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THIRD PART.
ME A PEG WITH I,
A Cheerful Greeting Extended
by Europeans in Asia
to Their Friends.
INDIA'S SALVATION ARMY.
Its Peculiar Method of Reaching the
Intemperate Natives.
GAMBLIKG IH CHIfi A AND THE EAST.
Favorite Tipples nod Gnmca of More Than
Half the World Drinking feakl In Japnn
Chinese Fondness Tor Samshu How
the Slikado Drinks Champaenc Asiatic
Gamblers Bellini: on Cricket Fights
and Quail Combats Lotteries In the
Pacific bamethinc About the Greeks as
Gamblers.
IcOREEsroxDrxcx or tot dispatch.
Wasiuxgton, D. C, November 9.
TTBIHG the past
summer the Salva
tion Army has at
tacked India. A
company of re
formed Englishmen
and women sailed
from London to
Bombay, and there
began their war
against intemper
ance in a truly orig
inal way. They dis
carded their English
clothes and put on
ths dresses of the na
tives. This dress ic
many of the dis
tricts, is little more
than a dirty white
sheet, wrapped in
folds around the
bare body, and the
fair white skin of
these Caucasians
shone out strangely
among their blacker
brethren. Most of
ihem were barefooted
and a twist of the
sheet not seldom showed bare legs as well.
The girls appeared upon the stage and told
their experiences with intoxicating drinks
in this garb. The men paddled about tne
streets with drum and fife, and the same fan
tastic drumming up of recruits went on as
is seen in the Salvation Army of this coun
try. The better class of foreigners were dis
gusted with the antics of the Salvationists,
and they claimed that they did the cause of
temperance more harm than good. The
Salvation Army officers replied that they
wanted to snow the Hindoos that they were
their brothers, and that they cduldle closer
to them while wearing the same dress. They
saidthat they proposed to co throughout India
and to carry their crusade into each district
attired in the dress of the natives. It is
hardly probable, however, that they will do
this, lor the dress of both sexes in some of
the remote districts of India is not more
comprehensive than the fig leaves of the
Garden of Eden.
IXTEMPEBAXCE IN INDIA.
Intemperance is growing to an alarming
extent in India. The sale of beer and
liquors is licensed by the English Govern
ment, and John Bull adds to his pile by
every finger of bad whisky that the poor
Hindoos drink. Queen Victoria sent 2.000,
000 gallons of beer from England to India
in a single year, and in addition to this she
has licensed breweries all over the country.
A Japanese lppLer.
There is a sort of palm in India, which, be
ing tapped, produceia liquor which, by sev
eral days' fermentation, becomes intoxica
ting Nature has thus provided India with
a cheap means of eettine drunk, and her
people have taken advantage of it. TheH
English liquors are, however, preferred, and
wherever our civilization goes, our strong
drinks make progress in advance of our
Bibles.
Korea was opened to "Western ideas and
men a little over a decade ago, and the
Koreans were delighted with Scotch whisky
and Jamacia rum. They had never seen
bottles before and they prized these as rare
curiosities. In many of the huts through
out Korea you may find beer bottles and
whisky bottles set up as works of fine art,
and taking the place that we allot to rare
bits of china or Venetian cut glass. English
beer, French brandy and Scotch whisky are
now sold all over the East, and nearly every
town in Japan of any size has its liquor
store. In both Japan and China the dif
ferent brands of ales and liqnors are coun
terfeited by the natives. The labels on
them are forged, and the poorest of intoxi
cants are sold under forged names.
THE MIKADO'S FAVORITE TIPPLE.
The Chinese are very fond of champagne,
and when I called upon any of the Govern
ment officials in China, Japan or Korea,
champagne was brought out. Li Hung
Chang, the Viceroy of China, drinks with
his callers when he wants to terminate the
interview, and the bringing in of the spark
ling liquid serves the same purpose as coffee
sometimes does in the East. The Mikado of
Japan is passionately fond of champagne,
and it is whispered at Tokio that 'His
Majesty now and then drinks too much of
it Champagne intoxication lasts for a full
day after the liquor has been drunk, and
these periodical sprees of the Emperor, if in
deed the stories told of him indulging in
them are true, must be a serious matter to
his Cabinet and the ladies of the palace.
I attended at Soul, the capital of Korea, a
review of the army, and drank champagne
in company with General Dye and the other
American officers who have jrone there to
rmrganiz- the troops. We clinked glasse
with the big-hatted Korean Generals, and
upon going to the palace had again to drink
the same liquor in company withtheKinc's
Cabinet Ministers. In callintr upon His
joined with him in a jigger of eome liquor J
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which was as strong as Chartreuse, and I
seldom made a call upon any of the for
eigners in Asia without being asked to take
a peg. "Pegs" is the name for drinks
among the English ail over the East
"Come and have a pes; with me" means
"come and take a drink," and the expres
sion rose, I am told, lrom the old saying
that every drink that a man takes puts a
peg into his coffin.
SAMSHU AND SAKI.
