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Show M A J.XE WTON WALKER A FIGURE IN POLITICS OF THE PAST. lie Died It IlIlouU the Other Day at Age of 96 Knew Lincoln and Done-las Done-las in the Days of Their Rixiug Glory Retained Ills .Sense to the Last. Major Newton Walker, one of the oldest pioneer citizens of Illinois, died at his home in Lewiston the other day at the advanced age of 96 years. When Major Waliace emigrated westward from Charlottesville, Va., where he was born in 103, there were comparatively compara-tively few signs of civilization west of the Mississippi river. Chicago was then a mere village, with only a handful hand-ful of inhabitants, while Illinois was steeped ia the gloomy solitudes of the virgin wilderness. Major Walker recalled re-called many notable persons and events connected with the early decades dec-ades of the present century on this side of the water. He could distinctly distinct-ly remember Thomas Jefferson. He saw that patriot many times and heard liim epeak on several occasions. He was one of the military escort that conducted Lafayette across the Old Dominion. Do-minion. In 132 Major Walker paid a visit to Washington. There he heard Henry Clay deliver one of his im- MAJOR NEWTON WALKER, mortal speeches in congress. He could recall many other noted men of the early cWitury whose names are now historical, and whose personalities seem far away and dim to the mind's eye of the present generation. When Major Walker went to the Illinois legislature leg-islature in lsy? he m:ide the acquaintance acquain-tance of Abraham Lincoln, who was then serving a term in the general assembly. The old pioneer was present pres-ent at the Lincoln-Douglas debate at Galesburg. and when Mr. Lincoln spoke at Lewiston he had dinner at the major's ma-jor's house. Major Walker preserved his clarity of mind almost up to his last hotirs. HIS TRAMPSHIP Found SuuCly Kiic-axed In tile Berth or a Talace Car. The New York police arrested the other day a gentleman whose gall would stock a corps of commercial travelers. He called himself a "professional "pro-fessional traveler," had all the eclat of 23 and bore himself like a monarch. When the persons who sweep. out the Wagner palace cars in the Grand Central Cen-tral station yards entered the car Nomad No-mad at New York the other morning they were startled to hear loud snores emerging from one of the berths, which was still hemmed in by curtains. cur-tains. They thought a passenger had been overlooked when the train cam? in and left him undisturbed until it was nearly time to start t..e car on its return trip to Chicago. Mr. Tramp refused re-fused to get up; the police were called. In court he safd: "I came to town to attend the Dewey celebration. I found there was no hotel accoir tnodation to be found anywhere. IJeing well acquainted ac-quainted with Mr. Dewey I thought I would use one of his palace cars. They were lying around in the yard with no one in them." The judge was so staggered stag-gered that he neglected to fine him. and the admiral's personal friend walked forth a free man. presumably to seek accommodations until his distinguished dis-tinguished patron should arrive to give him shelter in the suite set aside in the Waldorf-Astoria. WILLIAM'S TROUBLES. It is announced from Berlin that Minister of Agriculture Hammerstein is making desperate efforts to pacify the Prussian "junkers," who are fighting fight-ing the emperor's pet canal projects. The "junkers" are the old feudal aristocracy aris-tocracy the great land-owners -of Prussia. The canals are being cut so that agricultural products may be transported cheaply Into the Interior of the country. The "junkers" fear that they will not be able to meet the competition com-petition of these imported products. Hence they are fighting the canal bills. Fifty years ago four-sevenths of the MINISTER HAMMERSTEIN. population of Germany was engaged in agriculture and 93 per cent of all the food consumed was raided at horn:. Now only one-third of the population is agricultural, and at least one-third of the food products used in the empire em-pire are imported. It is argued, therefore, there-fore, that the canals are a necessity, and that the "junkers" are fighting a battle which must be lost sooner or later. She Stints Oat Sin. For the last three years Miss Sarah Cunningham, of Vancouver, B. C, has blindfolded her eyes whenever she 6teps outside the door of the little cottage cot-tage in which she lives ail alone. Miss Cunningham is a woman about 40 years old. For years her conscience was troubled by the sight cf sin and immorality im-morality everywhere visible as she walked the streets of Vancouver. Finally Fin-ally she decided that she could stand it no longer. If she could not put a stop to the wickedness which oppressed her she coald at least shut out the outside world. Consequently she bandaged ban-daged her eyes. Since that day, in 1S96, her eyes have never looked upon the earth. As a result Miss Cunningham Cunning-ham reports that she is becoming cheerful. The bright side of life now occupies her min3, and, though