IS HHS IBS
But McGinty at Last Met More
Than His Master,
HE HAS A CRUSHED LEG.
How He Lost His Seat But Did Not
Los. His Nerve—McGinty Was One
of the Most Modest of th. Rough
Riders.
The bucking bronco of th,e West Is
more dangerous than Spanish bullets,
according to William McOlnty, who
has had experience of both. McGinty
was one of the famous band of Rough
Riders who charged up San Juan Hill
on a certain memorable occasion near
ly two years ago. More recently he
has been engaged nightly in charging
up the mtulature San Juan Hill in
Madison Square Garden, New York,
along with the other troopers and cow
boys of the "Wild West" show. At
present he is laid up with a crushed
leg. as the result of a close range en
gagement with one of the prize "Puck
ers" of tlje outfit
McGinty was not thrown. The horse
has yet to come out of Texas that can
unseat the diminutive trooper once he
gets his leg over the saddle. This
particular animal, however, being full
of original Ideas, as well as a devil
Incarnate, thought to rid himself of
hlB unwelcome rider by a flying side
wise leap. In the course of this leap
he brought up against the side fence
of the arena. McGlnty's leg was be
tween the wall and the horse. One
bone was snapped short off, and the
other was crushed. The little man did
his "turn," rode the four footed cata
pult across the arena and then slid
(A Tough Customer),
out of the saddle close to the side
wall so that the audience might not
see that he was injured. That 1b > Mc-
Glnty's way of doing things.
Although the most silent and unas
suming man in the Rough Riders, Mc-
Ginty probably had a wider circle of
friends among the members of tjie
regiment than any other man who
was in the ranks. He found favor
with his comrades while they were
drilling at San Antonio by the char
acteristic humor of a reply that he
made to Colonel Leonard Wood.
The cowboys of the regiment were
more accustomed to the saddle than to
walking, and they found difficulty in
keeping step, McGinty was a particu
larly arrant offender, and at length
the commander directed a particu
larly sharp query In his direction,
asking him If he could not possibly
keep in step with the other men.
"I'm afraid I can't sir," said McGin
ty, saluting respectfully; "but If you'll
give me a horse I can keep step with
the best of them."
McGinty Is a representative of a
rapidly disappearing profession—that
of the "bronco buster." No man who
has not tried to remain for two min
utes atop one of the genuine "man
killers" of the Western plains can
realize what that means. "Major"
Burke.-who Is an authority on the sub
ject, says that men in that business
do not last for more than a dozen
years on the average. Aside from his
present serious injury. McGinty Is still
strong and wiry, but at different per
iods of his career he hns had a dozen
or more individual and separate hones
broken in the course of his encounters.
"It isn't a business a man would nat
urally pick out," said McGinty, In dis
cussing his occupation, "but I sort of
drifted into It. I started out as a
cow puncher, and, of course, it was a
part ef our work to break the range
horses to saddle. When they found
out that I could stick onto a bucker
pretty well they gave me harder and
harder ones to try. That's the way
I got into the work. I rode broncos
all along the Pecos River. I rode 413
In one year that I kept account of.
You never can tell what one of these
'outlaws,' as we call them down in
Texas, may do. The one that smashed
my leg the other night has a trick of
shutting his eyes tight and making a
wild leap. That was the way he run
into the wall. Of course the buckers
used are the very worst that can be
obtained. They all have records and
are bought for that purpose. They
get worse instead of better as time
goes on, as a general rule. The horse
I was just speaking of had only been
mounted once before the other night,
so I am not predicting what he may
accomplish before he gets through
with me."
McGinty said this as thoiigh he were
talking about the wenther. But Mc
Glnty is not theatrical or Bpeetacular
He is one of the everyday heroes.
A nugget taken from one of the
Joplln. Mo., zinc mines the other day
weighed an even ton. This sparkler
was principally of zinc ore. trimmed fn
calcite, pink spar and cubes of galena.
"*> TRAVERB' GOAT.
ft Ate the Horse's Tail and Strained
Friendship.
Henry Travers and Otto Koop, who
lives a few dors away, have long boon
the closest friends. But now they
never speak as they pass by, and 'tis
all owing to Travers' goat and Koop's
long-tailed bay mare.
