Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 29, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 January 1899 — Page 3

IS IT CURABLE? A Qnfitlnn Often Ankril hy Tliose Afflicted nitli Pile*. Is a strained joint curable? Is local Inflammation curable? Os course, if properly treated. So is piles. People often become afflicted with piles and ask some old "chronic” who has always persisted in the wrong treatment and naturally discourages them by telling them that their case is hopeless. They in turn discourage others, and thus a disease that can in every case be cured by careful and skillful handling is allowed to sap the energy of thousands who might free themselves of the trouble In a few days. Pyramid Pile Cure will cure the most aggravated case of hemorrhoids in an astonishingly short time. It relieves the congested parts, reduces the tumors instantly no matter how large, allays the inflammation and ■tops the aching or itching at once. Thousands who had resorted to expensive surgical operations have been cured by Pyramid Pile Cure—in a number of instances persons who had spent months in a hospital under a specialist. It is a remedy that none need fear to apply even to the most aggravated, swollen aiid inflamed hemorrhoidal tumors. If you are afflicted with this stubborn disease you can master it and master it quickly. This remedy is no longer an experiment, but a medical certainty. It is manufactured by the Pyramid Drug Cos., of Marshall, Mich. Druggists sell It at 50 cents per box. It Is becoming the most popular pile cure this country has ever known, and druggists everywhere are ordering it for their customers.

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(übanoia npNTRT Dr * Afc - BUCHAISAN I/Jurl 1101 32-33 When Building. DUKE PHILIP'S STINGINESS. Story Void About a. Member of the .Royal Family of Orleans. Chicago Record. The royal family of Orleans for generations ha3 figured among the stingiest of the stingy. Duke Philip is no exception to the hereditary rule, of which he gave signal proof once again quite recently in booking, with his Hapsburgian spouse. Archduchess Marie Dorothea, from Brussels for Vienna. The charge for a first-class railway carriage on the Belgian lines is estimated at the pries of twenty first-class tickets, while on the German lines the charge is estimated afc twelve tickets, a fact of w'hich his royal highness was well aware. On starting at Brussels the Duke remonstrated, declaring that he would only pay at the rate charged on German Itnes, which sum he thereupon handed to the clerk at the booking office. The station master followed the Duke and his Archduchess out on the platform and requested him, in the most courteous terms, to settle the matter at once in accordance with the regulations. “No," said Philip, “I will not. It’s a lesson to you not to overcharge the public. I am fully determined not to pay 1 centime more than I am charged in Germany. Dory, see, this is our carriage.” and then, turning to the exasperated station master, he added: “Bon soir. monsieur.” Monsieur, fearful of the consequences of disputing the question further with blood royal, turned sullenly on his heel and hastened to acquaint his chief. Van Mierlo, the director general of railways. Van Mierlo was up to the mark. Blood royal, and foreign blood royal at that, that wouldn’t pay its w'ay was worthy of no more consideration that blood plebeian, and he for one was not going to be intimidated l>y the idiosyncrasies of his pretendership. Thereupon Van Mierlo wired to the station masters at Luettich and Herbesthal, the frontier stations, to stand no nonsense, but to insist on his royal highness making up the difference before the German “personnel” took charge of the train. On reaching Luettich and Herbesthal the Prince showed himself as obstinate as ever, and the platform altercation ended in his coming off triumphant. But his triumph was short lived, for he fell into the hands of a Teuton, law-abiding and law-enforcing. “Your royal highness." said he. “will pay In full the Belgian regulation fare or I unhook your carriage. Time’s up, royal highness: which is it to be—pay or unhook?” The mans imperturbability of countenance w’as not to be mistaken. Philip, with a volley of oaths, loosened his pursestrings, made up the difference and steamed out of Herbesthal a bitterer if not a better man. Brlghtwood Citizens Protest. Patrons of the Brightwofid street-car line will meet Tuesday evening at Biscbcff’a Hall, Rural street and Belt Railroad, Brightwood, for the purpose of discussing means for the amelioration of the evils they are subjected to, it is claimed, through inferior car service. Cars on the Brightwood line run once In every eighteen minutes and citizens of that suburb say this is not sufficient in view of the Increasing traffic. Yon Betray Yourself. Boston Transcript. Beware how you tell your dreams. The very latest decision of persons way up In psychology lz that the true spiritual condition of the mind is revealed by the dreams rather than by waking experiences. No Time to Lose. Life. Publisher—Can you turn out another book in three weeks? Author—Why so soon? Publisher—lt will nwver do to let the public forget you.

