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+ wmand around it. ! - MAGAZINES OF . MIDSUMMER An Entertaining Oolleotion of Reminisoanoes, Adventure and Comment. MARK TWAIN AS A FAKE REPORTER The Author's Views on the Geary Law—A Curb on the Growth of Clties—The In- flux of French-Canadians—Refloc- tlons on the Duy We Celebrate. Dan do Quille, one of & number of famous newspaper men who made Nevada famous in the tlush days, gi' he Californian recollec- tions of Mark Twain. According to Dan, Mark Twain was fond of manufacturing items of the horrble style, but on one occa- sion he overdid this business, and the d ease worked its own cure. He wrote an necount of a terrible murder, supposed to bo have occurred at “Duteh Nick's,” a station on the Carson river, where Empire City now stands, Ho made a man cut his wife's throat and thoso of his nine children; after which diabolical deed the murderer mounted hi: horse, cut his own throat frém ear to ear, rode o Carson City (a distance of three and a half miles) and fell dead in front of Pete Hopkins' saloon, L All the California papers copied the itom, and several made editorial comment upon it a8 being the most shocking occurrenceof the kind ever known on the Pacific coast. Of course, rival Virginia City papers at once denounced the item as a “‘cruel and idiotic hoax.” They showed how the publication of such “shocking and reckless falsehoods” dis- graced and injured the state, and they made it as “sultry” as possiblo for the Enterprise and its “fool reporter.” When the Cali- fornia papers saw all this and found the) had been sold, there was a howl from Siski- you to San Diego. When Mark wrote the item he read it over to me, and I asked him Low he was going to wind it up so as to make It plain that it was a mere invention. “Oh, it is wound up now,” was the reply. It 15 all plain enough. 1 have said that the family lived in a little ¢abin at_the edge of the great pine forest near Dutch Nick's, when everybody knows there's not a pine tree within ten wiles of Nick's. Then I make the man ride nearly four mles after he has cut his throat from ear to ear, when any fool must see that he would fall dead in & moment.” But the people wore all so shocked at first with the wiiolesale throat cutting that they did not stop to think of theso points, Mark’s whole object in writing the story was to make the murderer go to 1 fopkins' su- loon and fall dead in front of it—Pete having in some was offended him. Ivould never quite see how this was to hurt Pete Hopkins, Mark probably meant to insinuate that the derer had been rendered insane by the kind of liquor sold over the Hopkins' bar, or that he was one of Pete’s bosom fr Today not & man in hunired in Nevada can remember anything written by Mark Twain while he was connected with the En- terprise, except this, oné item in regard to the shocking murder at Dutch Nick's; all else is forgotten, even by hisoldest and most intimate friends. A Thrilling Exporlenco at Sen. The great four-masted American sailing ship, Shenandoah, while coming home from Liverpool last March, had a lively oxperi- ence with waterspouts. When within 500 miles of Sandy Hook, suys St. Nicholas, the wind suddenly changed, a great k of clouds just ahead parted, and there, coming down, driven before the gale, appeared six great waterspouts at one iime. shed by, just clearing the bowsprit and head-sails by a few yards. Another camo at her amidships, throatening to carry the main mast away, and the captain just avoided by quickly turning the ship toward There were two more near ones, and as they were too close to run away from, the big ship was “luffed” up and steared rizht between them. - The-shipavas saved, but what her fate would havé been had she beon struck by one can only be im- agined from the captain’s description of the waterspout that passed astern, He says it od td be fully twenty feet in”diameter, and of solid water reaching to the clouds. During the samo month the steamer Piqua hud a still more uncomfortable ex- rience with these wandering giants of the an. near the Bermuda islands. There she met a cyclone upon whose outer edge thero hung a great number of spouts—all dancing and pirouctting here and there, twisting and turning and balancing o partners as if en- guged in an elephantine quadrille, ‘The captain became bowildered, for whichever way he turned his steamer, he 'was headed off by the surrounding water- spouts. At last, just as he imagined he had steamed safely away, twoof them madoa rush, hended him off, and struck the star- board side of the steamer's iron bow a tremendous blow. Then there was a commotion indecd. ~Tho broken columns of water dropped in tons on the for- ward deck, smashing the pilot house and bridge ladder, tearing down thirteen ventiia- tors und dashing to the deck two sailors badly wounded. The ship staggered and rolled as the weight of water poured over her sides in a Niagara of foam and spray, and for some time she could make no head- way. dhllo the two spouts were having their frolic with the sorcly beset steamer, the others were whirling about as if dancing in lee at the commotion they had caused. rom the black clouds above there shot down blinding streaks of lightning, which, although they missed the ship, so filled the air about fher with electricity thut it settled upon the metal tips of all the spars, glowing aud sparkling there steadily with the beau tiful light known s *St. Elmo's fire.” A Curb Upon the Growth of Cities. The great trouble with American municipal government, writes Barr Ferree in the In- fhumring Magazine, is the luck of homogene- ty in the growth of great citics. Each ecity starts out independently andon a better plan than any other, and yet with very little thought "of profiting by the experiences of older'ones, American politicians are apt to plumo themselyes on the advances thoy huve made in their own departments, and some even go 80 far us to point with pride to the growtn of their particular city. Yet with all our boasted progress the fact remaius that the best governed cities, the most ably developed and thoroughly