Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 26 September 1886 — Page 2

A STRANGE STORY.

TK&RB HAUTE HAN LONO rOSEO TO BE DKAD.

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VjS, fit* la r&and In MMicor"*11*x,Ucl°* HI* Secret, Under Promt®® Thrt V' It Will Nem B* Bir#I*d. s^-' .... •,« -Jt*m -.- r6pedil Coprwijwndenoe of the Exproafc |^-L| Kanbas Crrr, Mo., September 23

In my wandering the last few years in ibe far southwest it baa been a study to Mud learn what motives induced and

SW ow»T«d nieii that I bare met to leave ||S home, relatives and friends, and even f»rtaoe and seek an abiding place for

Mother purpose, apparently, than to •hut themselves oat from civilisation, and to forget the haunts of early childhood and their one* pleasing associations. Tbe mother who to-day fondles with the darling on her breast, and the S father who so tenderly caresses it, but l{ttle knows what destiny awaits it, and with all their calculations and every favor showered upon it, they may live 1 to e6e that cbiW-a wanderer and the as seriate of tbe most vile, with no resptct for property, law or life

Manj of your readers will remember the story that is told of General Sam Houston, of Texas fame. When a young man he was the governor of Tennessee the political leader of his state and with every prospect before him of higher advancemeat. He sought the hand of a charming young lady in marriage. Her heart was with another. Her parents and friends persuaded her that her fortune was with Houston. Sbe consented against her wishes and feelings and Hons-' ton apd she were married. One day shortly after this event a friend of BoasIon's told him that his wife had made an expression, "that, although she bad married thp governor, sbe still loved an ether." Houston qnestioned her about ft, ghe frankly admitted that she had Is said, but she added: "Governor, I am you wife. I wilHw'true to you and shall always respect, and, I hope, in time £0 love you." Houston was "a fiery and istpetuous man, and instead of waiting, and by gentle means trying to win ttfe affections of his young bride, he choife rathet to meet the usue then. He re siyned the governorship of Tennessee, agd taking his knapsack on hifl back, and hli gun on his shoulder, he bade her farewell forever, and turned his face and footsteps to the Western wilds. He sought IbmI nlr» the Cherokee Indians his as sedates tfas adopted by them, and for years lived with an Indian eqUaw.

This war between Texas and Mexico was again his opportunity. Espousing the cause of TexM-^hft-Jed TexaB fores* to battle and to victory. An old Texan who had been a soldier under Houstbft said to me last sotilmer: "Houston appeared to be impelled

I inquired about Judge ,my friend replied, "he is dead, he lies barled at the foot of the mountain and the winds that sweeps down from the Sangre de Christo sing' a requirum over "his grave. I close his eyes in death," he said. "He died broken hearted, and his last words were messages to the lovea ones he had deserved."

The person of whom I am now about to speak was once a resident of Terre Haute, and a prominent business man there. For reasons which I will give before I close this letter, his name or any allusion as to who he was must forever remain sealed with me. Many •f .the old residents there no doubt can look back tor thirty years and call to memory several persons who then resided in the Prairie City that left or digand their location has never tbeyhave been given,

appeared Been known tney nave been given, up te dead. How forcibly it reminds ud of Old Bip when he says: "Oh God, when Wt are gone hew soon we are forgotten 1" Bnt to continue my subject. In October, 1888,1 was sent to Chihuahua, Mexico, ts oonduot some business with a gentleman hy the name of Juan Remero. Mel'

1*tter

4iiero

lived about 120 mile* from the city of fffiibuahua, and that was my nearest railWad point. I left Albuqueique with let W* of introduction to two prominent Mexicans in Chihuahua, with requests! The programme at the Free Will 3' (hat they furnish me horses to make the tut church by the Rev. S. J. Dixo -r jeorney, a guide and interpreter. Ar- St. Louis, Mo.: Service at 11 a. m., s'-ib fl. Te

He greeted me in the meet

arable manner. His house was of the Mexican style, made of adobe, but a 1

1 and inviting grove suarouaded it ch was watered by an acquis, fed by a gushing spring near