Speaking of.drinking, every nation of the
East has its own native intoxicant. For
unnumbered centuries the yellow-faced
Chinaman has brightened his almond eye
with samshn. And it is now 2,600 years
ago since saki, the national brandy of Japan
was invented. Both samshu and saki are
rice brandy, and jt is said that 7 per cent of
tne entire rice crop of Japan is turned into
this liquor. It pays over 3,000,000 a year
in revenue taxes, and its brewers have to
pay a license and a percentage on the
amount of their sales. Ho Japanese dinner
is complete without saki, and it is custom
ary for a party to use but one cup, taking a
drink, and then rinsing out the cup in a
bowl of water kept for the purpose, and
Ainot Drinking.
handing it to his next neighbor. The liquor
is served hot. It contains about 15 per
cent of alcohol, and its properties are such
that it quickly mounts to the head. The
Ainos, the race of hairy savages, who in
habit the north of Japan, are a nation ol
drunkards. They believe that drink came
from the gods, and think that a man is Very
close to heaven tfhen he is under its influ
ence. In Japan proper, I saw much drinking
but very little drunkenness, and during my
whole year in Asia, mixing with all classes
of the people, and going into all sorts of
slums, I saw fewer drunken men than I
have seen on a single Saturday night in
Presbyterian Glasgow or in Episcopalian
London. If the Mongolian or the Indian
drinks to the same excess as does his Cau
casian brother, he does it in secret. And as
to drunken women, I saw not a single one
in my whole Asiatic tour. The only ap
proach to it was in the imitation of drunk
enness bv two pretty Japanese geisha girls
on a miniature stage at Hikko. This was
at a picnic given by Mr. Charles Flint, the
Eastern manaccr of the "Wateroury Watch
Company, at which be had engaged these
girls to sing to, and play lor, the guests.
GAMBLING TOB DINNERS.
Gambling is naturally associated with
drinking, and all of the Eastern nations are
loud of games of chance. The Chinese are
the greatest gamblers in the world. The
man who works for 5 cents a day and who
has 1 cent set aside for his supper, will go
to a cook stand and invest that cent upon
the littlelottery which the man rnns in con
nection with it. If he win he may get two
dinners, if he lose he goes without At
Tien Tsin every"peddler of cakes and boiled
bread has a bamboo tube as bier around as a
tumbler, and in this there are a number of
sticks about the length of a knitting needle,
and of the size of a slate pencil. On the
(-endsofsomeof these' sticks there are num
bers, while others are blank. The numbers
are on the ends of the sticks which are
stucK into the tube, and. the purchaser pays
so much a draw. If he pull out a stick
with a number on it he has the nnmber of
cakes represented by it, if not, he pets
nothing. A common game at Chinese din
ners is the guessing the number of fingers
which one man thrusts out quickly before
the eyes ot his neighbors. If the guess is
wrong the guesser has to take a drink of
samshu.
Fan-tan is the greatest Chinese game of
chance. It is played everywhere, and it is
usuallyrun by slock companies in houses
called tan koon. These honses have two
rooms, in one of which cash or copper coins
alone are played for, and in the other of
which silver and gold are used. A fan-tan
table has four numbers on it, one. two, three
and four, and it takes three men to manage
the game. At the head sits the croupier,
who has a great pile of copper cash, each
with a little square hole in its middle and
each as big around as a red cent.
PLATING PAN-TAN.
.He gathers up a double handful of these
and puis them under a tin basin. The
gamblers who stand around the table then
put their money on one of the four numbers,
and as they do so the shroff, or cashier, of
the game takes an account of them and
looks to see that the money is not counter
feit A third man connected with the game
is also present to pay over the money to the
winners. As soon as the game is ready the
basin is taken off and the croupier, by pok
ing an ivory rod into the hole of the cash,
draws away four at a time. The
number last left at the last drawing
decides the winning or the losing. If the
money comes out even and four "cash are
left the money of four wins. And if three
or two are left those putting their money on
four save the amount of their stake. All
on number one lose. It is in the same ratio
on the other numbers, and the gambler has
one chance of winning, two of cot losing
anything, and one chance of losing. This
is one species of fan-tan. Another is where
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A Quiet Game in Korea.
the gambler, if he win, gets three times the
amount of his stakes, but if any one of the
other three numbers win he loses. There
are as many other kinds of games played on
these fan-tan boards as are played on the
roulette table, and the chances are in all
cases with those who run the game. Even
in paying the winnings 7 per cent is usually
taken out to defray the expense of the pro
prietors, and the professionals, as usual,
make the money. China has its policy
game, which is not much different from that
known in America, and a great deal of
gambling goes on by means of cards.
CBICKET MGIITrNO.
There are few horses in South China, and
there is little horse racing among the na
tives. The Chinese have not vet learned to
gamble with the baseball nine, bnt they
make up for the lack of these tiro great
features of American chance by betting on
cock fights, bird fights and cricket fights.
Thisfightingofcricketsisoneof the insti
tutions of China, and crickets are caught,
fed and trained for fighting. There is a
fixed diet for them, and part of their food
consists of honey and boiled chestnuts. If
they get sick, they are fed with a diet of
ms-wA
mosquitoes, and thev are groomed and
trained like horses. Before being caught
they are weighed, and there is a fixed regu
lation as to their sizes. Each cricket has
its record pasted up on the doors of the
house in which the fight is to take place,
and the owner of the cricket which wins
gets 10 per cent of all the bets. A good
fighting cricket is very valuable, and its
fame goes abroad in the land, It will bring
a big sum. and when it dies, according to
Archdeacon Grey, it is buried in a silver
coffin. The cricket pit is a low tub which
is placed on a table. After the insects are
weighed and groomed they are put into this
tub and tickled with straws until they rush
at each other with loud chirrups, and fight
to the death. They are as brave as fighting
cocks, and they wrestle, bite and tear each
other, till one or the other dies.
Quail fights are common all over China,
and they are carried on much as cock
fighting is in Hew Orleans. The quails
fight fiercely, but the spectators must be
very quiet in order that the fighting birds
be not frightened. In most cases the bird is
purposely made deaf while training, and
this is done by blowing into the bird's ear
with a tube. Pigeon fighting also furnishes
much opportunity for Chinese betting, and
cock fighting is common in some parts of the
country.
GAMBLING IN SIAM.