The bay mare had a tail that reached
the ground, and the goat an appetite
that was indiscriminatlng and only
limited by his ambulatory and reach
ing powers. But the horse's tall, in
stead of sweeping the floor as of yore,
is now but a jagged bunch of hair, a
foot and a half from the ground.
The facts in the case are somewhat
hazy, but Mr. Koop says:
"My heart is almost broken. Why,
the tail of that horse was the best
part of it. I wouldn't have taken
s.">oo for that mare, but now look at
it! That confounded goat of Travers*
had to come In here and chew off her
tail and disfigure the finest looking
horse in Toledo. Why in heaven's
name didn't Travers feed his old billy
goat so that he would stay at home
instead of trespassing around chewing
up horses' tails. It's a blamed shame,
and I'm going down town to see a
lawyer friend of mine and see if I
can't get damages. No; the mare ain't
much of a runner or trotter, but you
Just ought to have seen that tall. I'll
kick a lung out of that goat if I get a
chance."
"Kick a lung out of my goat, will
he?" indignantly snorted Mr. Travers
when told what Koop had said. ".lust
let him try it. Damages? Kiddle
sticks! How is he to sue me? I didn't
eat the tall. Why doesn'e he keep Ids
stable door closed if he is so particu
lar?"— Toledo News.
Regard For His Reputation.
Lemuel Gulliver was strolling about
town one day during his visit to the
Brobdingnngians, when one of the
court nobles accosted him.
"Mr. Gulliver," he said, "are there
any people on earth as small as you
arc?"
"Sir," returned Gulliver, straighten
ing himself up to his full height,
" there are people compared with
whom I look like a Chicago policeman.
They live in Lilt But what's the
use? You would not believe me, and
if there is one thing I cannot bear it
is to have anybody doubt my word."
Hereupon he took out his notebook
and furtively jotted down a few more
facts about Brobdingnag.— Chicago
Record.
Not Needed.
American Statesman (to Porto Ri
can): "The arrangement Is altogether
for your benefit. You will not have to
pay any duty on the goods we send to
you. Consequently, you will get them
cheap. And we only put enough tar
iff on your products to keep them
from coining into ruinous competition
with the products of our own ijuaun
factories. Don't you see?"
Porto Rlcan: "But how about our
manufactories?"
American Statesman: "Oh, you
won't have any; they are already pet
ering out!"— Chicago Tribune.
The Modern Murder.
"Oh, why," moaned the hapless vic
tim, "did you kill mo?"
"Because I am of unsound mind, of
course," retorted the assassin,
brusquely.
For this was no time to be asking
questions which in the light of events
a casual knowledge of contemporary
jurisprudence answered themselves.
Why?
He: "Why are women afraid of
mice; the little things can't hurt
them V"
She: "Why arc men afraid of pink
dragons aiul green snakes that they
think they see in their boots some
times? The things are only imagin
ary, and they know they can't hurt
them-"—New York World.
The Evidence of a Bill.
"A man with a hill," announced the
court chamberlain.
The king was visibly affected.
"He must be a bird," exclaimed his
Inajesty, thinking of the rigorous
measures he had taken to prevent
creditors approaching the royal per
son.—Detroit Journal.
Would Have Been Hard on Her.
"I wish I had studied law," she re
marked, regretfully.
"It would have been a bitter experi
ence for lie answered.
"Why so?" she demanded.
"You would have had to let the
Judge have the last word."—Chicago
Post.
Mean Mf fi's Scheme.
Bloobs: "Close fist ought to bo
ashamed to teach his wifo to play
poker."
Sloobs: "Oh, there's method in his
madness. He gives her an allowance,
and then sits down and wins it all
back."—Philadelphia Record.
Great Chance For Him.
"I see by 'the newspapers," said the
casual caller, "that there is a man In
Canada with three lungs."
"Oh, me! Oh, my!" exclaimed the
baseball fan, enthusiastically, "what
a 'rooter' he would make, wouldn't
he?"— Chicago Post.
The Facts o the Case.
"I understand that Banker Bustupp
was really the victim of people in
whom lie had placi d confidence."
" I guess It is sc. Poor man, he
was more skinned . gainst than skin
ning."—ludiana pel is Press.
