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EHIHD IN THE NEWS.
Mexican People Don't Object
if Their Newspapers Are
Days Out of Date.
EDITOES OFTEN IN JAIL.
Book Stores Filled With Rare
Volumes of Great Value.
Old
CULTURE OF THE SISTER REPUBLIC.
The Theaters Are Well Managed and Pat
ronized by the Best Classes.
ODD SYSTEMS OF STAGE MANAGEMENT
IconKisrosiExrn or Tin DisrATcn.3
Mexico Cur, Aug. B.
EKE'S your daily
paper of to-morrowl
This is the cry I
hear at 5 o'clock
every afternoon in
the streets of Mex
ico City. Dozens of
newsboys are crying
It. Bagged, dirty
little fellows, they
look out under big
hats and stick cheap
ly printed newspa
pers under your nose
while thev yell out
A Xanboy. in Spanish the
names of their papers and say that they
contain all the news of to-morrow. In the
morning they will cry the same papers as
just from the press, and pretend that they
contain all the news of the day.
Mexican daily newspapers are always
printed the afternoon before the date of
publication. The editors and reporters are
too lazy jo think of night -work, and they
Lave no idea of the value of news. .Tele
grams are just as likely to be printed three
dsvs after reception or to be thrown out en
tirely a to be used at once, and a prosy
three-column editorial often crowds out a
big accident or good news matter.
don't know what a SCOOP IS.'
The Mexican reporters do not know what
the wo.d s-coop means, and many of them
will not take telegrams, because thej say
they hay e not the room for them. Neverthe
less there are 29 dailies in Mexico City. The
most of these are subsidized by the Govern
ment All have small circulation, and the
biggest journal of the Mexican Bepublic
runs out only about 5.000 copis daily. This
is El Monitor HqniUkano, which is the great
Independent daily of Mexico City, which
contains about 300,000 people, and which is
bigger than Piltbiirg I don't know the
circulation of Tni: Disr vrcn, but it must
be at Icist ten time as great as this, and it
prints more teli grams in one day than the
Monitor Ecpitblicano does in a j ear.
Still the Monitor HcpvUicano pays 540,000
a year, and it i the bet newspaper prop
erty iu Mexico. It gets no subsidy from the
Government, and it is supported by the
Conservative party It is one of the most
independent of journals in its advertising
mehods. It will not take mi advertisement
for any fixed time, but only for as long as
it is com iiient to publish it, and it will
not inaitp any reduction in price for a num
ber o-f insertions. It has four pages, and
sells for C cents a copy.
UHTORS OFTEN GET INTO JAIL.
The editor of the Republicans is now and
then too decided in his criticisms of the
Government, and like all other editors in
Mexico he suddenly finds himself arrested
and ehen a fc. months or a vear imprison
ment, m the penitentiary. There is practi
callj no freedom of the press in Mexico. The
editor of a newspaper who is obliged to
eig.i his name to his matter never feels
certain as to whether he will not be taken
to Belem, which is the name of the Mexi
can penitentiary. There ii in tact a corri
dor in this prison which is devoted to news-par-er
editors and w hich goes by the name
of newspaper row.
The most of the articles in a Mexican
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In the 1'laza.
newspaper are signed and the paper has to
print in ewry issue the name of a man who
Is responsible for thoe which are not signed,
and in case of trouble as to the unsigned
articles this man goes to prison. In some
of the newspaper offices here the attaches
assume this responsibility turn about. The
El 1imjw or the Timet is the organ of the
church party and it often denounces the
Government. Its edit-irs are frequently
Imprisoned, but it makes about 510,000 a
year and it considers itself doing well.
SUPPORTED Br PRESIDENT DIAZ.
The leading govemmn paper is the El
TJmttrml. This Is subsidized by the govern
ment, and it gets 1,000 a month from Pres
ident Diaz. The editor has also been made
a Senator; and he gets a Senator's salary.
The Universal has about 15 editors to every
one reporter, and this is the proportion in
most of the offices. The editorial are chief
ly essays. The Mexicans do not know
what the racv paragraph means. The first
page of every Mexican newspaper is de
Toted to lone; winded critiques and commen
taries on current events or ancient history,
and the onl lie papers tint the citv has
arc two dailies published n English", and
patronized by the English shaking people
of Mexico.
One of these is Tit Tuv HcpuUtcs, which
was established about25 years ago, and which
makes about $10,000 a year. Its editor is
Mr. Mastella Clark, aud"its business mana
ger is Mr. biduey Guy Sea, one of the
brighest newspaper men of the United
States, who was lorccd to go to Mexico for
hU health. Mr. Sea was getting $10,000 a
vear from the Chicago Iferaid when he had
a hemorrhage of tne lungs, and the doctors
sent him to Mexico to die. He rapidly re
covered under the pure air of the Mexican
plateau, and he is making the Two Jtepublia
v. vcrj valuable piopcrty. The other En-
flish poiier is known as "the Anglo-American.
t has been only lately established, but it
is last increasing in circulation and influ
ence. REPORTERS DO NOT GET RICH.
All kinds of newspaper work in Mexico
axe poorly paid. Editors get from $10 to
$25 a week in money, which is only from
$7 00 to $18 a week in American money.
The essay editors get the highest salaries.
As to telegraphic news the papers seem to
think"hothiiiK of quoting irom their cotem
poraries' telegrams which have been u-ed a
day or two before, and an event tluee
months old will be put in with as much as
surance as though it had just happened.
Time, in fact, is of no impoitance in any
aflair of Mexican Hie, and neither the peo
ple nor the editors seem to care as to
whether the matter is new or old. I found
in
newspapers In everyone of the big cities of
Mexico I visited, and there is no perfecting
press In all Mexico. The presses in use are
of the old French style made after patterns
which have long since been abolished. The
amount paid for telegraphic service in
Mexico City ranges from 54 to $25 per week
per newspaper, and only the leading news
papers pay anything for telegrams. In con
trast to this I know some American news
papers, not in New York either, which pay
56.000 per week each for their telegrams.