.en the Crocs," adorned the walls. He had two sons and a daughter. The sons laughter. lool atC had been-sent to school at Chihuahua, bat they took to ranche life more than Jraoks. had married and settled near their lather, and were really the managers of his herds of cattle and how**. Spoor Romero's first wife then bad died, and he had again married a lady of some refinement at Zaeateoas. She was

the mother his daughter, She bad ifa£*eo»i»ty, ciyi. fHjs ffiHdr lOgjisl^L tfjp lat f'«r Pufter re

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by some unseen motive. He was

the' irarest of the brave, and courted death rather thanshnn it. He wanted to die on a battle.field." 1^11811 had some business in a mountain'to wnin Colorado. The matter retuirw Jegal advice and attention. I was recommended to engage a certain attor'there, who was known as Judge

I found the gentleman in a little

office made of rough boards, adjoining his residence. A few-did law books constituted hifl library. lhad conversed with Hb but'a few moments when I discov •red that he was a scholar and finely read in law, and irithal, a taoet accomplish#! man. I engaged him. The business! entrusted to hint Was faithfully attended to. Becoming very much interested in 1 the inan,' ilr sought some information about him. and his history JM. tn&rV an elegant home and family, and enjoyed tbe distinction of being one of tbe foremost lawyers and court orators of the Palmetto btate. My infojrmgnt suddenly cape to a pause, and looking at me for a moment, he asked, "Did you see a young woman end two children at his house?'' I said I did. "That woman rained him or he blighted his life by her." Nearly two years passed when I meta resident of that Colorado village.

tipanisb sTjijpi" aw^jiiBie^: ^r: the guitar. The evening wan advancing and Senor Romero and I retired to to smoke. After we had gotten

was from. I replied Indiana. He "What place there?"he asked.

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Sanor .Romero in Spanish, and then in-1 An adjournment was considered neces-

voice in my mother tongue as I was capable ef doing. noticed at once that he not a Mexican, but

evidently had

cJtinen of the United States, -was a gentleman, I should nearly four-score years of age, and hair white as the driven

hmrd

by. The furni-1

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t*Terrt

Haute," I said. He looked at me For f»w mumentrsntl appealed in great agi tation and then dropped his head Final'y h# spo^e. "Did you know Chauncev «, C. T. Noble.. Chauncey Warren, nn'i William Wwr^n?

I did" I t«aid. 'iAre they alive?'he inquired. I replied that Mr. Noble and William Warren were living and tbe othem were dead. Then he commenced calling a regular catalogue, naming peopie there and asking tbe same question, spoke of streets and buildings with perfetffamilisirity. Finally I ventured tosav: "Yon appear perfectly acquainted with my native city did you ever reside there?" He turned his head and looked: at the house. They had retired. It was near midnight' and all was silent save the mocking birds that were occasionally singing in thrTffiWtfndtng trees. He sirew bis chair near and in *a low rvoice he said, "did you ever know or remember I said I did and well. What became of him?" he inquired,

No one knows," I replied. "Many, ^ea sagohe mysteriously disappeared, and never was again heard from po far as :I know. It was said he committed suicid©«" "In one respect he did," he said, "but he still lives." "t am

He then went into a long explanation of th6 causes which impelled him to do as he had," and made inquiries of matters which it is not prudent fcr me to here relate. The night was advancing. Looking to the sky and stars he said Senor A I am getting eld—I shall soon be called, as I trust, to another and a better land. Sjon I shall meet those I left years ago. I shall greet them on the other shore—not-here. These,- uiy wife and children, know nothing of this. It Will make them unhappy and disturb my domestic relations if you reveal what you know. May I ask you to ever conceal aBd never reveal my name I pledged him that he couid. We rose and retired, he to reflect over his past life, and I to dream of this romance (if it can so be called) of one who was once :p, well known citizen of Terre Haute,

My butiness with Senor Remero was Cbmpletd the next day and the second morning after mv arrival there found him, my guide ana myself in our saddles and headed for the city of Chiijuahua. As we rode along we talked over the •matters that we nad discussed Mhe even ing ef my arrival there. We had ridden some five miles when he suddenly reined up his hofse, and, turning him Senor Romero faced me. "Senor A—, •he said, "I shall never see you again Remember the promise vou have made me." Grasping my hand he gave it a squeeze and impressed 6n it a -sign which I readily

recognised.

