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QUR CITYMARKETS.
Daily Scenes of Animation,
Bustle and Confusion in
and Around
THE HUCKSTERS' EXCHANGE
J Yaried Characteristics of the Visitors
nf to the People's Mart.
BUST LIFE OF THE GARDEN TEUCE HAH.
A Place to Stndr Hamuli Katnre People
Who Make a Business and Other a
Fiensarc of Marketing The Bride's Di
lemma How the Garden Track Jinn
Work Oat of Bed at 1 A. M. The In
dustrious Market Woman Botchers
Dairjmen and Fishmen Tbe City's Kcv
ennes From the Markets A Valuable
Property.
tWBITTES FOB TDS BISPATCH.J
HE scene of lire, bus
tle and activity, not
to say confusion, pre
sented by tbe markets
of a great city is some
thins that, in its pecu
liar characteristics, is
nnequaled by any
thing else under tbe
sun. Those who would
study physiognomy
and human nature can
find no better field in
which to acquire such
knowledge than that
afforded by the citv's
markets, and no better
books than the countenances of the people
there assembled, both as buyers and sellers.
The latter are a class possessed of many dis
tinguishing peculiarities and characteristics,
jr
AJT EABLT MOBNINO DBIVE.
while the former comprise persons of all ages
and conditions. There are tiny little toddlers
who begin early in life to assume some of its
cares and responsibilities by doing the mar
keting for the family, and who may often be
seen struggling homeward with laden
baskets nearly as large and as heavy as
themselves; there are sturdy boys, better
fitted for the work of carrying heavy baskets,
and occasionally may be seen a strapping
big fellow who has just arrived at man's
estate, but who still does not feel that "totin'
a market basket" is beneath his dignity.
MEN DON'T LIKE MAEKETING.
This, latter clasi, however, are not very
numerous; most young men have neither
time nor inclination for the business of mar
keting, however much they have been ac
customed to it as boys; and it is utuallv not
until their hair is becoming thin, or sprin
kled with gray, that they overcome their
aversion and again take kindly to it. Poor,
hard-working women, with sharp, pinched
and careworn faces, bearing unmistakable
evidences of a lack of sufficient nourish
ment and the efiects of unremitting toil,
hurry to the market with a common chip
basket, and, having completed their pur
chases of a small piece of boil
ing meat, or perhaps a bone for
soup, and a few vegetables and greens,
will have their clothes brushed against by
the rich silk dress of a lady, the wife or
daughter, perhaps, of some wealthy citizen
who has a lancy for doing the marketing,
and who has just alighted from her carriage
and is attended by a servant with the bas
ket Young husbands will come, with the
request that their small purchases be done
up in neat packages so as to attract the
least attention. Young women who have
just embarked npon the sea of matrimony
will stand hesitating before a butcher's
stall, undecided as to how much meat will'
be sufficient for two, or how to secure a
roast that will not entail the consumption
of too much cold meat as an attendant con
sequence. THE HEAVY FATHEE.
Sometimes men who have passed the prime
of life will be seen with baskets of ample
proportions loaded with good things, which
clearly indicate the setting of a generous
table and the probable existence of a large
family to orovide for. Again, a comfortable
looking old gentleman, who cares but little
xjrior appearances, and whose family consists.
-' perhaps, only of his wife and himself, will
be seen trotting off contentedly with a pair
of dressed chickens or a small turkey, which
he will carry hanging by the legs, not caring
to have it wrapped tip and hidden from the
A Stand In the Market.
gaze of the world, and troubling himself as
little about the thoughtsof the passereby as
most of tnem do about him. The shrewd,
calculating, business-like woman who
keeps a boarding house is, of course, a fre
quent visitor to the market, and her
visits are by no means unwelcome,
as, having so many persons to provide for,
her purchases are generally rather liberal,
and she makes it a point to know just what
she wants and bow sire wants it; and al
though, she is& close buyer and well in
formed regarding prices, the it regarded at
satisfactory custosfter for the reason that
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she knows the value of time and does not
waste that of the people who wait upon her.
A MATtKKT QAHDEKEE'S LIFE.
Of the interesting class ot people who
raise garden truck and sell it in the city
markets but little is generally known.
Most persons go to market and buy what
they require without a thought as to the
means by which it was produced and
brought so conveniently almost to their
doors, and little dreaming of the labor and
hardship involved in this ministering so
satisfactorily to their wants. Many per
sons seek the market place before 6 o'clock
in the morning for the purpose of laying in
their btock of provisions for the day, which
being brought Irom distances varying from
3 to 12 miles away, necessitates very early
rising on the part o I those who supply tnem.
The lite of a market gardener is by no
means one of ease and comfort; compelled
as he Is to rise from his bed between 2 and 4
in the morning, according to tbe distance he
is irom the city, and some of them live so
far away that they are frequently out of bed
at 1 o'clock and hitching up a team to drive
to the city, witn only the prospect ot a long
and tiresome day's work before them when
thev arrive: and this must be done on the
coldest and most cheerless days of winter,
no less than on the pleasant summer morn
ings. Many of them, wearied with their
long ride at" such an early hour, may be
seen dozing upon their seats, Allowing tbe
horses to find their way along the well
known road.
