Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 9, 1893, Page 10

e 10 NEW NEXICAN RAIN MARERS How the Promise of Conquistadors de Vargas is Kept in Late Times. CURIOUS CUSTOM OF A QUEER PEOPTE Conveylng the Tmage of the Virgin from the Cathedral to the Church of the Rosary s Braye Procession, - Corpus Chrl When a snobbish Englishman said Amer- foa was an uninteresting country because it had no ruins or antiquitics some Americans | folt & littlo giilty. That was becauso they had & sensitivoness unworthy American and because they were not posted on their own country. Any man who wants antiqui- tles may find plenty of the most interesting kind down in the wonderlard of the south- wost. Much has beon written of the ruins of that section, but little is known to the outside world of some of the ancient customs which atill survive among the simple people. Most curious of these are the religious pro- cesslons of Santa Fe, N. M., oneof which at- tracts devout visitors from ail parts of the territory. Down 1n the City of the Holy Faith, lying almost in the shadow of the Rockies, but under a burning sun, the plous natives have an annual ceremony for propitiating God and bringing rain to their thirsty land. Two hundred yoars ago, when Diego de Vargas Zapata Lujan Ponce de Leon (‘‘restorer, con- queror at his own cost, reconqueror and founderof Nuevo Mexico,” as ne loves to call himself in his chronicles) camped before the Pueblo stronghold of Santa ke, he made a vow. Other Spanish commanders had been trying for twolve years to resubdue the re- voll Pucblos, but in vain. This vious conquistadore sought heavenly aid by prom- ising, if granted victory, to erect a church and take a yearly pilgrimage to it. Ho ensily drove the Pucblos from their mud houses, and he erected on the site of his camp tho church of Santa_Rosarie (Holy Tosary). But in time de Vargas passed away, and the good padres seized upon the annual pilgrimage as & means to impress the simple natives with the poteney of prayer. Santa Rosa) mud walls still stand, and tho procession to it just before the rainy scason marks one of the most remarkable of rellgious ceremonie: June has faded into July. Wild roscs whose perfume a few days ago filled the air with wondrous fragrance have ripened and fallen petal by petal till only their bare heads crown the bushes. Daily the sun glares more fiercely, while the dust coat on the pinons and the scrub codar deepens. On its stem the alfalfa droops, and the blades of the maize are curling. In the acoquia the few drops of water that now run are but feeble reminders of the cheer- ing torrent that bore to growing crops trength last week, In the deep ce of the torrent is found. Un- mes tortillas will be few and And, Blessed timo come lesy rain ¢ ! frijoles scarco next winter. Virgin, here is the rainy scason’ theso ' five days aud not a drop of water have ~ we had from the sky that burns like burnished copper by day and shines like brightest steel by night. Even the dews are failing, and while tho crops wither the prayors aro fruitless. ut not yet is hope become hopeless, In the lessed Mother of God still is trust reposed by her children, and by her interposition you may the rain be brought in time to save che famishing fruits of the earth. It is ap- pointed tfim on Domingo next the people shall gathor and with due ceremony and reverential procession convey the image of the Blessed Virgin from its rest in the great eathedral to the little church of the Holy Rosary, where, in communion and_conjunc- tion with the imawe of the Blessed San Jose, she can intercede for her faithful followers, and by her benign influence thus auspi- cio‘usly exerted bring on tho long delayed rains. It 1s n Solemn Sunday. Sunlay is here. In semi-tropical wrath the sun beats down on the baked earth, Cvery living thing shows the need of the ro- freshing rain. At the cathedral, at San Guadalupe, at Santa Rosarie, at each church and chapel this mornin mass is said with more than usual solemnity and pious ceremonial Heads are bent with contrition, each of the congrega- tlons in vain endeavoring to place the sin so lovous that has resulted in the with- rawal of the rain, while each heart in humble devotion avows a pennance to bo performed if the prayersin silenco uttered are answered 1na shower, With the after- noon comes the assembly at the cathedral. Now is the supreme test of faith. 1n the absence of the good bishop, the reverend father, who ofticiated as celebrant at high mass this morning, approaches the altar, and voices an carnest prayer. Deep tones trom the organ precede a solomn “‘Ave Maria,” surpliced boys swing their censers, the hot.oppressi is rendored almost insupportavle by pungent odor of the smouldering spi then a solemn march about tho chancel ‘and from her pedestal 18 hifted the gilt image of the Virgin, By hands that touch with decjost reverence, it is borne and placed onthe richly decked chair on which the good bishop sat last Corpus Chmisti, and beneath the same canopy of silk, 'Outside tho band from the mouastery strikes up . solemn processional, and borne on the shoulders of four stalwart maidens, the blessed image starts on its journey of about & mile to the church of anta Rosarie. In the meantime the great throng of ple in front of the cathedral has formed nto an irregular parad There is no attempt at brave disy No holiday attire 1s indulged. It is an occasion too grave to warrant the show of worldly vanity, Itis a step taken only as is extreme unction, when in extremis. Bofore all marches a black- robed sacristan, and after him, in pairs, come the monks in cowl and gown, their hoods drawn forward over their faces, their tread s slow as if proceeding to a funeral. “They, in turn, are followed by the acolytes, who are dressed in the severe garb of the neophyte, who has set his foot on the way, but has not attained the monastic degree. Ma brazon instruments wailing forth a hymn that is @ a dirge, 80 mournful sound its strains, comes the band. Fehln\l it march the choir boys, bare- headed, and clad in surplice, chanting a hywmn in praise of the Blessed Mother of the orla’s Redeemer, Other boys swing cen- sers, and