modern Greek roek " Our conversation was carried on in Euglish which his majesty spoke with a slight Ger- man accent. 1 am told that English is the language of his family, and it is said that the king looks Ike his sister, who, as the princess of Wales, may one day ve queen of England, His majesty is very fond of archaeological studies. Ho is well versed in history and antiquities of Greece snd when the | were found at the long ago, the king was present and washed them with s own hands. He is a very hospilable man and his social entertainments are many. He is fond of Americans and he has entertained at his family table a number of the Ameri- can nuval officors, among whom are Admiral Franklin and others. Bpeaking of his LACK OF FORMALITY, 1 was told 10-day by an American lady resid- ing 1in Athen 0 how he received & party of rustic Amecicans who were making a lightning trip through this part of the Med- iterranean sea. In straw hats and dusters this party walked up the steps of the palace, and upon being asked by the major domo at the front door as to what were their wishes, they replied that they had come to Athens and they wanted to see the kiug. They evi- dently looked upon his majesty as one of the sights of the place and were surprised when the oMcer mfi' them that the king could not be reached in this way, snd that if they would see him it would have to be through the request of their ministor, Just at this moment King George passed through the vestibule, and secing the altercation asked what was the matter. He was told, and he straightway ordered that the Americars be let in and neld out his hand to their leader. The chief grasped the hand of his majesty with the grip of a vise and safd : “*How do you do, Mr. King, We are very glad to see you. We had but one day in Athens and we did not want to go away without meeting the king.” The king led party into the palace and he chatted with them until the leader at last arose and held out his hand and said: *‘We must be going, Mr. King, as we have lots more to see.” “This absenoe of formality is observed by all members of .the royal family. Both the king and the ‘quéén often walic about the streets of Athons and his majesty now and then stops and chats with his friends. The queen of Greece 18 said to be the FINEST LOOKING QUEEN IN KUROPE. She 1s the eldest daughter of Grand Duke Constantine of ‘Russia, brother of Alexander IL She is tall'dnd stately and she looks like #queen. She is a blonde with brown hair, regular features and with a beautiful neck and shoulders. She dresses very simply, ex- cept on state occasions, and often goes ahout Athens without even a maid with her. She Wears hat and jacket and her costume upon such occasions is not different from that of the other Athenian ladies, At state receptions she is gorgeous in pearis and dia~ monds. Her pearls are noted, and she wore last winter one dr the bodice of which was covered with pearis, while four strands of large voearls encircled her meck. She is very popular amdng the ladies of Athens, and one of these who knows her well tells me that the queen never meets her without inquiring about her family and children. The queen is a woman of fine culture. speaks Russian, [talian, German, French, Groex and English perfectly well and is now studying Albanian. Sne is fond of painting, and her friends say she paints very well. She 18 very charitable und does a great deal of good. She is president of the queen’s hos- pital in Athens and she visits this nearly overy day, going through the wards and talking to the patients. She is a staunch Russian and when Russian sailors are in the hospital she always TAKES FLOWERS TO THEM. She has another hospital at the Pirmus which she frequently visits, and she has founded an industrial schooi in Athens where all sorts of weaving, lace-making and em- broidery 1s carried on by Greek girls. 1 visited the school yesterday, and I was surprised at the beautiful materials which 1t turns out. [t makes elegant silks, some of which are interwoven with gold threads, and asone of che looms was being made a dress for the Princess Alexandra, who will be mar- ried before this letter is published to one of the royal family of Russia. It was a beauti- ful white silk, as thin as,/ @ cnb-web, with stripes of gold thread woven here and there through it, and it wvas being made by a pretty Greek girl, who kept the: loom going with her feet while she shot the shuttle to and fro with her hanas. - The power for the reeling of the sill in-this school is human muscles, and 1 one room, containing a score and more of reeling machines, a woman kept these go- ing by turning a great crank, working as hard as any printer's devil at a_hand-press. archaic statutes Parthenian not \In the storeroom I was shown & number of fancy Greek costumes, and I am told theve is tallc at the court of adopting the national cos- tume as the court costume, If this is done, the court will be the most picturesque in Europe, and the beauty of the ladies will b set off hy this gorgeous dress. A part of it will be a soft, red fez cap with a long tassel, and the bodice of the dresses will probably mlzf velvet with red sleeves, embroidered in old. The aueen of Greece 13 very domestic, and she is fond of ier _studies and her chil- dren. She is well posted in English litera~ ture and i HAWTHORNE'18 ONE OF HER FAVORITES. She reads the ‘American authors and the leading American m nes are taken at the palace, She is a very good woman and her chapel is%one of the -prettiest little churches in Greece. 