Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 4, 1892, Page 15

BERLIN'SPOOR PEOPLE ! How the Proletariat Olasses Live in Gor- | many's Brilliant Capital. CELLAR LIFE IN A CITY OF TENEMENTS Fifteen Hundred People Nightly Huddled in Meyer's Hof. BUSINESS CONDUCTED IN BASEMENTS All Rorts of Industriss Pursued in Rooms Below Btreet Level, FEEDING AT THE VOLKS KITCHENS Where n Meal Cay 1 for Three € he Persistent Nt Peddlel Child Labor and its Berlin Newspapers. Brniiy, Nov. 19.—[Soecial Correspondenco of Mk Brr. | —Berlin 1s a city of flats and the people hero are crowded almost as much as the Chineso are in San Francisco. Thero aro tens of thousands who live in cellars, and of the 2,000,000 people living within the city limits only about 30,000 have more than soven rcoms. Of this vast population there aro less than 3,000 who havo n whole houso to thomselves, and there are more than halt amillion who only have one room in their tenoments which can be hoated. The people swarm and thoy becomo mord crowded every year. You seo no little houses bore. The cottage svstom is prac- tically unknown, and the rich and the poor are crowded together in the same building. The differonce lies in the location and the character of the room, Tho buildings are usually of flve orsix stories. In the base- ment you will find cobblers, butchers and grocerymen, while buck around the courts overy imaginable trade goes on and families live in narrow quarters and work at som thing or other to make a livelinood. On the first floor, if the street isa business one, thero will be first class stores, restacrants or beer halls, and above theso you may find a German colonel or a general, or a rich busi- ness mau. On the same floor in the bac rooms will bo cheaper guarters and as you neur the top of the houso the character of the tenants falls and theirnumbers increase. ‘Lhere 1s a vifference in rate according to different paris of the city, but there aro cheap tenements everywhero and you find the poor 1u every block. 1 visited the other day a single houso which contained 400 fami- 1es and it which lived more than 1,500 po ple. It was u building of about 100 feet front, running back, perhaps, for 2)0 feet and built'around live great courts. Theve v no yard connected with 1t except these dirty courts paved with cobblestones, aud n these hollow-eyed children swarmed and old men and women sat against the wall trying to cateh the sun. The building consisted of six storics and it was entered by a passage- way in the middle. At the door of this asl came in | saw two voung wowen standing with babies at their breasts, and the chil dren playing in the rear were ot all ages and sizes. Buddled in Meyer's Hof, As I lookea at them and the people about them it struck mo that tho building was typieal of the world. Ivery variety of lifo was going on among them. On one sidd I saw Lwo women laughing. In another part a young girl and an oid man were trying to tench a baby to walk, and as 1 stood thero an undertaker came through with a little coftin, containing a baby, under his arm and with 1ts weeping mothier following bebind as its mourner. This building is koown as “‘Meyer's Hof,"" und it is one of the largest tenement bouses in Berlin, « Think of it. Here are 1,500 peoplo sleep- ing every night on an area of less than one- nalf acre of ground. Some of the rooms contain more than one family, and not a few of tho poorest of the renters Lake roomers. 1 visited some of the tencmonts, They socmed to bo ciean, but they were smali, and there were a couple of beds in nearly every room. There were about 100 familics living around each court, und theso courts were not as lurgo as tho average city back yurd. Avthe entranco to cach court tiere Were billbourds like those vou find 1 larze oftice buildings in Amcrican cities, upon which wero registered the names of tho tenants and the number of their rooms. Upon the ground floor there weroe litilo stores, and [ dropped into a barber shop at tno corner of one of the courts and cuutted with the burber, His room was about five feot wiao by six feet doap, aud he had a sign on the outside of it stating that his prices for shaviug were b pfennigs or o hittlo more than acent, and te cut hair for about double this rate, Ho told me that he had often a hundared customers a day and that he haa double this number on Saturdays, Ho sold matches and cigars und wade wigs as well as barbered, and he said, that his rent for this room was $2.50 a month, avd that ho slent here at night, Rents are, | um told, contiunlly rising in Borlin, and the swaller the income the big- ger the proportion of rent. The most of the laboring people like to live near their work and a large majority of