Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1892 — Page 6

®|)C DcmocratirSentind RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. W. McEWEN, - Publisher

CHILI AND CHILIANS.

FACTS ABOUT A BUMPTIOUS LITTLE REPUBLIC. A Remarkable Country and a Strange People—The Longest Strip of Territory •n the Globe—Peeullarities of the Inhabitants—Cllma'e anil Topography. Yankees of South America. In more ways than one Chili is a curious country. Its extent, to our way of thinking, is enormous, having a superficial area of 203,000 square miles, being, therefore, somewhat greater than Texas. It is of a shape so unique that there is nothing else like it on the globe. Imagine a strip of eoast beginning at Alaska and extending through British America, Washington, Oregon, ■California, Mexico, and the Central American •tates to the Isthmus of Darien, and you

have a near approach to the shape of Chili. The extent of this remarkable country is nearly 3,000 milest from north to south, and to travel from one end of It to the other it is necessary to make a Journey as long as from the north point of Hudson's Bay to the southern boundary of Mexico, a journey nearly as long as that from New York to San Francisco. But the width is by no means proportionate to this vast length. Though so long Chili is rarely more than 100 miles »ide, a mere strip between the Andes and the coast, and so narrow as to give rise to the facetious saying that the people of Chili hang to the Andes by their

A RAILROAD BRIDGE BETWEEN VALPARAISO AND SANTIAGO.

finger and toe nails to keep from falling Into the sea.

Bavb in One district, and that is of no great extent, all Chili is cut up by mountain ranges. It is not too much to say that a journey through Chili is up one mountain and down another, from the torrid region of the tropics to the frozen ■one of Cape Horn. Extending from near the equator to the antarctic circle, It has every variety of 1 climate. In the north, the desert districts, rainless from one year’s end to the other, present a •andy plain, incapable of supporting life; further south, to the center of the country, there are wooded heights and a temperate climate; still further there is the Wet zone, with its almost impenetrable

forests, giant mountains and iron-bound coast. Chili is a Sahara in the north, * California in the center, and a Norway in the south. All districts are, however, In one respect alike; they are all mountainous. The Chilians are, comparatively ■peaking, well advanced in civilization —-that is, compared with the other South American States. They are so far ahead of their Spanish-American brethren that they have not infrequently been denominated the English, and even the Yankees, of South America. According to the last census, the population of Chili was nearly 3,000,000; and a busy people they are, at least in the towns, and do a thriving business with the rest of the world, for to the numerous ports there came in 1888 9,880 vessels, with a tonnage of 8,730,329, nearly one-half of which was owned by Chill, and displayed

the native Am, most of the remaining imßAlfl being British. In the same year **!«• ° f the imports was $60,000,- *•». of toe exports so tost Chili has a fair balance of trade in **■**«»' A* In other South American eonniKtea, however, the great bulk of *jf*y**f» Great Britain. Of the •My*,j” * s ® ,o |2 to

THE “INCAS BRIDGE,” A NATURAL FORMATION.

INLAND TRANSPORTATION IN CHILL.

A FAVORITE METHOD OF CRUSHING ORE.

| United States, a fact which explains the I anxiety of the present administration to ■ secure reciprocity with a- country .which j buys so much and has so much to sell, j Notwithstanding the character of the I country, which tries the skill of the railj road engineer at every step, Chili has a ] large number of railroads, and though most are of no great length, the aggregate is 1,748 miles. Owing to the expense of their construction, over onehalf the roads are owned by the state, 748 miles being under state control, having cost the government over $48,000,000. In spite of this enormous expense, the government railroads are doing well; in 1887 their receipts wero $0,349,321; their expenses, $4,197(42.30. Chili has also 10,640 miles of telegraph lines, nearly 314 of which belong to the government, and over these 1,500,000 messages are dispatched every year, so that, even judged by our rules of measurement, the Chilian people are not so far behind as their isolated geographical position might lead us to suppose. The rainless deserts of the north, the mountains of the center, the forests and j rocks of the south, compose most of the I territory of Chili, and even in that quar- ; ter where the climate is favorable to j agriculture, large districts are given up to grazing, and a still larger part cannot be cultivated because of the steepness