1t is a_brown stone structure with o bell tower of stone rising a few feet away from it ‘It isa Russian church and the tervice is performed by Greek priests in gowns of stiff cloth of gold and with hats blazing with jewels covering their heads. The music cousists of a choir of four men, and travelers say that you will find no finer church music n the world than in this Little Russian church. The worship- ers stund up during the service and the queen stands among them, The king of Greece 18 a Lutheran and he'is allowed, by special exception, 1o adhere to the religion in which e was educated, but his heirs and successors musy be members of the Greek orthodox church, He has a little chapel m bis palace m which he worsh- ips according to the Protestant Luth- eran church every Sunday. Upon national fete days both the king and queen appear at the great cathedral of the Greek ‘church in Athens and they are here the only two members of the congregation who sit. They have cnairs of frame work of gold cushioned with red velvet on a rostrum just next to the hittle gold pulpit, and the cabinet and the officers of -the army swand with the remainder of the people abont them. The king and the queen have been blessed with seven children and tho youngest is a baby about a year old. Prince Audreas is seven, and Princess Maria, who is a very bright blonde, 18 thirteen. Next comes the Princoss Alexaudra, a very pretty girl of nineteen, and then Prince George. who is twenty, and last aud most important of all the crowa prince, Konstantinos, the heir apparent, who was born August 2, 1865, and who was at elghteen declared heir apparent.to the throne, All of these children; save the year old baby, speak French, English, Greek and Russian, and the home bife of the palace, is I am told, very charming. All-Athens is now talking of the WEDDING OF THE CKOWN PRINCE, which is to take place here in October, when he will marry Sophie, the sister of the em- v. ‘The crown prince was Ggruiany and it was while study- g at Herlin that he mot the princess and fell in love with her. His aflanced is learning Greek as fast as she can, and she is said 1o be a very bright girl, She isonly about sixteen years old, and'a lady here tells mo that she wore ehort dresses up to the time of her engugement. The crown prince is a tall, manly, broad- shouldered fellow. He is a fine looking, though he is not handsome. He 18 very in- dustrious as & student, aud he has proved himseif to be able in his military stuaies. He has been lately promoted to the rank of colonel, and s the crown prince he has the title of the duke of Sparta, which is equiva- lent to thal of the prince of Wales in Euogland. The Greeks, however, are not fond of titles of nobility and they r 1o him ouly by -the Greek word, m ing the successor. The crown prince an allowance from the goveruwent nearly $40,000 a year, aud it is probable that a palace will be built for hi riage. His sister, the Prince: is now prepuring her She will be married at St. Petersburg, And her royal husbaud will get a highly cultured and & VERY BEAUTIFUL BRIDE, Her match, I am told, was 4180 & love match and it is said that the king und queen are pleased with both marriages. Neither the king nor the queen bave ex- travagant tastes and as kiugs go, the king of Greece has & small income. He gots less than §00,000 a year, and of this Great Britaiu, France and ' Russia give $16,000 each. Out of this he keeps up his palace bere n Athens, & sumwmer palace twelve miles frowm bere at Tutol, uud wnother puluce at Corfo. He lives well, howover, thouzh simply, and I doubt not but that there are fewer thorns in his pillow than i that of any other monarch of Kurope. He goes to Europe nearly yeves ummer and the qu eon of Greece, recently talking of the pleasure which she took in theso trips to a friend of mine, said that sho depghted in gotting away from all formality and into cities where for a part of the gime she could pose a8 an ordinary person. Sho said she was ford of shopping, and that she likes to go in Paris to tho Louvre or Bon Marche and shop half the day in buying pins and needles and six-penny glovos. RANK G. CARPENTER, PR~ A Spanish Oigarette. Oharles F. Lummis in America. Nita, come roll me a cigarette, Just as you used to long ago In the far, sweet days when first I met My dark-oyed fate in New Mexico. Do _you remember those days, Chiquite, (Here is o husk) and the stranger pale Your fathor's herders brought to your feot, Dripoing with red, from the Dead Man's Trailt Now just a pinch of the tamaya— How it tlavors the poorest weed ! A coal for the lighting—good! Alli Stal Ah, youth it is that is life indeed ! Aund how yon won him to life again, Bending orer with infinite eyes, Lisping the tougue of your sunny Spain, Fanning his forehead with softest sighs? Deeper o hurt in his heart there lay ‘’han whore the Apache arrows prl "Twas a fair-haired playmate far aw With blue eyes traitors and lips that lied | 1 had a letter from her to-night— “John, I was wrong! 