NORTON BREWERY FIRE FINE MACHINERY RUINED AND A LOSS OF *.10,000 CAUSED. Strike of Roys In Itnll Brother*' Glass Factory Spreading—Kokomo Car Line Sold for *O,OOO. * Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSON, Ind., Jan. 28.—The Norton brewery of this city was destroyed by fire at an early hour this morning. It was a four-story frame structure and burned like a tinder pile. The fire was discovered by Night Watchman Hall about 3a. m. The Nortons built a fine brick addition to the structure last summer and this was saved. All the valuable machinery was located in the frame structure and is damaged beyond repair. The loss is estimated at $50,000. The insurance carried is as follows: Greenwich of New York, $1,000; Farmers’ Fire, $1,000; North German, $1,500; Merchants’, $1,000; Commercial, $1,000; Pacific, $1,000; New Hampshire, $1,000; Northwestern National, $1,000; Continental, $2,000; Rockford, $500; Agricultural, $1,500; Merchants’, $1,000; Fire Association, $1,5u0; Williamsburg City, $1.0o>; Scottish Union National, $1,500; GermanAmerican, $1,000; Hartford, $1,125; National Builders’ and Mechanics’, $1,125; Liverpool, London and Globe, $1,125; Phoenix, $1,325; Franklin of Evansville, $1,000; German of Buffalo, SI,OOO. Norton’s brewery was built in 1554 and is one of the oldest, in the State. He states that it will be rebuilt in the spring larger and more complete than ever. The Panhandle limited express was delayed over an hour by the fire on account of the intense heat. The trainmen would not take their train through the liames, which were carried across the track of the Panhandle. ♦ INDIANA OBITUARY. Cnpt. R. W. Matthews, of Gen. Lew Wallace’s Regiment. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LEBANON. Ind., Jan. 2S.—Captain R. W. Matthews, a cousin of the late ex-Governor Claude Matthews, Is dead. Mr. Matthews sustained a paralytic stroke in 1885 while on a trip to Owingsvilie, Ky., and had never recovered from this shock. He was born in Clark county, Indiana, Nov. 13, 1840, and came here with his parents at the age of ten. His second wife and four children survive. His aged mother still resides at Thorntow’n. Mr. Matthew s served as auditor of Boone county one term of four years, and also as trustee of Center township for two terms. He served in the civil war in the Eleventh Regiment of Zouaves. General Lew Wallace's famous regiment. He was promoted from corporal to sergeant, then to first lieutenant and then to captain. At the battle of Champion Hill he was wounded in four places. He had the reputation of being one of the best soldiers l.idiana sent to the front.

