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.TOUKISTS' TROUBLES.
The Traveler in Mexico Should he a
Fluent Spanish Linguist.
A LOKG SEARCH FOE AN ACADEMY.
Borne Pictures That ire Artistic But i'ot
Exactly Pleasant.
IDE T1PPJKG PEACTICB UNIVERSAL
TO men accustomed
to the Spanish lan
guage as the deacon
and myself under
stand and nse it, the
discovering of inter
esting places be
comes interesting
employment. This
employment con
sumes time, if it
confers no other
pleasure. It is im
perative that all
A Muleteer. tourists, and I con
clude we belong to the band, shall see
everything, otherwise they will surely
be upbraided and reduced to a state
of humility. Holding this view and
being sensitive, I have made it a rule
to console any interested inquirer by assur
ing him that I have been there, or that I am
just on the way.
The Deacon knows nothing about art or
artists; the schools are to him a venerated
mystery. I am farther impressed with the
belief that be is afflicted, in a slight degree,
with color blindness; that there is but little
reliance to be placed in him except perhaps
in blacks and the delicious peach bloom
and these only under certain conditions.
In these circumstances it was quite natural
for him to insist that he should visit the
academy; that we should there have an op
portunity to enjoy the difference between
THE rALACE
the ancient and modern Mexican schools,
the European schools, and may be the
Dutch, or some other schools.
I remonstrated mildly with him upon this
assumption of his, and this intensified his
seal. He proceeded unhsitatingly to dis
course to me, touching the preservation of
"values, the art of correct drawing and other
points ot a technical character, until I sus
pected him of artfuily intringing the copy
right in some guide book. To tell him so,
lowever, might incur his displeasure, so I
surrendered.
SAN CAEL03 ACADEMY.
"We learned the general direction of the
academy from our landlord, who is a genial
encyclopedia of Mexico; as he has his busi
ness to attend to, however, and cannot ac
company us, we find it a little inconvenient
to return to him for information every time
we need it. Following the general direc
tion, we pass up Jesus street to the Presi
dent's palace, skirting one side of the Plaza
Mayor. (You will pardou my occasional
indulgence in Spanish phrases, upon the
ground of social and climatic influence.)
"We continued on our way, pleasing our
selves with a passing view of the grand
Soldier? Monument in the American Cemetery.
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cathedral, entered the Calle la del Kijo and
continued to the second Calle la del Bijo,
then, after traversing the length of a block,
we turned to the right. Then we pursued
our way along this street, looking for the
academy. Not seeing any building bearing
signs of an academy, we turned to the lett
at the earliest opportunity and lollowed a
dead wall to a corner. Passing a young
nan in glasses, the Deacon made bold to
accost him, but he hurried on, giving no
eign.
I suggested to the deacon that the yonth
evidently considered us as of the Scribes
and Pharisees, but be said that he was
dumb and far-sighted. I approached a
policeman and inquired courteously of him
the direction to the San Carlos Academy.
It was a genuine relief to have him indicate
affably and in an intelligible way, that we
must turn around, go back to the north end
of the Plaza Mayor, turn to the right and
take the first street leading west, until we
saw the sign. "We did so, and inside of half
an hour we brought up without accident on
the opposite side of the street Jrom the hotel
bearing the name of the academy.
SEVEBAL SITUATIONS.
"We exchanged cangratnlations, prayed in
front of a church for the repose of the
policeman's soul, and returned to the
Plaza. Every place is reached from the
Plaza, and we could not Iote ourselves by
keeping within hailing distance of it. Ar
riving at this sanctuary, I took a scat on a
bench under the shade ot the trees, blessing
the man who planted them, and enjoyed a
cigar. Then we btarted out again, walked
around four blocks, familiarizing ourselves
vith the vicinity, but not reaching our
destination.'
I suggested to the Deacon that we engage
a hack; certainly any hack driver would be
familiar with every nook in the city. We
Lad encountered a dozen hacks before this
way out of the difficulty occurred to us; but
now there was not a hack in sight We
looked down one street, and two blocks
away wc saw a building jutting out from a
thoroughfare at right angles with the one
we were inspecting. A hackman was in
waiting there and we approached him. He
was engaged. Finally we discovered and
bailed a red flag. Could this Jehu take us
to the San Carlos Academy? I put the in
quiry distinctly in accent and manner not
to be misunderstood by even a Mexican
hackman. This man smiled and s-iid "Si,
Senor," with a confidence leaving no room
for doubt.
Wintered his vehicle in absolute faith
that we should be at the academy forth
with. We were so well satisfied that we
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paid no attention to anything except to revel
in the reflections that usually visit one when
one has achieved a success. The driver took
us through several streets, some of which
had already grown familiar; and landed us
opposite a church. He descended, opened
the door and announced San Carlos. We
looked up and recognized the hotel. I re
monstrated with the Mexican and, I am
pained to say, the Deacon swore; but the
man answered pleasantly, "Si, senor," and
the Deacon was mortified.
SOME DIFFERENCE.
"While we were endeavoring to impress
upon this benighted descendant of mixed
ancestry the difference between a hotel and
an academy of fine arts a man from the
hotel accosted us. The man spoke English
and was consequently the proper individual
upon whom we could lay ourburden; we did
so without stint. He laughed and said
something to the driver, then the driver
laughed and invited us to re-enter his
vehicle. "We thanked the stranger when he
assured us that we were "all right now,"
and departed.
Inside of ten minutes our coachman halted
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A Peon's Some.
and blandly opened thedoor. We crept out
and the first object that attracted my atten
tion was the hackman who had intimated
that he was engaged, standing in the place
where we had left him. Directly over his
head was the sign of the building wc were
in search of. But no sane man would have
considered this building a place lor art to
display itself. It had a portal and a stone
paved court, which was a storehouse lor
OP MEXICO.
second-hand lumber, with the rusty nails
sticsing out of every plank; a broken car
riage reposed in one corner and the guardian
of the place in another.