As to newspaper correspondents these aro
paid by getting a copy of the paper free,
and the papers throughout are run on
economical ground.
THE PRICES rOR TYPESETTING,
The printers get from 28 to 35 cents per
thousand ems and a good foreman receives
a salary of 520 per week. Suoh printers as
are on salaries get from $6 to 512 per week,
and all of these sums are in Mexican money
which is worth only 75 cents to the dollar.
There seems to be a eood chance in Mexico
for the establishment of paperfactorics. All
kinds of stationery are very expensive and
ordinary printing paper is made and sold
here at From 13 to 16 cents a pound. The
same quality of paper is sold in the United
States at from 3 to 4 cents a pound, but tho
duties are so great and the freights so heavy
that little is to be saved by importing it, it
costs at Jeast lz cents a pound to bring
paper from the United States to Mexico
City and this sum must be paid for consular
fees at the port of shipment, custom house
lees oi many Kinds and there is a duty of 5
cents a pound in addition to the freights
and fines. The Mexican Government makes
almost as much off of its fines as from its
dunes. The least error in a consular in
voice or a merchant's statement brings forth
a heavy fine and this is the case even whero.
the mistaKe is in lavor of the Government
and against the importer.
giving importers the double' cross.
If, for instance you should import 35
pounds of paper and in your invoice the
amount should be put down as 40 pounds,
making you pay a tax on more than you
have, the Customs House officials would
fine you, and when it is remembered that
this system extends to every class of ship
ments it is no wonder that Mexico gets
$35,000,000 a year out of its Custom Houses.
It is from the heavy duties and from these
numerous fines that the grea.1 profit on
home manufacture arises in Mexico.
Everything here is protected to such an
extent as to almost prohibit competition
and there is no better held in the world for
manufacturing enterprises. Such as have
been established are making money and
there is plenty of room lor more. In
another letter I will discuss the question
more at length and will show how a number
of smart Americans are already in the field
and are already making fortunes.
One ot tne brighest Americans in the
country, by the wny, is Mr. Fred B. Guern
sey, the editor of the Financier, a weekly
financial paper which has become the busi
ness authority of the country, and which
has made Mr. Guernsey and his partners a
fortune within the past half dozen years.
It is a bright, reliable, progressive journal,
published Doth in Spanish and in English,
and is thoroughly independent.
, GETTING RICH VERY RAPIDLY.
Its editor came down here at the time the
Mexican Central Bailroad was opened a
few years ago as the correspondent of the.
Boston Herald. He "liked the outlook and
concluded to stay. He is now a partner in
one of the largest mercantile firms in Mex
ico, that of Seegur, Guernsey & Co., and he
is said to have made several hundred thous
and dollars within a decade. He is popular
with President Diaz and the Mexicans, and
he tells rue he likes the country and intends
to spend his life" in it. His paper is the
oulv one of the kind in Mexico and it is
undoubtedly doing the country good. As
to the other weekly papers there is amining
journal, a humorous sheet or so, and there
is a paper which circulates almost entirely
among the lawyers. As to the outside
paper.1 1 see more French journals than
Spanish ones on the tables of the reading
room; in the clubs and Mexico reads more
French than English, The bookstores, of
which there are many, are filled w ith French
books in fine bindings, and the cheap novels
of the day are Frenca ones.
Mexico" city is perhaps the best place in
the world for the purchase of antique books,
and the secondhand book store contain
hundreds of old volumes bound in vellum
and musty with the age of hundreds of
j ears.
A PARADISE rOR BOOK rANCIERS.
I bought a rare old volume which was
printed in the jear 1503 lor tl. It was a
Latin book, beautifully printed and illus
trated, and it would bring a high price at
any antiquarian, iu America. 1 found it in
a book stall under the long arcades that
run around the plaza in Mexico Citj,
and the dark-faced book peddlei asked nie
510 for it. I pulled out a bnght, new- Mex
ican dollar and held it up belore his eyes,
ile at first scorned it, but as I started to'put
it back into my pocket he handed me the
book and held out his hand for the oollar.
You find all kinds of old and rare volumes
here. Two-thirds of the wealth of the whole
country belonged to the priests at the time
that their property was confiscated some
yearsagoby the Government. They had
vast libraries in their monasteries, and their
convents were filled with old books. Since
then a great many of these have been sold
and stolen, and you find them in every lan
guage, and some of them date back o"f the
invention of printing and were made by the
monks of the Middle Ages with the pen.
IX THE NATIONAL LIBRARY.
I visited the National Library of Mexico.
It is iu the big church of San Augustin,
which was confiscated and devoted to this
purpose, and it contains nearly 200,000 vol
umes, or about one-third as many as our
National Librarv at Washington. Thp
Vails of the church have been lined with
shelves, and its naves and its chapels are
fiUid with books. I walked through long
aisles of old volumes bound in ellum, and
no one of which, I was told, was less than
100 years old, and, I saw that there were
hundreds ot men and boys sitting at the
tables in the reading room poring over
books and making notes irom them. Some
of these were school boys, others were
student of the many colleges of the capital
and others, I was told, bclouged to the
.Mexican uongres: and were getting up
speeches which they would 60on spout in
the Senate and House.
Mexieo City is, in fact, a far more culti
vated capital than is generally supposed.
You may have as good schools here as any
where. There are colleges, lor women and
men. There is a great national museum a
fine art gallery, which contains a number'of
theold jnasters, and the people have their
social clubs and their literary societies. '
MEXICAN AUTHORS AND MUSICIANS.
Mexico has its poets, and while I have
been here its poet laureate recited a
patriotic poem at a public celebration. It
has its novelists and its historians, and no
where in the world will you find a more
general love for music among all classes of
the people. Every Mexican city has its
plaza, or central park, containing flowers,
trees, seats and a band stand, aud several
times a week the Government and other
bands give here free open-air concerts. In
Mexico City every Sunday mornin" vou
may hear delicious music by one of the best
bands of the world in the PJaza Mayor.
From 12 o'clock to 1 the whole citv turns
out and takes a promenade in the Alameda,
another great park, and here also an excel-
Between Ihe Acts.