of the hills. The fertility of the small remainder may therefore be judged of fr. m the fact that every year, in spite of the most primitive means of cultivation and the habitual and persistent laziness of the rural population, Chili raises about 21.000,000 bushels of wheat und produces over 24,000,000 gallons of wine. Quite as productive are her mines of silver, of gold, of copper, and her nitrate and guano deposits. In 1888 the exports of nitre aggregated $33,090,000, of copper $15,000,000, of silver $7,000,000, of guano $1,500,000, while, besides other products, 10,000,000 tons of coal were mined and taken to market.

The Chilian gold mines, while numerous, are not very prolituble, a fact which may be explained by the primitive methods employed. After the ore has been taken out it is placed in a hollow previously made in u large stone. A round bowlder having been selected, is artificially bored, sticks are wedged in the hole at an angle to each other, so as to form a kind of clamp; through these a pole is passed, and two Chilians, astride the opposite ends, see-saw up and down, thus rocking the bowlder and crushing the ore. From so rude a process any product would seem remarkable, and the fact that the Chilian mines pay at all with such plans of work is suflicient testimony to their richness. Similarly ineffective . are the means employed in agriculture. The plowman scratches the earth two or three inches deep with a plow so rude in construction that it might have been the first ever made; the hoes resemble our mattocks; the spades are simply broadened shafts pointed with iron; the oxen are harnessed by their horns, instead of with yokes, to vehicles so exceedingly primitive that their like is unknown elsewhere. The harness of the horses is of rope or rawhide, and household appliances are such as might be expeeted among savages instead of among the natives of the first country in South America. But the Chilians themselves are either Indians or of mingled Indian and Spanish blood, and while in a certain way and to a certain extent they

are industrious, they lack the energy and enterprise essential to the highest degree of success. So far as situation is c ncerned, Chili is more fortunate than most other South American states, in that its position exempted it from the misfortunes of the early Spanish rule. During the Spanish occupation no gold mines were known, and Chili did not present a field for brilliant adventure, and although the Spanish knights made an occasional raid into the south, Chill, more than a colony, was an exercise ground for the Spanish troops against the Indians. The few settlements made in Chili were rather neglected than encouraged, and consequently the population were left to the slower but surer means of acquiring wealth than by the gold mines of Peru. Their development was not so rapid, but far more substantial. The result Is

seen in several large and well-built cities, In numerous villages, and in the immense trade which has grown up between Chili and Europe. Santiago, the capital of Chill, is one of the most beautiful cities In the world. Situated In a valley on both aides of a , small stream, and In sight erf toe Ando*. only a few miles distant, it is well laid out and provided with all mod-

era conveniences. The streets are paved, lighted by gas and watered by perpetually flowing streams from the mountains. At an altitude exceeding 1,800 feet above the sea it Is high enough for its population of 200,000 to be healthy, and so they ought to be, but unfortu-

A PLOWMAN AND HIS TEAM.

nately pulmonary diseases, perhaps on account of the humidity of the climate, are fearfully common in Chili, and a large percentage of the deaths is due to consumption and kindred ailments. Santiago has many magnificent buildings, which are neatly grouped around the Plaza, where stands the Grand Cathedral, of enormous extent and superb front. Almost opposite is the Opera House, believed to be the finest in the Americas, eith r North or South, and close around stand many noble buildings, both public and private. In the Mint are the public offices and the President’s official dwelling, and within easy reach are the halls of Congress, offices of the various departments and buildings for the city government. In the center of the city rises the lofty hill of Santa Lucia, which, well fortified, forms the chief protection of the city. Santiago is connected by railroad with Valparaiso, and more than one railroad line has been planned to strike boldly to the west, traverse one or another of ten known passes discovered in the Andes, and connect Chili with the Atlantic coast.