We aroused this last named incumbrance
and made known our mission. He sighed,
and stretching himself, clapped his hands
for some one hidden in the recesses of the
temple. A man without any coat appeared
from a room on the gallery, then the two
interchanged Mexican expletives for a feV
moments. Finally the man in the gallery
beckoned us on with a gesture that made
me think he was scooping something over
hand from an imaginary bank. I inquired
of the first man if we 'could have a cata
logue; he said: "Si Senor," and motioned
us on; I inquired again for an invoice of
what might be stored here; this time he
patted me on the shoulders, said "Si, Si,
Senor" and waved us toward the stone steps.
I consoled myself with the reflection that I
had be 'ore known men speaking the same
language to talk as much at cross purposes,
and walked un into the gallery with the
deacon in the lead.
NOT PLEASING "WOEKS OF ABT.
There were some old paintings on the
walls of these stairs, but the light was poor
and we only glanced at them. The second
man met us, smiled, unlocked a door and
ushered us into a room full of paintings,
under a dim skylight Thedeacon left me
to my own resources immediately upon our
entrance.
The exhibition,.! learn in a few moments,
is not calculated to inspire cheerfulness. I
find it impossible to appreciate the art that
represents everyphase and incident of the
torture heaped upon the noblest life the'
world has ever known, as if that life had
been totally devoid of sunlight from the
manger to the cross. There seems to have
been a morbid desire to select for treatment
everything that is repulsive and that stirs
up one's animosity against the perpetrators
of the gross tragedy.
There is so mnch of this that if there is
anything elevating within sight it is
drowned in the obnoxious surroundings.
The tauntintr villain whose Irreverent and
cowardly soul is stamped in his coarse face
may possess artistic merit This is rank
heresy in me, no doubt, but I have a weak
ness that way, and could not but wonder
what prompted these productions. Was it
the ignorant demand ot the hour, or the ego
tism of the artist, or both? Sensational
stories do not rank with the pure in litera
ture. Why should sensational art take the
highest place?
For the life of me I could not but wonder
why the modern lover of the beautiful
must needs go into ecstacy over these por
trayals of degradation. I found it difficult,
looking upon what was pleasing on the
walls, to lift myself outside of the dark
ness and the competent critic will say, per
haps, that I am unconsciously paying trib
ute to genius.. Well let it go at that
A LITTLE TIPPING.
We caught sight of the guardian of the
place flitting about at intervals, but always
ready to lock the doors after us. The
Deacon gave him a quarter and he took us
into a room containing a hostof engravings,
and when we became satisfied with this,
another quarter persuaded him into another
room, oS the court, where he introduced us
to some plaster casts and marble busts.
These were cold alter the colors we had
seen, and we wandered ont to meet the in
cumbrance. He wore a smile of invitation,
and thinking that we might wish to come
again, we made up a quarter for him, dis
covering afterward that one quarter might
have sufficed for the entire entertainment
and assured a second cordial reception.
I never knew a Mexican to refnse any
thing but once, and this was my first copper
coin; he looked at it and passed it to a boy
in the vicinity, and the boy was happy;
when I had occasion to encounter the dig
nitary again I gave him a half real; and he
received it with a smile. It was his mini
mum; when I gave him a real he bowed
low, and a quarter produced not only a
smile and a bow bnt a "Macho, gratia,
Senor," well worth the money.
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THE
CHINESE MEDICINES.
An Americanized Celestial Describes
the Methods Used by
PHYSICIANS IN FAR-OFF CATHAY.
Their Curious Ideas as to the Use and.
Properties of l)rng&.
SUPEESTITI05S OP THE PEOPLE
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For 12 or 13 years I have been a resident
of the United States. Some years ago I de
termined to study the profession of medi
cine, and when I graduate from the Long
Island College Hospital, as I expect to do
next March, I will have the honor to be the
first Chinaman to practice medicine in this
country according to the English methods.
Previous to attending college I had studied
with Dr. 27. B. Sizer, of Greene avenue,
Brooklyn. At first I did not enjoy my
studies, and the operations in the dissecting
room at the college were particularly dis
tasteful tome; but I got used to them after
awhile.
I am specially fond of the theoretical study
of anatomy, and last winter spent almost
two-thirds of my time studying this branch.
At first I found it difficult to understand
the English language, and the long medical
terms in Latin were hard to remember; but
by diligent study and much practice I have
succeeded in mastering the language, and
can now speak and write it better than most
foreigners. I have not decided where I
shall settle for practice after I get my
"sheepskin;" but the probability is I shall
return to China, where my chances for pro
fessional success wonld be much better than
they would be in this part of the world. Of
course the system of medicine pursued in
the Western' hemisphere is far superior to
that which prevails in China, and the more
intelligent part of my countrymen freely
confess this fact, and are now willing to
employ the practitioners of the modern
school in preference to the followers of the
ancient Chinese methods. In some respects,
however, the old method contains the ele
ments of common sense; in case of fever, for
instance, they give the patient a decoction
made out of certain kinds of herbs. This
causes hhn to perspire freely and the fever
will be quickly diminished.
CHINESE PHYSICIANS.
The system of medicine (if it can be
called system practiced by the Chinese
must seem very curious to the inhabitant of
the Western hemisphere. It is somewhat
startling to learn, for instance, that in China
any man can pursue the profession of a
physician; no special education or diploma
is necessary. Any man that thinks he is es
pecially empowered to cure diseases, hangs
his sign out and waits for patients. If he
is successful, and has plenty of patients and
makes cures, nobody questions that he is a
learned man in his profession. The state
ment has been made that if, on the other
hand, he, constantly fails to benefit the peo
ple who employ him, if patients constantly
grow worse and die on his hands, his neigh
bors and such patients as have withstood
the effect of his treatment get together, take
down his sign, chop it up and ignominously
drive him from the place. This is not true.
