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16 o 1E OMAHA DAILY BEI SUNDAY, SEPI'EMBER 10, 1893--SINTEEN Al HALLOWED BY SCOTIA'S BARD : — | foenes Made Memorable by the Writings of | Robert Burna. | the ten years INCIDENTS IN HIS REC/\LL[D{ LIFE Wakeman's Wanderings Ayrahire 1de in nnd Dumfrissshire - Interosting ens tion of Poet and Places from 1ts Source Lo the Sea, | cait pyrighted. Avn, Scotland, Aug. 26 of Tne Bee. | —In that broad and measure less sense in which a poet of the people knits his into the hearts of 1d Seotia 18 Corresponaenc personality adorab all of f Burns nation Land v - entirc truly the graphical grand Inac both ling.and have personality and genius have been all-pe o associa- f the bard's uc are, provincially, dis “Burns’ Lands” in Bonuie left on every ha tion and endur tual prescuce, tinctively two Scotland These o shire, on the Firth of Clyd and Dumfricsshire, on the Solway Firth, ad counties of southwestern Scot Iand sm the top of Merrick mountain in tho northern part of Kirkeudbright shire. which wedges a strip of glorious hill country up to the north between the two former sLires, to which I had tramped to wander down the Doon from its very source, the sight can traverso the entiro breadth of both the Ayrshire Land of Burns and the Land of Burns of Dumfriesshire. There 1s not another scene in all the world more fraught with glowing natural beauty: not another one more mournfully sweet and tens dor i gentle and pathetic memories, o the eye tho panorama of all the lovely land in which the brief life of the bard was passed is practically complete. To the mind all the vast host of his poetic creations; the joy and sadness of the man in their doing; the penury strugele, glory ana despaiv, from birth to death, are here massed with oy whelming impressivences, To the west Ayrshire, at first, by the birth-spot near pleasant Ayr, sunny and low besido the sea. Then, following the vale of tho Doon, it comes all the way to your foet, in gentle up- lands, then in rugged hills and shadowy buras, and finally in huge mountains and savage glens. Passing over into Dumfries- shire, the mountains spread mto broad, lux- urions vales. One, where the murmuring Nith winds to the Solway, is & dream of opulence und rest. Then as tho spires of old Dumfrics town blend with the ragged Solway edge, ‘“hoary Criffel” looms threateningly. At last a glint of blue shows where is Brow Well, from which the poet, close to death, was carried back to the little Dumfries cottage and his loyal Jean; and like a tiny dazzling cone of white is seen the dome of the huge mausoleum where old Scotia’s dearest bard is av rest in cternal peace. Epe The two shir —the weste the upla Lishits, the sy most fecund and n ominder sining [ a is % 1n Burns' Life, s and thew sea and ds, the ery topography its soft shores, the mids rugg ed ot valley where the bard's his happiest_hours were It at Lllisland beside the Nith, the low- ering mountain again, the glint of the sea and 1 nation’s grave —powerfully suzgest the two cpochs of Burns' eventful life. Ayr- shire saw his youthtide; his foverish, fer- vent early struggles. Dumfriesshire gave the only blessed calm he knew; the sad and desperate later days: and yet it was in Dumfriesshire that the greit heart grew still. Ayrshire glories in his birthplace, the scenes of bis youth, the unfolding of his geuius, the first acknowledgement of his fame. ~ Dumfricsshiro is glovified by his riber fame, his better accomplishment, even by the pathos of his later days, and by the precious heritage of cherishing his mortal remains. Though here to wander by the Doon, to which the mind unconsciously reverts at mention of the poet’s name, while pileriming among the countless shrincs created by his living presence in these two shirc 1 Jooking down aloug tne flaming shaftof light that links his genius and world-givding human love and magnanimity to the fadeloss immortality of his n e, Ieannot but feel that the scenes which most breathe to the beholder the the spirit of ineffable pathos and tenderness belong to the second e of his life, and lic along the Nith ins clustering about he banks and bracs o bonnie Doon.”” True, from where you may standhere with Merrick's” heights the Ayrshire shrimes, almost within the Jimit of vision, are vichi and countiess, You may not discern cach ono with the naked