THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH.
Jill " THIRD PART.
PAGES 17 TO 20.
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9k WEALTH! MONARCH
iHow tho Kajali of Jeypore Lives and
f Governs Bis Indian Subjects.
"A WOKDEEFUL OEIEKTAL PALACE.
M(jneer Sights and Characters in the Back
Jp Woods of India,
AS EXCDESIOX ON Ir'BIG ELEPHANT
icoKEisroKDEjrc: or the ijispatcim
JEYPOEE, India,
May 2. The traveler
who would see India as
it is mast go out of tbe
regular line and eater
the native states. There
is in Hindostan a terri
tory nearly one-fifth the
size of the United States
and containing a popu
lation of more than 56,
000,000, which is gov
erned by rajahs. These
rajahs have power of
life and death. .They
have revenues of their own, levy taxation as
they please and organize their people and
armies on a different basis from the English
portion of India. They are subject in a cer
tain sense to the English, and most of them
have English officers connected with their
establishments. They are feudatory states to
England, and England does not allow them
to make war upon each other, nor can they
have any relations with ioreign States. If
a rajah misgoverns his people or oppresses
them the viceroy of India reproves him and
if he does not come to time secures his re
moval. These States, however, have none
of the new cut ms of English India. Eew
foreigners visit them and the people are
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cashheee cloth mebchant.
substantially the same as they were years
age before the railroad and the English
desire tor business came in to grind them
up in the mortar of modern civilization.
,One-third of the whole territory of India is
rrossessrd by snch rajahs and their subjects
. ' fciake up one-fifth of the inhabitants. Their
united armies amount to 300,000 men and
their gross yearly revenues are about 80,-
000,000.
Magnificent Jewels.
These rajahs live as grandly as did the
Sings of Northern India in the past,and the
English merchants of India cater largely to
their wants. Some of the finest jewelry
stores in the world are here in India, and
under every glass counter you see barbaric
jewelry set with diamonds worth a fortune,
I saw two rings yesterday, one worth 52,000
and the other 54,000. The first was a dia
mond of about the size of a hickory nut set
around with a cluster of small diamonds as
big as peas and the whole affiled to a finger
ring, containing enough gold to make a
hunting case for a "Waterbury watch. The
other was the same size as to the gold, but
theentral stone was a ruby fully as big as
a chestnut, and the diamonds about it were
very beautiful. The tops ofthese rings were
as large around as old copper cents and as I
looked at them I asked -the jeweler who
would wear such gorgeous and unwieldy
objects. He replied:
'Oh, we sell these to the rajahs. They
want the most extravagant jewelry, and
some of them fairly cover themselves with
gems."
At another store I was told that a rajah
had just been in and given an order for 200
yards ot sjitin at 510 a yard. He wanted
this to paper the walls of a room in a new
palace, and thought nothing of pasting this
?2,000 upon the plaster. The Sultan of
Johore, when I visited him in his palace at
Johore, had ropes of gold about twice the
size of a clothesline about his wrists, and
upon his fingers were diamond rings. The
fingers of the right hand were covered from
An Arab Soldier.
the knuckles ot the first joints with rings
set with diamonds and emeralds, so that a
diamond alternated with an emerald all
over his hand, and the whole made a blaz
ing fist of white and green. On the left
hand the fingers were covered with rings in
the same manner, save that the costly
rubies took the place of the emeralds. At
Delhi I was shown a dressing gown set with
precious stones which cost $3,500, and which
had just been made for a rajah.
The City of Jeypore.
Jeypore is one of the northwest provinces
of India. It is a day's ridevfrom Bombay,
not far off from the borders of Afghanistan
and, some distance south of Cashmere and
(the 'Himalaya Mountains. It has a popu
lation about as large as that of Ohio, and
'its rajah's income amounts to 52,000,000 a
year. "The capital is the city of Jeypore, in
which I am writing. It is said to be tbe
finest native city of India, and it. is cer
tainly like no other city I have ever seen.
It it higger than Omaha, Denver or Kansas
City, and it is laid out as regularly as the
city of Washington. Its main street is two
miles long and 120 feet wide and this is inter-,
sected at right angles by other streets of the
same width and the whole is cut by narrow
streets into rectangular blocks. The roads are
tetter macadaniizjd than those of any city
of the United States. They are as hard as
. Stone and as smonth u a floor. The finnsAR
? on the main streets w rezularlv built and
some rajah of the past laiJ out the city and
made tbe property holders build after fixed
regulations. It is more like a Spanish city
than an Indian town. The houses come
close to the sidewalks and they have bal
conies over them with oriole windows jut
ring out at the second stories above arcades
which rnn below from house to house; they
are almost altogether two-story buildings,
and tbe painting of the whole is a delicate
pink. Imagine miles of pink houses with
lattice-work windows through which you
may now and then see the eyes of high caste
Hindoo damsels. Let nut-brown fingers
here and there clasp the lattice-work and
through a larger hole let here and there an
arm peep out. In some of the balconies you
see turbaned men and boys sitting dressed
in the richest of garments and beside them
Hindoo maidens, their faces covered with
shawls and their eyes peeping out through
the cracks.