As Santiago is the largest city, so Valparaiso is the chief seaport, not of Chili alone, but of all the South Pacific. It is a city of 140,000 population, and more cosmopolitan than Santiago, for at least one-fourth of its people are foreigners. Situated on a magnificent bay, defended by fifteen forts which together mount over 200 guns, it does so large a business with so many different nations that a stranger from any quarter of the world, coming to Valparaiso, will find himself at home among his countrymen. It, too, has all the appointments of a modern city, including electric lights, granite paving and street cars. The culture and refinement of Chili are largely confined to these two cities. The country villages are, to the careless observer, very much alike, each consisting of a lino of one-story houses covered with tile or thatch and light in construction. One-story houses are, however, in Chili the rule, for this part of the Pacific coast is more frequently visited by earthquakes than any other quarter of the globe. It is rare for a week to pass without an earthquake, and as many a? twenty have been noted in a single day.

However accustomed the Chilian is to these tremors of the earth, they never lose their terrors. Day and night in Chili, whatever the weather, the inside doors opening into the courtyard are always open; every house has its haven of refuge in a large : open space between the buildings which inclose it, and to this courtyard, on the slightest symptom of danger, overy inhabitant runs.

Tho condition of most of the population of Chili is far from fortunate. The greater part of the land is owned by largo holders, who livo in Santiago or Valparaiso, and there spend the money received from their farms, which are managed by overseers. The mass of the people may be divided into tenant farmers and laborers, the former having small holdings, for which they render personal service in payment, while the latter, as a rule, have no home, and travel from place to place in search of work. But they do not wander on foot, for in Chili everybody rides. The poorest farmer has his horse, and the traditional beggar on horseback would be no novelty in Chili, for more than one traveler has noted the curious spectacle of being pursued by two or three mounted beggars, who were earnest in their supplications for charity, “for the love of God. ” In Chili, however, nobody starves, no matter how poor. Nature is too bountiful and the people are too hospitable. In this highly favored country hospitality is the most sacred of virtues. In traveling to and fro no inns are .to be found; the traveler on reaching a village or country town presents himself at the house of the Governor, or, if the latter be absent, at the best house in the village, walks in, as a matter of course, and equally of course is at once made welcotne; wine is set before him, ami while dinner is prepared he is questioned as to the news.

Among the better classes in city and country, after rising and imbibing the morning’s coffee, men and women separate, the latter to go to mass, the former to their clubs or business, and meet again at breakfast, which begins at noon and lasts from one to three hours. In the afternoon, rest, the inevitable siesta or drive, passes away the time; in the evening the opera, social visiting and dancing bring the gentlemen and ladies together again, until past midnight. Chilian women, however, are not intellectual. While very pretty, their beauty being of the dark Spanish type, their talk does not ri6e above the commonplace. Until recently they were kept in as close retirement as their sisters of Spain, and only lately, when with foreigners came in foreigh customs, were they allowed any considerable degree of freedom. Fifteen years ago’ such a thing as young girls appearing on the street was out of the question; now two or three girls may escort each other, though even at present the. older Chilians look on this with some degree of reprobation. But there are better days ahead; women, both young and old, are now employed in the telegraph offices, in the stores as clerks, and for a novelty, as conductors on the street cars. To the foreigner it is a strange sight to see young women on the rear platform of the street car, taking fares and attending to the multifarious duties of a conductor, but the women do It well, and any rudeness to them is at once resented by the more gallant of their passengers. ,

The lower classes of the population are almost entirely Indian, or the immediate descendants of Indians, having all the traits which characterize the aborigines of America. A copper skin, small, bright eyes, high cheek bones, and, aboye all, a reckless disregard of life, a hatred of work and a love of strong drink, are their most marked peculiarities. Not a few of them are deseendants of the most remarkable rsce

ever mu on th« face of the Western Continent.