Other Deaths In the State. RICHMOND, Ind., Jan. 28.—Mrs. Sarah Lacey, aged sixty-eight, died last night at her home north of this city. Death was due to a paralytic stroke. A husband, Thomas M. Lacey, and three sons and one daughter survive. The sons are R. M. Lacey and James ’M. Lacey, of Richmond, and William L. Lacey, of Muneie, and the daughter is Mrs. Emma J. Backhoefer, of Fountain City. KOKOMO, Ind., Jan. 28.—Lytle Bowen, a pioneer and former resident of Cincinnati, died here to-day, aged ninety. Six children survive—Mrs. S. D. Knipe, of this city; Mrs. Martha Burg and Miss Loretta Bowen, of Anderson; Mrs. C. Austin, of Klwood; Mrs. Elizabeth Elliott, of Carthage, Mo., and Thomas Bowen, of Eaton, O. DUNKIRK. Ind., Jan. 28.-J. F. Fitzpatrick, member of the grocery firm of Fitzpatrick Bros., of this city, died suddenly this morning from a severe attack of grip. He was thirty-live years old and one of Dunkirk’s most prominent business men. NEW ALBANY, Ind., Jan. 28.—Cyrus Routh, an old steamboatman, dropped dead to-night at his home in this city. He was sixty-five years old and had followed the river for many years. BROOKLYN, Ind., Jan. 28.-James R. Hardin, aged eighty-seven, died at the home of C. M. Lindley here to-day. He had been a resident of this place many years. COLUMBUS, Ind., Jan. 28.—Simon Lambert, aged forty-five, of Nortonsburg, died last night. Mr. Lambert was a well-to-do farmer. The “Wild Man” Identified. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. KOKOMO, Ind., Jan. 28.—Sheriff Harness received a letter to-day from the commander of the Soldiers’ Home at St. James, Mo., describing an inmate of the home who had escaped last July. Hearing of the wild man captured In this county last week, and believing the latter to be the missing soldier, he wrote here for further particulars. His description fits the curious looking object in jail here and there is little doubt that he is the long missing veteran. The man is as wooly as a goat and when discovered in a rural church was walking on hand and knees almost endrely nude, the frightened worshipers thinking him some wild animal. His name is Charles Jacobson. His mind Is entirely gone, though physically he is a giant. He fought like a demon on being captured and six strong men were required to tie him and bring him to jail. He is nearly ninety years old. The sheriff is w r ell pleased over the prospect of getting rid of him. Celebrating; Farrar'# Victory. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. GREENCASTLE, Ind., Jan. 28.—The news of Mr. Farrar’s victory last night reached Greencastle by midnight, and the celebration was well on by the time the students arrived, about 1 o’clock, on their special train. The oratorical victory was a source of much gratification to De Pauw, coming just at this time. Though the honor has reached this university many times heretofore, coining as it did during the discussion of the state and nonstate educational question in the present Legislature, the friends of the nonstate side, and particularly of De Pauw, are highly pleased to show the superiority of their w ork. The usual holiday was given the students, and they made the town ring with their victory this morning. This afternoon a delegation visited the train on which Mr. Farrar arrived and he was escorted to Meharry Hall, where exercises as usual following a De Pauw oratorical victory were held. The Strike Growing. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ■ui NCIE, Ind.. Jan. 28.—The carry-in boys on the day turn at Ball Brothers’ fruit jar factory No. 1 joined the night force this morning by refusing to work unless given the $1 a week increase In wages, and the entire factory was off to-day, and the night force failed to return to work this evening, when a settlement was looked for. The firm states that It cannot pay the increase, and the boys are standing "pat,” knowing that It will be utterly impossible to fill their places unless men are employed at wages in excess of those demanded by them. No trouble of any kind has occurred, and none is anticipated, as the factory is Inclosed with a high fence, on top of which are two strands of barbed wire, and guards watch the gates at all hours to prevent people from entering the factory and getting a view of the patent blowing machines. Newkirk Find* Runaway "Wife. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LEBANON, Ind., Jan. 28.—Thorntown, this county, is greatly stirred up over a social sensation which has just come to light. J. E. NewJtirk, of Foster, Mo., after four years’ search over the country for his recreant spouse, arrived in Thorntown and found his wife living as the lawful spouse of Peter Wetzel, a Big Four section hand. Both Mr. and Mrs. Wetzel were highly regarded by Thorntown people, and the revelation as to their true relations has raised a storm of comment. The little son. who has passed for several years as the child of Mr. and Mrs. Wetzel, is claimed by Mr. Newkirk as his own. Mr. Newkirk alleges that he has been traveling all through the South and as far as California in the West in an endeavor to locate the woman and Wetzel. Jury' Ha* the Hun ton Csnc, Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RUSHVILLE, Ind., Jan. 28.—The case against Jacob W. Hanson, charged with shooting Michael ltyun with murderous in-