ETDtTSTBIOUS HELPMKETS.
In this work women do as much as men;
they do all that is done by men, and do it
just as well. They may often be seen early
in the morning driving their teams to mar
ket, and then standing by until their truck
is all sold. At all seasons of the year, and
despite the inclemency of the weather, the
market woman is at her post, and never
thinks of deserting it until her work is
done. At noon, or soon after, most of the
gardeners prepare to return borne, leaving
tbe ground in the possession of a-few huck
sters who livein the city, and who procure
their stocks mainly irom the commission
houses. Those of their number who have
far to travel do not reach their homes until
late in the afternoon, and after an early
supper, retire at about sundown to be ready
for the next day's labor.
Market gardens, whose owners bring their
produce direct to Pittsburg, are located all J
around and abont tbe city, within a raains
of 12 miles from the Diamond Market. A
considerable portion of the produce comes
irom Seville Island, from along the Perrys
yille road, and irom the vicinity of Mill
vale, M6rningside and Chartiers.
"All the time," was tbe answer made to
the question as to which was the busiest
season, by one who has sold vegetables in
tbe Pittsburg market lor many years. Be
said that, of course, during the spring and
summer there was a greater abundance and
variety of fresh fruits and vegetables, but
that his business required him to make
every possible exertion at all seasons of the
year.
THE BUST BUTCHER,
Among the people who supply us with
meat, not much easier times prevail. They
are for the most part residents of the citv,
and are not required to get up quite so early
in the morning, but they make up for this
by staying somewhat later in tbe day. They
are mostly up at about 4 o'clock in the
morning, and work until from 3 to 6 in the
afternoon; on Saturdays they are out of bed
at 1 in the morning and work until 10 at
night; as one of them expressed it, "Putting
in a full day ol 24 hours between sleeps."
They appear to thrive under it, however,
and are a healthy, rugged looking lot of fel
lows, and withal happy and contented.
Of the beef slaughtered in this market the
greater part is brought from the "West,
through Chicago, although Ohio furnishes
also a considerable quantity. The supply
of dressed meat comes to us mainly through
the three great Chicago shippers Armour,
Swift and Nelson Morris. There are a few
peculiar names among the butchers iu the
Diamond market, but it is questionable if
there are any more appropriate than that of
Mr. John Carver, who has a prominent
stand in the upper building.
Atone time the Diamond Market pre
sented a scene of even greater bustle and
confusion than it does to-day. This was
when both sides of Market street between
thf buildings were lined with a double row
of stands for garden track, scarcely leaving
room in the street for wagons to arrive and
deposit their loads, and
BEDUCINO THE SPACE
on the sidewalks so much that pedestrians
often found it easier to walk around the
square than to force a passage through the
baskets and boxes and the dense crowds,
composed of buyers and sellers, who occu
pied the pavements during the greater part
of the day. Abbutfour years ago all the
stands, on Market street were removed,
though the ones about the square still re
main, and since then the right of the city to
the use of the sidewalk has been tried in the
courts and decided in the negative.
Crowded to one side in the lower market
arc located the dealers in fish, shellfish, etc.,
and upon the second floor of the same build
ing are to be found supplies of butter, eggs
and cheese. It is here also that dressed
poultry is kept, and here the actions of both
dealers aud customers would furnish endless
amusement to the keen observer and physi
ognomist Tbe endeavors on the part of
the would-be purchaser to ascertain the age
of some particular bird, and the
assertions ol its owner to the effect that it
was hatched during the spring of the present
year, which he, or more probably she, being
without documentary proof as to the age
and pedigree ot the fowl in question, can
only reiterate with increasing energy and
vociferousness, forms a scene that is ex
tremely amusing to one whose onlv inteiest
in tbe transaction is tbat of an onlooker.
The qnestion of age is one that has every
thing to do with the value of eggs, no less
than with that of the poultry, and is per-
Market Boute Character!.
haps, still more difficult to determine.
Again, when the purchase of butter is con
templated, the sense of sight, taste and
smell are brought into active play, and even
then the look of hesitancy and indecision on
the part ot the customer, and of impatient
inquiry on that of the dealer I amusing, if
not edifying. On the ground floor are sev
eral restaurants where farmers and others
may procure edibles in any form, from that
of a 5-cent lunch to a fall meal.
VALUABLE PUBLIC PBOPEBTf.
In spite of the fact that the city has grown
far beyond what was expected when the
market houses were erected, and they are no
longer adequate for the purpose for which
they were intended, and consequently trade
has been lorcedlo seek other channels, still
a large business is being carried on, and
only want ot room prevents its extension.
The receipts last rear from Pittsburg mar
kets, including "the Bouthside, were 556,
008 75; the expenses amounted to 59,337 58,
or including the sum of $1,427 50 lost by
nre curing tneyear, 510,760 08. Of course,
considering the rapid enhancement of real
estate in this vicinity, the value of the
ground will soon overtake its usefulness as a
market place. In the meantime the city is
deriving quite a handsome revenue
from it vearlv. nnd the nro9nective
increase in price will undoubtedly afford
a liberal interest on its present
value. In fact, it is from every standpoint
amost desirable piece of property, and the
city will be able at any time, by offering a
long lease of it to the highest bidder, to se
cure a tenant for it at a rent that would be
a material assistance in reducing taxation.