THE
lent band plays at this time. In the even
ing there is more music in the plaza, and
this great square U filled with men, women
and children of all ages and costumes.
There are hundreds of peons who move
about under big hats, with bright' blanket
thrown around their shoulders over their
cotton suits. Their dark-iaoed wives, in
red skirts and white waists, with only their
eyes showing out of the blue or black
rebosas which they have drawn around their
heads, walk by their sides, and half-naked
little children trot alonr in bare feet and
with bare heads beside them.
THE JIBS' CARRY THB BABIES.
Many of the women have babies wrapped
up in their shawls or slung upon their bacKS,
and in many cases the men carry the babies.
Here a couple of lovers go hand in hand or
with the arm of the man around the waist
of the sweetheart or wife, and all listen to,
we music and criticise and enjoy it. mere
are also the rich in the plaza. Men and
women as well dressed as you will see them
in New York, and not a few Spanish
maidens are walking slowly along dressed
in black with black shawls on their pretty
heads and their great soulful eyes peeping
ont all the more strikingly from this
aomber background. These maidens are
always accompanied by their nurses or
mothers, who act as their chaperones to
ward off the attentions of the gay youth of
the capital. The order in such a crowd is
something wonderful. Mexico is a much
better regulated city than New York, and
there is no brawling or noise.
The theaters of Mexico are excellent.
The first ston't theater built in America
was erected in the western part of this conn-
'trr- and you find fair theaters in all the
Mexican cities. Mexico has three theaters,
which range in seating capacity from 2,000
to 3,000, and you are sure of finding at least
one good troupe playing. I
HEARD EMMA JUCH
in the Teatro Xacional, and the audience
was as fine as any you will see in the
Metropolitan Opera House in New York.
The cream of the Spanish nobility of Mex
ico was present, and there were hundreds of
finely dressed men and women in the boxes.
There were many pretty girls, some of them
Indians, some Spanishsome Mexicans, and
not a few American and English. The
theater was walled with boxes and all the
ladies were in full dress. The pit was
given up to the men who kept their bats on
until the play began and who smoked be
tween the acts.
At the close of each scene all of these
men rose, clapped their opera glasses to
their eyes and stared at the ladies in the
boxes, a.id there was a great deal of bowing
back and forth. There was considerable
visitinc in the boxes between the acts, and
I am told that the Mexicans perform many
of their social obligations at the theater.
Another night I went to' the Teatro Princi
pal, which is nearly as large as the Nacionah
This theater was founded in the seventeenth
century by two monks, and when it was
burned in 1722 it was looked upon as a
judgment of God for the sacrilege of the
Church trying to raise money in this way.
The monk's, however, rebuilt it and it is
now one of the leading theaters of the city.
CAN PAY BY TUB ACT.
It is managed difierentlv from our thea-
atcrs and you can go in and sit for an act aud
pay for thatact oniv. I listened to 23c worth
of "Traviata" in the pit aud I might have
-had an act in a box lor about 10 cents more.
I was amused at the way the man in the box
office kept track of the seats sold. He had
a diacram of the theater, in which little
holes were punched for each seat These
holes were just like those of a cribbage
board, and into each of them was stuck a
little roll of green paper, which contained
the number ot the seat, and when I picked
out my place ho handed me one of these
green rolls, which formed my check for my
seat.
Mexico has first-class variety theaters,
and it has a circus which runs every day of
the week and nearly all day Sunday, and
which is operated by "a coupleof Americans.
All told, the town is as well off for amuse
ments as any capital of its size in the world,
and its standard of culture is improving
from year to year.
Frank G. Carpenter.
AFHICAN PIGMIEa
How the Discovery of One of Them Fur
nished Food for Stanley.
C J. Glahe lu August St. Nicholas.
During the very hungriest time spent by
Stanley's expedition in going through the'
dense forest it happened that the discovery
ot a littl; child of the dwarf tribe proved
truly pnnidcutia'.
Upon approaching one of the settlements
of these people, the natives, fearing that
the Arabs were upon them, hastily re
treated to the depths of the jungle, leaving
in tne Milage one ot the young children.
He was an ungainly little creature, and
from Saleh's description had an enormously
big head, protruding lower jaw, lean frame
and ungainly fat body. Tho Zanzibaris sat
about in dejected groups, complaining of
their present hard existence, and the sad
contrast of to-day with their joyous life in
their island home away in the Indian Ocean.
The little Teki-Teki (pigmy), although
not more than 3 jears old, was busily
searching for somothiug in the dry leaves.
The Zanaibaris were attracted by the child's
activity. Presently the 6parkle of his eyes
and the increased earnestness of his hunt
showed that he had been successful; and, in
deed, he returned to the camp-fire carrying
a lot of pods like enormous beans. These
he scraped to a fine powder, which he
damped rolled in some big leaves, and then
toasted in the ashes. "When cooked to his
satisfaction he opened the dainty package
and the whole camp became filled with the
pleasant odor of this new dish. The men of
the expedition then closed arourd and,
much to the young Tcki-Teki's distrust.
helped themselves to a tasting pinch. The
Zanzibaris knew the tree quite well; it was
the "makneme." This new discovery
brought a gleam of hope to the hearts of
these hunirrv beincs. The capture of tho
tiny woodsman was a godsend, and Baleh
said that had this unhappy little creature
but fairly understood their language he
would have been overwhelmed with the
heartfelt blessings showered on him. A
few dayj afterward another tribe of these
same small people was met, and the child
was handed over to them to be returned to
his parents.
THE SCHOOLEO0KS OF CHILE.
Pupils
Aro Under Strict Surveillance
lr
Night and by Day.
The schoolrooms ot Chile are curiosities.
A row of benches extends entirely around
the outside of each room, where the young
gentlemen sit during recitation hours, the
teacher occupying a slightly elevated seat
in the center. The blackboards are outside
in the corridor, apparently reserved for
Slaythings. and maps, charts, globes and
ictionanes are all kept under lock and key.