she is aware of the fact that there is still sin in the world, it does not trouble her as it formerly did. HIS TERRIBLE THIRST. Suffering of a Man Who Took a. Tai Trip. In the New Lippincott for September Septem-ber Albert Bigelow Paine thus describes de-scribes his sufferings from thirst, while traveling alone through southwest Texas, having lost the trail: "My thirst had become torture, and sudden ly remembering that I had once heard of Indians discovering moisture In the heart of the niggerhead cactus. I strove to uproot one by kicking It fiercely with the heel of my heavy boot. Tha cactus grew everywhere in profusion, adhering to the soil with great tenacity, tenac-ity, while its long, horny spikes made it difficult to handle even when uprooted. uproot-ed. Still I managed at last to get one loosened and cut open. There was a pulp within that contained some semblance sem-blance of moisture, but I could not se that it allayed my thirst. Perhaps 1 was not accustomed to its use. Mj hands were torn by the thorns and my feet wounded in many places. 1 was suffering and weary, and my thirst was becoming unbearable. It was getting get-ting late by this time, and if I was tc reach Pecos before dark I must push on in spite of pain and weariness. My clothes were becoming tattered and my hands were bleeding, but all other misfortune mis-fortune was forgotten in the fierce blight of thirst that had fixed itself OB me like a withering demon. When at last it began to grow dark I uprooted more of the niggerhead cactuses, and, tearing the hearts from them, chewed and sucked as one might chew and suck a sponge from which the last trace of moisture has been all but pressed. I ate a part of my last sandwich, sand-wich, and then, thoroughly exhausted and mad with thirst, I sank down upon the hot, sandy earth and stared up at the darkened sky." BICYCLE STABLE. Where Over Five Hundred Wheels Art Stored Every Day Washington cor. Chicago Evening Post: One of the greatest bicycle stables sta-bles in the country is located inside oi the walls of the treasury department in Washington. It is under the roof ol a large shed built In the north court oJ the treasury building and has a flooi area of about 10,000 square feet. Th only purpose the secretary of th treasury had in ordering the construction construc-tion of the shed was to provide addec protection for the extensive vaults under un-der the court where a hundred mlllidi! dollars or more in silver coin and bullion bul-lion is stored. Moisture was finding its way Into these vaults, and pending authorization by congress for the re-concreting re-concreting of the vast subterraneatf area a wooden roof over the space was decided upon. The happy thought occurred oc-curred to the captain of the watch that if the roof were raised a few feet higher than the architect's plan contemplated con-templated the hundreds of bicycles that encumbered and blockaded the corridors corri-dors might be conveniently and safely stored there. He suggested the change and it was made. Now the 1,900 employes em-ployes of the department, or such of them as may be addicted to the bicycle habit, have stall for their wheels, each being assigned to a special number. Nearly 500 wheels are stabled there from 9 to 3 every day. The sight is one worth seeing and is one of the curiosities of Washington about which few outside of the department have ever heard. WHEN CHILDREN SMOKED They Were Sent to School with Pipes ia Their Satchels. Every one has read that Hawkins Introduced In-troduced tobacco into England and that King James inveighed against it. Elizabeth Eliz-abeth liked to 6it on a low stool and watch Sir Walter Raleigh puffing away. Once she bet him that he could not tell the weight of the smoke in his pipe, but the philosopher won. In Anne's reign almost every one smoked. In Charles II 's reign "children were sent to school with their pipes in their satchels, ana the schoolmaster called a halt in their studies while they smoked." In 1702 Jorevin spent an evening with his brother at Garra-way's Garra-way's coffee house, Leeds, and writes: "I was surprised to see his sickly child of three years old fill his pipe of tobacco to-bacco and smoke it as audfarandly as a man of threescore; after that a second sec-ond and third pipe without the least concern, as it is said to have done about a year ago." There were about 470 coffee houses In London, besides five chocolate houses, in Anne's time. Smoking was general in them, and intoxicants in-toxicants cculd be also obtained, as well as coffee. Bishop Trelawney was much hurt because Bishop Barnett has accused him of getting drunk in one of them on the 30th of January a day of grief to tories and all good churchmen. Pittsburgh Dispatch. MOSBY'S GUERRILLA'S. One of the most startling incidents of the war between the states is to be commemorated by a monument, just unveiled at Front Royal, in Warren county, Va. A granite shaft has been erected to seven of Mosby's men who COL. J. S. MOSBY. were hanged or shot to death on the spot by Gi?n. Custer, while prisoners of war, on Sept. 23, 1864. Under the