the people engaged in the different industries hero live within twenty minutes of their places' of employ- ment.” Tho most of them pay more than oue-fourth of their income for rent and land- lords find it pays to build big houses and orowd them rather than 1o erect small onos, A City ot Cellar Homes, The people bero got so little that they can not think of building homes for themselves, and they expoct Lo pay rent from their birth ull their aeath. The pohce regulations re- quire that the rooms shall be of i certain size, and within Lhe last few yerrs the now houses hayo beou doing Letter us to their cellar Jodgings. The older parts of the city, how- ever, Lave many rooms which are not’ at all ganitory, and it is astonishing how many proplo iive here underground. Tuere avo more than 100,000 men, women and_cbildeen who are living in collars in Berli today, and 8 numbor of these have rooms in toeir cellur tenements which cannot be heated. Lt must be remembered that the surfuce of Herhn is flat and the fall as to drainage is very little. The result is that theso unheated cellar rooms are damp, and us thoy ura in the heart of the city they are very unhealtnful, It is wonderful how much business is done in esliars tu Berlin, About onc-balf of the immense manufacturing of Germany is done in the shapo of house industry, that s by people taking the work from fuctories to theiwrown homes or making some product of heir own in them, . A great wmany of these collar-rooms form tho workiug pluces of tha people by day und their sleeping places by might. Many of them aro 50 made that a draft canuot be sent through them, ana when it is remem- bered that soms of them are six feet bolow the sidewnll 1t will be easily seen that they are not fit for the residences of buman be lums. 1 have visited quitaa number of the cities of Germany and [ find that tuis llat system prevails iu all Lho large towns. Hamburg, wiich bas been s0 badly burt by the cholera, is a whited sepulcher. It has beautiful bulid ings, but some of the streets areso LBITOW tbat you could bardly drive s wagon-load of hay through them, and there are thousands of cellar tonewents, There are a number of houses there which bave hunareds of fawis lies in them, and the same 15 true of Leipsic and Drosden, 7 More thun balf the people in Leipsic pav less thun §100 & year for rent, aund theso peoplo live in quarters wnere they caunot bhave more than two heated rooms. The city has gooa building regulations, it is true, but'the people manage 10 gou Around \aom, avd this is 8o in nearly every German city. Part of ihe Leipsio regulations are that every living room shall be st least nine feet high. But the houses are crowded sud the poorer the quarters tho Wore people you flud lo thew. kven the balls are 1ot out to night lodgers, and tho | stories of how women and men of different familios aro orowded together in single rooms presents as bad o pioture as 1 found in somo places In Russia, At n Volks Kitchen, The peoplo hers are alivo to the condition of tho working classes in this respoct, and not long ago & member of the Reichstas gatherc) a large amount of facts abou’ the homos of the working people here, and fron thoso verified statements some of tho abov figures aro taken. Raports were collscted from ail the laboripg centers, and it is on tho basis of these that movements havo boen undertaken to oetter the laborers’ conditiou. Hero in Herlin meals are served to poor people at almost cost prices, and among the cellar institutions of Lho city are tho. *'volks kitchens,” or the poople's Kitchens. Thers are a number of these, and thev are managed by tho ladies of Borlin, who superintend thom and who take turns in managiug them They nhavo goog cooks ani they feed nun- dreds of people e¥ery day. [u them you can get a ainoer for about 5 conts, and a bowl of soup or of rice costs you 3 cents, while you can wot a'firse-class cup of coffee for 1 coi 1 visited one of these the other day. uice looking old ladies stood babind a white countor, und back of those wore g boilors of soup, with cooks prosiding over them, The room was, I jddge, avout firty feor long amd not maro than twenty wide. It was in a cellar, and it was divided up into compartments for women and men. At the entrance there was a cashier, who gave you- checks for what you wanted upon the pay- ment of tho monay. and you walk back o these benchies in tho room, where vou can sit down at long tables and eat. ¢ I laid down j cents and bought a bowl of soun, It wa made of beans and contained nearly a quart, I took a bowl of rice of about the same size and I sippad at a l-cent cup of found 1t not bad, Everything was us cl as could be, and the class of peopls who were eating appeared respectable. One of the old ladies told mo thal tuey often fed as many us 1,000 a day, and that they gave suppers as well as dinners. They said that the - stitution paid its expenses, and that it did not try to make money. Nearly all the vegetable stores of Berlin are in cellars and there aro nuamorous fish stores, especially those which sell driod fish, velow ground. 