If the physician tails to cure, no blame is
attached to him. The patient gets another
doctor. It is not uncommon tor a sick per
son to have three or four doctors,prescrlbing
separately at the same time.
The medicines of the Chinese have been
handed down for many generations back.
The Chinese doctor has a curious way of
explaining how it was discovered that the
several medicines in his pharmacopeia have
the properties attributed to them. He will
tell you that many centuries ago in the days
when science and art were in their highest
state of development in the Flowery King
dom, a certain doctor of great repute, whose
name has come down to latest generations,
and always will live, discovered a transpar
ent man. The man seemed to be made of
glass, so that every organ, muscle and vein
could be looked at and its workings be seen.
The doctor (so the story goes) took the man
and gave him in tnrn all the herbs that grow
and looked into him and saw how they acted
upon his system. All these observations he
wrote in a book, and that book has since
been the great source of medical knowledge
for the Chinese world.
PECDLIAE EEMEDIE3.
That the Chinese are large consumers of
medicine may be judged from the number of
their drug stores. Such establishments
abound in China; in San Francisco there
are a score of such establishments, and in
and around New York there are probably a
dozen. Everv town in the country where
there is a settlement of Chinese has its med
icine store. These places employ three or
four men in cutting, mixing and putting np
prescriptions and in decocting and drying
the large number of remedies that are gath
ered from everv source. The assistant ex
aminer of the Chinese customs service not
long ago sent to the United States Treasury
Department a printed list of Chinese med
icines exported from Yaugtse ports. Among
the remedies were tiger's blood, ground
blood, bear's gall, asses' glue, tree bugs,
elephant's gall, fossil crabs, fossil teeth.
Job's tears, cow nair, glass, rhinocerous
horns, cow a knee, puff balls, dragon's
teeth, straw, hedgehog skins, dried silk
worms, snake skins, crab's eyes, horse tails
and centipedes. " ,
The Chinese medical writers do not know
of Harvey's theory of the circulation of the
blood; they make no distinction between
venous and arterial blood. According to their
theory, certain channels lead to different
portions of the body, each channel com
municating with a particular portion of the
system. When a medicine is administered,'
it passes through one of these channels and
reaches the part of the body upon which it
is designed to act At Pekiu there is the
model of a bronze man in which the theory
is illustrated, and the medical books state
that medicines, no matter whether given
singly or in combination, are sure to 'reach
the organ for which they are designed.
They feel the pulse, not only in the wrist,
which has three pulses, but in the arms, the
temples, the legs and feet There are 27
different conditions ot the pulses, and from
their conditions the state of the various or
gans is in part discovered. There are four
methods by which a diagnosis is made: by
observation of the tongue, eves, complexion
and general appearance; by listening to the
patient's breathing and the sonnd of his
voice; by questioning the patient and mak
ing him give an account of himself, and,
lastly, by the pulse.
THE SEAT OF INTELLIGENCE.
They do not believe in the existence of a
stomach. They think that the internal
viscera is a sort of tree, the root of the tree
being situated in the pelvic region. Ac
cording to their theory the seat of intelli
gence is not in the brain, but is measured
by the size of a man's heart' the larger his
heart the more intelligence he is possessed
of. The seat of a man's affections is located
in the liver.
The medical profession in China is di
vided into specialties, but the serious stndy
of the profession requires a life time. Many
of the best doctors become imbued with the
spirit of the alchemist and believers in
superstitions and supernatural influences.
They arc quite successful in treatingsome
simple di eases and their medical books give
some very wise directions as to diet under
certain circumstances, telling what kind of
food will increase the strength, what is good
for the heart, the liver, the kidneys, what
food will excite a fever and what will allay
it
The department of surgery can scarcely
be said to exist in China. A few of the
native physicians have been taught some
of the principles of operative surgery by
some of the foreign physicians. They have
no surgical instruments and none of the ex
cellent contrivances which modern science
has provided for the relief of injuries, de
formities and diseases. Their surgeons set
PITTSBlTKG DISPATCH,
broken limbs; not long ago a specialist in
this department, Leon Jack, arrived from
San Francisco and opened an office in New
York. When a man's arm is broken the'
bones will be united, washes and salves will
be liberally applied, then bandages and
over all the dried, stiff bark of a tree with
the concave side fitting to the arm, bound
tight; in such a case nature generally assists
in the cure and the arm will be sound and
strong in a few weeks. For an amethetio
I have read of the Chinese physician using
a paste made from flour and a vascid fluid
exuded from a live frog; this has tho effect
of deadening pain in a finger, for instance,
that has to be.cut, and has been known in
China for many hundred years. But it is
very rarely indeed that a Chinese doctor
uses the knife. They consider themselves
very expert in setting broken limbs.
A PECULIAE CHALLENGE.
A Chinese doctor in St Louis was scoffed
at by an American surgeon and the China
man challenged him to a contest "I want
yon," said the Mongolian, "to break my
leg and leave me to cure mvself. I will
guarantee to be on my feet walking around
town in four weeks." The American sur
geon accepted this proposition, but backed
out when the Chinaman added: "And
after I get well I must break your leg and
see if von can cure vourself as Quick."
The superstitions among the Chinese
people themselves in regard to the treatment
of disease are too numerous to mention.
Continued sickness in a family is attributed
to the evil influence of "tbedestrovinireod"
whom they try to propitiate; various deadly
influences proceeding from the evil spirits
are brought to be expelled by various re
ligious performances; disease Is sometimes
attributed to the anger of some' god, to the
enmity of the spirit of a deceased person,
and in the latter case the priests are invited
to repeat the formula for dissolving or un
tying grudges; they engage in idol pro
cessions as a token of gratitude for the re
covery of their parents from sickness, or in
order to secure their longevity; some people
wear the cangue one board tightly fitted
about the neck and another with holes for
the wrists, others wear handcuffs, and
others simply carry a stick of lighted in
cense, facing the idol in the procession
and occasionally kneeling down in the
streets.
