Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 10, 1892, Page 9

... fools, whou a g FIRST SPECIAL LINEN SA R E— —= Monday, January 11, 1892, Linen Sale. Our first linen sale in the new build- ing. Special bargains in German, Irish and Scotch linens, b7 inch wide cream dam, 56 inch bleached damask 60 inch bleached damaslk, 66 inch bleached damask, 60c yard. 72 inch bleached damask, 65¢ yard. b4 1nch red damask, 19¢ yard. 62 inch loom dice, 17 68 inch Turkey and green dar e vard. 84 inch eream dama 58 inch Scotch yard. 60 inch Van Dyke yard. Theso are bargains everyons of them. We imported for one of the largest hotels in this city 82 inch wide bleached damask, these extra width damasks are scarce, we ve only six only $1.50 a yard and full & wide. 200 8x10 bleached cloths direct from Donacloxney, Ireland, at $1.50 a cloth; they are beauties and very cheap. A full line of napkins, 58 si 81, $1.25, $1.50 and $2 2 3.4 dinner nopkins at 90c, $1, $1.25, 81.50 and $2 and up to $6.50 per dozen. ‘We call particular attention of hotels and > heavy 5 Bizo rman bleached napkin, made in Neustadt, Gerinany, we ure the only e in Omaha that carry this napkin, fi‘l a dozen, equal to any $1.50 napkin din this cit Fringed doylies, 25¢, 85¢, 50¢c, 60c-and 5¢ per dozen. Special bargains fringed cloths, 8-4 s 10-4 size, $1. 200 dozen hotel siz linen huck towels, at 10c each, $1.20 per do: 100 dozen all linen Devonshire huck towels at 15¢ each, or §1 dozen. Don’t fail to see our 19¢ towels, among them you will greatest bargains eyer offered in this city, and a number of entirely new 10c yard. 40c ynrd. Oc yard, ask, k. 85¢ yard. Turkey red damask, red damask, 4Cc inches 50, per dozen, in and picces left, | west, 250 | find the ! 7 ”In New 7Builrdirngi. weaves in towels, and over twenty dif- forent styles to pick from. Our new linen department is the lar- gest in Omiha und you will find there tho best values ever offered. 18 inch brown linen crash, Stevens, crash, at 8¢ yard; extra bargain, All linen erash, 5e, 6¢, 7e, 8e, 9¢, 10¢, 124c, 15c, 18¢, 20¢ und 25¢ yard. 2,500 white and colored bed just received, at d5c, M, 6ie, T5e, E8e, 98¢, $1, 81.15, $1.19, 81 $1.50 and up- wards; the bestassortment of white bed spreads to be found A great variety in lunch cloths, tray cloths, fancy linen scarfs, plain white andfancy bordered table cloths with nap- kins to match, Irish fronting linen, German apron linen, bleached und un- blenched butche linen, embroidery crash, stamped linens, linen diavers in all the different widths,wash rags,Turk- ish towels, etc., in fact you will find anything you may want, and our prices will convince you that it pays to buy vour linens at Hayden’s linen” department, the lar gest linen department in the spreads Bargains in Sheetings. PILLOW CASING AND MUSLIN nch bleached casing, 9¢ yard. nch bleached casing, 10¢ yard. inch extra heavy brown casing, 10c 7-4 brown sheeting, 18c. 8-4 brown sheeting, 15c. 9-4 brown sheeting, 17c. 10-4 brown sheeting, 19c. 8-4 bleached sheeting, 17c. 9-4 bleached sheeting, 19c, 10-4 bleached sheetiug. 2lec. 8-4 half bleached sheeting, 9-4 half bleached sheeting, . 10-4 f bleached sheeting, 28c. 8-4 twilled bleached sheeting, 25¢. 9-4 twilled bleached sheeting, 28 10-4 twilled bleached sheeting, 30c. 4-4 half bleached muslin, 6ic and Tic. 4-4 bleached muslin, 5e. Ge, 7c, 8¢, V¢ | and 10c. 4 LL sheeting, 5 Compare quality and prices and will go to Hayden’s every time, save money by doing the same, you and ME FIRST GRAND MUSLIN Monday, January 11, 1802, Wash Dress Goods. We have opened and will place on sule in our new building on Monday, Janu- ary 11, 1892, new advance styles for ring, 1892 in wash dress good y vrinted bedford cords, are at 10c yard. 200 pieces of new 1892 styles in pine- apple Lissue, in light or dark ground, at 124¢ here ard. inch Burnaby’s zephyr gingham, 15e New styles in wash silks, a new fabric just out, in our wash dress goods de- partment, 1 rd, light or dark effects. We have just opened six s of fine black sutine, new cashmere finished, for this season, superior in color and finish to the French, at 17¢, 25¢, 80¢, 3¢, 87 and 40¢ yard. You will find these su- perior to any ever shown in this city. 82 inches wide, new styles in zephyr- ine cloth, 10¢ vard. Now styles in gingham at 73c,8%e, 10¢, 124c and 15¢ yard. New styles in dress prints, full stand- ard, 5e yard. New stock of shirting prints, 83c, New wash fabries of every style and in larger quantities than ever displayed by any house in Omaha, We have pur- chased from the millsdirect 10,000 yards of plain white India linens avd Victoria lawns in remnants, and will offer them in two lots: All the numbers worth e, 7c, Sc, 10c and 124c yard in first lot, to go at 5e yurd on Monday. Lot 2 con- tains India linons and Victorin lawns worth 15e¢. 