MEXICO'S PUBLIC PORTERS. A CHARACTER SEEN EVERYWHERE IN CITY STREETS. United In a Guild, and Honest—Pro digious I.oads That They Carry— The Question of Pay. Throughout Mexico the cargador is the universal public porter. On the cor ners of city streets where traffic is most dense, three or four cargadoes always are standing waiting for a job. To summon one, it is needful only to step to the window, or out upon the balcony, and clap one's hands. All within hearing re spond instantly to this call, and the first of the several difficulties which attend employing a cargador is that of segrega ting the man who is wanted from his companions who are not wanted, but who insist upon being hired. As a semi public functionary, each of these public porters is duly licensed by the civic au thorities, and is compelled to wear con spiiulously a bras 3 badge on which the number of his license is exhibited. Theoretically, he can be held responsible, under the police regulations, for loss or breakage of articles while in his charge. Practically, however, this legal provision is without value—inasmuch as the entire sum of his earthly belongings seldom is more than liis white cotton shirt and trousers, his battered straw hat, the cushion that serves to save a little his back, and ths mecapal with which he swings his load. All that can be gained, therefore, by judicial proceedings against a delinquent cargador is the mixed plea sure of compelling him to forfeit his badge and to spend some weeks or months in jail. Fortunately, the need for such extreme action very seldom, almost never arises. In every city and in every largo town the cargadores are united in a cofradia, a guild, that is governed within itself by severe laws. Professional honesty ab solutely is insisted upon; and it is much to the credit of these men—who fre quently are intrusted with articles of value which would suffice to keep them in comfortable idleness for a year—that dishonesty among them is unknown. There are cases on record, indeed, of cargadores who have given their lives in defence of the property confided to their care. In less essential matters of morals, matters not affecting the rep utation of the profession as a whole, the individual cargador is free to conduct himself, so far as the cofradia is con cerned, pretty much as ho pleases. If ho sees fit to drink more pulque than is good for him, and thereby becomes so oblivious to the orders of his employer as togo hopelessly wrong with his load, or so at odds with the law of gravity as to come down by the run atwl involve himself and his lading in a general wreck, his fellows arc far from reproaching him. A cargador made of such base stulf soon finds himself in enforced idleness; and, as there always are more men than there is work, his loss of custom is some one else's gain. In point of fact, however, injury to the load is almost as rare as is deliberate theft. Even when the beads of these carriers are muzzy with over much pulque, their legs continue firm under the most prodigious and the most heterogeneous loads. The extraordinary collection of things that a cargador can carry upon his back and dependent from his person is truly surprising. A trunk, or a baie of goods, or any single large article, he disposes of easily. It is when he is engaged in moving household furniture that he really shines. In such a case, his base of operations usually is a chair. This is an article that readily may be swung on his back, and that lends itself to the attachment of a miscellaneous load: a bed and bedding, rolled up to gether, placed on the seat and sur mounted by a picture or two, a rose tree in a pot; a hat-box; and hung to the legs and rungs a roll of matting, domestic utensils, a sword and several pairs of shoes—in addition to all of which he will carry on his left arm, raised that his left hand may steady his load, an iron pot; under his right arm an umbrella and a broom, and in his right hand a parlor lamp or a tin cage containing a live cockatoo. To see a caagador walking along the streets in the middle of an iron bedstead is a sight to remember; and still more memorable is his appearance beneath a perfect mountain of rush-bottomed chairs. Yet with ladings of this stupendous and perilous nature he will work his wa, T through crowded streets—dodging suc cessfully foot-passengers, carriages, carts and tram cars—and como tri umphantly to his journey's end. Excellent though