THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH. y PAGES 17 TO 20. i 1 THIRD PART. UK I RJH HERO East Stmts About the Capital City and Draws While Inspired by the Latin Classics. A PORTRAIT FROM A DESCRIPTION. The Caricaturist Aroused by a Duel Between Intalls and Butler, Only to be Badly Disappointed. FAREWELL TO THE C1TI OF STATESMEN. Be Takes His Flight, Forgetting, Until too Late, to Bid the President Gdtr. rCOERESPONDXNCE OF THE DISPATCH. 1 "Washington, July C I can't make out what has got into Mr. Nast lately whether he has been seeing much summer opera or reading too much Boman history but he acts lite an amateur tragedian. He stalks and struts, breathes aloud, inverts his sentences so that they sound like blank dreadiully blank verse. His speech is of a brave sort, about gladiators and tribi unes, arenas and forums, and augurs which bore; and his postures remind one of Marcus Antonius at a district school com mencement demanding the loan of his eolintrvmen's ears. Of course I cannot object to Mr admiration of the proud old character or to his emulation Nast's Boman of its fortitndicous courage, but I must say even at the risk of offendiue him, Once More to the Senate. that he is not a born gladiator. He isn't built that way; why, if Th. Hast were fire feet shorter he would be a hole in the ground; moreover, 1 am not quite con vinced that he has the gladiatorial spirit. I remember with humiliating distinctness j how a doorkeeper recently snatched him up j by the southerly suburb of his apparel and whisked him out of the Senate gallery in time to maintain the secrecy of an executive session; and I do not recall the chapter in ancient history whicb relates that any door keeper ever lugged a gladiator about in this unseemly and undignified manner. IT STICKS IN" HIS SIEMOHT. Mr. Nast also remembers this ignominious episode, and speaks of it frequently. He seems to feel that he did not acquit himself in a truly heroic fashion on that occasion. T met Mr. Nast in the Capitol rotnnda ycs- "tfflce more to the Senate," said he, with fine dramatic intonation. So we to'd the Senate; and as we were to'ing it he placed in my hand a sketch representing himself in the guise and atti tude oi a gladiator, a coal-scuttle upon his head, hammer and tongs in one hand, his palette for a shield in the other, and a mus tard plaster about his waist to keep his courage and bis trouseis up. In the picture the doorkeeper had skulked behind the door, leaving the artist master of the cham ber. I thought perhaps this sketch por tended something; that now, may be, the offending doorkeeper was to be wrenched from his moorings, and hurled off into the boundless sea ot space. Nothing of the kind happened, however. "When we reached the door Mr. Nast peered timidly up and down the corridor, peeped in at the open ing, shrank to his inside limit, and cautiously tiptoed to a remote corner of the gallery, where he sat himself down, scrooched in the most unobservable attitude of which he was capable. "What does this epic picture mean?" I asked. "Nothing in particular," he whispered; "only that I have a fit of Boman republican inspiration on to-day." LOOKED LIKE COEKSCREW INSPIRATION. If the Maine cold tea law had not been put into operation in the Capitol restaurants I should have thought he drew this inspira tion with a corkscrew. I have long wished to satisfyjmyself on onefpsychological point. "Mr. Kast," I said, "I have read stories of artists whe in fits of strange inspiration have painted pictures of their future wives whom they had never seen. Tell me, is it possible for an artist to do this? Could W' Papyrivs Brown, of Georgia, you, for example, make a picture of a per son whom you had never seen?" "Oh, yes. nothing is easier." "I should like to see you do it. Do you have to go into a trance or something of that sort?" "No; you have to go into a photograph gallery." That's the wav with East I can't en Cige him with the serious matters of life. Quite convinced that I could make no psy chological experiments ot this kind with him, I attempted another. Could you make a picture of a person whom yon had neTer seen if I should care fullv describe him to you?" "Perhaps. Let's trv it." "Well, did youeve'r see Senator Brown. of Georgia? He has not been in his seat this session. lie probably will never again be seen in Washington, for he has deter mined to engage no more in active life." "No; I never saw him." DEAW1XG I-ROM DESCRIPTION. .Very well, then Take up youpencil. Senator Brown-Jo Brown they call him down in Georgia-will be 70 yeari old next April. He was born in South Carolina but went to Georgia when a boy As a young man he taught school. Then he be came a lawyer. In 1840 he was elected to the- State Senate; in 1852 he was a Pierce it i J riSrH n jP mm piK elector; in 1855 he became a Superior Court Judge; in 1857 he was chosen Gover nor of Georgia and in 1861 and 1863 was re elected. He never was defeated for an office nntil Joshua Hill beat him after he had been nominated in 18GS for the United States Senate, and then he was at once appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the State. In 1870 he resigned and became the president or the Western & Atlantic Kali road Companv, and in 1884, alter serving out the unexpired term ol General Gordon in the United States Senate, he was re-elected to the present term, which will expire next March. , . . Although a secessionist and a Confederate --4wJfiii Llllle Ado About Much and SateU Labor Lost war Governor, he had many disputes with President Davis during the life of the con federacy; and alter the surrender made him self exceedingly unpopular at home by advocating acquiescence in the reconstruc tion measures and by voting for General Grant for President BKOTVN'S TIKES AND KALES. "They tell some iunny tales about him down in Georgia. When he was war Gov ernor he equipped a regiment with pikes a kind of bayonet on a pole six or eight feet long and seemed to think the men well armed. He, too, you see, Mr. Nast, had a sort of ancient Boman idea