1am surorised o see what well dressed people come out of tnese collurs and how woll the people dross on the low wages they receive. Wages 1 Borlin, Tho average wages ol common laborers throughout Germany range from $1.50 to $t a week and the mass of working wen here, both skilled and unskilled, do not get mord than from 25 cents to 3l a day. When oue- fourth of this is paid (or house rent and the food of the family purchased thero is but little left, and it i3 a wouder to me how the people can buy avy clothes at all. I am told, however, that many of the peoble have several trades and that they do work ab home, outside of their hours of 1abor, and all tho mombers of a poor man's family do something to increase the family income; ‘There 15 a law against children being e ployed in the factorics aud they havo here a compulsory svstem of education, but these are cvaded to a considerable extent and chitaren are hardly able to walk bafore they dosomothing. Little girls ave taught (o sew almost as $000 as they can handle the neodle and good sewiug rls who make button- holes hers considar themsecives well paid W they make froms3 to§t a month. Girls who sew upon shirts got about these same wages and tuo greater part of suoh sewing girls work at home. Thero are a numbor of chilaren who make a living i Germany by singing on the streets of the cities duving v ons and during the varts of the day when thoy are uot in school, aw a clecical old man going about with such a choir of boys the other aay. He was dressed in a loug ulster with a capo which camo down over his arms, and ho varried n little sioging book In one hand. Ho had about a dozen lttle fellowa ranging from 10 to 12 years of age, and he marched with theso from house to bouse and from court to court, stopping at each and having the boys siug nopular songs while ho kept time us their master. ‘Iiere was no instrament to accom- pany them, vut thoe littlo follows kept per- fect time, and av tho close of the singing one of the voys went around with u toy bank into which the bystanders put pennies, and such coins as were thrown down from the windows he picked up and put in. I followed this old man and his choir through several of their street concerts, und 1 was much saddened by the look of the chil- dren. ‘The bovs were hoilow-syed ana pale, and they scemed to have no spirit about them. 'They neither smited nor laughed,aud the old man made mo think 1o some way of Fagin, the old Jew who trained the thieves in **Oliver Twist.” 1 asked one of the boys as to his wages, and he told me that he got twelve marks o quarter, or about$i a month. 1have aiready spokon of the littlo boys working on tho streots, and you will seldom see a girl of any age idle. She is taught to Knitas soon us sho can hold the nesates, and when she 1s watehing the chitdren she works industriously away at er stocking. Street Peddiers. peakiug of the Berlin streot sights thoro 15 no place i the worid whero the people work 50 hard for a penuy and where both womlen and men give you so much for so little. At every corner you find men with red caps who are known as dicotsmon and who will earry a letter or a parcel to almost any part of Berlin for 6 cents and you pass in every block women loaded down with great two-bushel baskets of meat and vege- tubles which they are carrying homo from the markot for about tho sume rate, Thero are flower peddlers everywhere and there is tho old fellow with toys who selis turkeys and monkeys Made of wood aud painted 1n ridiculous colors. While visiting the stock exchangze the otber day I dropved into a baeer hall for lunch and was gotting away with a great mug of beer betwoeen my bités of cheese and rye when oue of these fakirs came up beside me and lad down on the table a microscopo. As he did so, he asked mo it 1 did nov want to see what kind of cheese I nad hovn eating. Iheld it up to the light and Isaw in it through the microscope a dozen hupdred-leg bugs as big as the largest potato bug, each one of which had horrivio horus and great teeth. Ho laughed as I shuddered snd pushed the cheese back -and then affeved to sell me the microscopo for 12 conts, but 1 was disgusted at haviog my meal spoiled and refused. ‘There are many queer things about tho rewspapers, and foew of the Berlin_journals have large staffs of reporters. The local news is upout