broad- encd municipalities are the old cities of tho new world, in which the necessity for new growth and compiete change from the old have been so wholly recognized as to compel the introduction of a new order of af- fairs. Nothing of tho sort is to be seen'in even the most active communities in America, New York cannot annex other districts be- cause local politicians interpose objections which have no foundation save their own scifishness. Boston is hemmed in with so- called rival municipalitfes that hug their civil privileges and imagined independence with absurd pretentions of might and power, Philadelphia has, in truth, added vastly 1o her, territory and stunds quite distin amdng seaboara cities in this respect, but sho 15 wanting in the motropolizan spirit and capability of developmént which alone would make this in so of territory valu- able. In the west a different focling may be noted, and this, as well as their more rapid rato of increase, tends to make our western ities more prosperous, as well as more mod- ern, than our eastern. The Author Betwoen 1714 and 1726, for a dozen years, writes Mrs. Oliphant in the Century, ‘Swift remained in Ireland without intermission, sltogether apart from public life. At the latter date he went to Loudon, probably aceding a chiunge of scone after the shock of Miss Vanhomrigh's death, and the grevious sense ho must have had that it was he who had killed her, and it was then that “Gulli- ver” was published. The latter portions of it, which the children bave rejected, we are glad to have o space to dwell upon. The 3--Mlerness, passion and wisery of ‘them are beyond paraliel. One would like to have .n{mound for belioving that the Houy- huhws and the rest came into being after Stella's death; but this was not the case. She was only & woman, and was uot, after all, of such vital importauce in the man's existence. Withdrawal from the life he loved, confinement in & narrow sphere, the disapbointuiont of a soul which fely itself born for greatness, and had tasted the high excitements of power, but now had nothing 10 do but fight over the choir with his arch- Dbishop and give occasion for 4 bundred anec. dotes w the Dublin coteries, hud matured the angey passion in bhim and souved the swoetuess of nature. Few people now, when the! up their “Gulliver," go be' youd Brobdiuguag. The rest is like o sue- on of bad dreams, tho confused mis eries of a fever. To think that in a deanery, that calm seat of scolesiastioal lugury, with- in sound of the cathedral bells and the chor- tors' chants, a brain so dark and dis- acted, and dreams so terrible, should have found shelter! They are all the more bitter and appalling from their contrast with the surroundings among which they had their disastrous birth. Fourth of Jaly Celebrations. The fact that our heroes fought for froe- dom against almost hopeless odds should be brought to mind, and their names should be hallowed in perpetual remembrance, writes Julia Ward Howe in the Forum. But. if we would crown their conquest, wo must give more attention to the good for which they died thdn to the mere circumstance of their death. The ordinary procadurs of mankind is quite the opposite of this. They are proud of tho military success, careless of the civic and ethical gain. Even the Christian church accentuates too much the death of its founder, 18 too little concerned with tho truth for which he really gave his lifo. A Lent of prayer and fasting, with dramatic repetition of the betrayal and crucifixion® of the Blessed One, may merely bring with it suggestions of devotion and gratitude. . But far more important would be a Lent of study of the deop meaning of His words and works. It makes one sick at heart to think of the formal rehearsal of groat ovents by thoso who hi no understanding of their true significance. and can thorefore claim but a small part in their real benefit. Evils of Chinese Comp ‘tition. Tt is the duty of this government, Thomas J. Geary, author of the Chinese law, asserts in the Californian, to protect American labor against unjust and degrading competi- tion, no matter whence it comes or what its form; and the labor that will by its ' yresence lower the _ standard of labor that has heretofore pre- vailed in this country, and whose main- tenance is demanded by the best interests of the land, should not be permitted entr: no matter from what country it _comes. the Pac ific constwe have oxperienced the evils of Chinese competition, and demand that the bars be put up on the Pacific so that no more of these people shall enter, and we are ready to unite with the people on the Atlantic to protect them from similar ovils.affecting them. We do not confine our objections to the Mongolian race alone, but bolieve that ail other classes or races threatening similar consequences should be treated likewise. The Chinese law of May 5 was justified the circumstances prevailing in this countr; was in accordance with the treaties made between this government and China; im- posed no undue or unjust hardship upon the Chineso people here, and was a proper and just exercise of power on the part of this Sountry. Am an interests in the far west, the maintenance of American civilization and the just protection of American labor from Chinese competition, is of more consequence than the profits of the Chinese trade, or the maintenance of missionary stations in China. The law should be enforced. We cannot afford to bave the declaration made that this - government cannot enforce its laws against an alien race in our Unived States. French Canadian Compotitors. 