of what war was. It is also related that when his soldiers had to evacuate Atlanta he issued au order that they pull up the kales (a kind ot cabbage) growing in his truck garden and transplant them at some point where the Yankee soldiers could not get them. Some ot these pikes are still preserved in Georgia, and whenever they are brought out to be carried in processions of Coulederates they are decorated with kales stuck upon their points. So much for the character of the man. Now for the description: He has rather a high, square forehead, with little hair on the top of his head, but long locks hanging down at the sides and back, curling under at the ends. Got that?" "Yes; go ahead." "Well, he has strong lines across his forehead and deep ones up and down between his eyes, prominent brows thinly covered with long, bristling hairs, shading his eyes, which are deeply set and have a severe expression. His nose is short, but its strong bridge and distended nostrils drawn up as by cynicism give sternness to the face. The cheeks are sunken, and the lines from the nose to the corners of the mouth are deep. The upper lip Is long, and the mouth, which falls at the corners, is raised some what near the middle, indicating extraordi nary freedom from sentimentalism. The beard, which is shaven back from the cheeks and immediately below the mouth, covers a very broad chin and square jaw." CARLISLE'S VERSATILITY. Thus I went on, and while I was talking Nast leaves and the Rest Got Left. Kast was drawing. My reference to Sena tor Brown's pikes stirred anew the artist's Boman inspiration, as will be seen by the riband about the brow and the roll of papyrus in the hand. "Isn't that Eepresentative Carlisle down there?" asked Mr. Nast "No: that is Senator Carlisle." "He looks like the Beprebcntative." "He ought to; he is the same man. You see, Mr. Nast, he is a Senator when he is at this end of the Capitol and a Eepresentative when be is at the other end." It happened that this was the day when Mr. Carlisle was sworn in as a Senator at 12:15 o'clock. His resignation was not taken up by the House until 1:15. Durifig that hour he was a member of each house and could have voted in both. When I ex plained this to .Mr. JNast he gazed long and admiringly at the new Senator and ex claimed: "Well, he looks like a versatile man. I should say from a general view of his face that he could do anything, lrom engaging in a prize-fight to framing a constitution." While we were admiring Senator Carlisle we were shocked to find that in some way Senators Ingalls and Butler had become involved in a tongue to tongne combat lrom which Mr. Nast declared he could almost hear blood dripping. . IT MEANT BLOOD. "I tell you," said he in treat excitement, "this must lead to a duel;" and in orderthat the truth of history might be preserved he began nervously to picture the scene, mix ing it up in a dreadful manner with his ancient Boman inspiration. "Now I understand, said he, why this is called an Arena of the Coliseum and not a Forum of Gab." It did look as if blood would be let surely enough, and when the argument was' ended and the combatants turned toward the cloakroom I could appreciate Mr. Nast's intense excitement excitement so intense that not I nor the doorkeeper could prevent him from following the warlike Senators to witness the deadly encounter vhich they, seemed to be hastening toward. In a few minutes Mr. Nast returned. His face was a picture of surprise, astonishment and disgust compounded. "What's up?" I asked. He merely curled his lip in unspeakable disgust and handed to me a picture of what he had seen. "I've had enough of this place," he said. "When does the accordeon leave lor New York?" "Accordeon 1 What are you talking about ?" After awhile he succeeded in making it clear that he was talking of the vestibule train with its pleated connections. "It is almost time now. It you are going on that train you will have to hurry," and I bustled about in the hope of so distracting him that he could not change his mind. We hastened to his hotel, and I felt as light as bird when I saw him pay his bill and pre pare to go. He, too, felt light when he had paid his bill. EVEN THE DOME SMILED. Then came the goodbys. Hands were outstretched to him from all directions, eager to take leave of him, or to take any thing else of him that he might happen to have left The result was so amusing that when I looked toward the Capitol dome I was not sure whether the smile upon its face was due to the immediate situation or to the prospect that Th: was about to depart. Since it was the last I was to see of him, I put on my politest smile and asked if I might carry bis hand-bag for him. Hehesitated, bnt soon said: "Yes; there's nothing in it" When we reached the railway station I was pleased to learn that the train had not vet gone. We stood by the car having our last chat when Mr. Nast said: "I feel as if I had forgotten something." "Did you have a cane?" "Yes: that's in the car." "Umbrella?" "No; didn't have any." , Didn't lave your night-shirt under your pillow, did you?" "No'p." "I know what it is," I said. "What?" "Why, you forgot to call on the Presi- Mr. Nast slapped his leg. "Iswow! That's it" It was too late, however. The train began to move. Mr. Nast clambered Goodby to Washington. aboard and the porter, gathering up his stool, opened his face and made a remark which went up among the girders and struts and beams and trusses and dropped down again. Th: and I waved our hats and he was, as usual, off. Willis B. Hawkins. BEBNHABDT AND BAEHTJM. How an Affection of the Actrc' Knee Led to an Offer From the Sfaonmnn. The talented artist Madame Sarah Bern hardt, who some weeks ago was confined to her room with a painful affection of the knee is now on the high road to recovery, says an English exchange. At the outset of her illness, however, serious complica tions were at one moment apprehended by her medical advisers, who even, it is said, warned their patient that if she refused to attend to their instructions and did not re main