WlrBBWrl SHIS 'Ttrrf "VV iSHKjngH lHSBeP V1i gji fl lMH wtt LI ' I'riitBraaMaala & -a' wras WjtT JT .-K . - i- i r r 14 AMERICAN CYCLISTS. F, ' The Bun Throush Ireland, England and Prance Described. BRILLIANT RECEPTION AT PARIS. lunched bj the Undergraduates ol BalUol College, Oxford. THE BO DTE OYER THE COKTIKEKT Paeis, July 27. TJK party, consist ing of 28 American 'cyclists, reached Queenstown a Jew weeks ago, after a capital voyage across the Atlantic. "We started from Cork, Ireland, where most of the boys received their wheels, nearly f the machines beinjrof English manufacture. As soon as we got on to the road, we were unfortunate enough to strike a rainy spell of weather; but we were encouraged on our way many Irish riders. We started with too much lug- The wheels were too heavy. So we reduced the load at once and sent it on ahead by parcels post The weather, I say. was had; but we were bo well received everywhere that it com- Fatting in Iiexleie. pensated our ill luck. "We enjoyed three days' stoppage at Dublin, where we were banqieted by wheelmen in fine style. Our next move was to take the steamer ior Liver pool. Once in England the sun began to shine. In fact, during the whole time of our stay in that country we had but one wet day. At Birmingham, where we were hos pitably received, most of the boys exchanged their wheels for lighter ones. "We reached Hampton Court after an awful day's ride. Several machines broke down. After visiting the palace, we rode into the town, and were'dehghted with the reception we received. Hampton Court is an important center for English wheelmen, who gather there "in their thousands" on their great parade day in the spring. THE FIBST BICYCLE CLUB. The first bicycle club, the Pickwick, was started in London in June, 1870, but the first great Hampton Court meet did not take place until six years after. And year by year since, the meeting of wheelmen under the old chestnuts at Bushey every May has been organized by the Pickwick Bicycle Club, who have taken the initiative in the matter by virtue of being the oldest club of its kind in London. The great spring meet is at present held more especially in order that the general public may see that bicycling comprises a very large and important section of the community. The riders hope and believe that with that respect for power which is innate in the breasts of the majority of En glishmen, the annual display of wheel strength will induce a certain amount of re spect toward bicycling as a sport, which it could not hope to acquire simply from the fact of a few men being seen occasionally riding about alone. It is wanted, in iact, to make the community of wheelmen to a certain extent a vast united body for mutual assistance and protection. One of the pleasantest incidents of our tour was the lunch tendered us by the under graduates ol Balliol College, Oxford. We stayed in London nearly a week and sped on to Brighton, accompanied by a number of local wheelmen. From Brighton we ran for Kewhaven, where we took the steamer to the coasts ot France, lauding at Dieppe. The weather being fine and the roads bet ter than what we had hitherto met with in England, we covered the distance irom Dieppe to Saint-Germain-en-Laye, by way of Rouen, in two days. But the route from Mantes was heavy with dust, thick with black flies, and a head wind was blowing. A FBENCK WELCOME. ' jr. de Baroncelli and some American friends came uo from Paris and met us on the Bouto de Quarante-Sous, at a small vil lage called Chambourcy, to welcome us in the name of the cyclists of France: and a thing ot no small importance to show us a short cut through the forest of St. Germain, .which saved us going over about three kil ometres of the rough stone pavement for which the towns of France are famous. We dined and slept at Saint-Gcrmain-en-Lave, and the following morning at 9 o'clock I gave the signal to mount, and, one by one, nearly 50 cyclists rolled out to the Hotel da Prince de Galles upon the Place Boyale. M. Corti, the Police Com missary, had come to salute the wheelmen of the "Sister Kepnblic," and thoughtfully presented us with a small French banner. Through his kindness special permission was given to our small army to ride on to the splendid terrace and admire the world renowned panorama to be seen therefrom, with beautiful Paris and the Eifiel Tower in the distance. M. de Baroncelli led the way upon his silver-plated bicycle; Mr. Higgins, our treasurer, followed with the American flag flying from his handle bar, by the side of M. Porten, thing the French tricolor. The rest of the party followed two abreast, and thus descended the steep hill of Le Pecq, over the bridge, through the beautiful pane of Le Vesinet, to Chatou, Bueil, up the hill behind Jlount Valerien, down into the town of Suresnes, over the Suresncs bridge, and entered the Bois de Boulogne. At its en trance II. de Baroncelli ami I placed our selves one on each side of the gate and saluted as the troop rolled through two at a time. On past the old mill and the' race course at Longchamp and up to the Cas cade, where machines were stocked and a light repast partaken ot. While this was going on, H. Porten got his camera and "took" the whole party in a summer house. A BAXQUET IS FABIS. From the Cascade we were conducted through the gratefully cool alleys of the Wood to the Pofte Maillot. Here we were met by Dr. MInart, President of the Union Yelocipedique of France, who invited ns into me ciud room ana onerea us cooling I : drinks. Dr. Minsrt spoke a few words of I i .welcome on behalf of tho French cjcllnj I iltflrakii. lL clubs, and I replied in 'English, expressing the great satisfaction felt by the whole party at the kind manner in which we had been received in France and Paris. We started off again, three abreast, up the Avenue de la Grand Armee and round the Arc de Trioniphe. Down the magnificent Chamrjs-Elvsees. across the Place de la Con corde, and "along the Bue de Bivoli, rode' the "half hundred," with a quiet precision worthy of a military corps, until we reached our Paris headquarters at the cosy and com fortable Hotel de la Tamise, in the Bue d'Alger, where our iron horses were stabled until the order was again given to march. We were entertained later by our French wheeling brethren at the Bestaurant De hauve. the spacious private hall ot which had been specially engaged for the occasion. The Beception