jBBBa "--v3 4VySW-!r TFT a4 THE PITTSBUKG- DISPATCH, SUNDAY, AUGUST 25, 1889. nMHHHSiMHtSKVUSjKriHBMC V GAY COKEY ISLAND. r A TouDg Lady Who Needed Excite ment in Big Doses. fSAUCI COSTUMES ON THE BEACH. lire. Blaine Declines the Acquaintance of Mrs. Carter. WHI FEEDDI FOUGHT WITH THE LILT tCODLBESFOSDENCE OF TIIZ EI8FATCH.1 Kew Yoek, August 23. GIRL remarked on the piazza of a Coney Island hotel: "1'es, I'm here," address ing a croup of friends who greeted her appearance with exclamations of sur prise. "Youthought me still huried in that little Jersey Tillage, as indeed I might haTe heen but lor our family physician, who knows me better than mamma does. You seel got dreadfully low and moping and lost my appetite and spirits, and mamma became alarmed and cent in town for that blessed old doctor. He came out, looked me all over, and better, looked the place over, took off his glasses, wiped them with his handkerchief and squinted down at me: 'There's nothing the matter with the child," he said to mamma, 'except an overdose of this Jersey Sleepy Hollow. Take her away, to New port, Bar Harbor, Saratoga anywhere there is life. She thrives on excitement. It's more than medicine for her. Give her all Bhe craves.' So our trunks were packed, we csme here and I never felt better in my life than I do at this moment." I glanced at the speaker. She was a typical American girl, slender and willowy in form, with yet no hint of scrawninesi; large gray eyes through which her very soul shone, and a face of di licate features, whose ever-changing expression indicated the sensitive emotions and easily swayed sensi bilities of its owner's temperament. A bundle of nerves and quivering perceptions, a'Ti graceful, keenly intelligent and altogether charming now, at 18; but with a future at 40 that is vastly more probable than attractive. I make that gloomy fore cast because she is the boldest bather at Coney Island. SEW YOEKEES" TAVOBITE BESOET. Coney Island is so near to New York, and therefore so temptingly accessible to both residents and tourists, that it assembles a most diverse mnltitude. Manhattan Beach has hotels costlier to their guests. I think, than any other resort in America; and from that high degree of expenditure, if not of social worth, the horde of visitors reaches down to the economy represented in beer and sandwiches. The bathing throughout th" four miles ot beach is correspondingly She deeded Excitement. various. The writer has been to five other seaside places this season, and everywhere else has looked in vain tor startlingly vivid bathers. It is true that at Narra gansett Pier, Atlantic City, and especially at Ocean Grove, there is considerable bra vado of dress by the girls, but it is oftener a matter of negligence than deliberate pur pose. For several summers there was a succes sion of actresses at Long Branch who ex hibited themselves on the sand and in the water in ways that merited and obtained wide publication, but this year there is an absence of show figures there. At Coney Island, however, this lack of human ob jects to admire deprecatingly is not felt. Several wives and daughters of wealth are exceedingly saucy in their surf toilets, to put it mildly, and every pleasant day brings, as excursionists from the citv, a lew young women whose disportings in the waves are as good as a circus. Besides, there are sev eral actresses here for the summer, and, doubtless under orders from their man agers, they use themselves for self-advertising purposes just as . every available wall in a town is utilized for posters just be fore the arrival of a show. The most suc cessful of these stage beauties, measuring success by the amount of attention com manded, hires one of the bath masters as a constant attendant while she is in the water. He is a stalwart old negro, with a reputa tion lor professional swimming in earlier vears, and with two life-saving medals on lis breast to prove his bravery. The girl is very handsome, and for a time her identity was a puzzle. The rumor went about the hotels that she was an heiress from some where out 'West, hut the truth came out, and it must be told that she is an athlete tinder engagement for a tour with a variety show. MBS. BLAINE 017 THE BEACH. Mrs. James G. Blaine, Jr., is staying at A Pretty Tableau. one of the hotels, and is in sight daily as an equestrienne and a bather. She is an nouncing herself for an early theatrical debut, too, but she does it with" an appear ance of modestv and with no departure Irom a graceful Searing. That other forth coming debutante, Mrs. Leslie Carter, the Chicago divorced woman, has also been at Coney Island. It is an even thing between her and Mrs. Blaine as to prettiness, but Mrs. Blaine doesn't by any means consider that they are on a level socially. It happens that the same dramatic tutor has them un der training, and the other day he went down to Coney Island to deal with them. He encountered them on the same piazza, and was requested by Mrs. Carter to intro duce them to each other. But his discre ion led him to speak to Mrs. Blaine about it first, and she positively and pointedly re fused the acquaintance. It was a bather with a heavy physiqne, but light of deportment, who asked the bath master to carry her ont into the surf, be cause, as she explained, her physician had M ordered her to submerge herself all at once. He thought that if she waded in, the blood would be driven to her head and thereby ag gravate some real or imaginary nervous dis order. So the servitor gathered her op in his arms with difficulty and started on his mission. Just then an impolite and wag gish chap, standing on the shore, yelled at the top ol his voice to the bathers ont in the' water: "Look outt look outl There is going to be a tidal wave." But the danger was averted, because the woman got angry and wouldn't be dropped into the water alter all. PEOFESSI02TAX, MASHEES. Among the stragglers on the beach are a surprising proportion of men who are worth looking at, if you only knew about them. Yesterday I saw two chaps lounging to gether, and nobody paid any attention to them, but when 1 heard the name of Mrs. Langtry mentioned between them I at once took into account their identity. One was Bob Hilliard, the actor, whd had a row with Mrs. Langtry notoriously last year, and was laughed at lor his sentimental exploit of rapturously kissing the beauty's shoe. He declared that it was a joke, but she took it for serious wooiug, and told