perfectly quiet, it was within things possible that she might have to undergo amputation of her leg. In this way, and owing to the exaggeration that so frequently attends a rnmoronce .started, the report spread that she positively was going 10 lose one ol her legs, the out come ot the report being, so the celebrated artist tells her friends, a very amazing offer sent her from America. A well-known Barnum despatched a telegram to Madame Bernhardt offering her a large sum if she would sell him her leg after the operation, his intention being to have it embalmed and to exhibit it in every town of the United States. The sender of the telegram added that be or one of his snbordinates would em bark forthwith on receipt of a favorable answer to take possession of the precious, limb. , Madame Bernhardt has. happily, no need of taking this extraordinary proposal into consideration, there being no longer any anxiety felt touching the condition of the limb which the American Barnum hankered alter. NEW BASEBALL IDEA. A Chicago Man Introduces a Carved Bat That U to Do Wonder. Chicago Herald. A Chicago man named Emile Kinst is going to revolutionize baseball. He thinks he has found a way for making a game of baseball more exciting than a horse race. The cut shows the result of Inventor Kinst's study, a patent having been issued to him. The object of the new wrinkle is to pro duce a rotary or spinning mo. tion of the ball in its flight, to a higher degree than is now possible, and thus to make the task of catching the ball more difficult, or, if caught, to hold it Kinst said, when asked to explain the mystery: "When a ball is struck with that part of the bat comprised between the points 0 and 1 the ball will receive, in addition to the flight produced by the bow, a rotary motion more or less vio lent in proportion, as it hap pens to hit the bat near the S J f point 1 or 0. This motion will, of course, be in the same direc tion as if the ball had been rolled on the face of the bat from the point 0 toward the upper end of the bat, and on account of the manner in which bats are usually held at the moment they hit the ball, a little back ot or pointing backward fiom the striker, this rotation will be given to the ball at the point 2 and beyond it, but with decreasing lorce. until near or at the point 3, where for a short distance on either side of it there will be a neutral point Beyond the neutral space toward the point 4 and on either side of it the ball receives a rotary or spinning motion contrary to that giveu from or between the points 0 and 3. "In addition to the special results there are several others attained by the use of my bat. For instance, when the ball strikes the bat between the points 0 and 3 it will not fly straight from the bat, but it will rise upward, and when the ball is caught in fly ing from such a blow it will be very difficult to retain it in the hand on account of the sninning motion Imparted to it. If the ball is struck with the upper end of the bat its tendency will be to seek the ground directly and roll from the striker and to stay on or near the ground. With these results the game becomes more difficult to play, and therefore much more interesting and 'excit ing because the innings will not be so easily attained, and consequently the time of the game will also be shortened. On account of the spinning motion given to the ball the latter will also be sent further across the field." Kinst thinks his new hat is better than a gold mine. He has already received half a dozen propositions from capitalists and oth ers who desire to push the enterprise or buy the patent autright PITTSBURG, SUNDAY, JULY 6, 1890. BOBBIES OF LONDON. They Don't Lead the Easy life of Their American Brothers. POOR PAX AND RIGID DISCIPLINE. The Trouble between the Department and the Tory Government. LIYING IN THE SECTION HOUSES rcOKMSrONDENCE OT THE PISPATCH.l LONDON, June 21. If there is one thing more than another in which John Bnll takes special pride, it is his army of policemen. Of course the red coats, or "Swaddies," as the soldiers are called, are greatly admired, but the ''Bobby" is with and before the masses every day, and as a rule stands very high in the estimation of the ordinary Britisher. This may be the result of doing considerable work for very little pay, be cause, taking everything into consideration, the English policeman has very poor re muneration for tne services he renders. The British public depends to a very great ex tent ou the policemen for the observance of the many and curious laws, and the police men work under the most rigid rules. Well, at the present time the British "Bobbv" is yery prominently before the public, and his rights and wrongs are being discussed by all classes from Parliament down to the street orator who holds forth from a chair or table. In connection with this police controversy there is mnch ?hnt is interesting to Americans. The entire question is ot great inter est because it shows how the police system here compares with that in the various cities in America. Complaints in America as to the wrongs under which the United States "copper" suffer are of almost daily occurrence, but a recital of the Eng lish policeman's grievances show that the American peace protector has little cause in comparison to complain. AN INSULT FROM AN AMERICAN SOURCE. I was somewhat surprised this morning to find a New York paper, an edition of which is printed in London, terming the American policeman a "blue-coated brute." The American paper, after making that insult, goes on to paint the London policeman as an angel of the first class. I scarcely think that the average Britisher will be "caught" by the very unkindly and untruthful refer ence to America's finest Csrtainly the London police force is madeupofafine'body of men. I know many of them and I have had opportunity to visit their section rooms and hear and see all the details of their sys tem. But I question very much whether anybody has the license to say that the Lon don policeman is in any way superior to the policeman