Sometime since the Chinese Evangelist,
a Chinese 'periodical of New York, advo
cated the erection of a home or hospital for
sick Chinamen in Hew York. On account
of the dread that the Chinese have of mu
tilation of the body after death they do not
avail themselves ot the city hospitals, ex
cept as a last resort Many hesitate so long
that they surely go there to die. It is con
sidered very unlucky for a Chinaman to "Hie
in a laundry, so the friendless Mongolian
has no place to go except the hospital of
which he stands in such fear.
SOME SUPEESTITIONS.
, The Chinese believe that the spirit of the
departed hovers about the body until
buried, and will be displeased if the body
is injured in any way. It is related that a
great Chinese chieftain was making his es
cape from a besieged fortress with his wife
when a bullet wounded the lady. She
could go no further and dropped into a well
to escape notice. The chieltain overturned
a stone wall upon the well, filling it and
killing the woman. He preferred to kill
her and have her body hidden than to run
the chance of her body falling into the ene
mies' hands to be mutilated. Some Chinese
think that American doctors like to get
their bodies to make medioine of; they
think the doctors cut Chinamen up, slice off
the fatty parts, fry them up and dry out the
oil.
The'Chinese in this country are very kind
to one another in case of sickness and dis
tress. If a Chinaman is poor he can drop
into the first laundry and get assistance in
return for what work he is able to do; if he
is sick it is all the same; he will do what he
can and his needs will be supplied from the
common fund. ' J. C. Thoms.
HIS GARMENT WAS WOETHIESS.
A Savage Tries to Tnrn a Newspaper Into
Wearing Apparel.
New York Son.l
When savage people first come into con
tact with the whites none of the wonders
that they see is regarded with more sus
picion than large sheets of paper. The
native is apt to regaVd paper as a sort of
ploth, and the fact that it tears easily and is
worthless for most of the purposes to which
cloth is put convinces him that it is a fraud.
One or two Congo travelers have told of the
disgust with which the natives at first re
garded paper. The Congo tribes, by the
way, ore on the lookout for sharpers, and it
is pretty hard work for anybody to sell
them a bad quality of cutlery or cloth.
Savages soon find, however, that paper is
not intended to serve the purposes of cloth.
Then they cease to look upon it as a fraud,
but they do not think it ranks high among
the white man's manufactures, and they
have little use for it
A while ago Mr. Lumholtz was (raveling
in the interior ot Queensland, Australia,
where he met many natives who had never
seen a white man Before. One day a crowd
of natives were in the white man's camp
carefully inspecting the explorer and his
baggage, when a newspaper 1 gppened to
.drop out of his pocket The natives un
folded and spread it out on 'the ground.
They decided that it must be an article of
wearing apparel, and one of them tried it .
on, ne wrappea it around nis shoulders
like a shawl and sat down on the ground
arranging his covering this way and that,
and watching the faces of the crowd to see
what they thought ot his elegant garment,
covered as it was with many thousands of
curious marks.
Presently, however, an accident hap
pened. While the savage was arranging
his shawl, and trying to bring the corners
together in front of him, the garment began
to tear at the nape of his neck. A howl
from the crowd called attention to the disas
ter. The savage took his covering off, ex
amined the mischief he had wrought, made
the tear a little longer, and then with his
finger poked a hole through the paper. That
settled the fact that the article was worth
less. The newspaper suddenly lost all in
terest for the natives, who turned their at
tention to less destructible objects.
THE CHAKH WODLM'T WOEK.
All Eight for Tiger Dun tint, but No Good
Acalnst Tomcats.
Newport Evening "World. 1
In one of the large newspaper offices in
this city is employed a boy who, although
very bright in somethings, is exceedingly
dnll in others. In the same office is a re
porter who, although still young, has spent
years in traveling the broad expanse of
God's domain. He has penetrated the wilds
of Asia, traversed the burning sands of
Africa, gone whaling near the North Pole
and chafed American big game from Texas
to Montana.
This traveler one day re'cently was re
lating to a group of fellow reporters some
of his adventures in Africa, the office boy
being a very attentive listener. When the
reporter finished his tale the boy approached
him. The tale had worked up his feelings
and he was anxious to hew more. He
wanted to know how they caught the lions
and tigers, of which he had read so much
about and which he had often seen in Cen
tral Park.
The traveler, who is fond of a joke, told
the boy that the hunters simply stood still,
when they met a lion or tiger, and stared
them. This charmed them, and they would
not bite. Then the hunters caught hold of
their tails and ,yaaked them into a large
basket, which they always carried along.
This answer apparently satisfied the boy's
curiosity, and he left the office that night
with a smile upon his face.
The next morning when, he appeared at
the office he presented a sorry sight A
large pie'ee of conrtplaster was stuck across
his cheek and his hands were new with
scratches. He made direct for the man who
had told him how they caught lions and
tigers, and, in a tearful voice, said: "You
cannot catch tomcats that way, can you?"
Now the other office boys gay him about
the way to charm tomcats,
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' SUNDArT,
JUNE 23,
BILL ME AS A SPORT.
He Makes His Bet at Jerome Park,
Wins His First Money and
COMES OUT. SIXTY CENTS AHEAD.
Bill Saya He Isn't Much of a Sport, but
Describes
HOW HE JUDGED A COUNTRY EaCE
nrarrrar xon tile dispatch.!
GENEBALLY
speaking, I am not
mnch of a sport I
have been present
only on the occasion
of a few justly cele
brated trials of speed
at the county seat.
Therefore I do not
know so much about
horse racing as I do
abont dress and eti
quette. You ask me how to reorganize a
last year's poplin dress, cut intwain as the
French say.and prodnce a new garment with
accordion pleatings and selviges to it, or
now to be happy while being married. I
can tell you instantly. But ifyourushup
hurriedly and ask me what ticket No. 1302
will be worth in London where the Derby
sweepstakes are for 50 each for 3-year-olds,
half forfeit 300 to second ana
160 to third, black: to mate in three
moves, each colt to weigh in at 126 pounds,
fillies at 121, entries Duke of Portland's b.
c. Donovan, bv Galopin, dam Mowering (T.