of it after they had quarreled. The other man was Porter Ashe, the California sportive millionaire, who has just been extensively printed as the former law partner of Jndge Terry. Ashe has had experience with Mrs. Langtry, too. It happened last summer at An Object of Interest. Long Branch. He devoted himself assidu ously to the Lily, and she seemed to like it. He was a conspicuous figure in the rapid set of which Mrs. Langtry, the Baroness Blanc and several other social plungers were transiently famous. Fred Gebhardt objected to any rivalry, and there were open quarrels on the hotel veranda. Then Freddy bade an angry adieu to his sweetheart and sailed away to Europe. She hastily fol lowed him and brought him back, since which they have seemed to live together in concord, 'it may not be complimentary to the more celebrated beauties, but the posi tive lact is that Ashe and Hilliard, famous mashers, were paying particular attention to two pretty girls manifestly from the Bow ery. It is safe to paraphrase Gilbert and say that beauty "levels rank, and there fore" this brace of beaux were justified in paying court to it wherever they found it. LEFT TIIEIE DIOKITT AT HOME. Doubtless the salt air is a relaxer of dig nity, for surely I have seen men, who, esti mating by appearances, were judges, mer chant princes, or something else equally weighty at home, who on the beach do not hesitate to frivolously follow every comely girl who gives the least invitation. But you can't make people serious at summer resorts. Every Sunday some preacher, often eloquent ones, go down to Coney Island and deliver sermons in almost empty hotel parlors, and among the guests who will not listen, moreover, are many persons who are pious at home. A musical authority named Krehbiel, a big and very beautiful blonde at that, went to Brighton to lecture on "How to Listen to Music" He calculated that Coney Island, frith its three splendid orchestras, was just the place for the delivery of his advice; but the people wouldn't listen to him, much less take instruction from him in the art of listening, and poor Krehbiel fared even worse than the clergymen. Professional en tertainers will not learn the truth that folks at watering places do not want them; or else the places of those who do learn it by ex perience are promptly taken by those who have not. At least a dozen individuals, or small parties, have this year undertaken a roundoi the resorts, and I know of only one case, that of Marshall P. "Wilder, the dwarf jester, who has made expenses. Kameea. A CLOSE CALL FOE MUGGINS. A Pet Cnb Gets in a Bad Fix While Stealing Apple. American Agriculturist. 1 The cub was a half-grown black bear which had been captured in its clumsy babyhood by John Mead and carried to his farm in one of the western counties in Michigan. "While on a hunt in the northern part of the State he had suddenly en countered the old mother bear, with two cubs. A well-aimed shot from his rifle brought the old bear down, and Mr. Mead was soon on his way to the nearest settlement with the skin and the two cubs. One of them he sent by express to a friend in an Eastern city; the other one he carried home with him, where it was kindly cared for and soon became a great pet, especially for the three boys. They named him Muggins, and made him a comfortable kennel, which was kept well supplird with fresh, clean straw for his bed. Muggins was given the freedom of a long, light chain, attached by one end to his collar, and at the other was an iron pin driven into the ground. The boys taught him all manner ot amusing tricks, and be seemed to enjoy the fun quite as much as his two-leeged playmates. Down in the lower corner of the orchard was a tree of great yellow sweet apples. When the warm, calm September days came the boys would nufasten Muggins' col la" and take him to the tree. This he climbed nimbly, and after shaking down some of the ripe apples, would comedown at the call of the boys, and share with them the apples, of which he was very fond. One dav the boys had been cutting corn with their father in the field, and on coming to the house at dinner time they ran, as usual, to the house of their shaggy pet in the back yard, hut Muggins was gone, chain and all. He had tugged away at the iron pin until it became loose and pulled out of the ground. The chain had left a distinct trail in the grass which led toward the orchard. The boys hurried toward the large sweet apple tree, rightly suspecting that it was the ob ject ot the cub's raid. When they arrived within sight of it, there hung poor Muggins by the neck to a lower limb. They quickly ran to his rescue, and while one lifted him so as to relieve the pressure on his throat, the other unfastened the chain from his col lar, and then they laid him down on the grass. At first they thought he would never breathe again; but after a few moments he drew his breath, and was soon able to amble back to his quarters. It seemed that after pulling himself free, Muggins had gone and climbed the old tree, shaking off some of the apples, and then swung himself down from the lower limb by his forepaws, nnmindfnl of the chain which dangled from his collar. But the chain had become entangled in the limbs, and when he let go his hold npon the limb, it held him suspended by the neck, too low to reach the limb with his paws. Only for the opportune arrival of the boys, all would soon have been over with Mug gins. Who Made the Mistake. Scottish American.) Mr. Bobert Law, writer, dictated a letter to his junior clerk, and when it was being read over Mr. Law found a very bad mis take. Mr. Law, being a mild man, did not get into a rage, but quietly asked; ""Was it yon are I that made this mistake, John?" "Weel," said John, "as it's bad mainners for an inferior to tak' owre muckle on him tel', we'll say it was you." " THE NATURAL BRIDGE Nature's Bemarkab'le Handiwork in the Old Dominion Where WASINGTON CARVED HIS NAME. Thomas Jefferson's Appreciation of Its Attractiveness. THE MINING FETEE IN TIEGINIA COREISrOXDESCE OF Till DISPATCH. Natural Bbidge, Va., August 22. Natural Bridge is a great place for hatching mining and land improvement companies. The profits the people of Virginia get from their rich fields no longer satisfy them; they covet those yielded by the coal and iron districts of Alabama and Tennessee, and the prosperity of Decatur, Boanoke and such towns. Their mineral resources they ex pect to some day make them rich. They think