the service rendered by the cargador almost invariably is, the normal foreigner shrinks from employing him because of the inevitable light that must be fought before the difference be tween what lie wants to be paid and what he ought to be paid can be adjusted. This is a matter that cannot be reduced to a system, and that defies all rules. In every case his pay must depend upon the distance to be traversed and upon the size and weight of his load—factors of uncertainty which open a field of argu ment that practically is limitless. The safe rule is to compel him to name his own price, always a difficult matter to accomplish, and then to oiler him half as much as ho demands. Ordinarily, after a sharp discussion, these terms are accepted; but a brisk little wrangle is sure to take place when the case is re opened, the job bciug completed, by a presentation of excessive claims for drink money. Yielding at this stage of the proceedings is a fatal error; the only safe course is to meet such claims by firmly declaring that pulque to the value of three tlacos, that is to say four and a half cents, is as much as any cargador ought to drink at one time.— Harper's Weekly. A Canadian clergyman has advanced the theory that the walls of Jericho fell from the blowing of tiio keynote by the horns of the just as bridges have been known to collapse from the rhythmic tread of soldiers' feet passing u far them. ! SELECT SITTINGS. Demosthenes was the son of a cutler. Cardinal Wolsey was the son of a butcher. The raven has been taught to retrieve mc3t creditably. Dublin is better provided with open spaces than auy other town in the United Kingdom. One dog of the Convent of St. Ber nard is said to have saved more than forty human lives. A pension has just been granted to an Oregon man who is a veteran of the War of 1812. He is 102 years old. Chinese pheasants were introduced into the vast forests of Oregon ten years ago.and now it is estimated that there are 1,000,001) of them in the country. The rapidity with which a hawk and many other birds occasionally fly is pro bably not less than at t'ae rate of 150 miles an hour, when either pursued or pursuing. Lemons originally came from India. They were used by the Romans to keep motli3 from their garments, and in the time of Pliny were considered an excel lent poison. Swifts and swallows fly every year from England to Southern Africa and to.the Moluccas, and the restless, wandering flight of various oceauic birds is still more surprising. "Better late than never" was used over three hundred years ago by Thomas Tucker in his ''Five Hundred Points of Husbandry." Later on Bunyan used it in his "Pilgrim's Progress." The Confederacy issued eleven kinds of postage stamps. They are all, if uu used, worth double their face value. The ten-cent blue stamp of 1563, if unused, brings §3.00, or if used $2.50. In Paris there are professional trunk packers who can bo hired to pack a trurk artistically, folding expensive gowns »nd other garments in tissue paper and stow ing away delicate bric-a-brac in the safest way. A man in Fort Wayne, Ind., was de tected a few days ago stealing a pair of shoes. In twenty minutes he had bean committed for grand jury action, and in forty-live minutes he had begun serving a sentence in jail. The hump on the back ol the drome dary is an accumulation of a peculiar species of fat, which is a store of nourish ment beneficently provided agaiust the day of want, to which the animal is often exposed. The dromedary or camel can exist for a long period upon this hump without auy other food. F. Heap, a keeper of the Glendale Na tional Cemetery, near Richmond, Va., has a desk, made in 1 CIO, which has been in possession of the Ilcap family, of Eng land. It is said to have been used by Oliver Cromwell in 1047-48 when light ing Charles I. It is of antiquo oak, beautifully carved and highly polished. The stupendous monuments upon the plain of Memphis and the "mountains made with hands" upon that of Cholula seem like the two ends of a chain of human thought and intent, of which the connecting links arc to be found through out Tartary, the eastern peninsula, China, Japan aud the isles of the north ern Pacific. Une of the J in Holland. But if the scenery of Holland is thor oughly delightful the language is quite another thing. The Dutch have, in the first place, a love for the letter "j" which amounts almost to madness. They do not always pronounce