18c¢, 20c and all to go Monday at 10¢ yard. 5,000 mill remnants in fine saline shirting, 26 to 80 inches wide, Lenox shirting, crepe shirting, ete, a great variety of fine wide shirtings, choice of whole lot, only é¢ yard, worth up to 25¢ 2 cases 32 inches wide foulard suiting at 8¢, mostly dark s Double fold twilled serges, new styles, only 7c yard. 40 inches wide armadale phyrs in plain shades, a special bargain at lsc 200 pieces royal serge, wool effect, only 7e yard. ham ! shape, fin UNDERWEAR SALE. This Season. OUR ANNUAL JANUARY SALE OF MuslinUnderwear BEGINS MONDAY MORNING. Determined to outstrip all previous efforts is evincod in every item. 8,000 {dozen gowns, chemise, skirts, drawers, corset covors, slips, dresses, ete., from 32-dnch Anderson and Scoteh ging- | the foremost manufucturers in Amorica, ut marvelously low prices. No better goods can be produced. he material, sh and style being the very best obtainable. On Monday we shall divide 1,000 dozen of ladies’ and chil- dren’s muslin underwear into four lots, | us follows— LOT 1 AT 15c. Comprising children’s drawers,wais and ladies’ aprons trimmed in lace, uny of the atove worth double sale price. LOT 2 AT 29c. Comprising ladies’ gowns, chemise, drawers, corset covers and skirts, also children’s white and gingham dresses, slips, aprons and drawers. In this lot will be found garments worth three times sale price. i LOT 8 AT 39c. The biggest bargain of them all, and never in the history of Omaha wiil such a chance be seen again. LOT 4 AT 49c. On this counter will bo found gar- ments good enough for the most fastid- ious. Ask to sce the gowns, siirts, drawers and chemise on this table. Many in this lot worth as. high as $1.50 each. Also in our mein center aisle will be placed five of the greatest (‘:mgnius in ladies night gowns ever shown west of New York, at the following prices— Gowns No. 1at 59¢. Gowns No. 2 at 69c. Gowns No. 3 dt 75¢. Gowns No. 4 at 98c. Gowns No. 5 at $1. Silks. Great Redutions in Silks. Black Faille, regular $2. quali 50 quality, now $I. ty, now $1 ros G ular $1.75 quality $1.85. 81.50 quality, now $1.12. quality, now 75e. Satin Rbhadamy Surah, regular One lot of [Fanc from $1.75 to $1.00. One lot of Plaid Surahs reduced from $1. 25 to 65c. All remnants of colored Silks, at half price. Colored Dress Goods. SPECIAL SALE FOR MONDAY. 40 inch camel's hair polka dot, former price 98, special price ¢ 40 inch a1l wool faney dress plaids, for- mer price 68c, special price 4e. 86 inch Enghsh costum: price 20¢, special price 2lc. 40 inch ali wool serge, former special price 49c. 40 inch ull wool cheviots, former price 69¢, special price 45 inch all wool flannel, former prico 65c, special price 4fe. 54 inch plaid cloaking, , special 3 Fine novelty dress pattern suits, for- mer price $19.50, specinl price $10.50. Combination suits, former price $1 al price $7 54 inch French cheviots, former price $1 25, special price 92c. 40 inch all wool stripe cheviot, mer price 55¢, special price 39c. 51 inch plaid suckings, former price $1.65, special price $1. 40 inch fine finish henrietta, price 85¢, special price 69 Pertume. All of Colgates, FBastman’s and Wood- worth’s perfumes will be sold on Mon- day for 25¢ per ounce, Quinine Tonic for the Hair, 69c per bottle. Tmported Lavender water, 50c per bottle. oW, lity, now 7The. ¢ quality, now 50c, Brocades, reduced former price former price for- former PAGES 9-16. ] A —— NUMBER i Bl:\c‘i\; Dress Go:)d;. SPECIAL PRICES FFOR MONDAY. 1t Wool black flunnels,’ 54 inches wide, 43¢t former price 65¢. All wool black ladies’ cloth, 54 inches wide, 65c; former price 8¢, Black cheviots, 40 inches wide, 45¢} former price 69%¢. These goods make a beautiful winter dress, and are weil worth coming to see. Elogant black serges, price 88c. Best black Henrietta cloth made, 88c; regular $1.124, Black paimetto cloth Monday to 16e. 65c; former reduced for Furniture Dept. We have no dull times this year in this department. People buy, whethor it is January or April. Why? Because our prices for such goods as we ca ry enables all to buy. Here ure a few specials, just for cold weather. Solid oak dining chair, high back, close woven seat, $1; never sold less than $1.35. The same chair with brace, $1.10; never sold for less than $1 ‘I'he rocker to match .75, worth $2.50. This is a rare chance and an offer sel- dom mad Kitchen chairs 35¢ each, lightor dark. Baby carriages beginning to arrive already. We are headquarters, Largest lino of trunks and bags in town, and our prices arve the lowest. these chairs, Soap. Soap. TLarge bars giycerine soap, lar price 