A Bony Throne
Below in the decades are shops in which,
sitting cross-legged with goods piled around
them, are merchants selling jbe thousand
and one things used by the people, and out
in the street rushing here and there, moving
along leisurely, now chatting, and now
talking business, is the most motley throng
of native men and beasts you will find in
any city. Here is a little caravan of camels
long-legged, gaunt, humped animals rid
den by bare-legged men in turbans who bob
up and down as the camel rocks its way
along. Many, of the camels are led and the
drivers ride them with a rope fastened into
theii noses. They sit on the hump and pound
the camel with a whip or a cloth. There
is one camel ridden by a woman.
Her bare legs clad ' in bracelets are
astride of the hump and her one eye peeps
out as she directs the driver where to lead
the beast. Here is one carrying stones.
Great long flags are tied on both sides of his
hump and he goes along with his lip down,
pouting like a spoiled child. Here is anoth
er being loaded with lumber, and as the
rafters one after another are tied to his back
he blubbers and enes like a baby, and as
you look at him you see the tears rolling J
down irom nis proud, angry eyes. Here is
one with a turbaned soldier on his back, and
th,ere is" another ridden by a bov. On up the
street you ste an elephant ft belongs to
the rajah, and its rider is one of the serv
ants of the palace who is taking the beast
out for exercise.
Here are thousands of bullocks with
humps over their shoulders, the sacred
cows of India doing duty as pack horses.
Their backs 'are loaded with panniers and
they are carrying along hay, stone and
merchandise. Here is one ridden by a
turbaned Mohammedan, whose long "beard
and long shoes turned up at the toes attract
your eye as he goes by. Here are horses
which prince along. They came from
Arabia, and among them are some of the
best steeds ot the world. As you look at
them and their riders you have no doubt ot
Jeypore being a rich city. "What gorgeous
costumes! These riders wear gold embioid
ery enough to fit out the diplomats at one of
our President's receptions. There are gold
chains on their necks and their arms and
fingers are heavy with gold. They have
gold-embroidered turbans, costly gold vests
A Water Carrier.
and the bits of their horses are often of
silver. They sit very straight as they ride,
and by the stirrup of each runs a groom,
now clearing the way tor his master and
ever present for fear he might want some
thing. Here is a herd of donkeys loaded
down with panniers so that only their legs
peep out and the loads seem to be walking
away bodily. They are no bigger, than
Newfoundland dogs and their drivers, bare
legged, pound and yell at them in Hindos
tanee as they drive tnem along without
either bridle or rein.
Some Mohammedan Women.
The crowd on foot is as gay as that upon
horseback and yonr eyes grow tired in try
ing to catch and distinguish the strange
characters you meet. Here comes a party
of singing girls dressed ail in red and gold,
singing strange songs as they dance through
the streets. They are not bad looking, and
their limbs are loaded with anklets and
bracelets. Here come some Mohammedan
maidens. They are fine looking women, but
their dress is hideous. It consists of a shor
waist and a pair of thin, drawer-like panta
lettes which are vey wide at the waist, hut
which taper down into tights at the calves.
Here low caste women are breaking stones
and there you see a dozen of them going
along with baskets' of broken stone upon
their heads. They throw it upon the road
and a corps of brown-skinned men, their
limbs clothed only in waist-cloths and their
skins shining with perspiration, are crush
ing it into bits with stampers. As they do
so a water carrier, with a skin full ot water
upon his back, and his hand on the mouth
of the- bottle throws a clear stream upon it
and the whole becomes a mortar, wiich,
when dried, is as hard as the floor of a cel
lar. You see these water carriers every
where in India and they water the streets of
the country. They carry the water for
natives and peddle it from house to house.
You may see dozens of them here at Jeypore
with their bottles, made of the whole skin
of a pig, and as they pass you think of the
of the scenes of the scriptures.
Grant's Autograph.
Host Americans buy shawls in, this part
of India, and after a sale is made the mer
chant invariably demands that you write a
recommendation for him in his notebook.
This he shows to future travelers, apd I find
scattered over Iadia tbe amtegrophdU jwt
l
Americans. At Delhi I found Grant's au
tograph and the merchant who had it under
a recommendation, stating that h,is wares
were good, told me heJiad been offered 100
rupees for it, and that he would sot sell 'it
for 1,000 rupees. James Gordon Bennett
states that he "finds a certain man's shawls
good, and he supposes they are cheap," and
tbe merchant who owns the book tells me
that Bennett bought a dozen cashmere
shawls, saying he wanted to use them for
making undershirts. These were tbe kind
called ring shawls, so fine that you can pull
a whole shawl through the wedding ring of
a lady. It must be nice to have an under
shirt which you can pull through a ring,
and in the case of a man who travels with
his extra clothing iu his hat I can see where
the advantage comes in.
Tbe Rajah's Palace.