A Krntarkabl* Crap of Suspended Aulluattou Is on Indie Court. My first acquaintance with the narrative dates from my boyhood. About the time of the occurrence I heard it related by my father; and his authority was the well-known Gen. Avitable, Runjcet Singh’s righthand man, who was present. Those facts are that a certain “joghee" (Hindoo anchorite), said to possess the possess the power of suspending at will and resuming the animation of his body, was sent for by Runjeet Singh, and. declining to obey, was brought by force into the tyrant’s presence and ordered to give, under pain of death, a practical proof of his supposed power. He submitted perforce. He was put by his disciples through certain processes, during which he became perfectly unconscious; the pulses ceased, his breath did not stain a polished mirror, and a European doctor, who was present, declared that the heart had ceased to beat. To all appearances lie was as dead as Queen Anne. In this state he was put into a carefully made box, the lid was closed and sealed with Runjeet Singh’s own signet ring. The box was buried in a vault prepared in an open plot of ground under the royal windows of Lahore, and the place was guarded day and night by Runjeet’s own guards under Gen. Avitable’s own supervision. Sun and rain came and grass sprang up, grew and withered on the surface over the grave, and the sentries went their rounds, and the joghee’s disciples and friends were all kept under careful surveillance, not to call it imprisonment. After forty days, in Runjeet Singh’s own presence, the vault was uncovered and the box extracted from it with its seals intact. It was opened and showed the joghee within precisely as he had been placed. He was taken out, dead still, to all appearances, but the body incorrupt. His disciples were now brought to manipulate the body in the manner in which he had taught them and which he had publicly explained before his burial. He revived, as he had said he would, and was soon in as perfect health as when he had suspended his life. He refused all gifts and retired to his former retreat, but shortly afterward he and his disciples disappeared. It was not safe for such a man to live in the jurisdiction of so inquisitive and

NAVIGATING THE CHILIAN WATERS.

arbitrary a ruler.—Chambers’ Journal.

Many Modes of Putting; Down the Day ol the Month. “The Listener” writes in the Boston Transcript: “January 3, 1891,” is a date which looks picturesque, distinguished and fln-de-siecle on paper. It reminds one that the world is getting particularly old. It will be very interesting to write down “1900” at the top of one’s letters, when the year comes around; it would be still more interesting to write “2000” there. Few of us will ever do it, though il science does its duty and finds a way to prolong a civilized person’s life ts a California Mission Indian’s, some o( us may hope to do it. The writing of that date above reminds the Listener that there is a great diversity of usages nowadays in the writing of a date. Looking over a number of private letters, the Listener has found them dated in all the following ways; 1. December 24, 1890. 2. December 24th, 1890. 3. 24th December, 1890. 4. 24 Dec. 1890.5. Dec. 24, 1890. 6. 24th Dec. 1890. 7. 1890, 24, December. 8. 12 | 24 | 90. 9. XII, 24, 1890.

It would be hard to say which is the most approved of these methods. It is very much according to the taste and fancy of the writer, like the spelling of the honored patronymic Weller. Perhaps the commonest method is No. 5, while the most vulgar is No. 8. It smacks of the retail store and of laziness, too. Personally, the Listener does not like an abbreviation in a date, and consequently does not like No. 5. We ought at least to have the appearance, with our friends and the general public, of having enough time at our disposal to write out the full name of the month at the top of the letter. None but a slave should be under the necessity of abbreviating it. No. 3is old-fashioned and rather English; No. 1 and No. 2 are sensible and approved methods. The letter dated “XII, 24,1890,” was written by and is to be classed as an evidence of eccentricity, rather than of haste and laziness. It has a sort of antique, Romanesque appearance, too, though, to be consist* ntly classical, it should no doubt have been written XII, XXIV, MDCCCXO.