Extending along one side of each patio are
apartments devoted to sleeping purposes, 40
.beds occupying one dormitory. The boys
'are under strictest surveillance bv nicht as
I by day, and erch sleeping room has its
1 "watch" a stern professor on guard in an
onte-cnamDer, wnose Deu, is placed so that
he can overlook every movement in the
dormitory. Under these circumstances there
is a pitiable dearth of ""larks" in these
model institutions. 1
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I Held Up a Ddllat.
PITTSBURG DISPATCH,
HUB OF THE liKMffi.
Fate Field Writes a Large Sized Boom
for the Capital City.
DESCRIPTIONS OP ITS DELIGHTS.
What Private Enterprise and Puolio Insti
tutions Are Doing.,.
AN IOTELLECTUAL AND ART CENTER
COBRXSFOXCKXCX Or TUB DISPATCH.
"Washington, Aug. 8. I am not among .
those who protest because millions of dol
lars are spent annually in Europe by Ameri
cans. That money is expended largely in
cultivating eye, ear and taste. Travel
means'expansion. It ii the traveled Ameri
can who returns with clarified vision to ask
for the same beauty, the same art, the same
comfort, the same educational advantages at
home as can be found abroad; it is because I
have traveled that I appreciate "Washing
ton, have made it my residence.
Eighteen months ago when I determined'
to set up my household goods in the Capital
New Yorkers and Bostonians sneered. They
talked about a "village," "only fit for habi
tation during the Congressional sessions."
Those critics had no comprehension of what
they were talking about A few, hav
ing recently condescended to come here to
scoff, have returned to praise. Not a little
of this change of opinion is due to foreign
influence. As New York and Boston are
idiotically Anglomaniacal, an English ver
dict carries great weight. JNo .European has
visited "Washington within five years who
has not preferred it to all other American
towns.
"WHAT STANLEY PAID ABOUT IT.
Said Henry M. Stanley, just before sail
ing home: "I share your enthusiasm re
garding the capital of the "United States. It
is magnificent. It is a treat to go through
its noble avenues and note how Government
and citizens are doing their best to carry
out the designs of the genius who laid out
"Washington. Even now it is unique. Soon
it will be the show of America; and as
Americans now go to Europe to see" its ob
jects of interest, so Europeans will cross the
Atlantic to visit your capital."
I predict that within ten years "Washing
ton will be the social and intellectual as
well as the political center of the United
States, and that even in summer the Dis
trict of Columbia and the adjacent hills of
Maryland and Virginia will harbor more
people worth knowing than any watering
place in the world. It government be the
grandest of all sciences, the greater should
include the less; the best of art and of so
ciety should be attracted as naturally to the
hub of the nation as steel filings are at
tracted to a magnet. It is manifest destiny.
THE CAPITALS OF EUROPE.
Look at Europe to-day. London, Paris,
Borne, Vienna, Berlin, Madrid, St Peters
burg aro the social, scientific, artistic no
less than the political foci of their respective
countries. In Europe commerce also gravi
tates to the capital, and a like result would
be seen here did not our Bepublic embrace
the best part of a continent New York
now rightly claims commercial supremacy.
but in no distant future New York will be
but one of many business marts. In the
ratio that commerce is diffused government
will be centralized, and with it all thai
makes life beautiful and interesting.
Therelore, as years go on, Americans will
look to "Washington as the Mecca of thought
in all phases at all seasons. The bigger the
Bepublio's growth the more necessary be
comes a rallying point. North, South,
East and "West meet here on common
ground. Sectional egotism must disappear
in the light of national glory, and the Con
gressman who fails to vote for appropria
tions to advance the interests of "Washing
ton will fail to satisfy his patriotic constitu
ents. "Who has not visited the capital since
the war has not seen a miracle. It has risen
from mud and dust to be the only well
paved town In this country. So clean and
smooth are its streets that pedestrians pre
fertheir asphalt to the more irregular bricks
of the sidewalks.
"WHERE WHEELS BUN SMOOTnLT.
It is in consequence the paradise of bi
cycles, the poor man's and poor woman's
horses; thus clerks and other stay-at-homes
whose incomes are limited enjoy a means
of locomotion which takes them far and
near with greatest ease. Lovers of driving
and riding heave a sigh of relief at the ab
sence of the noise, holes and cobblestones
peculiar to our great towns, hideous facts
that make exercise on wheels or in the sad
dle an agony instead of a pleasure.
Delightful as are the broad avenues lined
with well-grown trees and intersected at
many points by verdant squares and parks,
the neighboring country is still more at
tractive. Nowhere is nature so accessible,
and nowhere is it so varied in its beauty.
Go east, go across the eastern branch of the
Potomac and you enter woods as wild as
though they were primeval, with views of
water, hills and town that await the brush
of a Turner. In this direction, but neaier
Capital Hill, the Roman Catholics,
always far-seeing, have begun a
university which will cost millions before
its complctlou. It is situated on rising
ground and the scenery from its windows is
exquisite; here a glimpse of the capital's
dome, there of the Monument's Sum
mit, nearby the tower of the Soldiers
Home all of white mai bio and far enough
away to seem like pictures in a dieam or a
romance. By moonlight it is fairyland.
AN ADVISORY BOARD OF SAGES.
Adjoining this university is the Soldiers'
Home with its hundreds or acres of well
kept drives, of hill and vale, of flowers and
primeval forest. A few miles distant is
the country home of the Biggs family, and
not lar oil loom up the commodious barn,
which make the stock farm of General E.
F. Beal a landmark. Still further north is
Holly Hills, the lovely retreat where ex
Secretary McCulloch and his family spend
half the year. Though eight miles from
town, Holly Hills is high enough to com
mand a view of capitol and monuments
while the woods are as wild and the brooks
babble as merrily as though far from the
haunts of Congress.
It is a privilege to spend a day with the
venerable ex-Secretary of the Treasury,
who, at Salmon P. Chase's urgent request,
left the presidenoy ot his bank in Indiana
to become Comptroller of the Currency and
organize our present system of national
banks. Mr. McCulloch is as vigorous as
ever mentally, and discusses national is
sues with a breadth and an impartiality
which it were a blessing did high officials
follow. What a pity that the real solons of
this Bepublic are not utilized! Why could
there not be a sort of advisory board ap
pointed from retired naval, military and
civil officers? It seems a shame that some
of our best brains should be thrown away.