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tent, on trial here for three days, went to the jury this afternoon at 4 o'clock. At 11 o’clock to-night the jury w*as still out, with no prospect of agreement. Hanson is postmaster at Sexton, and shot Ryan on the night of Nov. 19. Ryan was drinking and engaged in some hot talk with Hanson. The men met soon afterward and Ryan. Hanson claims, assaulted him with a knife. The prosecution claimed Ryan had no knife and that the shooting by Hanson was unprovoked. It was also charged that the cuts on Hanson's arm were self-inflicted, for the purpose of arousing sympathy. Prosecutor Davis and McKee & Barrett appeared for the state and Hon. James E. Watson, John F. Joyce and Smith, Cambern & Smith for the defense. After Fifteen Years' Illness. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FORTVILLE, Ind., Jan. 28.—After an Illness of fifteen years Ralston Kellum died, aged sixty. For the past eight years Kellum had scarcely been out of his yard, and spent nearly his entire time in bed. His disease had so baffled the physicians that an autopsy was held and showed that every organ in his booty was affected, the lungs, spleen and kidneys being n early entirely gone, while one side of his heart was badly shrunken. Physicians claim this to be a vc ry strange case, as the diseased condition of any one of the organs was sufficient to have caused death. James Kelly, aged eighty, died of grip and was buried to-day. He was one of the early settlers in this section. Father Grogan's Requests. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WABASH, Ind., Jan 28.—The will of the late Father Grogan, for many years priest of the Cotholie congregation at Lagro, this county, has been admitted to probate. While his property interests w-ere not extensive, he left a large part to the church and church benevolences. The principal bequests are: SIOO to St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, Lafayette, Ind.; S3OO to St. Peter’s Church, Laporte, Inch; S4OO to St. Mary's Church, Lafayette, Ind.; S6OO to St. Anne’s Church, Lafayette; S4OO to the Roman Catholic Benevolent Association, Fort Wayne diocese; S4OO to St. Vincent’s Orphan Asylum, Fort Wayne diocese; his large library to the University of Notre Dame. Trolley Line to Merom, Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SULLIVAN, Ind., Jan. 28.—The Eastern capitalists who are behind the contemplated Terre Haute & Merom Electric Railway have completed arrangements for financing of the scheme, and a meeting will be held about the middle of February to complete the arrangements for the construction of the line. The road will first be built to Merom station, on the Indiana & Illinois Southern, ten miles west of this city. The bluffs at Merom, which are known only throughout this section of Indiana and Illinois on account of the lack of railroad facilities, will be made into a park and summer resort. The Ice Harvest a Frost. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WABASH, Ind., Jan. 28.—Ice dealers throughout northern Indiana are alarmed over the prospect for the harvest this winter. From Warsaw south no ice has been packed and the houses generally are empty. At Warsaw but one or two packers have filled their houses, the others having deferred cutting in the hope of getting more than eight-inch ice. The Wabash Railroad Company, which let the contract for over 600 cars to a Huntington man, has had but little of the order lihed, the weatner Having moderated soon after the contract was awarded. Aged Couple Said to Be Insane. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIE, Ind., Jan. 28.—Sheriff Starr today served a summons on Alexander and Martha Ferguson, summoning them to appear in Circuit Court Feb. 6 to answer to the charge of insanity. They are husband and wife residing near the Madison county lino near Gihnan, and he produces proof showing that his age is 102, while tin wife is ninety-one. The complaint is made by a daughter, Mrs. Martha Swanney, of Anderson. Mr. Ferguson and his wife eem as sound as any person. Mrs. Rice Asks Divorce. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. NEW ALBANY, Ind., Jan. 28.—Mrs. Mary E. Rice, of Evansville, who has made her home in this city for the past six months, has filed suit for divorce from Herschel Rice. She alleges cruel treatment and failure to provide, and asks for the custody of their three children. Mrs. Rice is a daughter of William Akin, mayor of Evansville. The couple were married in 1890.