He said

"•You promise to never divulge my name 10 any living be^ng?" "I do." "Farewell," he said, "and may God bless and -protect you." Tears ran down his furrowed cheeks. I felt too heavy load to speak. We parted in silence.

A few days ego I received a letter which had been forwarded to me from .Denver, and which reads as follows:

Msxioo, August 12, 1886.

Mr Dkab Skmob A It is my painful dntvto

odnvey

yon

thefsad intelligence of

the death of my dear father, who expired on the 9th tost. Before he died he called me to his bedside, and, in a whispsr, he gave me yonr address and told me to write you .when he was gone and say to.yqp to remember tJie promise you made him when you

were

here,

pear Senor, mhy I ask if yon knew my father before you s^w him here. Is there any mystery oonnected with his lifeTltio, will you not write andteUusT I know he 4®™

WTOnBe

any

one. Re was so good, so gentle, he could nW pay us a visit, and raiew the acquaintance 7e so muc 1 enjoyed while you were here. With sadnees I close.

Yery truly, Marie Romebo. And so Juan Romero is dead, and with me will die his real name. And, again I say, the mother who to-day fondJes with the darling on her breast, and the father who so tenderly caresses it, but little know what destiny awaits it.

E. B.A.

THE CHURCHES.

Centenary.—The usual services. Presbytesian —Rev. Pierce will conduct the ser rices both mornisg and evening.

St. Stephen's.—Morning prayer and the litaay at 10:00 a. m.a Sunday school at 9 a. m,

Cheistian —Preaching both morning and evening. Morning subject: "The Work That is Given Us to Do/' Evening: "Martin Luther."

Congbegattonal Church.—^Preaching morning and evening by the pastor. Subject for the evening: "Heredity and Culture, or the Human Lessons of the late Agricultural Fair."

First Baptist Church.—!',eaching in the morning at 11 o'clock, a evening at 7:30, by the pastor, L. 1 irtley. Bible school at 9:30 a. m. You people's meeting at 6:30

at'»1 Printed my I ject "The Power of the Gospel." Ai

letters, and was most cordially reoeived, m., song service and a Jretuje to Hd all accommodations fnrnished. Early I young people. At 7:30 p. 10 preachi flw seeond morning aftermj arrival there "abject, "Dry Bones in the Vallev I found my guide and self in our saddles I and on ouj road. The incidents of that The High School

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H1«h

at evening on the third day after I morning. Short sessions were Jewing Chihuahua. My guide greeted I

m. Thf ublic

will be cordially welcomed1 at eve ,ery ice. Christian Church.—Regular s*by the pastor. Morning sermor. third sermon on "The Work 1 Given _us to do." In the evening ti. tor will give his address on "to Luther," in his ^Reforms and Rei ers" series.

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Monday and Tuesday mornings.

ng. The boiler is Cliff & Co., and

not being in the buildm being constructed by will be ready to put in the building by Monday. The inside carpenter work has been completed, and work is now being done on the outside doors. One of the stairways remains to be put in, but this will not be done until after the boilers are put in. Professor W. W. Byers stated to an Express reporter that the attendance at the opening of Bcbool was some-

over three

tpre was comfortable but not extrava- ^.^^dance of about 350. He .!»•' not* A pit&o, hup and guiUr W6ra in I sinall altezidftnc6 to tbs tne parlor, and some fine steel ensrav-

hundred. He antici-

c,rcu®8t*nc«8

A|i and a picture ever to be seen in I ?,«n that within a month •very Mexican house, "Christ Suffering

under which the school

350 name8 wlU

o®

uP«n

the regis-

Parrot Escaped.

A fine parrot escaped from the of St. Joseph aboat a month ago. The bird was let out of its cage and flew away. The sisters think that the bird has been captured by some one in the neighborhood and that it will be returned.

