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PITTSBURG. SUNDAY, JANUARY 19, 1890.
HOI CHICAGO GROWS
Bill Nye Describes the Effect
of a Half Century.
WORLD'SFAIRTALK mi833.
Touching Experience With the Fash
ionable Disease.
PLEASURES OP THE GAT HOLIDAYS
VWCXTTXK rOB TBI DISPATCH. 1
THE city of Chi
cago ha undoubted
ly suffered a good
deal by reason of the
unintentionally
light and flippant
manner in which her
society and literature
have been treated by
Eugene Field during
the past five years.
Mr. Field has not
done this maliciously, but thoughtlessly, for
he has a warm heart, though rather cold
feet, it is said. He has at various times
touched upon the foibles of a few of the
parvenu people of Chicago and conveyed
the idea that there were more of them than
there really are perhaps. All of this
has been done, however, in a pleasant spirit
of banter well calculated to awaken mirth
and harmless laughter among those who
were not referred to and a hollow, ghostly
smile on the faces of those who were.
. Chicago is in latitude 41 52' 20", longi
tude 87 35' "West, with a lake exposure
.which is especially noticeable at that sea
ton ot the year when the smr.ll boys do
most go in bathing. The site of Chicago
was determined by the Chicago river, up
the south branch of which, the historian
What a Ealf Century Eat Wrought
says, the Indi.i paddled his canoe ages
before Sir George Pullman invented his
justly celebrated hingeless sleeping car
blankets or Phil:p Armour introduced his
juicy side meats and succulent leaf lard
into the great seething marts of trade. Here,
where once the rank thistle nodded in the
wynd and the dusky warrior, innocent
eyether of the knowledge of gunpowder or
Persian powder, warred with the turbulent
81oni or the more peaceful Chippewa, now
a mighty metropolis, laying bold upon the
entire national system of railway traffic, sits
calmly at the foot of a great chain of lakes
and calls attention to herself by means of
good reading notices in the press, prepared
by the skill.nl hand of such men as Charles
Dudley Warner, of Hartford, Conn., and
published by our esteemed cotemporary,
Mr. Harper, whose neat little journal of
civilization is printed at the west end of the
bridge.
SUNBI8E FEOM SaCHIGAN AVENUE.
Although the location of Chicago is to all
appearance on a low, flat piece of land, it is
as a matter of fuct a sort of watershed none
the less and the dividing line between the
great valley of thi St Lawrence and the
Mississippi. This makes it healthful, and
fills the air with vigor, for the city is fully
18 feet above the level of the lake. Climb
ing this height by easy stages, one is enabled
to look down upon the lake which lies at
his feet, an a sunrise viewed from the crest
of Michigan avenue is well worth getting up
to witness, even though one has been up
until quite late the evening before.
Marquette, the Jesuit missionary, in 1673,
was the first white man to set foot on the site
where since so many eminent and extensive
feet have been set He was on his way to
catch a Milwaukee train and got bridged
there. Subsequently he, La Salle, Joliet
and Hennepin passed down from the lake
via the south branch of the Chicago river to
the Mississippi.
In 1801 the Government built Fort Dear
torn at the mouth of the river, and later on
some Indians, whose stock of Caucasian
pelts was running quite low, killed the gar
rison and sent in their report
August 10, 1833, Chicago decided to be
come incorporated, as 28 people had arrived
there since the massacre of 1812, and, after
incorporating, the entire population decided
to hold the "World's Fair at that point in
1892. Chicago was then getting one mail
per week via Niles, Mich. Now Niles is
plad to get the most of her mail from
Chicago.
The first newspaper was issued by John
Calhoun November 26, 1833. This was rap
idly followed by another copy of the same,
which appeared December 3. Some of the
old subscribers and advertisers are still
alive and point to themselves with pride.
IAY OF THE CUT'S LATTTEBS.
It was about this time that $5 was paid, or
Were paid rather, perhaps as a lawyer's bill
by the new city. Since that prices have ad
vanced, however, and now Chicago pays
more than that to lawyers every week. Hon.
J. D. Caton was paid for legal services for
1833-4 575. This sum, together with what
legot for his mnskrat skins, kept him in
good style. It was about this time that a
large black bear was killed in front of the
Board of Trade building and William Bross
saw a large gray wolf run by his house on
Michigan avenue.
Within half a century how all this has
changed. The little paper which then
briefly announcedthe death by massacre of
its choicest subscriber or joylullyre'erred to
the arrival of the mail from Niles for the
current week has given place to mammoth
and handsome journals representing every
party and every industry. Where old Chief
Polfcadott, dressed like a dish of salad, viz.,
with oil, addressed the multitude, now such
men as James Bussell Lowell speak briefly
ou some occult subject like Shakespeare
and then regret afterward that they did not
speak on the subject they agreed to speak on.
Where once Iooloo, daughter of the
Chintz-bug-that-cleans-out-tbe-cornfield,was
wont to deck herself out in the coonskin
shoulder cape and burlap leggins of a crude
civilization, now beanty in Parisian gowns
and the rich gear of Mr. Worth, dazzles the
eye of the savant and proves that half a
century in the history of a typical Ameri
can city means a good deal.
CONTENTED 'WITH HEE LOT.
Chicago does sot pity herself. She does
tot itel Borry ior herself. She accepts her
humble lot, pays the park tax on it and
gres on about her business. She has been
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McGinty, or whatever her name may nave
been, was the beacon light to show the city
in which direction beauty and prosperity
lay.