1t is clear that the mass of the Canad] who are settled in New England, s: a writer in Harper's, are not rapidly becoming. proprietors of the soil, their holdings, ac- cording to theiv own reports, being much below the average per capita asso: valuations in the six states, as appears from the census of 1890, They remain operatives in the mills and factories. . A few of them are storokeepers; fewer still are physicians and lawyers. Recently the French-Uana- dian press in the United States, and espo ially iu w England, has rapidly devel- oped. Thisisa protty'sure sigzn that the active politicians are taking & decided in- terest in the French-Canadian vote, and are prepared to avail themselves of the custom- ary electioneering methods for the purpose of securing it. In 1857 there were in New, England 16,806 French-Canadian voters; in 1880 the number had increased to 28,465; in 1891 it had grown to be #3.863. In overy one of the six states, except Vermont, votes equal in number to the solid French-Canadian vote would suffice to roverse the politieal supremacy if they should be transferred irom the prevailing party 2o the minority. In the pre:idential election just held this vote played an im- portant part, especially. in Massachusotts. It is said that most of the French-Canadians voted for the democratic candidate because of tho injuries inflicted on the farmers ot Quebec by thg McKiuley tarff. Howover thiat may be, itis the fact that the French- Canadian vote was a matter of much solici- tude to the politicians of both parties, and it is its growing importance in Americau poli- tics that makes the immigration of interest in this country. Modern Morality. 1t is a fundamental maxim, in this country atdeast, writes James W, Clarke in Donahoe's Magazine, that all men are and of right ought to be equal bofore the law. If, there- foro, we are to_applaud, the suppression of faro banks, policy shops, book making, pool rooms, lotteries, newspaper missing word contests, and all other opportunities for petty speculation on the part of persons with lean purses, by what perversion of logic shall the great nationalgambling den known as “‘Wall Street” be justified? Is there in tnis matter of gambling one law for the poor and anothor for the rich? Is it true that the risking of a dollar by & mochanic or a day laborer in the Louisiana wheel of fortune is immoral, while the risking of millions in a wheat corner ora railroad stock, involving thousands of innocent stockholders in ruin, is a ligitimate and perfectly moral transa tion? If this indeed be so, modern morality is Junus-faced, and the rich map’s virtue is the,poor man’s vice. Well Dressed Troops. In his “*Side Lights on the German Sol- " in Harper's, Poultney Bigelow writes: he Germuns are very thrifty in their habits, and no one visiting 4 German bar- rack room would suspect their wilitary authorities of extravagaace, yet in regard to uniforms they secm to us extremely lib- eral; each soldier has five uniforms for va) ing degrees or work. The most inexpensive is the coarse linen one used in summer about the barracks, and the most valuable one is that which he wears on extraordinary fes- tive occasions, as, for iustance, the grand re- view of the guards in the spring of the year; but beyond all those which fw wears ot more or less frequent intervals is the uni- forn which he puts on when the emporor issues his order to mobilize for war, Then is tuken out the absolutely new uniform, and with this he marches to the front, The troops that marchéd to the frontier in 1870 looked as though ready for a review rather than for the dirty work of campaigning.” BOOKS AND PERIODICALS, “The Inheritance Tax,” by Max West, Ph. D. (Columbia College Studies in History, Economws and Public Law,Vol. IV, No. 2), is o scientitic discussion of a present day sub- Jject. The first two chapters are devoted to an exhaustive review of the history of taxes upon trausfersof property aftor ths death of the owner. He shows that such imposi- tions have existed in one form or another since the time of the Roman empire, if not previously in Egypt. They now exist in most countries of continental Eurppe, in many widely sepaFated parts of the British empire, and are fast being introduced into the couunonwealth of tho United States, Tu treating of the law of the inheri tax Dr, West makes some uot_very compli- mentary criticisms on the decisions of cer- tain of our judges who have declared the tax 1o be unconstitutional. His discussion of the economic theory of the inheritance tax is novel ana instructive. If any eriticism is to be made, it 1s that, in classifying the va- rious argumonts for its support, ho has been unfortunate in choosing & short designation, For example, “the back taxes srgument,” “the lump sum argument,” convey to the or- dinary reador no meamng at all until ex- plained at length. Yot Lo any oue who will read Dr. West's monograph this will soon become intelligible. The appendix showing the comparative fiscal importance of the re- turus in various countries compilanon, In the “Financial- History of Virginia» (Columboia College Studics in History, Keo- nomics and Publie Law, Vol IV, No. 1)) Dr. William Z. Ripley has carefully traced the fiscal development of that, the oldest of the American colonies, 1rom the earliest settle- ment down ta the period of the revolution. The greator part of the work is taken up with u skotch of the sources of income of the colonial government. _‘I'he statement on page 78 that the federal coustitution forbade the importation of sluves after 1809 is, how- ever, an ervor, for that instrument simply prevented congress from abolishing the slave traftic bofore that time. The chapters ou hard money and on paper money are wost interesting readiug and would furaish 15 a valuable THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: food for reflection for somo of our populist advocates of unstable currency. The little bk by Honry Irving composed of four addresses dolivered befors the col- logges at Oxford and Harvard s ono of intor- est in its particular lino, The book is called “The Drama” and_has the great merit of being written by one who knows what he is writing about from his own actual exveri- ence, and observation of really great actors with Whom he was personally acquainted. Tait Sons & Co., Union Square, New York The bright ocolors in which books used to be bound are coming in style again, “The Endeavorers of Maple Girove is bound in bright old-fashioned bluo, the tint of the sky, and is a very readablo story of the So- ciety of Christian Endeavor, showins wherein its members sometimes fail as wel as the great good they