This can "be done at any time with the re
sult of covering the square with handsome
buildings, which would eventually become
the property of the. city.
TJSETUL CITIZENS.
The class of people who are of value to
the city, and who give to the market its
usefulness the people who themselves raise
what they offer for sale are steady, indus
trious and honest; they labor early and late,
and fully earn all that they get.
It is true that some housekeepers
will be inclined to gainsay this,
and to advance the opinion that'they are
sometimes disagreeable, impertinent and
prone to giving short measure; yet if they
will take the trouble to investigate they
will probably find that they have formed
this opinion through dealing with people
other than market gardeners; people who
have been accustomed to getting their living
how they can, and who have adopted tbe
business of market hucksters the tame as
they would any other temporary expedient,
and are as ready to relinquish it. Taken as
a class, those who make the supplying ot
the city's markets a legitimate business are
as reliable and trustworthy people as may
anywhere be found.
"Wilson Wikdom.
WEST VIRGINIA WATS.
The People There are Bendy to Go
Fish-
ins- at Any Time.
Washington Post.!
"I like "West Virginia," saia a gentleman
recently. "Its physical features remind
me of New England, and its vegetation is
about the same, save the mountain land and
rhododendron. TJp around Aurora you see
rough bearded men loping by on stout
horses, looking for all the world lite some
of 'Jeb' Stuart's cavalry on a forage. In
the valleys are the best farms, and they
gen-rally belong to the Amish, a strange,
quiet sect of Dutch, who wear clothes
fastened with hooks and eyes, entirely destP
tute of buttons. They are all thrifty and
well-to-do, close at a bargain, but scrupu
lously honest. The records of the Lutheran
Church at Aurora were kept in German
until within a generation. That church
was established over 150 years ago. The
Eeople thereabouts dig their coal from the
illsides, and it is cheaper to dig it than to
cut wood from their own forests..
"No one in the section I have traveled
through is wealthy or has much money, vet
no one suffers want ,No one is erer"so
busy that he can't stop work and go afish
ing. The storekeeper at a little village on
the Potomac used to close his place in the
afternoon and go with me to fish for bass.
They are all great hands to have agencies
for the sale of various articles. I met sev
eral natives driving around the country,
ostensfbly selling fertilizers, but none that'l
asked was ever able to name a single
customer. One old chap had a little cob
bler's shop. He Was a notary publio and
Justice of the Peace; was postmaster, sold
shoes, ran an express business, and had a
dozen agencies for agricultural implements,
organs, pianos, carriages and wagons,
patent medicines, and tbe inevitable fertil
izer. Tbe man who wouldn't do business
with him didn't have much business."
PBIMITITE TELEGRAPHY.
A Scandinavian System of Forwarding News
by Meant ot Arrows.
St. Paul Globe.
Olaf Searle sat in his office yesterday dis
cussing many interesting topics in his usual
interesting way. A card was lying on his
desk, on which appeared the word "Bud
stlkken" as the name of a Soandinavian
paper. Mr. Searle was asked what the word
meant; he replied: "It is a Norwegian
word, 1,200 years old at least. In those
days when the coasts of Norway were rav
aged by pirates, the inhabitants had to re
sort to all sorts ol devices to warn those at a
distance of the approach of these piratical
craft When one was seen on the horizon a
man .went up to the top of a mountain,
where he lighted a beacon fire. This
could be seen for a long distance, and
was known to be a warning. When it was
seen in the distance another fire was lighted
on another hill, until all over the country
fires blazed from every hill top and the
people prepared to defend themselves.
"They also had a system of messengers.
The man who first sighted the sail would
take an arrow and send it to his neighbors.
Prom town to town this arrow was sent un
til ail were warned. These were rather
primitive ways of telegraphing, but were so
effectual that in the course of 24 hours all
Norway knew of the approach of pirates.
This system of spreading the news was
called 'Budstikken,' and the word is exten
sively used as a name for newspapers in the
old country."
OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES.
A Few Things In Washington nt Yonthfal
Exes Behold Them.
Washington Post J
The big folks have had their say during
the last six days. They have filled the
papers page on page, and column on column,
until the journalistic Ossa, Pelion, and
Olympus have become as one. Now the
children shall have a word. The quick
witted child who hasn't noticed something
in Washington that escaped the attention
of his olders will be hard to find. Here are
a few strays and straws. One child of four
years, who had never visited a large city
before, when cautioned by her mother to be
careful not to be run over by passing carts
and carriages, said :
"Ob, I run fast across the big road, and
the horses never come upon the big path."
Her designation of the roadway and side
walk was correct, though somewhat strange
to the citizens. Another small visitor, a
G-year-old boy, was asked which of two
kinds of pie, custard or apple, he would
have.
"Give me some of that with the lid on,"
was his descriptive answer.
A little girl from Philadelphia, unused
to seeing basement houses, cried out to her
mother:
"Don't you think it mean that Cousin
Mary has to have her dining room in the
cellar?"
ONE DAY IN SITIA.
A Brief Visit to the Capital City of
Wild and Dreary Alaska.