PORTO RICAN SCHOOLS.
RAPID PROGRESS IN THE PAST
FEW MONTHS.
Two Races Side by Side—The New
Free Schools—American Teachers
Have Shocked the Natives—A Word
of Warning.
(Ponce, P. It., Correspondence.)
Through the schools nud the church
In every land come civilization. He
liable statistics from the Insular
Board of Education show that only
one In a hundred can read and write
in the Island of Porto Rico; that there
are 2.10,000 children without school
privileges; that it will cost about
$2,000,000 to build the necessary
school houses, and an annual expendi
ture of $500,000 to maintain them.
In the city of Ponce there are sev
eral small schools still taught by
Spanish teachers. The American
school, which is the largest, has a
commodious building, built for school
purpose by the Spanish Govern
ment. During the last fifteen months
300 pupils have been In attendance,
wllh seven American teachers. The
principal, a male teacher, has charge
of the high Rehool department, with
about twenty pupils under his instruc
tion. The remaining six teachers are
young women, nearly nil of tlicni from
the State of Virginia.
The teaching is entirely in English,
or supposed to he. hut I noticed the
teachers seemed to speak fluently in
Spanish occasionally, and that most of
them had acquired the language by
absorption or contact with the chil
dren.
The kindergarten class, numbering
50, were at their eulcsthenlc exercises,
something of great value to these peo
ple, as they never exercise In any way.
The children are of slight build, keen
and bright looking, decently clothed,
fairly clean, and all wore shoes and
stockings, a rare tiling in this slipshod
land.
The school building is very cool and
airy, one story In height, with a court
and large playground. The school is
opened each morning with our nation
al airs, which are sung with true vim
ami fervor. The listener feels a curi
ous emotion as he listens to his "home
songs" so dear, sung by these little
people, and feels that through these
miniature men and women are com
ing the future thoughts and forces
that are to change this narrow, bigot
ed little island Into broader and more
intelligent living.
No young girl In Porto Rico goes to
any place without a chaperon, and
more often a dirty little pickaninny is
the unlimited pice" of humanity that
Is considered a sale escort for women
grown. Such was the escort a young
woman brought with her the other
day who enir.e to distribute supplies
to the destitute. Tills diminutive
specimen of human depravity was
scarcely clothed and was seven years
old, perhaps, sent cut with this well
dressed girl of mature years to pro
tect her—from wlit?
The present teachers have seen lit
to walk about the streets without this
Important adjunct, have received their
men friends nnd 'alien drives about
the city with them, and otherwise eon
ducted themselves as young women
are wont to do In their native land; all
of which shocked the senorltas, and
more especially their mammas, the
senorns.
A word to some of those young
women contemplating coming to Porto
Rico to teach may "ot be auiiss.
It is always well to remember In
going to a new country to assimilate
one's self with existing customs.
Teachers going to San Juan, Mnya
guez or Ponce can innke themselves
fairly comfortable and acquire the
language more readily by living with
Spanish people. It Is true, few Amer
icans like native cooking, and if at
all fastidious will become heartily
sick of it. There arc a few Americans
who keep hoarders and make life
livable to their "countrymen.
If a teacher is assigned to a coun
try school she will In all probability
he the only English-speaking person
there; will get her mall semi-monthly,
suffer tortures with the food, coffee
and Innumerable Insects. To such a
one I say; Don't, under any circum
stances drink water not boiled. Don't
employ a native doctor, hut bring a
few simple remedies nnd a knowledge
of their use. Don't bring a lot of
silver and jewelcry. You will be re
lieved of its care sooner or later.
Don't fall to bring a dialing dish and
n knowledgu of its uses. Don't bring
any warm clothing except the suit
necessary for the journey. Linen
skirts and shirt waists, witli pretty
muslins, are worn the year round.
Don't accept invitations without prop
er chaperon.
GOSSIP IN WASHINGTON.
Society Pleased Over the Prospect of
a Veritable Palace.
(Washington Correspondence.)