of Pittsburg or any other big American city. The question of the pay of policemen is before Parliament, and how if will be dealt with I cannot say. I have spoken to several members of Parliament on the matter, and they are not able to give anything like a forecast of what will be done. "The Govern ment is in a difficulty over the matter on account of the resignation of Mr. Monro, the Police Commissioner. He is the police men's friend, and wants more pay lor them than the Tory Government is disposed to give; hence his resignation. THE PENSION SCHEME. For years the police have been moving for an improved pension scheme. Every man in the force, of whatever rank, contributes 23 per cent of his pay toward a pension fund, in which he does not, under present rules, participate unless certified as physic ally unfit for further service. What is wanted is that after 24 years service a man may, as of right, retire" with a pension of two-thirds of his pay. This is stated as forty-sixtieths, because it is desired to put back this right of retirement to 15 years' service, at which time a man is to receive twenty-sixtieths, or one-third of his pay; that for every further year's service the pen sion is to be increased by one-sixtieth up to 20 years, and by two-sixtieths beyond that, with absolute right of retirement on due notice. It is understood that the Government bill grants thisright on three-fifths pay after 25 years' service, and does not recognize any claims to pension at earlier date, unless un der medical order. The police force is very .a.u&an ms i,u iuio jjuiui. ui u ueius ana six tieths, and they have tne advantage of Mr. Monro's self-sacrificing support. A large number of men retire after 10 or 12 years' service. They see little chance ol promo tion, and are tired of their perpetual tramp, heel and toe, over their dreary beats. Very few men on continuous outdoor dntv last fnr 25 years, and the agitation is really on be half of those who, from weariness or other opportunities in life, withdraw before being legally entitled to a pension. THE PRIVILEGE OP "WITHDRAtyiNG. It is also claimed that when from any cause, other than bad conduct, a man leaves the service before being eligible for a pen sion he shall be at liberty to draw out such sums as he has been compelled to pay to ward the pension fund. Financiers well know that as this money is invested at in terest the suggested withdrawal will inflict a comparatively small loss. As to pay, the initial wages. 24 sliillintrs or ?6 per week, is, it is claimed, too low, particularly as there is sixpence deducted lor the pension fund. Beside this, a sell imposed, but absolutely binding rule, com pels every constable to contribute one half penny to every man retiring from the force, and one penny to the representatives of every one who dies. With a stafTor nearly 15,000 men in London it is not surprising that this payment averages five pence to seven pence per week; so that a new hand can rarely net 23 shillings per week during his first three years of service. In the city the men begin with 25 shillings net per week, and after one year's service advance to 28 shillings. The metropolitan men want to begin at 27 shillings, and after three yearsjumpto 30 shillings per week, while a first-class constable of six years' service is to have 33 shillings per week. Probably ....cj uU. ..tu i.u iue unres. and il an initial wage of say 25 shillings net, rising gradually by increments of one shilling per week per year, were instituted, it would satisfy all reasonable demands of the men. The gradual rise would act as a constant in centive to good behavior, and would ease the ratepayer's pocket, for it must not be forgotten that a shilling added to the wages of 15,000 men means 39,000 a year added to the rates. PAT TOE OVERTIME. The police further maintain that they, like other workingmen, are entitled to over time. Their beat is calculated at eight hours per day, but under the'best circum stances twq hours a day are occupied in going and returning from home to the sta tion for pay and uniforms, in addition to drill. But,beyond this, in times of popu lar tumult, if in town, there is no extra pay, though sometimes agratuity is granted, and even the men who are sent to race meet ings only receive a refreshment allowance ot 14 pence, or 28 cents. The question may be considered a small one, but much of the trouble over the Trafalgar square demonstrations in 1888, would have been avoided if the police had not been hungry and unpaid, A satisfied police is of the greatest benefit to law abiding citizens. The above is a faithful statement of the case in question, but there are a few more features that must not "be overlooked, and which will, I am sure, be ot much interest to Americans. The police have their uni form, including shoes, found them, and that is a very great consideration. Much of their uniform can be utilized for wear when not on duty. Besides this, the single men on the force can reside in the section houses and this is a very cheap mode of living. I visited the Kenn'ington Eoad Section House yesterday, where several hundred of single officers live. Discipline there is very rigid, indeed, as every man not on duty, must be within doors at a certain hour. They must not show any symptons of drink, and, in Bhort, his conduct must be of the very best Any shortcomings or violations of rules are reported and these reports appear in the Chronicle, a little evening paper which only circulates among policemen. A PRETTY SEVERE PUNISHMENT. To be reported is a heavy blow, as it means that the offender may plod on for years and years before that violation has been redeemed in the eyes of the authorities. This fact causes the officers to be extremely attentive to duty. Those officers who reside in the section house form themselves into messes or parties, and contribute to a common fund lor the purpose of buying and paying for the cooking of food. By doing this, each man can live on about four shillings or $1 per week. Their meat is all that they have to pay lor. The