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Gather at Daak

-L«tiiw% ItaMir by BlritUk'aiitUm

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Special Corz*epoadaao».ci{ theWrjirSfi NXW Yqbk, Septembetf 2b —One hundred and fifty, yeaj» ag6, atfd perhapa more, the: worthy hi habitants of New York uaedi fe^ iplay bowls and other.games Oar* smell green plot of ground which lifts always been known as the jwlicy Grecs?, and which is associated with stirring events in American history. It is at the foot of the. great artery of New York, Broadway, in a region rieh in biOto. ical associations, teemnig with suggestions of quaint and half' forgotten past Trade, like a conquering GOth, has struck down as with a sp^ar far mightier than Alar c's, the old life of this ancient vlocadity the life that had ife quaint objective manifestation in powdered wiga and three-cornered hats, in. ruffled Bhirts and silver shoe buckies/in the patched, cheeks of high roughed dames and the solemn grace' of old school gallants, as well as the old donner-wiadowed mansions once the abodes ef wealth, beauty and luxury, but now either utterly swept away as by a surge of time, or else lingeHng like a worn-out old b««n te lament in dimness, desecration, and perhaps, even squalor, an epoch as different from the present day as our civilization probably is from that on another planet across the aerial pathway, millions of miles wide, which impassably separates us. And yet if some, or most of the good old dwellings of a vanished and perhaps a happier period, because less restless, le^s feveiish and hurried, have disappeared, not a few structures "have arisen which may fee termed palaces of commerce, and which would probably have filled the old in habitants ef this quarter with amazement.

Strolling down where, tie gentle Washington Irving onbe lived, where the astute Louis Philippe, the crafty Talleyrand, warlike Cornwallis and his, con: qoeror, the high-souled Virginian, who was to be honored with a title that kings and emperors|have sought in vain, the Father of his Country, strolling where those have paced in days long gone hy, we may in the comparative stillness of dusk step back into the ancient days of New York, and thus scan with keener interest the relics of another age.

When New York was first settled by the Dutch, the main thorough was Pearl street Broadway was not opened till some fifteen years later, though there is a tradition that the first house built in New Amsterdam, now New York, was on the spot now known as 39 Broadway, and oc copied by a building devoted to steam ship and other offices. After the Dutch had settled permanently in New Amsterdam, the stout, big paunched, to-bacco-puffing- old burghets bethought themselves of their enemies, the fierce English and the copper-colored savi ges, and accordingly they built a fort elose by the Bowling Green, and facing it from the south. The old fort was razed to the ground at the close of the revolutionary war to make room for a building which should be suitable for the residence of the president of the United States. ThiB structure being removed and the ground reduced to the surrounding level, the site was sold in six good-sized lots to six persons nydi'1 ow"—nfe tJny government at the same time agreeing never to erect buildings on the B»ttery,Jest the view of the bay from the six dwell ing* should be obscured. The six houses ifr Hifti.,

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THE SI* 'OfD^ESIDEl^ES WHICH "iTOW FACE THE GREEN. thus erected were the finest in the city they were btick, with browns tone trimmings they were the wonder of strangers and the pride of New York. And, in deed, they still retain not a little of their former beauty, in spite of nearly half a century of neglect and ill-usage. The last of the original owners to live in one of these stately dwellings of old New York was Stephen Whitney, onee the largest capitalist in the city, with the exception of John Jacob Astor. He died in 1860, and since then fashion has entirely de serted this locality. Commerce thrust it ,away from the bretzy water front, with

and similar trefch of Belgian-paved •rown stone 'ie quiet home

THE OLD aoyintNM«HT HOU8K». Looking at these eld buildings, the haunts of busy brokers and steamship agents, it is difficult to realise that in the fort that once stood on this site a dark tragedy was enacted one rainy morning in May, 1691, or nearly two hundred years ago. It was when Jacob Leisler, a sort of American Cromwell in embryo, was hanged with his son in-law. Melbourne, for constructive treason in refusing to give up his office as governor, which he had acquired by a popular uprising "for the Protestant religion," until his sncQsssor should prove his identity and his authoritv. His execution was a stupid, brutal 'Bnglish blunder, for which special acts of parliment, massed some years later, rehabilitating lis name and bestowing ah indemnity

And tbe^ a fare WfV aroandl'li^ had^wifii»sfd a of t&^J®iVe mi| 4mpnls|ve homSrMWy bunetl in the CburclS?