85c. s fine Balm soap, 19¢ bar, rk’s Curio soap, 19c. ycerine soap, oatmeal oap, all go Monday for 19¢; 8 cakes in every box. 19¢, regu- WASH DRESS GOODS SPRING STYLES, 1892 - Butter. Finest [owa Creamery, 20c. Country Butter, 14¢,18cand 17¢c pound You will always be sure to get the finest butter inour store at lowest prices. Cranberries, 74e quart. iIREAT MEAT SAL Dried Salt Pork, 6{o, Sugar Cured Breakfast Bacon 7o, Boneless Rump, Corn Begf, & Sugar Cured No. 1Hams 3c,104c,12§0. Sugar Cured California Hams, 530, Dried Beef, Tic 100, 12{0. Boneless Ham, 10c. Bologna Sausage, 50, Liver Sausage, be. Feankforts, 74 Head Cheese, Brick Cheese, 15c. Cream Chee 150 ss Cheese, 150, Bost Holland Herring. in keg Domestic Horring, in kegs, 76¢. Best Cape Cod Fish, 124c 2-1b brick Codlish, 15¢, Saimon, 10e per 1b, White fish, 10¢ per 1b. Mackerel, 124c por lb, 10-1b pail Norwegian Sardines, 760 Pure Buck Wheat Flour, 8 Pure Maple Syrup, yer gal. 7 Aunt Sally Pancake Flour, 44 New Bvapourted Raspberries 174o. Pure Apple Butter, in cider, 5o. Suuer Kraut per gt. 82o. Sweet Chocolate, 50. Drug Dept. ill have a great sale of toilet toilet powder, ete. 980, Malt liver oil . Liebig’s Beef, Tron and Wine, 39c. Maltine,plain or with cod liver oil,750. Brown’s Jama Ginger, 20c. Liebig’s Beef Extract, 29¢c. Kemp’s Balsam, 39c. Red Cross Congh Cure, large, 350, Red Cross Cough Cure, small, 18c. Wright’s Sarsaparilla, 49c. with cod —_— ~ HAYDEN BROTHER JANU AR = o ————— ] PEN PICTURES OF LISBO ' Jleanliness and Neatness Distinguishing Oharacteristics of the Portuguese. QBEAUTIFUL BLACK EYED SENORITAS. Gallegans and Thelr Heritage of Servitude —Prettiest of All Women—Processions of Fisher Maldens—The Water Carrlers of Portugal, (Copyrighted, 1892, by the Author.) Lissoy, Portugal, Dec. 22,—|Special Cor- respoudence of Tue Bee.|—Theve is hurdly another city in the world where neatnoss iu attire is so general as in Lisbon. You can- not find an uncleanly or a slovenly person in the city outside of beggars, who are numer- ous, licensed aud therofore professional, and who all affect Loth rags and filth. The mid- dle classes and the aristocracy are faulilessly dressed, and spotless linen from nobleman to lighterman and fisherman is here as delight- ful a universality as in that othor elysium of the lavendera, fair and brilliant Havana. With men, throughout the various ranks of tho aristocracy and among gentlemen of leisure, gallants, merchants, professional men and oven with clerks, the normal condi- tion seems to be one of faultless dressing. It 1s also observablo that no one seems gotten up for any occasion, or as if only occassion- ally gotten up. You can neversurprise theso Portuguese gentlemen, or discover them, out of good form as to their attire. Thay aro nover overdressed; but they are always well dressed. It is diMeult to y how much of this is the result of national good taste. But it1s cer- N tainly more possible with Portuguese men, where a fluger is .never lifted in manual labor, than with Eoglishmen or Americans, to whom the idea of helping one's self and otbers, or performing any duty necessary to the furtherance of business, is not repug- nant. The mon of Lisbon are the best served men in the world. More than 10,000 Span- fards are practically their slaves, These are my old friends, the Gallogans, from the north of Spain, among whom I wanderea two winters ago. They ave the most docile of all servauts, and the best. For the value of an ‘,,\llmrlcun five-cont pieco they will go any- where and perform miracles of service. ‘hay are not usually attached to a single in- dividual or household. They are overywher and are apny one's porter, servant or valet at & moment’s warning. The magical hissing “Sh-s-s-s-s!" uttered anywhere in will bring one instautly to your side. And so the poorest clerk may have his valot, senwstress—for he will' mend your clothing with the dexterity of & tailor— and all, in one, as much or little as he likes or can afford. A Study of Lishon Women, As much cannot ho sald for the women, Their street appearance is not so character- 1810 nor 50 graceful as the Spanish women. The beautiful mantilla is less worn here than seoms fittlug, or as one could wish. Oune up of senhoritas are met in Mgk pracas or seen 1n costly equipages on the M ‘mmpo Grande, that unlike all other women the Latin races they possess no distinot air or style or presence of their own. In dress thoy sre in fact composite; and like Bayreuth architocture, which s in Kurope the universal simile for every manner of .31» incongruously composed, 8 Portuguese Iady often presents startliug combinations of dato aud style in her most prized and sumpt uous attire. She still possesses a fine