do in the world. The book is written by Hattie Sleoper Gardner of Omaha and 18’ for salo by Megeath Sta- tlonery company, Omaha, Jenness Miller writes very sensibly in her Monthly for July of “The Husbaud of the Self-Supporting Woman," showing that the fact of a womin's beng independent need not make a home unhappy, but that it is ox. tremely likely to bring about that state of affa s, Miller seems to think it is more the husband’s fault than the wife's it unhappiness is the result, as it is only the exceptional man who could get ‘round the difflculties likely to ensue, Wo are just in receipt of volume thirty. law binding, of the series *“‘American State Repor issued by the Bancroft-Whitney company. ‘These reports aro valuable and convenient for reference, containing as they o docisions from courts of last resort of different states, classified and_divided as to states and s to subjects. The publishers will continue the series indefinitely at tho rate of six volumes per annum. San Fran cisco, Cal. *Cruel Fate" and ‘‘Plighted Troth" are tho two latest issues of the Abboit 5-cent novels. Springfield, Mass. Carlyle W. Harris' mother has issued in a neat volume a collection of the writings of her son together with his assertions of inno- cence of the crime of wife murder for which ho was electrocuted. The volume also pre- sents valid roasons for the belief held by the mother of the innocence of her son. J.S. Ogilvie, Rose street, New Yorlk. George MacDonald has just written a novel which he calls “‘Heather and Snow," bound in cadet, blue embellished with snow- flakes and heather or very pretty pictures of these beauties of Scotland. As for the story, it is fresh and strong and froe, with a minor strain of sadness and a glorious woman as a heroine. Harper Bros., Now York. A very pretty little volume bound in white cloth is“Bits of Blue,” by Wesley Bisso- nette. The poetry is just right for a sum- mer day, light, daint7 and dreamy. Charles Co., Chicugo. Honry in_his “Picture and Text" thinks 'that the drama of the future will st largely of scenery and stage offccts and that the art of acting is one lost to the world. Harper Bros., New York. bert Parker appears at his best in his nslation of a Savage,” published in a recent Lippincott. The plot is unique and the interest unabated to the end of a most impossible love story in which Mr, Parker’s wild game flavor appears more or less prom- inently. M. C. Ayers, editor Daily Advertiser, pub- lishes in book form a colloction of editorials entitled “Phillip Brooks in_Boston.” The volume is i very neat one, with an introduc- tion by Rev. W.J. Tucker. The editorials arding the work and cter of tho eminent divine have appeured in the Advertiser during the last five years. ‘The current number of the Railway contains on the first page a very r poem of some length by Cy Warman, the Colorado poet. Tt is in the ling of newspaper rience and is called “A Reporter's Re- Omaha, Neb. The Literary Digest for the weck con a protest from Katherine Parsons agains woman suffrage, in which sho says that if women bring up their boys as thoy should that no man will ever beat his wife. Astor Place, New Yorlk. James Dwight, M. D., has just issued a new book on the proper way to play lawn tennis, This author is well known author- ity on this game and asitis seven years since he first wroteon the subject the boolk will be welconied warmly. The numerous illustrations swill be a help to those who wish to study tennis scientifically. Harper Bros., New York. Brander Matthews is more silly than usual in his “Ihe Decision of the Court,’ which he calls a comedy but which is not in the least witty and is utterly without ‘ntevest or object visible to the nuaked eye. Hurper & Bro., New York. In “The Idler Magazine” for July we find a “‘good story” by Rudyard Kipling, ““T'he Logs of Sister Ursula”. ~ Tho Idle; clubdiscusses the question, “Shall wo have academy?” . The club's opinions are generally the most interesting feature of the maguzine and this month is no ox- coplion to the rule. S.S. McClure, Broad- v, New Yo Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly for July is filled to the brim with things of interest to its large class of readers. Among the more prominent articles we notice “Donna Eulaliv's Marriage,” “Greenland and Its teries,” and **Metropolitan Lifo in Sum- Mrs. Frank Leslie, Fifth avenue, New York. Jodey's Magazine for July has a water color portrait of Miss Florence Pullman and also one of Mrs, Chatfield Taylor. “A Fact in Fiction,” by Albert P. Southwick, is a story which is original in plot and full of interest to the close. The Anti-Oleo Nows has a strong plea for the Nebraska “bossy” in this week’s issue, quoted from the Columbus Creamery Mes- senger, Philadelphia, Pa. Amelia . Ba tes a story, “‘A Singer from Over the Sea,” in which " a man’s sel- fishness is the cause of the wreck of a woman’s carecr and finally of the death of his child, Of course, the man repents be- fore he dies and his widow marries another old flame and all live happily ever after, ‘Phere are one or two good churacters in the Dools, but tukan as @ whole it is of no par- tieular fore cad & C., New York. “Bothia W Now Name”1s tho latest work of Amanda M. Douglas and is a story of love, suffering and real hfe without sen- sationalism or objectionable featurcs. The story is of more than ordinary the plot is not intricate, still very readable and will suit a ¢ sentimental young ladies who 2 nice love story. Lee & Shepard,Milk street, Boston. Lady M. Colin and M. French Sheldon have just published a neat little book on etiquette, “Everybody’s Book of Correct Conduct.” Harpor & Bro., New York. houettes from Life" is a story of No- braska in the nurlIv days by ono Anson Uriel Hancock, who undoubtedly must have lived in this state as a pioncor, 4s no one but an actual settler could so vividly describe the appearance of the maple sugar trees and the “camps” wheroe the luscious sap was boiled down and sugaved off, These immense for- ests of maple trees, which the oldest inhub. want remembers vividly, have L2en gono for some years, and Low we horrow: our mapl sugar from New York and Vermont. Verily the old days were the happiest, when we grow our own maple sug obrasks is o great stato, Mr. Hancovk is*a genius and flotion is often stranger than truth. Charles H. Kerr & Co., Chicago. All the Kindergartners will oe aelighted with tho issuance in book forin of *Froebel’s Lettors,” with explunatory notes by the oditor, Arnold H. Heinemann. The publica- tion of these letters hns been in contempia- tion for years, and their appearance av last m such'neat ‘and attractive form will bo greeted with enthusiasm by the myriads of followers of this great patron saint of kin- dergartnerism. ‘The book coutains a beauti- ful skotch of Frau Froobel, who still lives at the home in Hamburg. 