Committee was composed of M. Grassen. President of the Societe Yelocipedique Metropolitaine; Dr. Minart, President ol the Sport Yelocipedique Parisien; M. Duhayon, Yice President of the Cercle de la Fedalc; M. Pradelles, Sec retary of the Veloce Sport Parisien, and M. de Baroncelli, Consul of the Union Yeloci pediqne de France. M. de Baroncellf made a telling speech in French, in which he expressed the great sympathy that the French vclocinedist felt for their American brethren; he rendered all honor to the American wheelmen who had accomplished a leat never before per formed by any foreign cyclists. M. de Baroncelli then presented us" with a detailed itinerary of the roads to be followed from Paris to Geneva, and said that the consuls of the different cycling clubs in the different towns through which we have yet to pass had been informed of our arrival, and would oe ready to meet us and render any assist ance or give any information in their power. EUROPEAN BOADS. The roads in Europe are vastly superior to anything we are used to in America, and the distances are shorter. The scenery to an American has the cflect of finished pictures. It is nature with her hair combed. The highly cultivated fields, carelully trimmed and bordered, with long avenues of poplars and elms strike an American In France; while in Eagland be is Impressed with the whole landscape. How thoroughly England is groomed! Our New England out-of-doors scen ery of ten looks as if it had just got out of bed and bad not finished its toilet. But the glow ing green of everythtnc In England strikes one particularly: green hedges in place of our rail fences, always ugly, and our rude stone walls, which are not wanting in a certain look of fit ness approaching to comeliness, bnt poor feat ures of landscape as compared to those univer sal hedges. The difference In the hoars for meals dis turbed us somewhat in the beginning, but we have since got used to It. The boys prefer French to English cooking, but the ham and eggs of old England was a rare treat to all of them. The French early breakfast with cafe au ls.it- Is too light a meal for an American, and especially an American cyclist, who expects more solid food to start off upon In the morning. THE IIIlfEBABT. On leaving Paris we goto Fontainebleau. where we intend remaining over a Sunday, to see the palace and the forest. From Fontainebleau, we start for Geneva, taking the route outlined for us by M. de Baroncelli, which, indeed, is no other than the grand, straight, departmental ronte to Geneva, by way of Tonnerro, Mont bard, Dijon. Dole, Poligny and Morez. It will take us eight days to reach Genera, where we remain a day. a We then take the steamer to Villeneuve. co over the Pass to Toul, visit Interlaken, Lu cerne, the Kgi. Zug. Zurich, Aibruck, Frei burg, the Black Forest, and from Strasburg go to Cologne; after which we take the steamer to Rotterdam, and at that old Dutch town our party separates. Here is the roll call-J. E. BeaL Ann Arbour, Mich.; V. H. Bennett, Chicago, I1L: E. Jx. Breed. .Lynn, Mass.; T. C. Bricsmade, Cleve land. O ; A C. Buttolph, Chicago. 111.: C. H. Cake, Clarkesvjlle. Mo.; A G. Collins, Boston, Banqueted by French Cycllttt. Mass.: Clark Cooper, Trenton, N. J.; W. N. Eastabrook, Elmira, N. Y.; F. A ElwelU Portland. Me.; Rev. O. E. Fessendcn, Summit Hill. Pa.; H. S. Higgins, Portland, Me.; W. H. Kirk. Philadelphia. Pa.: Daniel Krnm. Colnm bns. 0.;D. W. Levy. Qutncv, 111 : D. C. Nurse, Walnut, Ilk; F. II. Palmer. Portland. Me.; Joseph Pennell, Philadelphia. Pa.;P. H. Relllv. Hartford. Conn.: W. C. Roseboom, Cherry Val ley. N. Y.: J. W. Schneider. Summit Hill. Pa ; C. Seavey. Portland. Me.; S. B. Shannon, Cleve land. O.: Wontworth, bkowheaan. Me.; R. B. White, Quincy, 111., and H. R. Wilson. Clarion, Pa. F. A. Elwell, Manager of the Cyclists' Touring Club. OTHEE PEOPLE'S PICTURES. A Detroit Denier Who Una Quito a Trade in Misfit Photos. Detroit Free Press.; "Misfit photographs for sale" Is the sign on a Michigan avenue photograph gallery. The man who owns the place says he hit on that plan to get rid of pictures that people order and never pay for. "But who buys the pictures?" asked the sketch artist. "Oh, many folks. You see. a yonng man comes in here and sees a nice picture of a girl, and he buys one and sends It borne to his irienos. luea lie taucsuneior uim&eu pers haps two and Id that way I get my money back; 1 know one yonng leuow wno tooK some ot my best w ork and sent it to Germany to represent his wife. Tbe picture conld easily have passed for hers as far as the features went, but she was net er dressed out like that. Mothers who have little children often buv pictures of chil dren with long hair when theirs hasn't grown out and send them around to friends at a dis tance. I can sell brides' pictures without any trouble. I sometimes think pictures that ain't taken for people look just as much like them. Besides, it saves you all the tronble of a sit ting." SMOKERS AND THEIR WAYS. The State of a SInc'a Finance Indicated by tbo Clears Ho Burs. New York Times. A young man walked into a downtown cigar store last Saturday and called for some cigars. "What kind will it be to-day?" asked the pro prietor. "Oh, three for a half," said the cus tomer, and the cigars were given him. "It's pay daywlth that young man to day," said the proprietor after the customer had left. I can always tell just when these young fellows are feeling like millionaires. On pay day tbey come in and put up 50 cents for three cigars. The next day, say Sunday, they call for two for a quarter, with the explanation that they have discovered that the two for a 2uarter are just as good as the three for fty. Monday they come In and ask for 10-cent straight cigars, and explain that tbey he learned that they are just as good as tbe two ior a quarter, Tues day they feel confident that the three for a quarter cigars are just as cood as the 10-cent straight. Wednesday they trv a 5-cent straight, with no explanation, and on Thursday six for a quarter will do. On Friday some of them come in and say: "Uive me a small bag of smoking tobacco." Oh, yes. tbo quality of cigars a man smokes furnishes an excellent in sight into the state of his finances. A DREAM DEFIED. Merely a Elm That (be Slecper'a Blind la Not Asleep. ChlcagDInter Ocean. Is a dream a sign of anything? Why, yes, undoubtedly. It is a sign of life in the dreamer, and that be is not