they have as good iron ore as Ala bama, that they can manufacture it as cheaply and that they are nearer a market than thtir Southern rivals. They believe also that they have marble, tin and several other ores in valuable quantities. The aim of the land improve ment companies is to develop these. Colonel Parsons, James G. Blaine, John Sherman, Cal Brice, Major George Hib bard, who laid out Tacoina, Governor Lee, General Anderson and other men of .na tional repute are interested in these com panies. The last three at present are intent Upon the development of Glasgow.located at the junction of the Nortlrand James rivers, while the others are putting their im mediate efforts upon the town of Irongate, a few miles from Clifton Forge. On my way to Natural Bridge I passed the town of Crimora, near which Carnegie, Phipps & Co. get most of the manganese iron used in their works about Pittsburg. They have about 150men at work now, and cannot get the manganese out fast enough. The ore is found in a very faulty vein that stands on the perpendicular, and is some times on the surface and sometimes 200 feet deep below the surface, and vanes from a few inches in thickness to several score feet. The Carnegie people bought the controlling share of the mine from a Pittsburger named James "White for $75,000, and he bought it for a few hundred. "Will "White, a brother of James White, and also a Pitts burger, has leased another manganese mine near Boanoke and is developing it. UNDEVELOPED WEALTH. The mountains about Crimora are filled with mineral, but, with the exception of the deposit which the Carnegie firm is work ing, no deposit is being developed success fully. An Englishman named Kent owns what he thinks is a very valuable vein of manganese, and spent considrable money in getting his ore in shape to be worked and marketed only to find that the expenses ate up the profits. He lias abandoned the project for a time at least. Kent is a char acter. Several years ago he drifted to Crimora and began prospecting for ores in the mountains round about, and he has kept it up ever since. He says nothing to anybody of his affairs, and beyond knowing that he has a good yearly income coming to him from an estate in England, his neigh bors know little about him. He is a bach elor and keeps an old colored housekeeper to look after his Household. Almost any day he may be met in the mountains, pros pecting hammer in hand, or else direct ing the 'work of two or three men in digging about his discoveries. At pres ent his neighbors have their curiosity un usually excited "with the sight of occasional bagsful of mysterious ore that he puts on the train and sends North. They rather imagine that he has found a tin mine or that he imagines he has. From time to time he buys up mountain land until now he owns considerable. He may strike it rich yet, when perhaps success may loosen his tongue about his affairs and pas't life and satisfy his curious neighbors. NATTJBE'S HAKDIWOBE. The South has probably no greater at traction to oiler the tourist than Natural Bridge. The most graphic picture yet drawn of this wonder falls far short of con veying a fair idea of it, and writers like Thomas Jefferson, the Marquis de Chastel lux, Harriet Martineau and Charles Dudley "Warner have tried their pen at describing it. Like Niagara, it must be seen to be ap preciated. Leaving the hotel, one follows a pathway down the mountain alongside a turbulent brook that slips in white sheets over the rocky slopes and growls and roars as it tumbles over a precipice of some length where the path approaches closest to it. At this point one's attention is attracted to two large arbor vitse trees, the larger of which has a circum ference of, more than 17 feet and has fallen across the brook where it be gins its precipitous descent, making a pic turesque natural bridge. The age of the tree is estimated at 1.500 years, continuing down the path which bends to the right about the base of the mountain, cne is brought abruptly in sight of the bridge. The feeling of surprise gives away gradually to that of wonder and awe as the eye takes in its great proportions and graceful out lines. It towers 215 feet above, its width is 100 feet, and its span is 90 feet, and every thing else of it and about it is elegantly proportioned. The arch is regular, and arch and abutments are as smooth as if chis eled by man. The bridge consists of a huge stratum of blue limestone, arching a deep fissure in the mountain, through which a large creek har ries down its rocky bed. Trees grow on its top and about its sides and terns and vines and moss cling in and trail from its crevices. Through the arch one sees a strip of blue sky and a dark background of wav ing pines. On the face of the abutment to the felt, about 25 feet above the stream, are scratched scores of names, among themthatof G. Washington, cut when the "Father ot his Country" was a boy, and a foolhardy one at that, as the smooth surface of the rock made the cntting ot the name a very peril ous one. From the frail bridge crossing the stream underneath the arch one sees directly overhead on the great keystone, as it were, the figure ot a gigantic eagle with wings outstretched apparently flying up the chasm; the head, wings and claws are all perfect. Under it is the figure of a crouch ing lion almost as perfect. Discoloration of the rock caused by percolation of water from the top surface of the bridge seems to be responsible for these FANTASTIC SHAPES. They have been conspicuous so long as the history of the bridge goes back, and the French engineers who surveyed and meas ured the bridge at the time of the Revo lutionary War remarked them and drew from them a happy augury of the success of the Americans in the struggle. Passing through the bridge and taking up a position on the further side a hundred yards or so from it one gets a still better impres sion of the soaring grace ot the arch. This side of the bridge is remarkable for its smoothness and well-proportioned curves. The arch and abutments give away grad ually from the outer edge like tbe sides of the basin of a huge fn'nnel, due, 1 imagine, to the constant wearing away ot the rock by the stream for ages past, starting when its bed was up near the top of the arch and then coming lower and lower as the water wore away the rocks over which and against which it flowed. Looking up through the arch to the right, about half way from the top, one sees the semblance