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* - ? . - . '. r'y ' -j .. The Abbeville Press and Banner. J " - - ~ ~ "" ~ ?? ? ' ' " ' ' ' 'I BY HUGH WILSON; ABBEVILLE* & C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, i886. TOLUME XXXI. NO; 9; M ... ...' . ....: > - , - V **9 ?????? ?? ' ' ' - ' - - - ' ?^????-?????? ? ????.?^??? ?' % 1 ? ..:.,. i . *. c.'&m ROSA BOXJIEUR'S YOUTIL IN A SEWING ESTABLISHMENT TO BECOME A SEAMSTRESS. An Unliappy Girl at Sohool ? Drawlag Caricatures of the Teachers? CopyIns the Works of tlie Old Blasters?Th? Artist nt 17. In a simple homo in Paris could have been seen in 1S29 Raymond Bonheur and hLs littlo family?Ilosa, 7 years old, Angnste, Isadoro and Juliette. lie was a man of fine talent in painting, Imt obliged to spend his time in giving drawing lessons to sup}>ort his children. His wife, Sophia, gave lessons on the piano, going from house to house all day long and sometimes sewing half the night to earn a f,v?. M*o t\o^occifioe nf lifo Hani work ami jwverty soon bore its usual fruit, and tlio tired young motbor died in ' lSfl The tlnxx! eldest children wont to board 1 xritli a plain woman, "La Mere Catherine,'" in , the Champs Elvseos, and the youngest was , placed with relatives. For two years the jxood woman cared for tho children, sending them to school, though sho was greatly troubled liecanse Bosa persisted in playing in 1 the woods of tho Bois do Boulogne, gathering I lior arms full of daisies ami marigolds, rather than to lie shut u;> in a schoolroom. '*1 never 1 spent an lionr of fine weather indoors during ; tho whole of the two years," sho has often 1 said since those days. Finally tho father married again and brought tho children home. The two boys ' were placed in school and Mr. Bonheur paid their way by giving drawing lessons three ' tames a week in the institution. If Rosa did ; not love school, she must be taught something useful, and she was accordingly placed in a ; sewing establishment to become a seamstress. The child hated sewing, ran the needle into her fingers at every stitcli, cried for the fresh ' air and sunshine, and finally Incoming palo ; and sickly was taken back to the Bonheur liome. The anxious {winter would try lus child once mors in school; so lie arranged that she should attend, with compensation jnet in the some was as for his boys, liosa J *oon Iwcaine a favorite with the girls at the Fauborg St. Antoine school, cspeciall}' because she couM draw such witty caricatures | of the tenders, which sue pasteu against me wall with bread chewinl into tho oonsistcncy of pntty. Tho teachers were not pleased, ' but si) struck were they with the vigor and originality of the drawings that they carefully jurcserved the sketches in an album. ax uxiiaitv cir.u - i Tho jjirl was far from happy. Naturally Sensitive, as what poet or jwinter was ever \>orn otherwise, she could not l)oar to wear a calico dress and course shoes and eat with an iron s;k>oii from a tin cup when the other girls woro handsome dresses and had silver mugs and spoons. She grew melancholy, neglected her books and finally Irecame so ill that she was obliged to be taken home. And now Raymond Bonheur very wisely decided not to make plans for his child for n time, but sec what was. her natural tendency. It was well that he Juaile this decision in time be'oro she had l>een spoiled by Lis well meant but poor intentions. Left to ; herself she constantly hung ahout her 1 father's studio, now drawing, now modeling, ! copying whatever she saw bim do. She seemed never to be tired, but sang at her ' work all iIk: day long. Mo:i.%icnr Honheur suddenly awoke to the 1 fact that hi.; daughter lia<l great talent He ' l?egnn t ? tea?i? her carefully to mako ber ac- ! curate in drawing and correct in perception. Then he s^nt ber to tho Louvre to copy tho ' works of the old masters. Here she worked . with the greatest industry and enthusiasm, not o!serving anything that was going on . % i 1: A- fit., r 1 nround lli r. nai'i iuf uiraira ui me iajui iv, "I have never seen an e xample of sucli application and such ardor for work." Ono day nn t4derly English gentleman stopped beside lwr easel and said: "Your copy, jny child, is superb, faultless] Persevere ns you have begun and I prophesy tbat you will Ik? a great artist." How glad these few words marie her. She went homo thinking over to herself the determina ion she had made in the school when she ate with her iron spoon, that sometime she would be as famous as her schoolmates, and have some of the comforts of life. COPYING THE OLD MASTERS. Her copies of the old masters were soon sold, and though they brought small priccs, elic gladly gave the money to her father, who needed it now more than ever. Ills second wife had two son# when he married her, and ' now they had a third, Germain, and every j Mint rjnsn rotilrl nam was needed to lieln ' support seven cliildrcn. "La Maiuiche," as they callc<l tho new mother, was an excellent maiinger of the meager finances, and filled Lor place welL Rosa was now 17, loving landscape, historical and genre painting, perhaps equally, but happening to paint a goat she was .so pleased in tho work that she determined to make animal paintings a specialty. Having 110 money to procure models, she must needs make long walks into the country 011 foot to the farms. She would take a piece of bread In her pocket and generally forget to eat it. After working all day she would come home tired, often drenched with rain, and her shoes covered with iuuiL ?>he took other means to study animals. In the outskirts of Paris were great abattoirs or slaughter pens. Though tho girl tenderly loved animals and shrank from the sight of suffering, she forced herself to see tho killing that sne nilgnt kiiow uow to depict me ueuui agony on canvas. Though obliged to minglo more or loss with drovers ami butchers no in- 1 dignity was ever offered her. As she sat on n bundle of hay with her oijors al mut her they would crowd around to look at the pie- ? ture ami regard her witli honest pride. The 1 world soon learns whether a girl is in earnest > nl>out her work and treats her acconlingly.? f Sarah K. Bolton. 