-3' ''': S8EffiFiT 'Vf .r s 10 my duty; for the rest I was not responsible. 1 had consulted ray watch, and fonnd that the murder had been committed near the hour of 8. I reached the hotel when the hall hour bad passed by some live iniuutes. Ascending the flight or steps, I saw a figure pacing up and down the veranda on the side opposite to the direction in which I had come, the figure of a woman in a lone cloak, the hooo. of which was drawn OTer her beau, one made a little rush toward me when I appeared, and then uttered an exclamation of disappointment. It was Bertha Glaye, the daughter of my eccentric pat'ent, and she was evidently expecting a younger man than myself. Happy Otto Morton! Le roi est mort. Vive le roi! . I greeted her with my usual amiability, and then, as the fatherly doctor, suggested that the night air was too chill and damp for her lungs. "I am waiting for the return of my mother." she said, half defiantly, halt timidly. "Has yonr mother gone out in a night like this?" I asked in great surprise, for ay patient had the greatest fear oi the open air, and remained in her room with closed windows for days together. "Mamma has been unusually nervous and excited all day. She's unbearable," added the lair Bertha, under her breath, and as if talking to herself. "Did she venture out alone?" "She refused my company, and she ob jected to the companionship of her maid. Perhaps she has returned through the door oe the other side." "One moment, if yon pltase. Can you tell me where your mother has gone?" "If you knew her better, you would not ask the daughter for confidences of the mother. A stranger knows more than I," she said bitterly, with a frown on her hand some face. "One question further, if you please. Can you tell me where to find Mr. Otto Morton? I wish to see him on important business." "I have not seen him for the entire even ing," she answered, in a voice tremulous with suppressed tears. "I wish I were dead!" "With this qneer desire on her lips, the handsome young woman turned lroru me and entered the hotel. I was a trifle disappointed, for I had de pended on Mr. Morton to aid me. But time was of importance, and so. when a certain Mr. Banile fortunately appeared, I seized upon him and told him of mv discovery. It was too dark to see, but I am convinced that the color faded even irom his wine-stained nose in his horror. He grasped my arm to save himself from falling, gasped two or three times, then said, in a voice that he tried to make strong: "It's horriblel" "It is human nature, my friend. When we do not eat, we are eaten!" "Bet us go! Let us go," he said, ner vously, "immediately, to hunt the villain down and twist his neck." "Softly, my friend. The murdered woman needs our first care. We must have help to bring her in. Summon some of vonr friends, the most discreet, and hurry up." He re tired, and, after an irritating absence, re turned, with his breath smelling strongly of whisky and cheese, and with the informa tion that he bad notified a couple of his friends, and that they would appear in a minute. This was rnshing in the midst of humanity with a vengeance, for in a mo ment, iu place of two men, all the available male guests of the hotel were on the ve randa, and ready to serve under my orders. "Was I to play the part of detective at my 8ge? It would have been laughable had it not been annoying. The fools! They were only animated by gaping curiosity and had not a sensible idea among them. To get rid of the superabundance of society, and with no hope of anything coming of it, I requested two of the numbskulls to go in the direction of the deserted house by the pond; to take lanterns with them, if possi ble, or torches, and to look out for a man or a woman, alive or dead. They were to lock in the old fungus eaten build ing, and to do anything that would keep them out of my way. If they discovered anything they were to call on me at my house on their return. Two other idiots I sent in another direction, to that they might intercept the criminal in case he or she, alarmed by the light, took to the woods. I selected Bantle and another man to accompany me, and having uncere moniously lifted a shutter from its hinges before one of the hotel windows to rest the body on, we set out on our melancholy mis sion. Shall I confess that I was human enough, or base enough, to feel a hunter's instinct? To kill something! Take these away from the incentives of human pleasures or luxu ries? As a philosopher I was humiliated. but as a man I could not conquer (he hunter's instinct, and I was exhilarated by the humiliating thought that I was initia ting a hunt that would bring a human being to the gallows. A murderer who de served his or her late. Good! But justice has no feeling, and I was animated by the craving passion of our cave-haunting ances tors. Bali! "Why not suck uncooked mar row from bones and complete the similarity to barbarism? A philosopher, too! May the gentle reader pardon me lrom the height of his higher moral nature. I walked briskly onward, paying but lit tle attention to the words of "the excited Bantle, who exhaled sighs and the perfume of whisky in the same breath. At intervals he kept on groaning and muttering: "I knew it! Oh, the wretch. Twist their necks, twist their necksl" Suddenly he grasped my arm and pointed to space with a tretuuloushand. "Book yonder, doctor." I looked in the indicated direction, and saw nothing but the wind-dashed water. "What arc you pointing at?" "I saw a figure on the wharf. A tall figure in a long overcoat or cape!" I strained my eyes, but could still see nothing. The earth mist had now vanished and a cold moon was shining in a cold heav en, flooding water and land with its cold silver light. Save where the square struct ure, the shed tor baggage on the outer edge of the wharf, cast a black shadow, every post, handrail and beam war distinctly visi ble. "I have good vision, my friend, but I see nothing." "My life on it, I sawa human being lean ing on the rails, and looking down into the water, it vanished in the shadow. "But mv friend," I retorted, "the gates are locked, and the wharfinger sleeps in a little house under the shed. Your excited imagination betrays you, or perhaps it was the wharfinger himself." "Perhaps," he muttered, "the wharfinger or his wife!" "You are excited, my Herr Bantle, let us talk ourselves back to the region of comufon sense. Tell me, have you seen Otto Morton this evening?" "This evening, no; this afternoon, yes." "The fair Bertha seemed disappointed. She was evidently waiting for him on the veranda. Do you know where he is?" "Mavbe gone to punch Durand's head." "But they are friends." "I hope they may be, but I wouldn't like to stand between them when they