of a beautiful human face sculptured on rocky abutment, and nearer on the abutment, to the left, is another' rocky profile tuaj of an old man. Both are ot huge size. Climbing around to the top of the bridge' one finds there a broad turnpike road that is and has been a main highway since col onial times, and still earlier it was used by the Indians. The bridge u the only cross ing of the chasm for several miles in both directions. Unless one is on the tharp look out, he would pass over it without recogniz ing it, as it has natural rock parapets and is overgrown with oak and pine trees and bushes, except where the road cuts through, shutting out a view of its edges. From the edge of the bridge to the bottom of the abyss below the view can properly be described as terrible. Trees below look like bushes and full grown persons like little children. You wonder at the audacity of the swallows spinning about in the chasm below, now on one side of the bridge and then darting through the arch to the other and trying in vain to cling to its rocky arch. The deep chasm is lined on both sides and in both directions from the bridge with a thick crowth of somber pines that whisper weirdly with the wind, and the deep rumble of the streem below completes the feeling of awe that comes over the visitor as he looks down from this GBAND -WfiSK OP NATOEE. The ravine above the bridge is full of in terest A pathway leads thronch a pine forest, across rustic bridges and over and about massive rocks. A half a mile up is a cave in which the Americans in the War of 1812 made saltpeter, and later in the Civil War the Confederates used it for the same purpose. Three-quarters of a mile np is the "Lost Biver." a brook that gushes out of the mountain side from a rocky cavern with a surface opening of the size of a coal mine. At the opening one can hear the roar of the brook as it falls over a precipice far back ia the heart of the mountain. Where the brook originates nobody knows nor will anybody know until it has worn a cavern in the mountain and another natural bridge, as it is slowly but surely doing. Perhaps several million years from now there will be two natural bridges, the present one and this other one that the "Lost Biver" is forming. A quarter of a mile further np the ravine is a very pretty cascade known as Lace Water falls. Though Natural Bridge receives nothing like the attention from tourists that it should, its beauty and grandeur have been known and appreciated from earliest colo nial times. As early as 1774 Thomas Jeffer son was granted the tract of land about it by King George III., and at the time of the Revolutionary War the bridge had attained such wide celebrity that the French organ ized two expeditions to visit it, and from their measurements and diagrams a picture was made in Paris which was copied ex tensively in Europe, giving the bridge a Continental celebrity. While surveying, Lord Fairfax's domains in the Shenandoah Valley Wash ington visited the bridge and carried his name high up on the rocky abutment where it can be daily seen to this day. A FAMOUS PLACE. In the early part of the century it was much visited, Chief Justice Marshall, Mon roe, Clay, Benton, Jackson, Van Buren, Sam Houston and other national characters registered here. Thomas Jefferson predicted that it would some day be a spot resorted to by thousands, and one year after getting possession he settled two slaves in a log cabin near the bridge; one room of the cabin he directed to be kept open for the en tertainment of strangers. He spoke of it as "a famous place, that will draw the at tention of the world," and his pre diction is coming true. Everv year more tourists resort to it than the year previous. The present owner. Colonel Parsons, a Northern man and great friend of James G. Blaine, with Mr. Blaine bought the bridge and the small tract of land about it for $49,000. Blaine sold ont to Parsons, and since then the latter has added tract after tract until now he owns 3,000 acres, which, in the opinion of Charles Dudley Warner, is one of the most magnifi cent estates in existence. Mr. Parsons has laid out roads over and around the forest covered mountains, which command lovely woodland and mountain scenery. From Mount Jeflerson one gets the finest view of the Blue Bidge Mountains in all the extent of that noble range, as well as beautiful stretches of cultivated valleys and upland. The magnificent scenery about the bridge is of a piece with the picturesque bridge it self, and would be worth a visit without the bridge. Bha. A FROZEN SNAKE IN SUMMER, A CbuIcIII Man' Singular Adventure With a Bis Reptile. Mr. Samuel Somerson, who lives near Catskill, went to his barn, which is about 50 yards from his kitchen door, on Monday afternoon to get some kindling wood for his wife. As he pulled out the pieces he wanted he noticed something that seemed to be about two feet of a very straight, highly varnished stick protruding from the foot of the pile. He drew it out, and, as he ob served its dark and slightly mottled ap pearance, he congratulated himself on having secured a handsome walking cane, and wondered how it carae to be mixed np with the firewood in his barn. But sud denly he dropped it. as a closer observation I showed him that be had picked up a black snake, frozen ttiff. The reptile had crawled Into the lining of the icehouse and had frozen so stiff that it was not aroused by its fall upon the floor of the barn. Finding that it did not move, Mr. Somerson again cautiously raised it from the ground. It did not bend when he held it at arm's length in a horizontal position, and not knowing exactly what was the matter with it, he started for the house to show it to his wife, who came from a snake country up in the mountains. In the yard he met his little boy and playfully shook the frozen serpent at him, The lad, under the impression that he was being threatened with a stick, cried and ran'away. The father did not pursue him, for the snake, like everything else around, had been rendered very brittle by the action of the frost, and the oscillation broke it into two nearly equal sized pieces. The tail end, which Mr. Somerson retained in his hand, remained as before the rupture, but the part that was influenced by the head recovered its vitality at once, and, ap parently oblivious to the disintegration of its anatomy, glided back toward the ice house, intending, doubtless, to sink again into innocuous desuetude and slumber