1 j "Palar?? Cari" Made for Itncrhomcs. ] Most of the big horsemen own their j own cars and transport their stables iu ( tliem. They an? *-palaeo" cars, finely made, i and fitted up with stalls and every conveni- < enco. Olio of these care will carry from j ?I tr. ?iiYtpf?ii horses. The railroads , <-hnrgc eight cents a mile for hauling the cars I, and a special rate for tbo horses, about tho I j same as for a pas-senger. Before we ship any i j of these horses the owner lias to sign a con- j j tract that, in the event of an accident, he ( will not claim more than $100 for each horse that is injumL We had some trouble occasionally lx-fore this agreement was in vogue. The owner woulJ claim the full value of a j racehorse?say $20,000?if ho was killed or ? disabled; but he can't do that now. Tho \ railroad <lon"t make much out of tho horse , owners, but they do well out of the people ; who travel to seo the races.?Unilroaa Alan ] in Globe- Democrat , Journey of "Tho Flying I)wle." j Thirty-five business men who daily trawl , between Boston and Falmouth, oil the Old Colony road, by paying $100 each in addition to the regular fare., have secured the exnlusivo senices of a train that is said to i make the fastest tiino in America. The ; journey usually requires three hours, but j "The Flying Dude," as the boys call it, can ] do it in one hour and ten minutes.?Chicago ; Yuiies. . i ? COLONIAL RACE OF NEW YORK What IIm Itccomt of It??Tlie Colon It Dracenditnt and th? Imintcrnnt. Tho question arises, what has becomo < tho onco activo colonial race?descendants < Batavian and Anglo-Saxon?who so ardentl sought their chartered privileges under Goi ernor Dongan, and, finally, were anjoug tl tn ajisert their rirrht to them, in arnu Tho Bavarian, tho Anglo-Saxon, the Frenc and other nationalities that colonized tho cit have disappeared under climatic influence and racc admixture; and although the Angl< Saxon is the controlling parental stock, a clii tinct colonial type has resulted. Tho typ< according to many observers, is fast disaj pearing, or is still in tho throes of acclimatia tion, there not having been sufficient ei durance in it to roach the state of renatura izntion. Tho characteristics of tlto colonial raco, o continued h> our day, distinguish tho preser colonial New Yorker of throe or four gencrr tions' descent from the colonial Anglo-Saxo ancestor, as much as tho latter is distinc " o?u .. trom me j^auu races, ouiu iitnauuu ? <%j parent in tlio physical, mental, anil, pcrhap< moral attribute of the new race, and also, i its lingual expression. It requires but glance to distinguish the colonial descendanl physically, from the race ancestors. The ncc has becomo elongated, the hair is darker an straightor, the bones arc smaller,' the jaws, c jowls, have become contracted, the nonnt pulse is quicker, the voice higher, the con plexion dry and pale; and, above all, th power of nourishing tho species has material} diminished. So pronounced are those cliangc that thcro are anthropologists who conside them signs of race degradation and of an ai proacliing extinction, which can only be pn vented by continual admixture from mor robust sources. If the purity of a race bloo is essential to natural Imdily and menu vigor, as some contend, than the dominane of the New Englander, through a more pur Anglo-Saxon dcscent, may l>e cited as an ea ample. Under the small increase in the numbers c the descendants of the original settlers, tb pity of New York is practically in the hand of others, and the ancient colonial element i being rapidly eliminated, or, at least, lias Ioj prominence. The city of New York is noi indirectly, if not directly, ruled by innn grants or the sons of immigrants. While th invasion of New England thrift and j>ertir aeity have placed the New Englander coir paratively at the head of its commercial, an Df very much of its professional life, those c Immediate Irish blood are practically tli political power. It is natural that the foi cign clement should keep rule, if they bav the enterprise to grasp it, and when the doo is Mfc wido open; and the descendants of tli ancient inhabitants must often bear tlie rult even, at times, of those morally unfit fo power, if the}' nre unwilling or nimble to cor tend with the more aggressive races.?J. VI Grerard in JIagazino of American History. RESPONSIBILITIES OF BEE CULTURE A Rerlorm Ijiiruilt i:i rallfornlr.?TTono, Hunting with 1'ickH nml Crmvlmm, There has just now l?een deciiled a seriou lawsuit near Los Angeles which will have a: important liearing on bee culture in Califoi nia. A fruit grower sued his neighlior, wh Ls a beo grower, for damage done to his or hard by the invailing army of bees. A Rtva leal of exiiert testimony was heard, all tend ng to show that the 1k>o ls bail for fruit i illowed to ravage the orchard persistentl; uid in too great numbers; and so the cour las decided that no man shall bo allowed fo set up nn apiary ami let his Ikh>s wander a ivill over the fruit and flower fields witliou tieing held responsible for damages. But now comes a new trouble. The bees, n If suspecting thus verdiet, as said before, liav ibandoned their hives in largo numbei-s am tilled the hills. And now how is the court t reach these busy little brown tramps? The; -an not lie reached or effectively interfere! tvith at nil. And now that it has lieen dc nded that tho Ijeo does harm to fruit am lowers, wo may soon expect to see this littl synonym of honest industry denounced and for the first time in tho history of the world lisliked by the honest farmers. And behold! Tho new l??o hnnter has com dso with this new order of things. The othe lay I saw two Chinamen up in tho mountain .villi picks end iron bars and a big tin bucket rhese were the new beo hunters of this ad ranting and swift age. They were not seek ng for bee trees. They did not need, aftc he old fashion, to sit all day in a field o juckwheat and get tho course of the ladei wfa Tlir>v Mmnlv took nick m?l lion .un juckct and went up in the hills anil walkei llong tha shelving rocks till they saw thi ;vild 1)W8 coming in or going out, anil thei :hey tore open tho rocks, filled their bucket ,vith honey and wont home. That Ls al>ou ill the skill, or toil, or romance that is at :ached to the modern bee hunter of Califor lia. Bee trees are, of course, very abundant, mve a friend with oak trees in his yard whi s at certain seasons of the year greatly nn loyed by swarms of bees trying to tako u] :hcir aliodc in his oaks. He shoots cotton o ither burning nnd inflammablo matter info :ho clinging mass of bees when they sett le 01 lis trees, and either drives them out o lestroys them. How different all this from the dcaroli ;imes when the