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? MT BEAUTIFUL! ] BT ABB1X a M 'XKSTXB. Mybeautiful! my beautiful 1 The world h?B never known A being half 60 beautiful Ae thee, my loved, my own I , My beautiful! my beautiful I My precious, oh. my pet I I can not tell you all my love^ I The half you would forget. ? My beautiful! my beautiful 1 I clasp you in my arms; There's sunshine in thy merry 8milt And in thy baby charms. My beautiful! my beautilul) Vi'hat matters scom or tears? I The joy that all the world can bring ; In thy iweet face appears. My beautiful! my beautiful I O, what is wealth untold? 1 I know that riches could not buy < What in my arms I hold. , My beantifnl! my beautiful I Ob, dainty baby grace 1 What do I care loi other smileB? My world lies in your lace. Williamsburg, Ohio. THE BANKER'S CRIME; Diamond Out Diamond. BY NATHAN D. UBNEB. CHAPTER XLd. home- thecst3. The visitors who were introdncing J themselves into Gilbert Marlowe's private ] office, as Noel was quitting it to go upv stairs, were four in number, and were 3 jrucb as were calculated to cause the banker and his legal confederate a species f panic. | One, indeed, was a gaunt, keen-eyed , man, of taciturn, business-like air, whom . they did not recollect to have seen before; but the two principal figures were Jasper Marlowe ana his wife, and they were a'c- c companied furthermore by no less a 1 personage than Mr. Hartwell, whose 3 Ability and high standing at the London 1 bar had achieved for him something of a national reputation. i Croak was the first to recover his self- " possession, and he at once set about t nnt th? affair boldlv. 1 "Ah, Mr. Hartwell, how are you?" he exclaimed, stepping forward briskly. "I i don't happen to be acquainted with your t companions, but of course a visit from 1 you must be esteemed a high honor both 1 dj Mr. Marlowe here, and myself." And a lie extended his hand with a smile that a ?u meant to be of engaging frankness, 1 but was, nevertheless, more suggestive of b hyena's snicker in a place of ssulls. * "Yon can't really expect me to shake * lands with you, sir?" said the great law- b yer, waving aside the outstretched palm with contemptuous surprise; and then, h b his companions and he proceeded to c "fcoolly kelp themselves to Beats, he turned ti to {he banker, observing gra^elyf e * ' Tgtj, sir, ^oubt'esa T<&cC!l6ct me, though it is eighteen years since we met, d *ana, of course, thiB gentleman and lady," with a bland gesture, indicating Mr. and fi -iJxs. Jasper Marlowe, "are well known ppoyoii." ' n *Kq such thing; and I don't care for a them, or you either, sir!" spurted the banker, purposely taking refuge in bad w 4emnaf Kflffiir tn Tftllv hie h forces to the Bupport of his sur- | j< prised assurance. g "Bat what I do insist on knowing, sir. o: Is the meaning of this piece of impu- h dence, sir! Your conduct in thus making o your way, unannounced, into my hoube and my presence is scandalous, sir! ? Zounds! I shall demand an explanation t] jy , of my servants at once." r< Bed in the face, he fairly danced n cross the office toward the door, which ? had boen left open, but before he could c reach it Miss Wiuford made her appear- B) ncejthere, and calmly confronted him. ^ "You need go no further than me for t( nexplanation, Mr. Marlowe," said Bhe, f, quietly, but with a peculiar ring in her f, j$ voice th <t was quit* new to him. "I anticipated the visit of these worthy per- c] one, and waB on hand to admit them {j without announcement. You may even tj xpect another visitor upon less* cere- j aaony presently." n Her unexpected assurance almost took t{ Mb breath away. "Insolent creature! are you crazy or in- -i ebriated?" be managed to gasp oat. "Quit ? the room, or I may not answer for myself! Consider yourself dismissed from my ser- ^ aV. -vice at this instant!" ^ 'Not so. sir; and if yon can not answei .v ' lor yourself, I can and shall answer for 0l ?.f Myself at the proper time, be 6ure of ^ that," said the housekeeper, still without more than implied defiance, and she cool- ^ ly Bwept past him. "And as for consid- j( ering myself dismissed, I confess 1 p hould htive done so from the moment I discovered you as the villain that you ^ are? and that Tas sufficiently long a^fo ? tj only I have had certain ends of my own 1 f, in view, which are now rapidly culminat- n t< She then deliberately crossed the fioor, gj inclining her head to" Jasper, Mr. Hart- s< well and the 6tranger, and exchanging a v friendly kiss with Mrs. Marlowe, after tl which she seated herself slightly apart from the rest, with her back to the window h that stood between the side of the money. 0 vault and the dividing rail, and looked cat upon the garden. "ThiB is monstrous! Woman, quit the room!" thundered the banker, almost beside himself with fury, but with a new n e|?. ^i?d vague element of fear creeping OTef tl i'.