impression that it was unprotected. Major Chapman with fifty of Mosby's men attacked a union ambulance train, but found they had encountered a whole corps of cavalry. They quickly retreated, but seven men were left behind be-hind as prisoners, and these were hanged. No reason was given for the hangings, and in revenge Mosby hanged an equal number of union men whom he captured later. Spider Crab Eleven Feet Long. Little Miss Muffit might have been excuned for running away if it had been a Japanese spider crab that had sat down beside her on the memorable day when she was eating her curds and whey. From tip to tip such a crab measures over eleven feet Ita body is small, being but 14x11 inches but it has the regulation number of ten arms or legs, which measure from two to fire feet each in length, and are from "three to eight inches In diameter. diam-eter. The ,""ab is yellow and not handsome in abearance. A specimen of this cru3tceous animal has Just been received at Rutgers college, where it will be added to the collection collec-tion in the Huuseum of the Institution. - AMID RUINS OF In the Acropolis and the Parthenon Temple of Jupiter. (Athens Letter.) After leaving the Orient the American Ameri-can traveler is disappointed when he reaches Athens. The carriage road from Piraeus (where he lauds) to Athens is usually very dusty, and the city itself is too densely modern. He sees most of the men wearing our sort of shoes, conventional trousers and coats and modern hats, and longs to catch sight of a group of Arabs dressed in red slippers, long, flowing, fancy gowns and turbans. True, he sees the pretty faces of the Greek women; yet these do not have the same occult charm for him as do the mysterious creatures who wander through the Btreets of Cairo all clothed in black, showing him nothing but pretty pairs of eyes, shining coquettishly above the somber veils which hide their faces. The shop windows are like those he sees at home, and ordinary street cars jog along the avenues. Many public buildings in Athens have been erected at the personal expense ex-pense of wealthy Greeks living in foreign for-eign lands. A stranger can always find the citizens of Athens roaming around the old ruins, admiring them more than tourists do, and he cannot converse con-verse with them long before they speak in praise of their ancient poets and philosophers. Americans will be most interested in the Stadium, for here in 1895 our college col-lege athletes carried away nearly all of the laurels. The Stadium is a vast, uncovered amphitheater built in the side of a hill, and was capable of seating seat-ing 60,000 people. It would resemble the three-ring part of Barnum's show if it had no cover. Lycurgus (330 B. C.) planned it, and Herodes Atticus, to finish it, almost exhausted the quarries quar-ries of Mount Pentellicon. In the Dark Ages the barbarians, who overran Greece, tore from the amphitheater the marble seats which extended from the track far up the hillside and burned them into lime. Only a few years ago this classic course was little more than a brush-covered ravine, but a patriotic Greek banker of Alexandria, M. Ave-rouf, Ave-rouf, gave 1,000,000 fracs for its restoration. res-toration. It is now about one-half rebuilt, re-built, but as this generous patriot died recently, the work may never be completed. com-pleted. Although the Americans gained nearly all of the contests, a Greek won the greatest event, the foot race from Marathon. Who would have wished it otherwise? Imagine 100,000 descendants descend-ants of the ancient Greeks filling every seat in the vast Stadium and crowding the surrounding hilltops looking for a messenger to reannounce a victory won on the old battlefield of Marathon, where, 490 years before Christ, 10,000 brave Greeks, contending against ten times their number of Persians, defeated de-feated them and saved to the world the civilization of which our own is but the matured offspring. Not every one agrees with me, however, how-ever, for the Acropolis is called the "crowning glory of Athens." In approaching ap-proaching it one goes by the rock-hewn rock-hewn Theater of Dionysus (the cradle of the Greek drama), the Odeon or Herodes Atticus, and the Acropolis where Paul preached to the Athenians. The Acropolis is nothing but a great big limestone rock; its top is 500 feet above sea level, and a?.l of its sides except ex-cept the one where you enter the gates of approach, are almost perpendicular. A man, when on top, can stand at one side and drive a golf ball beyond the other. Pisistratus began to build temples tem-ples on this rocky eminence also in the sixth century B. C, but all of his works were destroyed soon afterward by the Persians. Pericles was not long, however, in erecting structures on the Acropolis, which have since been the architectural marvels of the world. To reach the top of the Acropolis you must first make way through the magnificent propylae or portals. In ascending the stairway of the propylae one, as he climbs each step, has revealed re-vealed unto him some new beauty. Passing through the portals you see