ey, but you can plainly seo where all may be found fu a short day’s Journoy. The spivres of Ayr secm almost beneath your feet. Just outside the rim of verdure shutting in the city, where a faint curling line of misty purple outlines the sinug course of the Doon as it nears the sew, ars the low-roofed thatehed cottage where Burns was born, beside the splendid seat of Roselle, on the littlo favm of seven acres which was rented by the poct's father, and the spot where the Gypsy hag forctold, us the father was riding in haste for the doctor, that We'lla' be proud of Robin, Fa ) wh on Mine Soenes. Not half-mile distant can bo deseried the rotting bell tower of lloway's Aud Haunted Kirk All about are the scenes of “Tam o' Shuntor,” and near on a slight en- fnenco ean be seen the white, colonnaded shafts of the great Burns monument Buta fow miles to tho northeast in a pleasant ehampaizn_country, now dotted by thriving villwges and threaded with emerald Hnes of hedge, coppice and plantations, nre Tar- Dolton and Mavuchline, but four miles apart AL the former was Inid the seene of “Death and Dr. Hornbrook,” and it was hore that the pathetic parting of Buwn aud his Highland Mary occurred, You can sce the sauare tower of Mauch line castle, whose owner, Gavin Hamilton becamo Burns’ patron, and will know that at this village was “Johnny Dow's” house, and still remains unaltered the public house of “Poosic Nunsic,” sceno of the “Jolly Bog gars ;" while over there but a mile and ' half west' of Mauehliue is the noted farm of Mossgicl, once conducted with such ruinous heroism by the poet and his brother, Gil t. 1t was here that the “Cotter's Satur duy Night and others of Burns' greatest | pocms wero written, and where the poct after preparing Lo fly to Jumajen and sud denly beiug called by Dr. Blac to Edinburg, from which he hud retu in triumph, was clasped in his poor old mother's embrace while her costa lips could only utter the cry, *Oh, Robert! Robert ! These and countless other interesting with many tender identifications of bard and place or object are yours when wandeving in OF near tue vale of the Doon. I'ney are all fine and good, und worth coming i long wiy 10 enjoy, but 1 do not think all of them tako hold of the spe which broods on the other side of those mountaius in the Dumfriesshire land of Burns. Perhaps it is your own attitude and sentiment. Perhaps in the Doon country the Buggestivencss of he youthful, vagarous, {mpulsively riotous earlier yoars of the plow. mau poet, when he himself sang of the “Rakish urt of Rob Mossgie! haunts you like hiuts of hovering shadows. Perhaps, 100, 1t _is the occasional shock 1o our Own reverenco that nos and then comes o the holiday sory of levity in thousands from all lands who come and poke about aud #o. 16 though there we: & certain kind of purient gratification in fue remarks ou the sacred episodes of Highland Mary, and od 1y G the heart us doc v ontle, loyal Jean, and on finding where - | worlal poet soul was sent among the buman harwonics in the dark recess of the Ay cottage —forgetting that the Master iu the lowly manger came. Bonuie Doon, S0if youknow all tho strauge story and double picture, you fustinctively turn from the vague buffoonery casual pilgrims iuter- pretin the first part, to the later aud botter | is ubou Ppart where the stroug, tue iread of poot and fl to the rres wh yme; and here, at the honnie Doon, with er into Nith vale rs town to the roaring Sol way tides and em to know, as of a loved one gone, the deeper, tenderer mysteries of | his environment and iife. The period covers eceding his death, from his year of age:a period into waed 1 pecsonal hope and | disappointment, jov and suffering, remorse | for impulsive wrong doing, heaven of purest domestic oliss, temptation Ana victory, ng onized despair and triumph, than fail to the lot of most great n theirentire live I'here were first the disownment and deser. tion by Jean Armour: the betrothal to High land Mary | sad parting and her tragic death: the g n the now priceless though the o Kilmarnock nof his pocms preparation for flight to Jamaica; the triumphant visit to Edinburg the gencrous caring for the mother and brothers; the glad reunion with his Jean, and the homebuilding at Eilisland over thers by the songful Nith The came” the bricf, bright procecds of s¢ nt th Creech Edinburg publisher, netted