meet." "Yon think Durand is still in love with the charming Bertha?" "He loves so easily and so many at a time that it is very possible. But quick; look now, straight belore you, and tell me what you see." "A test of my eyesight? Good. I see, then, a cypress tree; I see a hill crowned with golden rod and a hollow shadowy with tall vegetable life, and, as I know, with mushrooms, which, in my ignorance, I can not class with either animals or vegetables. Good, edible mushrooms too, as my stomach and palate can answer for." "Didn't you see something creeping near the cvpresstree? A man or woman? Look now," he exclaimed, in the wildest excite ment. "On the road yonder, running in the direction of the railroad station. See, it has vanished in the long grass behind the hotel." My friend was right this time; there was a human figure; the blackest of silhouettes arainst the clear bine sky. as it speeded lightly along the dusty road and vanished In the hotel shadow. "It is unfortunate, my friend, that we can not be ubiquitous. We must complete one work at the time!" We hastened onward through the dark ness, and I was not sorry that the wind had moderated some of its force. But the air had grown very cold, and I ventured the predic tion that we should have frost be ore the morning. "And the poor creature is lying out un protected!" groaned the emotional Bantle. "Hurry up, doctor, the thought is- a night mare!" "It does not feel pain, my friend; the journey has been ended; pain is only with the living." "And perhaps those that live are waiting for it. What is that hideous sound?" he asked in a trembling voice. "An owl!" It sounded dismally enough through the night; dismally, weirdly, and with blood, chilling suddenness. For a moment it sent even my heart bounding to my throat. The distance seems thousands or miles, doctor. Are we nearly there?" "Yonder are the blackberry bushes, and it is lying on the other side in the high grass, staring sightless at the moon, my friend!" We approached the spot, and, to my sur prise and horror, the body had disappeared! "Where is it, doctor?" In his eagerness, Bantle, in answer to my pointing finger, had knelt down. He jumped up almost immediately with a shrill cry of disgust and terror. His right hand and right trousers knee were stained with clotted blood. He stared at his hand, the moonlight add ing a ghastly hue to the ghastly stain, with every vestige of color faded from his face, which was hideously pallid from forehead to chin, as if viewed in a sodium 6ame. "Where is it?" he gasped, turning away his head from his extended hand. "It has been carried off by the criminal or criminals. They have had abundance of time to do that. See, the grass is bent down and crushed here. They have probably dragged the body through it. Boob, it runs downward toward the wharf. The tide is high and the waves are angry; hear them tearing at the land. A body tossed in there will be carried seaward by the morniniJ." "Describe the body to me!" he said ab ruptly, as one out of his wits. "Bet ns walk toward the wharf, while I am gratifying your curiositv, and keen all your senses alert to discover some evidence of the crime." "It is not curiosity, and I don't know what it is!" Despite the solemnity of the occasion, his foolishness amused me; it was another demonstration of my thesis that in human nature extremes not only touch but overlap. Shakespeare makes his fools speak wisdom; had he made his wise men speak like fools, he would have anticipated civilization by over two centuries. You think I am severe on myself? Try your teeth on the kernel before you judge this fruit of philosophical judgment! I described the traits of the murdered woman, and Bantle listened with bated breath. Without egotism.I may be allowed to say that when it pleases me, I possess the gift of eloquence, and I covertlv smiled at the effect oi my words. When I ceased speak ing Bantle still remained under the snell of the picture I had presented to his mental vision! "The victim was handsome," I said, breaking a short silence. "You describe well!" he answered, ner vously mopping his face with his handker chitf."Butsee, we have reached the wharf. The night is cheerless enough from this ex posed point." The spray from the angry ocean was dashed up into our faces, and the wind, which had diminished inland, blew here with the wild lurious shrieking of an angry demon. The tide was going out: but it had been unusually high, and even now at every ocean-pulse it came up through the chinks in the wharf flooring. We stood for a moment on the shore edge of the wharf, staring seaward. "It is a long distance to drag a dead body, doctor," said Bantle, evidently with less intention of starting a conversation than with the desire to break a silence that op pressed him. "I am not a detective, my friend, and I have no theory to defend. The one thing I am certain of is that a vonng woman was murdered, apd that the body has disap- peareu. j.i n nas not been thrown in the water, it will be found." "Is it not probable that she was alive, and has crept away?" 'With a dagger thrust in her heart? Miracles may have happened, but never a miracle like that. The girl was stone dead, and her life blood is still on your hand!" He shivered, stooped down and dabbled his hand on the wet wharf, then rubbed it vigorously with h.s handkerchief. "Take care of your hat, and let us walk to the end of the wharf, from which the body was thrown, if it was thrown anywhere." We cautiously continued onr" ionrnev in the face ot aterrible wind that seemed to tear about from all points of the compass at the same timp. Now we seemed to be pushed back bv a strong hand: now nrprl onward in spite of resistance; now hissed at from one side, now howled atfrom the other, with the salt spray in our eyes and on our lips. Near the upper end of the wharf is the fenced in, rooted square reserved for baggage. The huge gate facing us was barred and locked; in its present condition it could not be entered. Beside it. and rn the right, was a narrow path leading onward to the end of the wharf. To the left there was no passage way, the baggage house encroaching to the end of the wharf in that direction, the only open space being filled head high with coafdust. We took then the passageway to the right, and while in shelter of the structure described we enjoyed a brief cessation from the attacks of the elements, but once out on the head of the wharf the battle began with renewed vigor and with danger threatening us at every step. We kept close to the upper side of the structure, clinging to the bars of the gate, which was locked and barred like its companion on the side oppo site. I never before had so excellent and practical an illustration of