life is a very cheerless one, depend upon it, and in some respects it lacks -the enjoyable features of military Hie. The meals are rough, though the food is good. In many instances the men in the section houses cook their own victuals, and the cooking is done in a very rough and ready way. I had a meal with a friend of mine who is located in the section bouse I have mentioned, and while it was very substantial, it lacked attractiveness to a very great ex tent But the discipline to which I have re ferred is notconfined to the section houses. Whether an officer resides in the section house or not, he must, when not on-duty, be in his place of abode not later than 12 o'clock midnight, and by all means he must not be seen in questionable company or places by other officers. If one officer is thus seen by another the offender must be re ported. NOT A LIFE OF EASE. It will be seen, there'ore. that the rules and regulations of the Loudon police force are very, very rigid, and the pay very, very poor. A Kennington constable gave me his opinion on the matter yesterday. He said: "I have been ten years on the force and all that time have been living in this section house. I don't find fault with any thing except the pension arrangement, but most certainly I would not strike on that account There are thousands of us who have from 10 to 20 years service and to take part in a strike would cause us to lose all that. We won't jeopardize our chances in that respect. Take a man who has been 20 years on the lorce without being reported." The best part of his life is spent and in a short time he can claim his pension. Do you think he would join a strike to get bis discharge? He would be a fool to do so. I have ten years' service, and I don't intend to throw it away." This seems to be the opinion of all officers who have been on the force for any length ot time; so that it would seem a strike, or at least a successful one, is not very proba ble. Doubtless the policemen have wrongs that ought to be righted. Their duties are very great and important When it is con sidered how many people London policemen look after every day, it is surprising to find that their remuneration is so small. THE CROWDS OF LONDON. In this connection it may bo interesting to give readers an idea of the immense crowds that traverse London streets daily. A friend of mine, William Gregory, whose place of business is at 51 Strand, close to Charing Cross, has interested himself to the extent of having the number ol people and.vehicles that pass his store in 12 hours counted. His system of counting was a safe and reliable one, and he finds that an average of 70,000 persons pass along the Strand in 12 hours, that is, lrom about 12 to 12. He has also lound that during the same length ot time about 12,000 vehicles pass bis door. This gives strangers to London only an incomplete idea of the people who are moving about the city daily. The Strand is only one thoroughlare of scores that are in London. The figures given, wbich.are conect, certainly show how immense must be the crowd that the London police have to deal with every day. It is, therelore, plain to see how important their work is. ADVICE TO TOURISTS. Before finishing this letter let me venture a word of advice to Americans visiting Lon don. Whenever you are in doubt as to what particular point you are at or where you want to be, always interrogate a police man in the matter. They are easy to find, and it is often unsafe to put questions to the ordinary pedestrian. Always accost a policeman and you'll find yourself talking to a model of urbanity. He will see that you will understand his directions before he lets you go, and he'll watch you as far as he can see you. The London police take great delight in looking alter strangers and keeping them lrom the land sharks that are continually on the lookout for prey. The advice of a London policeman is always worth having as lar us a stranger's touring around Lon don is concerned. John D. Pringle. BLRD-SEYE VD2W. A Kilo nnd an Instantaneous Camera Utilized In ecnrlng llicm. Mi A. Balut, of Enlavrc, has invented a photograph kite. A kite is far more steady than a balloon in mid-air and lor this reason M. Balut uses a lozenge-shaped kite pro vided with a long tail. To the kite is at tached a small photographic camera by means of a triangular support fixed to the backbone. The camera is provided with au instantaneous shutter, actuated by means ot a slow match. Before flying the kite this match is lighted, and when combustion has proceeded so far as to set fire to a small thread it releases the string ot the shutter, and the exposute is made. Another very novel feature of this ingeni ous apparatus is the use of a registering aneroid barometer attached to the kite, so that the operator can find oat the attitude which the kite has ascended above the ground. This barometer is combined with a photographic registering apparatus, which operates at the tame time as the camera. INTO A DEN 07 SNAKES. Wlion Two Apncbo Bucks Quarreled the Rnttlera bellied II. A little blind canyon on the Sierra Madre used to furnish the Apache with a means ot formally settling their disputes. This gulch is fairly alive with rattlesnakes. "When two bucks had a quarrel which they did not wish to settle ofi-haud they repaired to this gully, and while the remainder of the tribe stood around and watched lrom the hills on either side the combatants went together to where the serpents were thickest. There, stark naked and weaponless, they would wrestle. This would wake up the rattlers in the glen. The aim of each was to lorce the other onto the angry snakes. It was not unusual lor both to be bitten while they struggled and rolled around among the rocks. Each was bound to remain and wrestle as long as his.adversary had life or strength enough to struggle with him. aillltnrr sagacity. Detroit 1'ree Press. 