The Eajah's palace is in the center of his
capital. It covers a great area and the
palace garden with its flowing rivers of
water, formed by fountains spurting out of
a stone bed, would" be large enough for a
farm. His Majesty is now in Calcutta, but
arrangements had been made for my visit
and a note from tbe English Secretary,
Major Hendley, gave me a dark-skinned
palace guide and I was shown through
court after court of marble and takcn
through room alter room furnished with
rich Persian carpets and with satin-covered
chairs and divans of European make. In
one, palace there was an immense billiard
room and in this and the room adjoining
the skins of tigers and leopards were scat
tered about by the hundred. They lay in
great piles on the floors. They were hung
onthe walls and some of the divans "were
upholstered with them. I went through
room after room filled with such skins, and
I was told that the beasts were all killed by
the Bajah, who is very fond ot tiger hunting
and who is an excellent shot. I was shown
the outside of the palace containing tbe
harem and the arrangements for keeping it
cool struck me as rather peculiar. Outside
of the main hall and running along one
length of the palace was a series of great
fanning mills not unlike those used bv tho
Americau farmer. These were turned by
half-naked men and they thus kept pump
ing up drafts into the rooms beyond.
An Indian Stable.
I visited'.the Eajah's stables and took a
look at his horses. There was a court for
exercise which covered, I judge, something
like ten acres, and around this was built an
arcade ot stalls roofed over with a thictc,
heavy roof to keep off the sun. There were
about a half a mile of these stalls, and each
of them was occupied by a fine, blooded
steed. There were horses from Arabia, from
Europe, America and India, and the tying
of each was different from anything I have
ever seen. There was a strap from their
halters, which was fastened to rings just
above their heads, and each of their tour
feet had a separate rope, which was
stretched out toward the four corners in
front and behind them and tied at a distance
ot perhaps six feet away to a post. The
ropes were loose enongh to permit them to
move their legs up and down, but they
could not kick nor stand on their hind legs.
The Elephant Honse.
I next visited the elephant stables and
took a look at the 12 great elephants which
the rajah owns. They have great brass
chains about their necks. Their tusks are
cut off about half way up, and they are
bound with heavy brass rings. One of them
has a sort of a tattoo work on its greatears
and forehead made in the patterns of a cash
mere shawl, and they are altogether higger
than any, elephant I saw jn Siam or
Burmah.
At the invitation of the rajah's secretary
I took a ride yesterday afternoon upon one of
them. I wanted to visit the ruins of the old
palace and city of Amber, which Is located
in the hills abont four miles from the city.
An elephant was sent from. the palace to, the
foot of the hills in the morning, and when I
arrived shortly after noon I found it wait
ing for me. It was the biggest of the
rajah's elephants, the one which had
great brass-bound tusks and tbe
cashmere shawl pattern ears, and
forehead, and upon its head there sat a
Hindoo elephant driver in a bright turban
and gown. He held a prod-like steel hook
in his hand and his bare, brown legs.clasped
the elephant's neck just back ot the ears.
He made the elephant kneel as.our carriage
drove up, and a second servant took a step-
lauuer irom ins siue, auu, jeamng luis
against the beast, we mounted up the
side of the kneeling elephant and took our
seats on the cushioned saddle upon its.top.
Cautioning me to hold on, the driver then
gave tbe elephant a thrust with his prod
and the great beast climbed to his feet and
started off in a swinging walk up the
mountain. The motion was a swaying one,
and we went along at a round pace, seated
as high up in the air as though we were on
the roof of a village house. The servants
who trotted along on the road below teemed
very far down and tbe motion at first was a
half sea-sick one. After a half- mile I got
nsed to it, however, and began to enjoy the
strange ride.
The Jeypore Mmeura.
This afternoon I visited the museum or
Jeypore. This rajah has one of tbe finest
museums in India, and the building con
taining it is far finer than that of the mu-
seum.at Boston, and of
the Central Park
The artists are still
museum oi jxew xorc
at work upon it and its fine exhibit isbeincr
improved daily. The different schools of
the world are represented in the frescoes on
the walls, and the rajah, has already had
more than 2,000,000 visitors since its estab
lishment a tew years ago, and it exchanges
with the great museums of Europe. I asked
the curator why he did not exchange with
Acoerica, and he replied that be had not
thought of doing so. The collection here is,
however, very fine as an exhibit of Indian
work, and I think Prof. G. Brown
Goode, the head of our national museum,
might find some valuable things at Jeypore.
The museum is especially wonderful as be
ing that of a native rajah, and when I think J
or this man s art schools, nis public library,
his good Streets and his apparently well
managed Government, I wonder whether
some other Slates in India would not oe as
well off under native rule's as under the
English. Feank G. Cabpenieb.
Flexible Wood Wats.
A new mat, which acts as a foot scraper,
without retaining the dirt on its surface,
and which is readily cleaned is made of
flexible wood matting. Strips of clear
white hard maple, straight grained and
well seasoned, are oonnected by means of
galvanized iron wire, with a rubber tube
between tbem, and the result Is a very dara
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PITTSBURG, SUNDAY, JTJNE 9, 1889.
A GREAT FISH TABU.
Some Facts About the Work of the
United States Fish Commission.