the insignificance of the little atom called man as on this occa sion. And let me say that I have been in battles, have climbed mountains and been on the ocean in storms, but I never belore ftlt my insignificance. It was humiliating and exhilarating at the same time; thrice I was on the point of losing my spectacles, and when Bantle attempted to blow his frozen nose the handkerchief was whirled out of his hand, and was hurled a meteor through space. The spray on my glasses ! piuutiuauj' uiiiiucu ujc wi piay me pari oi keen-sighted eagle; so I held resolutely to the gate and allowed Bantle to creep about in search of evidence. And he was in luck, too. On one of the projecting nails of the wharf flooring, to the right, a few feet from one of the huge beams that rose on every side he found the fragments of a shoe, a kid shoe belonging to a woman, and, on my theory, torn from the foot of the dead woman as she was dragged, shoulders first, along the wharf. The entire back part of the shoe was torn away, and the silk ribbon lacing was fractnred. The head ot the nail had entered between the heel and sole, and thus held it secure against wind and wave. Stimulated by this strange find, we con tinued our explorations, but no further dis covery rewarded us. We willingly retired to the mainland, with wet feet, damp cloth ing and icy blood. "It was a bold thing to do, doctor, to drag a dead body to the head of the pier with the wharfinger sleeping a few leet away." "A daring thing to think, of, my friend, but an easy and safe thing to do on a night like this. We have been'out to the end of the wharf; were we seen? I might hnve murdered you, or you me, and still we would not have been seen. And then it still remains to be seen if the wharfinger was at home. We must make haste slowly. We are only doing our duty; if our theory is wrong, we are prepared to accept a better one. Bet us now warm up our blood by trotting in the direction to which we saw the figure mysteriously disappear." Bantle was pretty well used up, both mentally and physically, but he was bravelv obedient, and we were soon trotting through the tall grass, and serving as food for a host of voracious mosquitoes. We taw nothing of a suspicious nature; but near the hotel we met the two idiots whom I had sent in the direction of the deserted house by the pond. They told a queer story. They had improvised torches and had boldly entered the deserted honse, when the torches were stricken from their hands by '! X THE somebody suddenly leaping at tliers from the darkness. Before they had mustered their surprise this mysterious somebody had brushed by them and vanished into space. Neither of the idiots could tell whether the somebody was a man or woman, and they made no attempt to follow in the wake of the living figure. In their fine wisdom they decided it was only a tramp. aud so they picked up their torches and according to their own accounts, inves tigated every inch of ground in the-bouse. The only item of value thehad discovered was an ear-ring a valuable solitaire diamond whose glitter had drawn their attention to it as it lay on the dnsty, mouldv floor. This was a revelation and a puzzle to mc, iur ine murdered woman wore plain gold ear-rings which were in her ears when I discovered the body. I was convinced that she had never nnKvpftvprl snrh atrAmcnrA Her attire and general appearance suggested that her means and station did not allow her to indulge in the luxury of large, rare, flawless diamonds. "Keep this ear-ring carefully," I said to the discoverer, "and surrender it only to the detective whom I shall summon here early in the morning. In the meantime we may all rest with the consciousness that we have exerted our best endeavors in the cause ot justice and morality. I have no doubt that the murderer, will lej discovered and pun ished, and so I will not detain yon lrom your well-merited respose." They bade me a very cordial farewell and retired. Bantle grasping me by the hand with much effusion, and complimenting me on my firmness. His weak mind had recog nized my strong intellect, he felt my superi ority, the superiority of brains and world experience, and he was dog-like in his ad miration. Poor humanity; always blunder ing, always seeking !or a leader, pitiful even in its sinfulness, what else did it deserve, than my sad toleration? What is man be side nature, nature the grand, the heroic, the undecipherable, the majestic! Nations age and wither. Nature " is ever young. Is it, then, wonderful that I, the wise man, greet her, love her? 1 was glad to be alone once more, and I walked on slowly, glancing upward at the sky. A haze was slowly spreading over it. thick to ward the east, a mere film westward. Every where a suggestion of winter, and summer hardly dead. Tbe tide had gone out con siderably, and I was irresistibly attracted toward the shore. I stood on a rock that an hour before had been covered with water, and glanced along tbe curving line of wrack toward the wharf. I expected to see noth ing, and I saw nothing; but 1 stood and stared musing over the mystery that had startled me from my philosophic repose. My imagination was stimulated and in every foam-flecked wave I seemed to see the outline of the poor woman who wat at rest forever. I became sad as usual in facing the immensity of waters, the poetry in my nature was aroused and I was also hungry. A curious combination! Animal and soul united; a heaven clearing spirit and an earth bound body; Hegel and sausages! Such is life! I To be continued next Sunday. Copyright 1890. HIGH GEABE OF ACTHTO. Americana nnrf German Dramatically Cam pnrrd. TV. D. Howells In Harper's Hagazlne for Jane. We wish once more to bear our testimony to the very high grade of acting in onr theaters. We have not only a wonderfully eqnipped dramatic criticism ready to exact a classic excellence from the nascent American drama, but a school of act ing welt fitted to interpret its finest inspirations. We cannot, indeed, truly say that the average of acting we saw at tbe American theaters was so high as that we sound ont night at the German Theater, where we went to hear a play that made all our American plays seem playthings. This was "Die Ehre," a piece by the young dramatist Sudermann, who has 'dared to put more truth into it than has been put into any other modern play except, perhaps, "La Morte Civile." It is simply the story of a young man whom a patronizing benevo lence has educated above tbe station of his family, but who come loyally back to his father and mother and sisters from the prosperity that has dawned upon him in India, to live with them and be one of them. He finds tbe elder sister married to a brutal workman, the younger mistress to the son ot his