She has tried various kinds of pavement
with sorrow and loss and discouragement,
but now she is on the right track. Yon can
ride about Chicago now for a day at a time
without jolting yonr soul into the soles of
vonr boots, and you will see some handsome
nouses and magnificent public and commer
cial buildings, too. I would like to see one
American city, however, start off with the
idea that a handsome building, private or
public, needs lots of ground to give it a
proper setting. Ground gets so valuable,
however, that a beautiful building nearly
always in our country where land is plenty,
on the start, finds itself surrounded by bak-
SHOT THE
Convalescence.
eries, rum holes andlivery stables. I am
only surprised that the Capitol at Washing,
ton isn't engulfed in candy, confectionery,
undertaking, embalming and ice cream, in
stead of facing a thousand cheap boarding
houses, with the city and the treasury at its
baefc.
NYE HAS HAD THE GRIP.
The grippe is getting to be an old theme,
and so I will touch lightly on it here. I'm
jnst convalescing, and if it will let me alone
I will let it alone. Avoid it, gentle reader,
if you can. Do not laugh at it or treat it
lightly. Ficht shy of it, pass by it and
light out I was the picture of health when
it came along and touched me gently on
the larynx. Now I am pale and gad. The
doctors did not know exactly how to deal
with it at first. They had to look about a
little and see for themselves. I could not
eat anything for several weeks. It was not
for the same reason that I did not eat when
I was publishing a paper in Wyoming,
however. This time I had the opportunity
without the desire. Then I had the desire
without the opportunity.
This symptom was followed by fever, hay
fever, cough, heaves, dimness ot sight, loss
of sleep and hair, pains in the joints, back
and chest Everything that was discourag
ing. Then I began to bear abont people who
committed suicide because they had the
grip. Friends came in and said I looked
kind of flighty and desperate. My wife hid
my revolver and gave the Tongh on Bats to
the delighted and overjoyed rats. I imag
ined that I was going to die of heart failure
or soitening of the brain. I thought I could
hear my brain softening. When I turned
over I thought I could hear it slosh up
against the rafters of my head.
PLEASUBES OF NEW TEAK'S.
Finally I lost consciousness and expected
to awake in some new and undiscovered
country. When I did awake it was 1890.
The boy who brings my telegrams wished
me a happy New Tear, the district messen
ger boy, nine of him, did the same. It cost
me 50 cents apiece. The expressman who
had worked sights to bring' gifts to' the
house went away ?3 ahead. The boy who
said he delivered the papers to me every
morning wanted to wish me a happv New
Year, also several other boys who lied.
Then a boyr who said he held my horse
last year while I went into the postoffice.
wished me a happy New Year;I bought him
off. A poor woman, who said she had a
lame boy who mowed my lawn two years
ago, wished me a happy New Year, and cot
a pair of checkered trousers, almost as good
as sew. An old miner, whom I had grub
staked on Douglas creek six years ago,
steadied himself by the door and wished me
a happy New Year; said he had seen by the
papers that my income was so much greater
than Yanderbilt's that Van had gone
away ashamed of himself. I broke into
one of the children's banks and gave
him the money they had saved to bny a
donkey.
Then I went back to bed again. Every-
ooay wisnes me a nappy .new xear at so
mnch per wish.
WHINING HOLIDAY HEGGABS.
But I do sot murmur or repine. The year
1889 has been good to me, and cheerfully I
pay my. assessment, only glad that with its
other victims the grip did not, as it wanted
to, gather me in. I hope, however, that as
America grows older, she will not, as other
older countries have, an army of whining
holiday beggars, so that, instead of days of
rejoicing, the holidays will take away our
appetites and bring out the accumulated
cripples of 500 years.
The holidays in Paris are the most sad
andsickeaingoftheyear, for then all the
sad and sore eyed multitude are turned
loose on the streets, and the man who works
and perspires and bathes is the only one
who doesn't make anything out of it or feel
like eating when dinner comes.
I hope that cheap rates across the Atlantic
and ill advised generosity on this side will
not build np this Coyote industry in the
land of freedom. Bill Nye.
A MAS WITHOUT A MISSION.
Why It Is Unprofitable to Set Yourself Up ns
n. Critic
Atlanta Constitution.
When a young man finds that he is devel
oping critical faculty, let him pause. The
critic never does anything great and useful.
Be sits back and picks flaws in the work of
others. He sees spots on the sun. No work
of genius altogether pleases him. It wor
ries him to see how short men fall of his
ideals.
So he goes along, grumbling and denounc
ing, without being able to do anything half
as good as the work he is all the time find
ing fault with.
Twai Ever Thus.
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POWER OF HASHEESH.
Effect of the flarcotic Upon an Ad
venturous American.
A NIGHT AT A CLUB IN CAIRO.
Victims Say the Extract Is Necessary in
Oriental Climate,
DEATH SPEEDILY, BUT BEAUTIFULLY
rWBITTZN TOR THB DISPATCH.J
The American or European tourist travel
ing in the Orient is rarely absolutely his
own master, but is held to a degree in re
straint and kept under the jurisdiction of
the hotel at which he stops. Although he
sees and learns to know a good and motley
deal ot Oriental life in Cairo, he rarely, un
less some lucky chance comes to his deliver
ance, gets beyond the boundary which is
circumscribed by the hotel-keeper's in
fluence. To tread the paths which diverge
from the beaten tracks of tourists is gener
ally connected with some hazards, and your
host therefore rarely or never permits you
"to take in the town" by yourself, but has
either a gnide or a dragoman accompany
you on your experience or adventure-seeking
expedition. But one who has come to
an anchor in Cairo sees and learns to know
and experiences many things on which
books of travel preserve mysterious silence.