scattered about over the native rock hundreds of sad fragments of fallen statues which formerly adorned this sacred hill. A lover of art, when regarding re-garding these broken images, cannot but feel like a comrade groping over a battlefield where his friends lay slain. On the left, as you enter, is the Erectheion, Erec-theion, the temple which formerly contained con-tained the ivory statue of Athena Polia, the guardian goddess of the city. This - temple is all proportion a symphony in stone but the most exquisite ex-quisite portion of it is the "portico ol the maidens" (caryatides). These six marble maids, their draperies so clinging to them as to reveal the chaste symmetry of their forms, bear Ifthtly upon their heads the architecture architec-ture of the portico. They are tVe most graceful daughters of the chi&el in all tfe world. I say six marblel maids, but there are only five, for in 1801 that prince of pillagers, Lord Elgin of England, Eng-land, carried one of them to the British Brit-ish museum, where it yet remains. In the place cf this mute captive there now stands a terra-cotto substitute which looks like the slave girl of the five remaining sisters. Many admire the dainty Erectheion, but the stolid Parthenon appeals the more to those who, when upon the ocean, love the storm more than a peaceful sea. Pericles conceived It when Greece was in her glory and called upon the architects, Ictinos and Callicrates, to design, and upon Phidias Phid-ias to adorn it. It is 228 feet long and nearly one-half as broad. Formerly it contained the greatest work of the greatest sculptor Phidias chryselephantine chrysele-phantine statue of the Virgin Athena. The Parthenon has had a varied history. his-tory. When first built (428 B. C.) the pan-Athenian festival, during which people assembled in Athens from all quarters of Greece, was celebrated within it every four years. The sculptured sculp-tured frieze around the temple is the carved representation of the sacred procession cf this festival. Five hundred hun-dred years after the beginning of our era the Christians used it for a church. There yet remain some of the paintings paint-ings with which they coated the inte- ' if ERICHEION ON TOP OF ACROPOLIS, rior walls. The Turks in 1460 built a minaret on one corner and converted it into a mosque. They in turn were ousted in 1687 by a bomb thrown from a Venetian cannon. The shell fell into the Parthenon, which was then used for a powder magazine. The explosion killed 300 Turks; it also made melancholy melan-choly ruins of the magnificent temple. Just now attempts are making to partially restore the fallen columns. The whole front is obscured by scaffolding; scaf-folding; only from the rear can you get a satisfactory view, and I must confess that when I peered through these tapering Ionic columns, reddened with the rust of twenty-three centuries a violet Grecian sky as a background I could not differ much from him who said: "Peerless Parthenon!" The views from the Parthenon are superb. From the east side, looking down, you see the city of Athens, the temple of Jupiter and the Stadium in the foreground, and back of these Mount Pentellicon and Hymettos. Standing near the temple of Nyke and looking toward the west, a long, sawlike saw-like range of hills in the distance, the island and bay of Salamis, the Piraeus, and the spreading olive groves of Attica At-tica are before you. The twilight panorama from this point is enchanting: enchant-ing: "Slow sinks, more lovely ere his race be run, Along Morea's hills the setting sun." CHARLES N. CREWTJSON. ACROPOLIS, SHOWING PARTHENON Cost of a Church Carpet. The Chicago Advance gives the following fol-lowing estimate of the direct and collateral col-lateral cost of a church carpet. The price was $800, but as the women of the church raised the money by giving entertainments, the pastor's estimate was that, when all the items of cost were figured in, the carpet had cost fully ?4,000. He reached this astonishing astonish-ing total by estimating the work, worry, wor-ry, nervous strain, bodily weariness and heartaches of one hundred women; the heroic efforts of men, women and children to eat the things which were to he eaten, and hear, see- or buy things which had been provided to extract ex-tract money from them; the colds, fevers and other ailments contracted while attending the entertainments, and the consequent doctor's bills; the money spent in other churches, for If they come to your entertainment you must go to theirs; and, worst and most , costly of all, the demoralization of tr ANCIENT church and the curtailment of the legitimate le-gitimate giving which follow in the train of such methods of raising money. But they got their carpet. MUSEUM OF LEGS. That Forms the Ien of a One-Footed Old Soldier. San Francisco Bulletin: Henry Cur-tin, Cur-tin, a veteran of the civil war, living on the west side, has a room in his residence that impresses all his visitors as a veritable chamber of horrors. This is because Its most conspicuous decoration decor-ation and ornament is a row of human legs suspended on the walls