The Siamese are inveterate gamblers, and
there are more gambling houses than there
are stores in Bangkok. Tne Chinese own
the most of these houses, and the business is
allowed to go ou on account of the big reve
enue which it pays to the Government Shells
are still used to some extent as money in Siam
and India, and a great deal ot this gambling
is done with come shells, which are about
the size of a lima bean, and which, in
Siam, take the place of cash. Singapore
and Penang are noted for their gambling
houses, and all over the West Pacific you
will find great quantities of lottery tickets
lor sale. The Manilla lottery there
takes the place of the Louisiana lottery
in America, and its drawings are
participated in by both foreigners and na
tives. There are lotteries in Egypt, Greece
and Turkey, and Cairo has numerous gam
bling houses, at which the games are played
on the same plan of those at Monte Carlo,
bnt not with the same honesty. The Greeks
are fond of gambling, and, though they are
in the main respectable and upright in their
own land, they have a very bad reputation
in Egypt, and a great part of the criminal
notes of the Alexandria newspapers are
made up of the fights among them. The
Burmese have their gambling games.
You will find card-playing and dice
throwing going on in nearly every part of
India, and in short, I doubt where there is
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Chinese QuaO-Fighling.
a place in the world in which games of
chance are not played for money. That
same attribute of human nature which
makes poker popular throughout the United
States seems to be found in every human
skin, whether its color be yellow, black or
brown, and it takes the best of civilized
laws and the most rigid of religious influ
ences to keep it in check.
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QTJEEB CUSTOMS IN SITKA.
Interesting Facts About tbe Natives of Oar
Northern Territory.
Et Paul Globe.
T. C. Jewett, of Sitka, Alaska, was
formerly a resident of Mower county, Min
nesota. He was appointed Commissioner
of Alaska during the Cleveland regime.
He says:
"Sitka is an old Russian town once
with 3, COO popnlation and manufactures
and shipbuilding. Now it has not over 250
white population, including Eussians and
some of those somewhat mixed and about
1,000 natives. We call the natives Indians,
bnt they are as distinct from the North
American Indian as the Caucasian and
African. I have seen much that leads me
to the conclusion that they are the descen
dants from the prehistoric race, the Mound
Builders. And the more I see oftbem the
more it grows into a belief. They are in
dustrious, enterprising and provident, and
fast improving and assimilating to the
manners and customs of the whites. Their
ideas of marriage and divorce are unique,
requiring but little formality or ceremony.
"When a man thinks about preparations
for dying he selects as his successor his best
marriageable friend and turns his wife over
to him in lieu of life insurance. A man in
the ranche native village with nothing
ailing him, got bent on dying of heart
disease and selected his best man and
turned his wife worth at least?15,000 over to
him. He isn'tdead yet, and lives in the
same house with them. Lately husband
Ho. 3 has come into the family, and
they are all living together in her spacious,
comfortable, well furnished house, happy as
larks."
WAITING TO KILL WALLACE.
Why the Author ol Ben Ilnr Slept With a
Pistol Under His Pillow.
Ladles' Home Jonrnal.
In patriotism Mrs. Lew Wallace and her
husband stand shoulder to shoulder differ
ing only in his wearing the straps. She had
need of all her courage in some of their hair
grizzling experiences in Hew Mexico, when
her husband was Governor there. They
found border ruffianism in all its pristine
glory, and General "Wallace set about break
ing up the business. One of a gang who
boasted that he had killed a man for every
year he had lived (he was then 21) pledged
his word and honor as a desperado that he
would track Wallace till he had shot him;
with so much at stake they played very
earnestly and Ben Hur "wore his beaver
up" and pistol cocked for him.
Finally he took lodgings in the sane
hotel, and at night General Wallace closed
the door of his room. His wife speaking of
'the heat opened it, and he qnietly said "its
best not to have it open is in the
house watching his chance to shoot me."
We can fancy the alacrity with which she
then shut the door, and that she probably
corked the keyhole, as Miss Pecksniff did
the wine bottle, with a curl paperl With
rifle at hand and pistol under his pillow,
Governor Wallace lay down and slept
better than his wife did. you may be sure.
THE WISDOM OF A GOOSE.
An Old Bird Which Had a Good Deal ol
Common Sense.
New Orleans Picayune. 1
To call a stupid person a goose-is a great
injustice to the goose, for they have been
known to show themselves very sensible, to
wit: One goose that warn't a bit of a goose,
as the saying goes. This smart goose was
quite a pet of the writer, and was very fond
ot feeding on soaked bread.
However, it did not disdain a dry crust,
which it would pick up and carry to a "water
trough and soak thoroughly before attempt
ing to eat It." ,
PITTSBURG-, SUNDAY,
IE FAME PAYEES
Of London Described by Sir Morel
Mackenzie's Daughter.
ENGLISH CHAK1TY BAZAARS.
Laboucnere's Curt Eeply to a Fascinating
Beggar.
FAIE ABISTOOBATS AS STALL KEEPERS
ICOEBESrONDESCE OP THE DISFATCB.l
London, Hovember 1. In taking up my
pen to write on Fancie Fayres, I feel like
the critic of a fashion that is gone by, for
surely the day of the bazaar, plain or fancy,
isover; it is an institution worn out and de
caying. It is possible that next season
some enterprising individuals, in despair of
getting money for some cherished scheme,
will venture a forlorn hope and endeavor,
with the aid of some startling novelty, to
galvanize the dead custom into simulation
of life; but the wise will recognize that the
attractions of the Fancy Fair have died of
repletion. Let us not mourn for them; for
in spite of the eagerness which pretty
women have always shown in this particular
cause of charity, they must, as a rule, have
been productive of anything but unalloyed
satisfaction to the fair stall-holders,
i Acknowledged beauties find it irritating
to hear everyone remarking how extremely
well a rival's dres3 becomes her, or that
money has been pouring in at a neighboring
stall, while she has only succeeded on be
guiling a paltry 100 out of the pockets of
the passers-by, and is conscious ot the fact
that her own costume does not suit her as
well as it might It is all very well for her
to console herself with the thought that Mrs.