the sume in all papers, and no one thinks of trying 1o Make a scoop, as it 1s culled, or to have the news in advance of his fellows. The editors of the morning papers leave thoir offices at 9 oclock und the pavors are in press at 11, By 12 o'clock even the printers have gone home, and when General von Moltke died at 11 o'clock one mght some time ago there was only one Beriin news- paper that bed & line about it in its 15800 of the noxt movning. The announco- ment of the death was published in New York and elsewhero in full, but the German newspapers right here at home knew noth- ing about it. Know th coffee o Value of Advertising. The newspapers here publish items from their contemporary journals which they should bave had themselves, saying that the otber paper says so and o, aud there is no life in Beriin jouroalism. The papers have not & very large circulation and they do not muke & great deal of money, The biggest of them sells something 11ke 100,000 copies. and this paper makes §157,000 a year and thks it does wonders. Men who write for the papers are moderately well pald, and editors- n-celeh get from $4,000 to £,000 a year, The Giermans are good wdvertisers, and thora seems to be no reason why the papers shoald not do better. Everything under the suu is put 1o the paper wu the shape of an aavertisement. Aund there is a great deal of social nows that we publish for nothing, which is put in here at so wueb per lino! Engagements are generally announced ia tho ewspapers by the parents of the bride and also by the groow, svd lnere are o large number of matrimonial advertisements, in which men and womea state their good qualitios and asx for busbauds and wives. Sowetimes men advertise, stating that they have & daughter whom they wish to get rid of, and in one year there were 400 adver- tisements in one paper of pPersons seeKin i better halves. Morriages are also published in the same way, aud there is a fixed rate for births aud deatbs. The Germans ure very proud of haviug children, and 1t is generally expected that a son or a daughter will make bis or ber ap- pearance in the newspaper. columus immedi- ately upon his sppearance in the world. There is always numbers of death notices, and the oficial advertisements of ihe ecity amount to sowethiog. Advertisements of patent meoicines havo as much prominence in the Berliu uewspapers as in ours, wod, altogethier the Germau is a very good udve: user. Fraxs G. Cawrryresn. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: «DIAR LITTLE ISLE OF MAY" | Whore the People, Thongh Under British Dominion, Have Perfect Homs Rule. FEATURES OF THE MANX CONSTITUTION Orry the Viking Feamed it Agonnd Today it Wiere ali Laws Mast Bs Finally A proved by the People. Nine Centuries Is Actively Oporant— [Copy righten, 1802 Dovaras, 1slo of Man, Nov. 10.—‘‘Daar little Isie of Man,” Eilan Vannin Veg Véen, i3 the foad title by its natives ot one of the most diminutive and {aterssung island countries to be found ia tha civilized world. Itis a sturdy littla bit of sea-gir: land, set in the turbulent Irishsea almost equidistant from Eogland, [reland aud Scotland, forever withstanding tho torcest of ocean currents and the wildest of ocoan storms, The hardy little nation innabiting it has coaselossly bid defiance to the masistroms of eonflicting in- terosts of mon and thrall, and from governmnts secking 1ts Liaost prohistoric tioo has preservea remarkablo a national indo pendence that to this dav it comprises prac tically the oaly folk oa British soil vho on Joy tho full veuefits of self-government. Brietly told the littla M tion has had three periods of history—a veriod of Coltie rule, one of supremicy and ono of In tho tenth century tho They had just overcome le and ostablished their Norse kingdom there. When they found tho “aear littlo Iste of Man" they mado short work of taking complete possession. The wonien wora dark- fair-skinned and bluc-eyed, Tho Vikiogs were freckled and bleached as to hair and eyes. The Manx nation of today sprang from the union of thoso handsome Ceitic women aud these huge freckled men. “Tho latter wero led by ouo Orry. Hois catled King Orry now. Whethor he_was o soa rover or the son of a Damsh or Norwe- gian monarch does not matter. But ho be- came king of Man and the Isles, Howas groat without the title. He gaye the Manx- men their first constitution. It was quite liko that which bad jast been given to Tce- land. It was a good one, 0o, and tha proof of {t1s that with little chunge it has existed 10 this day. Man's Constitution. King Orry divided the island into six ship shires, Thevare the Maux “sheadings’ or representative divisions of the present time, Iach sheading electea four men by a popular vore to 