?'wjwmmwwmi ? if f THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH. r t THIRD PART. ""r h PAGES 17 TO 20. THE SAVAGBEAUTY. Pretty Girls of Foreicn Lands as Seen in the Kew Exhibits of the National Museum. IFAT MAKES A H0TTEHT0T BELLE. Anklets Weighing Pour Ponnds Adorn the African Charmer, and Hideous Scars Cover Her Arms. EAR HOLES USED AS CIG1R HOLDERS. A Japanese l&ij Wdo Can Discs on a Ellret Dalltr, sxd Eme Tattooing Freaks. rco&szErosszircz or thx msri.Tcn.1 Washington, August 23. The Na tional Musenm hat just received a large collection of articles from the wilds of Africa. This exnibit has not yet been put in the cases, and a great part of it is yet to be classified. I had a private look at some of its cariosities to-day, nod my eyes grew big as I handled the jew elry worn by the la dies of the Congo. About the only things that a Congo girl cares for are her belt and bracelets.She wears.in fact,nothingelse. The belt is ornamented In various way, and I am told at the Mu seum that this belt constitutes the adorn- AKOREfltl ment of many savage BEAUTY women in different parts of the world. In most of the tropical countries women wear clothes purely for ornament. Every tribe has its different idea of beauty. I took a sketch to-day ot the Hot tentot "Venus, who is considered the most beautiful woman of the African tribe to which she belongs. She is the wife of a king, and a painting is now being .made of her from a photograph by the artist of the Musuem. She must weigh at least 400 pounds and she seems to run all to fat. She is so fat that when she lies down on her back she has to have her maids to help pull her up ag.in, and in this fatness and cross ness consists her beauty in the eyea of the Hottentot man. BEAUTT BY FOBCE PUMP. The Hottentot mothers stuff their babies with food in order to make them fat. They force milk into them as though they were so many geese and they were trying to mate pate de foi gras of them, and many a yonng girl is whipi ed by ber mother because she will not eat till she bursts. This fatness as a sign of beauty is also characteristic of Korean woman. The tat Korean is sup posed to be wealthy, and a girl who would weizh one-sixth of a ton ought to have a very rich fatner. The Korean woman is more over-dressed than her American sister. She wears pjntiloons and skirts, and she never goes out without a green cape thrown over ner bead, tbrougb tbe front ot wbtcn she makes a crack with her fingers just wide enough for ber to see through. In this African collection are some of the heaviest bracelets and anklets which are found in the world. I handled one ankle; made of brass, which was as big around as your wrist and which weighed about fonr pounds. It would be impossible for a girl to rnn with such a thing on her leg, and there were bracelets by the dozen ot iron and brass which weighed about a pound or more. Some of these bracelets were of ivory. Some were spiral like a watch spring, and others were as thtn as bangles. COSTS JUST THE SAME. In India women often wear bracelets from the wrist to the armpit, and I have seen at Benares on women whose black skins were covered with a cotton dress consisting merely of a sheet wrapped around tbem, and which all told could not have cost more than 25 cents, bracelets of gold, silver and brass which would have purchased a Paris costume. In the hill tribes of Burmah the women wear great bands of brass around their necks, and it is said that one woman will sometimes carry as much as 30 pounds in this way. In the collection at the Museum there are necklaces of iron, brass and gold and the objects are of all shape and description. The most curions neck lace, to me, was one of human fingers, but Hindoo, daisy this was used by the medicine men ol a certain tribe rather than at an ornament for women. Two of the most beautifully formed women I have ever seen were pointed out to me by the curator of the African exhibit, from a picture in the possession ol the Mu senm. They were young Kaffirs dressed in the costume or the country. They have high shoulders, beauti'nl busts, plump forms and long, lithe limbs. Tbeir hair is curly and their noses are flat and I am told that in this fl.tness they find a part of their beauty. Mothers think that the fl t nose is the only beantitol nose and they press down upon the noses of their babies to spread ont their nostrils. AS OILT CKEATOBE. There is one thing in dressing a young Kaffir lady that is de rigenr. She must nave a coat ot grease every day before she can go out of the tent. She oils herself un til her black fckin shines like patent UatW and then she is ready for a siege. She has en idea that scars add to her beauty, and you will notice that in many cases a Kaffir woman's arm troiu the wrist half way np to the elbow has natural bracelets of raised flesh. This is done by cutting tbearm when the child is young and falling the wounds with asbes made of burned snakes. These ashes pwlnce, to a certain extent, the effect of tattooing, and you will find the tattooed woman :n nearly every country. psj-rroi. mtcncocK, wno tins just returned from Yezo. the island which lies between iJapan proper and Eastern Siberia, has I ' I I vT L-. brought some photographs ol the savage aborigines of that country. He says that the Aino women are beautifully formed, but that they disfigure themselves with tatbio ing. When tho Aino wants to kiss he has to kiss inside the tattooed line which runs about the girl's mouth. The probability is that he does not know what kissing means, for the Japanese do not kiss and they never shake hands. This tattooed line is one of theAino's signs or beauty. It runs along the upper lip under the nose and between the under lip and the chin, and the two lines are united at the corners. Some of the women unite the eyebows by a streak of tat. bracelets around their arms. TATTOOING THE BEAUTIES. This tattooine begins at the age of 6. The skin is punctured with a knife and soot is rubbed in. A great deal is done in Alaska, and the museum has many examples of the tattooed women of that country. They do it