The roads to such experiences lead through
narrow, dark, winding and complicated
alleys, away from the populated boulevards
and beautilul piomenades. These dingy,
arch-covered streets present mostly a dead
and deserted aspect, but it is here where
mystery and vice have their abode, where
all kinds of horrible dens abound in which
merry grim death holds riotous revelry, casts
the alluring dice with his victims and ex
ults in ultimate triumphs. It is into such a
place we will let onr gentle reader take a
peep a place of genuine Oriental amuse
ment A young English nobleman, who was a
member ot a small, exclusive coterie of for
eigners which congregated on a certain day
of every week at this particular place to
which I will conduct my reader, was my
kind guide and companion. It was toward
the decline of day on a pleasant, balmy
afternoon in the October month.
''I am taking you," said my companion,
"to our own private place, which a number
of Christians that is, Englishmen, Ameri
cans, Frenchmen, Germans, one Greek and
one Italian have rented in common; so you
see we are quite among ourselves."
"And has it become absolutely requisite
to your physical nature to indulge in this
dangerous narcotic?" I asked looking up
at my tall, lank, sallow-faced confrere.
BLAMES THE CLIMATE.
"One needs this stimulus here something
to arouse one out of this oppressive leth
argy," he leplied, waxing ostensibly en
thusiastic with the progress of his dis
course. 'The general languor and enerva
tion which this climate produces lie like a
heavy burden upon one at times. The
European stimulants, snch as wines and
beer, are practically impossible. So what
are you going to do? Y,ou simply partake
now ana men oi a little nasneesb, and teel
for a few hours like a god in the Olympus,
as mighty as a hurricane, as strong as a
Titan."
A lurid sparkle momentarily lighted up
the glassy, strangely staring eyes of my
companion, while his ssthmatio voice
changed strikingly in tone and volume with
the latter words of his speech.
By this time we had reached our destlna.
tion. Wa were facing a narrow, towering
structure of massive hewn stone, gray
stained and here and there moss-covered by
age. A few small windows.or rather pigeon
hoIes,grated withrusty ironbars, relieved the
naked but imposing simplicity of its front.
My escort raised the heavy wrought iron
knocker on the door and pounded it twice
on its timeworn block.
After a few moments a little peephole in
the door was opened from the inside, and
the swarthy face of an Arnaut loomed up
'from out the inner darkness. Then the
ponderous door, studded with numerous
abbreviated spikes, was pulled open. Next
we groped our way through the sepulchral
gloom up a long, steep flight of stone stairs,
and then entered a large, dismal, scantily
furnished room, into which fell a meager
light through a couple of narrow, latticed
windows.
The sun was now setting and flooded the
surrounding roofs with a beautiful, rosy
glow. The reflection therefrom imparted
also a warm, reddish tone to this cheerful
apartment
We apparently came somewhat late, as
the company, consisting of young and middle-aged
men, had evidently been assem
bled for some time, thev all being already
under the influence of the Indian hemp
extract Some of them were sitting at a
large round table, one standing on top of
it,others were ambling abont the room making
all sorts of strange maneuvers,and still others
were dancing, if we may dignify their antics
by that word. Every one was murmuring
in a semi-loud but indistinct tone to
himself; ther all swayed to and fro,
now inclining them forward, now
backward, and then bending them in a stiff,
ludicrous manner toward the ceiling. Also
the hands and feet of most of them were in
constant motion, but with a peculiarly
quick, abrupt movement, only suggestively,
as it were. Nobody appeared to see or
be conscious of anyone else; everybody
seemed occupied solely with himself and
his "ideas."
THE FIBST EXPERIENCE.
Upon first sight the motionless, stained
features and ghastly look of these fellows
made me shudder with horror and repug
nance. As I had noc only come to see, but
also to experience the strange powers of
hasheesh, 1 conquered my adverse feelings
and prepared to taste the wondrous, fantas
tic dreams this deadly narcotic effects. We
received no attention whatever from any
body except the Arnaut attendant, who
moved a couple of large chairs to the table,
and then placed before each of us a small
basket containing some almond-shaped con
fection of a light greenish hue, within which
the mysterious, magic agent was secreted
a mere extract of the harmless and innocent
looking hemp.
Seeing my companion convey a piece of
mis sugar eageriy to nis moutn, jl was en
couraged to do likewise. It was an aro
matic, somewhat bitter-tasting pastile, dis
solving quickly like soft peppermint on the
tongue, and leaving likewise a slight burn.
ing sensation, which, however, passed away
after a few puffs from a cigarette- Suddenly
the smoking cigarette fell out of my lips. I
felt myself impelled to talk to reveal my
self to my neighbor tell him that I was no
longer a common, groveling hnman being,
who had to wander through life on this hard
earth with wretchedly slow legs but that I
could fly soar like the eag'le through
ethereal space. "So you see, this is the way
I do it," I retuember ejaculating. The most
ineffable, exhilarating sensations thrilled
my inmost self. I felt myself liberated of
all earthly trammels unburdened of all
carnal weight free to range infinity's vast
fields. Some strange, quickening power
pulsated through my every vein. My
whole being seemed etherized. Encir
cled with the fragrance of Paradise,
I was borne aloft on buoyant pinions
through immeasurable space. On and
on I was waited unto an elvsium of bliss and
loveliness. There was neither beginning nor
end to my aerial flight All was boundless
as eternity. I inclined my head backward
and imbibed in torrents the balmy, regener
ating air, and the glorious, roseate light
which was shed around me. AH these
4jBoaeatarj seBsatiopji repeater toparUj
inz to my 'English friend at the time. I felt
that I wished him to share my etherlal en
joyment,. I wished to take him along on
this soaring ascension Into celestial soli
tudes. THE AFXEB EFFECTS.