'Twas a girl's mis- take! And time has humbled my heart to write Oh, lnkvuy come back, for our old love's sake!" Go1 Do you think I would go, mi flor, Wit love like yours shall I hoatd regret? And our barefoot babes around the door{ No! ‘Ihen a kiss and—a cigarette! — A BEAUTY IN THE SURF. The Costume of Ex-Secretary Belk- nap's Wife. Mrs. Belknap, says the Brooklyn Engle, while her husband was secretary of war, was a tall, striking brunette, with a superb presence, a handsome face and a dashing manver. It was said that her bath dresses were a startl- ing decolette. and some of the ladies of the capital who did not possess Mrs. Belknap's special charms ' of “figure talked 8o much about her gowns that the Washington correspondents took the matter up and the secretary’s wife fouud herself a mach-talked-of womaun. | Notwithstanding all this, Mrs. Belknap was popular in society and her -recep- tions were largely attended. She also had the reputation of having the most beautiful foot of any woman in ;Wash- ington. After her hushand’s political eclipse, Mrs. Belknap rotired with her daughter into private life on the conti- nentand remained in Europe ten years educating her children. Last March at the inauguration of President Harri- rison, Mrs. Belknap and her daughter, who is a beautiful blonde of some eigh- teen summers, occupied rooms ‘at the Arlington hotel and were to be seen every night in the dining room, arrayed in evening dress. Old friends of Gen- eral Belknap regarded the pair with considerable interest and they remark- ed with pleasure that time had dealt kindly with the elder lady, and that, with the exception of an added stout- ness, which was not unbecoming, Mrs. Belknap was as handsome as ever. On the 15th of July the sleepy clerk at the Oriental hotel, Coney Island, was shaken out of the dreamy contemplation of his two-carat diamond shirt pin by the pews that upon that evening’s train from New York Mrs. Belknap, daughter and maid would arriveand that the best rooms in the house were to be placed at their disposal. From that day to this Mrs. Belknap has been summering at the Orientul and has held her own as one of the leading features of the place. No sooner does she’ leave her room for the big bathing pavilion between the Oriental and Manhattan Beach hotels than there is a quiver of excitement about the place. The male guests of both hotels betake themselves m a body to the beach,and even the ladies, although' they will not bwn it, ave interested. It is not so much the way Mrs. Belnap bathes that interests these idler’s of a summer day, but it is the clothes, or rather the luck of clothes, that she bathes in. Until Sat- urday last the wife of the ex-socretary has worn at the bath a startling cos- tume of white and red. It was striped affair, showing her perfect form in all its graceful curves—alittle, low necked, sleeveless bodice, and a short skirt were all that it consisted of. The lady’s lower limbs were incased in silk I.igfn.s‘ The effect was startling as she dashed through the waves, throwing herself upon‘the crests with al! the wiid abandon of a water nymph, The bald- headed old gentleman in the surf almost chuckled with delight, and tough, weather beaten, John Keegan, who acted as watchman at the Manhat- tan bathing pavition for several years could hardly beheve his eyes. He took off his glasses, rubbed the sea fog off them, looked at the fair bather again, and then acknowledge that he bad never seen anything to equal her be- fore. To an Eagel repocter Mr. Koegan said: “You may talk about your Far Rockaway or Cape May bathing cos- tumes, but I will bet that there is not one in the country that can match the one worn by Mrs. Balkoap. It would not take more than one and one-quar- ter of a yard of goods to make the whole affair,” The ladies who saw Mrs. Belknap dis- rting herself in the waves did not, owever, seem to admire her costume as much as the men. The latter said that the women were jealous of her. However this may be,the tulk about the Oriental hote! was started, and it has been getting more and more criti- cal. The male visitors all took the part of Mrs. Belknap; the women were all agaicst her. Being a woman of energy and courage, Mrs, Belknap has contin- ued to bathe in her wonderful striped costume, with the abbreviated sleeves and the still more abbreviated skirt. She made up her mind that she would not let the gossivs gain a vietory over her. and he almost won the fight, but Mrs. Belknap's daughter, who is a very beantiful and accomplished girl, did not relish the notoriety which her mother was attaining, and persuaded her to throw aside the objectionable bathing suit and wear one less conspicu- ous. The haughty Blue Grass beauty did not like to give in, but she at lasy consented to yield to hor duughter’s wish, and this morning the bald-headed old men who paid 10 cents ench for the privilege of sceing Mrs. Iselknap bathe were reduced almost to a state of des- eration, She appoared on the beach rn a dark-blue costume of the usual sea- side style. The women who found fault with Mrs. Belknap’s striped suit we smiling and bappy when an Eagle r porter visited Lfiu bathing pavilion av Machattan Beach, This morning one slight and delicately built gir! of about forty summers, and heaven knows how many hard winters, said a companion in the hearing of the scriba: “Oh, you just ought to have seen her other dress; {z was 100 horrible for uny- thing.” A PREACHER isz A VIGILANTE Why Rev. Lawrence Gassman Jolned the Horgp Thief Olub. THE OVERTAKING COMMITTEE. It Usnally Saved the Hangman a Job and Never Allowed ltself to Bo Sassod - hairman Strong's Moport. The Thief Was.'