-J Mise Winford slightly shrugged Iier v houlders, and no longer even looked at K liim. f "The end is not just vet, but it is com- n Jng, surely;" she murmured, composedly, t! "It will be well for you to be seated, t Mr. Marlowe," 6aid Mr. Hartwell, slightly t rising, and motioning the irate banker to the chair he had vacated, which was next t to the one now occupied by Croak, and lacing the visitors, who were in a line, u with iheir backs to the dividing rail, r "The grave charpes that I have to prefer b JVU TT4AA iC^UUO )VU1 UlUiUSfc J salmness to combat. Yoar lawyer and k confederate in the alleged crimesjonder <3 Will be a meet associate for you." 1 "He, he. he! This iB rich, decidedly :i)* t-: rich!" chuckled Croak, -who was, none tbe lees, feeliug very ill at ease. "Why not t snake it a regular melodrama, with a"price SLvi set for admission?" "I don't cboose to be seateJ." snarled UM oanaer. xnere are no cnarges that can be pr jferred against me-" "To prove to you, thee, that we are at least in earnest, perhaps I had letter in* troduce this gentleman to you," said Mr. Hartwell, taming partly around to the gaunt stranger, who slowly arose, with a stiff sort of bow, as though partly unp:. Stinging himself. "Mr. Dalhousie, let me make you known to Mr. Gilbert Marlowe, tbe wellknown banker of Highcombe, and to y : Mr. Croak, equally well known, and perhaps even less enviably notorious in legal circles. Mr. Marlowe, Mr. Croak, this is Sir. Dalhousie, the present head of the secret poiice service of Scotland Yard, London. Pray, do not stand on oeremonr ?kaov each other. I bexf" Croak nervously changed tbe crossing of his knotty little legs, while the banker suddenly 6anx into his chair, growing > white and red by turns. "Ha, ha, ha! This is pnsh ng the joke to extremities," he st rnmered forth, with ^ a forced laugh. "Ah be unco glaid to know the pairsons, an' to keep the twa o' them in my on, Maister Hartwell," solemnly ejaculated Mr. 1'alhousie, in tbe broadest of fiebridean accents, and with another foranal bow be slowly unhinged again into a sitting posture. "Before proceeding formally with my charges," s?id Mr. Hnrtweil, suddenly asr sum ng u brisk, businebs-like tone and dtiueauor. "I mav deem it reanisite to |v W-i. preface them with a little preliminary information. In the first place, do yon recDgcize th:s lady and tniB gentleman aa Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Marlowe?" The banker made no reply, bis faoe putting on a stony, impenetrable look, but Croak answered, with a smirk: "Ah! we're in a court of inquiry, ara we? And it's a regular judicial exnminalion, is it? "Well, well; I think we can Bafelv bbv that we have .no recollection wnatever or the gootl-looKing genneman and the yet handsomer lady in question." "Indeed? Well, I see that I shall have to open with the piece of information I spoke of. It is merely this: that a ra6cal named Wormer was put under arrest Bcarcely twenty minutes ago by one of Sir. Dalhousie's assistants. Further, the said Wormer has proved as much coward as rascal. He has volunteered in informal confession of his complicity in the crimes of garroting and highway robbery; this gentleman. Mr. Jasper Marlowe, having been the victim, in a lonely London street, at or about two o'clock this morning, thas confirming the self-accusing acknowledgments of his comrades in villainy, and the chief ictors, oiid James Hoggman, alias Bug, a professional thief, and one other, William Bladgers, alias Southwark Bill, a notorious garroter, both of whom were tracked down and arrested before noon :o-day, and who have 6ince made the revelations subsequently leading to said Wonner'B arrest. "Thirdly and lastly, in this connection, said Wormer in his panic-Btrioken confession directly charges pou. Mr. Marlowe, and yon, Mr. Croak, frith instigating said garroting and highway robbery. Short aB has been the time permitted me, I have, nevertheless, secured and brouRht with me warrants for four arrest on these frightful charges." He came to a solemn pause. Croak still managed to keep up a jhastly *He, he, he!* and the banker, ?ho had pretty firmly helmeted himself jy this time, remained aB stolid as before. "And yet these are but preliminary iharges, gentlemen," said Mr. Hartwell, esuming. "Now, can you pretend that l rou do not recognize this gentleman and lis wife?" , "The deuce!" exclaimed Marlowe, rousng herself, with a Bhrug of the Bhoulders; | 'I have made no pretense to the con- i rary. I recognized them both at the ( irst; but what of it?" "Thank you," said Mr. HartwelL "I ( nay now proceed to my next charge sys- , ematically, if not exactly in chrono- : ogical order. It is that you, Mr. Marowe, did feloniously and murderously , ssault this same Jasper Marlowe six davs ,go, here in this office, at about this j ioar of the evening; did strike him . enseless, and then, after robbing him of aluable paper, lock him up in yonder trait, believing that you bad murdered im." "It is false? false as the father of lies imself!" cried the banker, still without hanging countenance. "This is the first ime in eighteen years thot I bftve set yes on that fellow's face!" --- ' "Softly! Ttere was iVitness of the eed; that witness is not far away." "Impossible! I don't believe it! False, alse, false!" "Jfffi abal! -jee. g?r> you have played a lad, desperate game, but its madness is bout to recoil uDon you." Another 6light pause, and then, as he ras about to resume, he was interrupted y a noise of hurrying feet in the adjining hall. Then the door opened wiftly *nd the boy Dip burst into the Sice, wild and almost breathless from ard running, and waving a folded paper ver his head. "Master, master! Am I in time?" he asped, running up to Jasper and putting ie paper in his hands, heedless of the ist of the company. "I have been twenty ! linutes trying to get into the garden; I ???J ? ?