Bnt my spiritual trance was now searing
its end. Consciousness was gradually re
turning to me. I experienced a peculiar
rushing sensation in my ears. My mouth
ielt very dry and parched. Before my eyes
rose big darK blotches. The beautiful, rosy
glow is fast fading away, and in place of it
arises a grayish fog, through which I dimly
see some of the people in the room. Slightly
startled, I come quite to and find myself
leaning far backward in an armchair. My
friend is standing near me with his back
toward the table gesticulating and appar
ently endeavoring to push his chair away
from him.
The evening glow at the wlndowJias not
quite disapeared yet, I look at my watch
and am astounded the gigantic air voyage
has lasted only 12 minutes. I turn to my
friend with the question, whether we are not
going to depart pretty soon bnt no answer.
His eyes are directed to me, his month
speaks to me, but I cannot understand any
of his words, nor does he -understand me.
A glance at his basket shows me that he
must have consumed nearly a third ot its
contents a prodigious quantity according
to mv novice ideas.
"When will he come to his senses again?"
I cogitated, anxiously. Espying the Ar
naut in the" dimness quietly engaged in
smoking a Turkish waterpipe, I beckoned
to him.
"When does that English gentleman, with
whom I came here, usually go home?"
"When?" repeated the swarthy Moham
medan, looking at me in surprise. "To
morrow," he answered abruptly.
"What," I exclaimed, excitedly, "these
gentlemen remain here in this condition till
morning?"
"In this condition only about two more
hours. At 8 o'clock I take them to sleep.
About an hour from no w I prepare coffee "
"But where do you sleep? I see no place
to lie down upon?" I interpolated curiously.
"In the other room," answered the at
tendant, sauntering toward a small sheet of
drapery which hung over a narrow opening
near one of theicorners of the room. I got
up to follow him, but fell immediately back
into my chair the upper part of my body
proved much too heavy for my legs; I met
the same result npon a second energetic
attempt
DIDN'T TAKE ENOUGH,
Then I cast an appealing look npon my
companion, bnt no recognition. He was
still in the same position, still struggling
with his chair, and still murmuring softly
and indistinctly with his lips. In my little
despair I was about to shake him by the
arm, when Arnaut jumped toward me' like
a flash, grasped my arm, and cautioned me
not to disturb anybody, saying that that
was strictly prohibited. "You should have
eaten more hasheesh, sir," he pursued,
genially; "I fear you will get sick. Three
pieces is the least that is taken; your friend
takes about ten, or even more."
I resigned myself bravely to my fate,
watched the attendant illumine the room by
means of a tevr primitive stearine lamps
which were held by a quaint, four-armed
wooden chandelier, and patiently awaited
the total disappearance of the effects of the
narcotic uoon me. It gradually became
more and more quiet in the room. "Not even
the drawing of breath could be beard. A
death-like silence was finally reigning.
The odor of strong coffee was beginning to
pervade the heavy, unbearably oppressive
atmosphere of the room. It seemed as it
this smell was an awakening signal for
these awe-inspiring dreamers. For nowithe
one or the other stirred himself. The sound
of respiration ould be heard again. A
cough, a sigh, a long-drawn breath and
other similar sounds dissipated the prior
stillness, xne aancers now cot up from the
J floor and staggered, feeling jjjeir way along
mv wof j, luro mo oner room, inose sitting
at the table tried to follow, but sank onto
their knees alter a few paces.
At this juncture the Arnaut came in
adorned like a cook, with a white apron and
a cap seizeu one auer ine other by the arm
and led them into the adjoining apartment,
in which broad divans, with a little table
placed before eacn of them, were arranged
along the walls. Hereupon he brought in
the coffee served in little shells, after the
Turkish fashion, and presented to each of
ns the thick, dusky fluid. Soon one after
the other reclined his head upon the cush
ions, and it was not long before sleep reigned
supreme. For my part, I howled with the
wolves, as the proverb goes. The coffee
soothed and refreshed me, and soon made
me drowsy.
DISCUSSING THE MIGHTS.
Early in the next morning everybody was
awake. My legs had regained their former
strength, and exoepting a slight nausea I
did not notice any of the usual after effects
of such narcotism no dryness in the throat,
no burning in the eyes, and no dullness of
the head.
"Well," interrogated my friend, as soon
as we bad emerged into the relreshing,
balmy morning air, "how did you en
joy it?"
"1 wouldn t want to take hasheesh a sec
ond time."
"Whv, didn't you have pleasant dreams?"
he asked, surprised.
"Pleasant? Why, wonderful, unspeaka
bly grand for a few minutes, bnt then the
awakening, and "
"Oh, well, you didn't eat enough," he in
terrupted. "That tali, fat gentleman you
saw is an architect from Germany employed
by the Khedive. The indulgence of hasheesh
is almost a matter of business and profit
to him. He builds the most gorgeous
palaces in his dreams, and his mind is there
fore left crowded with thousands of ideas for
new plans and decorations, whioh he fre
quently brings to practical use. Thus
everybody has his own peculiar visions,
and his ideals are for the time being more
than fulfilled for him. Could there he any
thing more beautiful and wonderful?"
Hasheesh-coufect is made and sold by
nearly all American confectioners. But a
demon lurks within the sugar. Oncetasted,
it is no easy matter to vanquish the subse
quent desire for it Upon the most it has
the same effect that the first taste of human
blood has upon a tiger. But in course of
time the quantity has to be increased in
order to produce the desired effect, and the
eventual consequence is death. A French
physician practicing in Cairo put it very
truly into the following laconio phrase:
"Opium kills slowly, hasheesh speedily and
beautifully." G. Gude.
HOW SEALS KEEP HOUSE.
Homes Prepared by Males, Occnpled Tear
ly by tbe Some Couples.
Charles O. Btlckney tn Boston Globe.