car- kiage and figure, sud, as I sald previously stated, a certain honesty and wholesomeness of face and look, and particularly an ever glowing radiance of eyo and smile, which command tho best sort of liking and respect. The artist aud sentimentalist in ganeral will not fiud the postic and rhapsodic type so fre- quent here as in Spain, Italy and Algiors; but the compensation is at haod 1 a better type of womanhood. In what may be termed the middle classes there aro few ravishingly beautiful women. They are often tall and anguiar or short and stout, in either of which cases the rather small and oval faca hias not the same attrac- tiveness as with daintier women of petite and symmetric figure. Womeh of the latter type are oftener found in Lisbon in the two farthest removed classes, amoug the nobility and peasant and servant classes, The latter are most invariably beautiful in face and figure. So many of the female servants as may be seen upon tho streets can always be reudily observed at the fountains, where with the Gailezans they perform the duties of water carriers; while they often to the number of two and three accompany their mistresses for promenades or to the shops. Then the flower market is full of beautiful girls; the daily procession of fish-women from’ Bolem contains muny extraordinary types, though pamnfully straight from always carrsing their fish upon their heads; and the peasant women who come with flowers, but- ter, milk, oggs aud cheese from the outlying farms &are almost invariably wenches of graceful carriage, perfect figure and piquant and often lovely face, Genuine Politeness, No kindor-hearted, more hospitable or llolitu peoplo exist than those of Portugal. “oliteness here has not the flippancy of the I"rench nor the unmeaniug pretence of the Spanish, It is more redunduut and opulent than with either of the former, but it pos- sessos genuine sincer The effort to please comes from right feeling rathor than through form snd custom, with cold-nearted calculation of profit behind, This extends to, and is even most marked among, the lowly, who secm to be the most sunny-faced and kind hearted peo- ple who live. "Among every manuer of city serving mon and. women there is a chivalry sud apparent earnestness in interchange of greeting and commonest civility which often reaches the ludicrous to brusque Americans, Their gravity aad dignity iu this regard are really wonderful, Thecumulative adjectives applied to intensifyiog the formal expression of mutual regard and leading up to those highest titles of respect, Senbor and Sen- hora, never are less expressive than ‘‘most adored,” “trust regarded,” ‘‘most heart thrilling beloved,” or “exceeding and most illustrious,” Even the beggars $peak to each other in precisely these courtly terms, andif you should refuse them alms with the custom- ary phrase, “Pardon !—in the name of God !" thoy will follow you only to bless and shower benedictions upon you. Processions of Fish-Women, You can never tire of the street scenes of Lisbon. Irom Belem, nearer the sea, every morning comes the procession of fish-women, ']'lluf' are most picturesque in their vlue kirtles, buge black felt hats, bare feet and logs, massive gold earrings, comploxion brown and eyes as piercing black as Spanish Gyps and their bas- kets of white gleaming fish. They re- mind one strangely of tho same class of women who came up from the Claddagh every morning in Galaway. But the lives of the former are sunnier; snd they are & gonial, kindly lot without @ vulgar werd on thelr endlessly chattering tongues, Over from Seixal, Aldea Gallega and Al- cochete every morning come boat loads of market stuff and peasantry, while down from the mouutain villages vohind the city stroam the peasant men and women. The women among these bring along, with every manner of small produce, some of the pretti- est foot and aukles tho barofooted babits of many, aud the short-skirted potticoats of all, over give unconscious display. The crates, casks, pouches, baskets, ewers eud wheel: like and gigantic wooden platters these women briug with them, carrywg nearly everything upon their heads, aré of incred- ble size aud weight, Thick, golwre-like necks are the result, but thewr gr.ce brightness as beasts of burden are surely, ing the morning market h ing of wooden shoes upon the pavoients; grin meu from the fields leaning upon their hiee ox goads which in Portugal always be- come tho traveling staffs; nowsy youths hawking fighting crickets in’ cages scarcely wo inches square; all manner men, muny of ‘whom have failon out of the ranks of the aristocracy, and boys selling halves,quarters and oighths of lottery tickets, for ever in Lisbon it is a true sayine