>* MMA kftll i fViA kfiftl* AA^A tren til C U UUb HU5 bug UOii 9 tuc vava goiu *?oo losed and locked; at last I man aped to sale the wall, and here I am. Here is le missing paper at last. Yon mnst proict me?Bonconrt will want to kill me or stealing it from him, as be stole it rom Mr. Noel. Tell me; is it right?" "Yes, yes; how can it be otherwise!" exlaimed Jasper, drawing the boy affeconately to his side, and at the same me handing the nnopened paper to Mr. lartwell, with a trinmphant look. "Fear ot, Dip; all is well, and yon 6hall be pro>cted. Marlowe's impenetrability by this time bowed signs of yielding, while Croak's ice grew perceptibly grayer. The lawyer, Mr. Hartwell, arose and egan to nnfold the document that had een pat in bis bands. Before he could do bo, however, there 1 scarred another and far more startling iterruption. s A scream, in Gwendoline's voice, was t eard from somewhere above. Then fol- 1 >wed almost instantly the report of a 1 istol. Then there was a tremendous crash, a 1 saring away of vines from the outside of 1 36 house, the plunge of a great mass iliing past the open window, accompa- t ied by dust, loosened mortar and scat- 1 jred leaves, and all was comparatively ileut for a moment or two. when anoth c sream was heard in nnottoer woman*B 1 oice, directly outside, in the border of * ie shrubberies. J "He is dead! he is killed!" cried the J ist voice, in despairing accents. "All is ver!" ? chapter xl1x1. ihe hand of fate. ! Instantly all was confusion and excite- * lent in the tr.pker'6 office, as well as in v tie entire mansion. van f/\ Allf A ^ Va r\ f a U LllC CUUit 1DU pcci will V 4. lut rindow, others rushed around into the arden bv way of the hall passage and , ront porch, ana still others, the servants, aade their appearance upon the scene J hrough a door issuing from the side of j he house, between the dining-room and E he conservatory, , The nature of the terrible accident that 1 lad occurred was speedily apparent. r One of the insecure balconies of the c ipper storv bad suddenly failen, with :i aan in it, dragging down a part of the tone window ledge, together with a great f aa!=6 of the clingiug ivies. I It now lay a crumpled ruin in the gar- e len walk, and almost in a line with the >right column of light that issued from he office window. c Prone and motionless amid the debris " ay the figure of a man, with a revolver t itill clutched in one of the hands, and vith a white, staring face upturned? vhite but for the great, streaking of red t bsuing from a ghastly temple wound, in 1 thich a sharp-pointed fragment of maonry was still adhering. It wan Boncourt, and it was evident that | 10 was dead. , Kneeling by the body was Adele, wildly wringing her handB, and calling vainly | ipon his name in agonizing accents. Among those who had been summoned | nto the garden were Noel and Gwendoine, and in the frightened group were the >oy Dip, and Dalhousie, the detective, he latter phlegmntically composed amid ] ill the excitement, but with his sharp ( tves never missing a movement on the )art of either Croak or the banker, both jf whom were at the window, with >thers, including Mr. Hartwell and Mist1 < Win ford. ( "This is terrible; a frightful event!" at ength called out the London lawyer, who >vas the first of the spectators to utter ' my thing. "Can any one out there ex* ] )lain th? kftftidontv" ! iwe-stricken voice. "The miserable man rho has been overtaken by this accident ippeared at my window, in the room diectly above, but a moment ago, with the ivowed intention of taking my life and he life of this young lady, who ckarced ] o be with me. I "He had steaithi'y scaled the side of the louse by mean6 of ttie vines, and clam- j jered into the balcony, which hks long jeen deemed unsafe. His pistol was iev. > ilea at our hearts, bat a marvelous inter- ] Sosition paved us. just as tne pistol was iseharged ineffectually, the entire balcony anil its supports went down with a crash, carrying him along with it. The rest explains itself." One of the servants now tent over tfce fallen man, sightly raising the body. It whs this servant, the coachn>;in, who next fsnoke. "The gentleman is quite dead," said he, riBing. "In addition to this awful wound, the neck was broken by the fall." Adele had also risen -while Noel was speaking. Her face was frightfully set and white; her lamentations had ceased; her eyes wandered over the lookers-oneven over Noel and the horrified Gwendoline at his side?with a weary, dazed expression. janne6t tnat sue was wholly, miserably engrossed with the bereavement she had sustained in Boncourt's death, to the exclusion of every other thought, feeling and recollection. Suddenly the small voice of Dip called out, boy like: "Oh, he must have teen a-climbin' into the balcony away up yonder, just as I was gettln' in by the side door, and yet