‘Overtook." During the last week Rey. Lawrence Gassman has been at the Palace hotel, says the San Francisco Examiner. He arrived from Japan, and a reporter called to interview him realative to his impressions of the foreign lands he had traveled in. “I don't knéw as T can téll you any- thing about Japan,” said the reverend gentleman, “but I can tell you that a newspaper man need not go outside of America for incidents'to write about. *“There is nothing stirring or strange in those foreign lands. Everybody seems more or less us.lenn‘ In America one meets with something that moves and stirs as {t it had the rich, warm blood of life in it.” “What is the most stirring experi- ence you ever had in America?” “Well,” said the clergyman, thinking for a moment, T guess it was when I used to belong to a horse thief club in Nebraska.” *Do you moan to tell me that you ever belonged to a horse thief club?” “Yes, indeed; I used to be one of the members of such a club. I belonged to one for over two years. “I always did like .a good horse,” continued™ the reverend gentleman, “and when I first located in Nemaha, Ne!l)., I purchased a rather good ani- mal. “I had just got fairly settled down in my purish work when one day a man by the name of Strong called and aske me if I didn’t want to join the Horse Thief club. When' I asked him the purposes of the organization he said it was a club to protect horse owners from the depredations of horse thieves. Yet the club went by its peculiar name, which expressed just the opposite idea it was intended to. ““The club, however, had done well under that name and the name was all right. He said as I had a horse I had better get ir and aoin and if my horse was stolen the club would send men after the thieves and recoyer the property* All this would cost me $1 a month. i “T asked him if thq taxes I paid to the authorities would! not give me the same right. ‘Hardly,! he said. “‘His 1dea of the local authorities was very low. He said hejnever yet heard of a sheriff in Nebraska catching a horse thief, and he believed half the officers of the law in [Nebraska were in with the thieves. Hgnce the necessity of a local club to protgct horse owners. “Well,” continued ghe Rev. Gassman, *I concluded that my] horse was worth protecting; so I paid$10 initiation fee and joined the club, falso agreeing to vay 81 a month dues. | I was duly initi- ated one night, the cfub meeting in an old barn at the Hoove} cross roads. At first I thoughy [ had fallen in with a pretty hard jerowd, but when they began to talk § concluded that I had met a set of ' men &bo had consider-. able good horse sense. They were rough men and wore old ciothes, but they were good types of the honest, hardy frontiersmen. ““At first I felt a little dubious about the club, but after the meeting was over I concluded I would stay with them. They treated me with a rough, sincere courtesy, and during the meet ing a motion was made to excuse me from active service on the ‘overtaking committee.” This caused considerable discussion, but it was carried on with such delicacy that I had no idea what the duties of an ‘overtaking committee’ amounted to. and it was decided that my cloth excused me from the aforesaid ‘overtaking’ duties. “To make a long story short one nightmy beautiful bay horse was stolen, and a special session of the club was called. 1 was considerably excited of course and was early at the meeting. The club had a short session and_appointed William Strong and two other men as an ‘overtaking committee’ to trail the thieves. They mounted their: fast horses in about five minutes, and with Colt’s revolvers strapped on) sot off in the dead of night on a smart gallop. “*In about ten days they returned and brought my horse back., I wasindeed glad to see the animal once more, and it had been recovered at a nominal cost 10 me. “That night the ‘committee’ made their report. As near as I can remem- ber it was about as follows: i ‘We, the committee, report that we ‘“overtook” the man whostole the horse and have returned the borse. ** *WILLIAM STRONG, Chairman,’ “Then they adjourned, and next day I had a talk with Strong. The conver- sation was about like this: ‘* *Where did you find my horse?’ i " own in Kansas, just across the lin ***Did you find the thief?’ (] ertook”” him.” ** ‘Why didn’t you bring him back?’ I said he was ‘‘overtook.”’ “‘What do you mean by took?"? ** *Overtook with tribulation. I guess be had hard luck,’ **Did you talk with 8in of stoaling?’ ** ‘Talked some.’ ““*Whav did he talk?’ ‘“*He talked back.’ ***What did he say?" ‘“‘Nothin’; he just sgssed the com- mittee.’ *¢Did he talk long?' ‘‘He quit sooner thad we uns did,” “‘Did you ask him to pome back?’ ‘**Naw.” * *You should have brpught him back and had him punished! Had you no idea of arresting him?’ “ *We hadn’t no requisition.’ ‘* ‘So you allowed hijm to after this crime?’ ‘Not by a jugful, | No man goes away alter he's caught Boss-stealin’,” *"Why not?' ***Cos he's nits,” : *'Do you mean to say you killed hi *“We plugged bim six times, parson, and he curled up alongside the road and died right there, I hated ter tell yer this 'cos you're a preacher. I kept nllghtin"i{er off, butyou kept comin’ at me. and 80 now yer know that the $10 yer put up helped pay the expenses tof t{\e ‘overtakers,’ but yer can bet high that there is no expense to the under- akers. We all sgreed to keep the killin’ back from yer, but you pumped me and you got the inside of the deal, didn’t yer?’ ‘**Why, my dear sir, did you shed this man’s blood?’ ***Coa he stole yer hoss, parson. We run on to him oné mornin’ just beyond the Kavsas line. When we rode up he just gettin’ through breakfast, He “over- him about the g0 away dead, parson—deader’n didn’t like thoe look of us, I guess, for he ups and snaps at gun at us twiste as Irode up. Guess the rainy night had dampened the caps, for she didn't go, but when I slung my reliable Colt to the fore and plugged him a couple er times she went, she did. Jack and Andy plugged him some, too. We just tleft him layin’there in the road and | tecoverin’ ver hoss come home. IHis relatives aro” the proper pussons to bury him, but folks that an’t no kin to a hoss thief oughten to monkey with his remains.’ The reverond story-teller gave the recitalan inimitable drawl, and took off the queer frontier speoch to the life. “I really felt sorry,” he continued, ‘““that the man who stole the horse was killed, for horse stealing is a sin that I always feiv like forgiv- ing a man for. The sin of covetousness never tonches my soul except when I seea sleek, spirited horse, “Fean look on heaps of gold and feel no envy of ‘the owner, on precious stones and be indifferent—even the charms of lovely women hardly move me—but the sight of a fine, high-stepving horse about fourteen hands high and a good chest, with clean legs and a springy motion when he walks, sets me aflame with a disposition to own him. “f am kept back bya sense that T must not disgrace my family by steal- ing him, so when T find a man who has no self-control, no education, no moral training, I know that he has stolen horses and pity him for the poszession of a passion that is morally his master. *‘My good common sense tells me that if T should take another man’s horse I would be discovered and imprisoned. But if ever I got an 1dea that I could secure it without detection and m, crime never be heard of I should—well, Ishould advise the owner to keep his stable door well fastened. “Of course this is not for publication, for 1f such candid talk got into print my congregation in Ohio would say I was lacking in orthodoxy and the regular clerical dignity. You must recollect that clergymen while away from homa donot as a rule act as dignifiedly as when they are in' their own parish and Iam no exception to the rule.” provtatls iy “No Shildren in Der House.” C. F. Adams, in Boston Globe, Vagation dima vas coor: again, Vhen dhere vas no more shgool ; 1 goes to boardt, der coundtry oudt, here'ld vas nice und cool. 1 dakes Katrina und Loweozo, Und leodle Yawcob Straus , But at der boarding house dhey dakés “No shildren in der house.” 1 dells you vot! some grass don'd grow Under ola Yawcob's feet Undil vegets a gouple-a-milos Or 80 yay down der sthreet. I foundt oudt all I vanted — For de resd 1 don’d vouid care— Dot boarding-blace vas nix for me Vhen dhere been o shildren dhere, Vot vas der hammocks, und der shvings, Grokay, und dings lilce dhese, Und der. hoogleperry bicnics, Mitoudt Yawcob und Loweezo It vas von sdhrange conondhrum, Dot vas too mooch for Strauss, How all ahose beoplo shtands id Mit no shildren in der house. “Oh, vot vas all dot eardthly bliss, Und vot vas man’s s000ksess; Und vot vas various kinat off dings, Und vot vas habbiness ? Dot's vot Hand Breitmann ask, von dime— Dhoy all vas embty soundt! Dot eardthly bliss vas nodings Vhen dhere vas no shildren roundt. i e Mol P Vhen “man’s soocksess,” down here pelow, Und “eardthly pliss” vas past, Und in dot beddher blace abote Ve seeks a home at Jast : Ob, ma§ dhose Gates off Paradise!” Shving open far und vide, Und ve see dhose **Heafenly mansion: Mit der shildren all inside. ———— BY WATER POWER. A New Railway That is Cheap, Fast and Beyond Comparison, A press view took place yesterday, says a Paris letter to the London News, of the so-called “‘Chemin de Fer Glis- sant,” or *‘Slide railway,” on the Is- lanades des Invalides, within the ex- hibition, The new invention is a sin gularly original contrivance for enz bling trains to run, by means of water power, at a speed hitherto undreamed of: Arriving there withoutany intima-* tion as to what a sliding raiiway might be, I at first mistook it foran overgrown switchbaclk with the humps smoothed away. The train consisted of four carringes, affording room for ubout one hunared pussengers. The carvinges had no wheels, being supported at the corners by blocks of iron of a size somewhat larger than a brick, which rested upon a double line of iron girders. In the middle of the line at regular intervals jutted out irregularly shaped pillars, the use of which was not yet apparent, Having taken our seats and the signai being given, we glided along very resulting most instanteously. miles an hour could, T was tol¢, be pulled up within thirty gradients of sixteen inches | yard, descend them with® equal safoty, and run on the curves of forty-four yard radivs. This system would s i | ary adapt for elovated railroads in cities being light, noiseless, smooth, without