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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
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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!"
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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.]
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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.
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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
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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
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" ' >' '
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."
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