Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 8, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 January 1899 — Page 9

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PORTO RICANS KEEN NOT SO DILI. AS SOME AMERICAN DRUMMERS BELIEVED. - - Incident* of (he Commercial Invasion of the Island After Its Occupation by Our Troops. BAD IMPRESSION CREATED BY' THE CONDUCT OF SOLDIERS AND PIONEERS OF TRADE. , 4 Natives Built Too Rory Hopes, and Now They Are Shattered—An Editor’s Reply to Criticisms. Correspondence of the Associated Tress. SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, Dec. 11.—The Porto Rican business man is of keen intelligence and of quick perceptions. His relations in the past have been largely with old established and reliable European concerns and to-day he is making comparisons between the "pioneers of American commerce" who, with baggage and sample trunk, are daily landing upon the shores of bis island home, and the business men of the continent whom he has known in the past. The result of this keen scrutiny and comparison is not overwhelmingly favorable to the American pioneer—it has, in fact, brought into life the old Spanish word “buscones." "Buscar”—to hunt, to seek; "buscones”—hunters, seekers, adventurers, and some even say the term means cheats and pilferers. The Porto Rican is hard to fool. Because his island is in a far away corner of the West Indies, the location of which had only lately become known to the majority of Americans not in schools, and because he had lived quietly at home and attended to the business and pleasures of a community of some ROO.OOO people, he is none the less a pretty good judge of men and manners. The Americans who are to-day in evidence upon this island have been weighed and found wanting. Commercially we are making the same mistake here that we have already made in another Latin-American country, and that has been to underestimate the intelligence, the perception and the culture of the business men thereof. As the Porto Rican is quick to detect the roughness, the bad manners, the lack of courtesy, the deceptions and the guile of some of his recent visitors, so is he equally quick to perceive contrary qualities in others among them. On the first points lie is, perhaps, oversensitive, and may be said to fail in appreciation of the rough diamond. On the other hand there are qualities‘present in the Anglo-Saxon gentleman of breeding that are as incomprehensible to the men of this capital as is the idea of cold and snow to the ignorant laborer of this tropical island. THEIR ESTIMATES TOO HIGH. In the beginning, the Porto Rican overestimated us, and part of the awakening he is now experiencing is a natural reaction. In the beginning the word American stood for all that was best in the way of government, civilization, advancement, education, manners and commerce. Our country and its institutions were looked up to by the masses in a way that is difficult to understand to-day. Americans fresh from the States were regarded as almost superior beings. When we landed here before the war the islanders invested us with a glamour of the wonders in Washington and New York that we had but recently gazed upon. Anything and everything American was considered to be pre-eminently the best of its kind. In the beginning, our welcome was based upon these conceptions, i: was thought that the passing of Spain and the acceptance of the stars and strip-s would carry with it some magical influence fiom tlie great country up noHh, sufficient in itself to put an end to all that was unjust and wrong, and to straighten out the affairs of this unhappy Island as with a fairy’s wand. From this unreal mental attitude there has come the consequential awakening, which has been furthered and forced to the other extreme by the representatives of the United States who are now in evidence in Porto Rico.