that “‘tomorrcw the wheel go round:” important and wasp-waisted mili- tary attaches dancing here and there in blue, buft and green; grave and cowfortable padres, impervious to forgivable chaffing and badinage; half naked urchins with wonder- fully bright faces; beggars with piteous though suuny looks, as cheery over rebuff as reward; and an huudred other folk and factors 5o touched with the semi-barvaric und oriental, that one awakens from the weird faucies conjured by sight and scene, in a sort of half dismay that in this spot, where our own wondrous civilization had its very beginning, everything seems a thousand yoars behind even thedrowsy progress of the Europe today. Changing Scenes, Hero and there throughout the streots bev- 1es of giggling senhoritas, never alono and always convoyed by some bright-eyed old duenna, pass from shop to shop, ever seem- ing to avoid but ever in reality compelling most ludicrous antics on the part of all males from 18 to 80. Roaring and tearing down from the heights as if pursued, comes one of the cocheiros of the town with his ramshackle barouche, to which are often harnessed three donkeys abroast. He has been nowhero, Ho is golng nowhere. He lashes aud screams and vents maledictions upon his boasts. Sud- denly the outlandish outtit comes to a halt. In an instant the violet cocheiro is asloep on his box, and the donkeys' heads droop dolefully between their knces. Now and then a strauge horse and rider will beseen. The horse is a piebald. The rider 1s a gentleman farmer, a ‘‘morgado” he 15 called i Portugal. He sits upon his beast ina semi-military and semi-cowboy style, holds bis bridie reins high 1n the air, wears a spur and mustachios of wonderous’ dimen- sions, and ambles through the changeful sceno like a hesitant, humbled Quixote. Everywhare are Littie donkeys carrying fat peopie; burdened with furze, brushwood, chavcoal, dried corn leavea and stalks, rushes and straw, completely hiding them, packed with twice their own weight in mer: chandise going to or coming from the quay, orariven double with great timbers across their backs. *Ande!—Ande!” their drivers shout, as they prod them with blunt, iron- pointed pikes as long and as heavy as our own pitchfork handies, These and ox carls, each with u box like a balf section of a huge wicker basket, and solid wooden whaools with iron spiked rims whbich creak and shriek like a Red river train on its way toMin- neapolls and St. Paul, in the sixties, are ccaselessly wending their way along the thoroughfares to and from the country, the only meaas of freigutage; while each donkey and cart is accompanied by more able bodied, ever yvellng muleteers and cartmen than is necessary to couvey every ounce of produce and merchandise thus dis- posed upon their o wn backs. The Water-Carriers, Water is brought into Lisbon in one of the worla's greatestaqueducts, the aquaduct of Agoastiores, from the mountain village of Bellas, ten miles distant. It extends across the near valley of Alcantara upon a series of thirty arches 107 feet from pier to pier, the point of the higbest arch rising 204 feet above the valloy bed. The water Is poured from this aquedugt into an immense coy- ered reservoir, @nd Is from this conveyea to the many Pig or pablic fountains of the city. From these fountaius, since the time of Joao V., nearly All private houses, public buildings and shops have been supplied by water-carriers, eu aud women. lost of these, particularly the men, are thus solely employed, Many of tho women are u and winsome, Intermingled with all of these dur- are capote- hidden women from the hills, smart city ser- vants with their endless castanet-like clink- of, lwply | house and shop s; and fountains. groups of barefooted men and women are coustautly gathering. What muscular, swarthy fellows are the men, and what graceful attitudes and posings they uncon- sclously assame as lhcfi loiter a bit for chat- ter and gossip befoce they shoulder the buge wooden casks and trot . gaily away with their mighty loads. *What splen- did types of Portugu $6 are these!’ you will exclaim. But thay are not Portu- zuese. They are Gallegans, from the an- cient sovereignty of Galicia, comprising the present four northwesternmost provinces of Spain named Lugo, Coruna, Orense and Pouteveda, with a population of 2,000,000 souls. One-fourth of the entire number ars coutinuously servants in Spatoand Portagal; pernaps 100,000 in Portugal alone; and more than 3,000 are water carriers liere in Lisbon. 