differently, however, from the Ainos, and Lieutenant Ki black, of the navy, who spent some years in Alaska in the employ of the museum, has prepared a report upon this subject which is now in press. He says that the Haida tribe of Alaska have reduced it to a fine art, and that the women frequently tattoo finger npgs upon their hands and bracelets upon their arms. It often takes several yean to tatoo a woman properly. It is practiced among the Thibetans, and in the Himalaya Mountains you will see women with their cheeks scarred and red paint rubbed into tbem. Among some of the fashionable ladies of Japan I mean English ladies living in Japan tattooing has gotten to be quite a lad, and a man who returned last week irom the East in show ing me a red, white and blue design which bad been pricked by a tat,ooer upon his arm, told me that a half-dozen fashionable ladies at Kobe, Japan, had had pictures made on them by this man. I could hardly believe him, but be assured me that it was a fact. It is only the men among the Japanese who tattoo, and the Japanese girl keeps her beautiful skin clean. It is the same among the Burmese. TOM XDSl'S MODEL. Of all the beauti'nl women of the Orient the Venuses of Japan and Burmah are the most beautifnl. They have skins as white as ours. Their forms are as plump and their eyes as bright and their smiles as winning. The only difference is in the conrormation ol the features and in the dress and in cer tain ideas of adornment which make up what they consider beauty. There is no prettier ear in the world than that of Turn Yum. It is as dainty as that of a baby's, and its color is a delicate corah It is never defaced with ear-rings, and it sits on either of Yum Ynm's jrrsey cream face, a fit orna ment tp one ol the sweetest ornaments vou will find in the world of womanhood. Her hair is well pulled up from it, and if you could separate it from the whole it alone would form enough of attraction to make the blood jump in your veins. The Yenus ol Burmah has naturally just as pretty an ear, but she ruins it by'her ear plug. As soon as she reaches that age at which oar girls begin to lengthen their dresses her ear is bored Vr a professional ear-borer, and this boring makes her a yonng woman. It is done with great cere mony. Her mother gives a party, and all the friends look on while she is thrown down on the ground and a golden wire is thrust through the lobe of her ear and twisted into a ring. -AWFUL DEPOBMITIES. After the sore is healed a bigger wire is put in. This is followed by a bigger one, until the bole becomes as large aronnd as a man's thumb. Tnen a plug of gold, silver or glass is put into the ear, and is worn there from this time on as an ornament. These pings are sometimes studded with diamonds, and in the cases of wealthy girls they are very costly. Among the poorer Burmese women the holes are (nlarged nntil yon could put a napkin ring inside of them. The Burmese cigar is about three times as big around as the ordinary Havana, and the Bur mese women often carry their cigars around in their ears. In some cases the ears are pulled out so that they will hang almost to the shoulders, and I have seen photographs of such ears which contained holes large enough for me to put my fist through. As to the nose ring the Indian women have all sorts of them, and you will find that about half the women in the world or nament their noses. There are all sorts ot nose rings here in the National Museum. The women of Eoochow, China, wear a thin ring of silver as big around as the bottom of a tin cup in their Doses, and in eating they put the food through the ring into their months. The little screw earrings which we are now using come from the far East, and you will find thousands of them in India. The Indian girls punch holes all along the edge of the ear from the lobe up to the top, and they screw these earrings into them. Tney also screw rings into the roots of tbeir nose's, and the blacker the skin the more anxious the women seem to be to ornament it. BELLS OH THEIB TOES. Not a feV oi the women of the world ornament their feet, and in India girls often wear bells on tbeir toes. I have seen hundreds of them tramping along in their bare feet and making in reality, in the words ol the old nursery rhvme, "music" as they went along. These bells are of silver, gold or white metal, according to the wealth of the maiden. They are a good deal like sleigh bells, and are fastened to the top of a rine, like a finger ring, tbat goes around the toe. In some cases a woman will have five oi these bells on each foot, snd in others only the rings are used and no bells. ' About three-fourths of the women of the world go barefooted, and some ot the pret tiest feet that you find anywhere are those of India and the far East. The Chinese woman wonld naturally have a pretty foot were it not for the custom of compressing it to make it smaller than it is. The Chinese are beantiinlly formed. They have small bones, and are the aristocrats of the world. The Manchu women of North China do not compress the feet, and their limbs are as beautifnl as those of the Yenns of the Capi tol. Ibe Empress of China wears a No. 2 shoe, and no woman with a compressed foot is allowed in the royal palace, and there are at least 160,000.000 wives and maidens in China who have compressed feet. DANCING ON A DOLLAB. There is a woman at Canton, China, who can stand and spin aronnd on a trade dollar without letting ber shoe come outside the rim. Her loot is one of the kind that the Chinese go into raptures over under the oame of the golden lily. It is a horrible thing, howeveV, when it is outside of the shoe. You find that the maiden has merely been standing on her toe and that her foot has been squeezed out of all sign of beau tv. This squeezing commences at the time the girl is 5 years old and oiten when .she is younger. The toes arc tied under the loot, the heel is squeezed down toward the toes KyonauRrw. jFRtctocopi -.. "' and the foot o'ten breaks at the instep. It if terribly painlul and it results in making the women cripples. It takes away