it, for they have relieved it of all labor as a consonant. They spell ice "ijs," and then pronounce it as we do. The capital of France be comes "Parijs" in their hands, and in a general way it is safe to affirm that they regard any word spelled without a "j" as a lost opportunity. The signs fairly bristle with their favor letter. One of the most common signs which meets the eye at every comer is "Tapperij en Slij terij," the sight of which produced upon the doctor the most alarming ef fects. He was convinced that "Tapperij en Slijerijj" must be something wicked indeed, and with a curiosity inherent in all men since the fall,he ardently longed to know exactly what it was. lie was secretly alraid, however, that Dutch wickedness might sit but ill upon an American stomach, and he never really mustered sufficient courage either to "tapperij" or to "slijterij," although lift still regets that he was not bold. How a telephone can l>e used in a country where such a language obtains 1 cannot understand, unless there bo some sort of a filter by which the j's arc kept from the wire.— Chicago Tribune. Buddhist Butcheries. It is a curious fact that the govern ments of the universal-mercy practising Buddhist nations are anything but scru pulous in the use of legal manslaughter as a means of social reform. In tho Buddhist provinces of Southern China the headsman is a busiest of public functionaries, ami the last monarch of Buddhist Buninth scandalized even hia pagan neighbors by the wholcsalo butch cries of star-chamber tribunal. The same official, however, who •would not spoil his appetite by the execution of twenty or thirty political offenders, might con ceivo serious scruples about killing a cockroach, and throughout Buddhistic Asia the slnver of a moukey would prob ably be mobbed on the spot.— Nem York l r oice. . The lted Man's Revenue. Indian dialects have done much in the introduction of new sounds into our lan guage. To illustrate, these are a few of the counties in the new State of Washington: Klickitat, Chehalis, Skagit, Skamania, Yakima, Wahkikum, Kittetas, Snoho mish. The American Red Man has not lived in vain, and his revenge on the white i.iun is something terrible when it is con sidered that the latter must f,o on trying to pronounce such names as the foregoing forever.— Chicago Glob«. Malaria fitoelleved to be caused by poisonous mlasmi aris ing from low, marshy land, or from decaying vegeta ble matter, and which, breathed Into the lungs, enter and poison the blood. If a healthy condition of the blood Is maintained by taking Hood's Sarsa parilla one is much less liable to malaria, and Hood's Sarsaparilla has cured many severe cases of this dis tressing affection even In the advanced stages when the terrible chills and fever prevailed. Try It. And If you decide to take Hood's Sarasaparllla do not be induced to buy any substitute. Hood's Sarsaoarilla Sold by all druggists. $1; six for sft. Prepared only by C. I. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. 1 00 Doses One Dollar Some j ' Growing J | SP TOO Fast { j become listless, fretful, without ener- j I gy, thin and weak. But you can for- I j tify them and build them up, by the ! i use of 2 i SCOTT'S I EMULSiN | OF PURE COD LIVER OIL AND » HYPO PHOSPHITES < ) Of Lime and Soda, j Thoy will take it readily, for it is al- 1 J most as palatable as milk. And it j ! should be remembered that AS A PRE. i { YENTIVE OR CUBE OF COUGHS OR COLDS, IH BOTH THE OLD AND YOUNG, IT 13 j UNEQUALLED. Avoid aiittstitutions offered. j iN Y N U—l The 01(1 Bnltlpflelds. General Butterfield said the other even ing, that the Count of Paris was very much struck on his recent visit to the Virginia battlefields with the clearness with which the lines of the contending armies were still outlined. Everything is as it used to be over twenty years ago. The pine shrubs and oats overgrow the bloody angle at Spottsylvania Court House, but the earthworks are still intact. About there the Count picked up many Minie balls, aud canteens and saber belts are scattered about in profusion where Hancock's and Upton's men made one of the most brilliant charges of the war. The old McCool house, in the rear of the angle is standing still, though all its shingles were shot off during the battle. New York Star. FOR FIFJZ Swifts Specific S. S. S. has a record enjoyed by no other medicine. Considered Wonderful. s. ~sT s. For Over Mr. Henry V. Smith, of Belmont. I IS West Va„ says:"he considers his PURELY fifty years, cure of Scrofula by S. S. S., one of VEOE the most wonderful on record. He TABLE, rt has been had the disease of the worst type ANn' all his life until he was 22 years of Curing all age, and his whole youth was em- IS HARM" rli J bittered by It. Of course he had LESS Sorts OT blood all sorts of treatment, but nothing TO IHE r benefited him permanently until MOST trouble from he took S. S. 