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fhe Spat SanhwlrfNtw Aintterdam liortd

New.York received the newv rDseclaration 01 177$, A mnUitade catkera} and marched there d«Daol-

T^p^,"l^^]Y

ished the .Ieadea eq^eduiaq, statue, of George Irt. It was sent to Litchfield, Cafn, and there melted }l wn into bnlJetl wUh which to. ihdft .his ihajest^s red-ooated soldiers The Bowling Green seems to be the ~spof hsutuly selected in thcaa

dayB

when any greafc derrtonstration

of tbe people ifus t{ hg wader On November Ij 176a, Jflfginstance, when the obnoxious stamjiMfnad slung the fiery colonists almoet to the-pitch of insurreo-

tion, the #figtes ofthe roy%l Governor Colden and no less a petsonage than his Satanic Majesty were burned on the BowlGreen, amid the shoutS-of a great mob.

When the old fort to-which I have referred was built the ground in front of it for a distance of 15u yards was cleared to give play to the gutib ih case of' attack from savage and othei' foes. When the village became large enough to have a market cleared jBpaoe in Bowlino Gre^n wSs appropriatro for mat obj«ftt. The population of the interior of New York then increased very slewly, as the soil was rocky and stubborn. The produce came mostly from Lang Island and the region of Commqaipaw the boats conveying this produqe to the future metropolis of the NewJWorld lande at the quaint old Whitehall stairs at (he foot of the present Whitehall street, and also at the foot of Broad street.

The Bowling Green i^as partly ipolosed about 1720, and thirty years later a pub-lic-spirited citizen, by permission of the governor, put a railing around it. It was then no longer used as a market. At the time of the Revolution the Bowling Sreen was a fashionable resort. The population of New York had increased to 30,000, and included not a few persons of wealth -and social distinc

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PBT ..-' •. vTr- •-r.ufW-t NO. 1 BROADWAY «Y. tion. Uo 1 Broadway,^ opposite the Green, was one of the finest houses in city and in many respects remained so till it was torn down to make room for Cy.rus W. Field's commercial palace. During the revolution it jwas occupied by Lord Cornwalls, Lord Howe and Sir Henry Clinton, at different titnes com' manden-in-chief of the British forces in America. After the revolution Talleyrand lived there for a tin%o. At No. 5 Broadway, close by the Green and now a vacant lot, Benedict Arnold had his residence after he had failedia his efforts to betray the revolutionary cause and while he was striking the blows of a would be parricide at tne country which had nurtured him.

Close by Arnold's residence stood the

tramps and other idlers, some reading!

newspapers or cheap novels. There is

fouptain surrounded by a terrace cf the

willows allanthuses, maples and flm^. Eoglislj sparrows keep up a constant chirping, and Jacob Sharpe's orangecolored horse oars, perhaps .the finest

the fine view of the grand bay, and now the United States, come swinging around its^alxKies are on the noisy Fifth avenue the circular green with a never-ending thcroughfares a dreary

rou and jingie.

streets

Itery and •ting the sir time stained dwellings .»t still stand on the site of the old fort 11 "gbtened. The glance takes h* eye glances the qucint old dormer I,-® Pl»eons» which alight on

ify

I windows, the curious! »id the funereal Ionic the antique doorways.

sculptured lintels pilasters set in

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on. his f»«irB, of course, could not a(one.' and loope.

LEPROSY IN

ounrt Us W3ip

LAUfilD^Y

rePrfsen'®d,

r5,

ANCIENT, BOWLING GREEN.