asleep all over. Some of tbe organs of the complex brain are active, carry ing on the processor thought without guidance of the will. A dream is simply the result of un gnided mental action, and tbe nature of the dream depends on what part of the brain is active. There Is probably nothing more super- hrirain ft. . Hfr than n 4 Mtsrr avan 51- I in n the Incoherent imaginings of an insane person. THE THE POET LAUREATE. A Review of the Life Work of Lord Alfred Tennyson, Who CELEBRATES HIS 80TH BIRTHDAY On Tuesday Keit, Making Him One of the Oldest as He is One of THE HOST CELEBRATED MEN OP LETTERS rwniTTEX roa nut dispatch.: On next Tuesday we shall have the happi ness of greeting the most eminent of living men of letters on tbe occasion of his 80th birthday. It was on the 6th of Aagust, 1809, that Alfred Tennyson was born at Somersby, a woodland village half way be tween the wolds and the fens of Lincoln shire. Eighty full years have poured their sunshine and their rain, their joys and their sorrows on that noble head, and havA left the natural wisdom, the trenchant wit, the deep-mouthed music, a little mellowed, per haps, but unimpaired. Last spring, as we all remember, the east winds and the wet of an English April roused the latent gout that now and again torments the poet, and for a while he grew so weak with pain that those who love him and' they are counted by thousands held their breath with alarm. .But Lord Tennyson's constitution is wiry, Lord Alfred Tennyson. and he springs from a resolute race. The summer came, a snmmer of all unusual mellowness and sweetness, one of the rare golden summers which he loves to describe, and day by day his strength came back. Last June he started from his island home aty Freshwater in Lord Brassey's yacht the "Sunbeam," whose adventures so many thousands of readers are familiar with and cruised up and down the English Channel, calling at a little glowing seaport town, full of tamarisk and myrtle, in the extreme south of Devonshire, whence, as I hear as I write these lines, he has come back strengthened and wholly himself again. Length of life to him still I May the laurel which has clustered so greenly around his brows for nearly 40 years flourish and bud there. It will be an evil day that sees the wreath w hich Tennyson has worn since tbe death of "Wordsworth descend to any other head than his. THE PBINCE OF POETS. As we looked around us in the Anglo Saxon world, nay, on the continent of Eu rope also, we see no living figure which ap proaches that of Tennyson in literary dig nity. As long as Victor Hugo was alive, it was he who, by common consent, held the scepter of poetry. At his death it descended to the younger Englishman. This is per haps the moment to ask ourselves why Lord Tennyson and not another is the confessed first mau of letters of the present age. In what does his pre-eminence consist? To what qualities of his mind and work does he owe it? 2xo question is more difficult to answer, because tbe reply depends on the combination of a great number of wholly intangible forces. Still, an answer shall be attempted. In the first place, no pretense is made by the ad mirers of Lord Tennyson to claim lor him eminence over air his cotemporaries in in tellect or knowledge. He is wise and full of intellicence, but in mere intellectual capacity or attainment it is probable that there are many who excel him. This, then, is not the direction on which his greatness asserts itself. He has not headed a ,sinsle moral reform nor inaugurated a single revolution of opinion; he has never pointed the way to undiscovered regions of thought; he has never stood on tiptoe to describe new worlds that his fellows were not tall enough to discover ahead. In all these directions he has been prompt to follow, quick to ap prehend, but never himself a pioneer. Where, then, has his greatness lain?' It has lain in the various perfection of bis writing. He has written, on the whole, with more constant, unwearied and unwearying excellence than any of his cotemporaries. He has understood that the first business of an author, and especially an author in verse, is not to preach, nor to teach, nor to prophesy, but to write. He has expended, the treasures of his native talent on broad ening and deepening his own hold upon the English language, until that has become an instrument upon which he is able to play a greater variety of melodies to perfection than any other man. HIS TJlflVEBSAI, OEJflUS. There have been poets in hisday who sur passed him id certain directions; who have commanded a deeper insight into human action, or a louder volume of lyrical sound. But Tennyson, in his immense patience, has been universal. He has cultivated all branches of the art of poetry. He has failed in none, he has succeeded 'superlatively in several. The consequence is that now at last he covers more ground, rises before us asahugerand more complicated specimen of intellectual architecture than any of those whose spires may for a while have 'seemed to sparkle above him. When Tennyson began to write verses, nearly 70 years ago, the genius of Byron was in the ascendant. The boyish volume which his brother Charles and he published together when thev were schoolboys at Louth, early in 1827, shows this influence strongly. Here is atanza from that inac cessible book, which has never been reprinted, and the few existing- copies of which now fetch fabulous sums when auy of them get into the market: Then, when the shrteklngs of the dying Were heard above the wave. Soul of my soul! 1 saw thee dying; I follow'd thee to save. The thunder of the brazen prows. O'er Actium's ocean wrung, Fame's garland faded from my brows, Her wreath away I flung. I sought, I say, I beard but tbee; For what to lore was victory? Boy's verses these, perhaps, and in fact the verse is that ol a boy of 16 or 17, yet how admirable a following of tbe writer then in fashion. A little later, in the "Lover's Tale," which he long atterward reprinted, Tenny son showed that he had been reading Shel ley. In the "Poems, chiefly lyrical," of 1830, he was evidently under the influence of Keats. These three .great poets were the comrades of his early youth, but his real masters were tbe ancients; he was deeply imbued with the spirit of Horace and Catul lus at themoment when he began to write poetry seriously. I hope I am not indis creet it I refer to some remarks on this sub ject which I had the privilege of hearing Lord Tennyson make many years aro. in the course ot which he attributed his pre cocious command of metrical language and flow of measured speech .mainly to the thorough acquaintance which he enjoyed in early youth with the Odes of Horace. His father, he told me. insisted on his reciting, on successive morning!, tbe whole f tbe four books of the Odes, from "McBcenas atavis" down without a break to "Proginiem Veneris canemus," before he would) pro nounce the boy fit to go off to grammar tcuooa t iioum, - .aoracc was my maer. HaaaSaaaMP? 