The Secretary of the Alliance Francaise, M. Foncin, writes bitterly of the rapid progress made in Egypt by the English language at the expense of French. The pupils in the Egyptian schools are steadily transferring their studies from French to English. Also, the donkey boys, who some years ago always greeted the traveler with “bonjour,” now say “good morning.”

Bishop Turner once said that any man who thought he was near the close of his life at 60 or -75 ought to be ashamed of himself, and that those who obeyed Nature’s laws ought to live to the age of 100 years. Bishop Turner is 69, and in his prime.

DEAD FOR FORTY DAYS.

HOW TO WRITE DATES.

Civilization's Language.

Not Old Till You're a Hundred.

CURING INTEMPERANCE.

DR. BORTON’S CHEAT WORK AT WARSAW. IND. An trnbroken Record of Cures—A Remedy for the Drinking Habit tliet Is Effectual In all Stages of Disease—Plain Story of a Hearm-saat Remedy that Is Restoring Palien Men to Usefulness. Plymouth Institute Sights. He who chauges a confirmed Inebriate Into a reputable, rational, self-respect-ing member oi society is worthy to take rank among the greatest benefactors of mankind. For his good work not only restores-to usefulness a man whose time, energy and .opportunities have been worse than mis-spent, but he confers the boon of peace to many homes, the har« binger of joy to many bruised hearts. Just such a benefactor appears to be Dr. T. A. Borton of Warsaw, Ind., and in the work of redeeming fallen men he has earned a heavenly crown of glory. Of-scores of suffering persons, who have sought him out, not one has failed to find complete and permanent relief, not one has relapsed into the drinking habit, an unbroken record of cures that has nowhere been equalled. The “Borton Cure,” as it is becoming to be widely known, depends entirely for its reputation upon the unsought and willing testimony of those who have experienced the treatment. No attempt has been made to acquaint the public with its merits, and it might almost entirely have failed to attract the attention of newspaper readers but for the fact that certain clergymen, who visited the doctor at his office, felt impelled to send to the Chicago Interior and other religious papers some accounts of the astonishing things they had witnessed.

T. A. BORTON, M. D.

Dr. Borton says of the cure that Its discovery is the result of a lonir and patient study of the phenomena presented by the drinking habit, made for no other purpose than to find relief for certain noble and afflicted fellow-citizens of Plymouth, Ind., where he had practiced his profession for thirty-two years before remoying to Warsaw. Among the earliest treated was a Plymouth butcher, whose shop was in a basement under a saloon. This mas is a jolly German who drank for social reasons until the disease of alcoholism had mastered him. He has been completely and permanently cured to the astonishment and delight of his family and friends. Just around the corner from the butcher is a shoemaker, who had regularly spent his hard earnings over the bar until his family was in sore distress. He had promised reformation again and again but as often had fallen. He came to Dr. Borton many months ago and soon the old desire for liquor was supplanted by a detestation that he eloquently expresses to all who will crossj the street from the Plymouth Postoffice and enter his neat and busy workshop. A brilliant telegraph operator had lost his place through drinking and had become almost a tramp. He was cured and last week he visited Warsaw with his happy bride, proud to show to her the man who had redeemed him.