4 lawmaking the House of Keys, m the Norse Kkeiseor chosen hey were the peopla’s delegates, just are today. Then King Orry gave tho church s share in the govercment, but pro- ventod its supromacy. Ho established a Tenwald court whers church and state sat together, (wo lawmoen, called deemsters, on for e north and one for the south, were appointed. These were equivalent to the Icelandic “speakers of law.” These remain uochangoed. Ocry then had built, after the man.er of the iava law rock of Thingvellir, an artiticial Mouut of Laws, The House of ICeys sent up laws to the I d court, or the latter sent them down, n_joint session and the king's sanction concluded the making of law. But laws were nover operative until the king. the court and the Housc of Keys naa couvened on ‘I'ynwala bill und promulgated tnem by reacing them firstin the language in which they wero written, and sccond in the languags of the eople. Every essential featuro of this patriarchal and represeutative government established early in the tenth century exists in its origi- nai simplicity today. Tho Manx are tho only Norse nation left thut can show €o close and stroug o binding to the days of tho Sagas through an unchanged govarning ystem. And the folk of this little island aro the only people acknowledging completa Briush dominion who are inuo way inter- fered with from Wostminster, and Who en- joy the actual practical biessing of home rulo. A brave and bloody history has the littio islund from King Orry’s time down to its unreserved cossion by its then reigning duke to theerown, for a consideration of £416,000,in 1825, 50 Norse Britisa dominion, Vikings cam land Systom of Government, Tho systom of government is interosting from its s ity. Electars must bave a proverty qualification in the sheadings of £10'occupancy, or £5 ownership. Jn towus voters must possess @ L occupancy or ownership qualification, and this sum all women unmarricd, widows or spinsters, the samoe vested right; @ right whien, althongn vexiug to women suffragists, 1s ravely exercised, The island is divided into ten electoral dis- tricts, comprising King Orry’s original six shoadings of Glanfaba, Middle, Rushen, Avre, Garff and Michael, cach of which roturns threo representutives, the city of Douglas with three, and the towns of Ram- sey, Peel and Castletown, the ancient cap ital'of Man, with ono each. These twenty- four representatives constitute the House of Keys, corresponding to our house of repre- sentatives at Washington. There is an upper bouse called the council whose powers are similar to those of onr . Iv1s composed of the lord bishop of the diocese (Sodor and Man) who has a seat but no vote in the British house of peers, the attorney-general, the receivar-general, tho two deemsters or judges whose offices, almost a relic of Druidism, are precisely as coustituted by the Noree King Orry, the clerk of the polls, the water bailiff, the arch- acon and vicar-goneral, over which the lieutenantfgovernor, a crown appointment, presiaes, ‘The deomsters or judges who have author- ity to deteraune ail causes, subject to appeal 10 the government staff, are still required to take the same curious oath as when the an cient “Breast Laws,” those not reduced to writing unul 1417 and orally handed down from one deemster to his successor, pre- vailed, They swear “by this book and by the holy contents thereof and by the won- derful “works that God hath rairaculously wrought in beaven above and in the earth peneath 1n six days and soven uights F * * without request of favor or friend ship, lova or gain, consanguinity or afiinity, envy or malice, 1o execute the ~law of this islo” justly betwixt our sovereign lord (op Iady) the kipz (or queen) and his (or her) subjects within this isle, and betwixt party and party, us indifferently as the herring’s backboue doth lie in the midst of the rsh.’ Tynwald and St. John's Chu Members of the House of Keys are elected for seven yoars, Tho governor may &t uny ume dissolve the houso, in case of permanent opposition to the council, when, as in Eug- laud, “'an appeal to the country is taken, Council aud Keys vote separately, Concur- rent wajorities of each ave required to pass measures; and these measures, which did not formerly go iuto operation until promul- ¢ated from Trnwald bill, now go into effect on receiviog royal assent, which is selaom denied; as these clever patriarchal folk keep a well-conditioned lobby in attendance on the House of Peersat Westminster. All Manx laws are called acts of Tynwald, and the Tynwald court may still, as 1,000 years ago, bo hold at auy time in special session at Tynwald hill, but must as theu convene yoarly for the promulgation of the laws, though, legally, they