Perhaps we shall learn the science of econ
omy in all things, brains included, one of
these days.
TROOP OP A DOCTOR'S OPINION.
Nearer town are Columbia Hcights,where
Mrs. Jphn A. Logan has a charming home,
and where Dr. William A. Hammond has
put up not only a palace for himself and his
agreeable wife, but a sanitarium for his
many patients. This shows what Dr. Ham
mond thinks of Washington's climate.where
spring is earlier and autumn later than in
Northern cities, and where outdoor sports
are possible the year round.
Drive up that most beautiful of streetB,
Sixteenth, which is a straight line from the
White House to the boundary, and on the
first hill stands the stone castellated struc
ture built by ex-Senator and Mrs. J. B.
Henderson, of Missouri; opposite is an
ideal site for an ideal 'hotel. Beyond lies
the pretty suburbs of Lanier Heig'hts lead
ing direct to the wild and picturesque re
gion of Bock Creek, which Congress has set
aside lor a national park. Here,-too, is the
zoological park, which promises to be the
finest as it is the largest in the world. Hill,
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dale, woods and lawn, with the merry Bock
Creek dancing at its base, make this park a
fitting home for the animal kingdoufof two
continents. Already elephants from India
and Ceylon have taken possession of their
house. Daily in the afternoon they stroll
down to the creek for their half hour's bath,
which they enjoy hugely, playing with
each other in a truly elephantine way, yet
returning to dry land at their keepers sig
nal with an obedience that American chil
dren might imitate to advantage.
HOW SHIS NAMED A BEAR.
One of tho latest additions to thepark l'
a cinnamon bear from the Far West I
made his acquaintance soon after he
emerged from the box in which he had
traveled for two weeks. Brain was no
amiable and I didn't blame him. He natu
rally looked as though he hated everybody.
Every man's hand seemed against him and
his paws were against every man. On being
asked to name this irate cinnamon bear I
christened him "Sin" for short He imme
diately proceedrd to live np to it, by throw
ing himself against the bars of "his cave
doors, and would have wreaked ven
geance on Dr. Baker's hand had not this
well-known specialist been unusually alert.
"Well named," said Dr. Baker, who is act
ing manager. "He acts like original sin."
Across Bock creek, at the entrance to the
zoo, a California syndicate, i led by those
masterful spirits, Francis (2. Ncwlands and
Senator Stewart, of Nevada, have built a
lofty and really picturesque iron bridge
over which will ply electric cars to connect
the capital with the model town of Cherry
Chace. Big ideas come from the "West
None but Californians would have leveled
hills, cut bqulcvards and carried the Dis
trict of Columbia into Maryland. Cherry
Chace, only seven miles from town, will
stand 400 feet above the level of the sea,
and oiler still another breathing place for
the City of Parks. Southwest ot Lanier
Heights lies "Woodley Lane, where some of
the most attractive country houses are situ
ated, among them President Cleveland's
"Oak View, which sold within two years
for $120,000 more than Mr. Cleveland paid
for itl This sounds like a fairy story, but
it isn't
AKESIDENCE FOB PBESIDENT3.
Nearby is "Twin Oaks," Gardiner G.
Hubbard's nineteenth century copy of a
colonial mansion. It is admirable within
and without. There the connoisseur in
etchings and engravings may beguile many
nn hour, for Mr. Hubbard's collection is
rare. Across the lane, higher tip the hill, is
the old Bussey place, superb in situation,
commanding a view of the Capitol, monu
ment, city and Potomac Here might be
built the noblest country houses m the
world, and here should be the private resi
dences of our Presidents. It is now owned
by the Sharon estate. Beyond, to the
southward, is the Town and Country Club,
where members congregate for breakfasts,
dinners, suppers, balls and hunts, according
to the season of the year.
Still further south rise "Wesley Heights,
where 510,000,000 will be expended in build
ing and equipping the American University,
of which Bishop Hurst is Chancellor. On
these beautiful heights sorae'ol Washing
ton's best citizens intend to put up summer
homes. On one side Virginia's dreamy
Blue Bidge Mountains arc seen, on the
other the capital aud the winding Potomac
Nor is this all. A pretty country lane
leads from Wesley Heights to the right
bank of the Potomac, and after following its
sinuous course for six miles another suburb,
Glen Echo, suddenly appears, where stone
villas crown a splendid bluff and where a
fine hotel will soon be erected. One mile
and a half beyond is the National Chau
tauqua, whose stone amphitheater has not
its like in America. Two hundred feet in
diameter, it seats 6-,000 persons.
CALLS IT A SrOBTING PAKADISE.
Hot in summer? Of course Washington
is often hot in summer. So are New York,
Boston, Philadelphia, Pittsburg and every
town of my acquaintance. What I main
tain is that Washington has special at
tractions as a summer residence because it
approximates to the country, because its
parks offer perpetual verdure, because its
suburbs are within walking distance, be
cause its drives are many and lovely, be
cause river excursions are varied and
mountains and sea are near, because mar
kets are fine and the best people are plenty,
and finally, because library and museums
offer .mental stimulants wneri everything
else cloys.
What are the summer pastimes in this
sporting paradise? That depends. If you
are a fisherman you will drive over the
longest arched bridge in the world, a monu
ment of engineering skill, and pass days at
Great Falls on the Potomac, inviting your
soul and black bass at the same time. If
you are one of our 5,000 devotees of the
wheel you will almost fly over the face of
nature iu every direction and find enjoy
ment at every turn. If you are fond of the
net and racquet, yon will find 3,000 ama
teurs to keep you company. You need not
give a kingdom for a horse who will take
you a different ride every day of the month
and make von realize that Maryland and
especially Virginia are yet to be discovered.