"Jnst as of old the seasons come and go,"
and just as of old, year after year, as regu
larly as the globe completes its annual cir
cle, there occurs what is termed the "land
ing" of the seals. What scenes of peace or
war transpire among the seal family out in
ocean depths we may not know, but we do
know what takes place after the heads of
the various families arrive, which is in the
"merry month of May." The seal army of
occupation fairly ashore there ensue
scenes more or less dramatic, and which in
dicates that there is a good deal of human
nature in the seal, as there is in fact, to more
or less extent. In every living creature be
neath the snn.
About the middle of May, usually, the
males, which are the first ot the breeding
seals to arrive, crawl from the water end es
tablish the rookeries in readiness for the
cows that begin to come somewhat later.
It seems probable that the rookeries are oc
cupied by the same bulls and cows from
year to year, as they, the rookery grounds,
change but little, either in size or form; but
it has been proven that the bachelors do not
return to the same hauling grounds, or even
yeaj to yjy ,
to me same mana, wittt regularity ixom
OFF FOE THE SOUTH.
Striking Incidents of a Sail From
Hew York to Aspinwall.
YAEIETY OP MID-OCEAN CRANKS.
Neptune's Stomach Pump Gets to Work in
the Caribbean Sea,
A CHEAP BATE TO BAK FEAM0ISC0
COBKISPOHDSXCX 07 THE DISPATCH.:
ID OCEAN, Decem
ber 11, 1889. A visit
or to the Southern
Continent and there
are more of them in
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these days than could be counted m naif a
century If coming from the United States,
may make his choice among several routes.
If bound for the eastern coast of South
America, he would better sail from New
York by one of the Brazilian mall steamers
to Bio Janeiro; and at the latter port, the
chief city of the newest Bepubllo under the
snn, embarking in some other floating pal
ace for Montevideo and Buenos Ayres; and
thence, if he desires, through the Straits of
Magellan and up the western side.
If wishing to visit first the western coast,
the best plan is to go via Pacific Hail
steamer to Aspinwall, and thence by rail
across the Isthmus, connecting at Panama
with some English or Chilian vessel for "np
south," as they say near the equator. Or,
starting from any point by rail, he may
travel in a Pullman car, away down through
Mexico, to Vera Cruz, and sail from that
The Chair and Mug.
fever-haunted old town across the Gulf and
into the Caribbean Sea; or from San Fran
cisco by ocean and the aid of the Panama
railway, he may as easily reach any part of
South America.
On account of the seasons, the rainy time
and the fever periods, if leaving the United
States in autumn the very best way is to sail
from New York, via the Pacific Mail line,
purchasing a ticket to Panama only. By
the way, are you aware that one mav journey
from New York to San Francisco by this
same Pacific Mail, down one ocean and up
the other, much cheaper and in more com
fortable fashion than by rail? To be sure
the wide detour occupies a wholemonth, but
it is 32 days of delight, including the rail
way ride across the Isthmus and many stops
on the Western coasts of Central America
and Mexico. And, strange to say, while
passengers to Panama pay $100 for first
class tickets, a journey of nine days from
.New York, those all the way aronnd to San
Francisco pay only $80 food and all ex
penses included! ut course tbe moving
cause for this great discrepancy in price is
competition with the railroads, and it could
not be kept up, were it not for the freight
and mail service, without enormous loss to
the company.
THE PAETX ON BOARD.
On a bright but chilly November Friday
your correspondent found herself floating
slowly away from Pier'45, New York. The
lnceuant Love-Making.
majority on board are citizens of tbe United
States, bound for 'Frisco. Englishmen
come next in numerical strengths then Ger
mans, Hebrews, Frenchmen, Italians and
Spanish-Americans, the latter tiostly en
gaged in business on the Isthmus; but not
nun a uozen, outsiue our own partT
en route to the southern continent?
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who are
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by, when we find ourselves under lb
tion of foreign flags, on another oci
n, the
Stars and Stripes, still flung to the
reeze,
signaling the fact that a representative of
"God's country" is on board, will be. an
swered by a general hoisting of flags on
shore. So much for the dignity ofl Uncle
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always are. There are those who have had
remarkable storm experiences; the callow
youths, full of salt-sea .terms, culled from
"Ten Years Before the Mast," or like litera
ture; the big, blonde, side-whiskered En
glishmen of leisure, with wide trousers,
tweed jackets and little caps perched above
the Inevitable eyeglass. Though seeming
to look with loftv contempt upou every na
tion bnt that of the "Sight little tight little
island." these people improve vastly upon
acquaintance and generally turn out to be
not balf such conceited coxcombs as first
appearances would indicate. They, to
gether with the French, Italians and Spanish-Americans,
male and female, invariably
enjoy their bottles of wine at dinner, while
the Germans contentedly guzzle their beer;
all gaze with astonishment, not unmixed
with pity, at the infinitesimal minority of
North Americans who indulge in water
only.
SINGING ON THE UPPER DECK.
It is noticeable that the majority of
smoking room cranks (where the bar is the
chief attraction) belong to "the Land of the
Free and the Home of the Brave." At
night when the steward's cry of "Eleven
o'clock, all lights out," has banished those
bacchanalians from the lair of the serpent
they repair to the upper deck and make
night hideous by lively carols with choruses
attached the Briton usually protesting
against the irrepressible American who in
sists on getting in Uncle Sam's anthem to
wind np on.
The diary cranks are with us, too mostly
maidens still in the salad stage, or well
past the age "uncertain" who sit all day
with stubs of pencils in their mouths and
soulful gaze fixed out at sea; the coquettish
widow who changes her gowns three times a
day; the grande dame, probably from some
oil, pork-packing, or mining region, laden,
even at breakfast time with a gorgeous store
of diamonds, evidently not inherited.