him th niticent sum of nut & ). Magn; n generous always, h of this first and last material good forcune vor knew, went to Jean's parents, sist his brother, Gitbert Burns, in ing disaster in the latter's farm life offorts. | His lucky meeting with the ingenious and | kindly Patrick Miller of Dalswinton Hall | tiod oceurred, 1t had been settled that the poct, who hated the city witharoyal hatred. should return to the plow. The nobility of the day never quite forzave this plebian longine and love, the source of his grandest insvirations. The beautiful farm of KIl island, five miles above Dumfries, was taken ata rental of £30 per year, Burus unaided an his farm labors the fivst Monday after Whitsunday, 1388 Heo toiled manfully until the autumn of that ar, meantime singing many a lusty song 1o his absent wife, and built the lovely cottage which stands emn- bowered in roses to this day. Burns at Iiis Home, And then was celebrated the simple but rious home coming, when, with rustic rites, and his bonnie Jean upon his arm, “preceded by s peasant girl earrying the family bible'and a bowl of salt,” he marched proudiy into s little home-fieaven beside the winding Nith. All evidences agree that in the brief period of u trifle over Lwe years, between Whitsunday, 1355, and Martinmas, 1791, Burns and his good Je exnerienced an Eden of labor and love, despito their tinal enforced departure. It was also the period of Burns' best and greatest accomplishment, — But more children ame to them. These must be supported he crops failed, and inevitable riin wus pproaching. It was then, with nowt clse on earth to turn, with 1o one on e to defend him from tho wretehed influer of such environment, that to save his wife and children from actual want, he was forced to accept the government position of excise- man at the beggarly pittance of £30 per year, Ih: five remaining years of his lifo, after the poct, his Jean and their three children, Robert, Francis Wallace andWilliam Nicol, removed to the humble lodgings, wnd then their cottage homo, in Dumfries, checkered, sad, pathetic beyond comprehension, are known to all. It is becauso you see along the wit alley’s ways the Burus of reality—ma sturdy, weak us you or 1 n _like plights, gen- erous, magurnimous, pitiful, great—that you linger and still linger here. You can see him singing at his toil by day, or by the ingle-neul with Jean and the bairns at night, ittlo south window, working way at the tiny deal table when the inspi- ration came. You sec him guest of luirds compauon of cottagers, and beloved of all. There not in all this fair dc win a castie, a gentleman's seat, a cavin or an old road- side inn that existed in Burns' time which does not preserve some relic of the poet, or some revered mewory of his ono time pres ence. The eyes of your consciousness may know, all through " Dumfriesshire and Kirkendbrightshire, at this farm house of some unrecorded kindness; at tho next of some pleasant incident ; at another, of an odd adventure; now of perhaps a forgivable roy- stering; then, of some blessed help in tune of uced; again, of festivity of which he was the Life, and again, of prayer. Praver from Burns?' Yes, prayer with the living and at the couch of the dead, among those so lowly that somehow those “spiritual excise- men” who delighted to league the poet ex- ciseman with “Auld Horme” had no time from their “higher” parochial duties to mia- ister there. You sce him riding about the country on his two horscs, *Pegasus” and “Peg Nicholson,” not as cxciseman rapa. cious with the scourging instruments of law but keen with friendly warnings instead ever leaning to the side of merey; saving, not ruining, the ignorant and lowly. You see him, as the bitter days come on; with a your hearton the curse which cursed when the hand of poverty crushed hum, and there was no helping one o save. You'sce him av Brow Well with the con ssof death, still the most lovable of men, und alone with his vible there. You see liim carried back to tue little cottage to die, and you hicar then from the lips of loyal Jean the mighty disproof of all slanderous tonzucs in the one sentence, glorifying the husband and man: *He never spoke mis- behadden word to mein a' his life!” And vou know that tender husband and loyul wife rest together beside the songful Nith, A Witeh ey, Two tiny streams, hardly