THE ARISTOCRATIC MRS. TOM.
Family Crests and Marriage Customs Among
the Natives.
A GREAT CATHEDBAL BUILT OF LOGS
rwslTTZIt FOR TUB DISPATCH. 1
HE city of Sitka, the
capital of Alaska, is
situated on Baranoff
Island. As we ap
proach, the low huts
of the Indian village
on the left lie in pictur
esque review along
the beach strewn with
graceful Canoes some
of which are covered
with blankets to pro
tect them from the
weather. These cover
ings lend bits of
color to the dinev
background. To the right of the center on
a huge rock a veritable Gibraltar stands
the old Russian castle, a large rectangular
building of cedar logs with a pyramidal
roof. This prominent monument frowns o'er
the bay whose waters reflect its shadows,
while in the rear the crowning spires and
minarets of the Greek church appear in
varied color against the background of tow
ering hills. Further on to the right and
facing seaward along a fine promenade are
the houses of the Mission schools, where,
under Dr. Sheldon Jackson, the natives'
children aro taught the English language
and trained in the simple industrial arts of
civilization.
A BED-XETTEB DAT.
Steamer day is a red letter in the Sitkan
calendar. The whole settlement is agog,
and the visitors have the freedom of the
city. A brass band, composed of natives
belonging to the garrison, discourses musio
on the wharf, and the only newspaper in
Alaska, the Alatkan, sets its typos at work
on a special edition lor the tourists. These
Utter bring the "telegraphio" news, the
Bourse and "Mark Lane" reports," which,
however, it would hardly be safe to specu
late upon. I am credibly informed that the
THE EUSSO-GEEES
politicians here were betting on Mr. Cleve
land's election two weeks after his recent
defeat About the date of our visit the
United States steamer P.nsh incident was
being chronicled in New York and London
papers, bnt as yet the news had not c6me
this way, and the officials here were in bliss
ful ignorance of the seal piracy in Behring
Sea.
The traveler is impressed with the venera
ble aspect of the buildings made of cedar
logs and moss-covered roofs. First the
storehouse of the Alaska Trading Company,
then the castle and group 6f Government
buildings used as a customs house and bar
racks. In frontvof' these a green parade
ground, with war-like cannon and stacks of
ball abont the flagstaff, tell of Uncle Sam's
ownership.
At the head of the main street stands St
Michael's, the Russo-Greek cathedral.
This edifice and its attendant ceremonies
are a legacy of the former Muscovite pro
prietors, and is one of only three Greek
churches in America. There is a resident
Bishop, and the ritual and service are pure
ly orthodox, savoring greatly of Moscow or
St Petersburg. The structure is of
HEAVY CEDAE LOGS,
with an outside sheeting painted gray, but
now flaked and peeled in many places. The
spires and bulge of the minarets are bright
green, the root spotted here and there with
lichen. The ground plan is in form of a
Greek cross.
Within, under the central dome, the au
ditorium is guiltless of anv seats or pews,
for those of the faith worship with many
genuflections and do not sit during service.
At the rear of this on a raised platform is
the altar from which bronze doors open into
the sactum sanctorum, across the threshold
of which no -foot profane is allowed and
never a woman. There are several costly
vestments and a valuable jeweled mitre,
which are shown to visitors, beside several
altar paintings ot merit The latter are
draped-with metal vestments of gold and
silver artistically hammered and fashioned
by Oriental artists, so that only the face and
hands of the painted figure are shown.
Sitka has only about 2,000 inhabitants, of
whom about 1,200 are of the native tribes,
abont 300 Russians and halfbreeds. The re
maining 500 are officers of the Government,
men and officers of the ga
'garrison, including
their families.
The native 400 is represented by "Mrs.
Biil ; a ,e mrancr
i;si "
Hydah Totem at Entrance of Training School,
Sitla.
Tom' who is often seen among the "curio"
women, selling baskets, etc., although it is
said she has amassed the snug sum
in tilver of $10,000. This first lady
of the land has two spouses over
whom she is dictatrix. Her yellow,
wrinkled face, small eyes and bony hands
look picturesque from out the gay-colored
blanket, but not prepossessing. The younger
belles are seemingly as careful of their com
plexions as many of our Eastern beauties.
Several appeared in publio with a sort
of "masque cosmetiq.ue' made of lamp-
black and deer tallow, completely covering
their faces. This for protection when travi
eling in the sun. On attaining the matron's
station they begin to wear the "labrette," at
first a slender nail-shaped silver or bone
piece, thrust through the lower lip; as years
roll on this is changed for a larger one, oval
shaped and often the size of a quarter-dollar.
This is worn, flat side out, through the lower
lip, and is supposed to prevent wrinkles by
drawing the flesh of the face downward from
the eyes, but it seems to be Ineffective, for
the old women have fnnna and romnlexions
like a badly "crazed" and ancient piece of
kioto ware.