HATCHING SHAD BI THE MILLION.
Tie Simplest Complete Arrangement of
tho Hatchery.
METHODS OP TRANSPORTING THE FBI
ICOEKXSrONDEJfCE OP THE DISTATCB.3
WASHING
TON, D. O., June
7. It is a big fish
story that I am
about to tell you.
Not one contain
ing the genial
. prose poetry of
Ready for IVanmorfaHnn Izaak walton in
his fascinating pic
tures of the art of killing fish, which are so
sednctive that they almost induce a person
of the most tender heart to wish to engage
in murder of that kind. Neither one con
taining the thrilling passages described in
the fishy novels of Mr. William Black, nor
the blood-curdling experiences of Senator
Quay, in his fishing for giant tarpon in
Florida waters, and yet more wonderful
than all these, because it is a tale of the
taking of millions of fish at a single catch,
and the reproduction from them of incom
prehensible millions core.
Back of the great station of thePennsyl-
IIP
omt
A EErEIOEEATOE CAB.
vania railroad, in a pretty spot in what is
generally known as the "Mall," which in
cludes all the grounds stretching out from
the Capitol to the Washington Monument.
is an old, square brick building, which is
tbe ancient armory of the capital city. Long
abandoned for all warlike purposes, it is
now the
CENTBAI, HATCHING STATION
of theFish Commission of the United States.
Sown on the Potomac, at old Fort Wash
ingtonand at Havre de Grace, on the Sus
quehanna, are two branch stations, where
the bulk of the shad eggs to be hatched are
taken, and the number of these is almost in
credible. Shad has been 'Unusually numer
ous this year, and at times from 15,000,000
to 20,000,000 roe would be taken in a single
night. These arc cleaned at the branch sta
tion by putting them in jars and passing
water slowly through them, and they are
then spread thinly on crates, covered with a
bit of cloth, the crates bound' together and
shipped to the central station to be hatched
and thence distributed by the commission
cars or vessels to the waters tributary to the
Atlantic.
The shad are caught in all sorts of ways,
bv fishermen employed for the purpose.
The roes are immediately squeezed from the
females into jars, and into the same jars the'
milk is squeezed . from the males, and, as
when the pollen of the male flower is car
ried by the winds of heaven into the open
petals of the female flower the beautiful
and mysterious, work of recreation begins,
so it is with the ova of my lady fish apd the
spermatic fluid of the male ot her species;
they touch, they Sad their complement,
they thrill, they awaken, and a new fish is
born, which'in its turn will produce its own
millions of eggs and lend its aid to people
the waters of the globe, to tickle the palate
of the gourmand and fill the beHy of the
poor. For the work of the commission is a
grand one in the interests of a cheap and
Manhall McDonald. United Slates Fun Com
mlssioner. wholesome food, which will only be fully
realized in ail lis Denenceni magmmuo
when the operations have been extended to
all the streams and lakes of the country,
large and small, where fish may ,
LIVE AND THBITE.
Erom the crates in which the eggs are
sent from the stations where they are
caught, these little globules "of immovable
life are carefully scraped into the jars in
which they are hatched. It is a jar in
vented bv Commissioner McDonald himself
before he was advanced to the chieftancy of
the Commission. It is very simple, and
vet perfect for the work it is to perform.
By an arrangement of pipes not necessary to
explain technically, fresh water is at all
times passing through the jar and between
the eggs, and throngh these pipes also, the
dead eggs, which rise to the surface of the
water, are carried away. The water is kept
as near as possible to a temperature of 65
degrees, and the fish hatch in from six to
eight days, according to the temperature of
the water. The proportion of loss is very
small, and is really nothing at
all compared with the loss which
occurs mi the process ot nature,
when vast, numbers ol the eggs ate
Interior of the Car.
with the mils: of the males at all, and other
vast numbers are destroyed by hungry ene
mies'! and by many other processes. Erom
this it may be realized what an absolutely
inconceivable work is being'done and may
be done by the commission, by 'the hatching
every few days of millions of fish and their
distribution in waters where they can to a
great extent take care of themselves.
THE COMMISSION'S WOES.
The work of the commission, as m stated
by Commissioner McDonald, isonlylimited
by ihe appropriation. With the -present
SftMhinery the distribution teould be
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tion for the work of hatching and distribu
tion is only 515,000, and with this the opera
tions for the current year will'be little
greater than for the year 1888. In that year
the shad fry distributed -reached the enor
mous number of "IB6,000,000.,, Of white fish
there were distributed 103.000.000. of cod
25,000,000, -of pollock 13,000,000, of West
Coast salmon 11,000,000, and of other fish
several millions more. Even with this dis
tribution, which could be enlarged enor
mously with an Increased appropriation,
taken in connection with the work of State
commissions, it will be recognized that tbe
artificial propagation of fish in the United
States must bring labor and food and relief
to hundreds of thonsands of the poorer poptu
lation.