more than brooks at some seasons of the year, and having their sources in respeetive lochs like litile moun tain tarns, are the real source of the Doon These littie lochs lie at the eastern and northern edges of Merrick mountain. They have the curious appellation of Kagton Land and Gallow, or Gala, Lane, They flow north and empty into s greater loch called Loch Doou, an_expanse of water perhaps seven miles 1 longth and nearly a mile in_width, “This in turn discharges its waters into the now real river Doon through most pictur- 1e gor and tunnels, forming mauy beautiful, if not majestic, torrents, forecs and cascades. Thence 'the course of the Doon is northwesterly to where it reaches the sea, about two miles below the ity of Ayr, and itz entire length, inclusive of the expanse of Loch Doon, cantiot be upward of forty miles, pictaresque. st tral in fow irreverent the utmost sou misting ey past old Dumfr man of you look 27th to his which was cr h The his mu 1sly the Burus and to avert dave i hing gV vy about Loch Doon is wild Its northern horizon is a lofty mountain fringe of hoathery heights, broken here and there by 1, rocky ' esearp ments of purple and puce this loch, for u distance of about miles, the Doon winds prettily between the Ayrshire hills throuwh reaches and past quaint old v 5, but without that exquisite variety of vank and brao for whict the pen of Burns has made it famous At Patna, or stilta little further at Holly bush begins 1ts tortuous windings. 1'rom here to the sea there is an ever varying suc cession of the most idylic riverside” pictures to be found in all Britiin, These w dis tinetively the boyhood haunts of the poet After Hotlybush comes Dalrymple, perhaws the loveliest village in the loveliest vale in Scotlund. It scems in an endless slumber in its nestlike vale, hushed by the murmurous lullabys of the Doon. A little beyond is wcient Casillis castle, a noble old mansion on the left bauk of the Doon, famous in song m the elopement of Lady Jar st wife of John, sixth earl of Casillis, “the grave and solemn earl,” with the noted *Gypsy Laddie” chiof, John Faa Fr Casillis castle 1o the sea the aistance twolve miles. Hero there is not a straight reach of the Doon a fourth of a mile in length, It twists and turns, forming | overy conceivable faneiful contour'of shore; | is hid between verduve coyered cliffs to leap in iuto sunny openings, bre into broad shallows with lawn-like edges, then with o rush scampers to covert beneath overhanging trees whose branches, dipping 1 its surface, sob and sough minor refrains to its own melodious music. Fair wdeed is the Doon, a8 Burns knew it, as it now is. ist the old bridge, past the new bridg pust the old Alloway Kirk, past the cotty where he was bora, bast & myriad thrilling witcheries of leat and blade and bloom and bank and brae, o the very spot where it is hushed in the vast blue sea, Lo wander lovingly besidé 1t s to Teast anew, and marvelously elose to the personality of hiw who maae its melodies beloved straios to ear aud heart in utmost lands. Ebcar L B George (. Chase, Bates college's elected president, may be said to have worked his passage. He has raised about $140,000 for the benefit of the institution T eeler & Wilson s of thre 1t is alwa Laucaster & Co. wnd eno! v Wakemax newly- The “No. 9" Wh perfect stiteh with Ciasses of muterials Sold by Geo. W. 16th street. makes i 1 ki | the bay 1onall | "ANID THE RUINS OF POMPEIN Viewing the Famous Buried Oity and Its Excavated Contents, ANCIENT LIFE AND HABITATION REVEALED ymforts Days And Coaventences of the Early trasted with the Present— Glories of Naples and Its Entcancing Row B Aug. 20, Our vo, from Correspondence of T age of eighteen miles across to Sorrento, a lit city situated high above the sea on vine-clad hills, was delightful veyond description. It was almost the sunset hour when we arrived, that hour of the evening whoen toil is ending and evening rest ag when beautiful sounds and unpleasant ones dic ing down te the day's ronching, eautiful wway rapidly. Pass. wces gleaming with statuary, under foliages ot orange, lemon, peach, pear and plum, the luscious fruits yours for the plucking, we com palace amidst Here one W mo 0 our hotel, a veritable magnificent surroundings finds rich and great from every as the little place is now what it has been for centuries, a famous summer