Loates); also Mr. J. Gretton's blk. c. Mi
guel, by Fernandez, dam Cream Cheese-or-Limberger-for-that-Matter,
156 (G. Barrett);
also D. Balrd's br. c. Eldorado, by Sterling,
dam Plainflower, 126 (T. Cannon); also Mr.
Abingdon's br. c. Pioneer, by Galopin, dam
Moorhen, 126, etc., where bettine, we will
say, is 5 to 4 on Donovan,'12 to 1 against El
Dorado, 17 to 1 each Pioneer and Laureate,
by Gosh, dam by Politics, supposing Don-
Bis First Experience With the Bookmaker.
ovan take the pole and later on the persim
mons, but shot out on u foul by Umpire at
third quarter, Miguel for place and Cream
Cheese against the field, I irould have to
pause a moment and think before I could
tell.
AT A COTOTBY HOBSE EACE.
The last horse race I attended was nine
years ago. I have fotgotten whether it
opened with prayer or not, but I know that
we had almost everything else. A glee club
sang, "Shall We Gather at the Elver?" We
had greased pig exercises, and a tall man
with a short breath and coat tail spoke of
the blessings of agriculture. Then Bill
Jackman's black -and-tan filly Early "Bose
ran Tint Houstin's roan gelding Moses. It
was exciting. It was to be the best two out
of three from the iron bridge np to the
schoolbouse and back. I was one of the
judges. I had to either be one of the judges
of the horse race or sing "Larboard watch
Ahoy," so I said I would a,ct as judge.
The first heat Early Bose did not seem to
get down to her work very well, but Moses
felt first rate, and barring a light squeaking
sound caused by the chafing of his second
and third stomachs, carried himself beauti
fully. His large red nostrils were open as
far 'back as the eye could reach, and his
tongue was thrown back over his shoulder,
regardless of expense. It was a beautiful
sight I gave the first heat to Moses and
the second to Early Bose. It was very ex
citing. Betting ran high. One man bet a
bushel ot early Dent corn against a honey
comb bedquilt on Moses, and another man
bet a coop full of prize hens against a
Queen Victoria corn sheller on Early Bose.
At the third heat it was like the chariot
race in Ben Hur almost On the home
stretch about half way from the school
house. Early Bose stepped in a gopher hole
and threw ber rider some distance. He rose,
however, and pressing his hand to his brow
for a moment, as if in deep thought, led
Early Eose to the fence and got on again.
Moses was, at the moment of the accident,
about half a length behind, but this gave
him at least 20 lengths the start When.
within 1UU Jyards of the judge s stand, how
ever, Moses corked himseli, and throwing
his shoe at the same time, succeeded in
corking an old gentleman who was sitting
on the fence at the time. Moses fell heav
ily, with his hind feet pressing gently
against the sky, and while inUhat position,
Early Bose loped put while the air was
thick with huzzas.
GOING TO THE BACES.
Since that time I have not been an at
tendant upon the means of horse racing un
til recently, when I went up to Jerome
Park in response to the kind invit ition of
a well known gentleman of this city who
did not go. He prides himself on his
promptness, and has frequently lectured
me in scathing terms for failure to be on
hand and on time. So this is a rebnke
which will meet his eye, I hope, and do
him great good. We were to meet at the
Grand Central Depot, and those who have
tried to meet a friend and pick him out at
that justly celebrated trysting place, or se
lect him from a train of 13 crowded cars
while passing through the tunnel, will re
call the pleasing sensation. The gentle
man's brother was on hand, however,
and as he knew a little more about
racing than I did, we had a good time.
Jerome Park is situated somewhat north of
New York City and is connected with that
place by rail. For the first five or six miles
the eye is gladdened by a stretch of brick
lined tunnel, with justflight enough now and
then to enable the conductor to collect
tickets and the pickpocket to tell a fly-back
or split second watch from a Waterbury
without too much strain on his eyes. Jerome
Park is a beautiful sheet of ground with a
large and imposing grand stand on one side
and a tall massive structure in the center,
used for a summer residence and the abode
of wealth. The track is so arranged that
the horses' do not have to run to the end ot
it and then back again, but many go on con
tinuously until they get through.
As the hour approached, people flocked to
the grand stand, where they ate cold crabs
and drank large goblets of froth at 10 cents
a gob. Everyone was rife with expectancy
and a bright sparkle was in every eye.
Several plicemen were present, lending
comfort and assurance by their presence and
general interest in the race. Jockeys came
up and practiced with their horses, and while
they did so I figured out on 'the back of my
programme .what the result would be if a
hen and a half.in a day and a half, lay an
egg and a half 'in n nest and a half, provided
she be given a week and a half with a chance
and a half. Jnt then the crowd yelled and
someone said that Blue Bock had won in
l:18i It reminded me of the old-timer
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who waited two hours with the closest atten
tion while preparations were being made for
a great race, and while he thoughtlessly
turned around to spit, the race was won.
how to save money.
However, I saved $25 on this race by not
betting on Trifler. My companion then
said we would feel more Interest in the race,
he thought, if we would bet a little. I said
I would be willing to bet if I saw anybody
who wanted to bet He said that wasn't
necessary, we could go down to the pool
room and trouble the pool a little and it
would be all fixed for us. As I understand
it this is a system bv which a party of
obliging young men agree to take all the
money bet and add it up and give back what
is due each man, more or less. I got my
friend to buy me ?5 worth of bet on a horse
called Eric. It was then wonderful what
an interest I felt in Eric I wanted his
'autograph to take home with me. He looked
grand to me. He was the most graceiul
horse I ever saw. Before that the other
horses looked tolerably well, but afterward
they seemed to have caved in at certain
points and they walked lame.