'J'tefHo PITTSBTJttGr DISPATCH, I remember the poet's repeating "Horace and Keats." HE DISLIKED DULL ROUTINE. When tbe time for accepting a profession came, the future poet laureate refused to trammel himself by undertaking any form of business or routine. Ho preferred to face the probability of poverty to doing anything which should disturb the development of the genius within him. It was, perhaps, a perilous experiment, but one which has been justified a thousand fold. Lord Tennyson, although he started In lifo anything but wTiat is called "comfortably ofl,'' has never done a day's work for hit living. Or, to be accurate, he has worked ns few have done, but at a kind and class of labor peculiar to himself. Some day, no doubt, the curtain will be drawn from the poet's early life, and it will be seen with what passionate zeal and persistent energy he tolled to become a master of all the best that literature and nature have to offer to a student such as he was. After this first apprenticeship to the great writers of antiquity and to the leading elder poets of his own race, Lord Tennyson ceased to show sign of any outward influence. He created, almost beiore he was ot age, a style which was characteristically hit own, and which has remained so, with tbe obvious modifications of increasing age. About a stone-cast from tbe wall A. sluice with blaoken'd waters slept, And o'er It many, round and small, Tbe cluster'd marish-mosses crept. Hard by a poplar shook alway. All silver green with gnarled bark: For leagues no other tree didrhiark The level waste, tbe surrounding gray. She only said. "My life is dreary, He cometh not." she said; Tm a-weary," She said, "I would that I,were dead." This stanza, as perhaps but few readers realize, was written 60 years ago. "When it was written there was no one but Tennvson who could have composed it; it is still a perfectly typical example of his style. Thkt style, so mellifluous and polished in its man nerism, has been applied to so many forms of poetry within the last half century that, with a multitude of uncritical readers, it has come to suggest tbe typical form of verse. It has been imitated with success by myriads of more or less accomplished songsters. As Lord 'Tenny son himself complains, in his little piece called "The Flower," Most can raise the flowers now, For all have got tbe seed. But the blossoms born of this accidental sow ing do not come to stay; they bloom for a mo ment and disappear. Tbe model on which they are formed, which for an Instant tbey seem to equal, outlasts them, and will outlast all the vicissitudes of task and time. his iAST poem kot tvBrrrEir. We are not called upon yet to form a final judgment on Lord Tennyson's poetry. Hap pily, indeed, it is not all yet in our bands. A new volume is, at the moment in which I write, lying in Messrs. Macmlllan's shop ready to be fiuolished in the ensuing winter. Wo are not iaely to be disappointed in these winter blos soms of Lord Tennyson's garden. He was 71 when he gave us "Itlzpah" and "The Voyaee of Maeldune;" he was 78 when he gave us "The Spinster's Sweet Arts" and "Frater que Vale." No donbt tbe treasury of our literature will be Sermanently emricbed by tbe contents of the rst book any great poet has given to the English-speaking world after tbe age of SO. Meanwhile, the whole race rises to-day to do honor to this glorious old man. as all Athens rose to carry Sophocles back from the tribunal of tbe Phratores, after the recitation of his "CEdipus" at Colonus. Let us be caret nl, however, even in our congratulations. If Pliny is to be believed. Sophocles died of fatigue in consequence of the boisterous accla mations of his countrymen. There is this difference, however, between the English case and the Greek one. AU tbat was said of Sophocles had been said in bis presence. In these days of newspapers and magazines Lord Tennyson may sit among tbe dry-tongned laurels at Farnngford and hear as little as he pleases of our plaudits. Edmund Gosse. AN EKTEEPEJSING POSTMASTER. Determined to Kan His Office In Banc Up Clly blyle. Detroit Free Press.! A new postmaster was appointed last spring for one of the villages below Atlantic City on the Jersey coast, add about June 1 people be gan to write to the two hotels there for rooms and rates. Answers were received f rem only a small per cent of the letters, and a great deal of anxiety&nd trouble was the consequence. Among others who finally went down to see what was tbe matter was a Philadelphia broker, and upon reacbing tbe town he went directly to the postofflce. It was a little 7x9 affair in the rear end of a grocery store, and after in troducing himself the broker said: "1 have written several letters to the Seaside Hotel here and received no answer. I have several friends who also make the same com plaint" "How long ago was this?" 'About a month." "Ah! yes, well, your letters probably went to the Dead Letter Office." "But why? Were they not called for?" "Ob, yes. but l started in here determined to do my dutv. Tbe last postmaster w as removed because he hadn't sent a dead letter to Wash ington during his whole term of office, and during the first fonr weeks of mine I sent off 08. I've got about SO more ready to go to-day, but after this I shall hold up for awhile and de liver all that come. I'm going to run this office bane up and city style or I'm going to get out. Good-aay, air." Byers and His Little Sister Byers It's a mean thing to do, but I need it for my beach-stroll, and children must learn to give up to their elders." 