Baseball has myriads of adherents and the.
fine house of the Columbia Athletic Club
attests the popularity of manly arts, while
the Potomac river for the most part is dedi
cated to pleasure cratt.
Have I won my case? If yon do not be
lieve in your capital, my dear readers, put
yourself in my place and you will be con
verted. Until then, I pray for you.
Kate Field.
CABBYING THE BABY.
A Cute I.lttlo Hammock That Swings From
the Mother's Shoulder.
Lady's Pictorial.
There is always something being invented
for the benefit of one class or another, and
the latest production of Inventive genius,
the patent "baby carrier," will specially
appeal to the great host of mothers. This
most ingenious and useful little article is in
reality a miniature hammock, which can be
fastened round the neck at various heights
by strong hooks; the baby being placed ln
side,the hands of the nurse are left perfectly
free, the arms are saved from any strain
or .subsequent aching, and perfect com-
fort and safety are insured for the child.
The "baby" carrier" weighs under three
ounces, will wash, and when not in use can
be folded up into a very small compass and
carried in the pocket. Every woman knows
bow when baby wants to be "nursed every
thing else must be put aside, and every
movement studied, therefore the value of an
article the use of which admits of a book or
work being held, and saves the arm from
mady an hour's aching, can be thoroughly
appreciated.
Only Colored Woman Dentist
The "Working Woman.
A woman dentistl Yes, and a little
colored one at that She has a neat, cosy
office at 216 Ninth street, Bichmond, Vir
ginia, and her sign reads "Miss Ida Gray.
Dentist." She is a graduate of the school
of dentistry at Ann Arbor, Mich. She is
the only female dentist of color in the
United States, is doing a good business.
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1891.
THE TJJHESCAL Til
Enough of It to Supply America
When tho Works Are in Shape.
ORE OP THE FINEST QUALITY.
MaDy Untruthful Statements Hare Got Into
Print About It. .
WHAT THE MANAGERS HATE TO SAT
The development of the Temescal tin
mines in California has been the subject of
considerable romancing on the part of zeal
ous correspondents of both parties, owing
to its bearing on the operation of the Mc
Kinley law. Extravagant statements on
both sides have unsettled the public mind
and made the English gentlemen in charge
of the works very' reticent in the presence
of a news gatherer.
"A grand lot of lies about us has been
going the rounds of the newspapers, and we
hope you are not wanting to make up a new
batch," said two of the managing English
men whom the correspondent of the New
York Tritnmt met a few days ago. Upon
the assurance hat the,paper was a friend to
American tin, and sought to tell only tho
truth, the correspondent was cordially a3
mitted to their confidence.
Among the published statements which
the managers flatly deny are the following:
That they have shipped 38,000 pounds of
pig tin at 25 cents a pound to the Tin Plate
Company in St Louis; that theyhaye orders
to the amount of ?300,000 in advance of
their output; that their works have at any
time been closed down; that they are em
ploying 250 men; that they have promised
within any definite period of time to pro
duce any stated amount of the metal; and
that they have arranged to send each mem
ber of Congress a little tin pig.
PACTS ABOUT THE MINES.
With the field cleared of these fictions.
the affirmative statements of fact have roomi
to stand out in clear outline. The tract of
land embracing the Temescal mines lies
about 90 miles in a northerly direction from
San Diego, and covers 48,000 acres of land.
Since the destruction by flood of a part of
the Temecula Canon branch of the Santa Fe
Bailroad, the mines are reached by way of
Santa Anna and South Biverside, over the
main line. The present ownerB are English
men, who purchased the property from capi
talists chiefly residents in San Francisco.
Active development of the mines began in
December, 1890. Colonel E. H. Bobjnson
is general manager, and Bichard Harris, an
expert from the Cornish mines, is in imme
diate charge of the work. Hugh Stephens,
purser of the company, is here on an errand
of inspection, and it is from these three gen
tleman and W. W. Stewart, of this city, the
commercial factor of the company, that the
following facts are learned:
Up to the present time the active opera
tions at the mines have been confined strict
ly to experimental tests. The ore must be
reduced to the fineness of flour and then
washed, aud for this purpose a mill oi mod
erate size, with the requisite machinery,
has been built
USE OIL INSTEAD OP COAL.
Besides this, a smelter has been erected,
and has been subject to more or less change
to accommodate the mode of reduction,
which is entirely different from that em
ployed in Wales. There coal is exclusive
ly used, while here oil is injected by a
steam spray into the cupola, producing a
white heat in much less time than by the
former fuel. Perhaps the most important
part of the experiment has been applied to
the mining ot the ore and the adaptation of
machinery for this purpose. In this branch
of the business local conditions require new
methods and corresponding machines.
To promote. and perfect the means of pro
duction has occupied the whole attention of
tne company, wmen nas maue no enort as
vet to court the maikct or solicit orders.
The result of the operations, however, has
been an incidental output of a fine quality
of pig tin, which our eyes have seen, and
which has been caught up by an eager trade
as fast as produced. One lot, of 8,193
pounds, and another of 14,336 pounds, hare
been shipped in small orders to different tin
factories. The manufacturers of tin goods
in St. Louis, Chicago, Cleveland and Phila
delphia have taken small invoices for the
purpose of trying American tin. In San
Fraacisco the metal has been found equal
to any obtained from foreign mines.
ENOUGH TO SUPPLY AMERICA.
The cost of the Temescal plant thus far
amounts to 5300,000, exclusive of the origi
nal purchase. About 100 carpenters and
other mechanics were employed in the erec
tion of buildings and furnaces, aud when
these had finished their work and left the
place the report went out that the mines had
closed down. The actual number of men
employed is about 60, which is as laree a
number as. the machinery established and
the shafts opened can profitably work.
These men are w orked by shifts, day and
night
The ore is of remarkable pnrity, in some
cases reaching 80 per cent It is found in
a quartz matrix, and in some specimens the
native metal is apparently pure and evident
to the eye, as in many specimens oi gold
quartz. Investigation thus far proves the
quantity of rich ore to beinexhaustible.