Mr*. Dickey Wants nn Accounting, Special to the Indianapolis Journal. COLUMBUS, Ind., Jan. 28.—'Mrs. Nannie Dickey has filed proceedings in the Bartholomew Circuit Court to test the validity of certain allowances made to John W. Donaker, now deputy reporter of the Supreme Court, who was formerly her guardian. The case Is another outgrowth of the now famous Burnett will case. Mrs. Dickey being one of the Burnett heirs. Clothing Firm Amign*. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LEBANON, Ind., Jan. 28.—The clothing firm of Smith & Dodson made a voluntary assignment this morning for the benefit of creditors, with E. P. Hedge assignee. A. J. Smith, the senior member of the firm, places the liabilities at The assets, it is believed, will ba more than sufficient to pay the indebtedness. Singer Will Contest tlie Will. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MADISON, Ind., Jan. 28.—George Singer, of Indianapolis, to-day filed notice in Judge Bear’s court of his intention to contest the will of his sister, Mrs. Sallie Hall, who died last week in Vevay, bequeathing all her property, valued at 1100,000, to her sister, Mrs. J. K. Pieasants, of Vevay, and the latter’s children. Denies Smallpox Story. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIE, Ind.. Jan. 28.—Albert Martin, a corporal in the One-hundred-and-sixty-first Indiana Volunteers at Havana, writes home denying that Walter Leach, of this city, and other members of the company have smallpox. He says there are no cases in the regiment, reports to the contrary notwithstanding. John Norris* Fall* Dead. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LIBERTY, Ind., Jan. 28.—John Norris, a retired farmer of this place, who formerly lived near College Corner, dropped dead this morning at his residence. His three sons are engaged in business here as brickmakers and builders. A wife and daughter also survive. Street-Car Line Sold for Jftff.OOO. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. KOKOMO, Ind,, Jan. 28.—The Kokomo street railway was sold at receiver’s sale today for $9,000. the purchaser being W. P. fctevens, of Detroit. The company will be reorganized at once and the line will be extended and improved, making it practically anew system. Earllinm Proud of Her Orator. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RICHMOND, Ind., Jan. 28.—This evening at Earlham College was given a reception for G. C. Levering, representative of the college in the oratorical contest at Indianapolis last night. It was given by the students and society jointly and was made a public affair. To Move I. U. Biological Station. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WARSAW. Ind., Jan. 28.—1 tis officially announced that the biological station of the State University will be removed from Wawasee lake to Winona Park in time to open there in the spring. Indiana Mote*. Rev. E. Maedill, of Xenia, 0., has accepted the pastorate of the United Presbyterian Church at t’adlson. Judge Bear, at Madison, yesterday, consented to appoint a receiver to take charge of one thousand acres of land belonging to the Higham heirs pending the settlement of a disputed will case involving $40,000. Farmers and breeders of fine hogs in Union county are looking forward to the sale on Wednesday, at Liberty, of fifty head of brood Duroc sows by s. E. Morton & Cos., well-known swine breeders of that section. Fine watch repairing by experts at Marcy’s.