The misbehavior of the American troops came first. It was disappointing to discover that the saviors of the country behaved with unmistakable rowdyism. This was hardly in accordance with preconceived ideas. But the misdemeanors seemed to continue, and, although we found many stanch defenders, men and women, too, who said that it was unfair to judge an army by the actions of some few of its soldiers and much more unjust to judge a people by volunteer soldiers, recruited from the lower and worst classes; that soldiers on a campaign were never known for their gentle manners; that things would soon be better, etc., talk of our undisciplined troops prevailed in the local papers and examples of thtir misdoings were printed and repeated by word of mouth. Some men reasoned that these actions were, in truth, no fair criterion of a people. Such men could perceive the self-respecting men in the army. In a way that was pathetic, because of its ill-concealed, disappointment, a wellknown local paper argued for fair judgment and the refraining from hasty and unjust general criticism. Some natives saw the matter in this light, but the majority did not. The majority judged the army and the country by the acts of the few, and the mal-reputation of our soldiers grew apace. The pendulum swung back too far in the other direction—this is a country and a language of exaggerated words—and the array got worse than it deserved. Still, there was much truth in the many assertions. AN OLD RESIDENT S COMPLAINT. A gentleman of the writer’s acquaintance, a thirty years’ resident of Ponce and a man of culture, education and much knowledge of our country and Europe, said that he had lived in Porto Rico during many troubled years and under many modes of administration; that he had always avoided politics and attended quietly to his profession of doctor, and that during all his residence here life nad not seemed impossible. But that now it did. In the past his family had always been able to attend mass, to walk on the plaza of a Sunday evening and to sit Out on their porch, which is on the second floor, without molestation of any kind from any one. But that now his daughters could not even sit at their own windows without being subjected to insult, much less go on the streets. Consequently his family were as prisoners within the walls of their own home and it was mis firm intention to remove himself and them to a country where such things did not prevail. Ponce has been particularly unfortunate in this respect. The Porto Rican is no saint, far from it, indeed; he has his full share of faults and vices, but the rowdyism of uncontrolled troops is particularly distasteful and offensive to a people who are at least gentle. fltoople here looked forward to a comroer-

cial revival and an influx of American capital to follow the army; there were rosecolored dreams as to what American business would do for the island. For these dreams we are not responsible. They were unreasonably exaggerated by the islanders themselves and it is not our fault if we have not fulfilled their expectations. The capital will doubtless come by means of loan and trust companies and the business revival is retarded by the existing tariffs. But the islander expected so much and to-day sees so little that his heart fails him and he cries: "My unhappy country, what is thy future?" He has seen a number of Americans, all anxious to exploit him for all he is worth, and this, instead of his dreams. He has been offered a varied assortment of cheap goods by loud-speaking drummers, who have come down declaring they wouyi show the "dagos" how to hustle. Because of existing tariffs and uncertainty concerning the money question, the Porto Rican has bought sparingly, and the drummer has gone home, declaring the island is no good. Beer, whisky and tobacco sellers have been the most fortunate; some orders for these goods have been placed and indefinite future contracts entered into. But the seekers abound, looking for chances. They have found it difficult to obtain advantages from the government and they have found Porto Ricans anxious to sell poop- farms for good prices. Many have gone back to the States in disgust, others are holding on, always waiting for some indefinite opportunity. This is how the Porto Rican sees us, and he is a good judge of men and manners. This is the outcome of his exaggerated hopes, and he is prone to whimper like a child. First impressions are lasting, shattered idols are slow in re-establishing themselves. The Porto Rican had no right to the idol, but he set it up and to-day it is crumbling. To the Porto Rican the result of the last three months is doubt. Doubt as to what future does really lie before this country; doubt as to what the Americans can and will do for him. There is regret that we did not land to find him fighting the Spaniard that they then might have the same claim to independence as has Cuba. Rose-colored hopes gave us a wringing welcome in the beginning, sorrowful doubt has stepped in and to-day we get the welcome of courtesy and good manners. RESENTED BY PORTO RICANS. Statement that Social Disorder Prevails in the Island is Denied. Correspondence of the Associated Press. SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, Dec. 12.