1 U yY vs&N.VVVV'!r'v.' Vv His Little ongh 1" Sister "Z-z-z-i-zip I wow, Miss Gaeciegle "Where did you get that lovely sasb, Mr. Byers?" . Mr. .Byers "un, tnair wny. one ot ray relatives took a notion to give it to.aw IB a woiri oi generosity. v yuug , vjf, SUNDAY, AUGUST THE SULTAN'S MARCH. Oliyer Optic Describes the Grand Parade to the Mosque. A PRETTY CIRCASSIAN FLIRT. Women of Constantinople, Their Dress and Yashmaks. ABDDIi AZIZ AND HIS BODYGUARD rwxuTTxx roa thi DisrATCir.1 WELL remember the many walks, rides and sails I took about Constantinople; and if I had half a dozen wide-awake American boys whom it became my duty to amuse and instruct at the same time I think I could do better by them in the city of the Sultan than I could in Lon don and Paris. Every thing there wonld at least have the charm of novelty, and I be lieve it would take them about one day to satisfy themselves in regard to the dogs and dog fights. Then, every man and woman to be seen in the streets is an object of curiosity. What we call Turkey in the United States is no snch bird in tho dominions ot the Sultan, or rather, it is called by a different name. Even'in English it is properly the Ottoman Empire. To the natives of the country it is Osmanli Valaieti. In fact we are not at all sure that we are learning the right names of rivers, cities and countries in school. I stopped once on a train in Belgium in front of a station, on which was the word "Aachen." I had never heard of such a place, and it looked like a consider able city. Referring to my guide book, I found that it was Aix la Chapelle. The Danube river is the Donau in Germany, and many geographical names are not the same in different languages, as Vienna in English, Wien in Germany, and Yienne in French. VISITING A MOSQUE. The Mahometans hold their religion to be very sacred; and in the city of the Sultan Christians are regarded as infidels, and called so. I suppose they have just as much right to do so as we have to call them heathen or anything of that sort. Their ceremonies in the mosque are very unmean ing to us. but they are none the less impress- The Sultan' t Heiiew. ive to the "true believer" on that account. The Moslems believe that their sacred places would be contaminated by the presence of a "dog of a Christian," though they do not entirely exclude them. Admission can only be obtained by permission ot the Sultan, who is the head ot the faithful. There are usual ly a number of travelers in the city, a dozen or 20 of them, and a "firman"is obtained lor the whole of them to go at once. Of course a fee has to be paid for each visitor, a portion of which probably goes inlo the pockets of the guides, who are generally Greeks, and thrifty people. One does not find much difficulty in "looking two ways for Sunday" in Constan tinople as in most other places, for three of them come all in a heap. Thev begin with the Mahometan Sunday, which is on Fri day; the Jewish Sabbath comes on Satur day, followed by the Christian in its proper place, anere are people of nearly all nations in the city, but none of them seem to take any especial notice of their holy days. On Friday the Sultan goes to the mosque in state, and a grand parade is made of tbe occasion. When one lands at the custom house on the Golden Horn, this part of the city is Galata. Walking up the hill on which is Pera, and descending on the other side he comes to Tophana. This is the lo cality in which the Sultan's new palace is situated, and here also, with a mosque at one end of it, is the only piece of good road in the city. It is broad and well built, and would rank with the thoroughares of Italy and England. XTJEKISH BEAUTIES. For this great occasion my man LMmetri brought out the handsome carriage. Of qoursethe ladies on the street looked at us, and we looked at the ladies. They were dressed in the traditional costume, and the ladies are not perplexed here by the con stant changes in the fashion plates, for the dress is the same now that it was a hundred years ago, and that it probably will be a hundred years hence. The ladies were dressed just as they are in the pictures in the "Arabian Knights." I looked at oneas a specimen. She weighed 200 pounds or more. She was agreat, fat, slouchy-looking woman; but this element ot her composition was in accordance with the Turkish idea of beauty. But she" was not to be regarded as a bouri by American eyes. Her dress was loose and flowing, her white cotton stock ings, or rather socks, were plastered with mud and rolled into a iold below her ankles, and her yellow morocco shoes were down at the heels. The muslin covering the women wear to cover their heads and faces is called the "yashmak. " In the case of this fat woman it was quite thick, and hardly more than the end ot her nose could be seen. Presently we saw another lady who was certainly better-looking, but her yashmak was much thinner. These were women of the ordinary class. Great, stout Nubians, as black as the ace of spades, wore precisely tbe same costume, and were just as particu lar that no man should see their tace. I could speak for the Americans present, and none ot them wanted to see such faces. These women, like those of higher estate in Turkev, eaf largely of sweetmeats, and that has a bad effect upon their health, from which better-looking little girls shonid take warning. W i1mt( llnvn in iht timorl trmt tn waif fybr the procession. On each side of it was drawn up a column or trie saltans body guard. I have seen a great many fine bodies of soldiers in- the different countries of Europe, but I never saw a finer battalion of troops than this Turkish guard. They were all evidently picked for their size and shape, and every one ot them looked like an ath lete. They wore lull beards, and they all happened to have handsome beards, from whidi I concluded that they had been one element tbat entered into the selection of the men. They formed a battalion of about 250. On their heads they wore the fez, which lithe national covering for the head, and it is almost universally worn by men of all ranks, from the Sultan down to the laborer. They had the great, bagging trousers of the Turkish costume, made of blue cloth, -with socks and gaiter boots. For the body of the uniform they sported a blue frock coat of European style. They were remarkably fine-looking soldiers, and I think they wonld make a sensation in any city of our """"' - a cibcassiak sxibt. a, coaeiaeraoie collection or people oran nations' bad gathered at x the, sides of tho fa 1889. riages containing ladies were driving up and down the road, which seemed to be about the only place where they could take an air ing in any vehicle, unless it were a sedan chair, one of which was occasionally