THE MEXICAN SENORITA SOME THINGS SHE MAY AND M.4Y’ NOT DO TO AMUSE HERSELF. Her Life Cons! < Chiefly in Talking and Gazing at Her “Novto”—Her ru Traits and Personal Beauty. ♦ Guadalajara Letter in New York Tribune. This is only a woman’s view of it, but there has been so much of masculine rapture over the soft-eyed Mexican senorita and l er fascinations and her beauty that anything In the way of facts and novelty ought to be welcome. Once there was a man who was honest. He spent a fortnight in the City of Mexico, and admitted, fearfully and in hushed tones, as of one who burns that which he has adored; then, more openly, and at length boldly,with pride in his courageous veracity, that in all that time the one pretty girl he had seen turned out to be an American. This was too sweeping. Even among the senoritas there are rather pretty girls. Among the women of the peon class, the women whose heads and shoulders are wrapped in the graceful rebozo, there is beauty. But a senorita will not understand you if you say so. However, the girl of the City of Mexico is not the typical one of the country, though the prevalent idea in the United States, of course, is that all beyond that town is waste land and mud villages. Away off to one side of the republic, up five thousand feet among the western mountains, there is a city called Guadalajara. It is a beautiful city and o.d, and it boasts an orderly, w’eli-governtd population of two hundred and fifty thousand souls. Except in that it is exceedingly clean, this, by the Mexicans, is counted the typical city of Mexico. For the capital is so Americanized that the very street venders talk English. But in Guadalajara there Is little to attract the capitalist and the syndicate, and it is out of the route of ordinary travel. The senorita is uncontaminated by the bold freedom of the Gringa, and she harbors no disturbing aspirations for greater liberty in her placid bi'east. When she is little she is carried in the arms of a blackshawled nurse, gc jd-natured and not over clean. She wears wonderful caps of lace and colored silks, and a false slip, long anti flowing, of the same, over her simpler baby clothes. When she is a little older she is lated into long, stiff stays and sent to the convent, and at night she w r alks in the plaza and begins to think about a novio. The novio is thenceforth tne one aim and interest of her lite. She first knows that he is likely to become such, because he has stared her out of countenance whenever she has come upon him in the streets, and has turned squarely about on the sidewalk and gazed after her, which is good manners and a mark of proper appreciation of her charms. Then he is always to be found in tiie plaza when she is there.

ON THE PLAZA. And the plaza itself, since it is a national institution, and the stage whereupon are enacted many of the most thrilling scenes of her life’s romance, merits a word. It is a garden surrounded by a wide walk. Several times a week the band plays there at night and the damsels who would look their tolerant horror and surprise when tdld that in the States a girl may in the daytime walk in the public streets with a man, come in the darkness, two or more, unattended, from remote parts of the town. They join the line of women who w r alk from west to east, and watch the line of men who walk from east to west. Latterly the spirit of the age is creeping In, and a man, upon rare occasions, joins two girls and walks for a time with them. But it is not usual. For the most part the two streams do not mingle. The black one of the men pours steadily along, the multi-colored one of the girls does the same,, and* no word of greeting is exchanged, though a man may bow—he has the option—and a woman may return the salute. There are rows of chairs around the Plaza upon both sides of the promenade. They are full in the glare of the arc lights, under the trees, and in one of these the senorita, when she wearies of walking, seats herself. Then the novio takes a chair opposite and proceeds to stare. If she likes him she also stares. If not she talks to the girl who is with if two Mexican girls were together for twenty-four hours they would talk every moment of the time—and observes her friends filing past with the walk accounted graceful, which is a hitching motion that would seem to jar the very brain. All are round-shouldered and push out their chins; they themselves admit the defect with the calm satisfaction in it of the provincial. They scorn the suggestion that a course of carrying loads and water jars upon their heads might give them the majestic port of the women of the lower class. There is a great deal of unostentatious wealth in Guadalajara, and the girls who drive through the narrow white streets in carriages that would do credit to Central Park send to Paris and the “city” for their gowns and hats—gowns and hats of which the belle of Pumpkinville would be proud. Among the curiosities of Paris, the place from which they import those hats, is not to be seen. The system of flercq lacing, whose aim is the prevention of thd all but inevitable superfluous weight which Is the bugbear of the