Society in Washington is much in
terested in the new palace, not yet
finished, of Mrs. R. H. Townsend, of
Philadelphia. Before her marriage
she wtts Mary Scott, a daughter of
the late Colonel "Tom" Scott, of Penn
sylvania Railroad fame. Her wealth
runs up into the millions, and the
mansion aforesaid will cost her about
$400,000. It will be nearly twice the
size of the famous Leiter house on
Dupont Circle, being 125 feet in width
and 123 in depth. Mrs. Townsend is
building it, she says, for her young
daughter, now seventeen years of age
and almost ready to enter society. It
will be the scene, doubtless, of some
of the most gorgeous entertainments
ever given at the national capital.
The front will be of Indiana lime
stone, having much the same effect
as white marble, quarried at Bedford,
in that state. There will be four stor
ies, and the ontire west wing will be
occupied by a ballroom, by far the fin
est that has been seen in Washington.
Entering the great house, one will
find himself in an immense stair hall,
forty-six feet long by thirty-six feet
wide, on the left of which will be a
spacious reception room and a billiard
room with two tables, one for billiards
and the other for pool. On the right
will be Mr. Townsend's own particu
lar den, in which he might work if he
were obliged to do so. As a matter
of fact it will l>e hi* playroom. All
the rest of the space on this floor will
be devoted to service purposes; that
is, kitchen, scullery, servants' hall,*
man servants' roms (the maids will
be quartered upstairs), chef's cold
room, laundry, drying room, etc. The
establishment will employ übout. thir
ty-live servants, and a French chef
will superintend the commissury de
pa rtmont.
Even the servants In this establish
ment will enjoy every luxury. Each
of them will have a room to himself
or herself, with running water, and
their bathrooms will be reserved for
their own exclusive use. In all there
will be fifteen bathrooms in the man
sion. There will be an elevator, oper
ated by electricity, so that nobody
need walk upstairs unless so inclined.
The apparatus, indeed, will be auto
matic, so that a person will only have
to step aboard, touch the proper but
ton, and find himself in a moment at
the floor desired.
THE PARIS EXPOSITION.
Features of the Great Show—The
Commissioner General
(Paris Correspondence.)
One of the many beauties of the ex
position and one of its permanent fea
tures, which will remain after the
other ephemeral adornments of the
magic city have passed away, is the
Petit Palais. Compared to the Grand
Palais, the Petit Palais is insignifi
cant, but it will attract great atten
tion, nevertheless, In spite of its being
overshadowed by its greater rival, for
were it alone by itself, it could not be
considered a sninll building by any
means, and it is is, reality a perfect
gem of architecture. Its proportions
are harmonious in the extreme, and it
carries with it an air of aristocratic
elegance that seems to breathe the
very spirit of old France—the France
of the Louis, the France of olden
chivalry and nobility.
With one exception tho United
States has the largest amount of space
—210,000 square feet, partly in the
heart of the exposition grounds and
partly in the annex in the Rois do
Vencennes. There will be five build-
A PI CARD.. UJ_H
ings In I lie main grounds and two in
Vencennes. One national pavilion
will be the only expensive building
we will construct. This will be on the
bank of the Seine, alongside the
structures of about thirty other na
tions, with Austria on one side and
Turkey on the other. In general this
building bears a remote resemblance
to Grant's tomb. In the porch, which
opens on the Seine, there will be mi
equestrian slatue of Washington, sur
rounded by a quadriga, representing
the Goddess of Liberty In the Oar of
Progress. The main hull of the build
ing will contain reception rooms for
the different states.
Of course, the show is constantly
compared with the World's Pair at
Chicago, hut comparisons are odious.
It Is both bettor and worse than that
exposition. Hut all In all, tho Paris
full- is u marvel, and Its success is
largely due to the wonderful execu
tive force of M. Alfred Plcnrd, the
commissioner general of the exhibi
tion.
| THE PRINCE OF NAPLES^
HOW HE IS TAUGHT BY THE
QUEEN OF ITALY.
He is a Fine Young Man of Thirty-
One Years and It is Declared Will
Make an Ideal King—Good Queen
Margherita.
(Rome Correspondence.)
The life of King Umberto and Queen
! Margherita of Italy Is spent so quiet
j ly in tho almost monotonous fulfil-
J ment of tlieir duties that they enjoy
| the privilege of having little or noth
ing said about them. Whether in the
royal palace of the Quirlnal, or in the
villa at Monzu, or In the shooting box
among the crags of the Gran Pada
diso, tlieir habits are the same; early
rising, frugal table, wholesome activ
ity and the company of a few' select
friends. The King generally retires
at 10 anil the Queen about 11 o'clock.