These cases had been multiplied into scores before Dr. Borton was willing to permit the use of his name in connection with the cure. He wanted first to satisfy himself that he could, with an abiding confidence, announce to fallen men that there was relief at last at hand that would be effectual in all stages of the drinking habit. His general practice was large and very rer.umerative but victims of intemperance soon presented themselves in such number that he could not fail to extend to them all the Christian sympathy and medical aid that would surely lift them out of bondage into a life of hope and joy. The story is almost told. Since the beginning of the present year he has consented to devote all of his time, all of his skill, all of his effort to this heartwork of rescuing fallen men. What will be his reward he cannot say, but if/ the abandonment of his general practice will enable him to enlarge the usefulness of his cure, if many more shall be led' from paths that take hold on death to take their places again among their fellow men, their appetite for liquor gone and full of the ambition of their youth, an ample reward will come in the blessings of redeemed men, in tho joy of families restored to happiness and in the love of children whose fathers have been, newborn into lives of affection. No man’s monument will be higher, none more enduring. The citizens cf Warsaw have known of Dr, Borton and his work for a long time, and they are in hearty sympathy with him. The best homes in the city are thrown open for the reception of his patients and every effort is made to surround them with influences of the right sort. They come to him in various conditions and if they are nervous he supplies them with pure Bourbon whisky without the least fear of prolonging their sprees, for the appetite for liquor never outlasts the second or third day of treatment. It yields and for the first time in years the drinking man finds, to his great joy, that he cares for liquor no more. After that his stay at Warsaw becomes a pleasant relaxation from business cares. He presents himself to Lr. Borton four times a day for treatment and spends the rest of his time in the charming paras, on the beaut ful streets or on the three lakes which almost touch the city. In summer he is welcomed in tho pretty cottages by the lakes, he may skim over the waters in one of the graceful steamers, bend his back in rowing or while away the lazy hours in fishing. In whatever relaxation he may engage he is sure to go to his home with pleasant memories of the pretty, hospitable lakecity, and of the Christian gentleman who presides at the Plymouth Institute, as Dr. Borton calls his sanitarium. It should be added that Warsaw is situated at the crossing of the Pittsburgh. Fort Wayne and Chicago railway, and the Cincinnati, Wabash and Michigan railroad. It is 108 miles east of Chicago, forty miles west of Fort Wayne, and 12J miles north of Indianapolis.

DOCTOR DEPEW's STORY.

How the World Moved In Peeksklll When He Wm Young. Dr. Depew told a railroad story the other evening. It was at a meeting of the railroad branch of the Young Men’s Christian Association in their building on Madison avenue. Cornelius Vanderbilt ,was present. The Doctor had been, speaking of the change produced in men’s manners and their different ways of doing business since the invention of modern transportation. “You can have no notion, you young men in the audience,” continued the Doctor, “how slow people used to be. There was an old man up in Peekskill, where I used to live, who used to be known as the ‘Village Oracle.’ Of all the places in the village where the Oracle loved to spout, the corner grocery was the dearest to him. There he would sit on a cracker barrel and solve, off hand, the knottiest political problems of the day. One day I entered the grocery and found the Oracle tearing to pieces the Constitution of New York State. It ought to be amended so that a certain power might be delegated to the Federal Government. I was fresh from my law studies, and was able to tell him that the State Constitution did convey that identical function to the Federal Government. He doubted it, and said that he would consult the learned authorities on the point when he got time. He had the books at home. “I came to New York,” continued the Doctor, “and spent a pretty busy ten years, and never happened to meet the Oracle again in the grocery, but one day I found him declaiming, as he had been declaiming ten years previously from the head of a cracker barrel, to a crowd of villagers. And he was at the same idea, that the Constitution ought to be amended. “‘But, Uncle,’l said, ‘don’t you remember I told you ten years ago that the Constitution already contained that provision?’ “ ‘ Did ye?’ said the old man. “ ‘ Yes,’ I replied, ‘and you said you would look it up in the Constitution for yourself. ’ “ ‘Mebby I did, mebby I did,’ he replied, ‘but I hain’t had time yet to hunt it up.’”—New York Sun.

A NOVEL BUTTERFLY.