I now heard some one, say "They're offl"
I saw a roll of dust like a big caterpillar
crawl around the track and then
6,000 throats made the statement
that Erfc had won. With a massive
judgment worthy of one much older
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than I am, I had won the first money I ever
made on a horse race. At first I thought I
wonld go down stairs and place myself
under the influence of a glass of lager foam.
"But no," thought I to myself, "I will not
let prosperity turn my head in this way. I
will becalm. First I will get my money
before the cashier Is too sorely tempted to go
away with it So I went down to the pool
room and sent in my ticket ' I received my
original investment and 60 cents in cur
rency, which I carefully concealed in the
lining of my chimisette. I do not know yet
what I will do with it Some think it
irould be a good idea to go the continent
with it for a few months. Others say bay
Western Union, while still others say, buy
unimproved real estate on Fulton street and
wait for it to advance. I do not know
whether I will do either." Fossibly I will
wait till I get over to Paris, where things
are cheap, owing to pauper labor, and then
I will buy a watermelon.
I remained a little longer at the races, but
was so wrought up by the excitement that I
felt quite giddy. That is one trouble about
racing. A winner becomes so excited that
he is unfitted for almost any kind of busi
ness afterward.
THE HACKMAN'S PEET.
Finally I went below and ate a ham sand
wich, which soothed my nerves a great deal.
I would have enjoyed the day better if the
evening papers hadn't dropped in, all along
during the afternoon, with additional ac
counts of the suffering at Johnstown. Why
will the press print and circulate such news
on the grounds where people are frying to
have a little fun? I heard several sensitive
people criticise the papers for this while I
was at the races, and I thought I would
mention it here and call the attention of
the press to it so that it may never occur
again.
Those who have never left Jerome
Park by means of . the carriage gate,
should try Jt once for the exhihration of
the experience. We were told that we
could get a carryall there for Fordham
and thus go home ahead of the.
JVTje and the Cabby.
crowded race trains, so went to the gate.
The hackmen were there to welcome us and
speak to us. I have a ripe experience as a
man of the world, having been chased by
hostile Indians who had never seen me with
my hat off and who therefore desired to
scalp me, and I have been used as a whisk
broom by a large cyclone in dusting of! the
cornices of the sky, but the gentlemen who
caught us at that gate, yelled in our ears,
breathed their hot, adulterated breaths into
our wild, scared faces and pulled our grand
stand badges off while promenading over our
prostrate remains, reminded me more forcibly
of Topbet as it was once described to be me
by a clergyman who felt an interest in my
soul, than anything I have yet passed
through. Grand stand badges are not taken
up, the conpon alone being removed, and so
the ghouls at this gate can 'go in and see the
balance of the race by rifling the corpses of
those who do not know any better than to go
out that way. People who desire to meet
the gentlemen who robbed the dead at
Johnstown can find the most of them wait
ing around this gate on pleasant days at
Jerome Park, waiting to do the hyena act
in the broad glare of the day. They refused
absolutely to return any vital organs to
relatives of deceased.
I may go through that gate again before
the race is over, wearing a grand stand
badge, but if so, I shall take the precau
tions to get myself hermetically sealed up
in a metallic casket Bill Nye.
THE GERMAN SOLDIEE.
Illnitrntlne tho Awful Bespcct Ho Fan to
His Superior.
From a Berlin Letter J
We saw recently a little squad dawdling
along in their uniforms through the heat,
the most ambitionless hot, weary or lazy
souls, dragging one foot after the other as
if a cannon ball were iied to each. "Poor
fellows," we thought, "how plainly every
line about them tells the oppression and
misery, of the whole brntal systeml" When
all at once to our amazem ent, they stiffened
up like ramrods, flung one leg out in front
at an angle of 45 degrees with force enough
to kick down a rampart, and then brought
the heels of their ironclad members down
upon the pavement like a blacksmith's
hammer, the sparks flying in all directions.
We looked on in amazement wondering
what had happened to them, when in the
distance appeared a diminutive corporal,
the occasion of the whole excitement The
same awe of their superiors runs through
the entire German army. A common soldier
having his boots blacked will instantly
stand aside before the operation is completed,
as a corporal steps up He, in turn, gives
place to an officer, and in a few minutes
three of these accommodating individuals
are standing in a row, bolt upright, with
their trousers turned up and each one with
a boot blacked. When the fourth has been
served he passes along with dignity, and
each of the other three takes his turn in reg
ular order, until the Common soldier is
finally reached.
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EVERYDAY SCIENCE.
The se of Machinery Increases the
Wages of the Mechanic.
F0TDBE OP THE STEAM EHGIHE.
An. Interesting Test of the Eiffel Tower
Elevators.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL NOTES
rpniPAnzD tob tBe disfatcti.I
Beaders of The Dispatch who desire
information on subjects relating' to indus
trial development and progress in mechani
cal) civil and electrical engineering and the
sciences can have their queries answered
through this column.
It has often been stated that the intro
duction of machine work has injured trades
that relied before on hand labor. Many in
stances can be given to prove that the con
trary is the case. For example, the book
compositor in New York, who works by the
piece, now earns an average of 75 per cent
on the rates of CO years ago. The time
hand gets twice as much. Expert machine
pressmen in the larger New York book
offices are paid 520 and 822 a week, an ad
vance of more., than 100 per cent If they
are specially skillful or active they are paid
a good deal more. They have steady em
ployment and comparatively easy work. It
is a significant fact that the Inchest wages
are paid in those offices that have the most
and best machinery. Low wages are the
rule, almost without exception, in all
offices that have little or no machinery.
Instead of throwing men out of work, ma
chinery has made a demand for more work,
and it has raised the price of labor instead
of lowering it.