The education of the Prince of Nap
les up to the ago of 13 was intrusted
to his mother. No more accomplished
or loving mother could be found for
him, mens sann in corpora sano being
the cud at which she successfully
aimed. It is not through a short otti-
I ciiil audience that one can appreciate
the full value of her accomplishments,
no matter how deep an impression
. her beauty aud grace may create.
| What makes her a model wife,
I mother and Queen—the person, in
short, to whom the education of the
heir apparent could he intrusted with
absolute guarantee of success—is not
: so much her learning, her command
of tlie German, Italian, English Span
ish nnd French languages, her artistic
; instincts or her musical talent, as lier
courage and exquisite sense of honor
and uprightness.
The education of the Prince of
Naples lias not been too indulgent. Ho
was watched si riot ly, even in his be
havior towards his playfellows.
After a boyish quarrel with one of
tliem he was heard to say:
"It is well for yon that I am not
the king, or I would have your head
cut off at once."
These words reached the ears of the
King, and the punishment was not
long in coming.
When that very afternoon the
Prince, alt I red In his dainty military
uniform, drove out of the Quirlnal,
the sentinels and the other officials
at the gate failed to recognize liis pres
ence and to pay him the customary
salute. He had been deprived of the
privileges of royalty for a week!
Ills military education was intrust
ed to Colonel Oslo, aud Ids scientific
training to some professors from tho
University of Rome. He was not al
lowed to advance a step In liis career
unless by passing through strict ex
aminations.
English he could speali from child
hood, liis governess being an Anglo-
Saxon in tlie truest sense of the word.
He grew fondly attached to this lady,
and was deeply grieved at the news of
her death in 1887.
I do not know how many languages
he eau speak now, but I know that
while traveling from one end of
Europe to the other lie could address
all the personages whose hospitality
he enjoyed in their native language.
His great passion is numismatics.
When lie first began collecting coins
and medals he slept with the key to
the treasure box under liis pillow.
For many years his father has given
him valuable collections of coins us
Christmas presents.
After traveling in Egypt, England,
Germany, Russia, the Levant, the
Black Sea and Turkestan, lie was sent
to Naples to serve with Ills own regi
ment stationed there, nnd In 1894 was
promoted to the command of a divis
ion whose headquarters are in Flor
ence.
I hear that the place of honor in
liis library is given to books on wars
and travels In tlie East. This particu
lar is best known to those who follow
auction sales of hooks in Rome.
When we detect the familiar outline
of a certain Couquincur, who bids
high prices for such books on war,
and for searee editions of Italian
poets, we know that he is trying to
secure tlie first for the Prince, the
others for the Queen.
In spite of his 31 years, the Prince
of Naples is rather tiuihl In the pres
ence of ladles, quite the reverse on
tills pednt from Ids cousins tho Duke
d'Aosta, Royal Artillery, and the
Comte de Torino, of the First Dra
goons, who are the greatest favorites
In aristocratic circles, nnd who seem
to bring life aud entrain wherever
tliey appear.
There is a third cousin, that Is to
say, a third cousin of the Inte Duke
of Aosta, who is more like the Prince
of Naples In timidity of manners,
modesty of life and devotion to Ids
career. To this enthusiastic sailor the
steel deck of a cruiser is far prefer
able to the waxed floor of a dancing
hall. Following In the footsteps of
Queen Margherita, he has taken up
mountaineering when on leave of ab-*
sence.
The Stamp Question.
Meaning that she should purchase
a few stamps ahead and not he both
ering the druggist every day in tlie
year, he said:
" Don't you know that a druggist
doesn't like to sell stamps in that
way ?"
" Is It possible lie is afraid I won't
pay Idm'/" she asked spiritedly.
"Pay him?" he demanded. "What
do you mean?"
" Why, I purchased four yesterday
and us I forgot my purse I asked him
to chnrge tliem—the mean thing."
" Have mercy!" he cried. " Woman
spare me auy mure." -Indianupolls
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