Seated in the park there

the lintels and copings far up on th#| Produoe exchange, and the sight seems as strange as to see sparrows in front of -the stock exchang^, which is not a thing unknown. Passing along up Broadway is

Osoab Wix.lo0ghby Bioos. doctor," in answer to a question on that r— score. "Public sentiment will only be Tiis Wonderful H.aiing Proper of I aroused to the danger when some cause of

Darby a Prophylactic Fluid. leprosy in high life attracts the attention Wherever a preventing, healing, cleans- of newspapers and causes a great bullalug and deodorizing injection or wash is I balloo. Then the doctors will wake up, required use Darbys Prophylactic Fluid. I declare they qjcpected» it all along and Any inflamed surface, external or inter-1 prod the-board of health to action." nal, treated with the Fluid will be quickly relieved. It has eflected cures I Kansas Exnoaition .vm.i

instance his Salvation Oil failed ing

Ribbon remains

.t dresses, and is used

in favor for trimmiinr

W0HK

Ha» (ttiil

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[Journal. called attention through

L"p°{the:colqmOBof

the Journal to the dangers

existing 'rom patronizing Chinese laundriea. If any further testimony is needed to oanvince the people of the risks they run in having their laundry work done up in these unwhole&ojn^Dunese dens, the following article frcm the New York Mer-: cury wiB furnish conclusive evidence on the subject. In every city ani town where these so-called Chinese laundries in operation, it behooves reputable laundrym&n to call the attention of their customers to the facts herein published, and in this way warn them of the dangers consequent on patronizing Chinese wash-houses. We call upon all laundrymen to give publicity to the article—through the daily papers where possible—for in this way alone will public sentiment be aroused against an evil that has aheady gained a foothold in this country.

Upwards of a year ago, says the Mercury, we called public attention, and that of the medical profession especially, to the dangers of leprosy arising from the influx of Chinese immigrants, and instanced several cases of that dread diseise due to the victims having fre_ quented opium joints, or to their patronage ot laundries carried on by the moon eyed Mongolian. The moment had apparently not yet arrived for a thorough investigation of the matter Under the aospicesof the board of health, as Was then suggested in these columns, for although many physicians agreed that the danger was a real one and the committee of hygiene of the County Medical society took measures to'ascertain the facts, an official'movement was instituted and the movement proved abortive.

It appears, however, that the question is not to be tabled permanently by our scientific and sanitary authorities and that the initiative, which will eventuate, no doubt, in awakening a .vivid public interest, has already been taken by the Medical Society of the State of California, by which, at the recent meetiug in Ban Francisco, a commission was appointed to inquire into the prevalence of the leprous taint among this class of im migrant population, its modes of dissem ination among native Americans and the number of cases that have occurred among the representatives of races not liable to its spontaneous development. Dr. William C. Hindmao, as the representative of the commission just specified, arrived in this citjr last week en route for Boston, proposing to spend few days of the heated term at Nahant and Newport and then to return and lay the work and purpose of the commission before the New York Academy of Medi cine afed the'County Medical society on retumption of their regular sessions, in September.

To the writer that gentleman said he had no objection to talk of what the commit fee had difcovered in the progrecs of a few months of careful investigation on the Pacific cosst for he believed that danger to public health to be a real one, and one that could scarcely be exaggerated, and as the doctors never moved until driven by the public, the sooner & public opinion was created the better it would be for our. native population. "In the com Be of our inquiries in San Fran cisco alone," said the doctor, "no Jess than seventy-one authentic and verified cases of leprosy were found to have oc curred among our native American popu lation within the last five years. Of these, forty-one seemed distictly traceable to the employment of Chinese in American families in tbe capacity of servants,while nineteen were evidently due to tlje

PATRONAGE OF CHINESE LAUNDRIES by American families, and in the remain ing eleven casts it was impossible to de termihe the mood of propagation. In Ssu F«anoisco, within the period cov ered by the co nmittee's inquiries, one of memctbiiij

OICU uiuiiiot

famous coffee house in which ^ere held I brilliant and promising the^yeungsin^^lt^f"^^^

quarters. id"0"1 of rotting alive. The judge was The house erejted qfter the close of the Ia?.