swarming of a new hive wa v delightful event mid tho discovery of i ;trange swarm of bees in your dooryard i inil of splendid good fortune.?Joaquin Mil er in Chicago Times. lie llevolutloiilzed Theatrical Adver thing. One would hardly believe that tho thin ]uiet man with tho blonde mustache one sav ust week lingering loungingly outside of tli Standard was Jack Haverly, whose litho jraph used to glare from every dead wall ii .ho tinted Suites, anu who used to con noney and spend it as fast. But it was [Iaverly revolutionized theatrical ndvertis ng, mid raised tip au industry that is iwv uie of the largest in the United States. Hi vas the tirst to develop lithographing on tin scale of enterprise, and since that time tin nillions of dollars put into that kind of nd fcrtising explains why, out of enormous re .vipts at the theatres of the country in tin last ten yeai-s, managers have made nothing [f llaverly had stuck to minstrels ho woul< lavo had an enormous fortune.?San Fran isco Chronicle. Fatfio Toctli from a Itomnn Tomb. There was an exhibit at tho semi-annua meeting of tho Connecticut Valley Denta society, in Hartford, of a set of teeth takei from a tomb near the city of llome. It i iGCiirfod flint. tliAV li.o^ lvw>n flmrn n t Innc i,500 years. The teeth are held in placo by i jaiid of gold, artistically worked ill fane; arvings, the figures being so minuto that i magnifying gl.-iss is necessary to bring ou iheir beaut}'. ? Cincinnati Conunorcia jrazette. Throe Cities nn<l Their Street*. Boston has eighty-three miles of streets sad pays $450,000 a year to keep them clean Now York has 350 miles of thoroughfare, am pays $1,200,000 for cleaning them. Fhiladel phia claims to have 800 miles of streets, am pet only allows $200,000 a year for cleanin; tlieui.?Chicago Times. c- THE ETCHER'S ART. a THE TOOLS HE WORKS WITH A J THE EFFECTS HE PRODUCES. y ... 7~ An Artist Clvcs the History or an El Ing? Preparing the Ground?Draw {j on tho Gelatine Plate?"BltIng y the Lines. ?S : . . . v "Lot mo give you in a connected story j. history of nn ctching from tho time tho i , per plnte is placed in position for work u ^ it leaves the bauds of tho printer. In first place, tho copper plate is thorouf washed with turpentine, or, better, with I zinc, for tho former is a little too thin. ' I to 4-vv ntiv frnoncn TllD nlfltA {ft < B heated, commonly by burning under it lie etching paper, or, if the plate is a largo < by a spirit lamp. It is heated to sueli a t perature that water will roll off in globi When the plato is sufficiently heated a pn ' ration known as 'etching ground' is appl , This is a composition which comes prepi in the shape of a round ball, about the siz a black walnut, and is made of asphalt t beeswax and oil of lavender. This comj k tion is carefully tie<l up in silk, and thro ^ this silk the etching ground oozes on to ? plate, where it is Jaid with a roller. After j ground is applied and has sufficiently coo it is smoked, in order to give the etchi 0 black surface on whicsh to work. The sn _ iug is ilone with a twisted wax taper, i ^ dies, or in fact any substance which will ] T duce the desired effect. "When the plat . cold the ground is perfectly hard. So m y for the first part of the process, that of c paring the plate. j OUTLINE OP THE DRAWING. The etcher is now ready for worl 0 earnest. lie takes a drawing, which, 0 course, may be original or a copy, and et its fae-simile on the plato before him. If wishes tn tnkn snecial nains with, his subj ,f which is usually the case,' ho does not c 0 the drawing directly on the plate, but ti |3 an intermediate step. Over his drawing Ls fastens a jwrfectly hard transparent gela composition, and with his etching p T ctchcs the drawing on this, exactly on [_ principle of the transparent slate of our i 0 scry days. Tho gelatine plate is remo1 and presents a rough and scratched surf: It is lightly scrajxxl, but so lightly that d indrcited lines arc not disturbed or cffai These lines arc filled with red chalk. 0 gelatine plato is then reversed and placed tho etching ground of tho copper plate. 0 burnisher is applied, which transfers r chalfc to the etcher's form or upon the pi e Thus the etcher has a perfect outline of , drawing on the plato on which ho is to w< j. In this way he is guided in his task, and work is expedited. ^Thc otclicr now begins to uso the tool his trade, each of which is known as an 'e ing j>oint.' With these instruments the i ject is again etched, this time on tho etcli ground Where tho cteher wishes to obi y the darkest effects fewer lines are etched i aro made further ajxirt to enable then , stand a longer 'bite' by the acid. Of coi t!io acid lutes into the copjier plate only wl the etching point has scratched through 0 etcher's ground to the original copper pli .. If the plate on which the artist is at work ? small one, it is placed i:i a pan and tho aci l_ than pounxl on. If, however, it is a la j one, there is put around the edge of the p y what is known as a 'frame of wall wax. j. one corner of which is placed a spout for c 0 venieuee in pouring ofT the acid. t "biting in" the links. t "The first application of the acid is we It bites clean and delicately. It loaves s sky lines, the distanco lines, and, in gene e tho lighter part of the picture. After tl j lines are bitten the acid is poured off, and (j ground washed with water. Then the pi y which the artist does not wish to have Ion 1 acted ui>on l>y the acid are covered wit! j. 'stopping-out' varnish. Tho next applical \ of the acid is stronger, in order to obtain e heavier effects. So the artist continues si ping-out one place after another until plato is sufficiently bitten, and until ho reached tho foreground. When the. en e plate has been sufliciently bitten, or, in ot r words, when the picture has boon etched i s tho copper plato by means of tho acid, wax wall is removed and the plate thoroug i. cleaned with benzine. Now ho can go to . printer and see what ho has. If some of r lines provo too heavy, a little lustrum j known as the burnisher will reduco them. ' j lines can even l>e run out entirely. If" j lines are not strong enongh, a new rebit j ground can be put on wherorer desired i p tho changes made. j "When the last touches have been ci s pleted the plate is sent to the publishers. ' publishers send it to an clectrotyper to h _ a steel face put on. This is dono to proi .. the plato, which Mould othcrwiso soon worn out on tho press. Tho oi>eration j electmtyping the plato is so delicately d j that when steeled the picture which it pr . could not Ijo distinguished from tho pict printed before the operation by the origi r copper jnuiv. mo iincst iuius uiu iuui 0 lilies which are hardly visible to the na u eye, and which originally have tho appeara r of a hair."