—There have lately been published alarmist letters in American papers concerning the existing conditions of affairs in Porto Rico. These letters create a wrong and misleading impression and they have been ably answered in La Tribuna, of San Juan. Following is a free translation of what La Tribuna finds to say on this subject: "We had decided to pay no attention to certain occurrences to which the press in Ponce has been giving considerable prominence. Their publication could not remedy the W’rongs in question, it-would only have added to their unfortunate influence and effect. But to-day we take the matter up and with reason. If it is true that certain crimes were committed in Porto Rico during the days immediately following the American possession of our country it is also true that they sprang from old hatreds and long existing vendettas. When w T e decided to take up this work of publicity we invited our countrymen to send us all possible data and information concerning the wrongdoers who were given such prominence; we now' have this information and it is the foundation for our present attitude and statements. "We have seen the copy of a New’ York paper wherein is printed a letter concerning these asserted conditions. It would seem that a well-known and important business house of San Juan wrote a letter to Mr. Lawrence Turnure, of the City Bank, which describes the social disorder and derangement of Porto Rico. This letter discredits the Porto Ricans, attributing to them the worst characteristics of a savage and uncultured community. The letter further estimates the loss to the island resulting from incendiarism in the rural districts at s,<XX>,tlCo pesos (about $3,090,000 gold.) ‘‘We have been righteously incensed at this unfair statement, which proves to us that the same methods are to-day being employed to bring calumny and discredit upon this fair isle that w r ere formerly resorted to in order to influence the press and government of Spain for the same purpose. We, the journalists of Porto Rico, whose desiro it is to further the prosperity and claim the just deserts of this maligned land, will not silently consent to the employment of such measures. "It is true that there did exist certain men w ho, under the mask of patriotism and with the idea of revenging themselves for Spain's harsh ways in the past, have committed crimes and reprehensible deeds. But they have already ceased their wrongdoing. The local press took up the matter of their depredations at the time and we w’ere the first to call attention to the prevailing exaggeration com erning these doings. Bet ween the actual facts and the representations made in the letter addressed to Mr. Lawrence Turnure there is a vast difference. "The country has not lost 5,000,030 pesos. This statement is a calumny and untrue. We will explain. This country was oppressed and all the world knows this statement to be true. It was a systematic oppression that injured personal as well as general interests. Those who lived in the country suffered thereby as well as did those of us who resided in the cities. Porto Rico was weighed dow’n by this oppression as by a millstone. Then came armed intervention. The American army invaded Porto Rico, and there came to the surface the worst passions of the country. That this alw’ays happens in war time is well known. Some men sought the satisfaction of personal vengeance, others tried to settle old political hatreds. A violent commotion was started, which grew from its inception. There followed occurrences which were most regrettable, which we deplore and which should have been punished. But in what country of the world, given the same circumstances, w’ould the same thing not happen? The local press took the matter up, censured the offenders, advised moderation, and the w hole thing passed like a tempest of one day’s duration. To-day there is an end to it—the country side is quiet, the farmer is at work and the community is again at rest and as before. XVe are a good-hearted people, and only in moments of intense excitment is it possible for us to break from the paths of peace and kindness that we justly claim to be our natural way of life. "It Is the intention of the man who wrote that letter to Mr. Turnure to sow in the United States disconfidence, discredit and fear concerning Porto Rico. Such action is infamous and ignoble. It is an old trick that has often been played under Spanish rule, and Porto Ricans are quick to recognize it. This is the truth, and if the government at Washington would send a representative to examine into the reliability of the statements in the letter addressed to Mr. Turnure it would learn what we have here set dowi. It would learn the utter falsity of the statement that we have been damaged to the extent of 0.000.000 pesos. We have no desire unduly to conceal the w’rongs which we know have been committed; neither will we descend to lying and misleading statements. And, furthermore, the people of Porto Rico are pot responsible for these act# of disorder any more than the