1 Napoleon armed his soldiers with muskets carrying a two-ounce ball, and it was half a century before the weight was reduced to one ounce. Ten years ago it was concluded that a little bullet would kill as well as a big one, and now it takes 40 bullets to weigh a pound. Wariare is getting to be almost sensible in its dett-ils. CURIOUS COURTSHIfS Practices Among Ancient Peoples and Modern Savage Tribes. AUCTION OF BRIDES IN BABYLON. January Wedded to May With an Indian Hace in South America. THE SPEED TEST IN ICY LAPLAND rWMTTEN TOE THE DISPAICH.1 In some parts of the world the methods of solemnizing marriage were very peculiar and interesting. The ancient Babylonians had a law which provided that when the maidens of that city arrived at a marriage able age they were to be auctioned off to the highest bidder. As a matter of course the most shapely and beautiful onei commanded the highest prices, and the rich Babylonians naturally carried off the most attractive prizes. After these bad been disposed of the auctioneer placed the ngly ones on sale, and as an incentive he offered a small sum of money to anyone willing to become a pur chaser. This bonus was contributed by the pretty maidens, and very often their less lavored sisters were the recipient of snug dowries. Each buyer prior to taking his purchase to her new home was reauired to give se curity that he would marry her. After the sale, should any of the parties repent of their bargain, they were permitted to annul the purchase, and the sums paid were re stored to them. Of course parents had no choice in the selection of husbands for their daughters. THROWING CAKE OVEB A HOUSE. Among the Liburnians, the inhabitants of a city which stood on the site of the mod ern Leghorn, before the wedding banquet was concluded the bride and all the gnests were required to rise from the table, and she then repaired to the bridegroom's house, where she threw over the roof a large cake made of coarse dough. They firmly be lieved that the higher it was thrown the happier the union would be and the better honsewife she would prove. As the houses were very low in reality were huts and the cake as hard as a stone, a lusty bride seldom, if ever, failed to insure the lucky omen. During this ceremony two male friends of the married couple attended the bride, and when she had conclnded the task presented her with new shoes and stockings. She signified her acceptance of the gift by giving them two or three old handkerchiefs. The beauty of Circassian women has be come proverbial. In no other part of the world is greater care exercised in bringing up the female children. They are taught to embroider and make their own costumes, in addition to which they must learn to make men's clothing, in order that when married they may present their husbands with a wedding outfit Soon after the birth of a girl, a wide leather belt is sewed around her waist and is not removed until it bursts, when a second one is adjusted. On the night of her marriage the belt is cut with a dagger by her husband, and in many in stances with latal results. THE GIFTS OF THE FATHER. The father makes his daughter a present on her wedding day, hut the major part of what he intends for her is reserved until the birth of the first child, when the lather clothes her in the dress of a matron, the chief distinction of which consists of a veil that entirely conceals her face and figure. The habitation of a married Circassian con sists of two huts, one occupied by the hus band and the other by his wife and family. The court separating the two buildings is surrounded by palisades.aud it would never be suspected that they constituted one estab lishment One of the strangest matrimonial cere monies is that practiced by an Indian tribe residing on the banks of the Orinoco river in South America. The old meu are mar ried to the budding maidens, and decrepit women are mated with youths not yet out of their teens. The reason given forthis is that age may correct the petulance of youth, and that to join persons equal in age and imprudence in wedlock is to place two fools together. One redeeming trait about this custom is that the marriage of the young men with the old women is merely a sort ot apprenticeship, as, after a few months' pro bation they are permitted to wed women of their own age. i AN OLD MEXICAN CUSTOM. The Mexican method of courtship, as practiced at one time, but never seen at the present day, was very remarkable. When a Mexican arrived at the so-called years of discretion a suitable life partner was se lected for him. The native priest) were consulted, and if they predicted a happy union the girl was demanded o' hr parents by certain women called solicitors, who ranked among the most respectable of the would-be groom's acquaintances. Their visits were necessary. The bride-elect was then given a lengthy lecture on the duties of her new life, niter which she was conducted to her father-in-law's house. The bridegroom and his rela tives received her at the door of the house, four of the female members of the family bearing torches. Upon meeting, the bride and bridegroom offered incense to each other, and being conducted indoors, they were both seated on a curiously wrought mat placed in the middle of theroom. A priest now approached and tied part of the gown of the bride to the mantle of the groom, this constituting the chief part of the bridal ceremony. The bride and groom shut themselves up for four days, spending the time in fasting and prayer. ' At the end of that period they were considered man and wife. FOOT RACING FOE 'WIVES. The Laplanders consider It a capital of fense to wed a maid without the permission of her parents or relatives, and invariably execute those who have the temerity to at tempt such clandestine marriages. When a Lap has discovered his affinity the fashion is to invite the friends of both to witness a foot race between himself and the one he in tends to wed. The maiden is giveu such a long start in this novel race for a wife that, unless she is willing, she can seldom be overtaken. If she outruns her suitor he can never again ask for a trial of speed, as it is a penal offense to renew the offer of marriage. In the days of ancient Borne, the