A. has stooped to take the trouble to fascin
ate indiscriminately, and that is the reason
she has succeeded in disposing of her very
inferior wares; the sting of a rival's triumph
still remains.
The embers of this fading institution flick
ered almost into animation during the past
season, and the arena at the Albert Hall
was perpetually enlivened by groups of
gaily-dressed stall-holders; but it was only
the death struggle, and it is very doubtful
whether any of them were successful enough
to cover their expenses. Let the charitably
inclined take heed of this fact, and not at
tempt to disturb Fancy Fair as it lies, unre
gretted, save br a few.
SOMETHING NEW DEMANDED.
The trnth is our jaded appetites require
some newer stimulant to charm from us our
hard-earned gold. We are weary ot old
English and Irish villages, al fresco fayres,
Shakespearian fetes and the union of nations.
Perhaps we are even growing tired of see
ing the same pretty faces in a variety of
costumes. Something very wonderful
would now be necessary to attract us into
visiting this or that hall or riding-school,
transformed by the aid of the scene painter
into a thing of beauty, and tenanted for the
time by some ot the loveliest women in
London.
Since first this form of charitable begging
came into fashion, tbe title bestowed by the
promoters of "the fair" has always been a
great feature; and over and over again
Juliet's reasoning as to the little worth at
taching to the name has been disproved,
while another important item was found to
be the spelling of that title. A halo of
"The Good Old Days" had to be shed
around the bazaar, if It was to be popular,
no matter whether it was an ice carnival, a
Japanese tea garden, or a "Midsummer
Hight's Dream," and unless the spelling on
the announcements was essentially "Early
.English' the'more-eccuntric- the better
people would imagine it to be a kind of sale
of work by a Dorcas Society, and would not
trouble to read the list of patronesses, even
though it might contain thenamesof all the
beautiful peeresses and lovely Americans in
the town.
As a rule, the spelling was the line drawn
between the fancy fair and the bazaar, for
they are very different things nowadays, the
latter term having been appropriated by old
ladies of the "Tabby" type, who hold func
tions in back drawing rooms, where under
clothing, dolls and knitted articles are the
chief objects offered for sale, and who draw
themselves up in virtuous Indignation at
the very mention of a "fayre," and who
would probably leave the room at a proposal
that they should give their aid to the good
cause by appearing as the Nurse in "Borneo
and Juliet," or an old Irish peasant, even
under the cloak of that charity, which
covers such a multitude ot sins.
BEAUTIFUL MABTTBS.
The list of patronesses was, of course, an
other matter of importance. Bnt from tbe
regularity with which the names of fashion
able beauties appeared as stall-holders, it is
to bo concluded that this did not give great
trouble. At nearly every fete this year we
might have seen the same ladies making
martyrs of themselves and standing day after
day for several houre in the hope of extort
ing gold from a public who seemed as a rule
possessed of a desire, very unnatural at a
bazaar, to have their full money's worth.
It cannot possibly be for pleasure that
these dames of high degree sacrificed their
time nor for the satisfaction of donning an
effective fancy costume; for during this
season very many ladies, disregarding the
fad that it was a fancy fair, appeared in
ordinary attire. Therefore, it can only be
that these leaders of the "Upper Ten" pos
sess a larger share of good nature than their
more humble sisters.
There was, too, as a rule, a certain regu
larity in the arrangementof the stall-holders,
the refreshment department being usually
managed by a bevy of lair Amcricans.Lady
Randolph Churchill being especially ener
getic, while the Duchess of Marlborough,
Mrs. de Boode, Miss Thackeray and Mrs.
Fackler all helped on various occasions.
At tbe Ice Carnival, that most tawdry
and much abused of bazaars, the two great
sensations were the wonderfully effective
and novel eleojfie rose worn' by Mrs. Bon
alds, and the IWess, perfect in all its details,
of Miss Waltwhitman nsPocahontas, though
Mme. Hordica's stall "at the Horth Pole"
came in for a large share of admiration. In
deed, at this so-called Ice Carnival onr
American cousins had it all their own way,
in spite of the rival attractions of Lady
Carew, who, as usual, presided over the
fish pond, and the Ladies Chomondeley,
working as hard as ever.'the Countess de
Mosella and Lady; Feodore Sturt. An
other name which is always on the list is
that of the good natured "Silver Queen,"
Mrs. Mackay, who never minds taking
trouole for a good object.
SNUBBED BY LABOUCHEBE.
Still, although our pretty cousins from
across the Atlantic very frequently under
take the dispensation ot fascinating cakes
and refreshing drinks, it was not an Ameri
can who received the well-known snub at
the hands of Mr. Labouchere, but an En
glish professional beauty. Soon after the
introduction of the lancy fair, it became
customary for ladies, with shame be it said,
to enhance the value of such wares as but
ton holes, cigars or drinks by putting the
"flower in the purchaser's coat with their
own fair fingers, by biting the end of the
cigar, or by putting the glass to their own
lips. The story runs that Mr. Labouchere,
having been beguiled into one of these
mighty crowds, took refuge at the refresh
ment stall and asked for a enpof tea.
Stretching out his hand to receive it, he
asked the price. "A shilling," replied the
beauty; but raising the cup to her lips, and
bestowing a fascinating glance on the
would-be purchaser, she continued: "Now
I shall ask a sovereign." "Thanks," he re
turned laconically; "but I should prefer a
clean cup!"