The management disclaim any connection
with the lockout in Wales or with any
other scheme whose object is to influence
the market They claim to be working pre
cisely as they would were they Americans
instead of Englishmen. They "mean busi
ness," in the conservative, solid, judicious,
English way. They have paid a duty of
$3,500 on new machinery received from
England. They refuse to boast or to in
dulge in glowing predictions, but the facta
speak for themselves.
The .lemescai mines ana the reduction
works which will grow apace with their de
velopment give fair promise of an ability to
produce tin enough to supply the American
Continent.
B0CI0BS SHOULD BE COOES.
The Frylnz Fan Often Undoes All He Ac
complishes for Ills Patient.
In some parts of Europe the impression
prevails that a physician's training is not
complete until he has become an expert in
cooking, and he idea is not a bad one, says
Dr. Ohmann-Dumesuil in the St. Louis
Olobe-Dcmocrat, At one of the colleges in
which I studied tho policy was much
favored, and there were lectures on how to
prepare food to suit different constitutions.
Every one admits nowadays that bad cook
ins, and especially the indiscriminate use
of the trying pan, is one of tho commonest
causes of dyspepsia, and many a time a
doctor will go on prescribing remedies with
out effect, simply because the cook is un
doing all the good he effects by calling upon
the weak stomach to do what it cannot
possibly perform.
There are very few articles of food that
must be absolutely banished from the
iiwvalid's room, the exceptions being chiefly
immature meats; and w hen all doctors leant
how to cook as wellas how to prescribe this
fact will be generally admitted.
The Soxes In England.
The proportion ofmale to female children
born in England during the last ten years is
as 1,038 to 1,000; but as tho former suffer
from a higher rate of mortality than the lat
ter, the equilibrium between the sexes is re
stored about the tenth year of life, and ii
finally changed by immigration, war and
perilous male occupations, to the extent
that there are 1,000 women of all ages to 919
men in England.
Forty Tears' Exeprlenoe.
An old'nurse says she has never used a
wine that has had such if pleasing effect on
her patients as that made Dy Alfred Speer,
of Passaic, N. 'J. A pure article.
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AN AMERICAN SERIAL STORY.
WRITTEN TOE THE DISPATCH
BIT 'iTTTLIES TEB1TE.
CHAPTER XVI.
HARRY SHELTON.
The article in question had been taken
from an Australian paper, the Morning Her
ald, of Sidney. It read as follows: 'It
will be remembered that the last attempt,
made seven years ago by the Molly's Hope,
to discover what had become of the sur
vivors of the Dreadnaught, ended in noth
ing, and the belief was forced upon the
world that they had all perished, either be
fore running on Browse Island or after
leaving it The mystery still remains as
great as ever, although one of the officers of
the Dreadnaught has just reached Sydney.
It is none other than Harry Shelton, tho
mate of the clipper ship. He was found on
the banks of the Paroo, one of the branches
of the Darling, almost on the boundary lino
of New South Wales and Queeniland, and
brought to Sydney. Bnt such is his weak
and reduced condition that as yet he has
been unable to give any account of himself,
and the physician in charge announces that
his death may occur at any moment This
notice is given in hopes that it may reach
the eyes ot those interestsdin the fate of the
Dreadnaught."
On July 27, the moment Andrew Hollis-
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ter was informed of this piece of news
which had been telegraphed to San Diego,
he hastened to Prospect Cottage, where
Zach French happened to be. When the
news was made known to Mrs. Allaire her
sole reply was: "I leave for Sydney at
once."
"For Sydney?" repeated Holllster.
"Yes," said Molly. "Will you go with
me, Zach?" she added, turning to the boat
swain. "To the ends of the world, Mrs. Allaire."
"is the Molly s Hope ready lor sea?
"No," replied Hollister; "it wonld tako
three weeks to get her ready."
"Before three weeks are up I must he in
Sydney," exclaimed Molly. "When does
the next steamer sail for Australia?"
"The Oregon leaves San Francisco to
night." "Zach and I will be in San Francisco this
evening."
'May God bring you and John together,
my dear Molly I" cried Andrew Hollister.
""He will do it I" was her reply.
That evening a special train, gotten ready
at her request, landed Mrs. Allaire and Zach
French in the capital city of the State. At
1 o'clock in the morning the Oregon steamed
slowly through the Golden Gate.
The steamer Oregon had averaged about
17 knots on this trip, which nad been
favored by superb weather. Zach had an
idea that the steamer was doing her very
best on Mrs. Allaire's account It need
hardly be said that passengers, officers ami
crew manifested the greatest sympathy for
this brave lady, whose rare courage in bear
ing up under her misfortunes made her
richly deserving of it. On August 15, after
a voyage of 7,000 miles, the Oregon entered
the 6ay of Port Jackson through its lofty
gateway of schistous cliffs. To the customs
agent, who was the first person to board tho
steamer, Mrs. Allaire turned with the
anxious inquiry:
"Harry Shelton?"
"He is still alive," replied the agent, who
had guessed who the lady was, for did not
the whole city of Sydney know that she had
taken passage on tile Oregon, and was she
not awaited with the greatest impatience?"
"Where is he?" she inquired.
"At the Marine Hospital."
Mrs. Allaire, followed by Zach French,
landed at once. The crowd received her
with'that deference which had always been
shown her at San piego, and which would
have been show n her anywhere.
A carriage conveyed them to the Marine
Hospital, where they were received by tho
physician in charge.
"Has Harry Shelton been able to speak
yet?'.' she ask"ed. "Has he recovered con
sciousness?" "No, madam," replied the physician,
"the poor man has not recovered the list of
his faculties. He seems to be unable to
articulate a syllable. Death may carry him
off at any moment."
"Shelton must not die!" exclaimed Molly.
"Ho alone knows whether Captain John is
alive, whether any of his crew still sur
vive. He alone can tell where they are. I
have come to see him, to hear what he has
to say "
"Madam, I'll take you to him at once,"
replied the physician.
In a few moments Mrs. Allaire and Zach
French stood by Shelton's bedside.