bride was brought to the house of her husband preceded by five persons bearing torches, the signification of which was that married per sons have need of five deities to aid and pro tect them. These were Jupiter, Juno,Venns, Suada and Diana or Luciua. When the woman reached the door of her future home she annoiuted the posts with oil, and from this ceremony was Known thereafter as nnxor (aunointer), which, for the sake of euphony became uxor, whence is derived the English term uxorious. Another rule among these people was that the bride should be brought to her husband with a veil or other covering over her head. This ceremony was called nuptise, irom nubo, to yeil, and was the origin of the modern word nuptial. Louis T. Peale. CLAD LIKE ZOUAVES. The Latest Idea In Men's Underclothing; Tor I ho Ilcnied Term. New York San. Men's furnishing stores are displaying a novelty in the way of underclothing, lhe, material seems to be akind of mulle such aB window draperies were made of a quarter of a century ago. Legs and arms terminate in a woven, close-fitting cuff or band three or four inches long, such as is usually found on underclothes. The rest or the garment is very loose and baggy. Clad in a suit, of such -.underclothes a man looks like a zouave with trousers on his arms as well as his legs. 3gfi XJ&zm 3ScK:& I A r THE STORY OF THE DOCTOR AND THE DETECTIVE. WBITTEN FOE THE DISPATCH -BY- DIR PHILIP "WOOLF, Author of "Who is Guilty?" SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS. Dr. Brandt Is a physician who has sought rest at the seashore. In the hotel near his cottaae lives Mrs. Amelia Glaye, an eccentric widow, who makes him her physician. Her cbarmine daughter, Bertba. has encaged herself to Cyril Durand. who has squandered most of his fortune, and has promised to wed another woman, who clinzs closely to him. Ona night the doctor hears a shrleK. He sees a tall figure In overcoat or cloalc slinking away, and discovers the body of a voung woman stabbed to the heart Takine from the body a breastpin and ring, he runs for help. Setnrnlne.no finds the body gone, with evidence that it had been thrown into the sea. A piece of shoe was found there. Two servants enter a deserted cabin. Instantly their torches are dashed to the ground, and a tall figure vanishes in the darkness. In the cabin a diamond earring is found. The body had only plain gold earrings. Just before retir ing that night the doctor is summoned by lone Grande, xiirs. Glaye's maid, who savs her mis tress Is very nervous and wretched. She tells the doctor Mrs. Glaye went out walking in the evening alone and came back with ber dress and hands torn by briars and a diamond earring missinc. Arriving, the doctor, to his surprise, fluds Mrs. Glaye mora calm than he had ever seen her. She resents the visit, says she has no need for the physician, and treats the briar scatches and loss of the earring as jnkes. Next day Detective Fox starts to work on the case, securing many clews In which are mixed up the names of Mrs. Glaye, her daughter. Berthas Cyril Durand, Otto Morton and a mysterious Ella Constant Finally be calls on Mrs. Glaye, confessing the object of Bis visit. She tells him Bertba is an adopted daughter. Years ago sba loved a man named Glaye in Europe. He had a rich rirat They met and Glaye was killed. Later the rich man died, leaving all his property to his love providing she would marry. Sha had promised Glaye to remain sinzle and took his name on his death. Now she had exhausted all her own money and loved Cyril Durand. She was but 38 years old. Beside, she denies beins out on the fatal ni"ht The scratches on her hand she says she cannot account for. bhe informs the detective she Is being robbed, and from a false opening in her favorite chair takes a littla Iron safe, the combination of which she thinks no one butberselt could know. Jewelry and then papers she had missed. The detective inquires abont a dasser in the secret opening. She says she Keeps it for its history. Next the detective goes to Durand's room and finds he has taken to flight Bits of letters from Ella Constant he finds in the waste basket Fox then stops with Dr. Brandt and discovers secret meetincs between him and lone. Mrs. Glare's maid. They have a mutual understanding that "goldenrod means tranquility, asters danger.'' Letters found in Ella Constant's room contain threats of murder, made by Durand. The detective visits tha deserted cabin. Someone had evidently been there. Digeiug m the dirt ho finds the jewelry Mrs. Glaye said had been stolen from her, but not the pipers. The detective gets Otto Morton to tell his story. On the night of the murder he heard Mrs. Glaye and Durand quarreling, and Mrs. Glaye threatened to kill both Dnrand and Ella Constant. At Dr. Brandt's the detective thinks an attempt Is being made to drue him. One night he is called by an aslstant and flnd3 Mrs. Glaye digging madly in the ground at the cabin and muttering "murder" between hsr teeth. CHAPTEE VIIL Had I been a novice in the profession, when Mrs. Glaye shrieked aloud the con demning word, I would have pounced on the woman then and there; but I had the wisdom of patience, and I watched and waited. At first I thought the woman was a sleep-walker, but I soon convinced myself that she was as wide awake and as conscious as I was. Hera was not the manner of a somnambulist, but that of a very much frightened and alarmed woman. Whatever was her object in visiting the old house, it was not successlul, and with another groan she blew out the candle and came out into the open air. She paused for a minute, shivered, drew her shawl about her decidedly neat and plump figure, and then walked quickly iu a direction opposite to that which she had first taken. I followed, of course, and was soon plunging after her through a field of scrubby bushes lemon laurels, if I am not mistaken. I tracked her with some curiosity, for her journey led her far away from the scene of the murder and toward the opposite side of the spit of land where the ocean was .pounding on the shore J Willi