The prices of composition have not in
creased as much as those of press work, the
advance ot the latter being 100 per cent, and
of the former 75 per cent The reason is
plain. Composition has not as yet received
any appreciable benefit from type-setting
machinery. The history of labor-saving
machinery in other branches ot industry
shows that it is in the long run most benefi
cial to the interests of labor and the labor
ing classes, and helps by opening up new
avenues of employment, to raise the inven
tor and the operative to a higher plane,
where they become as necessary to the capi
talist and the employe as the latter can be
to the former.
Fntnro of the Steam Engine.
It has been thought that the sphere of the
steam engine would be greatly circum
scribed in the future by the growing de
velopment of electricity, but Prof. Thurs
ton, of Cornell University, in an article in
the North American Review, is inclined to
the view that this invention is capable of
vast improvement, and that it has not yet
begun to exhaust its inherent powers. On
the basis of the greater developments in the
application of inventions to the steam en
gine. Pro). Thurston predicts that the next
generation' will see it consuming one pound
of luel per hour for a single horse-power;
that ships of 20,000 tons will be driven at
the rate of 40 miles an hour; that the
American continent can be spanned by fly
ing trains in two days, and that transporta
tion between the cities of the Atlantic and
those of the Pacific coasts will be so cheap
that the general average ot living will be
vastly improved upon what exists to-day.
Dnngerof Celluloid Manufacture.
The French Government is abont to in
vestigate the mannfactnre of celluloid, with
a view to lessening the danger to life and
property which attends the making of that
inflammable material. Daring the past two
years three celluloid factories in France
have been burned, and in each case loss of
life and serious injuries were involved. It
is believed that the French authorities will
prohibit the mauutacture of celluloid,
within a safe distance of inhabited houses.
The process of making, celluloid, which is
composed in great part of- gun cotton, is too
dangerous to De permitted in settled neigh
borhoods, and there is no question as to the
propriety of such establishments being iso
lated. The terrible explosion about two
years ago in New Jersey was not without
its lessons in this respect
Consumption of Coal by Ocean Racers.
The tremendous speed which has lately
been attained by the Atlantic racers entails
a prodigious expenditure in fuel. Consid
ering the consumption of coal even on the
crack steamers so lately as ten years ago, it
is almost appalling to read that one of the
ocean flyers on 'her last trip used "only"
220 tons'of coal a day, or something over
1,600 tons, in itself a cargo for a sailing ship
of the first class during the entire voyage. It
seems safe to predict that the efforts of the
engineers will now be devoted quite as
much to the more economical application of
power as to the generation of more power
by their engines. The profit represented by
a saving in the consumption ot coal has be
come quite as important an object of desire
in the Atlantic passenger trade as the at
tainment of high speed.
Lighting Railway Carriages by Electricity.
After the terrible experience of the, last
few years of fires started in railway trains
during an accident by stoves or lamps, it is
reassuring to know that at least one source
of danger is. being removed by the superses
sion by the electric light of the oil lamp on
BILE POISONED BLOOD!
Nearly every one Is occasionally troubled
with bilious attacks, more especially in the
spring months, after the svstem has been sur
feited with hearty food during the winter. The
action of the Liver is interfered with, causing
an overflow of bile into the blood. The blood
carries this bile into every part of the system,
causing yellow skin, yellow eyes, liver spots,
etc., and often serious cases of billons fever
originate from tbis bile poisoned blood. A
few doses of Burdock Bfood Bitters, taken on
appearance of bilious symptoms, will remove
tbem and protect the system from a probable
serious attack.
Run Down in the Spring.
Tarn nalno-Bnrdock Blood Bit
ters for Sick Headache and Bil
iousness. It is tne nest meaicine i
ever took. I was so run down this
spring from overwork that my
husband nrged me to see a doctor.
I was scarcely able to stand and
concluded to try B. B. Bitters first;
tbe first bottlo is not yet finished,
bnt I can go about my work with
pleasnre already. I shall take an
other bottle.
Mbs. Johk Donnelly,
care of Edward Doolet,
15 Lyman Street Springfield,
Mass.
I tell von for the benefit of oth
era what Burdock Blood Bitters
1
has done for me. 1 nave been a
sufferer for years from Liver Com
plaint and weak stomach. At
times I was so bad that I wonld
apply to our family physician for
relief, which wonld be but tempor
ary.Last falllhad an unusually bad
spell. My mother bought a bottle
of Burdock Blood Bitters, and it
gave me great relief. It helped
me more than anTthlne I have
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Will Relieve
Clogged Liver
and Cleanse
Bile Poisoned
Blood.
ever taken. It is also excellent
for constipation. Mrs. LizzrB
Gedbb, Ickesbnrg, Perry Co., Pa.
LASTSPRING,
Last spring my h-iltb became veTypoor. I
had no appetite and my liver troubled me. I
used several medicines, bnt obtained no relief
until I was finally persuaded to try Burdock
Blood Bitters. This medicine cured me.
Mattd Fishebv,
Flackvm,N7Y, '
many of the railroad lines. The element of
safety is one of the greatest inducements for
the introduction of electric lamps, as it is
quite impossible for any fire to catch from
them, while the oil lamp is never safe. One
of the recent installations of the improved
system of lighting is on the Michigan Cen
tral road, where the cars are fitted with
storage batteries. The expenditure of elec
tricity is comparatively small, and the light
secured is much more brilliant than that of
the ordinary lamps.
Tho Elflel Tower Elevators.
A test was recently made at the Eiffel
Tower, in Paris, which will be of great in
terest not only to American manufacturers,
but to the large number of American vis
itors to the Paris Exposition. The en
gineer of the American firm of Otis sub
jected the Otis lift to a final trial before
handing it over for public use. The eleva
tor was heavily loaded, raised to a consid
erable height and there fastened with ordi
nary ropes. The steel wire with which it is
worked was then detached, and the ropes
were cut The enormous machine began to
fall. It soon began to move more slowly,
swayed for a moment from right to left
then stack on the brake and stopped. Not
a pane of glass in the lift had been broken
or cracked, and the car stopped without the
slightest shock.