A Pretty and Simple Mode of Decoration. A simple decorative novelty is a huge butterfly made from a Japanese napkin and a clothespin. Crimp up the napkin in the middle and pull it through the slit in the clothespin. Then pull out the corners of the napkin and tack them up against the wall. The tacks will be found strong enough to hold the clothespin in place. Of course it will be seen that the clothespin forms the body of the butterfly and the outspread paper napkin the wings. It is advisable to select as gay a napkin as possible, so that the bright colors may add to the brilliant butterfly effect. It has been suggested that the clothespin be painted or gilded, hut this seems scarcely worth while when combined with anything so cheap and common as a paper napkin.’ An embroidered silk handkerchief might be tried as a substitute, and fastened in place with brass-headed tacks. The paper butterfly, properly speaking, should be multiplied by the dozen and combined with myriads of Japanese fans as wall ornaments. This mode of arrangement was found quite effective at a recent Japanese bazar.

A NOVEL BUTTERFLY.

The uncolored wood of the clothespin is no more offensive to the eye than the bamboo handle of a fan.

Boodlers In Russia, Too.

The Russian railway expert, M. Ivotlubai, has just published in book form an account of the mismanagement of Russian railways, and of the abuses which naturally result. He states that, owing to the immense salaries paid to the higher officials, the remuneration received by the actual working officials is so insufficient that they would be unable to live unless they supplemented their wages by theft. Despite their low salaries, these men are worked almost day and night, only five or six hours being left them to sleep and rest. During the last Turko-Russian war engineers and firemen were forced to sleep on their locomotives at odd moments, so inadequate was their number to the demands of the service, and switchmen were compelled to be on duty twentysix, twenty-eight and thirty hours In succession. Such inhuman overtaxing of the strength of men could result only in the most defective and perilously careless service, with more accidents and greater loss of life than an? other country in the world.

The Views of a Veteran.

“An infrequent diner-out,” says Di. Depew, “is much more apt to indulge unduly in both food and drink than a veteran. When one’s social obligations compel him to appear in evening dress at his own home or some one else’s every night he finds that to have a clear head and sound stomach for the business of the next day he must practice self-denial temperance. We are all creatures of habit, and self-denial can become as much of a habit as over-indulgence. As the cares of business become more ex acting and the pace of life more rapid we pay greater attention to the laws of health. We find not only longevity but comfort in avoiding those things which impair or unduly excite our organism. Thus while our temptations increase we become more temperate. ”

Abstemious Theologians.

Out of 2,700 Congregational ministers In England and Wales, at least 1,600 are abstainers; of 361 students, 320 abstainers.

MANY FOUND DEATH.

VICTIMS OF THE HOTEL ROYAL FIRE NOT COUNTED. Some Figures Mwo 100—Lowest Estimates Are Thirty Beneath the Ruins—Bodies Being Hunted—Therh Were 130 or 140 Guests In the Hotel. . i-‘ ' Thrilling Stories of Escape,A Are began in the Hotel Boyal, in New York, at the northeast comer of Fortieth street and Sixth'avenue,’ at 4 o’clock the other morning, and caused the loss of many lives. It swept through the building like lightning. The guests had no warning of their danger until awakened by the crackling of the flames and by the suffocating smoke. They rushed to the halls and were driven back by the fire that even then was buring through the walls and doors of their rooms. They ran to the windows. There was but one stationary fire escape. Not all the rooms were furnished with the rope escapes that the law requires. Because of almost criminal slowness in sending out the alarm there were no firemen with ladders to aid the frightened people when they came to the windows. Numbers leaped out. Five were killed instantly outside the walls. Dozens were hurt. There wore 165 or 175 persons in the hotel when the fire started. Not all their names are known, because a thief stole the register when the Are first broke out. But even the register would not tell the story, for many of the transient guests at the hotel were of the kind who register under aliases. The list of dead is not complete, nor will it be for some time. The walls fell in, and the bodies of those burned are under the debris. It may be that the dead will not number more than twenty. They may number twice as many. The list of missing telegraphed numbers forty. A large proportion of these persons are probably safe, though they may never be publicly accounted for. With five corpses in the morgue, eighteen persons recorded as injured, forty as missing or inquired for, and fifty-two as known to be safe, there are fifty persons still of whom nothing has been heard of one way or another, if there were 165 persons in the house. It is probable that nearly all of these fifty escaped. The flames seemed to break out of the whole roof at once and t heir glare lighted the street like day. There were one or two frantic persons at every window in the house. They held out their hands appealingly. They it aned out and over the sills, clutching at the air. Here and there was a cool cne, probably a dozen in the lot. They knew enough to use the rope fire-escapes that were in the rooms and clambered out and slid down them. Here and there a man or woman leaped upon a window sill and stood a moment and then sprang wildly off. Two men dived head first from the third floor on the fortieth street side. One fell flat on the pavement and was picked up with every bone in his body apparently broken. The other struck sidewise on his head and that was smashed and crushed shapeless. Two women leaped from ene window on the third floor on the same side. They had stood a moment clasped in each other’s arms. They jumped still clasped together. They fell apart, one dead, one unconscious on the pavement. From the same window leaped two men. One shrieked wildly as he cut through the air. He did not move after he fell, and he was dragged away dead. His companion landed on his feet and sank down and fell over. He writhed about on the pavement just a moment. Then he leaped to his feet and dashed off across Fortieth street. He was not seen again. Probably his name or his alias is in the list of missing. The fate of those who fell could be seen by those who clung to thoir places in the windows, and made some of them hesitate to follow. Some who leaped escaped unhurt. Some of them turned and shouted to the others to hold their places and not to jump. The excited crowd in the streets shouted “Jump!” and "Hold on!” in turn.