nlprtrrf. linminpr TTiitrht. At A Certain' BERTHA TELLS distance she stopped, glanced about, seemed to hesitate, and then ran quickly toward the bay side of the shore. I was fairly winded when she ran up the stepsand tapped on the door of the cottage in which the runaway Durand had lived. She tapped and tapped and kept murmuring, incoherently: "Let me inl Forgive me! Forgive mel You shall have your way, Cyril, only see me, speak to me and tell me that you lorgive me!" She stopped speaking for a moment only to pound vigorously on the door. "Cyril, Iwasinsanel It was mad jealousy, Cyril! I love you so much! Let me in, Cyril; let me in, and forgive me!" The tears in her voice now flooded her eyes, and she sat down on the veranda steps and sobbed and wept as if ber heart would break. Believing ber feelings by this very womanish proceeding, she rose and again pounded on the door. "Come to me, Cyril, or alljis dead between us. If you turn a deaf ear to my repent ance, my heart dies with my tears. For your love I have ventured all; your con tempt will make me reckless as well as dan gerous. Enough blood has been spilled; if more is shed you will be responsible." She ( waited a moment, as if tor an answer; then said in a strained, harsh, icy-cold voice: "Good-bv, Cyril Durand; if you live you will not forget me!" She stalked down the steps and directed her way toward the hotel, into which she finally disappeared. The early grayjof morning surprised me by the time I reached the doctor's cott.ige; my little night trampjhad consumed just two and a half hours. Policeman Blind was at his post, and from the open windows and the song issuing from the kitchen I knew that the doctor had risen. Blind was clever enough to keep his form hidden in a hollow crowned with bushes at some distance from the house, where 1 could speak to him with out fear ot being seen. "Any news. Blind?" I asked, carelessly, not expecting to receive any. "Nothing much," he answered. "About an hour alter you lelt I saw a lamp sud denly lighted in the doctor's room, and baying nothing to do I thought I would take a little exercise. I climbeJ up to the roof of the veranda and took a peep into the doctor's room. The blind was pulled down, but it was not wide enough to completely cover the window. By twisting my neck i could peep into the room." 'Ynn nrp an tnilicjinl fnn ' T ..:,1 angry that 'the man should act without HTftE MRR orders, and thus endanger all my subtle plans. "Perhaps I am," he answered, humbly; "for I wasn't paid for my trouble." "What did you see?" "I saw the doctor in his nightgown. Ha was sitting down near a table, on which was an open case oi surgical instruments, and he was washing and putting sticking plaster on a long, red gash on his left arm I" If Blind had been less foolish he would have noticed the effect the powerful effect his words produced on his superior. I am willing to confess that I was never mora surprised in my life. Things were getting mixed up with a vengeance, and theories seemed no stronger than tissue paper. X dismissed Blind lorthe day, and, finding the front door unlocked, I crept up to my room. For an emergency like this I had tiken the key of my room with me, and with it opened the door.' The doctor was in a very gay humor, and if I had not learned to suspect him, I should have taken him lor one of the simplest of the simpletons th it make up the brigade of wise men. I now noticed that he hardly nsed his left hand at all, and better under stood why all the business of carving fell on me. He joked me about my late hours, and asked it I sat ud to write love letters to the pretty "Joan." If I could only have rusted him, he could have helped me con- nEE SUSPICIONS. Biderably, but you may be sure I did not ex? pose my hand be ore a man whom, at any moment, I might be under the painful necessity of thrusting into jail. "Alter breakiast, my Iriend," he said apropos of nothing, "I am going to pay a professional visit to Mrs. Glaye; she is rid ing the high horse again. Do you charge t m ?'tn.alJT, i?,esasr?" She is ill?" "A roaring tigress; or if that is too poetic, an hvsterical dove." "You have been summoned to her?" "Ah, ha! I see the 'Lecoq' suspicion in your question," he said, with a loud laugh. "You know that no messenger has come to me, and your subtle brain is already reason ing from cause to effect But listen, my friend, I am so often called tovsee Mrs. Glaye that to save the little lone trouble I have agreed upon a signal. Whenever my services are needed the little darling places a bouquet of asters in her window. ' Look through these opera glasses toward the hotel and you will see the signal very plain." "The signal was there all day yesterday and yet you did not gol" I answered dryly, to let him see I knew how to use my eves. "Lecoq aj ain and Lecoq always," he said with undiminished gaiety. "How the mur derers will regret their crime by and byl But it is a signal calling me, just the same, my friend, and I must go to the suffering; woman." "Tell her not to trot out in the night air, I retorted, ruffled by his raspintr laugh "searching lor lost earrings iu old houses!' He did not laugh now, but stared at me with some of the color faded rom his red, fat cheeks, and with his coarse, gray eye brows knitted into a frown. "I will deliver your message, my friend, without understanding it." He swallowed mouthful afier mouthful ot spicy hash, and I took the opportunity to say in my calmest voice it was hasty, bat his manner angered iue.; "Isn't pepper aud spices bad for wounds, mv dear doctor?" "Why do you ask?" I don't believe he could have laughed now if you paid him for it. "Because you are eating a greit deal of spice, aud if it is bad you will inflame the wound on your arm." I enjoyed one of the rare moments so dear to a detective; I had aimed an arrow and it hit to the very ceuterof the bullseve. Th doctor's manner suggested a man who just escapes from a wgye that threatened to swal low him. He emerges with his life,but with
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