'Lee & Shepard, Milk strect, Boston, A pamphlet by Lucien S. Merriam is de- votea to *The Theory of Final Utility in 1ts Relation to Money and the Standard of De- ferred Payments.” Pursuing the theme with great minuteness as to detail and with accurato logic the writer nevertheless fails essentially in practical resuits, bis study being founded on crude notions of what the full “and correct purport of what money is and ought to be. All similar studies be- long under the head of economic dialectics rather than practical economics—in fact this scionco is faulty at the base and no amount of fine-haived trimmiag of the branches will supply the water necded at the root. Awmeri- can Academy of Political and Sovial Scieuce, Philadelphia, mre— Mental exhaustion and brain fatigue Promptly cured by Bromo-Seluzer. SUNDAY, JULY 2 SOME OLD “ENGLISH INNS | puss: N Hostelries for l{erry” Thavelers in the Mel- low Oofléhi\fg Days. ——— SCENE OF NICHLOAS, NICKELBY'S MISERY —— Threo of the Most Ahblent Tnns of England, from 200 to 500 Years Old, Which Are Sl the Resort of Teavalgrs. [Copyrighted, 1893.) LOoNDON, June 19.—[Correspondence of Tan Bre |—There is no place in England where such a flne example of the very ancient stono:built village may be found as at Broad- way, the “Bradwein” of 500 years ago, which nestles against the lower slope of the northwestern face of the Cotswold hills, overlooking the lovely vale of Evesham. The many-gabled Lygon Arms, a delicious resort for American and English artists and other genuine epicures of food, scenery and charming antiquities, is the most ancient of all the structures of the slumberous old mountain town, The precise structuro standing here today is known to have been occupied as an inn for upwards of 500 years, It is charmingly picturesque without and its interior is most quaintly arranged, with odd nooks and cor- ners, while the first floor of the east wing has a fine old room with a curiously carved chimney-pieco in stone, other interesting ornamentation, and a wondrous lot of charm- ine traditions about the great folk, somo on desperate businoss, like Charles L. in 1645 and Cromwoll in 1651, who have lodged with- init. Broadway itself is the sweetest old Inglish pastoral village idyl to be found in England, and to mo this ancient hostelry, with its Tudor chimneys, its many gables and dormers, its stone and iron finials, mul- lioned windows and bays, its fine old ingles' and fireplaces, with its stone walls, thick as a fort's, massed with creapers and vines, is its warmest and mellowest page. The a Tuvern 443 Yoars, Tho old cathedral city of Gloucester pos- sosses several very ancient inus which are stillin use, two of which are regarded as among the most interesting sights of the place by all foreign travelers. One of these, the New Inn,is an extraordinary relic of very ancient times and deeply interesting from its great age, its historical associations and its extremely picturesque character, 1ts architecture having many features in com- mon with the larger and distinctly Moresgue inns of Spain and Portugal. Readers of history will recall that the splendid south aislo of Gloucester's magnifi- cent cathedral was buil in 1318 by Abbott Thokey, during the period of whose abbs the body of wmurderpd King Fdward 1L, which had been refused interment in the abboys of Malmesbury, Kingswood and Bristol, was given' buril within it. Great pilgrimages to_Edward’s tomb, and wonder- fully increased resenuds to the then abbey church vesultod. ~ Jhejthrongs were some- times so csormous that the city could not shelter them, and, they, were obliged to en- camp at night outsido tho” gates, = 'A shrowd old monk, named” Jolih - Turnius, taking proper advantage-of - thessituation, in 1450, under the abbacy and with the sanction and assistance of the famous abbot, Thomas Seabroxe, built_the New Inn, which at the time doubtless had no superior as a public hostelry in Europs. ,Think of taking your case in your inn, asiyou’ can do in the New Inn of Gloucester today, in a tavern which has survived the changes of 443 years and never been closed pitlayy; Ssolusion of This Ploturesque Tavern. The quaintoldjilace s 3o cunningly hid- den' behind the grim walls: of* Northgato street that the casnat straggler. not having 1t in actual quest, would be fortunats indeed if his glance. Penflbrumd tho deep, durk arch- way separating it {rom the stroet and fell upon the old world scene within. Ican never forgot my own experience, when, wholly ignorant of the spot, and of all of dear, old Gloucester, for that matter, I had come after a wearisome tramp down from the Malvern hills, and without object or purpose was leaning against the corner of this same dark archway for a bit of rest. Turning in a vagrant way to depart. o coaching party dashed gally past me through the archway. My eyes followed the caval- cade, and then my legs followed my gladden- ing oyes. What an exquisite pleasure was in that sense of original discovery of a place s0 picturesque andold! How hesitatingly I tiptoed about that fine and ancient cour! yard, feasting on this and that like a covot- ous intruder; and, when I found that these were anybody’s pictures for the reckoning of even three pennyworth of entertainment, with what delight did 1 luxuriate at the bow window of the fine old coffee room, ordering this and that which I did not want, and