people of Spain are responsible for the cruelties and atrocities committed by Spanish soldiers in Cuba in the name of law, of order and of the mother country. “We would be glad if these lines should ever be seen by Mr. Lawrence Turnure. This country is enjoying at this moment peace and tranquillity. We strongly desire American laws, because we believe they would work for our benefit, and we know' they would be observed and respected.’’ OLD HOOSIER LYNCHINGS THE WORK OF MOBS IN EARLY DAYS OF THE STATE RECALLED. Peace-Loving Citizens Sow Favor tlie Proposed Law to Discourage Further Lynching Devs, Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SEYMOUR, Jan. 7.—The proposed action on the part of the General Assembly to take up Governor Mount’s bill holding the county in which a lynching takes place liable to the next of kin in a sum ranging from $1,500 to SIO,OOO, the amount to be in accordance with the lynched party’s standing in the community, and the enormity of the crime committed by the party lynched, meets with general approval here, where mobs in time past had their headquarters. The Governor had the bill under consideration since the lynching of the Levy gang of five men, who were brutally shot to death in the Ripley county jail at Versailles, on Sept. 6, 1897, and then hanged to a tree. The Governor made every effort to have the guilty men punished. Detectives secured the names of dozens who were in the mob and one arrest was made. At the preliminary hearing before a magistrate in Ripley county the trial developed into a religious farce, the day’s proceedings being opened with prayer by the pastor of the congregation of which the accused men and magistrate were members. The trial ended with a verdict in favor of the defendants. This decision brought the Governor to his rope’s end, as the law of the State grants every person accused of crime the rignt to be tried in the county in which the offense is committed. The Governor’s bill is to give the near relatives of a lynched party the right to bring civil action for damages against the county and he may take a change of venue. By that means it would be tried in another county, and there would be a fair chance of getting a verdict for damages, a thing that would be almost impossible if the case were tried in the county where the lynching had taken place. The recent lynching of Marion Tyler at Scottsburg, which occurred on Dec. 24, will give the Governor’s bill clear sailing. Tyler was confined in the Scott county jail on the charge of having attempted to murder his wife, who had left him at Indianapolis and returned to her mother’s home at Scottsburg. Tyler went to that place Nov. 3d to beg her to return to his home with him. He went to her mother’s home that afternoon, where he met his wife, who refused to listen to his entreaties. Crazed over her refusal he shot his wife twice and attempted suicide by firing two bullets into his own body. Both had recovered from their W’ounds when the lynching occurreu. TYLER NO MURDEkER. Since the lynching, a resident of Scott county states that Mrs. Tyler, wife of the victim, prior to the 'ynching, repeatedly begged her friends not to prosecute her husband, and stated that she seized his arm to prevent his committing suicide, and that she was accidentally shot. This startling revelation lias awakened the press and pulpit, both of w'hom are denouncing the murder of Tyler in the bitterest terms. According to Mrs. Tyler’s statement her husband did not attempt to murder her. and, therefore, there could have been no grounds for the lynching unless it was for the failure at self-destruction. Southern Indiana has long been noted for its lynching bees, the most notable being the lynching of the Reno gang. This gang had its headquarters at Rockford. It carried on depredatibns in a number of States, and for several years escaped punishment by being supplied with an abundance of money with which to employ the best attorneys. Hugh M. Woodmansee, a Brow'nstown merchant, while on his way to Cincinnati with SI,BOO on his person, was robbed and murdered by the gang in a hotel in Seymour on Jan. 4, 1866, and his headless body was sewed in a coffee sack and thrown into White river, where it was found the following November. Jordan McKinney, a man who was supposed to know something about the murder, was called to his door one night ami shot dead. This deed was committed by some member of the gang who feared that the old man would “squeal.” Shortly after the murder of McKinney a number of trains were robbed, express messengers were held up and thousands of dollars were stolen. Engines, with express cars, were detached from regular trains and robbed. One night a passenger train on the Jeffersonville, Madison & Indianapolis Railway was held up. The engineer and fireman were compelled to leave the engine; the express car was detached from the train and a run of twentyfive miles was made, and the express safe, containing *sßo,ooo, was thrown out of the car and robbed of its contents. The vigilance committee of southern Indiana was sou i after organized. The sign used by the committee was a triangle with fvo parallel lines underneath it. It was not an uncommon thing to see the marks upon the walls in 1868. No one but the members of the committee knew what the sign meant, but whenever it appeared it meant trouble for someone. In June, 18GS, the vigilance committee first made know r n its existence. Volney Elliott, Charley Roseberry and Field Clifton, three members of the gang, were hanged at what has since been known as Hangman’s Crossing. They used a large beach tree, which stood near the railroad crossing, and which was used in July of the same year by the vigilants on which to hang Frank Sparks, John Moore and Henry Jerreii. The tree has since been cut down by the people, and parts of it can be found in all sections of the world. Several younger members of the gang were sentenced to the penitentiary. John Reno had gone