all the beauty of the calf, and there is not a pound of flesh on any one of these 150,000,000 Chinese women below the knee. I have a photograph in my pos session of a Chinese woman's foot. Her .shin bone is barely covered with flesh, and vet her face is fat "and her arms are plump. The Chinese women fatten easily, and fat ness is the sign of beauty. The Japanese woman's toot is small and delicate. It has a good instep, and the only difference be tween it and the prettiest of the American article is in the spreading apart of the big toe from the other toes of the foot. This comes from the Japanese stocking and the Japanese shoe. The Japanese stocking reaches only about three inches above the ankle. It is a sort of a mitten, with one finger for the big toe, and the string or the sandal comes between the big toe and the rest of the little toes, forcing them apart. YUM YUM'S TOILET. The Japanese girl is always well dressed and she wears one of the most picturesque costumes of the East. She believes in paint and powder and knows as much about hair oil as her American sister. The Japanese woman has the most gorgeous waterfall of the Orient, and the women of other nations pav as much attention to putting up tbeir hair as we do. Yum Yum is not at ail ashamed of making her toilet either and she sits on the floor before an open door or window primping before a mirror. She looks at you and smiles as you pass by and she generally has a maid to help her primp nud powder. It costs about 20 cents for the professional hairdresser to put np a woman's hair in Japan. It is stiffened with paste, and the yonng lady is not expected to have it pnt np more than once a week. She lies at night with her bairon a wooden pillow about as big as a loaf of bread to keep her perfumed locks fiom the floor, and she makes it a CHINESE W0MU& rant. point not to move her head in sleeping. There is no more luxuriant hair in the world than that of the Japanese, and this probably comes Irom the shaving of the head when she is a baby. The custom of shaving the head and blackening the teeth upon mar riage is dying ont, and the Empress is doing all she can to discourage it OBIENTAL TVATEBFALLS. Different styles of hairdressing prevail in different parts ol China, and the water all is known everywhere. The Korean girl wears ber hair on the nape of her neck, and the lady servants of the palace wear abont a bushel of false hair on the tops ot their heads. The Aino women wear their hair down over their e.irs like the men, and per hapi the only short .haired women in the world are those of Siam. The Siamese girls have beautiful forms, and as your boat floats in and out among the water home of Bangkok yon see many of tbem standing on the steps oi their floating houses taking their daily bath. They throw a cloth aronnd them and step down to their waists in the water and there spUsh themselves to their heart's content. They have skins of a rich chrome yellow, bright black eyes showing out of buttonhole lids, and their hair stands up like porcu pine quills all over tbeir beads. They have a roguish look and they are by no means unhandsome. Muss Gbundy, Jb. A CHOW IHDIAN PICHIC. Some Realistic Representations ofHIdeona Battle Scenes. Helena Journal. "I saw one of the grandest sights I ever saw in my life on the Fourth," said General Brisbin. "The Crow Indians celebrated the Fourth, and it is impossible to describe the scenes enacted. They went wild with' delight and entered into the sport in earnest. --"There wer; 250 of the Crows altogether, xn the first place they made (alse faces of blue clay and pieces of canvas, rendering their appearance perfectfnl trightlul. It is truly wonderlnl the way they got np the faces. Some had long noses, others long chics, some bad horns upon their heads, and, in fact, they were made up in every conceivable shape. They also decorated their persons in every imaginable style. The ponies were covered with canvas, gorgeously decorated with everything they could get hold of. The agent had arranged for their amusement on that occasion, but the details were left tor them to fill up. I sent a battery over at their request, and a continued roar was kept up all day. "Theyiperformed in a large circle, and their chief delight was in sham battles The scenes were so realistio that it was difficult to realize that they were not in earnest. They dashed about the ring upon their ponies, fighting with wooden lances. Some of the Indians would pretend that they were killed or wounded, when they -would be carried from the battlefield and attended by those selected for that purpose. The scalping scene was the great feature ot the occa sion. They had taken pieces of flannel and fastened them upon the heads of those who were to be pretended victims, and when this was removed with the scalping knives the facelwas besmeared with red ink to give the appearance of bleeding wounds. It was a most hideous spectacle, and the ladies who bad gone down to witness the event were compelled to leave, it was so shockingly terrible. The Indians, how however, enjoved the sport hugely, and at night had a big war dance. "It was impossible to get them to return home to tbeir farms for three days. The agent says that this will be the last one, as it excites the young bucks too much and re calls old times to the warriors( attracting them from their civilized pursuits. It seems remarkable that none of the redskius were iniured. Their horsemanship is superb. and it is worth going thousands of miles to see the exhibitions oi horsemanship given by that tribe. Altogether it was one of the grandest sights I ever saw, and I never ex pect to see its equal." HEW SAFETY PUBSES. They Are &o Contrived Tbat None bnt the -Owner Can Open Them. There are some good things in safety purses now, says a writer in the Fall Mall Budget. They can be laid down without any fear that the contents will disappear. Many women have an unhappy knack of leaving tbeir purses about. It is to these that the safety purses appeal. They are a puzzle to the uninitiated. A purse with silver mounts will have the opening