The principal rarity of the genus crank to
be found in this part of the world is the
Spanish-American, with plenty of the warm
sun and rich vintage of the South in his
veins dark-eyed, passionate, fickle as the
winds and as unstable as the sands, to whom
perpetual love making is as essential as the
air he breathes. He gazes at the pretty girls
with that fixed and ardent stare which'in his
own country is intended andreceived merely
as a tribute to beanty. Should the em
barrassed object of his ogling retire in des
peration to her stateroom she will gain little
thereby, for the satellite will follow and
prance to and (to before her door for hours
together, occasionally pressing bis small
right hand to the region of his heart and
heaving sighs heavy enough to change the
course of the ship. To close the door means
suffocation, and the onlv alternative is to re
main totally deaf and blind, or to drape a
shawl across the portal and hide behind its
folds.
As the weather grows warmer on onr
southward way, every one of these flirta
tious Spanish-Americans provokingly en
hances his fascinations by donning a" coat
of pale yellow silk, the universal neglige of
the Panamaian, which sets off wonderfully
well his olive skin and brilliant eyes. The
Englishmen, too, bloom out in suits of white
or creamhued flannel, low shoes of white
canvas and dainty hose to match their dainty
ties.
"WHAI TO TAKE ALONG.
Afewbintsasto dress and luggage may
be appreciated by those who design coming
this wav. First, bring just as little as pos
sible and having reduced your fancied needs
to a minimum, go over the list again and
prune ont another third. Prepare to wear
under flannels all tbe time in whatever lati
tude. Bemember, too, that throughout all
opanisn-America women are no moreex-
Eected to enter a church with hats on their
eads than men are; and to spare yourself
the mortification of being obliged to take off
your oonnet at tbe door, or or being scowled
at upon all sides, if not actually ordered
nnf nrinn u bma w v t-1T f kla aI 1a
out, bring a .scarf or mantilla of black lace.
A friend of mine in South America, not
-having a-roantillA at hand, rippcU the lace
flounce off an' old black dress, cnt it into
square, and thus made herself as piously
presentable as any Peruana.
The first 1,078 miles our course lies almost
due south, along the seventy-fourth parallel.
About 335 miles from New Yorfewe find
ourselves abreast Cape Hatteras, where the
usnal rough seas remind one of the sailor's
tradition, "If the Bermudas let you pass,
you must beware of Hatteras." A sudden
warming of the atmosphere announces un
mistakably when the Gulf Stream is entered
that mysterious current upon whose course
so much of life and verdure depends.
Precisely 998 miles from the Goddess of
Liberty and her uplifted torch, lies San Sal
vador, the little island where Columbus
made his first landing in the New World.
THE TEST OP THE STOMACH.
None need to be told when the Caribbean
Sea is entered, for the fact is at once em
phatically attested by the boisterous waves.
The faces of our neighbors grow pale and
paler, then blue, then ghastly gray; the
nautical crank, the flirtatious Spaniard, the
patriotic Englishman and American who
had been warding off this same emergency
by imbibing no end of champagne, even
those who had oftenest asserted they were
"never, never sick at sea," stood not UDon
the order of going, and in less time than it
takes to tell it the deck was comparatively
deserted. Then that sound that is so
familiar to sea-goers, that word which is
the same in all languages, and is always
given with a rising inflection of more or less
intensity (pronounced u-r-r-a-o-o-o-p), is
heard on every hand. When dinner is on,
racks having been put on the tables to pre
vent the dishes flying across the cabin, the
a-r-r-o-o-o-ps are loudest, as if the organs of
smell were somehow in collusion with Nep
tune's stomach-pump causing all the com
ponent parts ot the ship's generous menu
for a week past to rise in review before the
stricken sufferer, as the sins of a dying man
are said to do.
But it is surprising how the first glimpse
of land acts as a curative. The moment
Manzanilio Island heaves into view, the
most helpless and hopeless of an hour be
fore begin to bestir themselves, and pres
ently appear on deck. And here we are at
last, bumping against thn dock at Aspin
wall Fannie B. Waed.
THE KEIST05E CAPOS, OP C0DESE.
It FomUbea tbe Terr Refinement of Anl
mnl Food for a Roast.
John Chamberlln In Boston Herald.
There is nothing that furnishes & more
delicate roast than a capon. Its flesh is the
refinement of animal food. Not until next
month can we find it at its best While it
is piactically obtainable nearly all the year
around, yet it is only in a state of perfection
from Febuary until May. A perfect fowl
is a broad, fnli-breasted bird, and the best
of those come from Bucks county, Pa.
Why that locality favors their develop
ment more than elsewhere I cannot tell, any
more than I can explain why the tenderes't
and best flavored turkeys come from Bhode
Island. The caponized chickens which
come from Bucks county are short and full,
and possessed of a surprising proportion of
white meat
PAPEE DOLLARS UHKHOWN.
Silver nnd Not Greenbacks tbe Small Cur
rency of California.
Washington Port.!
"We don't see a dollar bill once in a thou
sand years out my way," said Captain J.
O. Darby, of San Francisco, as, in paying
his bill at V'illard yesterday, he took from
the clerk In charge a little bundle of fl
greenbacks. "It Is-not that we are poor,"
Captain Darby went on, "but our unit of
circulation is the Silver dollar. Positively,
a paper dollar would be 8 curio, whilehere
in the past ten days I have seen nothing but
the flimsy. I do not understand your ex
emption from, hard money."
"WhT bo discontent" when wa haya Dr.
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CHAPTER HI.
MALACIII'S INVALID DATJGHIEB.
The day on which onr story opened was a
peaceful one in the house of Malachi the
Pharisee. Of all days, alasl one could not
say that in the house of Malachi. He was
an imperious fellow; Hagaar, his wife, was
a loud shrew; their only child was an in
valid girl. Given these mater ails, the na
ture of that house need not be described.