tipping the waiter so immoderately that he sent another, and that one another, but tax- wg tnem all with questions so that they gaspod betweon answers, and finally woupd up by settling an advance score, which re- moved all doubts of responsibility, if not of insanity, while ordering my luggage to its quaintest old room with the loquacity of a bridegroom and the bravery of a lord! Around the entire three stories of the inner court, which i3 very spacious, run galleries upon which all the dormitories open, pre cisely as with the Spanish patio or court; while the half-story of the peaked roof is broken into dormers, hooded with protty til- ing, and their faces set, like the border of an old 'woman's cap, with simple but wondrous ornamentation. ‘The most picturesque of old stairs and landings lead from one story to the other. Huge iron ornamentations, many cast with sacred emblems in view of its orig- inal pilgrim character are found promiscu- ously attached to the doors, windows and ceilings, angles and bows. Diamond shaped panes in leaden frames aro common, Case- ment and little swinging windows are every- where throughout the structure. Niches for eftigies and carved crosses have not yet been hidden by time and change. Evorything Queer, Quaint and Old. Opposite the street archway is another lesser but picturesque archway, with the en- Lir facado of tho roar sido of tho quadranglo above showing as quaint and dreamful a sceno of restfulness and antiquity as can bo found in Burope, Through this is reached ho stable yard, now restrictod to accommoda- tion for sixty norses. In olden times it could care for hundreds of animals, as folk of qual- 1ty in the time of the IKing Edward pilgrim- ages invariably came on norseback. Every- thing about the New un is queer and quaint and old. Never alsowhere was seen such a radiant jumble of add,gorners, little arches, protruding upper stories, 'peopholes of windows, gables, ofioés] *ostries.” tap rooms and wealth of vines bd folisge and grave unctuous waiters'zawd - chubby cheeked kitchen maids, housemajds and barmaids to heighten the mystepiesy, and charm of this typicul old English inn. The * Made ¥amous by Dickens. Dead old Bowes, /it horthern Yorkshire, alongside what in*formér times was called the Great North mail, possessas ono of the finest specimens of, $ia, ample roadside inns of the olden coach m, s to bo found in all Englund. The vilfagh and this inn have always had for m g‘weh«mn fascination of any provinciaf spot in Britain, though both hamlet and ibu dre now dreary aud desolate beyond descrintion. The oid inn here, now called the Unicorn, was first known as the George, Eight coaches, bound either to London or Glasgow, daily changed horses in its great Ja in' tho good old coaching days. It isto this un that Charles Dickens, with o great and merciful motive in fiction, repaired with his friend and com- pauion, Hablot Browne, a few weeks before Christmas of 1837, where the two remained while Dickens secursd material for “Nicho- 1as Nickleby.” He had letters to 8 yeoman of ‘the place, 800 to shine as one of the immortals of flc. tion as honest “John' Browdie.” He repre- sented himself as agent of a poor widow de- sirous of Kluuluz her only boy in a quict country school. In this way he seoured ad- mission to a number fu the vivisity, though shut out of some by the wary masters. '1‘%.: "ll'hwl"nanmlnf most suitable as a_proto- type of them all, from the personnel of its savage owner and his family, with wild and desolate physical surroundiugs in keeping ow Inn nicors Vary 1893-SIXTE with the hopelessness of the school life of the plaoe itself, was the Dotheboys hall, still standing in Bowes—hardly a stone's throw from the ancient Unicorn inn, the house bo- ing now ocoupied by ‘old man Bonsfield," husband of the veritable Sr]uol‘r'l daughter, Fanny Squeers, known in_life as Mary Ann Shaw—where “Nicholas Nickleby,'" his pro- toge inmisery, tho wretched “Smike,” and scores of othor helploss young lives, are de- picted as having undergone an almost incon- oeivable life of servitude, starvation and oruelty, Acouracy of Dickens' Deseriptio Investigations showed that the horrible fcture drawn was not an exaggeration, and ro out Dickens' own statemont in the original preface that “Mr. Squeers and his school are faint and feeble piotures of an nxlsnln{( roality, purposely subdued and kept down lest they should be deemed impos- sible.”” This, Dickens’ second, and _in some respects his F-ontcst, novel was begun in April, 1838, and finished in October, 1830. At the appearance of tho first part he ran away from London, as he alw did, to remain in hiding until a distinct measure of public fayor or disfavor was shown. In the case of “‘Nicholas Nickleby” his forgivablo skulking was of short duration, The first day’s sale of the first part excoeded 50,000 copies. Not six months had passed before the torture and cruelty to helploss scholars m theso remote prison pens were abated, and before the last chap! of “Nicholas Nijckleby” had boen read, public feeling, which in many portions of the country barely escaped oxpression in riot, had anninilated every child-hell of the Dotheboys Hall variety in England. 1f you came from London to Bowes over the same coach road as did Nicholas Nickleby, when, nearing the end of his dreary journey, ‘at about 6 o'clock that night, he and Mr. Squeers and the little boys and their united lugfix\go were put down At the Goorgs and New Inn,” you would have come by the old coach road from London to Edinburgh and Glasgow. An 0.4 Roman Higuway, On leaving the ancient oity of York you would have struck into a highway 2,000 years old. Masses of Roman legions have swept, tide on tide, back and forth over the samo ' stone road. Stern Agricola, the courtly Tacitus and Emperor Servilis him- solf, have ridden toward the unconquerable North upon it. The latter left 50,000 of his army doad among the Scotoh mists and mountains, and with his face set toward Rome and home only reached York to die of his wounds and chagrin, It 1s the great Roman road of England. Watling, or Waithling, streot it is