spring hidden away in one corner. Yet all the corners look the same. The way to open another is to turn the spring right round. Another purse deceives you into the belief tbat the bottom is the top. Sealskin, without the fur. is the latest novelty for purses, The American purse is handy for carrying in tbe band. It's quite half a foot lone, so the owner can get a good grip on it. The double purse is a ttieittl article. Tbe roomy half of this is for coppers. , i PITTSBURG, SUNDAY, UP' AN ALPINE PEAK Ascent of Craggy Mount Pilatus, Overlooking Lake Lucerne. BEAUTIES OF A SDNRISE SCEKE. The Panorama of Fair Switzerland aa Seen Through the Clouds. IS0IDEHTB OF THE PERILOUS TRIP ICOBSXBTOXPXXCX OF TEX DISPATCS.I Venice, Angnst 9. HAVE climbed my first and last moun tain, one of the Al pine peaks being enough for me for a lifetime. It is now a week ago since I made the ascent aa well aa the descent of Mount Pilatus which is only 6,900 feet high, and my bones have not yet resumed their nor mal condition but feel as if I had a severe attack of rheumatism. Those who imagine that when a mountoin is only 6,900 feet high they have only to climb that number oi feet are very much' mistaken as tbe path up the mountain so zig-zag that five times 6,900 would be nearer the mark. Hereafter when I want to admire the View from a mountain top I shall take a train for that point and lacking that mode of conveyance I shall be content to admire its beanties from the valley underneath. On my way to Venice, for a few months sketching, I stopped a few days at Lucerne, one of the most beautiful spots in Switzer land. Across the lake can be seen the tow ering forms of Mount Eighi and Mount Pilatus. The latter, which is higher than Mount Bighl, looks more precipitous and rugged, but Mount BIghi is more in favor with amateur climbers, for the simple reason that it is not so tiring. THE MOTLEY CBOWD. The most awe-inspiring things abont a climb up the mountains are tbe merciless rays of tbe sun beating on you while toiling up its base and the Arctic coldness when you get to tbe top. The first thing to do is to provide yourself with a stout stick about eight feet long, with a long steel point. I took the steamer for a halt hour's ride to a village on tbe lake where one of the mount ain parks commences. Ou the steamer can be seen a choice collection of types from many countries. The Englishman in bis suit ol tweed, Knickerbockers, etc., and the usual white streamer around his hat; Germans, Austrians . and Hungarians, many of them having feathers and eidel weiss in their hats, and Borne with stout hob nailed shoes and knapsacks and all armed with long poles. There are English and American girlsby the score. They can always be eSsily known br their straw hats, generally black, with a brim only visible with a telescope. If American girls could only be persuaded how hideous they look with these cockle shells, I am snre they would quickly dis card them. The French women, ot all other nations, appear to the best advantage in traveling. Like their English and Ameri can sisters they do not wear their worst clothes when traveling, but appear as be witchingly at Saint Mark's in Venice as they do on the Boulevard des Italiens. The American small boy was, as usual, to the lore in the boat. He criticised any thing and everybody unceasingly, and was evidently monarch of all he surveyed. ACTUALLY CLIMBING. - For the first 2,000 feet np the mountain the heat is intense. I shed garment after garment until the shedding could go no further. Several thousand feet further up I could see tbe goats skipping nimbly around, and from my position I wondered they did not tumble down into Lucerne A View of Mount Tttalui. lake. In the woods at the base we met many of the natives engaged in cutting down trees. About a third of the distance up the mountain we came on a chalet with an unpronounce able German name where refreshments were provided. It was of the roughest con struction imaginable, with rustic benches in front, but a bed of eiderdown was never so re'reshing to the weary traveler as these benches were to the mountain climbers. Three of my English friends who had stouter legs than mine had already arrived, and were getting away with some English ale and strawberries. I succeeded in un earthing some prebistoric sausage. Tne paper around it was stained with age. After also unearthing some "rngeu brod," I asked for mustard, but not speaking Ger man, after making all the pantomines pos sible, and being brought everything but mustard, it at length arrived wnen I was nearly finished. One thing certain, they could beat a plumber in charges. IN FOGS AND CLOUDS. My pen cannot do justice to the grandeur of the panorama of tbe lakes and valleys of Switzerland as they unfolded themselves to my gaze as I ascended higher and higher. One moment I would be enveloped in a cold, dense fog, and as it by magio in tbe next moment it would clear away, disclosing one of tbe mountain peaks ahead of me in all its sky-piercing sublimity. The path was zigzag, and as I looked down over it I was surprised at its regularity. The mountain paths are well taken care of by the hotel proprietors. One of the chief dangers in mountain climbing is of a party ahead of yon dis lodging a stone which rolls down with frightful speed. The best thing to,do if you slip in climbing, is to throw yourself on the ground. I had some practical experience in slippingdlnjosfat the base on a grassy meadow. I wanted to make a straight line in place ot a zigzag. Suddenly I lost my center of gravity and was in a minute rush-' Ing down tbat hillside wltn Irlgbt ul velocity. I iet myself gallon the ground I .1 40$QQi,?0' AUGUST 24, 1890. and such was my momentum that I must have rolled over a dozen times. SNOW FIFTEEN FEET DEEP. In the last 1.000 feet von' ascend through a natural, fissure in tbe rocks up a .rude J nuuueu staircase, enowuoes not reuimu uu Mt. Pilatus all the year round, but I passed several ravines where the snow was 15 feet deep. A stream ran underneath the snow, leaving a bridge, and there was no incon siderable