1 know them well in their northern homes or chozas and in their southern worlk and ways; and thoy are loveaole for their matohless docility and fidelity, one and all. The Gallegan Youth, When the Gallogan youth has arrived at theage of 18 ne_goes to his drudgery at sea, in the army, or-as the city menial. He suf- fers every conceivable indignity without re- sentment, “Gallezan dog!” is the mildest universal epithet applied to him. Kick bim and he will not even cringe. No power can tempt him to resent insult, or brealk law, but to deprive him of his earnings. Ho will not squander a dozen reis in o whole year, He will starve to save. He will do anything but rob or murder while at service toincrease his hoard; and though his homesickness for his mountain dulcinea, perro aud gaita ate often so despaiving that ho dies of heartache and longing, he will never return to his beloyed Galicia until ho has eavned enough to possess his own choza and patch of ground. This is his only earthly ambition and he seldom fails of its realization. ‘Itousands of others gain this accomplishment as segadors or reapers. When the southern fields are ripe whole ar- mies of Gullegan reapars sef out from their mountain homes armed with™ short hoz or sickle, their wooden shoes Sjung over their shoulders, something as the West of Ireland men annually set forth for'the English har- vest fields, und, carrying also their gaita: with them, pipe their way to the south, where they reap tho graibidor the indolent farmers ot Castile and Porupgal. Returain on foot s they went, Lhe, ko wild and barbaric echoes through {Iu ierra de la Culebre, Sierra de Bunadetio and the fair Montanos de Leon. The Gellogan women meantime have cared for Bheir own little hurvests, and from autumn @t springtime, save for the occasional dry g of the bag- pipe, the crack of the retded or blunderbuss and the wolfish barkiug of mountain dog, sodden silence and lifeless sleap soem to have knit all Galicia jato a forbidding and gloomy web of leaden and ohdurate repose. Prettiest of All Women, But see these maiden water carr iers of Lis bon, prettiest of all women' ju the ancient city, with great danginge ey®s, pouting lips ever parting from dazzling svhite teeth, their tongues ceaselessly running in musical’ stac- cato, and their supple forms éver in irrepres- sible movement from: the boundless life witbin them, Thelr short skirts disclose limbs which outrival the Veuus of Cos in delicate symmetry. ' Thelr smart bodices vainly hide busts of marvelous rounduess and mnpl?\ude, with full arching peck bared above, and crowning it such & dainty and dimpled chin as even Tascaly cannot match while the line from the tip of the' little fine ger up their brown rojnd avms to beyond the dimpled elbow Is ¢ marvelous study in nature’s only perfeal¢ mobile bronze. But they havo dallied and chatted loug enough. With a whisk a littls pad of r ushes or cloth 1s slapped on their daiuty, shapely heads; in o twinkling the great cask, balf as tall ana quite as big as they, 1s restiog on the pad, and with a song or roughish laugh they are uway tripplug homeward as aaintly and airily as in measures of the contradanza or waltz. Epoan L, WassMaN, servants of the peasant probaoly the most interesting studios for tourist, writer or arast are to be found among these lowly folks beside the At everyone of these moss covered jetties TREASURE TROVE ALASKA. Miner W. Bruce Experiences a Real Storm at Sea. CATCHING coD AS A PASTIME, A Country About Which Only the Most Meager Information Is Obtainable— Stock Ralsing Pronmuses Great Returns, Juseav, Alaska, Dec. 2.—[Special Corre- spondence of Tur Beg. |—The third day after the capture of the fur seul of which I wrote in my last letter, was a meworable one to me. The captain early in the morniug called gy avteation to the rapid falling of the varome- ter. He told me that in this latitude when it registers 20 it was very low and meant & severe storm. By 2 o'clock 8 strong breeze had sprung up, and within an hour a gale was upon us, and our ship was plunging through seas that throatened to sweep the decks, When dark- ness set in the barometer rogisterea 28. About 8 o'clock the ship was turned about, and throughout the long hours before day- light the following morning we lay facing the storm at the mercy of the waves, which were rolling us in a seething caldron. I had experienced storms at sea before, but never upon a vessel whore [ was thrown in such close proximity with the crew, as upon this, All but one of the eight men who com- posed the crew were old sailors, and three of them had sailed in every quarter of the globe, Thoy were of that sturdy race which has placed Norway among the nations of the world that have furnished some of our best navigators. They were men who, when the wind howled its loudest, and the masts were bending and creaking as it whistled among its spars and ropes, responded without @ murmur to orders to ascend the rigglug, but I noticed they did so with teeth firmly sot and blanched faces, I have talkked with many an old salt, and in answer to my ques- tion if he ever felt afraid in a storm, invari- ably answered 1n the negative, I remember not 1t was always when he was on terra firma, or when the ship was {flylug before a light wiud, that he laughed at such a ques- tion. My exporience during the however, has convinced there &re fow men who ure not, to say the least, a little auxious when the ship is tossed about 1u & tempest which threatens every moment to wrench its timbers asunder and bury the wreck beneath the fouming depths. 