resort High up on this summit, from balconies over- hanging the sca, the glorious evening greets us with an Italian sunsct of such splendor of light and color us has never yet been caught by artist-brush. Before us Naples, crescent- shaped, between mountain backeround and mirrored bay, the blue waters reflecting her lights, which glimmer beautifully, flashing her outlines iu a fairy-like way. To the right, some seven miles away, towering in solemn grandeur, rises old Vesuvius, wreathing forth his vapors in graceful clouds thousands of feet fnto the clear sky Far below, murmuring the sweet breathing Itke sound s0 1 harmony with the tin el restless Mediterrancan gleams, its surface dotted with thousands of white sails, which in the soft light look silvery liko the sturs usthey are reflected by the blue waters. This scene surpusses our expoctations of Navles and her beautiful bay. It lends a perfect seuse of ideal beauty never before presented, ‘Tho sea sounds charm us into a_sense of rest entirely new to tha tiveless wravelor, Here ono is’ away from th driving, dusty world. sur- rounded only by clements that produce sweet dreams and perfeet rest. Such sights such sounds we fully appreciate are enough o make the dying request to be carried to thesca. Itisa besuty that conforws with the quiet of a parting hour, The diguity of death, of going away entirely alone into an unknown, is not marred by such scencs. The place does not make us sud. It rather puts one's being into a kind of harmony with the scene, and the seuse is joyful wnd never to be forgotten, Amid Anclent Rulns. From this lovely retreat we dr carrige road, skirting the s high upon the hills, to Pompeti. lasts two and a_half hours, and from the height of Sorrento miles arounc and down to the water's edge, as at Cas- tellamore, only a short aistance from Pom- peil, where we rest and lunch, before pass- ing through the gates to the ruined eity. As this is onc of the most interesting places we visited our readers may enjoy a descrivtion of what we saw, and our telling what we learned 1t is important to kuow that Pompeii was built upon a small hill, formed by an early outburst of Vesuvius shore of the bay. A the little city, where about 30,000 persons re- sided, among them many noted ones. Pompeii suffered from a serious eruption of Vesuvius in 63, A. D..at which time many of her temples and dwellings, along with her forum and basilic, were destroyed. Before all this damage had been repaired, or some sixteen years later, came the fearful eruption that so effe destroyed the whole place, Only about 500 skeletons have been found. It scems remarkable that so many people escaped. Buton learning that du ing the first outbreak only ashes fell, and at ouly about three feet in “depth, this was suflicicnt to allow all to escape.” Many peo- ple returned for valuables when came the sccond shower, adding some five feet, soon followed by others and still othoers, until the city was buried twenty feot. The vapor from the voleano condensed and fell in a fine and steady rain. forming the ashes ana pumice stone “into a kina of liquid mud. Many of the buildings had a second story, reached by a stairway inside or outside of the house. The timbers were erushed by the weight, and the debris fell within the walls, and all into the mud or wet mixture which of itself so well preserved all. This falling woisture prevented any distruction by fire. ‘L he clime ve by flue . though ‘e drive arrics us sxcavating at Pompeii ha tensive, but at Herculaneum litt done. The city was at th on the western slope and was covered be neath burning lava, which tardened, form- ing a solid substance dilicult to work upor We learn that it was during this awful trial that the elder Pliny lost s life. He was with his flect at Misenum, some nin miles from Naples, when he noticed the p culiar situation about Vesuvius, Setting out for a closer iuspection he landed at Stabia now Custellamore, where he watched until retreat beeame necessary, during which he was overcome by the sulphurous. vapors and thus perished under the ashos s they fell The vivid word pictures of the horrible scenc—how the sea seemed to retreat, t clouds settled, the inky durkness hid nedrest rowds of mei, women and children hurried from Pomp aming aud crying for the sound of a famliar voice, as fricnd after friend separate® in the