danger in passing by tbem, as when they get detached by the thawing they slide down the mountain side, and woe to him who is in their line of march. It takes about three hours and a half to make the ascent At the base it was warm enongh for a seersucker suit, and at the top a heavy winter overcoat would be comfort able, but as a heavy winter overcoat id not very portable up a mountain side, I adopted the unhappy medium and shivered on the mountain top. I have one consolation in thinking of the heat which I suffered a few hours previous at tbe base. Shakespeare's lines I think wonld come in here: Ob, who can hold a ball of fire In his hand, In bare remembrance ot tbe frosty Caucasus. XHE MOUNTAIN HOTELS. There are two palatial hotels at the sum mit, and tbe prices are palatial also. My companion and I could have a room with two beds for $2 each, and the usnal Euro pean charges for candles, services, etc., would run the bill np to several dollars more; but tbe lower you are on the mount ain side the lower the prices are, so we de scended a thousand feet to another hotel, where we got good accommodations at much better rates. Nights on the mount ain are awiully cold. After we had snug ly tucked ourselves in the landlord's beds one oi his buxom daughters came into our room with an armful ot those feather affairs so much used as bed covering in European countries. I wonder we did not suffocate before morning. I told the host to awaken mo at 4:30 in the morning to see the sun rise, that being the regulation thing for tourists on a mount ain ton. I have seen Niagara Falls and the Eiffel tower, but nothing can surpass a sunrise on the Alps viewed from a mount ain top 6.900 feet high. Te lakes and valleys underneath were bidden in a flat layer ot mist and tbe sun Bhining on this and on the top of the snow-clad chain made a sight which I shall never lorget. AN ALPINE BTJNBISE. The mist, with the mountain peaks jutting ont here and there, bear a striking resem blance to an ocean studded with islands. Tbe sharp peak of the Jungtrau, clotbed in its eternal snow, towered above the other Jnn on the Mountain Path. peaksthe Fennesterhorn, tbe Schreckhorn, the Silverhorn, the Matterhorn, etc., with the vast snowfields at their bases. As the day grew older the mist underneath com menced to break up and ascend the mount ain peaks. Now and then, tbrongh a break in the cloud, could be discerned the shining Lake of Lucerne underneath. Abont 10 o'clock the shifting mists, the snows, the shadows on the mountains, the lakes "and valleys of Switzerland made a panorama the equal of which I suppose cannot be seen in any part of the world, A FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT. During mv stay on the mountain top I was witness" to a terrible accident. Two hundred Austrians arrived on an excursion. Awailrnns around the hotel premises on the mountain summit, and on one side the mountain shelves very abruptly. One of the excursionists jumped off this wall onto tne side of the slope to gather some flowers, and losing his balance, he rolled like a wheel some 400 reetdown and vaulted over a huge ledge of rock into a rocky ravine. I got on the scene a few minutes alter, and could plainly see him laying in a pool of blood, and moaning piteously. It took a full Jialf hour for three expert climbers to bring him np to the hotel. I never saw an person worse mangled in a railway accident. He was without medical care for several hours, and died in great agony the same day. When I reached the bottom there was very little left of my shoes which were in good condition the previous day. My ad vice to mountain climbers is to take the train which runs up the side of the mount ain opposite the side I ascended. DEW. Scanlan. BUNGS FE0H THE SHAH. How an Enellsh Ijndy llam Fnllen Under tbe Notice of HI HlabneH. Illustrated News of the World. The magnificent diamond ring shown in our illustration is that which his Imperial Majesty.tbe Shah, has graciously sent to Sir Algernon Borthwick, M. P., by the bands of the NawabMirza Hasan Ali Khan, with with an autograph letter in Persian, and the following translation: "After compliments, "The time of our companionship with you, and the happy days passed in your neighborhood, are a delightlul souvenir of our last year's travels, and I con tinually revive in my recollections the 27ie Shah' Qlft. pleasantness thereof. There was only one unrequitable deficiency namely, the indis position and (consequent) absence ot your respected wi e, Lady Borthwick, which le t the gladness of our heart incomplete, and which is still recorded in the pages of our diarv. "Since we do not wish Her Ladyship to permit her absence and our not meeting her to cause oblivion, we have sent a ring for her. And we make you a medium of ex pression of our heartfelt regards and an ex ponent of our affection and.gratitude toward this family. "Nase ad Din, Shah." Swnllowa bi Carrier. Pall Mall Budget. Some experiments made the other day at Dunkirk certainly proved that swallows are not only swifter and more sure in their flight, than carrier pigeons, bnt that they can also notwithstanding all that has been said and written to dispose the fact be made as tame as any other birds. But who that has ever seen the pitiful sight of a swal low in captivity, with its bright eyes dull, and the sheen all vanished irom its glitter ing plumage, can believe that a swallow is made for anything but "the free airs of heaven?" , . fffrfetpfllid LIEE 0FTHE LOWLY. Fannie B. Ward's Pen Pictures of the South American Indian. EAISING CROPS AMONG STONES. The Universal Weapon is the Sline, and They Use It With bkilL AFEAID OF THE ELECTEIC LIGHTS tconnssroiroxKcz or tbts ctsrATcm La Paz, Bolivia, July 1. Many of the Indians of Peru and Bolivia are inde pendent farmers in a small way, a tolerably clean lot of people, as Indians go, peaceable, industrious and contented. Their besetting sin, however, is a weakness for more alcohol and coca than their means allow, whereby they involve themselves deeper and deeper into debt with the white race, which, in the long run