1t was during thisstorm that I made several atiompts 10 secure a view of the ship when it was plunging its fiercest, but when my plates were niovumlnm}, but. one showed uny- thing but chaos, T'his was taken when the sun shone for a few moments, the next morning after the storm had spent ' its fury, and the ship was blowing along before the wiud with closely resfed maiusail, We were now approaching land, and the joy I experienced when the captain told me upon retiving one night that we would see land by 6 o'clock the following morning, can be understood by those who have beon for some time at sea, 1 was upon deck with the first approach of daylight, and found the captain had preceded e, aad stood with glasses in hand auxiously peering across the wide expanse of water, As the hands of the ship's clock pointed to ten minutes past six, he di rected me to look just over the bow of the I, and sure enough, & long, low outiine sgainst the horizon, Within twe hours past season, me that could seo with the naked eye. one of the most southern islands which comprise the Shuma- gin group, and which was about sixty miles away from the ship’s dostination. For four days we had not seen the sun and the captain’s calculations were made alto- gether by dead reckoning, but they proved as unecring, as they were gratifying to me. Our course lay divectly towards an island marked on ihe char “Castle Rock.” Within a couple of hours it appeared in the distance, and about the middie of the after- noon, the wind suddenly died away, leaving us in a dead calm within three miles of o huge pilo of rocks, thesummit of which frowned down upon us from a height of 400 feet or move. The hand of a sculptor could not cut a minature outline of a more _erfect castie than that whici the hand of nature has chiseled here. The turrets, and arches and lookouts stand out in bold relief and make it just such a formidable looking fortress as’ history tells us brave knights of old sought refuze in. From be- hind its deep recesses a handful of men could find safe shelter from an assault by a naval squadron, and its mighty rocks lock as it they would withstand a shower of shot and shell for ages. It was whilo lying here that I caught my first codfish. A few weeks before, this same schooner sailed for San Francisco witna cargo of these fish, most of which were caught within a dozen miles of Castle rock. About twenty men were employed in shis receiving £25 per thousand, und from $2 to $6 per day could be made per man, There was abundant fishing tackle aboard, and with one line we caught more cod fish in one honr than we could eat in a month, Two large hooks were attached to a line about one foot apart, with a lead sinker weighing about ono pound on the end. Fresh meat was used for bait at first, and afterwards cod fish, It was simply a matter of throw- iog the line into the water and letting it sink 1o the bottom, at a depth of about thirty fathoms, avd almost immodiately you can foel the wiggling of fish, which would weigh from six to twelve pounds each, Those who have never eaten fresh cod, know nothing of the delicate flavor, which appoars to be partly at least, lost when salted, ‘There is practically no end to the cod fish on the Alaska coast, and & number of fine banks are found in the immediate vicinity of the Shumagin islands, Some time Lefore breakfast tho next morn- ing, a light breeze sprung up, and by break- fast time wo were sailing four knots per hour. We had by this time, approached so near to the main land, that the snowy tops of the coast rauge were plainly eeen, and tho foot hills lying along the shore, probubly forty miles away, looked like low, dark ridges, whi pon uearer approach, proved to be covered with grass to a helght of 1,000 feet or more above salt wator. 