awful din, are left us by the younger Dliny, a nephew ot the gencral and historian, who was also his adopted son Digg In digging been ex- © has been foot of Vesuvius ug in the Buried City, a ditch to carry water some peasants came upon some columns, which led to an investigation. Sinee thit dute, 1748, excuvating has beon carried on Oneof the gites to the buried city shows two catrances, one wide, paved with lairge lava blocks, the other nar y paved with the beaten earth. The museum of Pompeii is just within, and ere is found every ob joct of intercst that has not been carriéd 1o Apies to the great waseum there, Tn this Pompeii collection we sce casts of some people found beneath the ruins, One 1o body of & womin who had fallen face ywnward, showing how the hair was worn at that date; one, tho figure of a wan who must have died in awful ageny; @ mother and her ehild and a servant are’ also scen, Somie skeletons in - caskets, us if they had been ready for burial, rediced to dwarfed proporti There is also a dog, fustened by a collar, found at the door of i house known us the House of Orphieus, 6ne of the sh keep e position sthows th ony the poor brute must have suffered while try. ing o escape We saw many scrows, hnges, tiles, plates, candelabr be familiar locks, articles, such as , Jars,vases, icwelry itiful objects of ornaments of glass und 1 and precious stones, javs of fruit, loaves of bread und cake, olives and such things, dried fruits, egg shells and fruit moids. From thé museum we go to visit some houses to note the domestic arcangements is not wanting evidence of comfort the chambers openef; me: | light or air, except feom the door, ench with & sort of beneh Wikt into the wall, upon which the occupantsslept without removing his clothes, ots, without A Pecollar Feature is the very narrow.streets. Often whero only one siride would cross there is step ving stone in the middle. The paving is of lava, in big blocks, and shows plainly in many places deep Tats worn by chariot wheels. The forum, whorapeople assembled for the purpose of discussing questious of public in terest, also where gmmes, markets and foasts were held, shows pedestals where were placed the busts of noted citizens and is the point of iterest usually first approached I'he basilica or court of justice shows three naves, portions of the grand columns that supported twe of the naves, the tribunc istrates sat, and beneath this . reached by stone stairs, This is believed, was used for storing the furniture of the tribune. This is a very in teresting and well preserved object, a re the Temple of Jupiter, the Temple of Venus, unfinished at the time of the eity's destruc tion. and the Pantheon, or Temple of Augus tus. Among the important institutions were the baths. If the people bathed three and four times w day, and it was at the bath the toilet was made, as we are told_ by some his- torians, the statement is not diflicult to be licve. "The baths wer naidly decorat large and elegantly appointed. There were swimming baths and halis for gymnastics, ud portions reserved for women and small rooms reserved for any who wished to be alone, as well as hot and cold water. The heat was supplied through tiles carried be- tween the walls. The tubs and basins were all (£ waite marble, the tloors and corri dors all in beautiful mosaie. There was an amphitheater where 5,000 persons could ba seated, and is preserved almost wholly, and two theaters, one con , the other tragic, showing a number of preserved features. Near the amphitheater were tho gladiators’ quarters, where wi found three skeletons in the stocks and sixty other bodies. Wo visited the “house of the tragic voct” spoken of by Bulwer in his “'Last Days of | ompen,'” with its mosafe of the chained dog and 1ts inscription, “Cave Cavern;” the house of tho great’ General Pansa,” the historian Sallust, ana a_bake shop, where we took a sme mills, where the stones used for grinding are perfectly preserved and show how badly they were worn from service. The mills wero operated by slaves. The ovens were great places, and in one shop were found some sixty loaves well preserved. Protected by nt. The place 1s one of great sameness, but of vast interest. The streets ave silent enough und perfectly clean, The government has all control, and so_ everything is condueted vory decorously. There are many paintings