means but one thing to the debtor loss of all be possesses, even personal lib erty, and peonism, amounting to slavery. The great Andean plateau, which stretches between Sorrato and Illimani, at an eleva tion of 13,000 feet, several hundred miles long and level as a board floor, is like a vast but straggling Indian village, covered with their adobe huts and poor little farms. The only crops tbat will grow at this height are barley and potatoes, and the former never comes to a head, bnt is left till dry and yellow and then cut, stalks and all, for fodder. A good many sheep also find a living among the rocks and llamas abound. SEED IN BTONY PLACES. The wonder is that anything can be raised on this cold and breezy plateau, not only on account of its elevation, but because of the deep layer of small, round stones that liter ally cover the face oi the earth aud must be removed be ore soil is visible. As stone walls are not in fashion here, there is no way of disposing of thisdebris of nature but to pile it np in heaps; and so about half of the best cultivated portion of the plateau is occupied by bnge mounds of stones. Seed time and harvest occur here whenever it suits the convenience of tbe cultivator; and one sees in thesame field women doubled over like jack-knives scratching up pota toes with hoes that have handles hardly a foot loug.follo wed by others who scatter seed in tbe furrows thus made. In this part ot the world potatoes are not considered fit to eat until after they have been frozen. This is purposely done dnring tbe coldest months, May, June, July and August, when they are spread out on the ground in the highest attitudes till well frosted. Potatoes hereabouts seldom attain more than the size of a hickory nnt bnt if any have grown larger they are cut in two. After one night's freezing they are soaked in water for 24 hours, then spread again on the ground, softly stamped by bare feet to squeeze ont tbe surplus moisture and frozen another night or two. '"When this perform ance is completed they are hard as bones and will "keep" forever. COOKING THE POTATOES. In, order to cook them properly, according to the notions of the people, they must, first be soaked in warm water and then ground or beaten between stones. They are seldom used exceDt in combination, that is nut into the chupe or soup, or stewed with bits of urieu auccp. xi urstgruuuu jiub suuiaea cooked solus they make a poultice-like mess similar to the "masbed potato." About the only meat the Indian indulges in is chalona or dried mutton, which is pre pared in this way: When a sheep has been killed it is laid out flat, frozen, soaked in water and frozen again; alter which it is hung up and dried, and is then so hard and tough that decay is impossible and no ver min will molest it. To render chalona edi ble it must be cut into small bits and boiled a very long time; and in its best estate is about as tender and juicy as sole-leather. Bolivian Indians rarely eat fresh meat of any kind, and have no fondness for the picanter aud peppers so prized bv the Span iards and Cholos. Their greatest delicacy in tbe line of food is frozen llama flesh; while coca is considered the first essential ot Iiie. and alcohol, or its equivalent, far more necessary than water. The prosperous In dian farmer owns a few Hamas, and perhaps a mule or two, worth about $10 apiece; while he is a very nabob who possesses also a cow or flock of sheep. EXPEETS "WITH THE SLING. "Whenever a man, woman or child of In dian blood starts out to drive a'llama, sbeep or other animal, he or she, does not look for a stick, but carries a small sling of woven wool, which, among these singular people, is the sole weapon of offense and delense. Jogging along at a slow trot be hind the flock or herd an Indian will keep every member of it straight in the path and up to time without uttering a sound or changing his pace. If one of tbe animals loiters by the wayside, or shows a disposition to go astray, a small stone, shied from the sling with unerring accuracy, hits him a clip on the off ear ana reminds him that business must be attended to. It sometimes happens tbat the Aymaras and Quichuas nave regular pitched battles between one another and always the only weapons used are stones propelled by slings. Such a row occurred in La Paz during the last carnival time. The rival tribes repaired to the outskirts of the city, where they oc cupied two adjacent hilltops and waged war so fiercely that a number were killed on both sides. To this day none of the white race know what was the cause of tbe dis turbance. At last the Government sent out a company of soldiers to disperse them, but with blank cartridges only. Learning this, the Indians surrounded the soldiers and held them prisoners until a second body of troops came to their rescue with powder and ball. T7HEEE TVOMEN EULE. As a rule, tbe women are superior to their lords in intelligence, and earn the larger share ot tbeir m'ntual support. Being the older of the two, she is naturally the bead of the bouse, and is more likely to thrash ber dutiful spouse than he is to misuse her. In the markets where farm products are disposed of, she can drive a better bargain than he; tht can carry as heavy burdens, endure s much manual labor, chew as much coca and drink as much alcohoL. Tbe Indians have little or no money, their n-idiumsof exchange being whatever they may raise, or the labor of their bands. They will eat when not hungry, "against the "time of need," as they say, and they are lull ot an manner oi superstitions, which is taken advantage of by numerous medicine men. The city ol La Paz Is lighted by electri city, and the Indians hereabout, not under eti'ndin? tbephenomenon.have been greatly troubled thereby. A few weeks ago they were thrown into a state of wild confusion by a partial eclipse of tbe moon, and the next day's local paper contained the follow ing item! "Thelndiaus residing in the out skirts of the city were smitten with terror last night at the spectacle ot tbe eclipse, be lieving tbe electric light to be directly re sponsible for it, and tbat the