?Is'ew York Commercial Ad1 tiscr. An Incident of Tweed'* Escape. s The account of the extravagant price r 1 for human hair to Mr. Pibblee recalls to 1 mintl of that gentleman an incident * Tweed's escapo from Ludlow Street jail. . Dibblce had had a wig of KujK'rior qua and beauty made to cover tho temjior - baldness of his son, whose head had just li shave?L The son failed to go for the wip l, the hour agreed upon, and the father kept v place of business o]>en later than usual w 0 ing for tho bald delinquent. Suddenly h excited man rushed into the store, exclaimi ii "Mr. Dibbleo, have you a wig that ' :i about fit me?"' "Certainly; what color do you want!" i- "Oh, anything! Show mo one, quick." c Mr. Dibbleo took tho wig waiting for o son and handed it to the impatient custon e He hastily tried it oil, inquired the price, j 0 a reckless amount, seized the wig and w - away in great liastc. That night tho wily Tweed disnppeai 3 The next day Now York was all agog w . amazement at his bold flight. When it1 1 discovered that ho had lied in disguise, - Dibblce thoughtf ully put two and two tog( cr. lie soon after met one of the persons v had been accused of assisting in the flip and, to verify his suspicions, said to him: I "So j*ou succeeded in getting the old n 1 off?" I nXCSi uuvnu rniuuiu uuv ij(i?u umiu m i s had not been for your wig."?New Y t World. i ? Machine for Sciirliif? tlio Timid. a The bad littlo boy of Rome, N. Y., lias j. vented a machine for scaring timid pers j that he says '"knocks the window tick-ti silly." When night has conio and eve . thing is shrouded in gloom ho quietly ins< the hook of a common shoo buttoner und< i clapboard of a neighbor's house, ties a Ktri , coixl to the handle of tho buttoner, and tl 1 drawing the .string tight, rub* it with a pi i- of rosin. Tho horrible rumbling nnd sliak 1 and groaning that follow scare tho inmi g of tho house and delight the bad boj Chicago Timo3 THE STATUE Of. LIBERTYCompnrlsons Which Will Convey t? the Header Some Idea of It* Slzo. q . Tlio facc of Liberty, which has a sublime expression,, lias been placed upright on a fraino hear tho building so that visitors inay t . boo it. It is eleven feet four inches high?, T ? " that is, from the chin to the tiara which sho ,|n* | will wear about her brow. A man standing In" on another lean's shoulders would hardly bo able to look' over tho top of her head. The face Ls made of six piwes of bronze, ri veted ' the together with nails, which show plainly to cop- one twenty feet away, but which at a greater si mtil distanco are invisible. Cl 4-UA T oHft r-nofforod ilVwMlf 111 PrtH. 01 jhly fusion 011 the floor of tho workshop and look P1 tx?n- like joints of stovepipe. Her middle finger Is 111 This ! six feet six inches long; and so largo that a fat P' ;hen man might easily crawl into it and thero T, avy conecrtf himself. Her feet would make a ni one, Chicago girl chuckle. They aro ten feet n< em- across. The two feet stand in a large fenced lies, inclosure near the fort and cover consider-: h; spa- nblo ground. At least twenty people might lied, step on the goddess' corns at once. in ired Tho torch wMch Liberty will hold in air ia T! o of colossal iu size. Fort y people might stand in um, | It at once. Tho rim al>out its upper edge is a n( >osl- substantial iron railing four feet high. Not c? ugh far from the torch stands tho golden flame P' tho which fonjver is to burn in it. This artistic tho piece of work, which looks like a sinuous flame le<l, turned into bronzo by somo enchantment, is tb f a nearly six feet high and about four feet in 10k- diameter. P1 :an- Tho statue will bo taller than tho lofty a' pro- pedestal. It will be two and a half times as a' o is! high as the queen of Brobdingnng. The peo- w ucli j pie among whom Gulliver was so cute a mnni- ni rim- I lri.i ami on rrron*-. n ruriositv were sixtv feet ^0 high. Svrift multiplied the size of ordinary < ' men and objects by ton. Liberty is about l.">0 in : in feet high, and to her the colossal queen of }*< of Brobdinguag, who alo with a knife ns long as of ;hca a scytho and drank out of a cup ns largo as a m ho hogshead, would l>e cs a dwarf two feet four ect; inches high would be to a man six feet high. h* opy If Gulliver's Kttto.nurso, Gluadacliteh, who ?] ikea was 0 years old and 40 foct high, ami small pi he for her ago, had been proportionally as large g' tino as the Statue of Liberty she Would have been hi oint 100 feet high, and small for her age. The mis- 8e the chievous dwarf, tho (smallest in the kingdom, bj mr- who was only .'JO foot high, would be to tho hi red. Statue of Lil>crty ns a dwarf 1 foot inches ar ace. high would be to us. ar the To be of the same comparative size as tho 111 xxL stahio the rat in Broltdingnag, which was as ^ The big as a mastiff, wo aid have to bo as big as a is on cow; tho mastiff, equal in bulk to four el?- ?' A ph&nts, would have to lw as big es ten ele- ar tho pbnnts; Jumbo would bo no larger to the m ate. statue than a pug dcg. To retain liis reputathe tion of being the largest elephant in tho world >rk. he would have to be 300 feet high, l'ho colos- gi his sal elephant at Coney Island is no liigget be- li sido the statue than a horse is beside a mail. "o s of The Washington monument is no bigger to of toh- the statue of lilierty than a shaft 18 feet high W >ul>- in a country buryin g ground would bo to an pi ier'? ordinary iierson. Wo appear to the statue ns lo tain a man a little less than inches high would lo and nppear to us.?New York Journal. a a to al irso Getting Aheml of the Tramp*. et iere uGreat time wo have with tramps," said en the | th? freight brake man, cutting a chip o(T the ev it.. I comor of black plug. ''They are pretty sleek, ro is a those chaps arc what like to ride and not pay mi (1 jS tho company. We don't care much for the nt i-go company or its earnings, but it is a matter of ru late professional pride with us not to l>e beat by a w ' in deadhead. One of the sleekest games I ever on- knew of was played on U3 one morning last a week. A pair of tramj? were boating their ot way west, and