may bave already gone into effect. ~This ceremonial has uow become & national holiday called Tynwald day., It is held on the bth of July, oron the 6ib, if tha 5th happens to fall to Sunday., Undoubtedly 40,000 of the 0,000 inhabitants of Man are unfailing in atténdance, and the coremouy always attracts thousands from Lancashire, Cheshire and Cumberland in Eogland, The Tynwald bill is situsted just wost of the ceunter of the island between the cities of Douglas aud Peel, aud lies lu the roman- tic’ pass botween the Cairn snd Greeba moautains, Traditionally it1s said to have been formed of earth brought here in carts aud ercels from every parish of tne island. Two bundred yards from the hill, called in Manx Cronk-y-Keillown, or St Jobu's chureh bill, is the imposing church of St Joho, {no gift of the crown to tue island. It 18 & splendid edifice in the early decoratod style, built of South Barrule granite. Ii was erected in 1547 on the site of a former chureh ouilt in 1609, which was itself pre- ceded by a temple to Thor. At the south west corner of the present edificv is & strange Runic monument quite & thousand yeurs old with au almost illegible iuscription SUNDAY, DECEMBER Y-FOUR PAGE signifying that “‘Tnosi angraved those Runes ;" and tho lavel 1eRd roundabiut is cnllad the Carragh-Glagy, or “the eray bog or swamp.'’ - w e the People Aiptove the Laws, The Tynwald mountodtsell, to which a broad graveled pathway loads from the on- trance to St. John's chufigh, 13 a curious arti- floial constraction. 1t {8 250 feet iu cireum feronce at the base, and vises by four con- contric platforms to a hfight of about twelve foet, On the uppermost of these stand the eovernor, lnwmakers, oféials and church dignitarias of tho lalani during the promul. ation of the Iaws. Until quite recent times the entire text was read both in the Koglish and the Manx languages; but now only tho titles and side notes aro read aloud. A huge canopy shelters the mount, hetd in place by seventoon ropos let into rings in as many stones at the bottom of tho hiil, or one for each parish of the island Proceedings are bogun at 11 o'clock in the forenoon by sorvices in St. Jobn's, When theso aro onded a stately official procession to the mount begins in tho following order T'nree policemen, tho six coroners, the cap- tains of the saventeen paristes, the clorey, tho four high bailiffs, the Houso of Keys, the council, the sword-bearer carrsing tho sword with point upward, all followed by the lien tenaut governoe with his chaplain, surgeon to the household and tuo chief constablos, All thesa officials comprise this ancient Pynwald court. ‘Tne eourt is fiest “fenced,’” that 1s, now as in tho misty days, all per- sovs aro warned “upon Iyfe and lym that no man mako any. disturbance or stirring in the time of the Tynwald, morcover mo rising make 1 tho King's prosence upon pain of hanging and drawinge.’ This “fencing' 1s done by the coronor of Glantaba sheading, who from memorial oustom has baon chief of th sheading coroners of Man. The Manx ner 18 called “toshiagh jioarey,” oe man of the lnw,” and bis functions are lar to thosz of our shori s1x coro Mt wi- More Than a Thousind Years Old. W labus of the new statutes nas been read by tho deomster or judge of the north, tho pro-ession roturns to St. dohn’s Tho twvo oranches of the legislature sit apart, the council in the chaucel and the Kovs in tho south aisle. The promuleation of tho laws is attested, when the governor, by mes- senger, requests the attenaance of tho keys. The two bodies then it in joint house, aud a large amoun t of anuual routine goverament business, such as recaiving the accounts of state colleges, asylums and road funds, os- tablishing rates for maintenance of public institutions and the appoiutment of commit- tees, is transacted. Here is a coremony more than a thousand yoars old. ‘Tho whole of the little Manx na- ton Is hero just as in Kg Orey's timo. The great impressivenoss ol the sceno is not only in 1s antiquity, but_ in the proot that here are a people who, while respecting their government and rulers, in this sucredly pre- served custom thus aunually sorve notid upon their rulers that ajter ail thov aro still but tha servants of the people, and that the peopie shall ever remain greater than the thine or things ereated to serve them. And this 1s the same sort of intellizence which American people are going to make clearor and clearer 10 their own public servauts iu good time, If you vere much in Eugland as 1 have boen vou would pecome very fond of the “dear little 1sle of Man,” “truly not asa Manxman loves it, with an exultant and un- ucterable devotion, for - that could not be, out in the iayilic way "Avhich comos fed feeling