After her father and mother had left her
for the trip to Jerusalem, the sick girl sank
back upon her pillows with a sigh of relief.
Solitnde was a luxury in her lot, such as
only the badgered sick can know how to
value. A single maid servant, in a distant
part ot the bouse, theoretically attended
upon her young mistress and practically for
got her. The girl took this as a matter of
course and reduced her wants to her circum
stances with the patient grace of the fre
quently neglected invalid. It was easier to
thirst for water out of reach, or pant for the
motion of the great fan that hung idly in
the sultry room over the head of her couch,
than to stop her ears from her mother's
shrill voice, or shrink from her father's se
verity. Malachi had never forgiven his
only child for being a girl. A sick one at
that Vas he not an unfortunate man?
Ariella thought him so, and meekly re
proached herself for her calamity. Ariella
was the sweetest girl in the world. Before
her misfortune many a young Jew thought
so Lazarus,, her neighbor, among them.
But affliction had shut her quite away from
other young people for now so many years
that she was well forgotten. It is not im
possible that between herself and Lazarus
there might once have existed one of those
vague, immature attractions which youth
and maiden scarcely recognize enough to
call them passions, yet which lend a certain
tender reverence to their impressions of
each other in womanhood and manhood.
Lazarus felt sorry for Ariella. Ariella
thought kindly of Lazarus. She thought
him a handsome man. Sometimes the
saw him passing the house on his way to
Jerusalem. Once in a while he remembered
to salute her as he passed. Otherwise they
never met. She had been a beantifnl girl,
merry and mimic and bewitching. She had
I faded out of the sensibility of Lazarus, as
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the color fades in a poor piece ot Tyrian
stuff when left forgotten in the sun and dew.
Might she have been the ruling power of lis
heart? She had become only one of his
humane regret;. Yet nearer than Ariella no
woman had ever come to the life of this pure
and meditative Jew.
Ariella experienced the peculiar fate of
the sice; to taste ot death berore one s time,
yet to possess the passions of life; to lie like
the wounded soldier
"Unable or to more, or die-"
to become a ghost in the hearts of one's
friends; to receive from them tbe regretful
tribute that we give to the buried, yet to
throb with the hopes, longings, ambitions,
all the eager unsatisfied sowers of possible
activity this is tbe invalid's lot.
Ariella tried to bear it patiently. But she
was very young. It went hard sometimes.
Her misfortune befell her in this wise:
Upon an early summer evening, when
Ariella was 16 years of age, she was sent by
her mother to the fountain of EnShemesb,
a mile from the road to Jericho, for water,
the cistern in the court being dry, tbe
drouth severe. Veiled and protected by the
reserve of a modest Jewish maiden,
Ariella obeyed fearlessly. It was not
thought to be a dangerous errand
so near the vicinity or the city;
for Jerusalem was less than two miles
from Bethany. But Bethany lay upon the
high road to Jericho; and beyond the su
burban shadow was a wild journey, infested
with robbers and barbarians.
One of these lawless fellows, venturing too'
near civilization, overtook the beautiful
girl on her return. "To my tribe I'll take
thee," he said brutally. Ariella flung the
jar from her head and fled. Probably the
marauder meant less than he said, but mur
der would not have terrified tbe maiden
more. Arms of man had nevertooched her.
and she flew for dearer than life. The ruf
fian caught her and a terrible struggle fol
lowed. Her cries brought Malachi, her
father, who bad been sent by his wife to
conduct her home, puffing to the spot The
fellow was arrested and fined 400 zug for
uncovering the face of a woman in public.
But the girl was hurt In her struggle she
had received a severe spinal injury.
That was nine years ago. Ariella was
now 25 and the despair of the best medical
skill of Jerusalem. She had become that
most pitiful of human beings a yonng in
valid "given up."
Ariella was lying quite peacefully on her
low couch upon the morning when she was
left alone. Neighbors would come in pres
ently; she liked these neighbors; Bachef, the
mother of Baruch, and Baruch himself, the
blind man. Tbey knew what it was to be
unfortunate, to be not like other people.
They could understand.
Ariella wore a white, thin robe, inwrought
with silk embroidery at the edges in a little
design of field lilies. She lay within it,
white and sweet, a lily herself, living
through a long drouth. Her face was ex
quisitely modeled. It had the delicacy of
line which comes from prolonged and pro
found suffering patiently borne.
Bnt when their neighbor Bachel came to
her she brought a disappointment. She
could not remain. A servant wassick in the
house of Bacbel and required her presence.
"And as for leaving you alone," said
Bachel, with motherly decision, "it is not to
be thought of. I shall send Baruch with
out me. He shall come to thee and tbat
girl Deborah must remain within hearing.
I'll see to her I Leave it to me. Barach's
misfortune and thine own protect thee. For
my part I say it is becoming enough con
sidering Deborah and I'll answer for the
propriety of it to thy parents and to all
Judea, if need be, too. Thou art not like
others, Ariella.' No evil tongue can harm
thee."
Then it befell for Ariella raised no objec
tions, seeing none tbat Ariella and Baruch
passed some hours of that morning in a se
clusion and freedom unusual to Jewish
young people.
They accepted the sitnation as sedately as
two spirits, and the mother of Baruch
blessed them and left them contentedly,
promising to look in upon them when she
conld, end roundly rating Deborah up to
her dnty as the feminene dea ex machina of
the position. Baruch and Deborah and
Bachel between them moved the cot of
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Continued From Last Sunday.
stone pillars; the hot morning grew; the
court was peaceful; the house was still.
Deborah sang at her wort, chanting from
the Psalms; Ariella and Barnch. chatted
quietly. How pleasant It was I
ButBaruch was born blind.