THE INDIANS OF ALASKA,
with whom tbe traveler comes in contact,
are the coast tribes belonging to the great
T'klinket family. Thev are an aquatic peo
ple, and spend most ot their time in canoes,
the men hunting the sea otter and seal and
fishing, The womeu are not the abject
slaves common to other aborigines. Their
origin has trouble'! ethnologists somewhat,
and the idea is gaining credence that they
are of Asiatio origin, and came over by way
of Behring Straits. They are short in
Spoons Carved by Katlvts.
stature, well developed in tbe trunk, but
delormed or misshapen in the lower limbs,
owing to the habit of squatting on their
ankles and lack ot pedestrian exercise. Un
like our North American Indian, they are
decidedly Mongolian in color. The men
have sparse beards and mustaches resem
bling the Japanese, as does also the inflec
tion of their language. They speak with
such a gutternl eilort that some 01 our num
ber insisted that it induced catarrh to try to
pronounce their words.
Their rude carvings are artistic and
highly prized by collectors. Tbe Hydahs
being noted for their state utensils, beauti
fully carved, and in the North the Yakutat
tribe carve in ivory and bone, also fashion
ing Bpoons ot the elk and mountain goat
horn inlaid with abalone shell. The baskets
made by all the tribes are much prized,
especially those of Yakutat These are
made of the inside bark of the cedar, and
the narrow strips are woven in bright colors
in geometrio figures, and this so closely as
to be water-tight. t
At Sitka the manners and customs among
CATHEDEAi.
the natives has somewnat changed, owing to
the missions and other contact with traders
and travelers, but in small out-of-the-way
villages, notably at Hoonah, where we
dropped anchor one evening to kill time for
an early morning start for Glacier bay, the
pristine rudeness and plcturesquehnts of
the tribe of .Hooniahs, as also their
totems and graves, presesented a weird
scene a line of substantial log huts
without windows, having a small
square or oval door, which, with the
smoke hole in the roof was the only means
of ventilation. Totemic carvings orna
mented the fronts of each, and on the bluff
. bove the beach among the tall alders were
graves built of logs, surmounted by the
crest or totem of the deceased. These graves
contained only the ashes of the dead and
such trinkets and charms as the survivors
deemed best to exorcise the spirits. The
deceased is always cremated, as in this way
it is supposed the spirit may be better pre
pared to meet the icy terrors of the T'klinket
Hades which is believed to be eternally
frozen and the souls of the lost shiver and
shake therein forever.
,.he household utensils spoons, wooden
dishes, knives and boxes are marked with
curious carvings, which denote the tribal
descent of the owner; by these they are
known when trayeling, and they seem to
nave had some ideas of the rules of con
sanguimty in forming unions; persons of
jsmi.e crest or totem wil! not inter-marry,
and if the cresttboogh differentrepresents an
animal or fowl of the same habit as, for in
stance, the carniverou-lhe owners, having
regard for the Indian rule, will not form a
lamily alliance. A crow must not marry a
crow or an eagle, but may join with a mem
ber or the whale, salmon or bear families.
, O. L. P.
THE DOG DOES THE HEARING. "
That it Why the Dpaf Man Listens for the
Cow Bell.
Washington Pottl
The Talking Machine came across some
thing out of the ordinary run up in New
Hampshire last week, and it might as well
come in here. There is a deaf mute named
.uarKer, who lives in Northwood. He is a
remarkably bright, quick-witted, well-read
man, but so deaf that Gabriel will never
wake him. He has a lot of cows on his
farm. One of them wears a bell. They
wander and graze in a huge pasture of over
300 acres full of swamp thickets and cow
hiding places.
"What good does that bell do?" Barker's
mother was asked. "He is so deaf he can't
hear it" '
"Why," she replied, "he goes out in the
pasture with the dog and gets up on a knoll.
Then he cocks up his ears as if he were lis
tening. The dog sees him standing tbat
way, and cocks his ear until he hears that
cow bell. 'As soon as the dog hears the bell
he will show it, and Isaac Bays 's-s-s-s,'
which is about all he can say; the dog runs
off after the cows and drives them home."
And speaking abont dogs reminds mTViat
the two ( finest cats in Washington are the
big tortoise-shell beauties at the Metropoli
tan Hotel, and that a lady in Mount Pleas
aut.has a cat which disappears every spring
about the ISth of May aud comes home
about the 15th of October. Ho has done
this for four years. This fail he came home
the first week in October, probably on ac
count of the cool weather.
What Astonished lllm Most.
Boston Bulletin.!
"Now, really, what was the most astonish
ing thing you saw in Paris, Mr. Spioer?"
asked Miss Gusher, and without a moment's
hesitation, Seth answered, "My hotel
bill." '
KeeoverlnK a Child.
Manser's Weekly. 1
"Can you help me recover my child?"
asked the poor woman. "Is your child lost?"
"Oh, no. -His clothes are worn out"
SOME SINS OF WOMAN.
Harriet Prescott Spofford Tells How
Her Sex Sins in Self-Defense.
DECEIT IS THE 0HLT WEAPON
She Has to Wield Against the Strong Arm
of Lair and Man.
M0EE SINNED AGAINST THAN SINNING
1WB1TTS2T VOn TITE DISPATCH.
To say that women have no sins that are
not shared by men that there are no dis
tinctively feminine sins is but to declare a
platitude.
Without doubt the sins of women are the
sins of humanity; there are none to peculiar
to themselves as to deserve' mention.nd
they differ only from the sins of men in be
ing of a minor degree.