I'll bet it would take you a wi yak. month of Sundays 1;o guess where they were its the ridin'. In the train, was a flat car loaded with ui ral, iron water pipe, anil into these pipes the old nc ilufTers had crawled. It was a right snug te the b?rth. They liad plenty of ventilation, the in irts l?i]>c3 Irein' ojkju at both ends and laid length- nc ger wise of the car, and the tho sun couldn't bako Of a a 'em in the day nor tho dews of night fall on in -ion 'em. dc tho "Wo couldn't git at 'em, uutlicr, and that to iop. was the worst of it. If we crawled in after m tho 'em tho only thing we could do was to crawl hi has out agin, 'eauso nc man could pull another ist tire 0110 out of a water pipe. Wo tried to poke W her 'em out with fence rails, but they were too ai into short. Tho trampts they cussed us an' called dc tbo os all the names they could lay their dirty fr j)jy tongues to, an' that made us mad an' we ar the swore we'd have 'eai out o' there i! we had to re tho dump that car of water pipe olF into some ni ient river. Just then our conductor struck an Hi rhe 'Wait till we get up to Ualesburg,' th "the 8fl3*s be, 'an' then we'll ilx 'cm.' And we did. m *4- /1-1?iWA? A. n inrrSiin flvn/1 11T> I?1 jug .tl.l/ uunsuuili tuu>;a <1 il?iu.u luvu - . and "'it'1 ft pump and liosc to throw water, mi' we w< got hold o' that ingino and turned Jjcr nozzle on an 3m. them tramps. Nerer had such fun in niy life, tv The It made mo think of the time when we used to ar avo drown woodchucki out o' their holes when I pe was a boy. I wouldn't have missed that pic- I'i 1,0 nie for a month's salary."?Chicago Herald 0f "Train Talk." hits T'IC ^port CroH* Country ltldlnc. -l0 urc Theodore Roosevelt, in The Century, donaj fends the sport of cross country riding from al_' ^j. tic charge that it is artilieial ami un-Amm- V1: can. HJf courso it is artificial." says Mr. an Jlco Roosevelt; "so is every other form of sjxirt in Pa ,er_ civilized countries, from tobogganing or ico 10 j-achting to a gmiio of baseball. Anything ar inoro artilieial than shooting quail on the wing over a trained set :er could not be imagined. laid Hunting largo ga:ne in the west with the rifle ^ the undoubtedly calls for the presence of a greater of numl)or of manly and Lardy qualities in those Mr. who take part in it than is tho case with ca lity riding to draghotinds; but, unless the quarry 5- > - * - ??o i foi U liUU gri??IJ UUiU , II; IIUCT IIVII llV.il llvutij (U 0011 much personal daring. To object to hunting *u ; at because they hunt, in England is ubcnt as setihis sible jus to object to lacrosse becauso the Inait dians play it." Mr. ltoosevelt also adds: 'To a11 an say the sport is un-Ainericnn seems particung: iarly absurd to sir.cli of us as happen to bo in Pa " ill part of southern blood, and whose forefather 'lft in Virginia, Georgia, or the Carolinas, have j for six generations followed the fox with P" horse and bound.'?Exchange, his w< Proto?t A gn lr.it tlio Japanese Craze. ! , . Her von Falke, the custodian of the Vienna j |0J industrial museum, protests against the; . Japanese craze which is flooding the western ! ^ ith na^oas w'*'1 productions ?>f .fnpaneso art, j ( and which he ass.Tts is Japanizing even En- [j0 ... ropean art. In spite of the unsurpassable. ^ .j* technical finish of Japanese art. its essence is i i , u that of caricature. Figures am . drawings of j ( -ht Japanese men a ad women, even of trees and j , ' * j fillips, are not intended to be representations I , ' of real types, but; are more or less consciously j ( 1 n distorted. It is a mistake to regard Japanese j j0 . work as a model for European imitation.? soj ork New Orleans Times-Democrat. jjej A View ol A Llfe-I.on-j Rtmlcnt. I JJ( For myself I no more call the Crusades j his T ..11 41.. ......?P ? in- luxi.y ujiui * win uid ci wi it ??anuu iu1 ons foil}-, or the French revolution foil}-, or any Cr ack other bursting of tho lava which lies in lig >ry- i nature or in the hearts of mankind It is tho til ;rts j way in which m.ture is pleased to shape tho wi ;r a ' crust of tho earth ami to shapo human j 1 ring ' society. Onr business with these things is to mi len, i understand them, not to quarrel with them.? gc ieee I Froude in Good Words. Y< ing itea A Philadelphi i judge has given notice that , T.~- mere technical c.efenses in tlie law will not be ^ ! recognized. _ * " 1 i : : WEDDING PROCESSION. INE OF THE MOST CURIOUS FEATURES OF FRENCH LIFE. aVins the Matrimonial rinngo In th? IMont Ostentation* J-nsiilon?coming 01 the Bride and Groom?A DUrcgard of Good Manners. To those who are not accustomed to such ghts in their own country, perhaps tho most irious feature of French life is the wedding ocession in the open air. When tho French lunge into matrimony, they show no shy?ss over it; on the contrary, they take the ungo in the most ostentatious fashion. Iiey wish all the world to stand by and adiro their heroism, and, lest the world should >t take any trouble in the matter, they sally >rth from tho church or mairio dressed in (rmeneal garb; , and spend the best part of Vi- days pro! lenading in public and attractg all the attention they can to themselves, his custom is general, aipong the masses of le peoplo. Among the higher classes it is jedless to say that there is no wedding pro ssion outside of the church, unless it be tho ocession of carriages. Those who wish to Gee one of these corteges s noces will have no difficulty in doing so if ley are in Paris at this season, which, above 1 othei-s, is the 0110 in which mankind is one to marry. They have only to spend an ternoon at St. Clouil, Clamart, Meuclon or iy of tho suburban niral retreats, and thoy ill bo suro to see at lenst one noeo, and they ay see half a dozen. A sudden clatter of ngues tells mo that ono is coming. A pro ssion of twenty, thirty or fifty people,walkg two and two, is j)assing near, headed by a >ung woman dressed in white,with a wreath ' orange flowers on her head, and a young an in a "claw-hammer" coat, with a great :al of shirt showing, a white necktie, a tall it, and with his hands encased in white oves. A bouquet in tho buttonhole comctes tho invariable costume of thebride oom. Those who follow are relatives and tlmato friends. Among them may often be en an old couple?tho man in a hat of the ,'gone chimney-pot pattern, and tho woman a great white cap, an elaborato wol'k of t in the way of starching and ironing. They e tho parents of the bride or bridegroom, id sometimes there are two such couples. If ere is ono serious face in the whole party it that of the Driuo. sno ieeis inai ine eyes the world are quizzically fixed upon her, id that overylxxly is saying "O la belle ariee!" or something less pleasant RADIANT WITH SATISFACTION. As a rule, however, her face, like tho bride oom's, is radiant with satisfaction, and her irill laughter pierces the air when her ears itch the latest joke from the low comedian the party?and it is sure to include one. 