tho wir is filled with an aromatic fragrance strangely different from the peeu- lise odor of burning pinon and cedar to which the dwellers in the City of the Holy Faith have become aceustome In gowns of deepest black and bonnets drawn forward, their haunds folded in front of peaceful breasts, or telling the beads of their rosa- rles, is a double file of nuns, Sisters of Hu- mulity, who feel the deep significance of the proceeding of which they are part. Then clad in purest white comoe a group of mafdeps, virgins to do honor to the Lady so devoutly worshipped by all good Mexicans. They are the especial escort, the guara of honor, of the image. And thén the image, [ A Bolits Her Queenly Statl On a platform six feet wide by eight feet long, draped with costly rugs, sits a chair of state, adorned In regal fushion. Bright 800 is the silken fabric that drapes the seat and flows in sweoping folds to the plat- form. Over ull is a canopy of silk, in blue and soarlot, the heavy fringe of gold hanging deep on overy sido. It is such a chair ts monarchs might desire 0 be borne to triumphal feasts on. Carefully balanced in the chair is the image of tho Virg, With a step more gentle than she ever made in the graceful valse despachio, cach of the four bareheaded maidens marches soberly 3 each conscious of the high honor that has fallen to her lot and aware of the gift she will have to bring to the shrice of the mother for thus having siuglod her out from auong her sisters Lo uid in 50 doep s religious duty In such conspicuous mauner. undréds who Lave not the courage, or physical, to brave the burning heat the sun, line the sideways of Palace ave. mue along whioh the proocssion woves. As the saoristun comes in view heads are un- LoV and in reverential quiet the thron, awaits the approach of tho image. Every knee is bent aund overy voice mutters u _prayer to the Mother as hor gilded present- ment passes. _ After the image comes another group of in white, all swelling a hywn in of the Virgin. Th Mll:mfi4 more nuns in Next come the pee ple. Ola and young, the grandsire and the babe totter side by side, tho one from age, the other from lack of it. Matron and maid, sturdy manhood and adolescent youth, they trudge along barcheaded. most of them bare footed, breathing the air now burdened with clouds of dust raised by tho tramping foet of those before, but unmindful of all these dis comforts they go, borma up by the trust that from this act of devotion will come the boon they so much erave, the rain, All this is strung out along the broadest thoroughfare of the capital fully a mile in length. ‘There are several thousands of the firm belicvers in the rite in that column which slowly winds its way along the dusty avenue, and the head of the procession ha almost reached the destination before the end has fairly passed the cathedral. But not for this do they halt, It isa pilgrimago made for the purpo porsonal salvation in its most materialistic scnse, and the jour- ney must be done in its entirety, or the labor may be in vain; for a lack of “courage ¢ mean a lack of faith, and the reward ight Whon Falth Has Gone Tts Length. Before the door of the little chapel the head of the long column swings round, the band for & moment, ceases its mournful wail- ing. o roverend priest pronounces a benedi- cite and the door is opened, And then, while all kneel in silent adoration, the bearers of the image move forward with slow step and enter the precincts of the chapel, where for the next soven duys the Mothor of the Savior will with her eartnl husband plead for the boon of 'taln for tho ble ing of her faithful followers. ‘Ihe maidens and the nuns enter the chapel. ~After them the priests, and there amid the odor of sweet spices, in words of lovo and dovotion, is voiced an appeal to the glovified parents of the Son of Man to fulfill the desire of the people. 1t is a simple ceremony that is per- formed in that chapel, typical of the simple, trusting faith that resorted to this rite. Then the candles at the altar are ex- tinguished, the censers are lowered, th chant is hushed, and quietly the maidens, nuns and priests, $he people, all withdraw from the sacred presence. The doors of the chapel are closed, and for seven days they will not be crossed by mortal foot; for within will be a communion too holy for human mind to comprehend, while the angels from hea ather with the glor- ified couple and join them in their appeals to the Most High. It is a livelicr strain the band plays on its homeward march; one year it was partly Yanke “Marching Through Georgia" and a nameless quickstep made fa- miliar long years ago by the circus bands in the north. The people, too, showed the con- s of a good deed well done. Had they not fulfilled the commands of the padre? And would not the rain come? Was not the Mother all powerful, and would not she bring the showers all solonged for? Munana?” Quien sabe? In this particular instance the rain fell on the Wednesday following the procession on Sunday. On n Corpus Christl Sunday. In strange contrast to tho funcreal aspect of the procession that escorts the image of the Virgin from the cathedral to the Church of the Rosary is the Corpus Christi parade. There s some confusion a8 to the exact sig- nificance of this coremony, but there can_bo 1o mistake concerning the spirit in which it s obscrved. Acquaintance with the north- ern mode of dress has robbed the procession of much of interest to the onlooker from the states, for the quaint Spanish-Moxican cos- tume is missing, Yet, aside from this, the event is notable in many ways. In times rior to 1883 it was the chief festival of the church; although the other fixed events were observed with becoming ceremony, none were markel by the pomp and cireum: stance that characterized Corpus Chriati, Itis a bright Sunday in June, when the sterile sands of the country around Santa Fe are showing their bravest efforts at vegeta- tion. In the mountains the wild flowers, 10305, Violets, blue bells and many other rop- resentatives of the indigenous flora aro sending.Qut great waves of sweetest fra- grance. “Pine troo and fir, ccaar and mes- quite are decked in_vernal splendor, their shades of green blending in a monochrome of emerald. Bluc of the bluest is the dome that reflects the rays of a sun, tempered to dwellers on earth by the cool breeze that fails not till the hot days of solstice aro passed. All nature scems attuned to the ceremcny the faithful are about to partici- pate in. ~ At the cathedral the throngs as- somble. None who can walk is absent. Many have already traversed on foot miles of sandy waste this morning in order 10 take a part in the parade. Mass is said, and now the line is forming. There is a lit- tlo delay and some confusion, but soon the great column swings into motion. 