'Woman is tbe lesser man, and all her motions
matched with mine.
Are as moonlight unto sunlight, and. as water
unto wine,'; '
says one of the men in splenetic mood; but,
so far as fact has anything to do with bis
lines, it is in reference to her sins only that
she is the les3er man, since they are in gen
eral as much slightecthan her brother's sins
as her body is weaker and her temptations
smaller.
In general, let it be said, because once in
a while there comes a Fredegonde, a Brin
villiers, a Theroigne, to show us of what,
under fostering circumstances, women are
capable, and where, in doing nothing but
what many men have already done, they
appear so much worse because so much more
is looked for from them. For indeed, if their
sint are generally less, their virtues are gen
erally greater than those of tbe other half
of humanity, and there is every reason why
they should be, in their nature, their educa
tion, and their seclusion.
If, according to the new theory, woman is
the race and man the variation, woman
shonld be tbe conserver of the virtue of the
race; and certainly nothing bends more
strongly to this than the urgency of the
duties of motherhood and the tenderness
that motherhood evokes; indeed, duty and
tenderness belong to all feminine human na
ture that is true to its law of being and its
first development
WOMAN'S ABNEGATION,
The baby does not go alone before she is
nursing and loving another baby in her
doll; anv two little girls in the ttreet will
have their arms about each other's shoul
ders; the boys of a family are off at their
play when the girls are at home helping
their mother; the son marries when he will,
the girl as frequently lets love go by be
cause the old parents need her; and she is
not praised for any of it; no one expects it
to be otherwise; duty, kindness, love and
sacrifice are recognized to be carts of her
personality, and she would not be herself if
she did differently.
And when motherhood is called in ques
tion, does not every child know to what tbe
mother is equal, save in those exceptional
cases where she chances to be what garden
ers call a freak? It is not, perhaps, her
virtue that she lives In her child, that she
would die for him; it is her nature; and it
only shows how near her nature is to virtue
so near that in view of it, it is strange
tbat when we think of the creative and sus-
. taining forCBjoXJbg-JtnJTerseJt is our habit
Ml any ittbuci nuu uu. uiubucr.
Not that recognition of the strength and
care and generosity of the father is at all
impaired by rendering the mother her meed;
it d&es not follow that one is not good be
cause another is better; and he himself is
the first to acknowledge it Jn occasion. It
. t .. ntinwia.nlnff tnowa viMn.a An.1 1.. .. ..
iBiuajip.w.ui.5 ....J Mi.Mb., auuiu lur
rying them to a point beyond the customary
ieminine experience, that men are. often
finest: as in the missionary priest who for
gets himself tor his race and who dies for
his faith, and in the physician who equally
forgets himself, encountering loathliest dis
ease, giving tireless days and sleepless
nights to the suffering, and who brings help
and healing with him in such wise tbat he
seems to be the very vicegerent of God and
of creation.
OUABDED PEOII EVIL.
Yet it may be said that women are so
guarded from their cradles from knowledge
of evil and the contamination of the worser
world that anything else than purity, tem
perance, and such positive forms 01 good
ness becomes difficult for them, and there
has to be something inherentlv wrong in a
woman for her to go astray; while she
learns in the home atmosphere the necessity
ot sell-dental ana sen-repression, and all
her power for love is daily strengthened
there.
Were she out in the world as her brother
is, she might by possibility lose much that
now seems hers by right, although she might
gain in brealth of view and in large nobil
ity. It is close upon large nobility, indeed,
that women find their weakest point; the
narrow view hinders them from the wide, as
one's hand held up before tbe eyes can ob
scure the sun; they do not look at tbe good
of the race so much as at tbat of their own
home; and where not themselves, but those
they love are injured they find it all but im
possible to forgive; if this is sin, all tbe con
centrated sweetness of their being has gone
to make a crust round that sin.
In fact, there is but one sin of which
women are possibly moreffnilty than men,
and ior that men are morff responsible than
they; it is the cowardice which, where it ex
ists and, thank v the heavenly powers, It
does not exist among all women makes some
women subtle, cunning, treacherous, false.
WOMAN'8 ONLY WEAPON.
The capture of the strong arm in primitive
times, their only recource has been to
E lease; their only weapons have been amia
ility, concession, craft They would not
have been made of flesh and blood and have
been without desires and endeavors to attain
the end bf such desires. Their sense of
justice told them they had a human right to
attain these ends, and, of course, they
neglected no means in their power to do so.
They had abuses and punishments, too, to
escape: they had children to be shielded
from cruelty, they had faults to be hidden
finm hard masters; they availed themselves,
then, of what in great commanders is called
strategy, in great statesmen diplomacy, but
in ethics is called deceit.
Weak in body and timid by consequence,
a captive, a slave, a drudge for generations
that became ages, the sentiment of the com
munity, with all its later enlightenment,
never to the present day quite relinquish
ing the essence of the idea of the slave
in connection with her, although cher
ishing it perhaps unconsciously, woman
has had to resort to craft to carry her ends
till she has found herself in danger of be
coming sly as a matter of second nature.