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Contains a dally poultry account worth the price), and two small park aires of Powder for Went*; or, one lar?e 2I 4 pnund can for $1 i» immdar price) and tluldefree. Sample pack, Kc., five for SI.OO. six laiyo cans, express prepaid. $."» 00. Send stamps or cash. In quantity costs le«s than one-teafc cent a day per hen. Testimonials seat free. I. B. JOHNSON A CO., 8 Cuftom House Street, Boston, »«" The fifty Wgoft Hbraries in Germany possess about 12,700,000 volumes, against England with about 6,450,000 and North America with about 6,100,000 volumes. The population of New England has increased nearly half a million in the last ten years. But the farming population has decreased. There are 157 farmers in the Vermont Legislature. All that km can say an to the merits of Dob bin»'» Electric Soap, pules into notfiinyne/K be fore tile story it will tell you itself, of its own IKrfrct quality, if you will give it one trial. Don't take imitation. There are lots of them. Tiibre is a Rain of nearly 8,000,000 bales ol cotton for 1800 over 1888. SIOO Reward. SIOO. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that thero is at least one dreaded dUeasc that science has been able to cure in all Its gtaifes and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known tc the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a con stitutional dineuse, requires a constitutional treatment, llall's t atarrh Cure is taken in ternally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfuces of the system, thereby de stroying the foundation ot the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting the nature in doinu its work. The proprietors have so much faitE in its curative powers that they oiTer On< Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails tc cure. Send for list of testimonials. Addres< K J. Chkney & Co., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c. A MicniQAH syndicate has purchased 303, 000 acres of pine land in New Mexico. Entitled to Ihc Host. All are entitled to the best that their mon"j will buy, so every family should have, at onco a bottle of the best family remedy, Syrup oi Kigs, to cleanse the system when costive o, bilious. For sale in BOc. and $1 bottles by al leading druggists. Money invested in choice one Hundred dol lar building lots in suburbs of ivansas City will pay from live hundred to one thousand pet cent, the next few years under our plan. cash and S5 per wontn without Interest coa trohta desirable Lot. Particulars on application. J. H. Hauerlwin « You Etef Speculate Any person sending us their na-naaal al. dress will receive information that will leal to a fortune, lieuj. ijewts >u Oj, Security building, Kansas City. Mo. Guaranteed live year eigut por cent. First Mortgages on Kansas City property, interest payable every six months; principal aud intor ehtcollected wlien due and remitted without expense to lender. For sale by J. H. 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They're sugar-coated, easy to take, never shock nor derange, the system and half their pow er is in the mild way in which their work is done. Small est, cheapest, easiest to take.. One a dose. Twenty-five cents a vial. Of all druggists. . a For Coughs Colds There it do Medicine like DR. SCHENCK'S PULMONIC r SYRUP. It !• plMMnt to the tuta and does Dot coot* n a particle of opium or anything injurious. It is the BestOongh Medicine in the World. IPe- jalebyall Druggists, Price, £I.OO per bottle. J . Bchenck's Bonk on Consumption end its Cure, mailed free. Addroei Dr. J. 11. Schenck A Son. Philadelphia. jrypi nil NEW LAW CLAIMS. r til Oiling Milo B. SteTBK & Co.. Ittorneya, 1419 P St.. Washington, 0. Sranch Ofllcea, Cleveland, Del rolt. Chicago pt m 'W mm m ■ Mpi 4% ■ instructions ire > PATENTS! I I kill I I hand-book of u ormatlon. J. IS. CRALLK A; CO., Wanhingtou, l>. C. DIPPV IfIICCC POHITITSLT KKMKDXED. 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