Metal In Place or Wood Ties, jtfv
The Department of Agriculture hasbeerx
looking into the subject of metal tracks on
railways as substitute for wooden ties. The
inquiry was expedited by the large destruc
tion of forests of this country, and the large
consumption of timber for railway ties. It
is found that metal ties are able in point of
efficiency to compete with wooden ones; that
their use is extending, and that in point of
economy, considering the first cost and
durability, the result depends upon the ma
terial, the state of the metal market and
upon local circumstances. This report, aa
bearing on the question of the preservation
of our forests, is a most important one.
Artificial 811k.
The serious epidemics which have from
time to time threatened the existence of the
silk industry of France and other countries
have drawn the attention of scientists to the
problem of imitating the product of the
silkworm. The difficulty has been over
come by the chemists, who now produce in
their laboratories not only a clever substi
tute for, but an actual imitation of natural
silk. The elasticity of this artificial pro
duct is said to be analagous to that of raw
silk. It can be dyed by the ordinary pro
cess and it is said that in brillianey, tex
ture and general beauty it even surpasses
the natural product of the cocoon.
Exploilxes and Detonation.
In a paper recently read before the So
ciety of Chemical Industry in England, the
singular fact was pointed out, with refer
ence to the relative rapidity of combustion
and rapidity of "detonation" of explosives,
that a dynamite cartridge one foot in -length
occupied only one twenty-four-tbousandth
part of a second in explosion. At this rate
a ton of dynamite cartridges about seven
eighths of an inch in diameter, placed end
to end, and measuring one mile in length,
would be consumed in about a quarter of a
second by detonating a cartridge at each
end; while a similar train, if simply ignited,
would occupy several minutes lor its com
bustion. Life of Steel Ralls.
The life of steel rails is fixed bya German
commission at an average of 35 years. This
is the result of observations extending over
six years made on railways in Germany,
Austria, Hung iry, Holland and Belgium.
The conditions assumed are an annual
traffic of 3,430,000 tons and a minimum and
maximum wear and tear of 0,007 and 0,017
millimetres.
Natural Ga nad Veaetatlon.
It is stated that since the introduction of
natural gas SOO shade trees have been killed
by natural gas leaks In the parks of Alle
gheny City.
DIPPEEENCE IN EGGS.
100 Hens Prodnce In Shells Abont 137
Pounds of Cbalk Yearly.
Popular Sclence.1
In form and general aspect the difference
among birds' eggs is endless. Some are
elongated, some are spherical, some are dull
on the surface, some are polished, some are
dark, and others gray or white, others very
bright The shape of eggs offers as much
diversity as their size and weight They
may be thrown, however, into six different
typical forms the cylindrical, the oval, the
spherical, the ovicular, oviconical and the
elliptic. The ovicular form of eggs belongs
to the Passera and Gallinacx, the oviod to
the rapacious birds and the Palmipedes, the
conical to the wading birds and some Pal
mipedes, the short to some came and many
stilted birds, and the spherical to nocturnal
birds of prey and the kingfisher.
If a farmer has a flock of 100 hens they
produce in egg shells about 137 pounds of
chalk annually; and yet not a pound ot the
substance or perhaps not even an ounce,
exists around the farmhouse within the- cir
cuit of their feeding grounds. The mate
rials of the manufacture are found in the
food consumed and in the sand, pebble
stones, brick dust, bits of bones, etc, which
hens and other birds are continually pick
ing from the earth. The instinct is keen
for these apparently innutritions and refrac
tory substances, and they are devoured with
as eager a relish as the cereal grain or in
sect. If hens are confined to barns or out
buildings it is obvious that the egg-producing
machinery cannot be kept long in
action unless the materials for the shell are
supplied in ample abundance.
If you suffer from Headache, Nausea, Dizfz
ness, Faintness, Alternate Costlreness and
Diarrhoea, Yellow Complexion, Weakness, Ach
ing Shoulders or any other symptom of bilious-,
ness or Liver Complaint proenre a bottle 4 I
B.B. B.t which will correct the clogged condi
tion of the Liver, cleanse the blood of all im
purities and tone up tbe entire system. It Is
an acknowledged fact by all who have used
BURDOCK BLOOD BITTERS THAT ONE
BOTTLE CONTAINS MOBE CUBATTVE
PEOPEBTIESTHAN GALLONS OF ANY
OTHER MEDICINE KNOWN.
A Horrible Condition.
I was in a horrible condition from
dyspepsia and a combination of other
complaints. In the morning when I
got ont of bed It seemed as if I could
not stand up on account of dizziness.
Hearing Burdock Blood Bitters high
Iy recommended, I am now using the
first bottle, and, although not having
used qnlte a fall bottle, the dizziness
has entirely disappeared and I am
mnch better of my other complaints.
I have tried many other medlcuies,
with no relief.
Mbs. Mart Chatoczt,
25 E. Bansom st, Kalamazoo. Mich.
I bad been troubled with Liver
Comnlalnt. Indigestion and Palnlta-
tion of the Heart for are or six years
and could get nothing to do me any
good until I tried B.B.B. I used 13
bottles and now I am a sonnd man. I
reel better than I ever did in my life.
My digestion became all right and V i?i
have no more trouble with my beartSji;
I feel rerr eratef nl toward B. B. B.m
and feel like recommending It ereryBit
where. Yours respectfully, Frank!?
Hickman, New" Straltsvule, Perry-
Co., Ohio. -. -
THISSPRING.
I have been taking Burdock Blood Bitters,
and using It in my family this spring.. FotK
three years I hare had the dyspepsia. I .set st
bottle or two of your Bitters and they bare
cured me, and I never felt better ia fty lMe.it
Is a sure cure for-dyspepsia, and best saodjeina
jl know of. BcfiUZJTCB Covert, atitfc.