I never set eyes on him." The chirping little voice seemed to electrify Adele and startle her into a sudden frenzy. "Wretch! Impish atom!" she screamed, springing upon and clutching the lad like a tigress. "But for your treachery this could not have happened!" The boy cried out, and struggled so hard that a portion of nis upper clothing was torn away from one of his shoulders, leaving it bare; bntshe, nevertheless, retained her clutch with one hand, while with the other 6he snatched a small dagger from her bosom, and flourished it over him with blazing eyes. "All your doing! all your doing!" she cried, gnashing her teeth. "You shall luiii uiui iu ixio luui ujju ucaiu )uu uavo brought about." "Forbear!" shouted the horrified voice of Jasper, who was also iu ihe garden, and wco sprang forward, clutching her frenzied arm. "In the name of nature, forbear! Adele?Adele Rollingstone, it iByour own child whoselife you threaten." "It is the truth!" solemnly exclaimed another rereon, ooming forward. It was the old woman, Mrs. Beane. She appeared to have only just joined the group, and her wild face was cruelly bruised, as though by a recent blow, but abe was, notwithstanding, unwontedly ialm and Belf-possessed. With the lad still in her grasp, but her ather hand nerrously dropping its weapon at her side, Adele was now standing upright in the Bhaft of light from the offioe window, looking at both her and Jnsper with a terribly Btartled expression. "It is true," repeated Mrs..Beane, with increased solemnity. Seel* And she pointed to a peculiar mark on the lad e shoulder, which had been stripped bare. 'There is the birth-mark, which you canaot but recognize. "I was the child's nurse in San Francis:g. I stole him from you years and years igo, injrevenge for your having turned my foolish husband's head with yonr reckless witcheries. I cast him upon the world as a iame]?FB wflif. Of hiB history since I mow nothing, "Jasper Marlowe, then bearing the name )f Hob Bently, bro ght the lad here six lays ngo; he sought me out to establish ;he child's identity, in order to restore iim to von. Bonconrt havine been his 'riend. But the infamous plotting of four brother and yourself, together with nv unwillingness to assist in benefiting fou, has deterred the restoration of the joy unto this hour. In view of your present calamities, your abject overhrow, my life-long wrath is appeased. Woman, take back your child! iou deserve not the reparation that is made you; int it is made. Hide yourself in some .orexgn iana witn mm; and may you rain his precocity into those paths of ;ruth and goodness which your wild steps lave thus far shunned!" Having pronounced these words in lurried but impressive toneB, the strange rid woman stalked away, and was lost in he gloom. But before Bhe hnd finished, Adele wag ipon her knees, weepingly pressing the istonished boy in her arms. At a sigaal from Jasper, the men servants lifted the body of Boncoart from be ground. They were carrying it toward he porch, when Adele, still holding her :hild close, hastily arose and arrested the novement. "Not in there?not in there!" she loarsely whispered; "carry it to Jasmine Lodge, and I will compensate you." They obeyed her. As she heard them opening the iron ?ate, she drew Dip closely to her side, molding his hand hard, and moved in the same direction. But Noel intercepted hor. He had, in i great measure, recovered from his agiation, and was now controlled by nothing jut deep commiseration for the stricken voman. "Madame?Adele?w.it. Let me at east accompany you as far as the Lodge," le saii, with deep emotion. Sbv waved him off. bnt suddenly urned, impulsively holding out her lands. * i "I am unworthy of your pity, Noel?I im even not in need of it now,*" 6he murnured, with a tearful and significant [lance down at her boy. "But, as you tradunlly forget me in a nobler and worhier affection, will ycu not aho try to orpiveV" "W ith all my heart!" was the generous tnswer, and be touchcd her hand. Vtim n n 1 OUO ^f|VC UlUi n liUUJL'JO, 14A IVVAf owered her eyes without lookiDg toward Jw6ncloliDe, "and then passed slcwljf;om lew, leading her boy bj the hand. ITO BE COSXIKUED.] ???????? iVIoRE than one "brave fellow will go lown to his death this summer in river, iond, and sea. In the van -went a 13 rear-old New York "kid." Patsy Conlely was his name. Ee "played hookey" rom school, took his soul-stirring harnonica, went to the dock and made the ither "kids" dance. But Patsy's tunenaker got flirted into the river, and promptly Patsy jumped in after it. But there was mud there, and then the iwell of a passing boat banged him igainst another boat. Then Patsy, :oming up the last time, shouted to the kids" on the dock: "Don't let 'em take ne body home if I drown. It'll make nudder feel bad. Take me to deunderaker's shop." Then Patsy went down, md that was all. now ne uauir-o tne man wno can buy a pound of b 'cf-steak without torturing the busy clerk wi b 1: reasons for buying a pound. ar.d his rea-onsfor buying beef iusiL'.id of pork or mutton, md the reason he is buying it instead of Lis wi o, and how he likes steak cooked, and when he intends to eat it, and who refrains from telling his opinions of steak