Another, revolting practice, only intro
duced this season at the Al Fresco Fayre
NOVEMBER 10, 1889.
and Fancy Fete, where it was made quite a
feature, was the leading about of pretty
little girls, who were permitted to be kissed
for a consideration. What a beneficial ef
fect it must have on the minds of these chil
dren to be taught to sell their kisses at a
shilling apiece. Surely such a practice
would deserve a special clause in the re
cently passed Children's bill. Where did
they come from, these pretty little mites?
Even in these advanced days one can
scarcely imagine "the daughters of Bel
gravia" allowing their little ones to dream
of such a thing, for of late years they have
discontinued the habit of turning them
selves into amateur cigar cutters. Ho doubt
that was the ' last straw which broke the
husband's back.
ABISTOCBATIC INSTITUTIONS.
Year by year fancy fairs-have grown more
aristocratic, until during the past season it
was the exception to find a commoner hold
ing a stall, unless it was some much sought
after American beauty. Among those whose
names figure prominently in this season of
fetes of all sorts, sizes and description were
the Duchess of Leinster, the Countess Bom
ney, the Duchess of Portland, whom every
one was anxious to see; Lady Algernon
Gordon Lennox, the Countess Cairns, Lady
Jane Taylor, the Marchioness of Conyng
ham, the Countess Victoria Gleichen, Lady
Conyers, Lady Yarborough.the Marchioness
oi waterford and Lady Coleridge.
Perhaps the smartest of the many fairs
held this year, and probably the most suc
cessful, was that at the old Irish Market
Place at Olympia, with the object of pro
moting Irish cottage industries, most of the
articles for sale having been made by Irish
peasants. Here Lady Salisbury and Mrs.
Gladstone, attired in a gown and shawl of
Irish manufacture, sold side by side, while
H. B. H. the Duchess of Teck, with her son
ana daughter, found purchasers lor in
numerable baskets of strawberries. The
Countess of Kilmorey and the Dowager
Countess of Mayo did a thriving trade in
fans and kittens, a strange combination,
while Mrs. "Tay Pay" O'Connor, Mrs. Os
car Wilde, and Miss Justin McCarthy made
no end of money at the "Home Bule" stall
by the sale of exquisite lace, handkerchiefs,
carved bog-oak, "dhudeens" and photo
graphs of Mr. Parnell and other Irish
patriots.
A MIDSUMMEB NIGHT'S DREAM.
Hot so successful, vet hv far the nrcttiesl
held this year, was the Thimble League,
cete, yclept the Midsummer .Night's
Dream, where the chief feature was the en
tertainments given both by professionals
ana amateurs. Although stalls were held
by the Princess Victor of Hohenlohe,
Countess Feodore Gleichen, the Dowager
Countess of Winchelsea and others, the fair
was not a great hit financially. Here the
great attraction was the ballet danced twice
daily by sprites (Mme, Kattie Lanner's
pupils) in the Albert Hall arena, trans
formed for the nonce Into an Elizabethan
garden. There were certainly many novel
ties to be seen here, and yet grave doubts
were entertained as to whether it would
cover the expenses it entailed.
When one sees the really deserving chari
ties for which these fetes are held, even now
when our appetite for them has been so
thoroughly cloyed, a pang of regret shoots
through our hearts that their failure may
mean want, pain or sickness to those for
whose benefit they were held. Surely the
fertile brain If it is still in the land of tbe
thinking which some 12 years ago evolved
the idea of that first Elizabethian Fancie
Fayre, held in the Albert Hall, can invent
some new plan for charming coin from the
uncharitable, for it is an extraordinary but
remarkably true fact that there are many
who, refusing a sovereign in charity, will
pay five times that amount into the hands of
a duchess for some utterly useless trifle.
Ethel M. Mackenzie.
A POLISH BOrS AMBITION.
One Tonne Hopeful Who Knows a Good
- ' Thins? trtVnTld BeeVlu
Detroit Sunday News.:
The hush of obedient silence was on the
assembled children of a school in Polack
town at its flag-raising the other day. The
rotund form of Aid. Amos arising digni
fiedly on the platform was an inspiration
to respect from the Polish juveniles, who
are cold strangers to much of the English
or German tongues or modes of thought
The generous Alderman glibly advised
the urchins of Northern European extrac
tion to study hard and acquire education,
so that they would not be obliged to toil at
the commonest manual labor for compara
tively small pay. The world of letters was
betore them, he glowingly told, and many
possibilities.
"And now," said the pudgy Alderman,
"let us see what some of you would like to
be."
Quickly the right fist of a tawny little
codzerinthe background appeared above
the heads of the others.
"And what would you like to be, my
little man?" asked Mr. Amos, in a fatherly
tone.
"A nalderman," shouted the little boy, as
loud as he could.
ANCIENT PHONETIC SPELLING.
A Volume Iltnstratins the Peculiarities of
Modleval OrthoarapbT.
It is a striking illustration of the fact
that new light is often found to he only
darkness, that one can see in the library of
the British Museum, under the date of 1585
more than 300 years ago, a volume, the title
of which is:
"JEsopz Fablz, in tru ortography, with
grammar notz. Hernnto ar also jooind the
short sentences ov the w z Cato, both of
which autorz are translatid out of Latin in
too English."
The author of this sentence spelled button
butn. But this is not quite equal to the di
rection of a letter received lately by a gen,
tieman who was addressed irom anroaa, as
in the "Youknightid Statts of Aymerrika."
The name "Hudson" which originally was
Hodge's son, is found, in English publica
tions spelled in 22 different ways.
A Living Business Accessory.
Mr. Train (who has just come in)
Where'd you get him ?
Mr. Crane (who is very busy) Friend
send him from Texas.
Mr. Train (who is still perplexed)
What's he good for?
Mr. Crane (who is -happy, now he's got
it) He's trained for a billfilA Pretty use
ful since the family came'back to tows.