patron. He appeals to her and the pa rents against the wicked life that none of them have been ashamed of, and they have promised to go back with him to India, when the patron comes in and makes good the wrong his son has done with a handsome check. They are of the poor who can be bought. he ot tne ncn wno imntc money can pay anything. The son is defeated, and fairly driven from his home by his kindred, who lawn upon the patron, and turn from cursing to flattering the guilty girl who has brought them so much money with her dishonor. It is a horrible scene, but as you witness it you realize the horrible truth back of it, that poverty when it is dire must sell itself, and that wealth when it is corrupted with tbe sense of its power can feel no harm in buying. The piece arraigns existing society, not in set terms, but tacitly, by inexorable truth to its facts. It is weakened by adeus ex machina who appears Irom time to timo, and at last carries the young man back to India with the patron's daughter for his bride; but even this folly cannot obscure its awfuljesson, or silence its, appeal to the so cial conscience. TEE REMEDY FOB SLAVERY. A Solemn Combination ABnlnat Gnopowdar In Africa Needed, Stanley In Bcrlbncr. There is only one remedy for these whole sale devastations of African aborigines, and that is tbe solemn combination of England, Germany, France, Portugal, South and Bast Africa, and Congo State against the intro duction of gunpowder into any part of the continent except for tbe use ot their owrf agents, soldiers, and employes; or seizing upon every tusK ol ivory brought out. as there is not a single piece nowadays which has been gained lawfully. Every tusk, piece, and scrap in possession of an Arab trader has been steeped and dyed in blood. Every pound weight has cost the life of a man, woman or child; for every five pounds a hut has been burned; for every two tusks a whole village has been destroyed; every twenty tusks have been obtained at the price of a district, with all its people, villages and plantations. - It is simply incredible that .because ivory is required for ornaments or billiard games, the rich heart of Africa should be laid waste at this late year of the nineteenth century, signalized as it has been by so much advance; tbat populations, tribes and nations should be utterly destroyed. AMTJSDfG THE CSSUiSES. Simple and Haccesaful Flan of a, Travoltas Mother. A lady starting on a long journey with two children, placed in her satchel some pieces of cardboard, scissors and lead pen cils. After the novelty of car riding had worn off, this wise woman produced her treasures. One child cut the cardboard into pieces three-quarters ot an inch square, the other printed on each square a letter. The alphabet was repeated many times. Then each formed words from the letters and gave to the other'to make out. In this way they amused themselves for hours. The mother might have taken the game from home with less tronble to herself, but well she knew there would be more satisfac tion in making it for themselves. Paper dolls were cut and extensive wardrobes fashioned from bright-colored paper that had been thoughtfully provided. At the end of the journey the passengers declared the children wonderfully well behaved, and wished they might always travel with such happy little people. The fact was the chil dren were ordinary children, but their hours had been so pleasantly occupied there bad been no opportunity for becoming weary and thin disagreeable. PITTSBURG DISPATGH, ON LINES OF BEAUTY. Entrances to Pittsburg Business Blocks an Index'to Progress. SOME OP THE FAVORITE EFFECTS. The Arch Will Always ha Proper Massive Stone Buildings. for DOORWAIS PAMILIAR TO EYERIOHB iWBITTEN FOS THS DISPATCH. Pittsburg is just bursting out into the full bloom of architectural beauty. The budding season began with the new Court House, and in every building that has gone Ifew Bank of Commerce. up since its erection, great attention to the lines of beauty is apparent. Business men have discovered that it costs little mo-e to erect a handsome than an ugly building, and now that it ia tbe fashion to please the eye, Pittsburg need have no tear of a re- Philadelphia Company'! Building. lapse to the old order of things when utility was the only consideration in building. Have you ever noticed thatthe distinctive feature of the modern business building is its entrance or portal? Tbe reason is that commercial buildings nowadays pierce the sky, and architects realize that detailed ornamentation abovo the second story is almost useless, for above that only the gen eral outlines are visible from the street The JTustey Building. The first and second stories are carefully worked out, and, as the doorway is the most important of all, it is the paint npon which the best energies of the architect are con centrated. And Pittsburg can boast some strikingly handsome results. In massive stone buildings, the arch will always hold its own, because of its strength and graceful lines. Perhaps the finest speci mens of the commonest arch, the semi- The Lewi Block. circular, will be that of the new Bank of Commerce when completed. The carefully designed arrangement of the short pillars, which break the horizontal lines of the decoration, will give harmony and balance to the- whole and relieve the squatty appear ance so painfully noticeable in many other buildings, the Court House for example. A beautiful scroll runs parallel with the curve of the arch, and delicately carved bas reliefs fill the spandrels. The Philadelphia Company, building pre sents another example of the semicircular arch. While probably larger than the one first described, it is not ax elaborate, but credit is due the architect for the judicious commingling of marble, granite, freestone and brick. ' Although the semi-oval arch is a modern "fad," yet very pleasine effects have been produced in some instances where it has been used. A simple, but none the less very agreeable application, ean be seen in the entrance of. the Farmer's Deposit National Bank. Mori elaborate is the ornamentation T"r"rSS"$! A IMS u 1 - I f$ - is psm iMfi JlLjii JjjSl- - . SUNDAY, JUNE - X of the first floorof the Hussey building. It is a pity that the lower, polished part of the granite columns is not in keeping with the elegant design of the upper third. The transverse bands have too much the appear ance of barrel hoops. The use of Caryatides, Atlantes, griffins or lions as supports has been obsolete so The JTotel Duquesne. long that the effect of the lions supporting the architrave of the entrance to tbe Lewis building has almost the charm of origi nality. More designs of this character would break the monotony produced by the ubiqnitons arch and