With this acquired predisposition of hers
from the ancestral bond-slave, a man has
only needed to be of a too domineering and
autocratic turn in his family in order to de
velop the objectionable quality in wile and
daughters, till brutality has brought about
shuffling, evasion, concealment, and dis
sembling, and tyranny has been followed by
cunning, as the whale is followed by the
sword-fish.
BESPONSIBILITr OF MAN.
The man who will not let hit wife do
what she wishes and innocently might,
without worrying all peace out of the
house, without a storm, without abuse,
without the withdrawal of his good will
and a condign punishment of one sort or
another, forces his wife, unless she is a
spiritless shadow, into doing what she
would, and deceiving him in relation to it
very likely to the- point of lying. Guilty
as she herself may be, yet if his children
are born liars, he has himself to thank
for it
The man who, able to meet expenK,detiles
Ilia uriff. vty14jMnB mnnAv fnr Vtmw tAAm
-. n..v .Q..vv..e ".".) v uv. usvup.
should not be surprised if the whispering
serpent supplies his deficiency, and his wile
debases herself and her blood enough to
filch money from hit pocket. If hit chil
dren are born thieves, the fanlt it in the
first instance his. If to any tbe statement
seems shameful, and women recoil at the lie
and the theft, or at the bare idea, the virtue
is theirs. But it is owing to the great tyran
nies oi old days, the small tyrannies of
modern days, that deception, and arts and
wiles haye become the familiar demons of
so many women who have no other faults
than these and those to which they lead.
As the woman stands up mora and more
on equal ground with the man, as the hus
band acknowledges the rights of the wife,
as the community comes to exoect and exact
it of him, there will belessaad less to call
this artifice Into use, its capacity will be
come dormant and atrophied, honesty will
rise uppermost, the fearlessness of the de
scendant will have conquered the pusillan
imity of the grandara, uu faltering truth will
Shine out on her forehead, and woman will
have annihilated possibly the only sin that
was ever hers.
Hahkiex Pbescott Spojtobd.
x PISHING IN SAN SALVADOR
How tbe Lempn Rlrer Indians Catch Largo
Quantities of Trout.
Ban Silvidor-LetCer la New Tort Tunes.
While along the coast the most" difficult
article to purchase is a fresh fish, the In
dians of the Lempa depend upon it to vary
their diet of beans and bananat, and I
venture to say that three-fifths of tbem have
never tasted beef, which, poor as it Is In the
country, is far beyond the reach of their
pocket. In the method of securing fish
they are not genuine sportsmen, but the
rankest kind or pot-hunters. Staying over
night at a village I learned that what is
called a "chilpate" fishing was to take
place the next day, which the proprietor of
the tavern assured me was worth seeing.
Board, in most of the hotels, is only 70 cents
per day for man and mnle, and, concluding
nothing would be lost if the sport proved to
be a fraud, I lay over.
Immediately below a little falls in the
river the natives bad placed at an early
hour a network of branches closely woven in
and out like lattice-work and bound with
willow witbes. Above the rapids, in deep
pools, were the feeding and spawning
grounds of many varieties of fish, and a va
riety called the "cuyamal," which, when
full grown, weighs 12 and 18 pounds, was
known to have a liking for the spot When
the network was completed about a dozn
women entered the stream from above, car
rying large earthen pots containing a strong
solution of a vine called "chilpate," which
resembles the Bermuda plant, made by
merely mashing the leaves to a pulp in
warm water.
It has the quality when mixed with run
ning water ot stupefying the fish, causing
them to float helplessly drunk on the surface
of the water, as it shocked with the explo
sion ot gun cotton, as done by the frontiers
men in our Western country. When carried
down by the current they are picked np by
hand by the men, who station themselves at
the network below.
TDESDAI AN UNLDCKI DAT.
A Man Whose Misfortunes Always Coras In
the Early Part of the Week.
Brooklyn Citizen.
While on that question of superstition,
which to a smaller or greater degree is im
pressed in the system of every man and
woman, one of the most singular instances I
ever taw.of --tt8Bg.iaindla,was a tfeajgrl.
oy it was in tne case or a partner or a bouse
whose fame is world-wide. The gentleman
is the prime mover in tbe life ot tbe house,
its energy" and controlling force, and has as
fertile a brain as any man I know of. He is
what, in the West, would be termed a hust
ler or a rustler. In his ordinary, everyday
life, X doubt whether he has any fixed reli
gious convictions, or dreams much over fu
ture punishments and rewards. And yet X
never saw a man who was more deeply af
fected by one superstition. He would do
nothing on Tuesday; that is, more particu
larly, he would never commence anything
on Tuesday, and he w.ould never permit any
business of his immense establishment to be
commenced on that day.
The regular routine, of course, went on,
but nothing must be originated on that day.
Sensible, logical and full of wit on every
other subject, on that Tuesday business
there was no use for argument It was set
in his creed of faith. And, singular to say,
according to his statements, all his misfor
tunes had overtaken him on Tuesdays.
Whether he simply argued that way, or
whether it was so, I cannot say; bnt Tues
day was his black day. If he got in a pas
sion on that day woe be to the poor fellow
who fell under his hammering tongue.