seen in the narrow streets. Most of these car riages were of English make, though there were some which looked as though they had been knocked together on the ground. Some of the ladies were old and ill-favored, and were scrupulously careful abont the adjustment of the yashmak; others were better looking, though hardly one could be called handsome in any land but Tnrkey, and these were not so particu lar about the covering ot their faces. No doubt they were wives of pachas, or be longed to the households of these worthies. On this street was a lofty stone building, with no windows near the ground, which LMmetri said was the harem. He advised our party not to take much notice of the ladies in the carriages; but oururiosity was too strong to be repressed by such coun sel, and we continued to look at them with all our eyes. In one of the carriages was a young lady, evidently a Circassian, who was really a very pretty girl, and what was more, she seemed to be entirely conscious of the fact. She rode by us a dozen times, and stared at us as though she desired to make our better acquaintance. I did not object, and I smiled as though she had been a Yankee damsel. Then I raised my hat very slightly, and smiled once more. She smiled also. The old lady with her seemed to understand her dnty we'll enough to look the other way. The duenna wore a very heavy yashmak, A Little Flirtation. ' which concealed all bnt the end of her nose, while the honri's was so transparent that I could see every feature of her face. I thought I was making some progress toward a respectful acquaintance with her, when a blast of trumpets broke up the in terview, and her driver hurried her from the street. The Sultan was coming, and tha band struck up a tune which was wild and bar baric, but thoroughly inspiring in its notes. Tbe bodyguard straightened up, and two lines ot mounted men approached on each side of the way. No one must step in front of the Saltan, and his escort mnst go on each side. An uely-Iooking colored gentleman appeared first at the cate of the palace, and the crowd bowed low to him, for he was the chief eunuch, the Kyzlar-Agassi. tbe cqnal of tbe grand vizier. The Sultan came first, monnted on a magnificent horse. The battalion gave a fierce yell, which was the regular greeting; but the mighty potentate took no notice of it, for it is beneath his dignity to notice anybody. A DIGNIFIED MONAECII. The Bultan was a very good-looking man of iO, his hair and beard sprinkled with grar. He wore tbe fez, with a frock coat and pants in European style. His breast was covered with medals and decorations, and his horse was more richly dressed than himself. His appearance and manner were decidedly impressive. He looked rather languidly about, bnt seemed to be taking especial care not to see anybody or anything. Our party took oft our bats and bowed low to him, but he would not even let his eyes rest on us for an instant. His chief business just then was to support his dienity. and he did it in full. ' Behind blm came a long procession of pachas, all gorgeously rhounted and dressed, and the procession was vastly finer than any cavalcade the boys ever saw at tbe circus. Near bim was his son, Ynssuf Izzeddin EhTendl we give It in full so our boys may be able to call him by name if they ever happen to meet him. When I bowed to him, hat in hand, he returned tne salute in the same manner, and his politeness was to be recommended to his papa. But this boy of 13 at tbat time was not tbe heir to the throne; they don't do things in tbat way. and his uncle was In the line ahead of him. The Sultan I saw that day was Abdul Aziz; ho is no longer living, and the irreverent news papers spoke of him as tho ruler Az-waz. The present Bultan is Mohammed Mnrad. brother of Aziz, and uncle of the polite boy. The last three rulers of the Ottoman Empire hare been brothers, and all of them sons of tbe Sultan Mabmond IL Tbe procession went on its way and entered the mosque. We couk) net follow it; tbe pretty Circassian had evidently gone home, and I saw her no more. I am sorry she cannot be' brought over to this country, sent to Vassar College, or some otber, and thus escape from tbe life she is doomed to lead in her own land. We were driven od the hill to the Bus iin Fera, where the carriage stopped in front of the monastery of tbe dancing dervishes; and we shall bave something to say of these and the howling dervishes In the future. Ouvzb Optic, THE MAS WITH A KIFLE. A Western Farmer and Hunter With a Remarkable History. New York Star.i A man who has had a remarkable history is now visiting the East and this city for the first time since the close of the war. Short and stocky, with a handsome, sun browned face. State Senator John O. Milne, ot Minnesota, is one of the best known farmers of the beauti ful State of 50,000 lakes. Mr. Milne was bom in Fall River, Mass., wbere his brothers are leaders in the social, political and business world. Tbe principal daily paper in that city is owned by them. John O. went West long before tbe war and became a famous hunter. He knew every mile of hunting ground from La Crosse to tbe Red river of the North, and claims to have been tbe first man to discover tbat the source of the Mississippi was not Lake Itaska, as promul pa ted by Schoolcraft in 1832, bnt a spring, or series of springs, much farther north, and which Captain Olazicr has since conclusively sbownto be the real origin of the mighty stream. Mr. Milne is personally acquainted with nearly all tho older chiefs of the Sioux and Apaches, and can talk tbeir langnages like an aborigine. When Sitting Bull aud his 6,000 warriors were brought under military es cort to Bismarck in 1881, Mr. Milne visited the camp and was received by Sitting Bull with extraordinary honors. The Sioux call him the "Little Man Great with the Rifle." A YEEI AHTPDL DOG. His Clever Ruse for Deceiving: Ills Mistress a Complete Failure. Cincinnati Times Star. "Speaking of dogs," said a gentleman from Avondale, discussing some of tbe recent dog stories told by the delegate, "there is a little fox-terrier owned by one of my acquaintances. His mistress thought so much of him that, when he was a pup, she used to bathe him every day. First she would bathe the baby, then the dog wonld be given his donse in tho water. Bnt she never used tbe castile soap, which was reserved exclusively for the baby, on tho dog. He, poor animal, had