column'. Where scarcity of ground limits the extent of relief which the architect may give to a portal, it becomes necessary to employ other means than simple lines to produce good results. Sgraffito work has fallen into in jur jners' Deposit National Sank. nocunus desuetude, though it might well be revived in connection with the oblong arch, and terra cotta reliefs and stained glass are successfully used in its stead. The Hotel Duquesne presents a good example; the carvings are well designed, and, the general arrangement bespeaks a fine 'feeling for subtle harmonies on the part of the archi tect. Dozens more of interesting nortals could be cited, but enongh have been given to show the trend of Pittsburg architecture. There can be no step backward; the Gas City is bound to be a thing of beauty and a joy forever. M. Lipmait. BEAUTY OF AMEBICAH" GIBXS. They Farm m. Loftr, Gay, Intrepid and Daubing Army. Tbe Illustrated American. The beanty of American girls is a much discussed question. It is said they have no distinctive points, but it seems, to me that any one who has traveled must easily have settled upon the salient points which go to make' up the beauty of an American girl. A general delicacy of outline as well as coloring are demanded. A woman with very large eyes and no other charms is never rated as a beauty "-here. When a woman is said to be beauti ul in America it means that she has a face molded in deli cate lines, features that are thoroughly, harmonious, a figure which is neither pronouncedly athletic nor too plump, and small hands and feet. In En gland if a woman is 6 feet 2, and broad across the shoulders, she is invariably spoken of in the society papers as beauti ful, though her feet may out-class the iron clad and her knuckles stretch mildly abroad. In Italy and Spain a pair of big, ex pressive eyes are enough, but in America a thoroughly balanced series of attractions must be shown to win the titl. American girls form a lofty, gay, intrepid, and dash ing army, whose audacity should be feminine. They have all of the athletic look of the English woman, without the ill-fitting gloves and ponderous boots. The assumption of semi-masculine attire robs them of their greatest charm. Woman liness is still the most attractive qnality of JEFFEESOK DJ AUSTBAIIA. The Great Actor' Remlolicences of the 8onlhern Island From "The Autobiography of Joseph Jef ferson," in the June Century: "As I look back upon the four years I passed in Aus tralia I can only recall a dear remembrance of the kindness that was shown to me by the refined and hospitable people of that country. For a long time after I left there I contemplated paying it another visit, but year after year rolled on, and now I fear it is too late. To wander through the strpets that I so well re member and find them altered would be nothing; we are too used to these changes in our own countrv to be affected by the won derful growth of cities and the sudden shilt ing of localities; but I should feel lonely in deed to miss .he faces that were so familiar and to think over the olden time when I was young and full of hope surrounded by loving companions who had gathered around me when I was a stranger among them. It is nearly a quarter of a century since I left that distant land and those dear friends, but I have never forgotten them, and I am told that there are many who stili remember me. And now farewell, Australia! I have no feeling but loving gratitude for you, and should these pages meet the eye of some old friend, let us feel that we have come once more together upon this earth and shaken hands." "WHAT CX0THES TELL. How Star Koate Itrndy Sized TJp nu Friend General Georse Sheridan. Frank G. Carpenter's Washington Letter.! A new suit or clothes is a passport to nearly everything in Washington, and this fact makes me think of General George Sheridan, whom I saw strutting about the hotels yesterday under a sombrero as big around as a dish pan. Sheridan was a great friend of Brady, the noted star route man, and while Brady was at the height of his "power here Sheridan frequently called upon him for a little loan. One day one of Brady's clerks came in and told him that Sheridan was in town. "How is he dressed?" asked Brady. "He looks as though he came out of a bandbox was the reply. He has cm a new silk hat, new suit, patent leather boots and he is taking in' the town in a landau." "He wants some money," said Brady "and I'll bet you ?3 that ho will be here within two hours to borrow any way from $500 and up wards. He never dresses up except when he wants to make a loan and then he puts on all the style he can buy." He had hardly nnisned this remark before Sheridan camoiunuu no Departed, loon after with his poeketbook fattened. - -vaw M..W......I. BBll J PS!! L J-'P SPAIN ASM NATION. Safer from War and Revolution Than Other European Powers. OPINIONS OF MINISTER. PALME. As Much Freedom for the Individual as in the United States. POINTS OP INTEREST TO TOURISTS rwnin:x von the Dispi.Tcrt.1 In some respects Spain ii the most secure of any of the European countries. Her only danger lies in the direction of internal dis sensions, and, thanks to a wise and conserv ative administration, the likelihood of a rev olution withiu her limits has been reduced to a minimum. France on tbe north is inter ested in protecting the Spanish frontier, and Portngal haB no cause or inclination to pick a quarrel with her next door neighbor, while Eogland will defend her sea coast After spending a little more than a year in Spain in the capacity of American Min ister, with tbe best opportunities and facili ties for observation, I can safely venture the prediction that no other country in Europe has a better prospect for a long continuance of peace and prosperity. The war cloud which appears periodically in Europe, and is viewed with apprehension by the leading Powers, such as France, Germany, Russia, Austria and Italy, has nu terrors for the Spanish people. Spain is practically outside of the war circle. She has the smallest standing army of any prominent European government about 100,000 men and con sequently her people do not have to carry an enormons burden imposed upon the ma jority of the European States in the shape of a war tax. BIO STANDIirO ARMIES. The gigantic standing armies of Germany, France, Austria and Italy must be rapidly lmpovensning the people tbat are taxed to maintain them. If these tremendous stand ing armies are continued .for a few years the chances are that there will be no European war, for none of the nations will be in a financial condition to commence hostilities. Peace secured in tbat way, however, wonld be almost as distressing as war. The dis armament should come before the nations are made