in general. How we admire that kind of man, and how seldom we see him. The average man thinks that no one in the world has anything else to do but to listen to what he intends to clo, and his reasons for doing it. How few men there are in the world who know enough to transact their business as speedily as rossible. How mtjch better off is a man at the Bnd of a*week than he was at its beginning ? He is just as poor, a little older, ?little more tired out, a little more irritable, and a little less hopeful. If be ever sits down and reckons it all up, he is either a hopeful fool or a very brave man if he continaes cheerful. ' \ LIFE IN MEXICO. AN AMERICAN LADY'S OBSE1 VATIONS. , Strange Folks and Scenes?Masoi at Work, Beggars, Peddlers and Dashing Horsemen ?Majesty of Law. Opposite our house for years, says i American lady, writing from the Ci of Mexico to the Chicago Heraid, sto< the Bucarille bull-ring, the most fas ionablc place of its kind in Mexico, stands there no longer. On the 1st March it was leveled to the ground, t' owners estimating the property too vj uable to lie unproductive. Surroundii this piece of property was a high sto wall. Measured by the eye it was mc than three times the height of the stor masons who are now at work upon Like all Mexican masonry it was built loaf fnr nnrpa hpirur three feet thick. not more. Since the bull-ring was c molished and the dust and rubbi cleared away it has been a matter much interest to the neighbors to kn< why all those workmen were put work repairing the wall. A few da ago the reason revealed itself. At reg lar intervals, about seven feet from t | ^^*5 SELLING FOWLB. ground, they had made with great lab (for stone walls in Mexico are not bu; to pull down) holes some five feet squar and this week they have fitted windc sashes and filled in the great archw; with very handsome wooden dooi Through these windows one ma^ see second wall with corresponding wmdoi and cross walls with doors also dividii the long space into rooms, 60 it is pia to the world that a home for somebo< ub to be produced from that old sto: Aval). It doesn't seem very comfortable, do it? And you think it must be povert stricken creatures who "will consent live there. Not so; just at this mome they arc plastering over the entire fa of the wall and soon they will paint it imitate a stone building, brick trimme and then it will be quite as good as ? house next to it, in which extremely ni people live and pay from $50 to $6C month rent. The floors are stone and the house damp, being built right on the groun but so arc most of the houses in the Ci of Mexico and ninety-nine one-nu dredths of those in the smaller towns ai in the interior, and yet the inhabitac learn how to keep themselves quite coi fortable after some months of miser One has to become acclimated to wa as well as to seasons in foreign lands. Of course there is always the wan Bunny garden in the rear, for these Ion low houses, one room wide, usually r round two sides of a space perhaps six i feet square, often more, and the remai j der of the ground is a tropical garde ' where all the year rourd the trees a green and the flowers bloom, and sot part of the day the sun sendo its brig rays straight down and one cr.n step oi side and get warm. Before we get too far away I must ti vou atiout the masons over the wa There are a number of groups of thr CHARCOAL VENDER ON FOOT. at work on various parts. The neare to us will serve as a type. Each masc has two helpers, and it is in the eostun i f these that one is particularly inte jsted. The mason himself is more .ess decently clad, wearing a pink calii blouse and loose white cotton trousei the larter held in place by a red sas Helper No. 1 wears an old pair trousers, one leg at least eight inch shorter than the other and the bottc j'iven one turn, so that it may perchan seem to some onlooker that it is roll up. These trousers possess a liundr different shades of those grimish ton of raw umber to which exposure to ture's elements turns everything und the sun. They have dozens of patch and hundreds of tatters, and the dir brown knees that suow through t holes prove that no other garment worn beueath. I suppose he wears shirt, perhaps it was once a shirt, ai may be it was white, but to-day it h one sleeve, no bosom and is the color mud. That one sleeve is all that shoi of it, except as he reaches his amis \ when mounting the ladder. Tnen on do I knew that it is attached to a gn ment. This sleeve only reaches to h elbow, where it is tied round about wi a bit of rag, otherwise, being slit to tl shoulder, it would fall from the arr Over this garment he wears a piece ? ' -' ', '' ' i:" ' ' \ V ' '' ':"" V.' " ' >' ' unbleached cotton; probably the coarse stuff which is made from the magne] fiber. Its color in most places is a deep S. deep yellow brown, especially in spots, Its edge is elaborately fringed with tat' ters, because it never was hemmed, and there i6 a hole cut or torn right in th< centre of it, through which he sticks hi bead. It hangs down to his waist, back and front, where it is tied about with f wisp of rope. His outer garment is t piece of sacking or bagging even mor< aa dilapidated than the rest of his