ItTJhe operations of the national commis
sion will extend as fast as the appropriations
of Congress will admit Hatoning stations
are already scattered well over the country,
and a new station, probably more extensive
than any now in existence, is in pipcess of
construction at Put-in-Bay, in Lake Erie.
It is expected that the immense drain upon
the finny population of the great lakes
will soon be counteracted, and those waters
again filled with the delicious fish with
which they abounded a few years ago. Tbe
more important work of the seaboard and of
the large interior waters completely under
way, greater attention will be given to the
smaller lakes anil inland rivers' until the
vast scheme is so systematized that every
available water of the country will be re
plenished faster-tnan the number of fish is
diminished, thus putting the finest food
within" the reach of almost the entire popu
lation of the land, without money and with
out price, to all who will take the tronble to
throw a line into the water. -
AN ENTHUSIAST.
Commissioner McDonald is an enthusiast
in the work. He imparts to it a vigor and
system never attained before, and he is as
sisted by a corps of gentlemen who enter
into the spirit of the great work with an in-
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dustry and attachment hardly to be found
in any other bureau of the Government.
The Commissioner is a profound and de
voted scientist. Before entering into the
work of the commission he was professor of
the department of biology in the college at
Lexington, Ky., and, wnen he engaged in
his present field, it was only in the interest
of science, and not with any idea of its'
The Central Hatching Station.
philanthropio possibilities. Indeed, the com
mission in its incipiency,iiTf am not mistaken,
was merely a scientific bureau of the Na
tional Musenm, and has only taken its pres
ent shape through the efforts Of those en
gaged in the work who recognized the im
measurable good to the people of all classes
that would result from an extensive propa
gation and distribution of fish by arti
ficial instead of natural methods. It is in
reality a farming of tbe waters by the
National Government, under true and con
scientious scientific direction, just as the
new school of economists insist the land
should be fanned, by intelligent direction of
Government agents, for the benefit of the
people, and not by ignoramuses in the in
terests of private profit.
It is the desire of Commissioner McDon
ald to accomplish the erection of a great
central station in this city, which shall con
tain aquaria for tbe exhibition of fish of all
kinds, and as an annex of the National
Museum. At present the exhibit is very
meager owing to lack of space. E. W. L.
THE FINDING 0P THE LA0C00N.
Whether It la the Original or a Copy Mny
Never Bo Determined.
From the Magazine of Art.
The Laocoon may be the original statue
bepraised by Pliny, but even that is open to
doubt. The history bf the finding of this
statue was in'this wise: It happened in 1506,
when Baphael, a youth of three-and-twenty,
was painting in Florence. In the mouth
of June a messenger arrived in hot haste
at the Vatican to tell Pope Julius
II. that workmen excavating in a
vineyard near St. Maria Maggiore had
came upon statues. The Pope turned to one
of his grooms and bid him run to his archi
tect, Giuliano di San Gallo, to tell him to
go there at once and see about it. San
Gallo instantly had his horse saddled, took
his young son Francisco, who relate this,
on the crupper behind him, and called for
Michel Angelo, and awav the three trotted
through the hot and dusty streets", as we
may imagine, in a great state of excitement.
When they reached the place they beheld
that agonized face which we all know so
well, and which many of us have tried to
copy so oten.
"It is tbe Laocoon of Plinvl" exclaimed
San Gallo. Mad with excitement, they
urged on the workmen, a great hole was
cleared away, and they were able to contem
plate that wonderlul group, certainly the
'finest monument of antiquity which had as
yet been revealed to the modern world.
After this, as Francisco says, they went
home to dinner. How tbey must have
talked! We can imagine the poor wife cry
ing despairingly to her lord:, "Dear Giu
liano, do leave off talking for moment, din
ner is getting quite cold!" I should like to.
have been there; but that is idle.
The statue was transferred to the Belve
dere, and then arose the question, was it
Pliny's Laocoon or a copy? a question not
decided to this day. Pliny says that the
statue was carved by Igesander, Polydorus
and Atbenodorus, of Rhodes, out of a single
block ot marble. The Laocoon is in fire
pieces, but very skilfully joined.
AN0THEE CUBE FOB CORNS.
Carbolic Acid and Glycerins Said ro be a
Certain Cemedr.
One of the deadliest enemies of the chiro
podist is a short and simple recipe which
soon brings relief and immunity from tbe
exasperating agony which is too sadly
familiar. Take equal parts of carbolio acid
and glycerine and paint the corn every,
night with a camel's hairbrush, first bath
ing and carefully drying the feet. Tnis
treatment, if patiently continued, is a cer
tain remedy. It also gives great relief irom
soreness by excessive walking it the mix
ture is applied to tbe soles of tbe feet.
Had Strnck Something Harder.
New York San J .
"I suppose you find this to be a hard,
hard world, do you not?" she said, as she
gave tbe tramp a loaf of stale bread.
i "Yes'm," answered the tramp, trying to
make a dent in tbe loaf with his knife:
iHKwe&equeawy strike things that are
THEOEYGIfpOlRLOOK
VTBITTEN FOB THE DISPATCH BY
WILKIE
CHAPTEE L
MAET 'WAEEINEB.