bankrupt. Ho other foreign country, except possibly Italy, is so interesting Irom an historical and romantic point of view than Spain. There is more there to arrest attention and call forth the admiration of cultivated Americans. The questions are frequently asked, Has Spain entered upon a stage of permanent decay? Will she ever in the future reg'iin even approximately the prominence and importance she has held in the past? An impartial answer to both questions would be, "No!" There was a time under Charles V. when Snain dominated all Europe as well as the civilized world. There is no danger of history repeating itself in that respect, but tbe Spain of the future may nevertheless be great. I do not believe she has gone to sleep. FOKGING TO THE FBOXT. Within recent years she has had a new awakening. Manufactories have sprung up, although at present all the good things, especially the railroads, are largely in the hands of foreigners. The Spanish people are not lazy and indifferent as a class. Their business men stand very high In the com mercial world. Thev are known to keep their word and live up to their agreements. Spain is gradually forging to the front again and there is no reason why she should not take her place among nations of the first rank. A great many Americans have asked me about tbe prospect of a revolution iu Spain and the establishment of a republic. There seems to be a very genera impression in some quarters that Spain is ripe for a re public and tbat the recent revolution in Brazil would help it along, so lar as X could observe the dethronement of Dom Pedro and the formation of a republic in Brazil did not produce more than a ripple in Spam. The stability of the Government was never in jeopardy for a moment, so far as I could judge. Neither do I think there is any danger of a change in the present form'of the Spanish Government. Ko one can spend any time there without being im pressed with the fact that the Queen Regent is extremely popular with her people. They almost idolize her, and she has certainly displayed great wisdom and tact in manag ing the ship of state. She is a very supe rior woman. There is substantially as much freedom in Spain to-day as in the United States. The Spanish Government has recognized and copied one ot the secrets of our success that is, permitting the greatest freedom of speech. TREK SPEECH A SAFETT VALTE. There is little more restraint on public or private orators in Spain than with ns. Every one is licensed to speak his mind Ireely and criticise as he sees fit. It is the greatest of safety valves. Onr own country would not live a month without it. The agi tator and would-be revolutionist who is allowed to give free play to his mouth is largely deprived of his power to do harm. His talk passes into vapor and he is soon forgotten, but when these sentiments are kept bottled up for any length of time they are apt to 'explode suddenly and do much damage. If the same wise, conservative and beneficent policy of the present administra tion of Spain he continued in the future, there is not likely to be'any change in their system of government for an indefinite period. To change the subject a bit, I think I have discovered the solution of, the phrase "Castles in Spain." In going through tbe defiles of tfie Pyrenees Mountains one sees in the distance what appears to be a castle, with the high wall, tower, abutment and evervthing pertaining to a castle. You would be willing to swear that it was a castle, but upon getting up to it you find that it is nothing but a pile of jagged rock. One sees hundreds of these illusions on-a journey through the mountains, and I think they explain tbe origin of the expression "Castles in Spain" beautiful in the dis tance, but jagged and unattractive as resi dences when you reacn mem. HIKTS FOE TOURISTS. An American traveling in Spain, who wishes to behold the picturesque part of the country, would do well to leave the railroad at Bayonne and take a landau to Pamplona (going throngb the KoncesvallesPassin the Pyrenees, where Charlemagne was de'eated 1,100 years ago), a distance of about 100 miles. The roads are magnificent and the scenery is equal to almost anything we have in this couiitry. The tourist will also find it an immense relief to get away from the railroad. From Pam plona he should go" to Zamaragua, taking a narrow gauge railroad. The scenery along this route is simply superb, and reminds one of the Grand Canyon of the Arkansas in this country, although it is quite different. Let the tourist continue from Zamaragua to Bilbao, thence to Santander by boat, and from that point take a carriage drive to Ovilda or Corno. He will see more of the real beauty and pirturesqueness of Spanish scenery and learn more oi the country than by lollowing the railroads and regular beaten paths of travel for years. One thing that will probably make a dis agreeable impression upon the American who worships titles and that sort of foolish ness is tnat be will see coats of anns on some of the humblest houses and cottages in Spain. He will find men who have the right to the coat of arms lollowing the common est occupations for a livelihood and think ing nothing of it. COTODWTOA'B FESTIVAL. On one of my excursions to the country from Madrid I-visited the cave of Covo donga, which is nearCongasdeonia, the first Gothic """" "iter ine conquest by tne Moors. Here they commenced the slow but I earnest ngbt which in 800 years drove the qMnorsootof the Pere. Every year at Co. . .. W 1890. vodonga a great festival is held in commem oration of the victory achieved by the Goths over the Moors at that place. Mass is said in the open air, and thousands of pilgrims resort there for the celebration. The fire works are on a very elaborate scale. A magnificent cathedral is in the course of erection on the site of the famous battle ground, and it is one of the most picturesque places I have ever seen. One of the stories that have been handed down is that a part of the Gothic army lay hidden in the cave of Covodonga. It hardly seems credible, as the cave conld not hold more than 40 people all told. An interesting place in Spain that Amer icans rarely visit is the Bio Tinto mine. Ir is supposed to be the Tarshish of Solomon's time. It is over 4,000 years old, and is still being worked to some profit. Palos, the point from which Columbus embarked on his momentous voyage of discovery, is not far lrom Hnelva, the seaport of the Eio Tinto mine. The Convent of Sarabida at Palos it still standing in a good state of preserva tion and contains many handsome paintings descriptive oi commons- great work. THE "WORLD'S FAIR. Not much interest was manifested in Spain over the agitation of the question of holding a world's fair in