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Show Life in Siiini. by i-t- :leacber of Mrs LeofiuwenCatbrrneY in I'liiladel teeturcd I'rincei. Siamese of 'Life iu Sianu" 1,1,1a on the subject to tbe audience, introduction' Afier Iit lecture her by telling how he preened 'i . instructor to co to Si" & chil Siam's eihty-on- e of tbe King of mo na It DHine wuiBU iTes iSlHlll. dren to ihtfr own country, wa applied" e,er to mean "yellow people." of t&is great und curious inhabitants The und were clawed belonged country pean powerful among (umilv and dated, with national pride. heir ancestry far back in the age of Wend and superstition." Bangkok, the le Indo-Euro- -- d of Siam. surrounded by wall fifteen feet high and twelve battle-merite- f.et broad, contained within it the royIn al palace, with its rewfs and spires. front of this, in an ample enclosure, was the quarters of tKe women of the harem, the city of the hiidn women." This was in itself ft sort of. miniature city, with streets, shops, bazars and gardeus, women onty. gll occupied and tended by its wcred within entered ever So man within its walls Contained precincts. were the trrible Sphinx like images of silence to nwe the poor trembling into Here in days long gone by, silence. justices admin is .ered the severe ' " Jw to their erring "Bisters, The harem also ceutained within its walls a theatre and a gymnasium, where e innumerable girls were taught to all graceful ami and. difficult postures, which they practice with wonderIn the southern portion ful dexterity. cf the city dwelt the female mechanics, stalwart workers in their toilsome callcompanies of ing, and tbe innumerable Amazons, each division of them with its General and full complement of officers. These Amazons guarded with bravery the inner part of the city and (he King's palace, watching its gates with 'unceasTb.9 ing care and unwearied diligence. lecturer dwelt, too, upon their wonderful bravery and precision of action in times of danger. Tbe harem of the king, composed not only of Siamese women, but of beautiful Circassians and Malays, numbered at Ua9t 800 persons, waited upon, guarded and watched by over y,(M0 attendants, an immense population of women; and the most curious social study in the warld. All these women of- - tbe, harem dressed with ceremonious splendor every day, for the purpose of seeing the king, who talked to them or was silent, at his own good pleasure. All the mm of Si am are obliged to enter the priesthood at least once in their .1 mi nietime. inesc are uiriueu into tue most varied orders and classes, arid are particularly noticeable to the foreigners in regard to their behavior toward women. Most of them carry great fans with them to cover their eyesarthe approach of one of the tender sex.' S The virtuous religionists, Jbowcer, never neglected? to Meal a1 glance At a pretty woman.when unobserved, and the. lecturer related, with a good ueul of humor, a love iffiiir between an 'cnafiiered Siam of the'YJrieslly' 'casts and a dress maker one of the English faniiHea of .Siam ensuing upon an accidental sight of tbe "faire ladye." The marriage cer emony was only performed on The occasion of the first marriage, polygamy reigning ; with' U its' force in Siam. There was one district, however,, in the neighborhood of Bangkok, lambor, where polygamy was not practiced. This was a mining district, where the condition of the peasantry was almost the same as that of the poor class iu'ti-gUnand where the women labored in tbe rough work of the mines,, In and around the great' city of Siam, kowever, and slavery, flouripolygamy sh to a shocking exteut. Tbe nobil-"in imitation of the supreme king, supported au almost innumerable company of wives, and were blessed with n appropriate number of children. The lecturer mentioned the great enpersti-"oof (he Siamese and the curious custom which prevailed f 8having the head 1Tjien (he king died. All the men in the kingdom were obliged to shave their ''fads as a sign of mourning, and female Nations to. his majesty,. however, dis-tbad to part with their locks also. be King's body, on his decease, was deposited in a goldert urn, and this,; . ns-um- 1 1 - 1 . d, y nt galn, in another JorneJ with of fine gold ri,chly ' precious stones.' The jiacr urn has .an Jron grating in the "oitom, ,and the outer, an orifice at its Host pendant point which, by means o stop. cook, the fluids were drawn f 4''y until the corpse was quite dry. then "borne iojiie. Jlporjl urn Iemple and there deposited. VI II CI O. Tue rule of the King of Siam was 'ab. solute, though tempered with moderation and of servance of law. had a right to personally complain to the sovereign, and to make him acquainted with their grievances. His majesty was sacred; he was not enNo person throned, but enshrined. could stand in his presence erect.. The lecturer then closed with a brief sketch of the present king who was bine months old when she came as Governess to Siam in 1802. With wonderfull industry and pertinacity he overcame all the difficulties in his studies. This was well, for notwithstanding his royal blood the young king might have been rejected in, his succession to the throne by the votesoflhe Secret Council of (he kingdom. On the 11th cf March, 1893, tbe young king, after ascending the throne, liberated all the prisoners in the kingdom, and made a