moon, becom ing ashamed of its inferior light, and tntre fore jealous and anery, was trying to hide herself, and what would they do if Luna should put out her light altogether? "The panio became so great that the poor creatures huddled together in groups, cry ing like children, and some fled to tbe caves and mouutalns. Others showed fight and got out tbe reed trumpets that are used in calling together a council of war, and began tootjng with all their might At this junc ture tbe police interfered, fearing trouble to tbe electric light company and their works, and two companies of soldiers were called ont to preserve order." annie B, "Waed. dyjtio-' team- JJsPiMli A NOVEL DEALING WITH OOTEMPORAR"Sr LIFE. WBITTEN FOB THE DISPATCH. BY WILLIAM BLACK, Author of "A. Princess of Thute," "Sunrise," and Many Other Stories of the Highest Reputation on Two Continents. SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS. The story opens at Piccadilly with aeed George Betbnne and his granddaughter. Malsrie, on their w-r to the residence of Lord Musselburgh. Tbe old gentleman is of a noble Scotch house and claim to have been defrauded ot bis property rights. JMow be is enzazed In preparing for tbe onblicatlon of a volume of Scotch-American poetry, and bis errand to Lord Mussetbarg- Is to procure assistance from him. Malsrie In just huddlns; into womanhood and feels humiliated when ber grandfather accepts 50 from Lord Musselbare. On tbe way home she asks ber grand father when be will begin the work. She receives an evasive answer which evidently convinces ber tbat ber grandfather Is not in earnest. At last she begs her grandfatner to allow ber to earn a living tor the two. He refuses In his proudest vein, intimating that people should feel highly honored to bave the opportunity to assist tbe family of Betbnne of tSalloray. Malsrie's mind is evidently made ud to take soma independent course. Young Via. Harris overheard the con versation at Lord Mnsselburr's residence and became strangely interested m the young girl. He bad been trained for a brilliant political career; bis father is very rich and given to Social istic Ideas. VIn. is still studying and finds an exense in tbe interruptions at bis father's housa to secure a suite of roonujnst across tbe street Irom Malsrie's home. He nas an aunt who is just now busy Impressing him with vthe Importance of securing an American wife for himself. At his room he Is greatly touched by Maisrie's tnnes on tbe violin, and straightway he secures a piano on which he answers ber plaintive notes. This at last leads to a formal Introduction of the young people. At a dinner Mrs. EIHon again urges Vin. to marry, intimating tbat should be marry a lady of herapnroval tbe bride should not be without a liberal dowry. VIn.'s father wishes htm to become private secretary to Josiab Ogden, a politician wbo plays to tbe masses. Vin. la shocked at the proposal. la roturnlozacall of Geor;o Betbnne. Vin. has tbe pleasura of an evening in Maisrie's company. Mr. Betbnne requests BoDson. bis landlord, to discover the residence of youne Harris. This he succeeds in dnlns and acquaints Betbnne with tbe informa tion he ha' obtained. Vin. again invites the pair to dinner and succeeds in obtaining their con sent to visit Henley Reeatta. At the regatta Mrs. Ellison is prevailed upon by Vin. to meet tbe Bethunes. 8he stndles them intently, and intimates on parting that she nas been compromised by the visit. Malsrie makes no effort to conceal from Mrs. Ellison their poverty or social standing. Mrs. Ellison consults Lord Mnsselburgh andfeomes to tbe conclusion tbat George Bethnne and bis daughter are alter Vln's money. Bhe starts ont to save him, but Malsrie wins her with a song. OHAPTEB TILL AN ATiAETif. On a certain still, clear, moonlight night a-dogcart containing two young men was being driven away from tbe little town of Hendover, out into the wide, white, silent country. The driver was Lord Mussel burgh, and he seemed in high spirits, talk ing to his companion almost continuously, while he kept the stout little cob going at a rattling'pace, "I am more pleased than I can tell you," he was saying. "Quite "a triumphl "Why, you took to it as a duck takes to water. Of course there's something- in having a re sponsive audience; and you can always get a noble band of patriots to cheer your pro posal for a progressive income tax when not one in ten of them has an ' income tax to pay. I'm afraid they weren't quite so en thusiastic about your scheme of compulsory insurance; indeed they seemed a little dis appointed and offended; the Champion of the Proletariat was playing it a little low down on them; but a heavily increasing in come tax oh, yes, that was splendid! they saw the Bothschilds caught at last, and had visions oi a land in which there shall he no more poor-rates or police-rates, perhaps not even water-rates or gas-ratea. But it was your confounded coolness tbat snrprised me no beating about the bnsh walking straight into it and without preparation, too ' "I knew what I had to say," Vincent in terposed, with a becoming modesty, "and it seemed simple enough to say it." "Yes, and so it is when you have ac quired the knack of forgetting yourself," "WON'T. YOU GIVE ME said the yonng nobleman, oracularly, "And that appears to bave come naturally to you, my boy. However, this is wby I am so par ticularly pleased with yonr successful first appearance," Lord Musselburgh proceeded, as the dogcart went bowling along the silent, white highway, between the black hedges. ''I am about to unfold to you a great idea, Vin perhaps prematurely, but you will be discreet. The project is mine; but I want help to carry it tbrougb; yon and I must work together; and years and years hence we shall be recognized as tbe Great Twin Brethren, who saved the falling fortunes of JSngland." Was he in jest or earnest? Master Vin, knowing his -iriend's sub-cynical habit of speech, listened without interposing a word. "We shall earn for ourselves a deathless renown, at very little cost to ns; it's the other people who will bave to pay, and we shall