Bevolutionary war were fine substantial I

structures, and 10 one of these, at 16

Broadway, just opposite the northern end I

un™.arri,ed

of the Bowling Freen, on a spot now oc I P. ^?lcia? divulged the fact that he was a cupied by the splendid Welles building, I Pr0B/' Washington Irving lived for a number of •.

years. He had previously lived iu Bridge I

and lor

many weeks

t,®e caus®

pectc?

of bis unex

jmcide was a mystery. At length,

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^ruples of his friends, his

c'a®e8r°rf.°"r

street, a little east-of the green. constitutionally liable to leprosy, are the In the daytime the benchcs in the Bow-1 mglaB8L

ling Green park are usuaUy filled with Ithe

foreign population,

?a Dr. Hmdman, 'who seem to be

Wt°

are qnite numerous

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and the Chinese, who are

I numbered ^by the tens of thousands, and

ar?.Kenei,a''y

large leaved red.blossomed Canna, the 17"la8e ands hamlet in all section of the variegated colens palms and other plants good old-fashioned gravel paths I lead to the two gates of the park the lounger nre shaded by

intruding into every town,

country." Armecf with the authority to make 1 thorough inspection, the commission, headed by Dr Hind man, discovered case after case in the cellsrs and garrets of the Chinese quarters in San Franciscolepers in every stage of loathsomenejs and squalor, who have not had a glimpse of the open sunlight for years for, in obeditnee to some s:range instinct of secreay, the Chinese conceal their lepers from sight, and leave tbera to die in pens and closets wheu they caD no lonzer as sist in making cigars or in laundry work. "I have seen in dens underground and in squalid attics," said the doctor, "Chi nese lepers placidly rolling peBnv cigars, or

IHONIim LINEN FOR THE LAUNDRY, whose very fingers were dropping off with dry necrosis, and in one case, in the back room of a cellar laundry, I found a man

IRONING SHIRTS FOR CUSTOMERS* who had already lost the thumb and fore-1 finger of his left hand. It was horribly suggestive to see this half-dead creature

with saliva and creases the

greatly in

DANGER OF CONTAGION."

Dr. Hindman furnished many other I cases unearthed by the commission whose details were no less loathsome

a troop of German immigrants in queer Ian* di»gusting, but need not be repeated little glased caps and student-like eye here. It was his intention when be proglasses. At a certain hour of the early I jected his journey to the oast to brine I evening this region is comparatively I a well developed crfse of leprosy quiet, but later it becomes almost as noisy I with bim for the purpose of clinically as at midday. Electric lights beam over i-lustrating the advanced stages of thel the scene there is the rumbling of ele I disease. But he was dissuaded from un-1 'd "ilroad cart near at hand and the dertaking this by his coadjutors on the whistling of steamers on the river. What I committee, who argued that it might get would ol4 Petrus Stuyvesant think of I him into difficulty and would certainly these modern woiiders of steam and elec prejudice his case before the public. "I tricity could he once more revisit Bowl-1 am not very sanguine as to to the success ing Green even as a midnight ghost? of my self-imposed mission," said the

Fur will be much used for trimming I Mr. W. H. Duncan, formerly of this city, I stal'^pw'u w.'•'KSSugftfoS

both house and walking costumes, light has the following to say of southwestern soft fur taking precedence. Kansas-

". I The people of southwestern Kanmui are mak-1

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in giving immediate relief from rheuma-' tion hare next month. ThegroandshavobezBr tism or neuralgia. pnrchaaed, and the baildioga are in ceonse of I .M OWLY GENUINE cons traction. Every citizen in tbe fourteen

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o°"»prfatog tbe district is deeply fa-