and entirely entire-ly circling the room. Mr. Curtin always al-ways laughs at the fright of strangers at the first sight of this room, and then explains that the legs are only artificial ones, and there's nothing to be afraid of. Then he tells them how the legs came to be there. "You see," says Mr. Curtin, "in '61 I was so foolish as to try and stop a cannon ball with my right leg. Of course, I wasn't one. two, three, and the next thing I knew I was in a camp hospital with only one leg left. That ended my soldiering. The government had me measured for an artificial leg as soon as I was able to be about, and I came home to Chicago. SHOWING PORTICO OF MAIDENS Well, I discovered that I couldn't wear the kind of leg the government gives, owing to some reasons connected with the way my leg was amputated, and the only leg I can wear is thi3 wooden stump that straps to the thigh. It was in '65 that I got my first leg. In '66 an express package brought me another. anoth-er. I sat down and wrote the war department de-partment that the legs were of no use to me, and, therefore, not to send them. They didn't take a bit of notice of my letter, and in '67 another leg came. I wrote again to Washington; told them I had three of their legs now that I couldn't use, and didn't want them to go on and bankrupt the government buying me legs. They never noticed me. In '68 I got another leg. They began to get in the way around the house, so then I started the labeling and dating of "each one, and hanging them up on the walls of my den. There's thirty-five there now, and I guess I'll last long enough to see fifty or more." AT HYMEN'S ALTAR. Ugliness in an old woman is much sought after sometimes in China, it being be-ing the custom to hire the ugliest old women who can be found to act as attendants at-tendants to girls on their marriage. It is said that some specially ugly old women make their living entirely as attendants at weddings. No doubt the reason that they are so much in re- ON TOP, THESEUM IN FORE GROUND. quest is that they may act as foils to the beauty of the bride. Chinamen, when speakir.g of their wives which they do as seldom as possible refer to them thus: "My dull thorn," "the mean one of the inner room," or "the thorn in my ribs." His children he styles "insects" and "worms," much as we say "chicks" or "kids." In Russia when a man marries an heiress he does not obtain possession of her money. There is no marriage settlement, and she keeps the control of her property. This financial independence inde-pendence of the wife conduces much to matrimonial felicity. To the crusty old bachelor or the woman who is out of the running, the marriage question is assuiaing some rather anusing phases in foreign countries, coun-tries, remarks the Bazar. The diet of 3BU ATHENS. Hesse has introduced a tax on unmarried un-married men, they being compelled to pay 25 per cent more taxes than their married brethren, and it is said that Uie effect of this resolution by the government gov-ernment Is being watched with great interest by the maidens of Hesse, who are anticipating an epidemic of proposals. pro-posals. WMle in India that ever-recurring question of the remarriage of widows has again popped up, the eastern fathers fath-ers suddenly realizing that by giving the widows a second chance, the opportunities oppor-tunities of getting rid of their unmarried unmar-ried daughters is being considerably narrowed. English statistics show that one out of every five widows seizes the opportunity to a second time stand before the altar of Hymen. It is said that in. the United States tb? female population Is very little larger than the male, for the surplus of women of New England are balanced by the men of the mining communities communi-ties of. the far west. No Salt ia Lapland. We are not in the habit of counting salt among luxuries, but to the dwellers dwell-ers in Lapland it would be a very great luxury indeed. These people have no salt, and their substitute for it is manufactured man-ufactured in so laborious a manner that it must be used very sparingly. The foundation of it is the bark of the fir-tree, fir-tree, but it has to undergo many processes pro-cesses before it is fit for use. First the bark is peeled from the tree, and the inner bark, which is the part used, carefully separated from the outer. This inner bark is then divided into thin layers, and during the excessively hot Lapland summer is exposed to the sun until thoroughly dried. The next process is a peculiar one. The layers of bark, torn into narrow strips, are placed in boxes made of fresh bark from other trees, and the bark boxes and their contents are buried in deep holes dug in the sand. For a day they are left to the influence of the sand alone, but on the second day fires are lighted above the pits, and kept burning burn-ing briskly for several hours. The effect ef-fect of the fires is to heat the sand far down, so that it may act on the fir bark. This it does by turning it a red color and giving it a pleasant taste and odor. After three days the boxes are unearthed and the fir strips