to be content with ivory soap. This discrimination evidently annoyed the terrier. The otber day his mis tress saw bim go upstairs a little before the hour for tbe batn. "She followed on tiptoe to see what be was dolne. She saw him go to the bathroom, pick up tbe cake of Ivory in bis mouth and drop it out of tbe window. His mistress, just previous to tbe bath, secured tbe soap and put it in her pocket. When tbe dog's turn in tbe tub came, he deliberately picked up tbe castile soap, and wagged his tail joyously as be put it in bis mistress' hand. Then she produced tbo ivory soap. You should bare seen tbe poor dog. He was utterly woebegone and crestfallen. Never saw a dog look so cheap In my life." Smart Glrla at Slate Lick. Armstrong Bepubllejin.l Some of the papers are blowing about a couple of girls at Walk Chalk who have been driving a mowing machine and a hone rake. Well, right around Slate Lick we can count nearly a dozen girls and young married women who can reap, mow or stack hay, thrash grain or thrash nun when they come In to dinner. Holding the Fair. Omaha )Torld-Herald.l Just to forestall some cotemporary we will ourselves answer the question propounded in V tne heading oi one i of. onr editorial to-day, Where Shall the Fair keHeW!" la our laps, vv(iviu si . 'fvK&-. WOMEN OF FBANCE. Povrfcr and Influence of the Fair Sex in French Politics. THREE NOTABLE BECEPTIONS. Strong-Minded Frenchwomen Quickly to tbe Front Coming WOMAK'S BIGHTS A POPULAR CAUSE , 1COBBISPOSDXNCX OT TOE DISPATCH. , Paris, July Id. Although the law under the code Napoleon interdicts to a very great extent the property rights of French women, giving to the husband during cover-' ture the absolute control and disposition of the wife's property and gcods, it has never been able to control their tongues. When tbe French woman is impelled to talk, she talks, and she stops only when she has fully expressed her mind. French women have to-day, and have had in the centuries past, a strong influence in political matters. It has always been the custom with the fisherman, tbe farmer, the miner, and the laborer who works for hire, to give all of his earnings to his wife, who manages the household and the expenditures of the family, always laying aside something for a rainy day. She provides the wine for the table and tbey drink it together, hence the husband does not spend his money in the saloon or restaurant. Thus the wife accom modates her expenses aud the expenses of the family to the income of Her husband. But it is more than likely that she adds to the income of her husband, for French women work. She thus acquire a power and influence that the woman who lives simply upon the bounty 'of her husband, not knowing whence the money comes, does not know. THE FBEUCH WOMAN THINKS. With the use of money, and the accumu lation of property, naturally comes the de sire to earn it in fields that are most lucra tive and congenial, and the desire to dispose of it by gilt or will, which married women cannot do. But all women do not marry, and France has a much larger proportion of women than of men. So the women are be ginning to ask for rights, civil end political, and they are coming to the front on these questions with an earnestness and zeal that means business. They have called their sisters from otber countries, to give testi mony to the right and privileges acquired in their several domains and how it has been brought about. They have compared the progress that has been made in science, in the opening of schools and professions, and especially the numbers reclaimed and saved by special charities not connected ' with the Government. The Association for theKights of Women, of which Maria Dessaimes was President and Leon Richer President of Honor, came out boldly and announced that their object was to secure the rights of women, civil and political. They discussed questions his toric, economic, moral and legislative. As to both of the latter subjects there would seem to be just canse lor complaint and great room ior improvement. The French woman has no control whatever over her children during the lifetime of the father. His word is absolute, and he may by his will deprive her ot the care of the' children of the marriage after his death. He dictatts their edncation and their religion. WHAT WOSIEir HAVE DONE. The eloquent President, in her opening address, did not fail to remind the large audience of the present nnequal condition of women underthe law,and to detail in words, now pathetic" and no w amusing, what wom en had done for the liberties of France dur ing the last century. The close of the five days' session of this congress did not by any means close their work. Their earnestness, their zeal and the ability of the papers pre sented in certain lines of reformatory labor, indicate the thought, time and attention that have been given to them, aud their clear insight into the nature of the reforms needed. These women mean work, and they have had the courage to come forward and openly avow sentiments not yet popular in France; but the press oi Paris treat them courteously, and that is a great point gained. The Society for the Works and Institu tions of Women, with Jules Simon for President and Emilie de Mosier (the real head) for General Secretary, have perhaps been wiser even, if less frank. Jules Simon announces it his belief, with all the author ity of a litterateur of note, tbat women should be equal to men up to a certain point, but that men should hold the offices. He commends their work, especially their charitable work, and believes that lines of work should be open to them; and especially that they should be permitted to bind up the wounds that men have made by the bul let and the bayonet. "But I want peace! I wish to stop the de vastation of war," exclaimed a little woman in the audience, "and I do not believe in making arrangements to aid it!" A SXEONO ORGANIZATION. The conservatism of this body, apparently, has drawn into their fold aud into their organization a larger class of women who are occupied in philanthropic works, and who are endeavoring to open larger fields of work, with better pay, for women. The woman physician and the woman litterateur are quite features of this congress and of Paris, and these women are practicing their professions, but the woman barrister has not yet made her appearance. They have en listed here and there women of distinction, they