for saahaii hoi fa tMested in the success of the enterprise, and P®r*

working to maku it a success. The ezsel-

1 FutasMr have made large crops of die

,tbe Japanese,who are sparsely

iity, jftifcltfMr fari&era want the citfoeoa of east ff «*. Jndgihu fronithe reports comia ilaij* thedisplay ifgoiK to assume projrions fair l||ur.d th» eructations of the projector of eitterprieftj It is true the owkutry.ls ne# iajtltik true thatit ia good. If it were not true there mnld not have been 84,000 land filing otdt in the United 8ta.«S/ office hore, since October, 1888, wMeti-figares repreeoht the wttlemect of 8,SOO eqaare m:l«e. in additlmi tn tbu, ab-wt 1,500 square mffce of railmsd Juut liaTe bwii eold, and all -he school land in tbe district bare best taken long ainr«. UacU Sam's reprcaent«tiT» here have reoaivad from »rtlera 1800,000 daring the fi oal year oloeing last Jane. Darioi last momh they handled $95,000. Of all thie bnaii ese, abcrat twotbirds was trataaoted last year, ar.d it is still incceesmg. Bmlh1 a rash is a sore indication that the w.ttUre lMt«9 fffmfripnco in Boothwestern Ka&<-a.«, whioQ i* always strengthened i»y a trial »f the soil.

Come out apd see n-, and te oocTineed that Southwestern Kmu kb is in a floorisbHg e«nditipo, and can make a showing of its products which can not beexa*IUd anywhere.

How Agricnltiiral Laborers Live in England. A laborer writes to the Pall Mall Gazette My father is an aggricultural laborer, and was earning, when I was ushered, into the world, about ten shillings per week. His house consisted of but one rcom, with one window in front and what I may call a hole in the back. There was no ceiling, and tbe roof consisted of thatch laid on unhewn timber, as black with the smoke of years as if it hatf been steeped ia the Stygian stream. The whole of the furniture consisted of two beds, one table, a corner cupboard, a "kist" to hold the oatmeal, and chairs of most primitive workmanship. Underneath the beds was generally Btored the winter's provision of potatoes, as there was nowhere else to keep them. Behind the door in a kind of porch the few black Spanish fowl which we were allowed to keep roosted at night, and laid their eggs mostly in a corner

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be done by parliament to compel the ?reat owners of the soil to build such iouses as are fit for human beings to live in—where a man can bring up his children properly, and where the common rules of decency can be observed. I trust, also, that the men themselves will do something by

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their owner had rflept a few hours before. Such was the place into which vour hum ble correspondent was brought on a frosty December morning, while yet the guns thundered around Sebastopol. I managed to live,eveninthat atmosphere which, I believe, would have stifled a London fireman, and before I was ready for the operations of the dominie three more had been added to the family, making in all ten souls, and two beds to sleep on! That is a very fair sample of what the houses of the married laborers are in the country districts of Scotland. After living a few years under the "dominie," 1. like the great majority tf my ft-llo* slaves, was marched oS to uie fair to be hired for the six montts

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the Scotch farmers

only engage their servants for six months—that is, those who live in and about the farmstead, who are mostly single men and wemen. I was not long in the maiket square before I was accosted by a respectable^-looking man, who asked if I was "to hire," to which I replied I waB, and after a few preliminaries and a visit to the "yill house" it

settled that I was engaged for the six months for £3, and, receiving my shilling"earles," I left myfuture master, feeling that I had made a good start in the race of life in which I was engaged and it was nearing St. Andrew's^ day as, with my whole stock of clothing in a bundle, I tar ted .off some, ten miles or more to the farmhouse.

rriving there,

I was met by the master and shown into the "bothy." I had not had many comforts in my father's house, but when I saw the sleeping arrangements of the bothy my heart sank within me. It was over the stable and just under the slated roof, and with no covering whatever but what the slates aflorded from the elements they were not even "pointed with lime." The bedatea I consisted of four wooden posts fastened to this wooden floor and to the beams at tbe top. Cross pieces were laid to keep tbe straw, which was the only mattress, from falling on the floor. The bed was made of apiece of coarse canvas filled with oak chaff, as lumnv buJ/iJ\AirtJui~n//:EeduUr clock ia the morning, I found what few clothes were on the bed supplemented by- a sheet of snow which had drifted in between the slates. Such was my first night in farm fer vice. As for the food, it consisted chiefly of oatmeal, morning and night at least. Dinner generally consisted of broth. Several other places where I was engaged for a time I found much the same. I

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know the wrongs they hav^ suffered, and urging the few representatives they will have in the comiog parliament to push to the front some legislative work on their behalf, and thereby help forward the great cause of social reform in which you have taken such a prominent part.

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