wonderfull proclamation, in which he advocated the broadest religious tolerance. In 1871 he visited the Malay Islands, and on his return adopted many European customs in his domain. This noble Buddhist king abolished ihe system of slavery. Three fourths of his subjects were either hereditary slaves or held in bondage by merciless creditors. The death of President Lincoln fired the heart of the young man, and from that time he resolved to make his land the dwelling place of freedom. He took the first opportunity to Iny before the mighty Secret Council this great reform, and after some months of delay the councilors let the king have his own way, and on the first of June, 187;, slavery was abolished forever from Siam. i Pacific Coast Ileum. Special to the S.F. Chronicle. Elko has Elko, October 13. witnessed another of those tragedies which are becom outrageous ing so frequent. Colonel Harding, Yesterday toll-keep- er morning of the Original TficIaTOT e The New York Worht has an account of a sublimely audacious and original robbery lately committed at Baltimore. A lady like looking wuman (enured a jeweler's frhop, selected a quantity of valuable articles and begged thai the assistant might accQinpauy ' her home. To this the jeweler readily assented, and the clerk went off with the would-b- e purchaser. In the outskirts of Baltimore they drove into grounds und approached a large house. Alighting from, the carshown iuto a room were riage, they where presently - a gentleman joined them. With this gentleman the lady had a conversation of apparently a very confidential nature, which the clerk, no doubt, thought related t the contemplatBut the real tenor of it ed purchase. was i hitt she was placed in a most painful dilemma. The joung man, whom Dr. , (for the gentleman was a director of a private luualio asyluto) saw was her brother. His intellect, alas, was sadly diseased, although like so many others in the same unhappy condition, a stranger would discover no signs of delusion. She did not know what to do with him for a very few days, whilst she was staying at Baltimore. 'The unhappy-younman whs penetrated with a conviction that she run off with a quantity of his jewelry, and raved about this, never leaving her nignlva'uilday, She was worn out, and at length the idea struck her that if the doctor would be so kind as to detain him for Iwentv-fou- r hours, she could "meanwhile make further arrangements for his proper surveillance. The doctor was at last induced to assent, the lady suggesting that, on the plea of showing him something, he should get him into the next room. The clerk's suspicions being entirely lulled by the evident rejpeda- bility of the surroundings, accompanied the doctor into his room, where he remained for a few minutes,, having left the lady ia tbe other room with the jewels. She, of course, lost nb time in making tracks. The clerk presently grew uneasy. The doctor endeavored to detain him with assurances that all was right. Presently the unfortunate young nun made for the door; it was locked, and the doctor's straight-jacke- t man made his appearance. Then came the story about the jewelry, for which the doctor was fully prepared! The clerk raved and beseecbed, but received little attention. However, when the twenty-fou- r hours had passed and the lady did not make her appearance, the doctor listened to the clerk's prayer that he would at all events fiend to a shop named, and ask whether a clerk with a quantity of jewelry was not Guitssio'g.. ..Of course, the replj was that they were convinced that the clerk, in whom they had reposed perfect confidence, had ab sconded. So the murder was out Whether the woman has been caught, we cannot say; but a bolder hand has jure , Pine Bridge, entered a owned by Henlej, and occupied by a man named Williams, when an altercation followed, Harding being ejected from the hoirse, and Williams saying, If you don t leave 1 11 put a head on away to tue toll you'. Harding wentcame house, and Williams up town, rewhile he was and until maining evening, he was the home, bridge, going crossing confronted by Harding, laying, "You said you'd put a head on me," at the same time drawing an axe and striking Williams a heavy blow on the head, making 'an ugly wouqd, which prostrated lira. f;' Not satisfied wiih his work, he tliou'ght to finish him by shooting him ly rarely ensted. . . i i in the shoulder. Harding then left his victim for dead; but Williams recovered Wooden liiil;p;Mls, sufficiently to walk about n. half mile to Wet mores milk ranch, wheTe he was -cared for until medical aid arrive I, when "The most valuable' thiiisr trf tbe he was removed to the Hospital, where world is a fact. Apd a man iu South he how lies in a very critical state. Very Carolina has demonstrated tho fact little hopes are entertained of his recov- thata railroad can be built and ' sucery... Harding is under nrrest. cessfully operated entirely of wood. ' Stocktbn, Oe. It is a road fifteen and a falf miles A man named Oibbs, from Napa, while "White bath-hous- e GREAT BARGAINS ' In Boolcs 'ai 1 DWYEirS walking through Rural Cemetery, lat evening, was suddenly Confronted by another man with a revolver and ordered to stand and deliver. Being unarmed, Gibbs handed over forty dollars, a gold ring, silver watch and gold chain. To day a man giving the name of Joseph 1'rittain was arrested on suspicion. He claims to be recently from Oregon and only eight week's in California. ' He was armed with a dragoon revolver. He was taken before Justice Brown, and his examination is now in progress. The State meeting of the Christian denominations closed after a session of ten days. The Prra'.dent of the lone narrow-guag- e railroad announces that only $120,000 is lacking to make up the amount of stock required to set the work in' motion. Very little wheat is coming in, and transactions are small. The Farmers' Union shipped 80 tons today. 