removed. re-moved. Then comes the final process, the pounding and grinding into a coarse powder. The people use the powder as we do salt, but they are never so extravagant with it as we are. It has cost them so much trouble to prepare it that they use it sparingly. Julian Ralph's Great Find. Julian Ralph tells of his delight in finding green corn in Europe. In the course of many years of extensive travel on the continent he had never seen an ear. He recently stopped at a hotel In Paris and met a porter in the hall carrying a basket of genuine American green corn. "Green corn!" he shouted. "Is it possible that this is what I see?" "Yes, monsieur," said Mme. Brunei, the wife of the proprietor. pro-prietor. "It is veritably the green corn of America. We grow it upon our farm. So many of our guests are Americans and so fond are they of this peculiar food that we have seen it to be to our advantage to make for them this singular product in our fields in the country." "I took Mme. Brunei's Brun-ei's hand," said Mr. Ralph, "and pressed it. I raised my hand as one does who bestows a benediction. 'God bless you, madam,' said I, with such evident piety that she could not take offense. 'You are the most magnificent and the most wonderful woman in France.' " Unintentional Sarcasm. He was an assistant in a large bookseller's, book-seller's, and the haughty young woman who fancied she was called upon to give her ideas to the world in book form desired a notebook. "I want a notebook," she said, "something that I can carry in my pocket to jot down ideas " "Oh, you want something very small," replied the assistant, and he was unable to account for her anger. Spare Moments. What Her Reply Was. From London Judy: He (a suitor) "Grammarians have never been quite sure of the proper distinction between "I shall" and "I will," but to my mind there is no difficulty." She "I don't quite know the distinction myself." He (thinking he sees his opportunity) "Well, take the questioi, 'Will you marry me?' Supposing I ask you, your reply would be not 'I will,' but " She (emphatically) "I won't" Didn't nil the BilL Alice (protesting) But, papa, you say you want to bee me married and off your hands. rnlrchild (grimly) I know iL That ti why I refuse to let you marry him. Brooklyn Life. Don't lose Bight of an honorable enemy; en-emy; he'll make a good friend. SPANISH MASHEES ONE SIQN OF THAT NATION'S DECAY. V Ibmy Stand on the Streets to Vast Numbers and with Brasen Effrontery Approach Unooaperoned Women Even Worse Than London Mashers. Madrid streets are by no means altogether al-together delectable. Some are broad and well kept, but others are narrow, dirty and malodorous. Worst of all, to my own thinking, is the Madrid Stare, which, hardly less offensive than the Paris stare, is more universal, says a Madrid correspondent of the New York Times. It is amusing to see bow fearlessly a maiden of 18 sallies forth alone, while many Madrid spinsters of 50 would not go a block unattended. "But why do you mind?" said a highbred high-bred Madrid lady to me, with a puz zled look. "Men have their own head3 full of these silliness and they suppose women are as foolish as themselves. They are much more careful with for eigners than with us." Another lady, who, under stress of family misfortune, misfor-tune, was taking a few boarders, told me that she had never received Span ish gentlemen because of her daughters. daugh-ters. "Foreign gentlemen, the Germans, English and Americans whom I have had here," she said, "are very strange about that, but it is much nicer. Thay treat the girls as friends, and show the same respect the last day as the first. Of Spaniards that couldn't be expected. Our young men are all for lovemaking and such nonsense. And my daughters have no father nor brothers to protect them." "That very fact ought to be their perfect protection with gentlemen," I said. "Oh, Spaniards are gentlemen," she loyally hastened to declare. "They are the most gallant gentlemen in the world. The trouble is, they are a little lit-tle too gallant." Madrid is better than the cities of Andalusia and worse than the cities of northern Spain in its treatment of women. A young Spanish Span-ish girl cannot walk alone, however sedately, in Seville, without a running fire of salutations "Oh, the pretty face!" "What cheeks of roses!" "Blessed be thy mother!" "Give me a little smile!" And even in Madrid Spanish girls of my acquaintance have broken their fans across the faces of men who have tried to snatch a kiss in passing. INDIAN HEAD IN STONE. Remarkable Find at Bouquet Station on Allegheny River. A remarkable curiosity was un-eathefl un-eathefl by workmen at the approach of the Ninth street bridge on the op posite side of the Allegheny river, near Bouquet station, says the Pittsburg Leader. It i3 the bust of an Indian chieftian made of burned red clay and about three-fourths life size. When first discovered by James Sell, an Italian workman, he thought it was a petrified human body, so natural are the features portrayed. It was found under about fifteen feet of earth on the side of the hill where the