TWO names were
used for the only g it
at Overlook. In ad'
dressing her, the men
of the place always
said"JIiss'Warriner."
In mentioning her
they often said "Mary
Mite." The reason
for this distinctive
difference wasrevealed
by the sight of Miss
Mary Warriner her
self, as she sat on a
high stool behind a
rude desk, under a
roughly boarded shel.
The Only airl at Over- ter, and with rapid
look. fingers clicked the key
of a telegraphio instrument There was a
perfect poise of quiet self-possession which
would have been very impressive dignity
in an older and bigger person, and which,
although here limited by 18 years and 100
pounds, still made a demand for respectful
treatment: Therefore the men when in her
presence never felt like calling her any
thing else than "Miss Warriner." If she
had been less like a-stately damsel in min
iature, and more like such a child as thp
was In size only; if her employment had
been something not so near to science as
that of telegraphy, and not so far off from
juvenile simplicity; if her brown hair bad
been loosely curled, instead of closely
coiled, and it her skirts had stopped at her
ankles, instead of reaching to her feet, then
she might have been nicknamed "Mary
Mite" within her own hearing, as she was
beyond it by those who described her small
ness in a sobriquet. There may have been
a variance of opinion among those dwellers
at Overlook who had made any estimate of
her composure, but if there was one who be
lieved that she merely assumed 'a reserve of
manner, because she was among 200 men,
he had not yet tried his chances of excep
tional acquaintance
Overlook was crnde and temporary. Tbe
inhabitants were making a roadbed for a
new railway, at a spot where the job was
extraordinary, requiring an uncommonly
large proportion ot brain to brawn in the
work. Those who were mental laborers in
the remarkable feat of engineering, or were
at least bosses of tbe physical 'toil, were the
ones who bad errands at the telegraphic
shed, and for Whom Mary sent and received
messages over the wires. The isolated
colony of workers was 100 ' miles deep in a
wilderness of mountain and forest: but not
as many seconds distant, measured by the
time necessary for electrical communica
tion, from the construction company's head
quarters in a great city.
"Must you wait for an answer?" Mary
said, as 'she clicked tho last word of a
message. "It's an honrsinceyonr first tele
gram went, and they seem in no hurry to
reply." x
Polite indifference, and nothing else, was
in her clear, gentle voice. There was neither
boldness nor shyness in tbe eyes that opened
wide and blue, as she lilted" them from the
paper to the man whom she questioned.
There was no more of a"smile than of a pout
on the mouth that worded the inquiry. She
did not indicate the faintest interest as to
whether he went or stayed, although she did
suggest that he might as well go,
"Id rather lounge
here, if you don't
mind," was Gerald Heath's answer.
Here fhe alertness of the placid girl was
faintly shown by a quick glance, but it was
so furtive that the subject ot her wariness
did not know his face was being scrutinized;
and she was quickly convinced 'that she was
not the cause of his remaining, for he said:
"I'll tell you why I'm anxious about the J
telegram, and in a hurry to get it.
Gerald Heath had been lazily leaning
against the makeshilt desk of the tele-
vnvtl.AW ao f,a raalta.1 alVI ,V naatlm. I. . A
L whittled the smooth birch sapling that
formed its outer edge. He had chipped and
shaved, after tbe manner of those to whom
a sharp pocket knife and a piece of wood
provide a solace. There had been no con
versation, except a few words concerning
the messages. But now he heightened him
selftosirleet by standing erect.and took on
the outlines of a magnificent physique.
His proportions had not been realized be
fore by the girl at .the other side of the
counter. She comprehended, -too, that if
his somewhat unkempt condition were
changed to one which included a face
cleaned of stubble beard, a suit of modish
clothes to replace the halfworn corduroys,
and the shine of a silk hat and polished
boots at his now dusty extremities, he would
become a young gentleman whose disregard
might be an appreciable slight. That was
the conclnsions which she reached without
any visible sign that her careless eyes were
conveying any sort of impression to her
mind. As it was, he looked an unusually
burl v specimen of the men to whom isola
tion from city lite had imparted an aspect of
barbarians. Before he had uttered another
word she realized that he was wholly en
grossed in the matter of his telegrams, and I
nad no tnongnt oi tne individuality oi tne
listener. Not only wai she not the thing
that made him wait, but she might as well
have been old, ugly, or a man, if only she
had ears to hear.
It was a summer afternoon, and the clear,
balmy weather was seasonable. Tbe re
moval of protective canvas had lelt the
structure an open shed, over the Iront of
which hung the boughs of the two trees
against whose massive trunks it leaned.
Gerald Heath reached up with both hands,
and held the foliage aside.
"Do you get an unobstructed view?" he
said. "Now, I've helped lay out railroads
through many a place where it was a shame
to let trains go faster than a mile a day.