have nil the glory. Now what I pro pose is briefly this: I propose to give all those good folk who profess a warm regard lor tneir native country a cn&nce oi snow ing what tbeir patriotism is worth. I don't want them to fight; there isn't any fighting going on at present to speak of; and in any case the rich old merchants, and maiden ladies, and portly bishops, and ponderous judges well, they'd make an awkward squad to drill; bnt I mean to give them an opportunity of testifying to their affection for the land of their birtb; and you, my blazing young Tory-Democrat, if you can spe ik as freely as you spoke to-night, you must carry the fiery torch north, south, east and west till you've secured Westminster Abbey for both ot us, or at least a tablet in St- Paul's. Then look what a subject for vour eloquence you have tbe guarding of England from any possible combination of her foes the island-citadel made Impreg nable 'coropass'd by the in violate, sea' defense not defiance you know the kind of thing. But really, Vin, yon know, there is I going to be an awiut stramash, as my old nurse used to say, in Europe before the cen tury is out; and England's safety will lie in her being strong enough to remain aloof. And how? Why, trebling her present navy." '"Irebling her present navyl" Vincent re peated, in a vatjue sort of way. "Yes," Mnsselburgh went on, coolly. "And it can easily be done, without involv ing a single farthing of taxation. I want the people of this country to show what they can do voluntarily; I want them to make a tremendous effort to render Great Britain secure from-attack for a century at least; pfMMiMi !fflS-!YSTM. and the manner of doing it is to form a National Patriotic Fund, to which every body, man and woman, merchant and ap prentice, millionaire and clnb waiter, can subscribe, according to their means and the genuineness of their patriotism. Here is a chance for everybody; here is a test of all those professions of love of country. Why, it would become a point oi honor, with the very meanest, if the nation were thoroughly aroused, and if a splendid example were set in high places. The Queen, now who is more directly interested in the safety of the country than she is? why should she not bead the list with 100,000? I would cull tbe fund tire Queen's Jf and; and I should not wonder if we were to get two or three maniacs very useful maniacs patriots they would have been called in other days to cut their possessions in ha! r, and hand the one half bodily over to Her Majesty: that would be something like an example?" "But is it all a wild speculation, Mussel burgh?" asked Vincent, who was puzzled. "Or do you mean it seriously?" "Ha and hum," said the young peer sig nificantly. "Tbat depends. I should want to sonnd some of the dukes about it. And first of all I must bave some sort oi scheme ready to get rid of obvious objections. They might say, 'Ob, you want to treble tbe navy? Then in 20 years yon'Ii.find yourself with a crowd oi obsolete ships, and all your money gone.' That is not what I mean at all. I mean tbe lormation of an immense volun tary national lund, which will keep the navy at double or treble its present strength, not by a sudden multiplication of ships, but by gradually adding vessels of the newest constrnction, as improvements are invented. An immense fandrdonbtless; for of course there wonld be maintenance; bnt what couldn't a rich country like England do if she chose? And that's what I'm com ing to, with regard to yon, my young Demos ONE OP THOSE TLOWEE3? thenes. It would be infinitely better it would be safer it wonld be building on securer foundations if tbe demand for such a movement came from tba country itself. If the Queen and the dukes and tbe millionaires were to subscribe as il in answer to an ap peal from the people the enthusiasm would be tremendous; it would be such a thing as never happened before in the history of Enzland; talk abont noble ladies flinging; their jewels into the pnblic treasury? why, every school-girl would bring ont her hoarded pocket-money, with her lips white with patriotic fervor. England can sub scribe on all possible occasions for the bene fit of other countries; lor once let her sub scribe on ber own beballl" Lord Mnsselburgh went on, though it might bave been bard to say what half. mocking bravado intermingled with his ap parent enthusiasm. "And tbat's where you would come in. You would be the emissary, the apostle, the bearer of the fiery torch. You've done very well with tbe grocers' assistance of Mendover; but tancy having to wake up England, Canada. Aus tralia, and the Cape to the necessity for making tbe Mother Country once for all in vulnerable, in the interests of peace and universal freedom. Why, I could become eloquent about it myself. They cheered your graduated income tax; "but what wonld they say to thi? Fancy what could be done if every man in this country were to pledge himself to give a year's income I We don't ask him to go out and bave his legs or his arms amputate-.!, or his bead shot off; we only ask for a year's income toj secure peace and prosperity for himself and his children and his children's children. If there is any patriotism in the country at all, who would say no? And then when there is an iron belt round En gland, and when there is a floating mass of iron tbat could be sent at any moment to form x wall round any ol her dependencies, then, I suppose, there might be a splendid assemblage in Westminster Hall; and yon and I as tbe instigators of this great na tional movement bnt my imagination stops short; I don't know what they will make of ns." He himself had to stop short, for he waa passing tbrongh a wide gateway into the grounds surrounding the Bungalow, and' tbe carriage drive was almost i a vis ible under tbe over-shadowing tree. Presently they bad drawn up in front of the long. low. rambling house: aud hen were .windows, and an open, door, a&tt -jA Mkfl i ... ..H .i.. As ftfer. mt9 -ask- 4x?-iML Vjf JiWsssllsilssssW TjsSBff'AiBlaBSSfMeSwl&iflltfllBKIESBlBBB
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