1t 15 & Wonderful Column, Standing on a portico past which the pro- cession must pass, we have every opportun- ity to view the features of the display unhampered by the sun or dust. Witha dignity that comports with his high oftice, marching back wards, bareheaded® and bare- footed, -comes ibe black robed sacristan. Following is a group of surpliced singing boys, who continually voice a hymn in pra of the Redeemer. Then a body of monk who add thelr hoarse bass to theshrill tones of the boys. These ave followed by anothor group of boys who bear great baskets con- taining the petals of flower: Many an acre of roses and violots has boen stripped in pre- paration_for this event. Then the censer boys, swinging thelr pots of smoking spices, and then, borne on the shoulders of four stalwart young men, comes the Host. An- other body of monks and then the band, it heading a long column of mem of a groat religious order, the oficers of which muke much show of their insignia of rank and authority. More boys have other baskots of rose leaves and then come tho nuns, in solemn file, telling their beads as they march, Preceded by the altar boys, swinging high tho pungent incenso, comes the venerable Bishop Lamy. Ho is seated on a gorgeous chair of state, supported on a platform and covered by a canopy, the wholo draped in silk of crimson, blue and gold, rich in 1ts brilliant coloring, and borne by four strong men. _After the bishop march tho acolytes from the monastery, the novitiates from the nunnery, and the children of the Sunday school. 'And then come the people, Tt is an unformed column, They march as they please. Here they are strung across the narrow street, filling it comp! y from wall to wall; then they march in pairs. But not a head is covered. Many feet are naked, The child, reely able to toddle, clings to 1ts mother’s hand, T'he old man. to whom this Corpus Christi may be the last, leans heavily ou his staff as he struggles with fee- ble feet to keep his place in the columu. Hero and there is a bit of bright color seen, whero sbme careless maid or vain young beau has decked the sombre costume with a bit of ribbon or silk. But the prevailing tone is deepest Dblack. The gorgeous sorapo is 1aid aside, and tho sombrero has been loft at home, while the black shawl hides whatever of color there may lurk in the bodice, It is a religious holiday they make, and there is no need of flaunting the vanity of earthly things in march of the heavenly. Praiso as They fass. As the procession moves along the sacristan claps a signal; down 'on bended knees sink the following thousands; a brief prayer is sald, and, sioging the gloria, all arise. In rising the boys who bear tho flowers cast great handfuls of the petals in the air, and 80 the way of the Host and the bishop is literally strown with roses. An- other fifteen paces, and the throng kueels again in obedience to the signal; another prayer, another gloris, and more rose leaves ure thrown in 1ho air. This is repeated out the entire march, whic y covers about three miles. While the of the bishop is strown with roses, wnd the air he breathes is sweet with the breath of fluwers and the fragrance of incense, it is not so with (he thousands of his flock who Wudgoe the dusty way after him. Keeling and rising, march- ing and halting, the myriads of fect stir up @ dense cloud of dust; this mingles with the pungent odor of spice and -renders the mr almost unbreathable. Long before the last files have passod tho outlines of the thyong are but dimly discernable in the dense cloud of dust that hovers along the line; but on they trudge, knecling and rising, saying their rayers and singing thewr glorias, tili some threo hours after the start fron the cathedral, the head of the procession re- turned there,and the feast is over. Several hours of sunlight is still left, and this is spent iu tho sports that most delight the beart of the Spanish-American ; at Santa Fe it is cock fightiug aud monte, bull fighting aud Sunday danciug being prohibited. W. McCuriovan, = The No. § Whecler & Wilson with its ro- tary wmovement, is the lightest runnin wachine in the market, and is unw]umlnfi for speed, durability and quality of - work. Sold by W. Lancaster & Co., 614 South Six- tecuth street A LONDON RENT COLLECTOR The Wretched Oondition of England's Low- Class Tenantry. CURSE OF IGNORANCE AND DRINK Wakeman Graphieally Deseribes the Woful Existence of British Paupers . an the Depths of Degradation to Which They Have Fallen. [Copyrighted, 15931 Logno, June 20, —[Special to Tie Bee. | — My companion was as interesting a char- acter as one can easily find in London. T made his brief acquaintance at a time when, turning costermonger, I had rent to pay for somo coster frionds and myself in tho un- savory precinets of Hare Lane. 1 secmed to interest him; ho truly interested me; and we grow to be friends, or as much so as his natural suspicion of all humanity, as a Lon don rent collector, and his fixed and amiablo idea that there wero in the whole world, out- side of London, few poople and littlo terri- tory *‘worth worritin’ a body's 'ead about,” would permit. He had in earlier days been a police in- spector, and bore somothing of & record of vigorous experiences in the East End re- gions, from certain missing fingers, some- and ears than originally allotted, with various and vagarous gerrymanders of his face, neck and scalp which unpleasanuly binted a riot, am- bulance surgeons and curious capillary and cuticle transplantings in the general hospi- tal. A period of ethical and