attire. I fcy is treated in the same way as the articl od nf r?roea loof. flpaprihcd. '/.prftnfi fashion h- with a hole in the middle, through whic It the head is poked, and then it hang of loose. he Early in the morning, on top of al *1- this, he wore a piece of Brussels carpet ng ing, the wrong side out, put on in th ue same way. As the tropical sun of mid >re day is just now burning hot and fierc >e- in the dusty streets, he has laid this asid it. in a convenient place on the sidewalk to where all the mortar which falls from th if trowels may drop upon itt Little h le- cares; dirt is his bosom friend, his daR .sh and nightly companion. His head i of covered with an old straw sombrero, hi >w feet are bare, his face is lean and pinched to I wondered what he would think if ys called him over and gave him a sandwic M' of good sweet white bread and meat, he doubt if he ever had one in his life an ? hi9 beard is gray. It would be a dangerous experiment to-morrow all the beggars (and those o ? ? J * Kome are lew compareu 10 tuuoc v. Mexico) far and near would be under th window. This morning at least twent; have stopped at the window where I si and at various pitches have whined ou their sad stories. "No comprendo es painol" is the answer to all, and an at solutely stocial indifference is the onl way one can protect oneself. It is hard for beyond a doubt thej are in awfc need, but they are at every hand, th maimed, the halt and the blind, on cannot stir witnout oemg loiiowea d; dozens of them, and cannot help all. t0 A MEXICAN BEGGAR, d, he During the morning nearly three hun ce dred persons have passed my windows a fully twelve per cent, were peons whos attire stiowea an aoiect puvcn_y c^uai * is not greater than that of the mise:abl< d, creature described above. Not six pe ty cent, have been individuals in what wi n- know as the conventional attire of mod ad era civilization worn by the better clas its of Mexicans, except those who havi n- clattered by in carriages driven by coach y. men in the picturesque Mexican garb ya and very early in the day equestrians re turning from the first morning ride n, which is comme il faut here, g, Later the equestrians have been equall; an numerous, but of another class, all Mex ty ican men, easy, daring riders, some o n- them on beautiful horses, most of thee n, dashing by at a break-neck pace, swing ire ing round the corners, guiding thei ne 6teeds with a word, clattering up th ht street, bound on all sorts of errandsM.rrmto (ormcrs nnlifie. soldiers anc what not. A boy has this moment iid ell den by on a tine white horse. He passe y. often and is evidently the mozo (or ser ee vant) of the young caballero he fre ? quently accompanies. He is clad ir <;ray trousers, fitted tight to his legs anc .'mttoned all the way up with silve clasps. He wears -a blue cloth jacket which scarcely reaches the saddle, anc h gray sombrero of soft felt bound anc trimmed with a wide silver gimp. The most picturesque of the passers by was one of the rurales, or rural police, who have been in town this month, foi the great millitary parade of the Cinqui (le Mayo. The i urales are a sort ot cros: between soldier, police and country pen tleman. One story goe3 that they weri all bandits who infested the mountains bat whom Diaz turned into servants o the Government by creating this impor tant and fascinating branch of the cav airy; another story is that they are son; of rich men, infatuated with the daring, adventurous life. Whatever they be in dividually, collectively they are the fines! Kr\f mAiinfarl mon T orpr QJ1W. Uttiiu ui uiuuukvu U4vu * v ? 7 ^ cently mounted, picturesquely aUirec and perfect masters of the animals thej bestride. Their uniform is tan-colored, undressed leathern trousers, titting a1 __ close as leggings and like tbembuttonec 5t up the sides with rows of silver clasps >n short jackets (roundabouts) and waist ie coats of the same leather, most elaborately r- embroidered with braids back and front oi A bright scarlet sash tncircles the waisi ;o and a gray, silver-trimmed sombrero cov s, ers the head. Their saddles, too, ari h. works of art, ornamented with silver em of broideries in great raised flowers anc ies vines. As they dashed up the street a im full gallop ou' Cinquo de Mayo towarc ce the palace,where the President reviewed ed them, they held their shori carbines ed pointed straight in front of them, in on< es hand, aud with the other kept theii horses in perfect line. er I have dciie a part of my Saturday es marketing from my window. Soledac ty (one of our womeu) was the first to inhe tercept me with '-El carbon, senorita,' is and I went out to the diniig-room win a dows to buy my supply of fuel for tlx ad week. There was a man with half ? as dozen of4 those faithful little burros, of each ladeu down with great square bale: ;v8 of charcoal sluug across their backs? up each one beinir twice as big and more a> [y the patient little creature itself?anc ,r- this he sells from door to door. A1 tig though charcoal is clean dirt it is blacl th dirt, ar>d one uot fancy tha ie either donkey or vender would present t n. pleasing appearancc. The man, it ii of ' true, was black enough, but the charcoa M\ : ? '*">#,* f -<.K% >?!?? -.' W- -: ) J is bound so neatly in freshly cut reeds j and grass that the little burros look as if , they were carrying huge cocks of newmown hay. Scarcely had I seated myself again, I when I spied a barefooted boy across the b 6treet carrying on his head a flat wicker 3 tray, which was such a splendid kaleido: scope of color that it was impossible to i resist calling him over. "Ohiga, ohiga," i I cried in answer to his call of ' 'Frutes, i frutes," and he came across. He first t asked me twelve cents (a real) for six of e the tiny little yellow bananas they pre, fer down here, but, knowing well his b kind, I offered him six cents for six of 8 the big fat red ones we liked, and got them. I bought strawberries?big 1 luscious ones?for eighteen cents a " pound, his first price being thirty cents. e I added six oranges for twelve cen^s (which did not look as though they ? couia De wormy, Dut proDaoiy are, as | e the rains have begun) and eighteen i apricots for another twelve cents,and then 6 I called him back and gave him a e centour for a couple of aqua-caies for 7 the salade. The melons are not good, 8 mangoes one has to cultivate a taste for, 8 and it takes long, for the odor is an ag* gravated case of that of overripe bananas * shut up in a close room. But the cherh rimoya, or custard apple, shaped like a * pineapple cheese, green and black on the " outside, purest white custard within, flecked w th black needs like a watermelon, is 'iked by every one. lf Half ar. hour later I forgot myself and looked up when I heard "Senorita, e senorita," under the window, and I bey held a fine turkey held up to my gaze. There stood a man with a chicken coop ^ on his back, fully as high as himself, and divided off into four or five stories, which were full of fowls. He was a wild, y dirty specimen, but he had with him a '? neat little brown-faced woman, who carried in each hand a basket of eggs. 0 Cook buyB our turkeyB at the plaza usu A LIMB OF THE LA.W. ally and pays ?1 for one ireighing sev en or eight pounds. So when he asked me " | $1.06 for this one unplucked, I knew it " i was the same old tale?get all you can * out of the foreigners. We dickered f away, he coming down six cents at a 3 time, uutil.I bought it for sixty-two cents, in spite of cook's appcarance on the scene and evident disapproval of the a I purchase. She said it was thin and . poor, and quite turned up her nose at the . noisy creature. So I made him take _ i anotLer one from the coop and soon saw I that she would make the same objection ' I to them all, undoubtedly for reasons of i Vior own. f!hiet amonc these iirobablv Mw* w a r was her commission from the market woman, and that hardly second to the _ | extra amount cif work she would have j : to do in picking the turkey. But in no i way would the vender be induced to _ ! come down in his price. Eggs, eight I for twelve cents, was his price, and none other. And as cook brings them from the market place for the same money I am willing she should get her commissien. So the man and woman trotted on ! their way. | One of the things I did not buy, I which was urged upon me with never1 ceasing volubility, was goat's milk. The j wrinkled old crone who importuned me wa3 driving a little flock of goats , about the streats, and, squatting down j before each purchaser's door,would draw the quantity of goat's milk any one de| sired from nature's fount with her dirty | brown hands. j Fnvr. ;i <m . Stumpley? 'What's the matter, ray f friend?" Longfellow?'I hit my head a fearful & rap just now as I came in." Stumpley?"What did you do?strike 2 it against the ceiling?"?New York Tels gram. [ "I'rctty Wtll Off." 1 ?Munsty's Wtikly. J German railways now aggregate 24,i 600 miles, and employ 12,620 locoraol tives. 26,008 passenger cars. 556,851 freight cirs. and 618,000 officials and - other employes. In 1890 there were 3088 t accidents of all kinds, i i ? 3 Switzerland yearly receives about $25,J 000.000 from foreitra tourists. Curious ^act! in Washington. Most strange and grotesque of th# plants at the Botanic Garden are the I cacti. They would seem to have been created by nature in a freakish and irresponsible mood. One might imagine fchrm to nronerlv belonc to- soma other world than this, only half alive, as the; seem and assuming such extraordinary and absurd forms. Certain naturalists have imagined that they must bo1 relics of a vegetation belonging to a. period long prior to the development of the plant Life familiar to the present genw eration. Their characteristic spines,; entitling them to the name of vegetablehedgehogs, accentuate their impossibility! as contemporaneous species. The largerforms, some towering to fffty feet hi height, the other individuals weighing ton or more, plentifully adorn the Mexi4 can landscape, which in many parts obtains an aspect ectremely weird from. -'I these astonishing growths. That coun-j try, in fact, contains three-fourths of the entire number of varieties knownj Nature provides the cacti with spines ini . order to save them from being eaten byj animals. Horses are very fond of themJ and will frequently devour them, after kicking off the prickly surface with theiif hoofs. There are few known plants which afford such beautiful examples of synn metrical structure as the "mammiJlaria'T group of cacti, many of which resembl?jexquisite pieces of mechanism finished] with utmost minuteness and accuracy J Others might be imagined to have un^ dergone a kind of crystalizatlon, their whole surface being frosted over in geo?