of the walls, sfierlds and blues remarkably vreserved. The houses are characteristic of their occupants, as in all towns and cour tries. Many were rich and clegant, some mean and humble, Some show the indellible imprint of vice in its various forms, the wholo place betraying the fact that the human vace has been about the same at all times. “There certainly could not be much difference for forming s conclusion between that time and this were any city of thatsize of this day to be suddenly unroofed just as time might dictate, For hours we walked up and down thése ruins, wondering and thinkiug, We do not sce that we of the present time have ad- vanced so far. To be sure it was a slow time, when we thik of the matter of nuvi- gation and locomotion. Outsiae of these they were a learned peopl We spent the nightin a_small hotel m the present Pompeii (four or five buildings with- out the gates of the ruined city), being too weary for further journc though usu- ally tourists return to N some seven- teen miles away. Nor aid we ascena the voleano Versuvius, deeming it o dreary waste of time, By train, at7, we left the sad scenc, bound for Rome, some six hours aw. The jour- ney is uot unpleasant, though not of any particular intercst. About thirty-five miles away, us we begin to descend into the val- loy, we see Rome,across the wide Campagua, the monotony of the plain now and then broken by the aqueducts as they trail in a black line from the Labine and Alban moun- tains toward the wcity 80 long and so well known the world over. ~ From this side Rome is not besutitul. St. Peters towers above overything. the city looking tow down in a ravine like, instead of a lovely valloy. As Wo approucn we are ready for rest, knowing, as we leave for Florence in day or two, wo shali have a lovely view of Romo from that side. As we go northward -the view is fine, I’rom Rome to_Fiorence, our stay there and of Venice we shall speak in anothier lotter, Avvie C. MiLLano, THE YOUNG Six-year-old Dorothy went for a horse ride with her aunt one day this week, says the Somervitle Journal. Sie had her litile pursc with her, and was anxious to puy her but her aunt said no. You are my guest,” she explaned Dorothy, “and 504 must pr you may take the 10 cents the conductor, if you like.” So Dorothy ook the dime, and when conductor came along she the most dignilied way one quick look at ne she was under the 5-year-old limit, he rang inonly one fare and handed back a 5-cent mece, which Dorothy took without a word. SWasn't it strange?” she asked, when she was telling somebody all_about it, after she had got back home. ~ “ihe condlctor took fare, but he didn’t charge Aunt Alice any farc at all, and so she rode free,” ar to your fare; but ud hand it to the wded it over in ‘I'he comtuctor gay and estimating that Mother—So syou have been fighting, my son? Johuni in the face, Mother—But, my boy, you should turned the other ¢ K Johnnie—1 did, ana then he v that, au by Hokey. T couldn’t stand it no longer, an I'licked the stuftin’ out of him in about two mnutes. 1 had to. Tommie Brown hit me have Tommy—-Tt must be awful unhandy to live amoug them heathens that dou't wear no clothes, Jimmy—Why? Tommy—'Cduse. How can any whether any one is rich_enough to with, when they ain't got no clothes ont one tell e Sunday School Teal cled a great deal, per As you have tray wps you can exlain to the class the differcnce between civilized and barbarous countries. Little Miss—Yoes'm, In civilized countries we is polite o foiks in our set, but in barbarous countries w be polite to everybody has to Mayw, docsi't anybody but good ople 0 to heaven!? Mus. Figg—That is all, my Tommy—But, maw, how people enjoy theirselves if they bad peoplo there for them to try ug Tommy on the ain't and good hy mai Teaclier—Now, ehildien, T have told you thut we have five senses. Johnny, you 1 tell me how we may use th Johnuy—To buy sada wate (old of the family, at why don’t you help me be Little Tommy dinuer) —Mamma fore lithel Mammu oy born befor Ladics must always come first winmphantly)—~Then why was 1 Man sonie Willie ! Willie—I guess aches a little na—Huave more ice cream £0; my stummick et A and luxury. Most of the houses show a vestibule, then @ court, used a general tamily living room, which had a roof sloping toward @ center, opening from which the ain foll into warble basin