this country. Senor Castelar and Senor Morct, the former Secretary for Foreign Affairs of Spain, both promised me that they would be present at the opening of our World's Fair centennial, but I do not think that Spain will be largely represented at our celebration. Spain is gettiog np an exposition ot her own to com memorate the discoveries or Columbus. The idea, I believe, is to confine it to the Latin races. It will probably be held at Barcelona, which is the principal seaport of the country. There is not much apprehension in Spain regarding the probable annexation of Cuba by the United States. They have not for gotten that 30 years ago, before our Cvil War, there was a movement among our Southern States looking to the annexation of Cuba for the purpose of enlarging tbe slave territory; but during my stay in Mad rid I did all I could to assure them that tbat feeling had died out in this country as tar as I knew. The only people I know of now who are agitating tbe annexation of Cuba are a few speculators who are anxious to make money out of the transaction. There has been no diplomatic correspondence between our government and the government of Spain looking to the purchase ot Cuba by the United States. HOTELS AND BANDITS. The hotels in the interior of Spain are mnch better relatively than those in the cities. The stories of bandits in that coun try are largely imaginary. I believe a man could travel from one end of Spain to the other without being molested in any way or having an impertinent word spoken to him. In the northern part especially traveling is safe. Tne Spanish people are peaceful and peaceable self-respecting and respectful. Treat a Spaniard politely and you are al ways sure of good treatment. There are fewer capital crimes in Spain than in any country I know of. Tbe photographs of the infant King Al fonso XIII. do not do him justice. They make his head appear too large for his body. I saw him on several occasions. He would impress an American as being a delicate child, but he is fully up to the average of the Spanish children physically. Unless he meets with some accident, the chances are more favorable to his living and occupying the Spanish throne than otherwise. T. W. Palmes. LAMAE OH THE SOUTH. So Fearful of lis Ituin Tbat Ha Waots to Pell Ills Mississippi Property. Justice Lamar, writes Frank G. Carpen ter, takes a very gloomy view of the South and its future. He told me the other day that he thought Mississippi would eventu ally be a negro State and that the whites would be forced to emigrate. He is so con fident of this that he is anxious to sell his plantation in Mississippi, consisting of about S00 acres of tbe finest lands in that State, and having on it 47 registered cows and a number of fine horses. Justice Bamar has a magnificent homestead there and bis lands are under the best of cultivation. He offers the whole for mnch less than it is worth, and he says be has no desire to have any of his friends remain in Mississippi. Said he to me: "The influence of the present administra tion is bound to be altogether in favor of the blacks at the expense of the whites, and the whites will not permit the blacks to rule them. Had Blaine been elected Prasident the result would have been different and the outlook for the South would have been bet ter, but as it is it seems to me as dark as it can be and what will be the future God only knows." BS.i?EC"I FOE YOUTH. It Isn't Wise to Laugh at a Man Becaase He U Yoanir. Boys, especially, shrink from any ap proach to ridicule on the part ot their elders. Recently a wise and amiable philoso pher confessed that his disapproval of a certain person of note arose from nothing more serious than an un lucky question put to him in his boy h'ocd by the celebrity in question. The man, meaning to be pleasantly jo cose, in the presence ot others had asked the boy what be thought of matters and things in general. The fitting' repartee is not apparent at once even to a mature mind; and the poor victim had remained confused and silent, recalling his painful position ever afterward at sight of his tormentor until displeasure, thriving upon itself, grew into resentment. We may be so unfortunate as to encounter antipathetic creatures at all seasons of onr lives; but surely the antipathies most deeply rooted have their seed sown early, as this one (was. Beware of vnutb! it is to be dreaded, not despised. The callow fledgling whom we laugh at may burst into song one day. Worse than that, he may impale us for out shortcomings with a shatt of satire, as the poet of tbe ages did poor Justice Shallow. We, through him, may l:v eter nally inglorious, while he reads his history iu all nations' eyes. FEOM INDIA'S COEAL STBAJTES. The Salvation Armj'n Hindoo Commissioner to Vlllt noinculend. Commissioner Bootb-Tucker, who, for more than seven years, has had charge of the Salvation Army work in India, together with his staffand several distinguished per sonages of the army, will visit Homestead on June 11. The Commissioner is making an extensive tour of the army posts in America. Fred de Latonr Tucker was born in Mou ghyr, a town of Bengal, 800 miles from Cal cutta. Of noble family he was well cared for in his youth, and sent to England for education. So bright was he that he was made an officer of the Indian civil service, and after a brilliant career rose to a position worth 25,000 a year. Then he became a convert, threw up his commission, and has since devoted himself to salvation work. He has been hampered in his work by English and Indian officials, and often had to fight his cases in the courts. Commissioner Tucker has had a most re markable career, and is described as a most remarkable man. He is at Middletown, Conn., to-day. From Pittsburg he will go to Detroit and return East through Canada. Ilia Lrc Caught Fire. BoothsarBeflsttr. A queer accident happened to Asa Small, a farmer living In Hancock county, the other day. He is a veteran of the late war and has a wooden leg. A fire """ woods near Small's home and he turned out with the neighbors to fight e flames. wooden leg took fire and the flames spread to his elothes. He was se verely burned about the hands before his blazing clothes and wooden leg were wrapped in a blanket ana the flames smothered. KNOX ON THE CENSUS He Fills Out His Papers in idyance of the Enumerator's Call. ALL HIS SECKET8 LAID BARE, Of the Same Bex He Was Ten lean Age and Sot a Mother or Widow. MCLK SAM IS MOETGAGED HIIBEU nnrnnr tob th nisrATca.1 The Government of the United States hai advised me that it would like a short bio graphical sketch of myself. I had no Idea that our paternal Government would ever take so much interest in me, but it has. It tells me that one of its servants will