The ladders reached only to the third floor at first. One that touched the fourth floor was put up finally, and men and women were carried down that. But there was no help for the unfortunates on the fifth floor. Little could be seen of them from the street; The smoke that came from the lower floor seemed to rise to the top and hang f there like a great cloud. Occasionally a gust of wind would clear it away for a moment, and forms could be seen hanging from the windows. The people there screamed to the firemen, but their cries were not heard. In the excitement on the other floors every one seemed to forget that there was a floor not reached by the ladders. 'Once, when the smoke cleared away, a woman was seen to dive headforemost out of a window on the top floor. Her companion, a man seized her skirts. They held a moment, and then slipped from her. She fell on the balcony. The man climbed out of the window, hung from the sill, and then dropped. A rope escape was hanging from the window under him, and he managed to seize that and checked the force of his fall. He landed on the balcony beside the woman’s body. Picking her up, he climbed on the ladder and was coming down with it. A policeman took the body from him. He leaped then himself from the ladder and dashed across the street. .He was W. L. Harmon. He was nearly suffocated, but was otherwise unhurt. This couple were the last that got out of the building. There were no more faces at th 3 windows. Indeed, it was not possible that any one could be in the building and be aliVfe. The whole house was a mass of flames. The building was a fire-trap, Chfef Bonner said. The lightning rapidity with which the flames ate up the interior, and the readiness with which the walls fell down go to prove the statement. The New York Building Bureau was stricken dumb by the disaster.

Masculinities.

A new finger ring is of seven fine gold wires. If any love is blind it is a mother’s love for her only son. Taking a gentleman’s arm, and vice * versa, is going out of vogue. The latest feminine fancy is steaming the cheeks for the complexion. Fob every foot of stature a man should weigh twenty-six pounds. The devil never falls out with "a man who is well pleased with himself. Young women /are not allowed to graduate from German universities. A dose of cod liver oil can be nicely disguised in a swallow of tomato catsup. Thebe is no particular harm in riding a hobby, if you do not take up the whole road with it. “Hebe is another idle shattered,” said the young man whose father informed him that he must go to work. In giving, a man receives more than he gives, and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given. The first court ever convened in Tennessee was held by Andrew Jackson under a sycamore tree at Elizabethtown. Wm. Jackson, of Ellsworth, Me., has lost six wives within the past fifty-five years, the last having died a few weeks since. “Thebe! that explains where my clothes line went to!" exclaimed an lowa woman, as she found her husband hanging in the stable. *