in the cent of the court 1is basin could also be fed from the public aqueduct, the lead vipes showing in many places, the stop cocks and valves, jo'nings, ete., being quite similar to | the oués used at the present tune in our | country. Usually the sleeping rooms and dining roow operied iuto this court,while the kitchen was put to the re In the houses of the wealthy back of this court or atrium where were kept family relics, record; then « the peristylo, basin, 4s in the court, haying the same kiud of roof, where was found a gawden, siowing shrubs, flowers and statuary. Frow this opened the dining Foom, showiug the table surrounded on three sides by couches or divans, where persons reclined. The end of the table was open for the use of the sery who could thus serve the people or as are found | tablinum and the | with a | guests with couvenience. Upou this peristyle peculianty of the Mormon choir, which is s00h o siug in that in the organization almost every kuown civilize nationality Easton, t rack tenor of the choir, who s said 10 sing high C sharp with perfect case, 18 8 Scotchman: Agues Olson Thomas, the niezz0 soloist Norwegian; 80 s Weihe, the young man who is billed as “'the fore wost violimst of the west;" Mrs. Pugsloy, the high soprano, is of ¥ h birth: Prof tepheus, the conduetor, and Mrs. Edward, the ballad siuger, ure Welsh; Radeliffe and Day r, the inists, are Knoglish: Peder the is Bwedlst Ensign, the ue, s an Awevican, and the in the chorus ure distributed almost among th nationalities, though the ans, of course, heavily predominate - “’here are three thi vorth time, trouble and mou and Little Early Risers e the ) litthe pills will save 1 time et promptl T'hey wall Ve You | as they cause uo pain. ey wiil | mouey, s tiey soonviaie doctors bills tabernacle Chicago, 18 represented is barit Ameri saving De Witt ) for you ¢ s they trouble save you - (Gontinental Glothing House St. Sept. 1 0 AND SEE A GREATER TROTTER THAN The Black Whirlwind from C will he A Great Day for Boys’s Shoit Pant Suits, Boys’ NANCY HANKS, “alifornia, DIRECTUM 2:0: Who holds seven world's records Ie does not trot against time, but fights out races in big ficlds of horses. He starts at the meeting against Belle Vara :0837, Martha Wilkes 2:08, Alix 2:0934, Walter L. Nightingale 2:1014, Greenleaf 2:10%, Ryland T, 2:11 4, Phabe Wilkes 2:121, in the ieat Free for ANl Trof, Purse $4.000 HAL POINTER 2:04; The greatest campaigning Flying Jib clothing has never been offered at s uch panic prices aswe | are offering to open the season. Gassimere it Ages 8 to 14, pacer starts against Mascot 2:04, 2: 1063 2:05%, Guy +» Ontoniaro 2:07'%, Manager :0734, Blue Sign 2:0814, Robert J. 2:0937, Riley Medium 2:10Y;, in the Great Free for Al Pace, Purse $4.000 HE CREATEST FIELD OF HORSES EVER ENTERED FOR 1 ONE WEEK MEETING on Monday at $2.50. Double Breasted all wool Cheviot Suits, $3.75. FOUR GREAT RACES EVERY DAY $47,000 m runsts. Half Fare Rates on All Railroads. JOH Plaid Cassimere Double Breasted Suits $3.00 Seoteh Cheviot, Double Breasted Suits $5. Monday will be the S. BRITTAIN, President. H. J. KLINE, Secretary, SAVINCGS BANK. SIXTEENTH AND DOUCLAS STREETS, Capital $100,000; Liabiiily of Stockholders, $200.00) B PER CEN ftorest paid oa MON TS Ou on binkaco JSIX O MONTDiILS: 44 93 731t onTHRE U0 sbes Ut Doposit 37037 53t luterost pal Great Money Saving day for Boys’ Clothing of all kinds at Continental GULD OR SILVER Which Shall It Be? Call on DR. BAILEY And let him see. One week’s delay may be long enough to lose a tooth that today could be easily made serviceable, Why do people put off attending to their teeth? Itis because they fear pain. With the latest meth ods for filling and extracting teeth Bact size % COMME IL.FAVT THE MERCANTILE CIGAR, BETTER THAN EVER! Mado of the finest quality of Favani Tobacco 2ha € an be Yought, Joat bmvortes sigars, Manuluct by B 1L 47 0% MERCAYTIL | without pain there should be no longer any delay on that account, [ While you have the money you had better invest a portion in your mouth than to risk in many ven | tures that might not prove so ben= eficial to you. Visit the dentist of reputation and experience, BAILEY, DR. R. OFFICE THIRD F.U0R% PAXTON BLOCK: Entranco 16th Stroat Side, Tolonton s 168 8.—We chu nothing to examine your mouth und tell you how wu-h wa will put it in good condition tor,