are under the patronage of the Gov ernment and it has voted to them a small amount of money. I listenecTwith some interest to a short paper presented by Lady Saunders in per son, to a letter from Madame Oarnot, wife of the President of the Republic, expressing regret at not being able to attend the session at which the report was made on works "Philanthropic and Moral," of which she is President, and of the interest and patience of M. Jules Simon, Fredic Passy and other gentlemen who successively presided at the sessions. But the popularity of the "Congress ffor the Works of Women" is best illustrated perhaps by the series of brilliant receptions that have been given and which have been attended by the elite? and people ol literary distinction in Paris. The first was given bv the Committee of Organization in the Pavillion de Flore, Palace de Louvre, and the learned, but now gay, procession were soon chatting merrily in the spacious halls where only a little time since Napoleon III. and Eugenie held their brilliant court. THE WITTY EEMAKK3 of the toastmakers and the sage thoughts of wiser heads perhaps made no allnsions to the gorgeous pageants that bad gone before;or that intelligence and cultivated thought were now succeeding royalty. Tbe second reception was given by Madame M. Laurent and tbe Comite'nle l'Orpbelinal des arts" at tbe Hotel Continental, and was at tended by a brilliant concourse ot people. But the reception that most notably eihioited the Interest that tbe general public are taking id woman's advancement in France was perhaps tbe splendid reception in honor ot the members of the Coneress by the Minister of Public Works. M. Ytcs Quyot and Madame Guyot. The halls of tbe old mansion were brilliantly lighted, tbe mantel and portieres were banked with flowers, and tbe stairway lined with, potted plants. The beautiful garden with Its rare old trees and beds ot flowers was radiant with yellow Chinese lanterns hung in tbe tree?, and tbe flower beds and walks bordered with red and white lights, and its refresbment cafe in a sheltered nook. Tbe concert by the Roumanian artists was exquisite, but the brilliant stars, both ladles and gentlemen, who sang between were a rare treat to the listeners. The Minister and Madame Xinyot seemed to be in tbeir kindest mood, chatting gallywitb. tbe guests, for whose every want tbey had so generously provided; but an Incident that, gave point and pertinence to the proceedings was the presentation to tbem on behalf of the committee of a beauti ful stand of flowers for the Interest they had taxen in tne "WOKKS OT THE C0N0EES3 and tbe escourageaent that they had given to their labon. The nmiki el Madasae Hotter were ably seconded by the English delegates, who have a large representation sttbocon- gress. The Minister and Madame Guyot were ' owing and smiling tbeir acknowledgments during the presentation speeches. Only, make a canse popular and people Willi say to yon, "I always believed in it." The term "woman's rights" has always been odious, but call It by any other name, sugar-coat it, and the masses of the people will see good reason for tbeir adoption, and wonder why women were not always fairly treated. But the strong-minded French woman has made a great advance. She will not hereafter take. a back seat. But she lacks the educa-, tional privileges tbat are granted to women in , America. One of the questions hotly dis-' cussed was their admission Into professional , schools on an equality with men, and the co education of tbe sexes. , BelvaA-Lockwoou. , HETIfi FELT BEITEE. 7 A Soldier Olakra LIsbt of the Wonnd That Causes TJU Death. C - , There are (men who, after a battle, die of " imaginary wounds, and there are others who seem incapable of realizing actual danger. Of "' tbe latter class was a brave fellow, whose cour-. vj age is thus described in Regis de Trobriand's,. "Four Years With the Army of the Potomacr"'v v He was a strapping Irishman whom I found T ' smoking his pipe, at the door of the hall where fr lay the wounded. "Well," said I to him, "how do you find your- self r ,, "Perfectly, Colonel. Never better in mT . life." "Why bave you got your face half covered?; with bandages tnen?" , "Ob, a mere nothinc a scratch. I'll show it i to you." -a "No.IthanUyoo." VjL "Yes, es, you will see what It Is." r Raising compresses and bandages, be showed''' me a gaping wound in tbe place of the eye brows, which bad been carried away. "I see," said L "that your wonnd has not been dressed this morning." "No, tho doctor put this on yesterday; but to day he's so busy with tbe others, who need his help more than I, that I didn't want to bother him." "Andyour eyef 'Gone. But you see. Colonel, it's onlv the left eye, and that will save me the trouble of closing it while I take aim. which always did bother me. In a fortnight I'll be back with the regiment." But tho brave fellow never did rejoin bis regi ment. Before tho fortnight was over, be had died of this "mere nothing" of which he had made so light. COUiNTEEFEITING A SNAKE BITE. The Trick Played by a Georgia Youlh to ' Get n Drink. Americas (Ga.) Republican. A young man living in one of the dry coun ties, killed a large rattlesnake last Monday, and just as he did so the Savannah. Amerleus and Montgomery train rolled into tbe station. He noticed that his father got a bottle of XX X. Martell brandy, and be wanted some of it. So he got tbe rattler, took his pocketknlfe, cut a gash on his hand, and ran to tbe old man, ex claiming: "See here. I killed him! But he bit me, and I'll diel" Tbe fond father saw tba blood dripping from his boy's hand, and with out looking at It, opened the Martell, forced tbe bottle into bis son's moutb, and poured tho entire cod tents into his throat, and then sent for a doctor. Tbe boy was soon stupidly drunk, and when the doctor arrived be looked at the wounded hand, then at tbe dead snake, and quietly said: "No snake ever bit that hand. Whv.it's a deep gasb, and cat with a knife, too. He is not ' poisoned from snake bite, but he is dead drunk." and forcing a strong emetic down him, the wise old doctor left. The Meanest Mean Man. Albany Arcus.l Among tbe mean men of Duchess county is a farmer at Wappmgers Falls, who hires "gieen horns" at Castle Garden for a month, and at tbe end of tbat time discharges them and refuses to pay them any wage. Poor, Foolish men. 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