on for an unlimited period. Mr. Somerson, however, interfered with this design by battering its life out with its own plain, un varnished tail. THE HINT "WAS SUFFICIENT' A Shrewd Child Gem What She Wants Without Aklne for It. Toledo lilade.l Little Willa paused in her play to watch the mother of her little playfellow put the newly-baked bread away. Turning her pretty head from side to side, she said: "I am going home auntie." "Why do you want to go home?" was asked her. "Oh, I don't want to go; I am just going because I am hungry." Inducements were offered, and she pro longed her visitC More Fan at Peeksklll. Private Boaker P'raps th' Colonel'U call 'tention to my soiled collar at inspec tion again tennorrerl Judge. THE MODEM GREEKS. Gossip About the Busiest and Braini est Nation of the Orient. THE IMPKOYEMENTS IN QBEECE. How th.8 Athenians Boom Their Political Candidates. BUCKSHOT BALLOTS CAST ON SUNDAY (TBOM OCR TltAVIXIJiQ COirjnSSIOSHt.3 Athens, August 5. The Athens of to day is a city of the nineteenth century. Its buildings are the two and three story houses of brick and stucco which you find in towns of France and Italy. They are roofed with with red tiles and they are built in blocks with all the regularity of modern civiliza tion. The streets are paved with cobbles and the sidewalks are flagged with blocks of stone. The stores are of the same descrip tion as those of any American city, and their plate glass windows show stocks of goods which will compare favorably with those of Washington or Denver. Thestreets cross each other at right angles and street car tracks run through the busiest of them. You can ride in the Athenian tramway for 3 and 0 cent fares over the same ground which Alcibiades dashed in his seven-horse chariots, and the steam whistles of the loco motives which draw trains along the rail roads to the Pireus and Corinth, reverberate against the time colored marble pillars ot the Parthenon, which, standing on the znightv Acropolis, still looks over the city as in the days when Pericles had his golden rule, nearly 2,500 years ago. It is the oldest of the old looking at the newest of the new. Modern Athens has been built within 50 years. At the time of the Greek independence in 1834, it was a dirty village of 300 miserable houses. By a census, which has just been complettd, it has now 108,000 people, and it has nearly doubled its population within the past ten years. The Greeks themselves look upon their country as that of a nation reborn and upon Athens as a city, rising Phcenix like to a brighter and better existence from the dusty ashes of its past. If ATUBB STILL THE SAilE. The Athens of to-day lies partly on and partly off the site of the ancient city. It is on the edge of a plain with the hill of the Aciopolis rising upward sheer 200 feet at its back, and with the low mountain of Hymettus at one side. Near this are other mountains, and away to one side across the plain are the blue waters of the Mediterra nean Sea. From the Acropolis you can see the plains of Marathon, on which the great battle wasj fought where the Greeks, under Maltiades, defeated the Persians, and away to the west are the blue waters of the Bay of Salamis, where Xerxes, the Persian King, watched the destruction of his thocsand war vessels by the Grecian fleets. At the side of the Acropolis is a rocky hill about 100 feet high, and more of a cliff than a hill, on which St. Paul preached and on which the court of Areopagus was held, to which the old Athenians passed sentences of life and death, and where Demosthenes was tried for bribery and con victed. Everv surrounding is historic and classic, and the sky, the hills and the sea are the same. The heavens are to-day as wonderfully blue as they were in the days of Homer. The poppy flowers mixed with the wheat are of as blocd a red as they were when Plato sat among them and talked philosophy, and the dark hemlock on the hills is as green as when it furnished the poison which killed Socrates. Mount Hy mettus, with its rocky silver gray sides, furnishes as sweet honey to-dav as when the Grecian poets sung its praises, and from the quarries on Mount Pentelikos over there comes for the new public buildings of Ath ens as pure white marble as that with which Phidias worked and out of which Praxitiles chipped his famous statues. METHODS OP GREEK MEECHANTS. It is only in respect to its natural sur roundings that Athens remains as it was in the past. Its buildings have all the fresh greenness of the nineteenth century and it is a town of hotels, theaters and newspapers. It is a business town, too, and the modern Greeks are among the brightest business men of the East. The storekeepers have no fixed prices and you bargain for everything you buy. The rule is to offer not more than one-third of what is asked, and you must bargain with your butcher, your tailor, and with even your druggist. A laay of Athens was describing to melast night the purchase of her last spring bonnet. Said she: "I went into me leaaing miiunery snop oi the place and picked out a well-trimmed piece of lace and straw and asked the price." "It will be 100 francs," was the reply. "Oh," said I, "but I can't pay so much. I think CO francs is enough lor it and I will give no more." The merchant looked at me and said at once that it was impossible, then seeing that I was about to leave, he said: "Well, niadame, if you think SO francs is enough yon may have it for that." And, concluded the lady, who is a Greek, "it is so all over Athens. You must never pay what the.peo ple ask you. Then you will see in some of the stores prices marked on the goods and the notice hung np that there are none but fixed prices at such places. But this is a fraud. You must tell them you cannot pay so much and yon will get the goods for less" I have tried this plan during the past few days and I find I can get a considerable re duction, even in sedlitz powders and qui nine. THE POLITICAL CEKTEB. Athens is the capital of Greece and it Is, of course, the political centerot thecountry. It is here that the King lives, and it is here that the Chamber of Deputies meets and settles the destinies of the nation. But first let me tell ycu something about the Greece of 1889. It is not, you know, divided up now as it was in the past into a dozen differ ent governments. It was consolidated under he Mohammedans. By the war of a half century and more ago it was freed from the domination of the Turks and it was given a king