Squat, Philemon. Puck, "
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0"O
A STORY OF
By Georg HTbeiPS.,
Author of "UARDA," "SDRAPIS," Etc
(NOW FIRST
SYNOPSIS OP PRECEDING CHAPTERS.
The story opens with the death of tbe first
born of Egypt. The Egyptians, frenzied by the
great calamity that has overtaken them.descend
upon the Hebrew ouarterwith Intent to slay
all of that race In their midst, to whom tbey
attribute their troubles. One man Is found and
stoned to death, the other houses being de
serted by their occupants. Hornecht, Captain
of Pharaoh's bowmen, passed by the ruins ot
the Hebrew village, and In rescuing some cats,
held sacred by the Egyptians, discovers the un
conscious form of Ephralm, a Hebrew youth,
who was the bearer of a message from Miriam
to his uncle Joshua, a Captain in Pharaoh's
army and a warm friend of Hornecht. The
latter has a widowed daughter, Kasana, who
was compelled by her fatherto marry an Egypt
ian while loving Joahux Joshua had just re
turned irom a long campaign, and knew little
of what had transpired among his people. Ho
was satisfied with his position, which was one of
honor. He has determined within himself to
stay with the Egyptians, when Ephraim deliv
ers his message from Miriam, the prophetess,
calling upon Joshua to lead his people out of
Egypt. Joshua was still unshaken In his deter
mination to remain in Egypt, when he was
called to see EUab.an aged slave, who had been
suddenly taken ill. The old man talked to
Joshua about tbe exodus until the latter re
solves to join his people in their wanderings.
Joshua returns to his tent, and tells Ephriam
that he will resign his position in Pharoah's
army and join his people Joshua is summoned
by Pharoah and during his absence Ephraim,
whose heart is filled with love of Kasana, de
termines to go to her and bid her fareweU. On
his way to find Kasana Ephraim falls fainting
in the desert.
CHAPTEB IX
r . T thi3 same hour a
J chamberlain was
U leading Joshua into
ence.
Though subjects
bidden to attend the
tO. kng commonly had
Z hours to wait, the
Hebrew's patience
was put to no se
vere test At this
time of deep mourning the spacions rooms
of the palace, in which a gay and noisy
throng were wont to move, were as still as
the grave, for not the slaves and sentries
only, but many persons of superior rank in
immediate attendance on the royal pair, had
fled from the pestilence and escaped without
leave.
Here and there a solitary priest or official
leaned against a pillar or cowered on the
ground, hiding his face in his hands, while
awaiting some command. Soldiers went
about trailing their arms and in silent
brooding. 'How and then a few young priests
in mourning robes stole through the deserted
rooms and speechlessly swung the silver
censers, which shed a pungent perfume of
resin and juniper.
It was as though a terrible incubus
weighed on the palace and its inhabitants,
for, added to the loss of the King's beloved
son, which came home to many hearts, the
fear of death and the desert wind had
crushed the energies of mind and body
olik?., , , --
Here,- under the shadow of the throne,
where of yore all eyes had glittered with
Pharaoh Holding Audience.
hope, ambition, gratitade or fear, devotion
or hatred, Joshua saw to-day only bowed
heads and downcast looks.
Baie alone, the second prophet of Amon,
seemed untouched by sorrow or the terrors
ol the night and the enervating influences
of the day, for he greeted the captain fn the
ante-chamber as franklvand cheerfully as
ever, and assured him, though in an under
tone, that no one dreamed of calling him to
account for the sins ol his people. But
when the Hebrew, of his own free will, ac
knowledged that at the moment when he,
was sent for by the King he was in the act
of going to the superior captains of the
army to beseech tnein to release mm irom
his service, the priest interrnpted him to
remind him of the debt of gratitude which
he (Baie) owed to him. And he declared
that for his part he would do his utmost to
keep him with the army and to prove to
him that an Egyptian knew how to honor
faithful service without respect of persons
or considerations of birth, nay,even against
Pharaoh's will; and of this he would pres
ently speak with him in secret.
But the Hebrew had no time to reiterate
his purpose, for the head chamberlain in
terrupted them to lead Joshua into the pre
sence of the "kind God."
Pharaoh awaited him in the smaller re
ception hall, adjoining the royal apart
mentB. It was a noble room, and looked
more spacious to-day than when, as usual,
it was filled with a crowd. Only a few cour
tiers and priests, with some of the Queen's
ladies, formed a small gronp, all in deep
mourning, round the throne; opposite the
King, squatting in a circle on the ground,
were the King's councilors and Interpreters,
wearing each his ostrich plume.
All wore badges of mourning, and the
monotonous chant of the wailing women,
broken now and then by aloud, shrill, trem
ulous outcry, came pealing out from the
inner rooms and found its way to the great
hall, a token that death had claimed a vic
tim even in tho palace.
The King and Queen sat on a couch under
a canopy of black; the throne itself was of
ivory and gold. Instead of their splendid
state attire they were clad in dark robes,
and the royal wife and mother, who bewailed
her first-born, leaned motionless and with
downcast head against her husband's shoul
der. Pharaoh, too, kept his eyes fixed on the
ground,' as if lost in a dream. The scepter
had fallen lrom his hand and lay in his lap.
The Queen had been torn lrom tbe corpse
of her son, which was now given over to the
embalmers, and it was not till she entered
the audience hall that she had been able
to control her tears. But she had not
thought of resistance, for the unrelenting
ceremonial of court Ufa made the Queen's
presence indispensable at any audience of
high importance. And to-day of all days
she certainly would fain have escaped,
but that Pharaoh had commanded her
to appf ar. She knew what counsel was to
be taken, and approved of it beforehand,
for she was wholly possessed of her dread of
thenowerofMesu. the Hebrew, called by
his own people Moses, and of bis God, who
Aa euphemistic title of tJw Pharaoh
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bad brought such terrors on Egypt. Alas!
for she had other children to lose, and she
had known Mesu from his childhood, and
knew in what high esteem the learning of
this stranger had been held by the great
Barneses, her husband's father and prede
cessor, who had brought him up with his
own sons.