I've surveyed routes that ought to provide
special trains for passengers with eyes in
tneir heads trains with speed graduated
between 60, miles an hour and 60 hours a
mile. It is an outrage on nature and art
that travelers should ever be whisked past
Overlook without a good chance to see what
we're looking at. That's why I wrote to
the President of the company, a month ago,
jelling him how a slight deviation from the
surveyed line would enable passengers to
get what's in our view now.- He asked hojr
much the line would be lengthened by my
plan. A hundred yards, I answered. And
I submitted a, map, showing hnw the tracks,
after coming out irom the tunnel, might
make a small detour to this very spot, in
stead of going behind a mass of rocks that
will completely hide this "and a com
prehensive gesture of one arm followed his
sweep of vision.
" Places that get their names on impulse
are apt to have appropriate ones. Camps of
railway makers in a hitherto unbroken
country are not often miscalled. An ensu
ing town on the same site may be unmean
ingly named as a permanency, bat the in
spirations that afford transient nomencla
ture are usually descriptive If was so in
the case of Overlook. The railway tun
neled the mountain, and emerged at a height
it 1,000 feet above a Ayide yalley, Mary
.had daily, and all day long, Mt overlooking
At toad moiimea aad m-
FBANKLTN FILE FBOU X PLOT BI
COLLINS.
1 chanted her at first, bnt familiarity had
blunted tbe Keenness ot ner appreciation.
As shown to her anew, it was like a fresh
disclosure. Gerald Heath stood holding
wide the boughs, which otherwise obscured
a part of the landscape, and seemed like an
exhibitor of some wondrolisly big and
beautiful picture. Miles away were hills
rising behind one another, until they left
onlv a little of sky to be framed by the eave
of the shed, as seen by the telegrapher. The
diversities of a wilderness, distantly strong,
in'rugged forms, butindistiqet in details, be
came gradually definite and particular as
.they came nearerand were suggestive ot con
scions design where they edged a broken,
tumultuous river. Overlook was shelved so
high on a precipitous mountain that, from
Mary's point of vision, the foreground al
most directly underneath passed out ot her
sight, and it was as though tbe spectator
stood on a platform belore a painted can
vas too spacious for exhibition in an
ordinary manner. But in this work the
shapes and the colors, the grandeur and the
beauty, were inconceivably beyond human
copying.
Gerald Heath appeared to feel, nowever,
that if he was not the painter of this
enormous landscape, he at least had the
proprietary interest of a discoverer, and it
was with something of the air of an art col
lector proudly extolling his choicest
possession, that he turned his eyes from it to
Mary Warriner. The expression of a'd mir
ation on her face, althongh quiet and deli
cate, was quite satisfactory for a moment
only; and then the denotement of delight
BEVEALED BT AN
passed out of her visage, as though'expejled
by some physical pang. It was tbe sudden
ness of the change, for it was of Itself very
slight, that made,it perceptible. Gerald in
stinctively turned to look for the cause.
Into the picture had come ahuman figure.
A few yards in front of the hut stood a
man. La relation to the landscape far be
yond he was gigantic, and the shade of the
trees made him devilishly black by con
trast with the sunlight of heaven that
illuminated the rest He was thus for an
instant in silhouette, and it chanced that
his sharp outlines included a facial pro
file, with the points of a mustache rind
beard, giving satanic suggestion to an ac
cidental attitude of malicious intrusion.
The illusion was almost startling.but it was
momentary, and then the form became the
commonplace one of Tonio Bavelli, who
walked under tbe shelter.
"Do-a I eentrude?" he asked, with an
Italian accent and an Italian bearing". "I
supposa no-eh? Thece ees a plaea bees-
ness."
Mary's small departure from a business
like perfunctory manner ended at once.
She took a scrap of paper which Bavelli
laid on her desk, and, without a word,
translated its writing into telegraphic
clicks. Bavelli was a sub-contractor, and
this was one of his frequent communications
with officials at the company's city office.
The response was likely to be immediate,
and he waited for it.
"To get the full value of this view,"
Gerald Heath resumed, and now he ad
dressed himself to Mary directly, as though
with almost a purpose of ignoring Bavelli,
to whose greeting ha had barely responded,
"you need to coma upon it suddenly as I
once did. We had been for months blasting
and digging through the monntain. Every
day's duty in that hole was like a spell of
imprisonment in a dark, damp dungeon.
And your men, Bavelli, looked like a chain
gang of convicts."
"You woulda no dare say so mooch to
thelra fa-Ces," Bavelli retorted, with an in-'
solence that was unmistakably intentional.
"Oh, I didn't mean a reflection on them,"
said Gerald, disregarding the other's quar
relsome aggressiveness. "We all look ras
cally in the mud, drip and grime of tunnel
wore. And your gang of swarthy Italians
are bound to have a demoniac aspect under
ground." It was more carelessly than intentional
that Gerald thus provoked Bavelli. There
e
(Jerald JHtarms Jtavelli.
had been dislike between them, growing out
of friction between their respective duties as
a civil engineer and a sub-contractor, for
the former was necessarily a critic of the
tatter's work. But thev had never quar
reled, and Gerald saw nothing in this occa
sion, as Bavelli seemed to, for any outbreak
of temper. . '
"Bettare be ciy-vil wltha your tongue,"
Bavelli sneered.