smoke, fast and thoroughly under com- mand. The danger of running off the rail is reduced to a minimum, the cen- ter of gravity of the carringes being soarcely more than a couple feet from therails. The cost of a metropolitan the old plan, but 1n the open country its cost would be somewhat higher than the ordinary railway; but M. Barre tells me the expense would be in France an average of £8,000 a mile. ‘Where no natural water supply 1s avail- able a propelling machine every twelvo miles or so would be sufficient to keep trains going at full speed. The con- sumption of coal per passenger would be one-tenth only of the usual quantity. The importance of this may be real- ixed by considering the statément that annual coal bill of £2,000,000, Never- theless, it would be rash to predict the general introduction of the water- systen on railways. One objection, for instance, that occurs to me is its t\])pm'mlt unsuitability for goods traflic. M. Persil,the manager of the ‘‘Chemins de Fer Glissants,” believes it will all but do away with the locomotive engine. ‘With respect to England he believes that the disadvaniages of the slow method of crossing the channel will to the tunnel will vanish. ready,” he said with onthusiasm, “‘to wager any sum that when the tunnel is made and our system has a trial people will go from London to P#ris in two hours.” T N THE SHAH IN SCOTLAND. How ‘‘The Center of the Universe' Essayed a Righland Fling. “The Center of the Universe, the Fountain of Light,” Naed-ed-Din, has for two days illumined- the" wilds of Caledonia, says a letter from Braemar to the London Telegraph. His imperial majesty, dessendant of Darins and son of the royal tribe of Kadjar, who dwoll | by the mountains of Kurdistan, has | seen with his own eyes the Scottish clansmen. THese Celtic: children of Caledonia—whether Macgregors, Mac- donalds, Duffe, or Grants-s-claim kin- dred with him; for are thay not of Phoe- nician and Arubic stock and is it not universally held in the hightands vhat Gaelic was the language spoken in Eden? For certain the shah has laid aside the austerity of the eastdrn poten- tate among these mountiinéens, the court etiquet and laws of the Medes and Persians has been for once relaxed,and he has essayed, under the .spell. of the bagpipe, to learn the Scottish dance steps! Mr. Mackenzi tained his imperi rival Frida; the Gillies of Kintail, enter- majesty on his ar- with Highland games. For ball that Persin to a more knowledge of Scottish merrymaking. About 10 o’clock the shah, accompanied by Mr. Mackenzie, Sir Heory Drum- mond Wolff, and Sidney Churchill, en- tered the marquee, wherea programme of reels, Strathspeys, Highland flings and fancy dances. was being gone through. Haif a score of braw pipers, resplendent 1n Mackenzie tartan kilts, provided the---well, music. The piace was full of country people, most of the men being attired’ in highland cos- tumes, as indeed, was also Privce Al- bert Victor of Wiles and Mr. Macken- zie and hissons. Lverything had been prepared on o scale of princely splen- dor, and the scene at the moment was full of color and animation. Even the* tent seemed to sway to.the rhythm of the dancers’ movements. "The shauh | walked freely among the people, laugh- | tween the ing and exchanging. words here and there with man in French. and oceasionally in English. A lively reel finished, a Highland fling commenced and Mr. iried to get his majesty to join in the dance. The bagpipes, which send elec- trie fire through Hignland veins, were in full blast and the throb and beat of pattering feet were emphasized by fre- quent loud “*Aoochs!” The shah caught the infection, and while his host ca- pered and snapned his_fingers before him. tried to dance the Highland fling. The imperial Persian however, did not lend theémsely to the gyrations of that vigorous terpsicho- rean feat. In fuct,as the mnatires ob- gently for a space of a few yards, whon | suddenly we gathered speed. Two or | three tugs were felt and we were flying | on the pace of ‘an ordinary train, but | as smoothly as a boat on a river, There was a clicking rails, but this, I was assured, to a defect in the coustruc the slides and would be The absence of any vibration, shaking, or “tail motion” was wonderful,” A slight jerk there was at regular inter- vals, but, then, again, I was told that it was due merely to the shortness of the course and the inability to get up a proper pace. In a hydraulic train trav- eling at full speed, that is to suy, at the rate of 140 to 200 kilometers or 87 to 124 miles an hour, there would be almost no consciousness of motion. The journey down the esplanade only occu- pied a few secon 18, Upon our safe return Mr. Piltor, chairman of the company which owns the invention, gave a full acconnt of it. The stiding railways was invented in 1868 by an engincer named Girard, who was killed in the Franco-German war, and it has been improved to its present state by one of his assistant engnicers, M. Barre. As has al; 'uade' been mentioned, the hydraulic carrlages have no wheels, these being replaced by hollow slides fitting upon a flat and wide rail, and rooyed on the inner surface. When t is desired to set the carriage in motion water is forced into the slide or skate of the carriage from a reservoir by compressed air and, seeking to es- cape, it spreads