physical revose as beadle, which followed the efforts of some Billingszate “mobbers' to convert him into amangle with which to playfully “smooth out” some of his fellow inspectors, which retired him from the force with por- tions of his organism intact and a small pen- aion, gave him something of a benien look. This was curiously blended with a wise ju- dicial air, for having for a time, as truant- school “visitor,” inspector or datective, en- gaged in chasing truant scholars upand down eutter-spouts, into and out of ce pools and sewers and up chimney-flues and beneath their mother's petticon land them behind the wall of the “Ragged Sehool” prison. He was indeod, though stately and ealm in demeanor, a man literally of parts. Duty had, as it were, rendered him plainly divis- ible. And I never had higher esteem for his short, broad, energetic and always prespir- ing wife's exactitude of doscription than when she groaningly remarked that ©“Wil- liam E y Hevans was no less thana hobjec.” A hobjec,” she would repeat in a sort of exultation of dejected admiration, “Hi must remark 1t; a hobjec us if ‘e goos on a gottin’' seppurated by wagabones an® houtlaws, an’ Hi outlives 'im—w'ich Iprays Hi dou't!-'Il put mec on the poors rates a buryin’ *im in bits.” Mr. Evans, whom 1 always addressed for his service record as “Mr. Inspector,” and who always returned for the same a fine of- ficiul salute which displayed the two re- maining fingers of his right hamd to the best advautage, was now in the charities und the rents. He was employed during certain days of each week by one of those London charity organizations which support as many officers and committees as wards, to unex- pectedly drop in upon its fow dependents at their homes, and observe if the teaand tracts bestowed were effecting uprignt liv- ing; and it was from his reports, from which he wisely eliminated the separation of his own members, that data were secured for those touching annual reports of beneficence which draw tears from honest Hritish eyes and shillings from plethoric British pockets. “IV's wery risky askin' a cove,” Mr. In- spector often said to me, “‘as 'ow "is soul be; pertickler on mornin’s w'en ‘e aint quite outen a overnight gin crawl. 'E aint rightly hisself; ah’ wiile ‘e's mutterin’ 'damyour- teaan’tracksany'ow ! my ’‘abit is to mind lest e sends on a'ead a chair er firm er ‘atchet to interdooce "1s ‘eated remarks!" All other days at Mr. Kivans’ disposal were occupied in the collection of rents. 1 should not like to repeat his observations regarding this vocation, or the people with whom it brought him into business relations. On the one hand were some of the worst, and to me the most pitiable, of London's lowly: on the other were two maidenly sisters, over 70 years of age, immensely wealthy and far uglier and greedier than they wero ri Among their properties were scattering small houses and tenements bevond the Bethnal Green region, to the north of Mile End road; some of these in the most cor wested of London districts, and others strag? gling along desolate half-country Endless dinning andl dunning were neces 10 secure any manuer of returns-upon thes It was always o problem with my frion which was the worst end of a day—his rounds among the vigorous-lunged brawlers in his endeavors to collect rent, or his meet- ing with the ancient dames when he turned in his petty daily returns. Thoy veceived him 1n_ high dudgeon and chintz wrappers and with cudgels like a policeman’s billy, their shrill invective being emphasized by crashing the cudgels upon a huge oaken strong box standing between them, as though it were the heads of thewr recaleitrant ten- ants or Mr. EEvans’ own picturesquo cranium, which, he confided to me, he always kept as conveniently near the open door as consist- ent with his obligations 4s a man and a col- lector. He also often related that these inter- views always torminated in a mild protest on his_part “as ‘ow ’eaven itself couldn’t make Britons true out o ‘scampers,’ " whore- upon theold ladies went right away into “conwulsions,” yelling ‘‘Hoot!—toot!" at him and set to beating the chest witl greater vigor than ever; during which martial thundering he always quietly with- drew: and it wasmy study of this word “scampers” which enabled me to discover that there are supposed to be more than 100,000 famities in London so known to laudlords. Allof this brought me to Mr. fvans' door atan early hour of a recent morning for the purpose of accompanying him on a day's rounds for the collection of rents, Mr. Evans, in his ancient, bell-crowned hat, high collur, broad stock, short top-coat, long waisteoat, buggy black trousers and huge thick-soled shoes, looked overy mch a man of affairs. An ink bottle was slung to one of the big buttons of his shiny waist- coat; & well-worn pocketbook filled with blank receipts, arrears records and quit notices was under one arm, and a very heavy walking stick, giving its owner something of un oficial, was held handily under theother., e scemed glad and relieyed at the prospect of company. As we trudged along Cheap- side and Whitechapel road he favored me with an analytic disquisition upon London scamper campers,” said Mr. Evans judicially firmly, *is o bad lot—leastwise nearly all on ‘om. - ‘They're fiyers, flitterers; slippin’ in a '0us0 Unbekuown; stayin' as though they howned it, to th’ point of summonses, an'— scat! away they goes like a passel o' Gypsies.” *'Ow does they git that way? ‘em’s born so; most of 'ew. Some on 'em's ground so. Some on 'em's chased so. Some on ‘em finds others scampin’, an’ jess takes to 1t like costors does to buttons au rumpuses. Many on 'em’s made sa by reg- isterin’, summonsin’, finin’ and the worl us; fur if once the School board claps its PAWS 0N yOr young uns, it's pay the rate er work a “finé, an' nothink but death an’ scampin’ e:n keep the young uns theirsel's outen school or prison " In justice to the old rent collector's truth- fulncss 1 should add thut even this strong Jaugunge does not convey the faintest idea of the endless war going on in the great cities of Englatd between the school boards and cortain classes of the poor aud ignoraut. The