call on me, Monday or Tuesday next, in pursuit of the information desired. To aid ma in de scribing myself it furnishes a printed list ot leading questions in which it inquires after my health and present financial condition, and exhibits what might seem to be an im pertinent curiosity to know my sex, and whether I am a Japanese or an Indian, a cripple or an Episcopalian. As I shall b out of town next week, and therefore not able to meet the Government'! inquisitor, I have written a letter (copy of which you will find below) and I hare left it for him: Dear United States Government! I feel flattered by your evident Interest la my affairs, as shown by the document now before me (marked exhibit A 2078x-l), and I esteem it a privilege to answer the ques tions therein presented. When you publish your book I would liko to have my biog raphy begin at the top of a page, and' if you. care for my photograph, I can send you one in which I am represented sitting on soma wooden rocks in front of a canvass-backed waterfall, and holding in my hand a roll of paper that can either be considered an ap plication for a pension or a schedule of my assets and liabilities. Tour question No. 1, regarding my name and initials of middle name, is answered by the signature at the end of this communication. THE SAME SEX A3 ET '80. Tonr second question requires me to state my "sex." If you will look over your files of 1880, under the letter "g," yon will find my sex fairly and conscientiously stated. Ten years have elapsed since then, but I am still of tbe same old sex. Your third query requires me to state my "relationship to the head of family." My present relationship to head of family is in the capacity of husband, and this relation ship I have held for years in the most satis factory and pleasant way. In the matter of your fourth question ai to whether I am "the widow of a soldier, sailor or marine," I beg to state that I am at present neither; that I have never been and do not expect ever to be placed in sneh. an equivocal position in connection with any deceased soldier, sailor or marine. Your filth question, "If under 1 year of age, give age in months. Now, honor bright, where is the joke in that? Ha! hal Of course it must be a joke, ha! ha! hal So I just give you the laugh and pass on to tho next. Your sixth question is, "Mother of how many children and number of these children living?" In response to this. I re fer you to my answer to question No. 2, but for the life of me I cannot understand why you ask the question, or what difference it would make to yon if I was mother of ona or ten children. I will, however, state, as you seem inclined to press the question, that up to receipt of the latest returns there is no evidence to show that I am or have been a mother. IS REGARD TO BIRTH. You ask where I was born. If hearisv evidence is admissible, yon can qnote me as saying that, to the beat of my knowledge and belief, I was born on the first floor of an unmortgaged slate-roofed house. I was also born in Marcb. You want to know whether I am defective in mind, sight, hearing or speech. The mind, sight " and hearing are all right, although I havs known my hearing to be slightly defectiva when an acquaintance suggested some thing in a low tone about a temporary loan. Now you come to "acute or chronio dis eases," and you want to know if I am aflicted in that way, and if so, how long. I have for some time been suffering from acute mania. It takes a form that is danger ous to people who pry into other people's business. I have known it to be so violent at times that it resulted in a hand full of birdshot being projected into the legs of a man who was trying to secure information regarding matters that didn't concern him. Ot course I am not making any references to allusions. See? The last few casual remarks I have made also apply to the paragraph in which you ask whether I am "a prisoner, convict, home less child or pauper." Your last question I find no tronble at al in answering. "Have you a honse?" "Is it mortgaged?" UNCLE SAll'S MOETOAOED, TOO. It is, and I don't care who knows it Yea are mortgaged yourself, are yon not? and I'll bet that I lift my mortgage before yon ae released, even if I have to burn the old Queen Anne and pay the mortgage with the insurance money. However, don't let us quarrel. I wish no fuss with the United States Government. You are going to publish some lacts about me and my affairs, and I want to be solid with you. I tried to destroy yon once about 25 years ago, and all I got lor it was a lame leg and a brevet military title. Above you will, I think, find all your important questions answered, but there are a few other matters on which I am sure you would like information. I am really sur prised that you didn't inquire about them. For instance: I dictate this, and dictate all my other correspondence to my typewriter through the phonograph. I don't like marmalade. I have a negro servant who at tends to the furnace. I have never written a joke on the strawberry box or the sand in the grocer's sugar. I live in Mount Vernon, N. Y. I believe that it is wrong to read newspapers on Sunday. There are no Sunday papers published in Mount Vernon. I shall be glad to hear from you again, and be pleased to give yon further in'orma tion. J. Absioy Khox. 60TJTHEEHEES' P0IJIENES3. They Put Northern Men to Bbamo la Every day Wnnhlmton Life. It makes no difference how old or how feeble a Southern Senator or General is, he is always ready to rise in a street car and give his seat to a lady, writes Frank G. Car penter from Washington. I hava often seen Speaker Carlisle hanging on to the strap in order th3t some woman might have a seat and I have at the same time seen Northern Senators spread out their legs and take twice as much room as they needed. I remember one day in a crowded F street car coming from the Patent Office to the Treas ury seeing a little old woman hobble np on crutches ana attempt to get in. There were a dozsn prominent men in the car including two Supreme Court Judges, two United States Senators and bait a dozen Congressmen. Al) of these men sat for 20 seconds after tha cripple ap peared at the door of the car and did not at tempt to help her. At this moment a tall, white-whiiksred, dark-eyed man, sitting in the extreme end of the car, who had been busily engaged" in', conversation with his neighbor, turned hW eyes toward the door. He saw the woman " and jumped to his feet, left his conipanioa. and tenderly lifted her up the steps. This man was 75 years old, and he was by all odds the oldest man in the car. His name was Joseph 'E. Johnston, and he was the noted Southern general of tha late war. . -
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