dirt is being taken out to fill out the approach ap-proach of the bridge abutment. The formation of the earth and slate under un-der which it had laid showed that at one time there had been a slide of the earth and stone from the steep hillside. hill-side. That this had been many years ago, however, is evidenced by a large elm tree fully two and a half feet in diameter standing near by. The image im-age may have rested on a grave or been buried at the top of the hill, which is the highest along the river, or it may have been interred where it was discovered. In appearance it seems as if a mold from a death mask so perfect are the outlines. The ears, eyes and mouth are perfect, but the nose was fractured by the workman's mattock in excavating. Besides the bust the remnants of a portion of the two arms and hands were found, but these were carried off by two Spring-dale Spring-dale boys. There was no trace of the body. What the clay image was used for is only a conjecture. It may have been an idol for religious worship or it may have decorated a grave. The material of which it is made is hard and flinty, being a mixture of red clay and burnt stone. Over the head, partially par-tially broken off, is a sort of shield or helmet. The bottom of the bust is flat and solid and there are no marks or indications of its origin. Raised His Rank. An engaging manner is useful everywhere. every-where. This axiom is amusingly illustrated illus-trated by a story which Justin McCarthy McCar-thy tells. "Soon after the civil war," he says, "I happened to be standing on a bridge in New York, amusing myself my-self by studying the crowd, when a shrill, youthful voice accosted me with 'Cap'n, shine yer boots?' The chance distribution of military titles was ready and liberal at the time, when so many soldiers were returning to civilian civil-ian life, and I paid no attention to the invitation. Just then a rival bootblack boot-black passed, and, imagining where the cause of my indifference lay, he advanced, ad-vanced, and, pushing past the unsuccessful unsuc-cessful claimant, he gave me a military salute and appealed to me with the captivating words: 'Brigadier-general, shine yer boots?' I had my boots shined on the spot." Youth's Companion. Com-panion. Balloon as a Clothes Drier. Housewives who are obliged to dry their clothes in patent indoor driers, heated by steam, complain that they do not come from the wash as fresh and sweet as when they are dried by the sunshine and breezes of a country back yard. An enterprising laundry in Paris has met this objection in a novel way. It has provided a captive balloon, below which are suspended a number of bamboo frames. Clothes are first rough dried and then attached at-tached to the balloon, which carries a great quantity of clothes high into the air, above the smoke and dust. Here there is always a good breeze blowing and the air is full of ozone. The captive balloon makes six ascensions ascen-sions daily, and a small extra charge is made by the laundry for the goods dried in this way. Can't Get Their Morphine. York (Penn.) special Baltimore Sun: By request of Mayor Geise the druggists drug-gists have stopped the sale of opium and morphine, except upon the prescription pre-scription of reputable physicians. in consequence the large number of people peo-ple in this place who have been using quantities of morphine, mostly by injection, in-jection, are in a state of consternation, and many have sought scientific medical medi-cal treatment. Gther victims of the drug have sent to other places for It, while some are using headache powders pow-ders as a substitute. One York physician physi-cian is treating sixteen ' morphine cases. LACES AND THEIR HlSIOfif. "Beautiful and Everlasting Valenelen nes." Point lace is so-called from Its gauzelike needle-ground, composed of very fine, round meshes, with needle-made needle-made flowers, made simultaneously with the ground, by means of the same thread as in the old Brussels, says the Home Needlework Magazine. It was made in small pieces, the joining join-ing concealed by sprigs or leaves like the old point, the same lace-worker making the whole strip from beginning begin-ning to end. Point gauze is now brought to the highest perfection, and is remarkable for the precision of the work, the variety and richness of the jours, and the clearness of the ground. It somewhat resembles Point d'Alen-con, d'Alen-con, but the work is less elaborate and less solid. Alencon lace, it is aaid, could not compete with Brussels in ita designs, which are not copied from nature, while the roses and honeysuckles honey-suckles of the Brussels lace are worthy of a Dutch painter. Lacemaking was at one time the chief source of national na-tional wealth in Belgium. It formed a part of female education, and in 1876 one-fortieth of the entire population popu-lation of 150,000 women were said to be engaged upon it. But some of the pillow laces, as wellas those of the needle, have had immense popularity. popular-ity. This kind of lace was first made in the city of Valenciennes, and the manufacture reached its