state, through its various statutory provisions for combulsory *free” education, enucted during the past ‘twenty-threo years, in offect says: “You, Tiny Tot, aged 5 yeurs, attend such school as we wmay provide, or select, overy school day of until you are 13 years of age, or have passed the sixth standard, or we will clap you in a criminal institution: and you, Tiny Tot's father, must pay for what we compel your child to do, or we will fine you for every absence recorded against it, and tax you for the cost of its ilmprisounmeunt what less provision of nose ally and Some on are to THE OMAUA DAILY BEE: SU whenever wo finally shut it up; and then, if you cannot pay ita actrued fees and fines, and acoruing Judgments against yourself, we will also clap yenin jail until they are paid or are liquidated by imprisonment when we will then . release you and again begin tho samo wholesome care of yourself and your offspring 1" Out of this oxquidite system has grown, naturally and in order, millions of school haters and liars: hundreds of thousands of petty law breakers before tho local magis cy ; tens of thowsands of children—crim- among the good and bad alike: an army itors,” ingpoctors and detectives, whose unempowerod though universally ox sed brutality among helpless children and distracted and jghorant mothers is inex- pressibly infamous: and hundreds of so. called industrial schidols, or “ragged” and Siru re more popularly whatever their merits of management on the line of the leg ized are an incxeusable outrage upon list wero noisome court in which tho sun light never came. On our approach there was a lively scattering in_every direction of that portion of the half naked population with whom we had business, who eith totally disappeared or barred their doors against our entran ach unpromising ne- gotiations as were possible were of necessity held through keyloles or broken panes wluss. As was the collector's custom here, he shortly announced in a loud tone of voice that, as he had nothing else on hand that day, wowould sit down and wait. We did sit upon the filthy firm which had just been vacated. Certain indications of restlessness were soon plainly audivle from within. This scemed to communicate itself to those neighbors on the outside who, themselves being accustomed to similar experience from other sources, through the natural alliance of misery, began a series of mancuvers for our discomfiture. A basin full of dirty water suddenly rained down upon us, and tho old court rang with coarse laughter Strapping barcfoot girls, in a sort of horse play began hustling us as if by accident, king handy use of their elbows and fists while avoiding pretended tumblings upon us; and this became so threatening that the col- lector’s stout stick was called into effective use. Then somo rotton cabbago fell softly upon us; and this was followed by a well directed discharge of cinders and ashes, Coals could not be spared, or our situation would have proven exceedingly restive "I'hen the women of the court began cdging up to us with crooned commiscrations forour prisoners. They lauded their integrity; de- plored their misfortunes, and decriod the sad spectaelo of such fine folk being “wor- rited for a beggarly bit of rent.” Mr. Iivans remaining unmoved, they suddeuly became hysterical with abuse; shrioking unprint- able maledictions and anathemas until, in a frenzy of sorrowtul indignity, they bared their scraggy breasts and besought us to strike them down they were sure we were brutes enough to do: supplementing this by entreating us to murder their “hin- fant hoffsprings afore their heyes,” the said skinny mites of misery beine held out to us for that beneficent operation. The imperturbable Mr. Evans, in an side” to quict my own rising trepidation, whispered, “the cows as no ‘arm in ‘em;’ and quietly taking a metal whistle from hi: waisteoat pocket gave it a significant move- ment to his lips, following this with the soothing vemark: ‘‘Laaies, Hi'ates to sum- mon the pollis!” whereupon every one of the red away to her respective habi- Final negotiations in this cesspool adation resulted in serving payment from one tenant, solemn promises and ~ tears from others, and a sixpence, ha'penny from a blind female beggar who swore, tostreugthen her excuses, that she had lost her dog. the latter making u farewell vicious assault upon Mr. Evans' heels in proof of her misfortune and probivy. It was now nearly noon and we were gradually reaching the more open districts, though it seemed characteristic of all tene- ments enterod that the same huddling and crowding of humans, the same want and squalor, the same filth and ignorance, the same sodden indifference to the least of life's decencies and the same universal ad- diction to the curse of drink, existed as are true in_the worst: sections of Cheapside, Shoreditch, Whitechapel and the Minories Atvempts at decoration and cleanliness where in - exceptional cases cheap priuts adorned the walls and the tiny living rooms were fairly habitable from even occasional application of soab and water, though the meanest necessities of life were wanting, were rare, because frowned down by the vicious majority who seem merely to live to drink and drink to live. We found one had been completely wrecked be- cause the offending family had dared put o bit of cheap muslin over the window. “This a settin’ theersel's hup o'er their neighbors 'ad to be made a hexample on !’ Tho daily tragedies of lives with better pirations, yet forced by want to this in- conceivably deadening and hopeless associ tion, were a thousand times revealed to me this day, In one abode where we called for rent, four naked children lay huddled in a corner of the bare room under a handful of rags, be- cause the last clothing from their bodies had been pawned for drink, The father came home often enough and remained long enoug to beat the mother and snatch some utensil, serap of clothing or bitof furniture and run away with it for drink, ~Wat's a body to do with such houtlaws?" groaned the coilec- tor. “This place 'asn’t paid the missuses a peuny’orth’s rent in a twelvemonth!’ Ay arag fair near 1 got for less than a shilling garments enough to cover tlheir nakedness; for another shilling left them more food than they had devoured in o fortnight; and on lines of friendship compelled Mr. Evans then and there, while denominating me rious species of ‘‘hasses,” to receipt a month’s advance rent for the filthy coop, against that much chance for a family’s tife in the world's metropolis. As the mother came running home from cleaning foul, cast off boots in a near moldy booth, she shricked over her good fortune as though the coffers of the Bauk of England had been poured in her iap; and tho neighborhood was set awhirl by the mite of charity as though a fire or a murder was in progress. A few Gypsy familics were encountered, Every one paid promptly. Groups of costers, huddled in genial coulmunistic fashion, i variably badgered Mr. Evans with promises of jolly beatings, but finally paid, leaving him for the time scathless and whole, At various places the badinage was fearful and at no place did we fuil to receive sarca: tic inquiries as to whether we were “ho dashus" enough to rezard them as *dook: ud mayors® and the like, coupled wi still wittier requests for the loan of an, thing from a *‘thrip’enny bit” to a “bob” or & vquid.” In one housé we encountered u child actually dying inits bed from con- sumption, Its mother, who sold.vegetables, had placed an unfilled preseription from the parish doctor in its listless hand, as excuse against the collector's call. T left some- thing ¢ there, but”’ vhe child was too far gone to even smileitsthanks, And so, on wnd on through a dn{i, tome ayear's, in- describable scenes of Afe hopelessness und despair, until the very last place on the col- lector's day's list was reached. “No trouble 'ere!™'suld Mr. Evans gayly as a skinny hand ‘vésched through the broken panc of a basement window with the amount duo and | was withdrawn the instant the rec ced withinit. I thought diff y and pushed into the fonl basement room. “Don't, don't, sied”#a voice pitifully p‘lemlud. “They'ro mot always that way, s ] tation. of rilth and deg two notices to quit, a week's full The ter, Dickens, was wont to so thrillingly tell, was instantly revealed.” There on the dank concrete floor lay twél Rideous objects, father and mother, swollen aifost - purple and in- sensible from drink. The speaker was a dwarf girl with hup baek and huge head, skiuny, white, horrible.” She kept this hope- less home together by working day and night at chopping up old bavrels and ~boxes for “*kindlers,” getting beatings iustead of food, even keeping the beasts of parents in drink, and with such bravery, sacrifice pa- tience and terror as we of better fortune can never know, living the hell-lifo dauntless and true. Bruises and lushes showed on her head, neck and arms as she looked up scared and pleading. 1 was two half crowns worse, or better, off for this pitiful sight. She clutched them tigerishly in her hands, thon euddled them against her breast as a mother might & new-found child that had been lost, then sho fell upon her hatchet and Kndlers o o strange looking heap, aud as I rejoined Mr. Evaus—who was still varying his species of objurgational “hasses,” in view of my “'soft" conduct—and we turned toward the awakenlng ity lights, I heard this brave little dwarf setting forth upon 0 her, before unknows journey within the human region of grateful sobs and tears. Evgan L. WakeNax holo story, such an one as the mas- | DAY, JULY 9, 1893-SIXTEEN PAG HOW T0 REACH THE BIG FAIR Delightful Trip is Assured Those Who Take the Lake Route. SWEET MUSIC AND COMFORTABLE SEATS Some Intelligent Plan of Seoing the Maild- ings Should 156 Mapped Out in Advance by the Short-Time Visitor— Novelties In Watches. Criteaeo, July [Special to Tng Bee, |— The most comfortable and delightful route by which to reach the exposition grounds is by the lake. Numcrous steamers ply be- twoen Van Buren street wharf and Casino pier. But it pays to wait for tho whale-back steamer,Christopher Columbus.and a beauty she is from storn to graceful, slender prow. She plows the waters of Lake Michigan, leaving in hor wake a narrow track of snowy foam. She is fitted out with machinery of the latest make and her cabin is handsome and commodious. Sweet music delights the passengors who rest upon the cushioned soats. Many prefer the decks, whero they van view the approach to Jackson park, which, indeed, is rather a disappointment, as the buildings do not show up from the lake front to much advantage, nor present as fine iew as when seen from the ele- vated railrond, ‘While visiting the fair sity to have the it is a real neces- some_intelligent plan of doing buildings, and unless the visitor, and 11y one \Wwho remains but a short time, arringe some program, tho result will bly be the memory of a conglom- ss of cverything under the sun i in particular. A good plan is to tako one building at a time, passing quickl the exhibits that do not interest you and e maining for & minute inspection of Lk that do. o For i this varied collection from all over the world there can be found objects of interest to all. the sido of one of the doors of the n exhibit m the Manufactures building 4 magic mirror that affords consider- able amusement tothe passers by, trans- forming, as it does, persons reflected in its polishedsurface into regular little fat dump- lings of men and women. Timid ladies blush, laugh and hesitate to pass beforo it, but the gentlemen all scom to enjoy the ri diculous change and delight to pause and ad- mire their new shape. T'he door besido this looking glass leads to a display of all kinds and shapes of 1uirrors and sereens, conter tables, and stands, all of glas: One of the sereens 15 of heavy plate glass in the form of a large opon fan some five feet across and hand-painted in pink ros mounted upon silver, Anothor largo thr paneled scre of smokoed glass in a carved oalk frame, ated with purple flag lilies Also an odd three- rod hall mirror, with white lace inscrtion in the frame. Tn Switzerland's fine display of watches can be seen bouties and oddities well re- paying a close inspection. By purchasing an album watch the devoted father of a large may carry the portraits of fourteen in his timepicce. Or, if a gentle- s on time, he should himself with a pocket chronometer which is warranted not 1o vary six scconds in a month. Then there are repeating wateh. striking hours, quarters and minutes: porpetual ecaleudar watches indicating tho days of the week, tho date of the month and the phases of the moon; also watches for he blind, with raised figuros on the dials. The very latest gentleman's timekeoper is called the “Toubiilive” and is_worth $1,000. A handsome parfor watch three inches in diameter is of silver, engraved in figures, the wosks richly jeweled. 