1 had noticed upon the chart that about twenty miles to the west of Castle IRock, wero a number of small islands aame Haystacks. They s0on appeared atoad of us, and who- ever christened them must have lived in a prairvie country, The waters ahead and en- tirely surrounding them, belng scarcely ruf- fled by thoe light breezo blowing, looked all the world like & vast streteh of lovel prairie, and the islands within six miles so closely re- sembled haystacks as to cause one to wonder what sort of condition of things must have existod to have created them. The longest of the haystacks looked like an extensive hay rick that had laid out all win- ter, the top of which had partly blown off, The captain called my attention to the one standivg next to tho hay rick, and sald thero was a hole extending entiroly through it large enough to admit of our vessel passing in, I got 1wy camera ready, and when wo were abreast of it, sure enough we could sea an enormous hole having an oval arch above, aud daylight appearea at the opposite side. 1 looked in vain for this beautiful picture to appear under my red light, but no sort of coaxing would bring out upon the plate a view which I would have rrl/cd equal to that of many others that [ have been 80 fortunate to secure the present season, We were now within twenty miles of Sand afair wind bad pushed us so uear thatl l Polat, the ship's destination, We soou turned into Popoff straits, with a fair brecze blow. ing behind us, and with tho main and fore suils spread ‘wing ana wing, we plowed through the water at a six-mile rate in what is known by navigators who frequent this on us one of the best harbors in all of western Alaska. On one side of the channel, whiob, for a distance of about twenty miles, is not over four miles wide, is tho island of Unga. On the other side is tho island of Popoff. These two Islands belong to the Shumagin group, of which mention has been made beforo. The character of the country reminds one of the rolling prairies which arc found in somo of our western states. 1t is more or less undulating and the surface is covered with & thick growth of grass, which, as a rule, measures four feot or more in height, and is very nutritious. While I had heara a great deal of the coun- try *‘to the westward,” I was not prepared to find such a marked difference from that of southeast Alaska. Not a sign of a tres was secn after we first sighted land, and the heavy growth of moss and shrubbery which everywhers abounds in southeast Alaska, is unknown here. In some of the low por- tions of these islands, there aro little groves of aider and willow, but they partake more of the character of bushes than trees, soldom growing to a height of over six feet, and an inch or two in diameter. In southeast Alaska, it is only in few lo- calitios that the soil 13 move tnan & fow Inches in depta, and seldom free from gravel and pobbles. It is a common thing to find notatoes and vegetables growing in the gar- dens of natives in that section among broken fragmnents of stone, while on these islands the soil is as free from them as are the s of Nobraska and Kansas, island of Popoff is about five miles wide by fiftecn miles long. The character of the country is gently undulating, and the highest point will not exceed 1,000 feot abo the sea. The soil, ns a rule, is' from three to five feet deep, and of a dark, sandy loam, Sufticient experiments have been made here in growing vegetables and stock raising to warrant a San Francisco iem in having a bill wtroduced in the last congress, which, had it passed, would have given them a lease of this island for a term of years, Had they gotton possession of this Island they pro- posed to thoroughly demonstrate what could be done in stock ralsing and agriculture in this portion of Alaska. This San Francisco firm has invested over $100 on this little island 1n a manner that promises to make it a conspicuous tocality, ana of which I shall speak in my next lutter. Mixer W, Bruce, e L Placing o Boycott, w York World: *~ *“Whar’ ye gwine to Jimmy?” queried a Houston street boy about 10 years old of another he met just off Broadway. *To Sam de butcher’s to buy meat.” “'Got de money to pay?” “Yop,” “Den dome a great favor. Go to some other shop. I've got a boycott on Sam?” *What for? Hain’t Sam all right?” “*Not much, One dreadful hot day last summer I had a postage stamp in me pociet. It was sweatin’ wid de heat. I went into Sem’s an’ perlitely asked him to please put de stamp on ice till it could brace up, and what d’ye ’spose de villian dia?” “I dunno,” “‘Mude o swipe fur me jaw wid de cleaver an’ run me out., He’s a bad man, and I'm doing all I kin to kill his trade.” D nol Thie! A Now York woman entered her house and fuuod & young man coming down the stairs, She burst out with: *“Who are you? What are you doing here? You're a thiel.” *'Is that so?” inquired the voung man, as cool as possibl “Well, w?u don’t you call the police?” Then he brushed by her and ran,