to Missouri, where he was arrested for robbing a county treasury of S3O,<X)O, and was sentenced to twenty-one years in the penitentiary. Frank Simeon and William Reno and John Anderson escaped to Canada, but were brought back to this country by the express company, and, by request of the criminals, were taken to New' Albany, thinking that they would there escape the Jgllants. Such was not the case, for in November, 1868. the committee visited New Albany one night and hanged all four of them from the balcony surrounding the second tier of cells. After the lynching of the ten members of the gang and the placing behind prison bars of the remainder crime ceased. The friends of the criminals threatened vengeance against men whom they supposed had been members of the committee, and employed detectives and attempted to unmask them. The detectives remained around Seymour for some time, and if any knowledge was ascertained they failed to disclose it. THEY MEANT BUSINESS. The threats made by the friends of the victims brought out bills, on white paper, eight by sixteen, and printed in large, black-

faced type, which were posted all over the county. They read as follows: "Headquarters Southern Indiana Vigilance Committee. "To the People of the United States: " ‘Saius Populi Supreme Lex.’ "Whereas, It became necessary for this organization to mete out summary punishment of '.he leaders of the thieves, robbers, murderer.! and desperadoes, who, for many years, defied law r and order, and threatened the lives and property of honest citizens of this portion of Indiana, and, as the late fearful tragedy at New Albany testifies that justice is slow, but sure, we promulgate this, our pronunciamento, for the purpose of Justifying to the world, and particularly to'the people of the State of Indiana, any future action which we may take. “We deeply deplore the necessity which called our organization into existence; but the laws of the State are so defective that, as they now stand on the statute book, they all favor criminals going unwhippod of justice. A retrospective view will show' that, in this respect, we speak only the truth, having first lopped off the branches, and finally uprooted the tree of evil which was in our midst, in defiance of us and our laws, we t>eg to be allowed to rest here and be not forced again to take the law into our own hands. We are very loath to shed Mood again, and will not do so unless compelled in defense of our laws. —A Warning.— “We are all aware that at the present time a combination of the few remaining thieves, their friends and sympathizers, has been formed against us. and have threatened all kinds of vengeance against persons whom they suppose to belong to this organization. “They threaten assassination in every form, and that they will commit arson in such ways as will defy legal detection. The carrying out in whole, or in part, of each or any of these designs is the only thing that w'ill again cause us to rise in our own defense. The foUow'ing-named persons are solemnly warned that their designs and opinions are known, and that they cannot, unknown to us, make a move towards retaliation. (Here are given fifteen names.) “If the above-named individuals desire to remain in our midst, to. pursue honest callings and otherwise conduct themselves as law-abiding citizens, we will protect them always. If. however, they commence their devilish designs against us. our property or any good citizen of this district, we will rise up once more. Do not trifle with us. for if you do we will follow you to the latter end, and give you a short shift and hempen collar. As to this, our action in the past will be a guarantee for our conduct in the future. We trust this will have a good effect. We repeat, we are loath again to take life, and hope we shall never be necessitated to take the law into our own hands. BY ORDER OF THE COMMITTEE. “Dec. 21, 1868.” The posting of the proclamation caused the sympathizers to change their mode of living, and those who remained near Seymour became law-abiding citizens. Other lynchings which have taken place, in Jackson county were those of an unknown colored man, who was hanged on White creek for an offense committed against a white woman. Two men, named Brooks and Tally, were hanged in the courthouse yard at Brownstown in 1866 for the murder of an old lady named Cutter. In 1876 Aden Rodman was hanged to a trestle on the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad at Ewing. He w r as a worthless character and had threatened the lives of the best citizens of the village, which threat resulted in his being lynched. May 15, 1593, Lou Trenck was taken from the Brownstown jail and hanged for the murder of Henry Feadler, of Seymour. Early'on the same morning John Turley w'as hanged by the same mob, which went to Bedford, for the murder of Louis Price, a conductor. Those last two lynchings were supposed to have been committed by the vigilance committee. The mob captured a train and went to the two places to do the work. During all of these years southern Indiana was also noted for existence of its White Cap organization. Nearly every county had its organization and men and women were ruthlessly taken from their homes in Bartholomew, Washington, Scott and other counties and given a severe whipping for slight offenses. The people are clamoring for the passage of a law that will in some measure protect life from the hands