"Thy fate is worse than mine," said Ari
ella, pitifully.
"But I cau walk," said Baruch, bravely;.
"Thou art a man and strons," urged Ari
ella, with pretty feminine instinct This
pleased the blind mas and he flushed grate
fully. "Yes," he nodded. "Yes, I am quite
strong. I lift many a burden for my mother."
"She says you are a good son," cooed
Ariella.
"I could lift hy cot and thee and carry
thee about toe court, and set thee down like
a sparrow's feather," protested Baruch.
"Nay then, do HI" laughed the sick girl
merrily. In her heart she thought sha
should enjoy it What fun to frolic like
other girls.
But Baruch shook his head.
"I might hit thee against one of the pill
ars or jar tbee because I could not see. Wa
are not like others, Ariella. We may sot
play."
Secretly, Ariella liked this tone of au
thority; she yielded to it agreeably, as tha
feather of the wheat yields to the rising
wind. Barnch was a manly fellow. Sha
looked at bis strong and patient face; sha
could watch him quite freely,
"You have the advantage of me," said
Baruch, after a silence. Ariella blushed.
How should he know that she observed him?
She felt sorry; as if she had committed
some rudeness.
"You think I take an advantage ?" asked
Ariella, penitently. "I will not err any
more."
"Have it or take it;" replied the blind
man heartily. "Use it in either -way. I
grudge nothing to yonr advantage savin?
that it is only I may not exercise against
yourself, sweet neighbor. I should use it
if I could, I pray you to believe me."
"lam not much to look at," parried
Ariella with a little pardonable touch of
feminine coquetry; "I am very thin; my
face is long and white."
"My mother tells me you are fair to look
upon," replied Barach simply. Again
Ariella felt somewhat rebuked. She had
often in the presence ot Baruch the con
sciousness of a more massive character than
her own. Was this the influence of his
supreme affliction? Her own seemed small
to her beside it
Sometimes she was, so sorry for Baruch,
that she could have wept for him.
Sometimes Baruch was so sorry for Ariella
that he could have knelt at her white feet
and kissed them.
"Deborah I" called Ariella suddenly:
'Deborah! Come bither. I desire the fan
brought from the inner chamber."
Deborah was shouting out an imprecatory
Fsalm at the top of her lungs. She did not
hear.
"I will bring the fan," said Baruch. He
rose and went slowly into tbe chamber of
Ariella. With eyes which saw nothing,
with a heart which perceived who shall say
how much? he felt his way delicately across
that sanctuary of purity and suffering. Ha
raised bis hands above the white bed where
she slept the light sleep of pain. Groping,
he found the large suspended fan, and re
turned with it quickly to the court. He
came out of the chamber with his head bent
like a man who eonld see but would not
Now this procedure on the part of Baruch,
was absolutely unconventional almost un
pardonable to Oriental social ethics. But
Baruch was not like other men. Ariella
thanked him with an unconsciousness which
in his turn made him feel abashed before
her. His long, thin, sensitive fingers
touched the tissue drapery of her couch,
hesitated, and trembled on the edge of her
white robe.
"It is embroidered with lilies," he said;
and laid it gently down. Ariella looked at
him a little perplexed. What ailed Ba
rnch?
"Deborah," she called, "Deborahl"
But Deborah was cooking lentils for tha
noon meal; quite out of the way. In default
of a matron the girl changes the subject
Ariella did this with thecfuick-wittedness of
her sex. The talk between herself and Ba
ruch was becoming uncomfortable.
"I understand," she said abruptly, "that
the new rabbi will discourse in the syna
gogue to-day. I should like to hear him if
I were like other girls."
"I would bring him hither I will bring
himl" cried Baruch eagerly.
"You speak like a good neighbor and a
kind friend, Baruch. But that which you
say is as impossible as for me to arise and
walk unto Jerusalem."
"I am not sure " began the blind man;
and stopped short
Of what are you then not surer aszed
Ariella.
"That tha thing of which you speak is
impossible either, dear Ariella. unce in
a great while Barnch call his yonng neigh
bor dear Ariella. Their affliction fostered
between them mace for an affection which,
both were too delicate to mismanage or to
misunderstand.
"I know sot what yon mean," said
Ariella's sweet, pathetic voice. "Many
physicians have considered my case. My
father avows he has paid his last shekel to
the tribe of them in my behalf. Jerusa
lem? I shall never set my foot beyond
this courtyard, Baruch, unless I be borne
bv the hands or others. Sometime
w'hen it is not too much trouble my father
has carried me without that I may look
abroad. I saw the sun set three times
above the heights of Zion last summer.
That was a pleasure, venly! He had grown,
large since I saw him last I thought with
in myself tbat he bad come to manhood.
He was a boy sun when I looked upon him
before!" Ariella laughed. She baa a lovely
laugh.
"He of whom we speak healeth many that
are sick," pursued Baruch.
"But not me," said Ariella. "No man
healeth me!"
"Ariella." said the blind man solemnly,
rising ana lifting his sightless eyes to
heaven, "as Jehovah heareth, I misdoubt
sometimes if this man be not more than man
like other men."
"But vou do sot mean to say," cried
Ariella, '"'that you take tbat view of this
new favorite of the people? You do not be
lieve he is"
"Say it not," interrupted the blind man,
"say not the word. If it be he that was
written of, verily time will prove. Al
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mighty Godwill prove. Forme, I wait
But I watch, Ariella, I may confess to thee.
Yes. I watch."
At this moment Baruch had the aspect of.
a man who saw not the little thines that""
others see; earth, sky. sea, human faces, 5
numan art, and tnelnddesta tbat appeal tot
the human passions; hut invisible powers
and influences that are arguments; facts so
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