over the under surface of the slide, which it raises for about a nail’s thickness above the rail. The slides thus resting, not on the rails, but on a film of water, are in a perfectly mobile condition; in fact, the pressure of the forefinger is sufficient to displace a carriage thus supported. ‘The pry pelling force is supplied by the pillars which stand at regular intervals on the line between the rails, Running un- derneath every carriage 1s an iron rack, about six inches wide, fitted with paddles. ONow as the foremost carriage passes in front of the pillar a tap on the latter is opened automatically and a stream of water st high pressure 1s directed on the paddles. This drives the train on and by the time the last carriage has fone past the tap (which then closes) the foremost one is 1n frout of the next tap, the water’s action thus being con- tinuous. The focce daveloped is almost ingredible, There is some splashing on the rails at the start, but this diminishes the faster the train goes. To stop the on noise on the. as due ' of | remoaied. | served, “they did not shape themselves to the steps and timo of the brisk and eraceful dance. Laughing most he: tily and good-naturedly at his own fai ure, the shah abandoned the attempt in despair. Then he tried the-next best thing—he got others to.dance fancy steps for him, A buxom dame, whom he much adm d beeause of her light and graceful tripping, he smiled upon, patted and complimented, and begged to dance again the Highlund fling; but Murs. , with fair woman’s privilege, was coy and obdurate, and” would not dance 1t save with the shah for partner, Afraid after his previcus failure, the king shook his head, smiled and vassed on, o -— HE LOVED THE FLAG. The Patriotic Demise of No Flesh Pine Ridge Agency. The Rushville Sun gives an account of the death of No F h, at the Pine Ridge agency. of consumption. He was the first Indian to sign the new land bill. The Sun says: **No Flesh was not particularly difierentfromother Indians in a general way, but he evidently be- lieved himself an American citizen and was proud of his country. On the eve- ning before his death. he asked for an interview with Agent Gullagher, This being granted he informed the agent that he was going to die, and he had some request to juake in re- ! gard to his burial. He said nothing about his guns and his bows and ar- train the small stream of water that feeds the sides is turned off, and the lat- ter oom(nf in contact with the rails, the riotion stops the carriage al- A water train running at over 100 yards, could’ elimb up | in_the system would only be a third of one on | the Paris-I.,yons company alone has an | become so apparent that all opposition | “I am | ame night was | vved the honor of introducing the | intimate | -now in Persian,anon | Muckenzie whose ! | years exceeded even those of the shah, | ! parcelling out all kin COST OF LIVING IN GOTHAM: | It Doesa't Differ Materially from That of Omaha. COAL AND CLOTHING CHEAPER. Rents are About the Same, Meat and Flour are Dearcr and Wages Materially Below Those of Nehraska's Big Town, Don't Go to the Greody Gotham, NEW YORK, August 22.—[Special to Tie Bee]-It s an open question | whether living is cheaper in New York | than it is Omaha. Ikunow that ono of | the most cherished ideas of many in the west is that it costs much less to live “back cast,” but that wages ave lower, As far as my knowledgoe goes the aver= age of wages for skilled labor in New York 18 somewhat lower than in Omah but the cost of living is about the same. If there is any difference it costs more here. In the item of coal there is a big difference in favor of Now York, us | hard coal'costs at rotail here $4.50 to | 85.50 per ton against $0.50 to 8§11 in “ Omaha, Ice is scarce this year—that is | the ice dealers claim it is, which | #mounts to the same thing—and conse- | quently commands a high price, But last year when there was a faircrop, the price to families was from &0c to $13per { month more thanin Omaha, Sugarcan be bought in Omaha for about the same vice us in New York, in spite of the wct that so many large refineries are | located here, while Omaha’s supply is { brought from this point or other mar- kets equally distant. Flour costs more here than in Omaha, as would be natur- al to suppose, Omaha being much nearer the base of supply. In the matter of meat there is a difference in favor of Omaha. Cuts of steak that can be bought for 10 cents per pound in your city, readily command 16 cents to 24 cents per pound hc?. It makes n great difference whére. you | buy in New York. The small groceries } and markets scattered throughout the residence portion of New York and Brooklyn manage to obtain the highest prices for all that they selt, while prices o retail customers at and near Wash- ington, Fuiton, Catherine. Gunesvoort ! and other city markets arc from 10 to 20 per cent lower for all kinds of meat, vegetables and fruit. . And thissuggests the idea that what has been found true in New York will prove the same in Omaha. The establishment of a central market, n series of markets, by the city will give the people lower prices by bringing large numbers of competitors together at one point. Fruit is plentiful here at all times of the year, and when in proper season can be procured more cheaply than in Oma- ha, as the surrounding