'hen wit is wanting, buffoonery supplies its ace. While the noce is promenading?folding tho bride and bridegroom as sheep folw their leader, a feast is being prepared at neighboring restaurant, which displays ong its front the words, "Salons pour noces festins." At about 0 o'clock tho procession iters tho restaurant, and the rest of tho ening is spent in feasting, dancing and uparious merriment This programme, withit the marriage ceremony, is repeated the 'Xt day at some other place. But it is tho. ;le there for tho bride not to promenade in I lite, but in black silk. These wedding processions are not without certain quaint pieturesqueness, and in some it-of-the-way districts they are associated itli much that fs pastoral and beautiful in i simplicity; but there is nothing to bo said favor of the custom as it is practiced in the lighborboou or 1'aris onu omer largo cenrs. To a really modest girl the ordoul of Ix*g thus paraded before tho public gaze can>t be otherwise than painful, for it is quite >poscd to delicacy. Moreover, every person vited to a uoce of tho kind I have been scribing considers that ho is in duty bound air his wit. When tho well-bred Frenchan airs his wit he can with difficulty restrain s Kubolaisan spirit, which is so character;ie of the Gaul, even in the presence of ladies, 'hen tho ill-bred Fi-enchman tries to be nusing, it is generally at tho expense of scency. That respect for women which so equently nips tho coarse joke in tho bud uong Anglo-Saxons who have any claim to spectability, is hardly pcrccptible in Flinchon who have never felt the restraining inicucc of iH)litc society. It may very well bo at the women are as much to blame as the en for this stata of things; nevertheless, 110 enchman, I think, would deny that a young omau who has just become a wife, if she has rt.luctv inn) I wit tor Vm rtoaf flnrincr tho o (lays of feasting and promenading which c so often the beginning of matrimonial cxrience in this country-.?Paris Cor. Boston anseript. Four Pound? of Lend on Ills Foot. A surgeon of this city, who makes n busiss of straightening crooked spines end .ndy legs, and oiling nisty joints in tho old id young, received the other day day two sitors from the country. They were father id son. The boy, sonio 14 yeais old, limped infullj', dragging his right leg like a stick ross the room, and when lie sat down ranging it like a prop in front of him. "White swelling?' queried the surgeon. "Yaas," said tho father. "Dick wa? rowed down stairs by his nurse when he is a baby, and ho hasn't got over it yet. iems to bo getting worse every day. What n you do for him, doctor!" The surgeon picked up the boy's useless ot, anil lot it drop with an exclamation of rprise. " \\ nac maKes ic so iicuvy r "Jleavy!" echoed tho father.' "Why that n't hcavj-. Only four pounds of lead." "Four pounds of lend!" An expression of in and pity settled 011 the surgeon's faco as looked from father'fo son and back agniu the father. The latter hastened to exrin: "Why, doctor," ho began, "the boy's been aring that 011 his foot over .since he conld t nl>out, and it hasn't ever done hini one bit good. That leg ain't a quarter of an inch iger.fhan it was a year?two years ngo. J ul Dick's getting weaker all the time, d " j I should say so?weaker?yes. Wonder isn't dead. What put that into your ad;" 'The lead?" - ;* "Yes, the load." ^ 1.' WViv thAv nil trnur if.*** :'Thev< It? What do you mean?" "The cripples?people with white swelling? ! n't they carry lead weights in their thick- ' led shoes to stretch the leg back to its right . igth?" iho surgeon was too angry to make reply. 1 3 turned his attention to the boy, examined i deformity, cut the lead from tho shriveled Dt, and, sending for a shoemaker, ordered [ ispin to take tho cripple's measure for tho ! htest of cork soles. Dick sat in tho office [ 1 tho shoo was roady, and then hobbled out tb a light heart and a lighter foot. "That man ought to bo mado to carry a ill-stone for ten years," muttered tho suron, as ho turned to hid next patient.?New 2rk Tribune. CorapanJes that insure against loss by i nd storms are fast being organized in the ! St. ? . ..... .V. T- <. : ? CALLING THE ANGELS IN. Wo moan to do it Somo day, some day, We mean to slackon this fevered rash That is wearing our very souls away; T And grant to our loaded hearts a bush That is only enough to let tbem hear. The footsteps of angels drawing near. V Wo mean to do It. Oh, never doubt, When tho burden of daytime broil is o'er, We'll sit and inusc whilo tho stars come out, As the patriarchs sat at the open door Of their tents, with a heavenward-gazing eye, To watch for tho angels passing by. m. We'vo seen them afar at higli noontide, Fi When fiercely tho world's hot flashing beat; cc Yet never have bidden them turn aside, oc A ml fnrrv nivliilfl in ronversa sweet. fo Nor prayed them to hallow the cheer we spread, tc To drink of^mr wine and break our bread. 01 Wo promise our hearts that when the stress ^(' Of the life-work reaches the longed-for Cf close, ai When the weight that we groan with, hinders ,,i less, w We'll loosen our thoughts to such repose As banishes care's disturbing din, ^ And then?we'll call tho angels in. The day that we dreamed of comcs at length, w When, tired of every mocking quest, " And broken in spirit and shorn of strength, Wo drop, indeed, at the door of rest, P1 And wait and watch as tho day wanes on? ^ But the angels wo meant to call are gone! ** ?United Presbyterian. n< p< IN A MEXICAN SCHOOL HOUSE ft Ragged Urchin* Shouting Their Lessons a In Singing i;norus?xno emau juoy. While the mules were resting and the tc drivers enjoying their usual siesta, we wnn- n< dered out to view the village, whoso low- ^ roofed and no-roofed casas are nestled at the J8 foot of dark bills. Its quaint church?as usual, tho prominent feature of the place? ** rejoices under a fresh coat of sky-blue plaster "j without and