of lynchers. Besides the law demanded by the Governor it is proposed that any sheriff in the State shall lose his office if he permit a mob to take a prisoner out of the jail over which he has control. The unanimous agitation against mob law is already having its effect on the officers. Last week Dr. Ephraim E. Gray murdered Lizzie Skinner at Bloomfield, in Greene county. The murder was committed in the morning and there was strong talk of lynching him in broad daylight, but the sheriff took his prisoner to the Reformatory at Jeffersonville, where he is not in any danger. THE STATISTICS TERROR. A .Man Who Springs Figures on Those Whom He Would Overawe. New Orleans Times Democrat. “Nothing like fake statistics for giving a fellow a reputation for scholarship dirt cheap,” chuckled an astute citizen. “Statistics are the most impressive things in the world, and the beauty about ’em is that nobody dares to contradict you. I've been working the scheme for several months, and my stock has advanced about 1,000 points a day. How do I do it? Well, to illustrate the thing, 1 was standing in a crowd on Canal street yesterday watching the big pile driver hammering down the walls for the drainage canal. “ 'Whole lot of power there,’ remarked a gentleman at my elbow as the weight came down, biff! “ ‘lmmense,’ I replied, ‘and, by the way, I was just making an interesting calculation in regard to it. Do you know, sir, that blow is exactly equal to 9,562 carpenters driving ten-penny nails into two-inch oak planks with four-pound steel hammers?’ The mar looked startled ‘You don't say so, professor?’ he replied respectfully, and presently T saw him whispering to the others, who sized me up with awe. The other day when it was raining I joined a group under an awning. ‘Bad day,’ said somebody. ‘Yes,’ 1 returned. ‘1 was amusing myself a few minutes ago in figuring up the quantity of water that has fallen in the city limits between 6 a. m. and noon.’ “At that the other fellows got Interested. ‘How much w'as it. doctor?’ asked one of ’em. ‘Poured into a row of ordinary halfpint tumblers,’ I said, impressively, ‘it would make a line once and two-fifths around the globe; it would fill a thirteeninch gun barrel reaching from here to a point about nine miles east of Copenhagen; it would quench the matutinal thirst of 9.468,941 Kentucky colonels day after Christmas; it would barely go into a tank 4,562 kilometers long and 2,411 millimeters wide.’ By Jove! You ought to have seen those fellow's’ eyes stick out! “When thev see me now they all touch their hats. I squelched a smart Alec at our boarding house by informing him at the table that the pies consumed annually In New Orleans would form a column, piled one above the other, precisely 12.622 miles high. Oh! I admit it leaves about sixteen pies over.' I said, when he ventures a question. ‘but that's only 5' 2 dekometers and too small to compute.’ That settled him. Now I'm the accepted authority of the establishment on everything from hash to hydraulics. “I’ve found it a good idea, by the way. to use the decimal system whenever possible. It mixes 'em up when you begin to talk about millimeters and hectometers and gives a fine flavor of learning to your remarks. 1 never ran across a fellow' yet who dared to question a statement in decimals. If l keep up this statistician racket until summer 1 wouldn't be surprised if they offered me a chair in one of the colleges.” Facts of Interest. Iron visiting cards are popular in Germany. The name is printed on them in silver and the sheets are so thin that forty of them only measure one-tenth of an inch in thickness. It is said that an attempt to calculate the value of th<‘ gold in Rand district of the Transvaal has shown that there remains about 600.000,CM tons of alluvial, worth say $5,€C0.000.000. Most people suppose that the use of snuff is obsolete, but the statistics presented by the commissioner of internal revenue show there is a steady and large increase in the production and sale of that article. A scientist of note has discovered that the sroeil of flowers is injurious to the voice. Ho- declare* that several operatic singers of his acquaintance owe the low of their voices to their passion for certain sweet-smolUng flowers.

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ARGENTINE CUSTOMS - MATTERS OF LIFE AXII DEATH I* TIIE LAND OF THE RIVER PLATA. A Seaside Resort Where the Camera Is Xtrt Tolerated and Its I sc Is Punished As au Offense. SINGULAR FUNERAL CUSTOMS A 111 111 \I. A GRAND AFFAIR. COSTING MORE THAN A WEDDING. —♦- The Great Retail Market* of Rueuoa Ayres and the Methods of Conducting,' Business Therein. (Copyrighted, IS9S. by Frank O. Carpenter.) MAR DEL PLATA, Dec. 2.