Six weeks priorto this time a band of
trappers who had crossed New South Wales
aud penetrated into the southern portion of
Queensland, while camped upon the left
banks of the Paroo, had come upon a human
being in the bush. The man's clothes wero
reduced to the merest shreds, and so near
death's door was he through hunger and ex
posure that he had lost consciousness. But
fortunately his enlistment papers as an
officer in" the American merchant marine
informed, his finders who he was, namely,
Harry Shelton, the mate of the clipper ship
Dreadnaught. Where did he come from?
From what distant and unknown portion of
the Australian continent had he made his
way here? For how long a time had ho
wondered about in the awtul solitudes of this
central desert? Had he been a prisoner
among the natives, and had he succeeded in
making his escape? Where had he left his
companions, if any of them were still alive?
Could it be that he was the last survivor of
the ill-fated ship wrecked 14 years ago? Up
to this moment not one of these questions
had received an answer.
There did not cease to be, however, a
great desire everywhere manifested a4 to
where Harry Shelton had come from, what
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his life had been since the wreck of th,
Dreadnaught on the reefs of Browse Island,
in a word, to have the mystery cleared up.
Harry Shelton was carried to the nearest
point in railway communication with Syd
ney and thence to that city. The news of
his arrival in the capital was first madepublio
by the Morning Journal, extracts from which
article have already been given, and from
which it appeared that the mate of the
clipper ship had not as yet recovered con
sciousness sufficiently to reply to questions
put to him.
Mrs. Allaire never would have reco
sized Shelton, so changed was he. Al
though only 46, he had the appearance of s
man of CO. This man, or rather this pitia
ble wreck of humanity, was the only hu
man being able to tell what had become of
Captain John and his crew. Up till now
the most tender nursing had been ineffec
tual to bring about improvement in Shel
ton's condition a condition due, no doubt, to
the terrible fatigues undergone during tha
weeks, who can say, possibly months of hla
wandering across Central Australia. A.
sinking fit might at any moment extinguish
the spark of life still "aglow within nim.
Since he had been in this hospital it would
have been impossible for him to open hi
eyes without the attendants knowing
whether ho had regained consciousness or
not. He took no notice of those who ad
ministered nourishment to him. as a sigh
ME, "WHISPERED 3I0LLY.
child. It seemed as if the awful sufferings
to which he had been exposed had so iweak
ened his mind as to destroy all recollection
of companions.
Seated by his bedside, with her gaze riv
eted upon his face, Mrs. Allaire watched
every movement of his eyelids, listened to
every faint murmur of his voice in hopes to
catch one single word. Standing behind
her was Zach French, intent upon noting
some glimmer of intelligence, as a sailor
watches for the first ray of light through tha
lowering gloom of the horizon. But no
hclimmer came that day. The lids of Shel-
I ton's eyes were not lif
eves were not lilted save brilollvi
lingers, and then only to hod the hxed star
of unconsciousness. Still she kept despair
from her soul, and Zaeh, too, still had
hope.
"If'Harry recognizes his Captain's wife,"
said Frehch, "he will find a way to make)
himself understood even if he can't talk."
Yes, it was important for him to recog
nize Mrs. Allaire, for by so doing his en
thralled senses might he set free. It would
be necessary to act with the greatest pru
dence nntil he should become accustomed to
her presence. Little by little his memory
would take up the lost clew, and he would
be able to express himself -by signs, if h
could not by words.
Although Mrs. Allaire was counseled not
to remain too long on watch by Shelton'
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bedside, yet she refused to quit the rood
for a moment. Slia clung persistently to
the head of his bed.
"Shelton may die7" she murmured, "and
should the word which I am yearning for ba
uttered with his last gasp, I must be tber9
to catch it. I shall not leave him."
Toward evening there was a slight chanM
for the better in the mate's condition. Ha
slowly opened his eyes, but they took no
notice of Mrs. Allaire's presence. She.
however, bent her gaza upon him, called
him by name, and repeated tha words:
"John," Captain of the Dreadnaught, San
Diego," but they awakened no recollection
of his companions. The dying man still
failed to make reply to the oft-repeated
questions: "Is John alive?" "Is anyone)
of his crew still living?" Toward night
Shelton's weakness increased, his eyes fell
shut, his hands grew cold, as if the little)
lifo left within him had retreated to his
Heart Would ha die without uttering a
word?
On the following day the physician,
alarmed at these signs of collapse, resorted
to the most vigorous methods of resuscitav
tion; but without effect. It was evident)
that the man was sinking. Thus were tho
bright hopes which Shelton's return had
given rise to about to go out in blank de
spair, the light which his coming had
kindled to be succeeded by a gloom so deep,
that nothing would bo able to dissipate it.'
This would be the end, yes, the end of all.
At Molly's request there was now a coni
sultation of the principal physicians of tha
city, but after they had made a careful ex
amination of the patient they reluctantly
declared the case hopeless.
"You can do nothing, then, for this un
fortunate, man?" asked Mrs. Allaire.
"We regret to say, nothing," replied tha
physician in charge.
"Not even bring him back to conscious
ness for a single moment?"
Willingly would Molly have laid down
her whole fortune to have gained this point
But when man fails God is always left It
is to Him that helpless man turns with up
lifted hands when human resources are pow
erless to save! The moment the physicians
had left the room Molly fell upon her knees
by Shelton's bedside, and when Zach opened
the door he found her in praver. He stood
for a moment with bowed head, then ad
vanced tiptoe to the head of the bed, in
order to satisfy himself whether Shelton
were still alive or not.
"Madamt Madam I" suddenly burst from
the seaman's lips.
Thipking that French's cry announced
that death had come -at last, Molly rose to
her feet. .
"Is he dead?" she whispered in a tone so
sad as to smite the honest boatswain's
heart.
"No, Madam, no! See, his eyes are open,
he is looking about him."
It was as French had said. From beneath
his half-raised lids Shelton's eyes burned
with a strange brilliancy. Color came to
his cheeks, his hands roe and fell. He had
come out of his long-continued lethargy,
and now his gaze was riveted upon the Cap
tain's wife and a half smile moved his lips.
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