1t is valued at §2,000. The smallest watch in all the exposi- tion is to be found in the Suisse exhioit. 1 judge its size to bo about three lines, The oxquisite and uniquo designs in ladie watches are certainly not surpasse in_all the world. One flower de: is that of a fachsid in red enamel hanging suspended from a diamond pin. If a hidden spring is_touched, open fly the potals of the flower and a miniature timepicce is disclosed. In another, the heart of a diamond daisy conceals a tiny watch. Or you may timeniece the face of which is hidden neath tho diamond wimngs of . life-size beetle of red enamel or iu the long body of a yellow butterfly with wings of sapphires or Tubics, Or perhaps you might admire a cherry of red enamel, the stone of which represented by a little watch. Judg- mg by the articles in this and other displays marked “sold,” the infercnce may be drawn_that the forcign exhibitors will leave in this country, in return for American gold, many spoeimens of their fino workman- ship. A ladies' elegant wateh of blue or red enamel may be sed for $50, which is very choap, or I pay for one in a dia- mona pendant, or #5 for a golden swan with pearl and ruby vings. Across from this display may bo seen that of the Holland delf ware, composed of vases, plaques and pictu Very dainty looks this blue and white china from the cloane: country on the globe, where tho farmers wives docorate the cows' tails with ribbons id serub the sidewalk every morniu hreakfast, In the Japancse exhibit are some curious cabinets of hand carved ebony and others of inlaid gold and black lag k. Two pe- culiar looking wooden anir ctod m tention. I thought they must b to his satanic majesty. But upon inquiry of the polite Japaneso attendant ho ex- plained that they wero the curioas growth of the roots of trees with two glass oyes in- serted intodog-like Two inquisitiy fomales took posscssion of the oblizing Jay anese whose accent and articulation of the English language was well-nigh perfoct and asked him how long he had been in America, Iwo months” was tho reply. “iave you learned English sinco you came?” wits the next idiotie quostion—for they were evidently bent upon a persos interview with a reallive Japanese and th list of querrics was caleutated to discover his past history and future intentions. Adumirers of the nude inartcan find stuaies in'the human form divine at all points and intermediate points of the compass. X old Venus de Milo, whoso avmless condiion fuspires a sefftiment of pity, has become such & well known figure that one feols like grect ing her with the salutation and inquiving after the stute of her health this warm weather, while marble Adams gaze flercely down upon the throng, ana numerous Byes droop tneir stony eyelids or Look up bossech- ingly into the fleecy clouds as it to bog a lit- tlo drapery in which torobe their clussical limbs. Grace Hixes, —_—— There re tOree UNNZs Worth suying-— Time, Trouvle and money— and Do Witt's Littlé Early Risers will save thom for you. These little pills will save you time, as_ihey act promptiy. They will sive you trouble as thoy cause no pain. They will save you monev 4a they economize doctor's bills. - CONNUBLALITLE! for A lover, like a kernel of corn, tu when he pops. Clara—Why are you so bitter against him iuul because he proposed and you refused him?! Maude—The wre ! He said he would never ask me again. The marriage of Mr. DeWolf Hopper 1s an- nounced. Marriage with most peoplo is an event: with some it is ahappening; but with Mr. Hopper it soems to be merely an occur- rence. General Kzeta of Salvador and Miss Alda Dent Wright of Georgia are to be married in New York early in the fall. Miss Wright is & typical southern girl and is s of ihe moat beauiiful of the Georgians. eral Izetn is vien president of Salvador and will be president next year, DA bevy of pretty givls at the beach w making impressions in the sand with their feot and measuring them to see which had the smallest foor While thus ¢ bright girl, the daughter of a pohtician, with a laugh, said: *“This is far from inter: ns white esting. What we need, girls, is men, not measures.” Congressman W. C. P, kinridgo of Kentucky is to marry Miss Madolin I inridge Pollard, also f the Bluo Gr She was formorly a department clerk in Washington and was dismissed becauso of some indlscrect romarks upou tho death of General Sherman. Mr. Breckinridge is a widower with several grown cldren It is now looked upoa as a cortainty by the London society journals that Prince Allred of Edinburgh will eventually marry the little Queen Wilholmina of the Netherlands, eral obst Sov. and another | Berlin, who has a covetous o dom of Holla progeny. The engagoment is announced of Mis: Mary Louise Curtis and Mr. Edward W. Bok, editor of the Ladies' Home Journal. The young lady is tho only child of Cyrus H. K. Curtis, proprictor and publisher of th Journal; sho is 17 years of age and was born in Boston. Miss Curtis is a beautiful girl, and hor graciousness, amiability and swoot- ness have endeared hoer to all who know her. The marriage with Mr. Bok will not take place just yot, for Miss Curtis is detor- mined upon a collogiate course, and she on- tors thereupon next autumn. Tho Manlinzoss, who inhabit a tract of country in Africa, aro strict Mohami in religion, but, euriously enough, they rotain many of the superstitions of the negro race from which they sprune. Consequently their marringe coremony is a mixture of tho two, and, although it is performod by a mar- about or holy man in the mosque, it contains one very ridiculous etement. Next in