^ metrical patterns. It is from a species of cactus that. cocnineai is ootamea, ana ior tne pur* pose of gathering from it the insects bovaluable in commerce, great estates are planted with it in the West Indies, Algeria, the Canary Islands and India j The plants are set out in rows, trimmed! to the height of four or fire feet. In. August or September of each year is- \ the season for what is called the "sow* * ing," when the field hands attach to thecacti, by means of thorns, leaves covered with female bugs, which are thoal left, in order that they may producetheir young. The latter quickly swarm over the plants, from which they are removed four months later with blunt knives. This process is a tedious one^ 70,000 being required to make a pound.j Finally the insects are killed by immer-J , sion in boiling water and dried in th?> sun, that being the condition in whichl they are exported. . ... ' -j-; One ol the most surprising curiositiesin this branch of the animal kingdom i^ < the 4'Old Man cactus," which derives itsname from the silvery white hairs thatj cover the upper part of the stem, giving} it a peculiar resemblance to the hoaryj bead of an ajjed man. Tne nam are int reality soft, weak spines. When thsf plant is grown in the house it is best' accommodated in a glass case, inasmuch; as dost will otherwise render the baindingy, and impart to the old gentleman' ~ a very disreputable appeafance.?Globe Democrat. He Carried a Piece of Oak In His Head Lewis E. Rotterman, of Peoria, 111.^ has in his possession the proof of one of the most interesting cases known in sur-J gical history. He was one of the pas-, sengere on the ill-fated Niagara Falls ex4 cursion train which went down to de-' struction at Chataworth. He was in the 1?1 ah Via VianrJo in on i&db May DUat'il icauiu^ \ju. m^uauvw -n nv -. .j i open window when the crash camej Nearly everybody in the car was injured] and several men were killed outright/ Rotterman's face was badly cnt ana. braised and he was unconscious for several hours. His face was sewed up and' healed rapidly. Since then he ha3 suf-* lered constant pains in his head, but local physicians attributed it to the shock of the wreck and treated him accordingly. Last November, while blowing his nose vigorously, he blew out a wire nail one and three-eights inches long, badly rusted. He and his friends were confident that; his trouble was at end when the nail waft dislodged, but he still suffered from a1 dull pain in hi9 head. In June he went to Chicago aud was examined by the staff surgeon at the Hush Medical College. The physician* found a foreign body in Rotterman's head at the inside corner of the left eye, and, in the presence of a room full of surgeons, cut the patient's face. Imbedded in the head back of the nose was found an irregular piece of oak one and a half inches long, five-eighths of an inch thick and threeeighths of an inch wide. This fragment of the window sill had been carried in Rotterman's head for four years. The paint had been absorbed by his blood* The case was reported to all the leading, doctors in Chicago and is pronounced one of the most remarkable in history.? Ifeio York Tribune. Pearl fishing in Lower California. One of the largest pearl fishing grounds iu the world is in the Gulf of California. "The pearls," says * correspondent, "are not generally regular in shape or very pure in color, but some are of large size, and many of the rare black pearls are found. The divers are nearly all Indians and their equipment is of the simplest kind, consisting only of a basket hung around the neck, in which to collect the oysters, a knife to detach theul from the rocks and a stone with a cord attached. When a diver goes down he takes the cord between bis toes, the weight of the stone carrying him at once to the bottom. He gathers oysters aa long as his breath holds out, and then rises to the surface, to descend again in fifteen minutes. Some of the divers are wonderfully expert, and can remain under water for as much as two minutes before rising to the surface. The mortality among them is fearful, for the Gull of California is infested with huge man-eating sharks, who carry off scores of met every year." Thin Xeu and Fat Men. "Do you know," observed the manager of a large restaurant to a Philadelphia Inquirer man, "that thin men eat a great deal more solid food than fat men? Well, it's s.i. Take a man weighing 200 pounds and he can tuck away a great deal, but (if you'll excuse the pun) he leans toward soups and puddings, and beer and water in large quantities, and vegetables. But those with little flesh' on their bones eat steaks, roast beef and1 other meats. Actresses who wish to keep from getting fleshy also eschew vegetables. If these people want to get fat they should observe what kind of food are eaten by fleeby friends and act accordingly." j - - A