by the leading governments of Europe. This king was Otto, of Bavaria, and he ruled until 1862 when he was expelled and Great Britain, France and Russia chose the present King, who is the son of the King of Denmark. The Greeks pride themsel ves on vheir democracy and they say they believe so much in equality that they prefer to have a foreigner rule over them. Their country is, all told, onlv as large as West Virginia, or half the size'of the State of New York, and they number only about 2,000,000 people. Each one ot the male sex among these 2,000,000 thinks himself a statesman, and as soon as he is old enough to speak begins to talk politics, and there is no political center in the world perhaps, ex cept Washington, in which politics is more talked than in Athens. The chief subject is the actions of the Chamber of Deputies, which is the Greek Parliament, and the effect which these actions will have on the governments of Europe. The modern Greek imagines that everything that Boulanger, Bismarck or Gladstone does is more or less connected with Greece, and, like one of our own cities, he thinks that Athens is the hub on which the wheel ot European politics moves. THE OBEEK PARLIAMENT. There is but one house in the Greek Par liament, and this contains 160 members, who are elected by the people of the various provinces, every man having the right to vote. The members are elected for four years, and they must sit not less than three nor longer than six months every year. They receive salaries amounting to $400 a session, and if on extra session is called they get (300 more. In the most prosperous times they cannot thus make more than $700 a year. They have lully as much power as our Congress, and they in reality govern Greece. The King has the veto power, but he would not dare to exercise it against large majority vote, and the result is that his power is not much greater than that of the Queen of England. The Greeks are very fond of speaking and they are good speakers, and a plaoa in this chamber is quite as much an honor here as is a seat in our Senate. A politician has in fact more influence here than in the United States, and it is men rather than measures which constitute the politics of Greece. The party in power-rales and controls the offices, and if it fails to hold the support of the Chamber ot" Deputies the opposition comes in and takes the reins and on the old spoils system ousts the officials ot the opposite party and puts In its own. Just now Mr. Tricoupis, one of the greatest statesman of Greece, is the Premier, and his party lately gol the reins. They changed all of the clerks, and by looking at the books proved their predecessors guilty of defrauding the Government. This was especially so in the custom house offices. AH "of the old em ployes, of which are, I am told, now in Prison, while the clprlr nf umn nf the nthffr offices are awaiting trial. STUMP SPEAKERS POPULAR. The elections in Greece are held some what on the same plan as in America, There is stump speaking before hand and many of the same electioneering dodges are played. Not a few of the wives of the candi dates have recently helped in the election of their husbands to Parliament, and I was tola of an Athens Iddv who at the last election, seeing that her husband was likely to be defeated, took several embroidered flags to neighboring villages and calling the people together, told them that all such-as wanted to vote lor her husband would have a free passage to Athens and tickets to the theater. She then presented them the flag to carry and the whole town glad of a cheap trip to the capital accepted the offer and the husband now sits in the chamber. In the processions of candidates in Athens it is, I am told, not an uncommon sight to sec the wife of a candidate in fine clqthes riding along in a carriage and dis tributing election documents and sometimes flo,vers to the people. In the getting up of a boom for a candidate, his friends surprise him by serenades and demands for speeches in front of his house. The candidate comes ont, and just as among our politicians at home, protests that he is surprised and goes on to make his "extempore" remarks by pnlling a roll of manuscript from his coat tail pocket. AH of the elections and public meetings of Greece even to the court balls are held npon Sunday. The election polls are in the churches and the chief election place of Athens is the Cathedral. The voters are all registered and the balloting is done in such a way that fraud is hardly possible. Each candidate has a ballot box of his own and his j ndge sits behind it. These boxes are in a row along one side of the church and this place is so fenced off that only one man can pass along and vote at one time. The boxes themselves are about a foot square and each has a round pipe-like hole in its top jnst large enough to admit the arm of a man. This pipe runs down through the middle of the box until it meets a partition which divides the box in half! BUCKSHOT BALLOTS. The ballots are buckshot and the voter casts his ballot in the affirmative or nega tive according as he cast his shot into the conpartment on the right or left side of the box. His name is given as he starts in to vote aud he is handed just as many buck shot as there are candidates and no more. Each judge can see that he pulls up his sleeve and that he has only one bullet in his hand before he puts it into the box, and as he drops it into the right or left inside the box no one can see how he votes, aud fraud is almost impossible. There is no ballot box stuffing in Greece, and in case the bnliets in the boxes do not correspond with the tally at the entrance the whole vote is thrown out Both in the making of laws and in the elections the greatest of care is taken to prevent fraud, and in the chamber of depu ties a bill must be discussed and voted npon article by article on three separate days be fore it can be passed. The standard of in telligence among the people is high, and the poorest consider themselves on an equality with the richest and the bluest blooded. The modern Greek, whatever his condition, does not imagine that he can be below you in station and the waiter at a cafe or the driver on a street car does not hesi tate to chat with you and to express his opinions. A PBOQBESSIVE PEOPLE. The people are very patriotic, and they believe in the future of Greece. They are making wonderful progress. Already they have 389 miles of railroad, and there is