im- portance. to the marabout is the bride- groom's sister, and when the marriage coro- mony reaches the point where the visiblo bond, usually typitied in civilization by the ring, appears this sister steps forward, and in plave of tho ring prosents the lady with a pair of trousers, which are immediately donned. ‘The coremony is concluded by a very mournful song sung by the companions of the bride, who then conduct hor again to the homie of her parents, as owing to the ox- tremo probability of one or the other rotract- ing at any moment by reason of an un able omen, vo house is built until the mony is completed. Polygamy is tho rule, Dbug each wife has her own house 10 keep he from quarreling with the other wives are the most tyrannical wives in Africa, and, hating each other, band together against their husband and rule him with a rod of iron. —_———— MUSICAL AND DEAMATIC. Boston is to haye her now music hall, and 0 will save her Symphony orchestra. The $100,000 needed for the building hus been subscribed, Mr. Denman Thompson has annoynced that ho will not appear on the stage noxt season. Hoand Mr. George Rier, the author of “The Old Homestead," will collaborate on anew “hayseed” drama. Although “Becket" has boen played 100 times at the London Lyceum theater, it o tinues to draw crowded houses, Mr! Trvi continues his revivals of old plays as a pr aration for his American season. Miss Maida Craigen and_Frederick Pauld- ing, who have accepted an emotional play, by Alice E. Ives, have signed a contract to produce it carly in their tour which begins September 18, The sceno of the piece is luid in Russia. A New York caterer nerian evenings he sells five lager boer than usual. & posor who makes the A Strauss waltz is oly ise Niicita of Chicago has just ro- ceived a letter from Anton Rubinstein ¢ ing her the leading role in “Dei Maceab to bo presented in La Scala, Milan, Decem- ber 16, She is under engagement to appear at that time in St. Petersburg. Mr. William Gillette, who has boen south most of the winter,is now in Hartford, Conn., at work on a play of Amorican life This 15 the first drama Mr. Gillotte has at- tempted since he wrote “Hold by tho Enemy.” Mr. Gillette may star again in comedy next season. Mrs, Oscar Beringer's play “Boss, has just had a trial in London, 0, pear 1o have won much favor. brious story of a ays thaton Wag- times as much rauss is the com wine flow. Directly played champagne is » which s not ap- 1t is o lugu- mother who sacrifi everything, even life, for the sake of wortlloss son. (ienovieve Ward was only moderately successful in the principal char- actor. Miss Alice Elton, who has been somotime absent from the stage because of il health, has gone to New York with the expectation of signing for noxt season. She was for two years with the company of Danicl Frohiman sent out to play “The Charity Ball,” and mado quite a suécess of _the part of Phyllis Lee. Mudame Janauscheck s gotting ready to bid farewell to the stage again. Her lnst appearance will bo made in Philadelphia somo time in September, and 1t is announced that G. W. Childs of tho Ledger will take a prominent’ part in the ohsequics, havi made all the arrangoments and being the general organizer of the affair, Adelina Patti has roturned 1o Craig-y-nos, as put into study the new opera by which she will include inher tour in next winter. It is enti- * and tho text 1s by Charles A. Byriie, on American newspaper iman. The tion pass gn of Louis XIII, Patti in the b playing the part of a nun. The heroine is said to bo identical with the “Charmante Gabriclle? of the song attributed o Henry of Navarre. The composer recently gainéd the prize in a con- test at Bologna with an opera upon Heine's story, “Willlam Rateliffo.” Upon tho story of Ttatcliffe, Mascagni has also recently fin ished an op Edward Hurrigan hg lirondacks. James O' New London cottage, tat at Greenwood lake. Theress Vaughn will spend her v tion at Red Bank, N. J., cottage. Louis Jime Kansas City, and M out wost, anilactively en in cf her mind in regard *o her next plan, Heonry E. Dixey will scck re in Europe, returning In timo to be tour September 10. Mrs. Lesli spending her summer vacation in Now York, and will not be scen on the stage again until late in the autumn. William Gillette will cnjoy himself at his old home in Hartford, where he hopes to complete the play ho writing for Cliarles Frohman. Adelu Prince will spend the summer 1 London and Paris, returniog to assuma tho leading roles in tho company at the American thuater, New York. Modjeska will spend tie months of July and August in southern Califort where she owns a largo rauch Isio De Wolf expocts to remain at her home in Now York city until the fall, when she will sume her place in pany. ne fishing in the cill is not at his ight is also snging gin his rier is -— Busy poopie haye no poopl ume, and gonsible have no inclination to use pills that kuday for every dose the /have ledrnod that the use of De Witt's Little 1arly Riscrs doos not in. terfere with their health by causing nau: pain or griping. Theso little pills are per, et in action and rosulte, regulating ths stomach and bowcls 50 that headuchos, diz- ziness and lassitude are provented. Thoy cleanse the blood, clear thy complexion wnd one up the systom. Lots of hoalth in Shess hivtlefellows. Omaa, Jul > the Editor of Tite B Please answer in Sunday’s Bee and give some idea what is meant by “Siugle Tax. A, W. The term “A Single Tax,” is_appliod- to such a mothod as would centralize all tax upon tand—the bare land. This would leave all improvements go freo. There is wo au- thoritat basis from which to determine how far franchi , 8tocks or other forms of wealth analagous ' to land would be taxed under this rulo. It is based on the thoory that land is not productive and should bear the tax instoad of its belug borno by woalth that is broductive. Wealth in o foru, how- over, is productive, bocoming so only' when used'in combiuation with labor. Land, truo enough, is & monopoly, but not more so than wealth, for it is purchasable to all alike who have wealth cnough with which to buy '** MOTHERS" FRIEND’? 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