"Well, I think so, too, .as we are with a
;ady."
"Zat ees wfaya I inseest yon treata me as
one gentleman."
So it seemed that be was especially re
gardful of how he figured in the presence of
Mary Warriner.
"Like one gentleman ? O. I will treat
yoa like two gontloiOE so peUMy," ai
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Gerald began to again nonchalantly whittle?
the birchen pole. "I was going to tell how,
when I at last broke'through the rock at this
end of the tunnel, I happened to be right
there. A blast tore out an aperture several
feet wide. We saw daylight through tha
smoke. We rushed pell-mell over tha
broken stone, and struggled with one an
other to get through first. It was why, it
was you, Bavelli, wasn't it? whom I tus
sled with. Tes, we got into the breach to
gether. Ton tried to push me hack. Yoa
couldn't of course, yon couldn't," and tha
narrator's reference to his own superior
strength was exasperatingly accompanied
by a glance not free from contempt.
"Eet was-a all een fun," Kavelli smil
ingly eiplained to Mary, and then his eyen
turned darkly upon Gerald. "Eef eet hada
been one ear-nest fight" tbe different re
sult was vaguely indicated by a bard clinch
of fists and a vicious crunch of teeth.
It ras beyond a doubt that Bavelli could
not bear to be belittled to Mary; but she and
Gerald were alike inattentive to his exhibi
tion of wrath.
"No prisoner was ever mom exultant to
escape," Heath went on, "than 1 was to get
.out of that dark, noisome hole into clean
sunlight I ran to this very spot, and
well, the landscape was on view, just as it is
now. It was like getting from gloom out
into glory."
The young man's exuberant words were
not spoken with much enthusiasm, and yet
tbey had sufficient earnestness to prove
their sincerity. He had stopped whittling,
and his kni.e lay on the desk, as he turned
his back against the sapling, and rested both
elbows on it
"So I've been writing to the President of
the company, nrging him to deflect a trifle,
so that passengers might come out of tha
tunnel to see a landscape worth a thousand
miles of special travel, and to be had by
going less than as many feet. This is the
very latest day for changing the survey.
To-morrow will be too late. That is why
I'm telegraphing so urgently."
Click, click, click. Mary went to the
telegraph instrument She delivered tho
message by word of mouth, instead of taking
it down in the usual manner with & pen.
''Gerald Heath, Overlook:" she trans
lated from the metallic language of the
instrument "Tour idea is foolish. We
ELECXEIC SHOCK.
cannot entertain it Henry Deckerman,
President"
Gerald looked like a man receiving a
jury'j verdict involving preat pecuniary
loss, if not one of personal condemnation, as
he listened to the telegram.
"Zat ees whata I theenk," remarked Ba
velli, with insolent elation; "your 'ar-r-o
one-a fool, as ze President he say."
Gerald was already angered by the dis
patch. The taunting epithet was timed to
excite him to fury, which he impulsively
spent upon the more immediate provoker.
He seized Bavelli by the throat, hut with
out choking him, and almost instantly let
him go, as though ashamed of having as
sailed a man of not much more than half
Arretted Jor Murder.
his own strength, and nearly twice his age.
With Italian quickness, Bavelli grabbed
Gerald's knife from the desk, against which
he was flung. He would have nsed it, too,
if self-defense had been necessary, but he
saw that he was not to be further molested,
and so he concealed the weapon under his
arm, while Gerald strode away, unaware of r
his escape from a stab.
"He is-a one beee bully," said Bavelli,
with forced composure. "Eef a lady had-a
not been here "
"Ton tormented him," the girl inter
rupted; "I once saw the best natured mas
tiffin the world lose his temper, and turn on
a " She stopped before saying "cur,"
and added instead: "If he was foolish, yoa
were not very wise to tease him."
"He is-a what to you, zat yoa take-a hees
part?"
She bit her lips in resentment, but mad
no reply.
"Parehaps he is one-a lover oof you?"
Still she would not reply to his imperti
nence, That angered him more than tho
severest rejoinder would have done.
u, l am sure-a zat be ees one suitor.
She gave way at length to bis provoca
tion, and yet without any violent words,
for she simply said; "Yon are insulting,
while he is at least reasonably polite when
he heeds me at all, which isn't often."
"Not-a often? But somewhat closely ha
bed-a you. See zat"
With an open palm he struck the placa
on the sapling where Gerald had whittled.
The spot was on the outer edge, where Mary
could not see it from her seat She went
around to the front of the primitively con
structed desk, or higher counter, to gratify
her curiosity. There she saw that Gerald
had carved a hand her owl hand, as sba
.instantly perceived. The small and shapely
member was reproduced in tne iresb pais.
wood with rare fidelity. She had uncon- .
sciously posed it, while working the key of
tne telegrapnio instrument under tne jacc
knife sculptor's eyes, and there had beea
ample time for him to whittle a fac simile';
in tne bircn.
"He is almost as impertinent as yoa are,'.
she said, and turned to see how Bavelli
took th'e comment
But Bavelli had disappeared.
Then, being alone, she laid a hand of '
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