talk of a line which will go from Athens north, and will make connections with the rail roads of Europe. This will bring the East at least a day nearer Europe, aad it will probably divert a large part of the trade and travel which goes from India and Egypt to Paris and London by Italy to Greece. It will make the city of Athens one ot the great cities of Europe, and will make a material change in the country. At present all vessels going to Con stantinople and Athens must sail around the Peloponesns, a great peninsula, which lies at the south end of Greece and which is the southernmost point of Europe. The seas about this are very stormy and the passage is always rough. By the Corinth canal, which is now being cut, the boats will be able to come through the Gulf of Corinth above the Peloponesus, and a day will be saved between Athens, and Italy and the ships which go to Constanti nople will save two davs in their voyages from Naples and Sicily. An immense amount of shipping will in this way be brought to Athens and the city will increase even more rapidly than it is now doing. The people show themselves capable of taking advantage of every improvement. They are more like Americans than orien tals, and they do not scruple to spend money on public improvements. The Athens of to-day is a town of theaters and good hotels. It is a city of fine schools and of museums. It has a good society and its people are as bright and well posted as those of most cities of Europe. Fbaitk G. Cabpenteb. THE MONKEY AND THE MIER0E. Singular Behavior of an Ape on First Seeing His Own Image. A looking-glass is a mystery, an object of intense interest, to any animal, and it is often very amusing to watch their maneu vers. Prof. C. Robertson describes the behavior ot a large ape in the Jardin des Plantes. He was in an iron cage, lording it over some smaller monkeys. Ferns and other things had been thrown between the bars, which the ape attempted to seize. At length a Binall hand looking-glass, with a strong wooden frame, was thrown in. The ape got hold of it, and began to brandish it like a hammer, when suddealy he was arrested by the reflection of himself in the glass. After looking puzzled for a moment, he darted his head behind the glass to find the other ape, which he evidently supposed to be there.Finding nothing he apparently thought that he had not been qnick enough in his movements. So he raised and drew the glass nearer to him with great caution, and then,witb a swifter dart, looked behind; and again finding nothing, he made an attempt once more. He now grew very angry, and began to beat the frame violently on the floor ot the cage. Soon the glass was shattered, and Eieces fell out. Again he was arrested by is own image in the piece of glass still remaining in the frame, and he resobred to try again. More carefully than ever he began, and more rapidly than ever was the final dart made. His fury over this last failure knew no bonnds,and he crunched the irame and glass together with his teeth till nothing but splinters remained. The Oldest Anthor. Philadelphia Presj.j We often hear the question. "Who is the anthor of 'Lines On An Empty Skull?' " Time wrote them; still writes them. There are lines of disappointment on the empty skulls of various Micawberi who wear out an easy chair waiting for something to turn up. SUNDAY THOUGHTS -ON- morals: AND BY A CLERGYMAN. 1 WRITTEN FOIt TOS DISPATCH.! There is truth in the teaching of Sweden borg concerning the double sense of the Bible. There are two Bibles. There is the outward book, the historical record, full of "physical geography and Asiatic scenery" the reign of kings and queens, the tramp of armies, the sayings and doings of patri archs and prophets, the manners and'eus toms of peoples. There is also the inward book, the spiritual record, of which the his tory is the parable. This is the real Bible, the valuable and permanently helpful part. If we would understand what we read we must penetrate beneath the surface. Then we discover the true import ot the whole. A keen scholar indicates the importance of such a method of study: "It is when the Bible within the Bible is clearly seen that we can harmonize some por tions nf the Book with justice, parity, modesty the refined tastes ot our times. Here is one of the staple objections to the sacred Scriptures as urged by unbelievers: To take an example or two. we have I Sam., iv 3, declared to be unjust, tyrannical, cruel. So it must seem to the man who only reads the outer Bible the mere historic statement. But what are the hidden factsr These: Amalek was the visible head of Satan's kingdom. To be an Amalekite was to be opposed to all that was righteous, holy, good. To allow his existence was to footer the growth of evil, weakening thereby the kingdom of good. Hence, we find such positive statements as those in Exodus xviL, 14-16; Numbers xxiv. 20: Dent. xxv. 19; I Bam.rxv, 3. The history here given is the contest between righteousness and unrighteousness. The prin ciple involved is that the former must live and advance at all cost. Is It unjust, cruel, to sus tain this principle? A desperado on a western train, having mortally wounded three fellow passengers, is himself dispatched before his mania for blood can be stayed. Was this treat ment of the murderer tyrannical? King Saul was commanded to do no more to Amalek by Samuel (I Sam. xv). So in every case In the Bible, where Injustice seems to be on the sur face, an understanding of the hidden facts will show that the case is one of life or death between good and eviL Which, think you, ought to triumph at all cost? As to charges ot lack of modesty in the Bible, we will take the one most commonly men tionedLot's Incest withhis two daughters. Asa mere lact in history tbi3 paragraph could not have been omitted without completely obscur ing the origin oltbe Moabites and Ammonites peoples playing an important part in the early history of the world. So in every similar case, the narrative will prove to be an absolute ne cessity in order to be the continuity of history. But of infinitely greater importance than this to us is the profound truth here revealed, with, perhaps, more emphasis that in any other part of the Bible: (1) Drunkenness its hellish power. Whom will it not destroy? What will it not lead men to do? (2) Solitude its dangers. Not in the bnsy world, tut in solitude have men performed their most dastardly deeds of Infamy! (3) A man's nearest relative or