much gilding within, spread P over the mold and cracks of centuries, which p gives it the appearance of a wrinkled octoge-., narian fashionably bewiggecL The weedy in- : "j closure behind that serves as a campo santo, P' or graveyard, has rows of grinning skulls ranged all along its adobe walls. I picked up one of these with the intention of adding it to te my somewhat varied collection of "recuerdas tt do Mexico," but it crumbled to dust at a se touch and filled tho air with fine powder, ti Then we strayed into the school house, where m a bevy of ragged urchins were shouting their ai lessons in sing-song chorus. In Mexican to schools children never study silently, but all se tasks aro committed to memory by loud repi- p< tition, making, as may be imagined, tho ec vicinity of these temples of Minerva by no tl means desirable places of abode. Here the cl noise was deafening, and the poor, pale, a shabby-looking old woman who presided ai seemed hnlf distracted, as no doubt she was. ni The dog-eared books which theso children were p< using had been selected by some local n< priests years and years before. The girls fe were also taught needlework to the extent ai of embroidering altar cloths for tho village ol conntitnpr mill v?tm?ntsfor the Virrin. while I b< J - ? " > upon the blackboard were some lessons in | gi spelling and arithmetic, which wero given by ! ai tho preceptress "out of her own head," as she I bi explained to us. cc It was immensely hot, with the tropic sun boating upon tho roof without a tree to inter- as cept its rays, and streaming into tho uncur- fr tained windows, everybody was sleepy, the ai teachers cross and the pupils irredeemably dj stupid. A fat centipede was slowly dragging "U his loathsome, greenish-yellow body and hun- ol dred legs, surcharged with poison, along tho qi floor in a corner, and I counted more than a u] dozen scorpions darting about the walls; but ci nobody minds such trifles as these in Mexico. I I observed that tho "innate cusscdness"' of the rc small boy seems to be about the same the in wide world over, for a little Mexican urchin, qi who had evidently been made to stand up in ci the corner for some misdemeanor, was de- si lighting himself beyond measure by tortur- tl ing a small lizard, which he had Listened to the wall by the tail, sticking pins into it and otherwise proving tho doctrine of total dopravity, at least so far as small boys are con- y, corned. We left the little Babel reluctantly, know- ja ing full well by the vicious clutch of tho sc I Ain flnw nnmt fho StOllt Stiplt K. OVHWiHiU...., ...... ? UJ she carried, and by iui ominous snap in lier j w beady eyes, that slio only awaited our de- ^ parture to urge certain loitering steps up the n< thorny steeps of learning'by vigorous switch suasion. Poor littlo ragamuffins!- Tho nerv- J ?p ous irritability of that ancient maiden vented cj, upon their half naked and poorly fed bodies must be hard, indeed, to .boar. And the ^ small amount of useless knowledge winch ai may be beaten Into them will not abate, by j ^ one jot or tittle, tho utter hopelessness of their I lives, nor even result in so much as improving ! c'( thgir apparel, as tho first taste of "tho tree of ju good and evil" is said to Iiavo dono by our j,, earliest ancestors.?Fannie B. Ward in UJ Boston Globe. ? al A Shrewd Stroke of Economy. St Ever since District Attorney Ilillborn met fc with that accident when ho asked a China- di man what a 10-cent cigar was, he has felt like fc giving up smoking. And another exjx'rience le lias just happened to him which makes liim j fr afraid to buy a cigar in case some joke will j fc come out of it lie engaged a new boy for ai his ofiicc?a young, zealous, economical, ar bright boy, whose wliolo soul was devoted to of his master's service. Among tbo boy's in duties was to go out for cigars for tho judge, us Tho other day tho boy wa3 given half a w dollar. se "Go out,"' said the judge, "to 's and buy mc four cigars?lour for a half. Ho I Knows v, iiat i get. The boy started off and came back pres-j h ently, his face aglow with pride and tri-: ri' uinph. lie hail six cigars. He handed them ' th to the judge." j JJ "U'lmt are these?" \ to "I didn't go to 's, sir. I know a placo of where they give you six for a half.* j sn And that boy, if he roads this story, may i 0f perhaps discover why the anticipated raiso ! cj, I of salary ditl not follow his stroke of econ-i to omy.?San Francisco Chronicle. ( jf, ! fn filly Flippancy and Solid Sonne. j ju It is not long since a Frenchman wrote two ! in silly little books about the English, treating j fo them in that lively style which is sure of pojm- j oii laritv. Nearly ut the same time another' Ai rrenehman, mom careful ir:ti lucre serious, 1 ki published a volume oil th'J same subject, bo which, though it contained a few uuintcii-' Ai tional errors, was 0:1 the whole likely to be in- j tu structive and useful to his countrymen. The I th Cippant little books ha:l a:i enormous sale; j to tbo instructive book luul but a moderate cir-; wi culation. The rule holds good for a para-! IL graph or a sentence as well as for a volume. I An unjust brief paragraph, with a ^.ting in it, j , has a far better chance of l*:ing remembered, .. than a duller but more accurate statement of 1 c the truth.?P. G. Hamuierton in The Atlantic. 0 on I'attl's Presents to Ilor Gupsth It is said that Patti at her wedding break-! . fast, in accordance with an old French enstorn, presented each of the guests in attendance with a piece of her garter.?Inter- ] Ocean. ... . # ^ I y? '-.V&iC- . f- . V iiir-'j?..- W .. *r VICTIMS OF ALCOHOL , J HE METHODS USED IN A PRIVATE HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN. --T?: - > is It to a nigh-Toned Inebriate Asylum. Tlio Plan of Treatfnept Adopted?Dan- 'i cor When There i* n lteactlon?Peoollarltles of Patients. "The patients here are all women," said th? anaper of a quiet, unobtrusive private be?