Obj if it were but possible io make terms
with this manl But Mesu had departed
with his people, and she knew his iron will,
and that the terrible foe was armed not
alone against Pharaoh's threats but eves
against her passionate supplications.
Now she would meet Joshua, and he, the
son of Hun and the most noble of the He
brews of Tanis, could succeed, if any man
could, in carrying out such measures as she
and her husband might think best for all
Joshua Departs on Sis Errand.
Earties, in concert wita Buie, the venerable
igh priest and chief prophet of Amon, tbe
pontiff of all the priesthood of Egypt, who
combined in his own person the dignities of
Chief Judge, Secretary and Viceroy of the
realm, and who had come with the court
from Thebes to Tanis.
When she had been sent for to the audi
ence chamber she was winding a garland for
the beloved dead, and lotos flowers, lark
spurs, mallow and willow leaves were
handed to her as she required them. They
lay before her now on a table and in her lap,
but she felt paralyzed, and her hand, as she
put it forth, refused its service.
Buie, the chief prophet of Amon, sat on
his heels on a mat to the left of the King;
he was a very old man, long past his 90th
year. A pair otshrewd, eyes, shaded by a
pent house of thick white eyebrows, looked
out of his brown face, which was as gnarled
and wrinkled as the bark of a rugged oak,
like bright flowers from withered foliage
and their brilliancy was startling in suck a
shrunken, huddled, stooping figure.
This old man bad long since left all active
conduct of affairs to the second prophet,
Baie, but he clung stoutly to his dignities,
to his place at Pharaoh's ride and his seat
in the council; and, rarely as he spoke, hii
opinion more often carried the day than
that of theeloquent, fiery and much younger
second prophet..
Since the pestilence had invaded the
palace the old man had not emitted
JeharaoVs-iide, yet he Xelt more alive. thanJ.
usual to-aay, lor tne desert wura,-wnicn
made others languish, revived him. He
was wont to shiver continually in spite of
the panther skin which covered his back
and shoulders, and the heat of the day
warmed his sluggish old blood.
The Hebrew Mesa had been his pupil,
and never had he had the guidance of a
grander nature or the teaching of a youth
more richly graced with all the gifts ol
the spirit. He had initiated tbe Hebrew
into all the highest mysteries, and had
expected the greatest results for Egypt
and .the priesthood; and when Mesu
had one day slain an overseer who was un
mercifully flogging one of his fellow He
brews, and had fled into the. desert, Buie
had bewailed the rash deed as deeply as if
his own son had committed it and was to
suffer the consequences. His intercession
had procured. Mesn's pardon, hut when
Mesa had returned to Egypt, and
that change had been wrought in him which
his friend in the tempIS called his apostasy,
he had caused his old master a keener grief
than by his flight. If Bale had been young
er, ne wouia nave natea tne man wno had
cheated his dearest hopes, but the old priest,
to whom the human heart was as an open
book, and whose sober impartiality enabled
him to put himself in the place of his fel
low man, confessed to himself that it was
his own fault that he had failed to foresee
this falling away. Education and dogma
had made of Mesu, tbe .Hebrew, an Egypt
ian priest after his own heart and pleasing
to the divinity, but when once he had raised
his hand to defend one of his own race
against those to whom he had been allied
only by human agencies, he was lost to the.
Egyptians. He was henceforth a true son
of his people, and whithersoever this high
minded and strorig-willed man might lead,
others must inevitably follow.
Aye, the high priest knew full well what
Preparing for the Exodui.
it was that the apostate hoped to give to his
people; he had confessed to Buie himself
that It was the faith in one God. Mesu
had denied that he was guilty of perjury
and had pledged himself never to betray the
mysteries to his people, but only to lead
them back to tbe God whom their forefath
ers had served before Joseph and his kin
dred had ever come into Egypt. The one
god of the initiated was, no doubt, in many
respects like the God of the Hebrews, and
that wis precisely what had reassured the
ancient sage; for ne knew by experience
that the common folk would not be content
With a god, one and invisible, such as many
of the more advanced of his own disciples
found it difficult to conceive of. The men
and women of the masses required sensible
images of everythingof which they perceived
the effects in and about thesi, and this need
the religion of the Egyptian gratified.
What comfort could a love-lorn, maid find
in an invisible and creative power, govern
ing the course of the universe. She would
be drawn to the gentle Hatha, who held in
her beneficent grasp the cords which bind
heart to heart, the fair and powerful goddess
of procreation before whom she coald pour
forth in full confidence all that weighed on
her soul. Or a mother who Jonged to snatch
a darling child from datk how could her
small sorrows concern the incomprehensible
and almighty Being who ruled the whole
wj.sl.3'7 1. lM 4La I. Ill m . Jflf.M k..
I SI L VtlT v M
Jkwctlf &M(w9tUi.tp asgHii, at
could understand her gnef 1 And how ofiea
in Egypt it was the wife who influenced her
husband's attitude to the godsl
And the high priest had frequently seea
Hebrew men and women worshiping de
vontly in the sanctuaries of Egypt. Even if
Mesu should succeed in persuading thea to
acknowledge one God, he, the experienced
old man, foresaw with certainty that they
would ere long turn away from the invisible
Spirit who must ever remain remote and un
real to their apprehension, and flock back
in hundreds to the gods they could under
stand.
How Egypt was threatened with the los
of the tilers and brickmakers she so greatly
needed. Still Buie believed he could Inrej
them back.