called. Away in the north of Yorkshire, a fow miles above Catterick bridge, one stem of this highw goes on through Durham and Northumberland, and thence to lidinburgh. The other swings around to the westward, traversing Westmoreland and Cumberland, through Carlislo to the great Roman wall, which once protected Britain from the Cale- doninn hordes, and thence, in a more modern coach road, winds through the olden lovers’ haven, Gretna Green, to Glasgow. On this western stem, between the rivers Tees and Grets, at tho enstern odge of Stanemoor, nearly surrounded by desolate moorg and in the northwest corner of York- shire, lies what is leit of Bowes. It is difiicult not to wander away from a description of the old Unicorn inn at Bowes, among the literary and antiquarian things of interest in its neighborhood. The inn itself must not be confounded, even under its old name of the George, with the George inn of Greta Bridge, six miles nearer Yorlk, now used as a corn mill. To disguise the exuct location of Dotheboys hall, Dickens made Squeers (Shaw) travel with young Nickleby three miles from the Ge Inn at Greta bridge to the supposititious “Hall,” followed by the ‘“‘cart-load of infant misery.” What they really did do was to dismount all together from the York and Carlislo coach within the inn yard of this very Unicorn, and‘ then shiver along the crooked, cobbled single street of Bowes, until they arrived at the “long, cold-looking house,” 4 little way bayond to the west, and “a tall, lean boy (poor Swmike!) with a lan- teru in his hand issued forth.” The Unicorn, which seems to have com- plately escaped the attention of English antiquarians and travelers,s is not only re- markable from its associations, in having peen the most important inn near the bor- der, betwoen York and Glasgow and Edin- burgh in olden times, but in also being the largest of .those ancient English roadside hostelries still extant which were called into existence by the necessities of travel in the old coaching days. Noar Whore Wiillam and Maleolm Battled, At its very door the Royal Mail began the ascent over the great north road of weird, dreary and vast Stanemoor, peopled only by witch and warlock; silent ever save from howling tempests; and with no semblance vt humans upon it, save at its desolate top, where William the Conqueror and Malcolm of Scotland fought dreadfully and long to decide the boundaries of their respective kingdoms; and then wisely stopped and feasted, seusibly deciding that on the very spot should be raised the great Roi (now Rere) cross, or *Cross of Kings,” on oue side of which was graven the image of William, and on the other that of Malcolm; but 800 years have eaten these old faces away; and none others will be seen until Kirkby Stephen, nestling in the valley, on the other side toward anciént Penrith and Carlisle, is reached; all of which gave travelers' cheer at the Unicorn a special zest not unmixed with a tinge of dread. Its form is of a double quadrangle, each fully 100 feot square. The ono next the street has its entire front open to the great inn yard thus formed. The two sides abut- ting the street comprised respectively the inn proj a long, two-storied and garreted stone structure, with s perfect maze of curi- ous old rooms approached by outlandish stairs, entries and landiugs, and rendered additionally bewildering by countless niches, cupboards, alcoves and biind panels; and the other a buge brew house, with dozens of granaries and store rooms behind. The side opposite the street provided offices and sleeping accommodations for guards, post boys, whips and all those inn helpers con cerned o working the coaches, or dealing with the tired cattle of the muny travelers on horseback, merchandise packers and wagoners passing between Lngland and Scotland a century ago. In this quadrangle are also many open stone sheds, with tiled roofs, stone feed boxes and neat, slanted cobblestone. floors, where private vehicles and wagoners could find temporary shelter in great numbers; and in the center of this quadrangle, sot about with stone drinking troughs, is the most tremendous ancient pump I have found in Kngland, still creakingly serving the scanty uses of the presont degenerate days. The quadrangle behind the inn yard is formed by what remains of the ancient stone stables, where scores of pairs of post horses could have found comfortable quarters and as many more carters’ and packers’ cavtle have good shelter and care. sz The Old Kitchen and Tiny Taproom. In the hostel proper tho huge old kitchen must have quite equaled the famous ancient kitchen of Old St. Mary's hall, Coventry. There aro still to be seea a half dozen coffee and broakfast rooms, low, with deep win- dow seats, quaint cupboards and odd old oak paneling, Where guosts wore served in par- ties and groups iustead of in a common hall, ' There are tons and tons of lead in the roof gutters, about the window frames and siill firmly Holding the ancient tiny panes of glass. Little old parlors and sitling rooms, with curious windows and most ancient stucco worl, are still recognizable; but most inter- esting of all, und illustrating the customs of that early time, is a tiny taproom opening into tho rear of the inn yard. 1t has low onken setiles built stationar. into wall and floor. Its huge fireplace is full of tiny cranes for steaming kettles. In one corner is an oaken bed, inclosed in & closet- like frame, where landlord and barman could ot only retirs at night completely from sight, but also lock himself in against up- roar and disturbance; and the window to this room is & low, portly bow, in the center of which, above & tiny stout shelf, is a single hinged pane. ‘Through this the stable men, hangers-on, the late night travele who'might be honest or otherwise, we servod with usquobaugh of foram’—only after thoy had deposited coin of the realm and the latter had reached thoe hostel tre ury, great buckskin bag within the dark recesses of the barman's fortifled bed. Now the Old Tavern Seems Dead. A wonderful (old curio }is the Unicorn at Bowes, all unknown to the f«ople of Eng- land themselves, Liko