Generally he was mild; Tuesdava prone to
quarreL
I have met other people who have fixed
their dismal superstitions on other days of
the week, but they all run in the same
groove, a sort of terror of the day fixed in
tneir imaginations as unholy. All the cen
turies of civilisation have Ibeen unable to
remove the ancient pagan beliefs.
AMONG THE AZTEC BOINS.
Evidence That the Early Americans Were
a PeopU Well Skilled la Art.
Hew York Times. J
In the extensive ruins of the Central
American States there are convincing evi
dences of the existence of a dense popula
tiondenser and more puissant apparently
than its successors in possession In this
latter part of the nineteenth century. That
population has left in its architectural re
mains evidences of a knowledge of physios,
mathematics, mechanics and sign language,
of which there was no remaining vestige
when Fernandez de Cordova planted the
Spanish standard on the shores of the Bay
of Campeachy. In the gorgeous costumes
in which their sculptured heroes and deities
are set forth Is also proof that the mechani
cal art had reached a high state of develop
ment, only the most rudimentary princi
ples of which remained in the denizens ot
the early part of the sixteenthjcentury.
In the royal magnificence of their sur
roundings, their jewelry, tlnir sculptured
thrones, and implements of war, as shown In
the statues and bas-reliefs, are evidences of
a system of fine arts and a knowledge of the
use of metals. Yet of tools, implements of
war, or ancient fabrics no signs have been
found. But some of the statuary still re
tains the colors in which it was originally
decorated ; and while in some tew respects
the buildings and their decorations, the
monoliths or idols of stone, and the hiero
glyphics resemble similar creations found
among the ruins of the Old World, there
are principles of construction absent from
the Yucatan and Guatemalan structures
which prove them to have been of an order
of architecture altogether independent of
the ancient schools.
Those Dear Weraea.
(Denslow has invited a party of friends to
a home-poker symposium, and Mrs. Denslow
brings in the lanoheoa just as Denslow gets
his first hand in two hours) Why, Toatnyl
isn't it rather ungual to have every oard la
fOMafidelbe7 JwHje,
A CHANCE FOE BOYS?
Plenty of Boom iatke Profession el ;
Architecture for Toasgaters.
PLEASAUT WOKE AND flff PWZIS
Nice Little Residence for PerseaTtf
Moderate Mea&s.
WHAT II LOOKS LIKE ff US FINISH! -
rWSTTTEr TOS TBI Dt9TlTCH.l
For tbe information of boys who are eea
siderlng the choice of a calling it may be ,
said tbat the profession of arehiteeters k,
Tint - var ft 4 fPYita. kmhVa f .1tjma tai
the United States does not exceed 6,966, ail'C
told, xneie is a rapidly developing appre
ciation of architectural services assase the.
people that promises A vast deal of werk Sit ..
the future.
A significant fact Is that architects'
Penpectix View.
often follow their fathers' profession. Ike
prizes are few, as they are in every calliog,
but the routine of work, is varied aad Me
esting. A "tatte for .drawing," -naiefe Ja
f 'iiiJLlLssMiJlli""'i"4
young people usually means a hsbm sua- tt
ity oi nana in copying, it or no parnewnr;.
value. The architect most deaigs, ttveat,
construct Drawings are esseatkl le
press his ideas, but they are only the a
oi ois wors, no I me luusiauce. ;-j
Aeood teitofa boy's taste and of Ms If-I
ness for the profession is to require Ms tejs
indicate what he considers the best desnmsiH
and planned houses of a neigh berate er ?
a published volume or designs., -J
A PBETTT DBSIGK.
Below wilt be found, a brief deseriptie ef -'
wo uswsgu igs.ssuft ia ateitnv. t:
Size of structure Width (frost), hf
tiae taepin;, u leet. , j
Height of stories Cellar, 7 fcetf list
FiritJHoar.
story, 9 feet 6 inches; seeosd stery, 9 $
atcio story, o ieet.
Materials for exterior walls To
briok: first story, clapboards; feee4 Stery,
shingles; roof, shingles., r(,5
Interior finish Hard white plaster anil
soft wood trim. Hardwood stairease- Tamkf
floor and celling oiled and finished m ;
ral colors. Quaint leaded poses i
windows.
Exterior colors All clapboards, g
stone color; shingles of second tWry
tower (up to roof) and of stables, tial
light gray; under side of irable OTarsHwtt
corner boards, window sm doer atria jvj
water table, all cornices and belts, Htptf
dark drab: rashes, white! doors ad Mintkit
medium dark drab witk & lighter shad tM
urao tor panels ana suit; reM MM MM)
nages, stainea ugat green:
waus ana cnimneyt, rea.
ACCOHXODAXXBTS.
The principal reoas ad feefe tieeel
closets, etc., are snows by tbe pMM girt!
nerewita. isere is a cellar Meter we WMtaJ
house. Two rooBH Md a hall faisM tal
the attic. The baleeay Is arnwfed to ls-r
closed witn glass wea desired.
Stixmd Floor.
doors between the tartar and dials i
If preferred, the stairway my start ay ftetaj
the rear of the hall instead nitnm w AwaCJ
No nreplaeet are included, bat they mf W
introduced la all rooms of we first ad seen
ond itories at an average est (it
mantels; of fJ each.
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