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Some years ago a road was commenced on this line, and after some work was done, abandoned. Messrs. Land & Pritchett, large turpentine dealers, bought the right of way and built a wooden railroad, to carry produce to market. The road has been in operation for five mouths, and tho trip ia made with a freight train in an hour. . The road is built precisely like an ordinary road, with ties, instead of iron rails spiked to a wooden string- Are Suited (o all Climates. er, five inches on the face and four AND TAM0U3 FOB BEIX0 7 crosstie by a deep, is fastened ' TO USE! BEST HAS AIXED A large iron spike running through THE MONITOR illation. hfttlierrMt'inihiin ran both", The car wheels are five tivo than to ay that CHEAPEST TO BUY!.- -" ivpon a Conhinu , it e'k in Its praiK ho inches tread with flangs two and a evi'ry iieirlibor mid frieiulu, ifi oitiineri(h' ft In EASIEST TO SELL! II nml half inches deep. The wide surface fur I't'i'lioiity, etwaiiliiiuM kikI I'vlluU'ht)' in all rl of the wheels distributes the friction vViW&2 ' Famons for doing more and over a larger surface and. thus! pre BETTER COOKING, M;M MONITOllS new in L'Si vents the rapid wear of the rail. alko, tur. (ii.rn"iti' For five months daily, trains have 'tSqXV Quicker and Cheaper ILllS 0!l)KI.(. STOVE, been run and the rails are siiKioth famous ron civi.no and in good condition, and no accil or C'onl nnl Vt'ocl, XVjr SaSisfactlcaSTciywIare, Whiili W u4i a Ivuiimd lluouli llm Tciriii.! tK dent or break, has occurred. The for' l:amv and RxccDeru e, criumiI ! ' .; engine is small, but .able to haul se vita "and" eight loaded : carat at the are Especially Adapted All oiirMovn nitl for n Nil Im i;rAui-Uy X. IV JI. I. y rate of fiteeri i miles an hour, land a : ) TO Tin ' liloreM. , new engine of greater power has Alto liy UUbe pture is thuf ' Snn Twriuiry. beCn ordered. The road cosvl,2UO BOLD JBTS: per mile and does transport fifty The wt.I l fn ,,f (Ui Ten rryAijr tfr thousand pounds f freight twice EXCELSIOR MANUF'G CGMPANY, 5fcL.ilM each day. This is cheaper tharr Caudird Castor road. Kansas City Jour- turnpike Oil. 1 nm, It deliciouK, e(fevtie. iui4 hariolre. TIm- ir. piii'ire Urte ami Darwinian If the races of !iiJten are if the Cantor Oil is endescendants from monkeys, from what lta tirely civwrverne. ealhartio power nave noise races descended 7 MriaaMrraj not IfliMirBd. Price K6tii. Meat has gone up four tents on Ibe Mcljiln's Vermifuge: 'UontaiM lon, OAEC If-- i t(i-'towi-- home-wif- e ln--r " Weather quite from southwest. cool, with stiff breeze ,'" '""" San Diego, Oct. 1.1 A gentleman who arrived from Camp McDowell says the rumor concerning l.'OOO Indians leaving the resevatifn is true, and lie refers to thePrescott Miner, the last issue of which says: For bis'l(vlyfic$ - Lieutenant Sthnyler, in command at walyojlotgmonthj "ere m state, ihe wives "daily visit the Verde, tried to arrest Del Che, a notoriroJal body and converse with it. l?y bad chief, who resisted and left "ns of long ribbons in oil they whis-P- ously the reservation with about a thousand of their words of love and obedience, bis followers. The Lieutenant having vostly bannnnta n.o onrsofl in the tern- but a few soldiers was powerless to frtop f'e at tbe appointed hours... Then.. tJ theon? General Crook has gone in n oi ims year, will eoimni furthThe to'th'at informant camp. grat and amid the bewailings of troops er states that unless Crook has more men 0 mourning women, tbe dried remains U will be bufa ma'ter of time bow, soon ' srfVerei'gn are burnt to ashes und the Territory will again be under the Mgne(t to the waters of the river. Jndian curse,. When the trdop move to The BuidlilstureHcion ie purely syni guard one place they leave others fi Should war break out agaia Th tUa pmhlein of ... . l"U a Knii-c !, mnn'e the .destruction will be fearful. The Tl ui are never created, but ore those of Indians have learned many white men's lee'r ancestors in new forms. All birds, tactics during their residence on the reservations, and are . armed with tbe th'8 a'' n,i reP,ils T worshipped-aThe elli places of tUiouUofde latest, improved were killed by'breech- relatives, and the wbito elephant last fourik mbites . lbo U animals held, in reterence r per-so- .r i s breech-loaders- ("a An the.Si&mesebecause ikis sunuosed be animated by the epyj.t of soguo king . '. ' -- MIA : IT'r - Kurpiu-H'd.- . tlkrt ,? ',; " M pound in New York, owing f 6 the refusal of tbe stock men to bring cattle forward. The cautiaua cattle men decline to take ' , ; ckecka. .; ..' , OsIcu, Utah. I - cm-l- r w l Are elegafltaiMl effective. TJi'jr Orai Uonboiu kef! iu eunfecllnoer.' kIioixi. CWtldta, H lot them and try for them. I'rUe U.i.. Aitd ail Sale by Z. For oibef Irug'wU. C. M. I.ir d |