height in that town about 1780, when there were some 4,000 lacemakers employed upon it; but fashion changed, lighter laces came into vogue, and in 1790 the lace-workers had diminished to 250. Napoleon made an unsuccessful attempt at-tempt to revive the manufacture, and in 1851 only two lacemakers remained, and they were over 80 years old. At one time this manufacture was so peculiar pe-culiar to the place that it was. said: "If a piece of lace were begun at Valenciennes Va-lenciennes and finished outside the walls, the part not made at Valenciennes Valenci-ennes would be visibly less beautiful and less perfect than the other, though done by the same lacemaker with the same thread and pillow." The city-made city-made lace was remarkable for its richness of design, evenness and solidity. solid-ity. It was known as the "beautiful and everlasting Valenciennes," and was bequeathed from mothers to daughters like jewels and furs. It was made by young girls in underground rooms, and many of these workers are said to have become almost blind before they were 30 years of age. When the whole piece was done by the same hand the lace was thought much more valuable. Valenciennes lace was made in other towns of the province, but "vraie Valenciennes"' only at Valenciennes. Valen-ciennes. The Lille makers, for instance, in-stance, would make from three to five ells a day (an ell is forty-eight inches), while those of Valenciennes would make not more than an inch and one-half one-half in the same time. Some lacemakers lace-makers made only twenty-four inches in a 3'ear; hence the costliness of the lace. Modern Valenciennes is far inferior in-ferior in quality to that made in 1780. LONGFELLOW'S WAYSIDE INN. Although Two Centuries Old, It Is Still I'xed as a Hostelry. "Rich in the historical and literary associations accumulated during two centuries of existence," says the Ladies' Home Journal for September, "the Wayside Inn, built by David Howe, still stands 'remote among the wooded hills' in South Sudbury, Massachusetts. 'The Landlord' of Longfellow's famous tales was the dignified Squire Lyman Howe, a justice of the peace and school committeeman, who lived a bachelor, and died at the inn in 1860 the last of his line to lveep the famous hostelry. Beside Squire Howe, the only other real characters in the Tales who were ever actually at the inn were Thomas W. Parsons, the poet; Luigi Monti, the Sicilian, and Professor Daniel Tread well, of Harvard, the theologian, all three of whom were in the habit of spending the summer months there. Of the other characters, the Musician was Ole Bull, the Student was Henry Ware Wales, and the Spanish Jew was Israel Edrehi. Near the room in which Longfellow stayed is the ballroom, with the dais at one end for the fiddlers. fid-dlers. But the polished floor no longer feels the pressure of dainty feet in high-heeled slippers gliding over it to the strains of contra-dance, cotillon or minuet, although the merry voices of summer visitors and the jingling bells of winter sleighing parties at times still break the quiet of the ancient inn.".' DANGER IN THE MOUNTAINS. Mountain-climbing is a fascinating sport but also a dangerous one. There has seldom been a summer in which so many accidents have occurred to tourists on the Austrian mountains. Hardly a day passes without at least one. They are not confined to any particular province, though most ol them occur in the Tyrolese Alps. From Tyrol the following casualties are reported: A student named Stolz, a son of Prof. Stolz of Innsbruck uni-v uni-v sity, although a good mountaineer, fell from one of the peaks of the Otz-thal Otz-thal Alps and was killed. Dr. Herz-heimer Herz-heimer of Frankfort met with his dith in consequence of a fit of apoplexy, apo-plexy, caused by over-exertion. News has also been received of the death of Fraulein Wohlfahst, a young Viennese lady, who was on the Brenner Bren-ner with her father and a friend. She stayed behind to gather flowers, but when her father returned to look for her she had disappeared. Her body has since been found at the bottom oi a ravine. An Expensive DreH. The most expensive dress in the world is said to be the property of Mrs. Celia Wallis, of Chicago, who, hearing that the wife of a London banker possessed pos-sessed a garment costing $15,000, Alipsed this by an expenditure of $33,-000. $33,-000. It .was trimmed with Brussels point lace, a yard wide and three yard? in length, costing $25,000, and diamond orzaments held it in place. Jnst Like a Bachelor. "I do love dress," exclaimed a young society belle at a reception the other evening. "Then I should think you would wear more of it," commented a cynical bachelor acquaintance of middle mid-dle age. Ohio State Journal. Reverence for Mothers. The strongest sentiment of the Turk is his reverence for his mother. He always stands in her presence until invited to sit down a compliment he pays to no one else. Typographical. Mr. Newlywed (bitterly) You useJ to say I was a "nonpariel" among men. Mrs. Newlywed Well, I still think you are a very small "type." Judge. V. S. r if a; V i r |