-. JS tal in the neighborhood of Centra^ park. rom the outsitle of the building nothing. >ul(l be seen to indicate the character of the. rcupai its, and it could easily have been taken ? >r the hrtnie of ,1 business man of means; . ; "What axe .the special features of the insti-j itioiW continued, the manager. "There iSt lly one disease treated hero, and that is unkenness. Dnmkenness a disease? Un-. V mbtedly, the same as any other disordered. mdition of the body. Alcohol is a poison, J id people who take it habitually suffer from ironic poisoning, just as the man does whok orks in a white Iced factory for any length, ! time. Tlio jiatientn arc all wealthy here, id confidentially, this place is notihug more, inn a high-toned inebriate asylums , It* :--r< ould never do to call it bo, as it would ruin A le business entirely. - j "It is a peculiar thing about many of oar iticnts, that is, those who come willingly, lat if there were anything said about this ~ ?ing a retreat for drunkards they would; ;ver come here. They are sensitive on this. . n Dint, although they know what is the dif-; ' '$ ?ulty with them. The h06pital is always ill, and, in fact, patients have to be turned. yt] ivay every day ami I understand that places. rnilar to this have been started further down. >wn, to take care of the increase in tho bus!- . ' jss. I can't say that dnmkenness among; ealthy women is on the increase, but there- *.?< no doubt that the number of people seeking, eatnientis larger than it was a year ago. ome of tho eases are bad, and tho women. J ho have formed tho habit of taking moraine to quiet the nervous condition induced) f alcohol arc tho worst. Some arts Jbrought. ^ >* ? in flm nnrnrrcma rtf fjoHHlim, '^i omens, after tho treatment of tho family lysician has ceased to be of benefit. ^ '::gl THE TLAN OP THEATMEIfT. , j "Aro the patients cured? That is hard to 1L Tho object of the treatment is to break to habit. Patiento bavo been sent home emingly strong .and all right, who after o uie como back worse than ever. But littlo edicine is given in the plan of treatment, id no substitute for the nlcohoL Medicine. i take away the appetite for alcohol is ncror. nse, for by giving something for this par-- . * kc another habit will usually be formed " J. [ually as bad. Whatever tends to strengthen. lo lxxly Ls used, and no patient is safe to (lislargo until the inflammation of tho stomacb: , msed by alcohol has been removed. Fiwb: ~ v.v;3jj r, baths, cxercise, light food and agreeable; leutal occupation do the Work if a cure fa jssiblo. Thero is a class of patients who do ' ".'ji it want to stop drinking. They spe^/* w weeks with us, get patched np somewfoafe id go back to their excesses with the vigor , ! youthful indulgence. All the patients aro *-* uieOtcd by treatment, unless there fa too. eat an organic derangement of the kidneys -' 51 id liver. I know of somo absolute cures it they aro but a comparatively small per- . ; ntago of those t reated. "IDe irOUOltt IS lliai mica luujr icavu UUU| i soon as there is a reaction, howovor slight, om the cessation of tonics, they feel dopresecd id take a littlo stimulant to drivo away the illness and counteract th? low . vitality. . /* "hen this is done once, it is only a question < ! time when stimulants aro taken in largo. f lantitios for every littlo ailment. Thia seta i an inflammation which is the cause of tho . aving for alcohol, and the habit is formed . " have had patients under my charge whoss ilatives would willingly pay any amount of, . oney to have tho habit broken. It is not /s icstion of money at all. Millions could not ire a person who did not have a stronger do- 3 re to stop drinking than to drink. This id le real secret of a radical curc. .. .. .. PECULIARITIES OF PATIESTS. . . "The patients cannot, as a role, be trusted. j bey will lie about their condition, make lemsclvcs apjiear to bo well and strong, only g sat the restraint they are under may be recced, so that they may have a chance to get v ^ mething to drink. Even when they ,aro ought hero, physical wrccks, trembling,.' . ith shattered nerves, wild eyes and wanderg minds, they will declare that thoy havo >t drank in months, and claim that they are v ^ jing persecuted by their family or fdendst here are many sail cases whero tho habit of jj inking has been forme<l innocently and per- 7 ' - - i?!? 1 i.:._ fn?<. IpS Ullticr 1110 UUVICO UJL a jjuj diluui, iuvu ^ lere will usually bo an honest effort to break .vay from tho grip that is tighter than a md of iron, and tho mental torture induccd y the effort to keep straight and the lack of mfiileneo in the ability to do so is something irriblo at times and can only bo appreciated f thoso who havo soon eases frequently or udergone the agony themselves. , ' There is one striking peculiarity about tho coholic patient Thc.v will agree with every atcmeut made concerning tho injurious efcts of alcohol, and will acknowledge that 'unkonness is the worst habit that could bo irmcd. They v. ill deliver temperance. cturcs to each other by the hour, and weep. - *<j ecly as they recount their misery and sufrings. Givo the most earnest protestor nong them a chance to get a bottle of whisky id they will seize it eagerly. Tho thought. :j. whisky starts tho machinery of desire go-, g so strongly that nothing can resist it, and ually until a patient's stomach is healed, she ill drink whisky if she can get it until iiinsibility is produced."?New York Tribune; v . Steering l>y a-i Alarm Clock. A yachting party in the sloop William enry m? t with a "s.ight nn'shap down the rcr a few days ago. Tho leading spirits of ..Jj n <i;iv'c u<>pi> IVib Williamson and ike Summers. Thomas li. Boumo catered r the party uiul hail placed 011 board a keg beer, livo dozen deviled crabs, as many ndwiclies and other refreshments. As none the crowd was ar. expert sailor, it was do- ; led to borrow or hire a compass and chart steer by. Failing to pi-ocnre the compass, ?d O'Mahoney kindly loaned them a tinnmed alarm clock, which he said would do. st as well. Everything went along nicoly itil they started back. Soon after heading r Baltimore the clock somehow didn't point t the right way and the ya'-ht struck an une Arundel cat boat and bad her mast ^ locked out. The keg of beer rolled overnrd and the party were left in a sad plight. ftcr drifting about for an hour they bailed a g and worn towed up. They have concluded at a:i alarm clock is not exactly the thiuj* steer a boat by, and on tbo next cruise they 11 havo a sailing master. ? Baltimore . raid. A Sufllciont Cau?o for Anxiety. ' Mamma, you read tho other day that a r.>v nf imtin!? sawdust!" "'Yes, dear. IIo swallowed it with his food. wflust was thrown into his cago to keep it an." Mamma is there any likelihood of my doll i-.ig? Khc's KOiie and eaten herself chuck >1 of sawdust.J'iiiladelphia Call * Harriet Boccher Stov/o has turned her 75V& LiT, . -j >'*V? - Ji -? . - iVVJ .? -~'J\