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Show AMONG THE MOORS. rite Contnrlet Hack Into the l"it In at ilnny llunr. "It Is barely flvo hours slnco leaving Spain, and yet horo wo auddeuly find oursolvcsln the midst of people totally different from those with whom wo breakfasted In race, religion and civilization. civil-ization. In tho morning wo wcro living In tlio nineteenth century, surrounded by science, learning and art, and among a people w ho, If diiTcrlug from ourselves In raco, still belong to our ago and fundamentally fun-damentally ore in i.ymputhy with us In aim, religion anil thought," Baya.11 writer In Scrlbncr. - "At noon nil Is changed. Whlto men havo become black; trouuera have become be-come bumooses; hats, turbans, catho-drnbj, catho-drnbj, mosqnes; erossos, eressents, enlightenment, en-lightenment, darknct. Civilization has been left behind, and in flvelittlo honrs, lianlly moro than ono might pass at the opera, oar uhip has lrarno us backward along the path Of tinio as many centurion. centu-rion. It is dreamy, weird, fantastic, and the doctor oven thought he ntnollod brimstone nnd suggested that 'his majesty' maj-esty' bad been shifting tho scenes. "Often havo wo been requested upon tlio programme to fancy a lapse of five year-be! . n ls ,uu uad wo havo accomplished it, but never have wo ox-perlcncod ox-perlcncod tho sensation of .so suddenly parting with flvo centuries. There it much of course t remind us of our epoch tho villas, tho ilaga, the steamer, ourselvesbat It Is far too llttlo to disturb dis-turb the illusion wo nnd tho rest nre merely anachronism's, Incongruous and out of plui-e. "Tho city U an absurd relic of modloval life, and it is dlflleult to take it sorlously. It must be, in Its homely, everyday life, but llltlo changed from what it was ono thousand years ago for, notwithstanding Hi close proximity to the advancing civilization of lhtrope, with the iudolont contontment of tho degenerate .Moslem It has nut only declined de-clined to ba Influenced thereby, but, from a total lack of any native Inclination Inclina-tion to keep abronst of the world, It has fallod even tohold Itsown.and Is to-day far to leeward of tho position It occupied oc-cupied several centuries ago. It Is truly a Hip v " "-" A CUt4 Connili."--Countcea Tolstoi Is an extremely clever woman Intellectually, and ono who Is moro than n match for her husband hus-band lu bis arguments, wr.Vss Morya McnchlUofl In tho Ladles' Home Journal. Sho transo.-ibea his looks as thoy aro wrltuu, r.s fiwjucntly an thoy are altered nnd revised, and In tlio case of tho "Kreutzcr Sonata" oopiod It four times bnfore the book was finally completed. The countess, who In of necessity tho flnamdol manager of tho family, has taken possession of tho cetato, which sho ndmlulstora for tho pood of lior liuilwnil and children. Shu It was who Issued, n few years ago, the cheap cdltlou of Count Tolstoi's novels, on tho royalties of .which tho household house-hold hns beon supported. To her firmness firm-ness and determination the crodlt for tho homo In which the family resides, as well as tho blame If such It ho called -for her husband's failure to practlco the doctrine of a community of goods, which ho so oarnestly advocates, must be given; and her realization that a homo must bo provided for tho nine children who havo lived of the sixteen ttora U) them must bo her excuse .."."., j ,, .0 employed In tho mail service in Bible times. I'r.N. i.v m 4 has 18 postmistresses postmistress-es In l 1.3 I iiilod iiUtes they number near ,0im. Oxca in every eight yoars nil lock on the ri. .' -I .StuteH mall bags are ohan,fcd 1 1 .'ir.mv safety. Ic Ireltt.i 1 (,'cts home rulo It Is quite probable a uimv set of poktago stamps for use hi that country, and distinctively distinct-ively Irish, will bo ittsuod. Mr. (Had stone tells the I'hUutello Journal that thU matter "will he 000 for the consideration consid-eration of the Iiish government." A nsw clump id to bo I .-nod In Great Urltain ot the vulux of Mi pence 9 oonts to bo avallablo fur all Xstnl, tolegrr.phlo and revenue pvrposes. It ivlU bo the first stamp i ' ul of this value, and its Ik uar.cn 1 - hIUx! for by the ik w foaturo.i of t -legraph and postnl-poi.t bustnes ' |