the village it is dead in its shell. Its oaken timbers, as those in Raleigh's old home &t Youghal, seem ever- lasuing; but its moaning belfry, its empty stables, its crumbling dove cotes, its forlorn brew house, its emply taproom, its grass- grown lnn yard, and even ils present oceu. pancy by a strange creature half plowman and half schoolmaster, who stares listessly up and dbwn the great North road for ocon- sional vietim in wandering bicyolist, less frequent literary tramp, or yokel from the noar flelds, all serve to' emphasize by con- trast tho choer and stirring aays that once wore hero, As overywhere in England along its grand old highways where stand these crumbling monuments to tho mellow coachiag days, there remains but mournful silence where thore was an army of helpers and horsokeop- ors; whore the bow-legged post boys, in their high chokers, high hats, hugs buttons and gorgoous waistcoats, led livos of positive re- nown; where the tinklo of harness brasses and clatter of hoof were endless; whore “Rule Britannia” from shrill-keyed bugles enlivened the constant departure and arrival of coachos; whero the smart cry of “First air out!” set-the inn yard and stables in igh commotion; and whero, through the livelong day and’night, a great roadside inn, like the Unicorn, was the brightest, live: liogt, chiceriost, most harum-scarum and do- licious place to be found in all the length and broadth of “Merrio England." YA L WAKEMAN, — A pure article of champagne is a healthy beverago. Get Cook's Kixtry Dry Imperial, 40 years' record. P — CONNUBIALILIES, * Dicksmith—How do you account for Miss Muchcash never having married? Kajones ~Hasy enough. She's to blamed stingy even to entertain o proposal. Lucius Langdon Nicholas, who has just married Mrs. Bishop, mother of the late mind reader of that name, is said to be great- great-grandson of a Russian emperor. The marriage of Mr. Frederivk Ayer of Now York city to Miss Case of Paris, whose engagement was recently announced, will take place, it is said, in Paris this summor, ‘‘How often,” he said, with intenso sar- casm, “do you expect to bo engaged this sum- mer?” “Oh, dear!” she answered, ‘‘don't talk that way; you know I despise arith- metic.” An engaged couple ot Bluefield, W. Va., recontly ran a footrace. Tho woman won, and then refused to marry her lover on the ground that sho did not wish to wed an in- ferior. He—I shall nover marry until I meet a woman who is my direct opposite. She (on- couragingly) —Well, Mr, Duffer, there are numbers of ‘bright, iutelligent girls right in this neighborhood. Maude (speaking of her finance)—I don't believe any othor young man living has such a tender way of making love as Tom. Kato —Yes; that's what I al' s used to think when he was ongaged to me, Sweet Sixteen (daughter of a widow who is still young)—I want to marry so much! But if Ishould happen to like a man and mamma didn't like hini, she wouldn’t lot me marry him; and if mamma did like him, she waukd probably take him herself. The duke of York and the Princess May aro going to sot an example to young couples starting in life. The royal pair will keep house in a lttle cottage at Sandringham, which contains besides three bedrooms only two small sitting rooms and a study or ofiice for the use of the duke. It is simply fitted up with light and inexpensive furnituro, and is altogether a modest very dwelling, “I shall never believe there has been much romance in_your life, Mr. Bond.” “Well, there has. I proposed to an heiress by mail. She accepted mo by tolegram, which an error of transmission made a refusal. I went west. When I returned her father had failed and she had married a poor man, I recovered the amount of her dowry, with interest, from the telegraph company, but lost it all when she sued mo for breach of promise.” According to English gossipers Prince Francis of Teck, brother of the prospective bride of the duke of York, is to marry Miss Nellie Bass, a daughter of the wealthy brewer. Tho British public is likely to ro- mark: *‘Ere's a «state hof things” if this rumor turns out to be well founded. The idea of the future king of England being alliea to hops and malt is likely to shock the shoopkeepers into a series of violent fits, The young woman, however, has lots of money, and Francis has none, and it is very likely that the'match will be made. A prominent lawyer of Buffalo, says o paper of that city, tells of o compromise . he once mude on béhalf of & cortain railway company with an Erie county farmer, whoso wife had been killed at a railroad crossing. A fow months after the terrible bereave- ment the husband, who had sued the com- pany for §5,000 dbmages, came into the ofico and accepted a compromise of $500. As he stuffed the wad of bills in bis pocket he turned to the lawyer and cheerily remarked : “‘Vell, dot's not so bad, after all. I've got fife hundret tollar, and goot teal better wife as I bad before.” Mile. Isch, the young telegraph operator in Tiflis with whom the second son of the czar, Grand Duke George, has fallen in love, is said to be a beautiful girl. She is the last descendant of one of the oldest noble fami- lies of the province. She is poor, however, and was obliged to earn her living. She chose telegraphy and became the head of the Tifhs station. There the grand duke met hor when he was scut to the Caucasus for the benefit of his health. He was first intro duced to Mile. Isch at a ball at the house of the provincial marshal of nobility. It is saia that the czar and czarina favor the marriage of their son and the young woman. SRRy EDUCATIONAL. ‘The women of Massachussetts have con- cributed $2,428,078 to the educational institu- tions of that state. Princeton university has conforred the de- greo of doctor of philosophy on_Edwin J. Houston, professor of science in the Boys Central High school of Philadelphia. Sonator Stanford acted the part of a wiso man in building and endowing his great uni- versity during his lifetimo, 1t is in_opera- tion. 1t will live, even though its foundor ve dead. Nothing was left to chance. 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