"When kind words will do thework'let
sword and bow lie Idle," he had said to his
deputy, Baie, who had urged that the fugi
tives should be pursued and slain. "We have
more corpses than enough already; what we
lack are workers. Let us try to keep our '
hold on what we are so likely to lose."
And this milder counsel had been quiia
after the heart of Pharaoh, who had had '
enough of lamentation, and who would have .
thought it less rash to go unarmed into a
lion's cage than to defy the terrible Hebrew
any lurtner.
So he had turned a deaf ear to the incite
ments of the second prophet, whose decisive,;
and enereetic nature had an influence alK
I the more powerful as his own was irresolute. 7
and had approved old .time s proposal that ,
dosnua, tne manoi war, snouia oe sen. tog
his people to treat with them in Pharaoh's"
name a plan which had calmed his fears
and inspired him with new hopes. .
Baie himself had at last agreed to thiaS
suggestion, it gave him a further chance
ot undermining the throne he hoped -tov
overthrow, and if once the Hebrews were rei j
established in the land Prince Siptah; in
wnose eyes no punisnmen. was too severer
for the Hebrews, who hated him, mightj
very probably seize the scepter or .thei
cowardly Menephtah. But first the fugi-g
tives must be stopped, and for this Joshua'
was me rigiit man. no one, ixue wougnt,
was better fitted to win the confidence of an
nnsngTucioni soldier than Pharaoh himMlf
and his royal wife.
The old high priest was on this point off,
to do with the conspiracy; and thus the!
sovereigns had determined to interrupt thef
lamentations lor the dead and themselves 1
speatc with the Hebrew. i
Joshua fell on his face before their feet, j
and when he rose the King's weary face was
bent on him, sadly indeed, but graciousIyvW
The father who had lost his first bom son-'
had, according to custom, sacrificed his hair I
andbeardto the razor. They had formerly
framed his fjinA in rrTncw li1V lTff v.-!;
20 years of anxious rule had turned thenar;
gray, and his figure had lost its unrieht
bearing and had a languid, senile stoop;' "i
lar features were still handsome andtherafi
was something pathetic in their melanclmlyj
soilness, eyiueuuy ucapaoie or any severe
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Miriam Calling Vpon Ber JPtoptelj
tension, especially when a smile lntb
witching charm to his mouth. The indohal
deliberateness of his movements scarcelyTd;
tracted from the natural dignity of &
son, though his voice, which was agrees
generally had an exhausted xndjplu
tiva sound. He was not benHftw
rule; 13 brothers, older than he, rlel
died before the heirship to the throne a
devolved upon him, and he, meanwhile,1)
the handsomest youth In all the laadjt
darling of the women and a UghUwwte
favorite of fortune, had lived a life of w
broken enjoyment till he had almost arnrfw
at manhood. Then he had succeeded fak
father, Barneses the Great; and hardly ha
he grasped the scepter wnen tna juinyay
with strong allies, had rebelled agaihst'kk
rule. The veteran troops ana tneir cpuv
schooled in his father wars, helped Wail
conquer. But in tho 20 yean wmcBiBM
now elapsed since his father's deatksiisT
armies had rarely had any rest, for rflttl.
lions had constantly to be Quelled. aowlisT
the East andnowln the West, and InsteidSC
dwelling in Thebes, wnere he had spent bw?t
happy years and livinjr in the most rrfeewn
of palaces, as he would fain have don,&i?
joying the blessings oi peace ana toe seeiety
of the illustrious students and poeUTiwhe,
were at that time to be found ther,-he
forced sometimes to lead bis armies inteUi
field, and sometimes to reside at Tm1V
Thus only could he settle the dlfficiltaer
that disturbed the border province; ftadfi
this he vielded willingly to the couaseleTeC
Buie. In the later years of his fattwV
reign the national sanctuary at incos, aM(
conseauentlv. its hish priest, had attaiaeal
greater wealth and power than thejtoyal
UUU1J, OUU DIUHU -uuoumiu iroiu.l
nature to be an instrument rawer umaij
master, .so long as he abdicated none oft?
external honors due to Pharaoh. These.b
iruarded with a resolute care Which, 'he
incapable of exerting when more eerix
matters demanded it. "39H
The gracious condescension with, wales
the iUng received mm graunea joinua smi
at the same time roused his susplete
However, he had the couraze to..deelee
freely that he desired to be releaaedjtsoi.
his office and from tne oau ne naa tut)
his sovereign Lord. TM
Phsranh listened unmoved, and itKn
not till the soldier had confessed1 thatihW
father's commands had moved him.tojtiie
this step that Pharaoh signed to the)hijiv
priest, who then spoke in scarcely aniiM.,
tones: H
"A son who sacrifices greatness thatilM
may continue dutiful to his father xatW
one of the most faithful of Pharaoh's I. ierr?
ants. Go, then, do the lidding ofjKBa
The child of the sun, the lord of upper
Lower Egypt, sets you free. But oaloW
condition, which I, as the minisUr.oftMa
master, declare to you.- ?m
"And what is that?" inquired Joshua?
And again the King signed to theTfoJsV
priest; then he sank back on the.U7
wniie isuie nxea dim piercing J
Joshua and went on: ."3H
'-That which the Lord of both worWsi?
quires-of you by my mouth is easy tof-dAll.1
You must return, to be his servant aad o
of us again, as soon as your people aad tkein
enter, who brougnt sucn woe on this imi:
shall have taken the hand of the dlvine'iseev
of the Sun which'he vonchsafes toholdfortst
to them in pardon.and shall have eomeak
unaer tne snaaow oi .nil inrone. Jae,oilaie
divine mercy, is ready to attach thealte
hira-and to his land again with rich girwjwt
eon as they come home from the deeertj
whither they are gone forth to sacrlAeelte
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sioM which weighed oa tk-a poefleW:
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