best friend may become his greatest tempter and the worst enemy of his souL (4) The import of a single act for good or evil. Is a passage like this, holding in trust for the ages such precious warnings, a stumbling block to the Bible s good name and glorious mission? Nnture Corroborate! IIoici. While Colonel Ingersoll and other unbe lievers are talking about the mistakes of Moses, the earth is yawning and throwing up cor roborations of the old Hebrew lawgiver. Many of these corroborations have come and con tinue to come from the long buried city of Nineveh. Nineveh was the capital ot a splen did empire when the pyramids were young. Seven hundred years before Christ, the prophet Nahum foretold its fall (Nauum 1:14). One hundred years later (in 6C6 B. C.) the prophecy was fulfilled. The sand dril ted over the ruins into which the King of Media had crumbled its palaces and it was Inst for ages its very site being a subject of controversy among antiquaries. About 40 years ago the ruins of Nineveh were discovered, liver since the work of exhuming it has gone on. First and last, many and interesting facts have been brought to light, and marvelous testimonies to the accuracy of the Old Testament have been found. There are now In the British Museum 11,000 finely lettered clay tablets, each one About a foot square and an inch thick. These are so many pages from the library of the ancient Kings of Nintven. By meansof them scholars have read the Cnnel form inscriptions and an locjcea me Histories wmen were Dariea in a grave 23 centuries deep. Twelve of these little slabs form what are known as the "Creation Tablets," because they contain some records of the creation, and particularly of the deluge. As far as they go, they strangely substantiate the Mosaic account. Others bear witness to the trutn that those ancient times believed in the one God, proving that the world was mono theistic in the dawn of authentic history, just as the Bible teaches, and that polytheism was a later form of belief. Thus do the very ashes of dead and buried empires speak from the grave to refute and confound skepticism. Josh Billings used to say: "I wouldn't give 10 cents to bear Ingersoll on the mistakes of Moses, but I would give Sio to hear Moses on the mistakes of Ingersoll." It is about equally Interesting and profitable to hear ancient Nineveh on the mistakes of Ingersoll. Napoleon's Question. When Napoleon was returning from bis cam paign in Egypt and Syria, he was seated one night npon the deck of the vessel under the open canopy of the heavens, surrounded by his generals. The conversation had taken a skep tical turn, and most or the party had combatted the doctrine of the divine existence. Napoleon sat silent and musing, apparently taking no interest in the discussion, wnen, suddenly rats' ing his band and pointing to the crystallne ftrmanent, crowded with blazing planets and glittering stars, he broke out in those startling tones that bad so often electrified a million men: "Gentlemen, who made all that?" The atheistic Generals were silenced. Womrn In Business Offices. The editor of the Golden Rule cites an In terview with certain business men concerning the relative merits of yonng men and youne women as stenographers, and then remarks: The young women seem to be the most popu lar. One business man, however, does not be lieve in having a young woman around in busi ness hoars. "You can't talk business in a manly way," he says, "if there Is a woman present, as nearly all men smoke and swear, and when they come into your office and see a woman they feel crippled." This reminds us of the man who objected to having a certain lady on the school committee, "because, yon know, you can't sit in your shirt sleeves with your feet on tho table and crack jokes when the women are around." All this is a compli ment to womanhood, but it is a shame and a disgrace to the manhood of the age. It is the common opinion among many young men that inordertoba manly they must be rough and coarse, if not absolutely immoral. The manly man Is the boor and the bully. When we hear some of these "manly" young men talking among themselves we feel like invoking the spirit of a certain country schoolmistress whom we knew, who was in the habit of wash ing out the boy's months with soapsuds when ever she caught them using bad language. Tbooshta for the Sabbath. Theee is not a home in America which this case does not concern and threaten. No one is safe while these conspirators remain unpun ished. No wonder Lord Byron was bad. His mother said to him one day, when she saw him limp acioss the floor with his unsound foot: "Get out of my way. you lame bratl" What chance has a boy with such a mother J Joe Witt Talmage. I head of a vessel that foundered. The boats were launched; many of the passengers were struggling in the water. A mother with one hand beat the waves and with the other lifted up her babe toward the lifeboat, saying: "Save my child! save my cbildl" Ibid. It there is to be a growth, there must be a seed that develops; but there must also be soil in which the seed is planted. Tbe age Is the soil which every husbandman cultivates and in which every seed of truth is sown. Much thought is lost because the age to be affect ed is not understood. Extremely diffi cult as tbe study is. has not the time come when the peculiar characteristics of the age should be a special object of study In our theo logical seminaries, in our halls of legislation, in our newspaper offices, in our homes ? J. H. IF. Btuckenburg, D. D, Sin may be clasped so close we cannot see her face. ArchbUhop French. A good book is the precious life blood of a master spirit, treasured up In order to a life be beyond life. Milton. It there were more Nathans In the pulpit there would be more smitten, confessing Davids in the pews. J. Sanderson, If. D. Dent the existence of God, deny man's free dom and Immortality and by no other conceiv able hypothesis can yon vindicate for man's life any possible meaning. IF. H. Matlock. A CHtracn exists for two grand obj ecu first, gahering in, and then sending out A. T. Tier ion, D. D. . Carve your name on hearts and not on mar-ble.-C. B. BpuTgton. Don't b a Sunday Christian only. The devil labors 365 days In the year. George C. Ifeedham. These is no rainbow without a cloud and a storm. F. M. Vincent. HIS PARTNER KNEW HUT. Jot Gould Keeps tbe Sabbatk and Anythla He Iiays His Hands On. 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