country is pro- lific in fruit trees. Garden produce is always reasonable in price, owing to the vast shipments to the city from the ad- joining districts. Omaha could enjoy same advantages were the farmers able to grasp the fact that there is a good market there for all that they could | raise, and at a better profit than they realize from their present crops of grass and corn. In the matter of rents, at first thought | it would be said that New York offered | the lowest rents. ! The one-story frame .cottage of from | two to seven rooms, so familiar in | Omaha, is never seen in New York or { ito suburbs. I have failed to tind but one in or around the city. The same | class of people who live in these cot- | tages in Omaha will be found in some of the flats or apartment houses which ! shelter the large portion of the more | prosperous working people of New York. The rent of these flats varies from $10 per month for a flat of two to | three rooms to per month for one of | six or seven rooms, prices ranging be- figures according to size of rooms, ais from the ground floor, | convenien and neighborhood. Of | course, there are finer buildings in which the rents are much greater, but these are tenanted by the wealthier clags.and do not come under the com- parison, The rent of cottages in Omaha varies from $10 to $30 per month more than similar accommodations in New York, but owing to the great distance of the location of most of New York’s apart- ment horses from the business center, a car fare of 10 cents per day or $3 per month must be included in the abhove estimates. Butter eggs and milk all cost more here than in Omaha. while on the other hand, dry goods, clothing and other I articles of apparel are cheaper in New | York by from 5 to 10 per cent. | Taken on the whole, a caretul com- parison of prices on all articles of food, wear and other necessaries, will show that the entire sum spent in a year will be about the same in Omaha as in New York, and the average of wages being higher in Omaha the scales tip in Her favor. Some people, however, find it almost an impossibility to live at the prices mentioned. Said one to me the other ay: ‘‘How do you manage to buy your groceries. meat and fuel for so much less than what I have to pay?” The answer is simple. The person making the inquiry resides in an apartment house, where storage room is limited and buys his coal a bushel or a half bushel at a time, paying at the rate of double the regular price per ton. His potatous are bought on the same plan, and his meat is secured from the near= est butcher shop in the smallest possi= ble quantities. This is what makes living so high among a certain class in Now York. There are a cluss of men who make their living by'this system of e provisions in the smallest possible quantities and it has become 80 popular a plan that thous- andsof families in this city to-day are wasting a quarter of their income in this hand-to-mouth swyle of livieg, There is no doubt that purchasing 1n reasonable quantities at ope time would effect a saving of great sums to the workingmen and clerks with small sal- rows being interred with his poor bones, | aries amd large families, but possibly but he did request that, when his final summons came to join the innumerablo caravan, he might' bé wrapped up in the Americun flag and latd down to pleasant dreams with the comforting | protection of the grand old stars an stripes which he had learned to love, The old war horse died acco programme, and his final request was carricd out. He was i last Sunday with an Awer a shroud, As the direet descendant of an original American citizen he was doubtless entitled to honorable distine- tion, Peace to his ashes. Eoothes als. Santa Abie soothes and heals the mem branes of the toroat and lungs wheo poi oned aund inflamed by disease, It prevents night sweats and tightness across the chest, cures coughs, croup, asthma, colds, brou: chitis, pneumonis, whooping cough and all other throat and lung troubles.” No other medicine is 80 successful in curing nasal catarrh as California Catr Cure. The enor- mous and increasing demand for these stand- ard California remedies confirm their werits. Sold and absolutely guaranteed by Goodman Drug Co., at 81 a package. Turee for $2.50, | the public at large would ot be bene- fitted, for large numbers of poor men would find their occupation as purvey=- ors to this demand gone if this plan were to be adopted. il A Japauese woman, Miss Cassio Tel Sono, rding to | has come to America to study the condition of women here, and to prepare herself for buried in state | reform work in her native land. Belonging n flag for | to the better class, her father a physician, . and herself a daigen (lawyer), & rare posis tion for & woman to hold in Japan, she be- came impressed with the helplessness and degradation of the women and children, es- pecially of the lower classes, aud deermined to devote herself to tneir elevation, She landed in San Francisco about four years ago, and, in counection with the Japanese mission there, became an inmate of an Amer- ican home, learned the language, graduated from a young ladies' clascical school, united with the Japanese Methodist Episcopal churcn, and engaged 10 the Womun's Chris- tian Temperance Unlon work. She is now in Chicago attending the deaconesses' train - ing school.