you have found a spot glorious in the beroism and traditions of its people, spec- ly fair in 1ts sea setting as a glorious roso cut from a resplendent bed of sapphire, and weird and tender in-its mountain slopes, glens and streams as the 'misty corries of Scotland’s north, As Seen From the Sea, Becauso of this Loftoy, run nway from English mainland to theso sweet and hospit- ablo shores, Itisbuta few hours s Man. You are scarcely out of sight of Iug land when Manxland comesin view. Tw I have sailed entirely around this little gom of the [rish s2a. Fromny quarter at which you view it, its entire leénpth, which is but thirty-five miles, its greatest breadib which is but twelvo and its fine, bold faca from sen-edgo to mist-crowned peak aro nlways complotely in view; always suggesting, re- vealing, ulmost thrillingsin thei marvelous panoramic changefulness and over so rug- gedly noble, 5o solemnly calm, so tenaerly sweot and silent, that through your feasting oyes your heari is strangely” stirred and stilied. There is not another picture like 1t risiag above the boundless waters—the throbbing sea gpale: threading its circling fore- ground as with a gloaming delicate thread ot pearls, Tuen a purple rim of shado where the blue waters ripplo upon the shingle or murmur beneath the cavernous cliffs. Then a higher threading of rea and whito and green where the towns and_hamlets, massad among myrtle, croepers and syeamores, look back upon uptand and down upon sea, Then, rounded hilis afiame with gorse, foid on fold of groen and puce, melting into dreamful heights among the tender clouds, Change- less, this is the evor-changing picture as you approzch it wuile vour heart-voice, if not your tongue, can only articulate, “Mystic, radiant, redolent Isie of Man ' Epaak L. WAKEMAN. e FEROCIOUS NORWEGIAN WOLVES A Desperate Battle Which Resulted in Death of Three Men. I have hunted coyotes on the westorn plains and wolves in Canada and tho northwest, and I have always thought that a conflict with Siberian blood- hounds would be as terrific as any, but for real work there is nothing like a pack of starving Norway wolves, says a writer in the Sportsman’s Review. It is sowething beyond the imaginative ability of the Awmerican hunter. Although™ we were told that we might possibly meet an attack, we braved the ride, however, all being well armed in case of need. We prococded about twenty miles without any serious incident, when, just us wo wers crossing a little frozen creek some twenty ards wide, a strango sensation seemed to take hold of our deer—they shivered and trembled and the hairs on their backs #tood on end. “Wolves!” yelled my driver, and he began to lash the deer, one of which promptly slipped on the ice, fell down and tangled himself up in the harness, thus seriously impeding our coveted rogress. **1oys,” said I, **send eve huilet home.”” Just at this moment fierce, hungry wolves came galloping toward us about twenty yards away. The deer regained his footing and awny we dashed, Wolves can run as fast against tho wind as with it;so .can the deer, but they had a heavy sleg, five people and a foot deep of frozen, cuusted snow 10 con- tend with, We had now run about half a mile, a wolf dropping once in a while, but on they came in fficreasing numbers on our flank. You wonder, perhaps, why I did not shooty; Well, I will tell you. A running wolf, while the shooter is in a §led behind the trotting deer, is .difficult to hit. I had only 100, cartridges and knew it would be .madness to waste them, If the driver“would only stop; but that was impossible, as he and the deer were frantic frog fright. At this moment one of the welves jumped upon the deer™s flank, and was vromptly Kkilled; but this kind of game could not last long, so I preyjgred to dismount some of our pursuers.. Straddling the dashboard, every time a wolf jumped for the deer I shot at it, and hit hard or killed about seven, Jusv at this mo ment, as we were making progress in our defense, our deer, who had hurt his hip by the fall, came to a stop and the rear sled dashed into us. The collision was frightful, tunbling and spilling us all out, and the confusion was great. [ cualled out to the driver to save the deer, a8 we were instantly surrounded by the maddened, beautifully furred wolves Deer, driver, wolves and we travelers were soon in a terrific melee for life, Just as I had begun to despair, all at once the wolves—that is, those that were alive—ran away as fast as they had come. We had lost two guides, one driver and three deer. e Broken Bow wants auotuer riilroad, a pri- vale uormal school wud eleciric lights, the . and somo of us huve noble DATLS 0 play. 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