—lt is now midwinter in the United States, it is midsummer in the Argentine Republic. Our people are going to Florida to keep warm. The fashionable Argentines are rushing to the seaside to keep cool. The most popular seaside resort of the Argentine is Mar del Plata. It is the Long Branch, the Newport, the Saratoga of the Argentine Republic. Situated 2D miles south of Buenos Ayres, on the coast of the Atlantic, it has a splendid bathing beach In which just now thousands of Argentines are taking the warn* plunge of summer. There are at least twenty thousand strangers at this resort. There are big hotels filled with the fashionabla families of the Argentines and foreigners. There are numerous seaside cottages, and there are gambling rooms where the roulette wheel goes the whole afternoon and all night long. Thousands of dollars am won and lost at every turn, for the people gamble at Mar del Plata quite as desperately as they do at Monte Carlo. The scenes on the beach are different from those of our resorts. The bathhouses do not stand back from the edge of the water as at Atlantia City or Asbury Park. The undressing is done in bathing boxes about six feet square and not over six feet high. These are on the edge of the surf. You can hire one for 50 cents a time and a suit of bathing clothes goes with every box. You enter your box, change your clothes and step right out into the water. Both sexes bathe together, und you see a mixture of dull blue bathing suits, some with skirts and some without, moving about through the water. Outside of the skirts it is hard to distinguish the sexes, for bright colors are not worn by the women in bathing, and the Argentine summer girl makes all her conquests outside the water. Cameras are not tolerated on the beach, and the man who attempts to take a snap shot will surely be arrested. PRESENTS WITH STRINGS. Many of the rich Argentines have sea** side homes at Mar del Plata. Not a few keep up three different establishments. One is a house in Buenos Ayres, another a home in the country and a third a cottage at the seaside. Such people live well. They are very hospitable, and during your stay they will place everything at your disposition. In fact, if you admire anything belonging to an Argentine,* politeness demands that it be at once offered to you. This is so in all Spanish-American countries. At Santiago I dined one day' with Mr. Edwardo McCiure, a millionaire friend of the president of Chile, and a gentleman of high education and standing. The dinner was given at his magnificent home in the suburbs of Santiago, which is surrounded by a garden considered one of the finest of South America. Tho house was a palace, and as I walked through it with its owner I could not help admiring it. Ha at once offered it to me, and that in such a cordial manner that 1 feared for a moment ho might be in earnest. When I reflected, however, that the property would bring at auction at least SIOO,OOO I felt there might be a mistake, aaid refused it with thanks. This habit sometimes causes tho giver trouble when he comes into contact with a foreigner who does not understand him. Not long ago a Spanish don was traveling down the west coast of South America upon a steamer with a charming young American girl as a fellow-passenger. The don was married, but the young lady' was beautiful, and when she admired a poodle which he was carrying with him, he at once placed it at her disposal and grandiloquently told her it was hers. He expected that she would thank him and refuse. But to his surprise she thanked him and accepted. Notv the don was carrying this poodle to his wife, who was as jealous as Spanish giro usually are. Ho had special orders to bring it home safe and sound, and as tho American girl was going to tho same town he knew that serious complications would arise if he did not recover that dog. Before he left the ship he was compelled to ask one of his friends to explain to the young lady that his offer was not intended to be taken in earnest, and that he hoped she would send back the poodle, as it belonged to his wife. There are many similar cases of the failure of such polite lies and cheap generosity. One of which I heard related to a young} navy lieutenant who has since risen to bo one of tho chief officers on a great American man-of-war. It was during ilia salad days that ho was in South America on a coasting tour and became acquainted: with an Argentine don. One day he asked the latter for a match, and was handed in reply a beautiful gold cigar lighter. The lighter must have been an expensive one, for it was set with diamonds. Our yourur lieutenant admired it. and the don, putting his hand across his heart, told him it was his and at his disposition. The lieutenant. then green to Spanish ways, as grandiloquently' accepted it, and the Argentine don was too amazed to protest. At least, ho never asked that it be returne ), and I doubt not but that the American naval officer lias it among his trophies toda>' ODD FUNERAL CUSTOMS. Among the queer customs of the Argentina ara those relating to the dead. Funerals are grand functions, and the average funeral costs more than a wedding. The undertakers advertise their wares as our merchants do their dry goods. Each undertaker gives the price of the different kinds of funerals and teils you just what you can get for your money. They laud their peculiar burial caskets and the virtues of their patent erobalming juices, and state that they can taks charge of the departure of the deceased with all fashionabla accompaniments. Funerals are first, second and third class. The firstclass kind is worth seeing. I shall never forget one which I witnessed in the business section of Buenos Ayres. It was that of a steamship manager, who was evidently a man of wealth. Tho hearse was as big as a baggage wagon, and the four black Orloff stallions Which drew it were as tine as any to be seen in St. Petersburg. The hears* was a black canopy resting on wheels, with a covered top. at the corners of which were taasels of ostrich feathers, each taseel as big around a* a half-bushel measure. She roof was upheld by four black JSith**