senorita, has produced no supple waists nor slender grace. The bodice of the senorita Is hopelessly square. And there are two girls In the city who have had the first idea that their magnificent hair should not be burned and kinked like wool, and twisted In the back into tight lumps. One of these mourns because her novio—who has seen and lived in the world—will not permit the cutting and crinkling of her gold-brown locks, and the other is not yet out of school. The senorita when she walks must not lift her dress, and therefore, pale satin or silk or chiffon though it may be, It sweeps clean the plaza. Nor must she cross her knees or her feet as she sits In public, which may perhaps be why her shoe resembles In shape nothing so much as a serviceable black flatiron. THE DAY’S AMUSEMENTS BEGIN. After the Plaza, and at 9 o’clock, begin for the Mexican girl the amusements of her day. If there is an opera she goes with her family—the women folk in evening dress, and their men in anything they choose, and as often as not wearing their hats—and sits in a box. Her novio gets the most advantageous seat on the ground floor, and while the curtain is up looks at her. She, of course, looks at him. both w'ith a steady, unwavering stare, and those who do not happen to be similarly engaged derive therefrom considerable amusement. When the curtain falls she walks in the foyer and he 'cins her. If he and her family are very advanced in their views, he goes into the box for a moment, and the eyes of the world are upon them. But at a ball the novla and her novio may dance every dance together—the senorita. by the way, is in no way the equal of the Sf nor or of the American girl in the terpsichorean art—or they may sit them all out together, in rapt oblivion of all but each other’s reives. From which it may be seen that making one’s self conspicuous is differ* nt;y view' in different lands. But it is when, as is for the most part the case, there neither opera nor ball that the national pastime of “playing the bear” holds fullest sway. The novio plays the bear when he stands upon the narrow sidewalk of the silent night streets, interrupted only by the passing of late groups with their jeers, and of the shrowded gendarmes with their lanterns, and of the mounted inspector with his whistle, and talks to ins novia in her balcony many feet above. He is uncovered the w hile, for he is in the presence of a lady, and his neck is bent back at an appalling angle. One who knows explained it thus to me: “I go under the balcon of my novia” (his novia. by the way. has no chin and queer eyes, but he does not know it) “I go under the balcon of my novia, and I say to hair, ‘I lose you.’ She say to me. ‘E-eh?’ I say, T lose you,’ and she say, ’E-e-eh?’ I say anozer time, T lose you wlz all my ’eart.’ and she say, ‘E-e-eh?’ Ale! I weel has—how you call it—spinal menengetis (he is a doctor) from my neck.” If a man is not engaged to a senorita—if he is only her pretendlente, and not her novio, that is—he may call upon her occasionally in the presence of her family. This is the rule. But a couple of excellent families have infringed upon it, and the novios of their daughters may also call. One of the local beauties said the other day, with all the frankness that goes with such themes here, that she had renewed her broken engagement. She had been for seven years in the States, so she was asked if she was not allowed to receive her novio. No, she answered, she was not. Seven years had Instilled no such liberality In her father. “And so,” she said, “as I am ashamed to talk to Natcho w'hen papa is around. I must waft until he goes to bed. It Is sometimes very late.” She showed the little tele-

phone like a child’s “twinegram," that she dropped from her balcony to her lover in the street below. TREATMENT OF LOVE AFFAIRS. Nothing can equal the frankness of the treatment of love affairs by the Mexican girl. Her chief topic of conversation—and, as has been said, in four-and-twenty hours, nay, four-and-twenty times twenty-four hours, it is not worn out—is of what her novio said to her and she to him. If he is faithless she pines openly. The mother of two really charming daughters said to me not long ago, when the opinion w r as expressed that her Catalina was by far the prettiest giri in town, though the native taste exalts a blond of regular, meaningless features as such, “Yes, she has a pretty face, but it is the face of one who suffers.’’ It was true. Suffering showed in her great, heavy-lidded eyes, and in her pathetic littie smile, and in the droop of her head. For her novio is faithless. They have been engaged since she was seventeen —five years. In those five years she has been miserable most of the time. “I know," she says, in her dear little voice, "that Jorge does not love me very much. And I know, too, that he talks badly about me (which, if the American gentleman can believe it of a light of Mexican society, is quite true), and I know that he is unkind to me. But," she turns out the palms of her little hands, "I cannot help loving him. It is stronger than I.” And so it is that she spends days and nights in tears and fasting and prayers and makes herself and all who are around her wretched. A few nights ago there were gay doings at a certain public garden because of the feast of the Mexican Virgin of Guadaloupe. Catalina came, but only to say that she could not come. She was all in black, and was going home to sit alone in the dark; for upon that night six years before Jorge's father had died. And Jorge? He was in the cantinas—the barrooms that take the place of a club for the gentlemen—amusing himself as was his gay wont. And Catalina’s sister Virginia did not come, because her novio w r as confined to his house with a cold, and she therefore went to bed. And thus it is that the senorita loves. But in most cases she exacts all that she gives. “You are not to dance with that girl,’’ says the novia, and her novio obeys, be it ever so good a friend. If he does not, she gives him calabasas, which is the name of a kind of squash, and in this use means the mitten. It is well'for her to exercise the power before the day arrives when she accepts her trousseau from him and dons the wedding gown he has sent, and becomes his wife. For, once married, she settles down to care for her very many children, to bemoan the indifference of her lord, and to wearing the black shawl, which covers a multitude of uncombed hairs and buttonless buttonholes. Such are the pleasures and pains of the senorita. As for her occupations, they are few. She rarely reads, and when she does it is only the frothiest of novels and love poems. Her novio does not like women who read. Sometimes she plays on the piano fairly well. She can do church embroidery and cross-stitch things for her novio. She can keep her servants in order, and she goes regularly to mass. But for the greater part she sits in groups and talks, and talks, and talks. And her most ardent admirer cannot say of her that she is dainty or even tidy as to her lingerie or her appearance about the house. A study of the life of the Mexican senorita in various lights brings the unalterable conclusion that one would rather work hard for one’s bread in the States than dream away one’s life in the perfumed beauty, sweet with the song of birds of the typical Mexican patio.

CANON AINGER OX BURNS. Why the Poet Hon Not Been Read More Outside His Own Country. Canon Ainger, the eminent London divine and critic, recently delivered an adress on Burns, in which he came out as a wholehearted champion of the poet. The following report appeared in the Times: "Canon Ainger said his real motive in commenting upon one of the greatest Scottish poets and humorists was of a ‘missionary’ order. He desired to encourage others in making or improving their acquaintance with Burns, whose name they all recognized as one of the greatest in poetry, although he believed that after 100 years he was still little more than a name to hundreds even of those who read and enjoyed other poetry of the highest kind. Robert Burns, he ventured to think, never had been widely read and known in England, save in half a dozen of his poems and a score or so of quotations from the rest. One prime reason, no doubt, was that he wrote his best in a dialect, not in itself difficult because of its grammar or Idiom, but certainly comprising a large vocabulary strange and repellent to the ordinary reader. The ordinary reader, if he might say so without offense, was always intolerant of taking trouble. Then, again, when the dialect difficulty was surmounted, there was a certain admixture of free speech, both on religious topics and other recreations in Burns's humorous poems that easily repelled those particular in such matters. Many persons never liked apparently to distinguish between satire on religious bigotry and hypocrisy and ridicule of religion itself, so that there would always be deterrents and ‘stones of offense’ in abundance for those whose digestion in matters of literary food was somewhat weak. All the most memorable and enduring work of Burns was written in the peasant speech of his native Ayrshire, but he occasionally wrote in the English tongue, or rather in the poetic diction of the eighteenth century. He certainly understood the resources, capabilities and opportunities of his own vernacular far better than he knew those of our southern English speech. "The English lover of poetry, however, ■when urged by Burns enthusiasts to enter upon the study of the poet, was naturally under the strong temptation to tackle him on his easiest side, and to begin with his English poems, or at least with those in which there was some admixture of literary English. In such a case it was certain that the reader encountered a Burns writing under disadvantages and therefore a Burns not at his best. He could not go so far as certain cities who would tell them that English vas to Burns a foreign tongue; that seemed to him a serious overstatement of the case. Burns had read and thoroughly mastered a fair number of English poets, but his English style was formed upon a poetic school already In its decadence. Os the really great English models, of the great Elizabethans and their immediate successors Burns had not drunk deeply, though he certainly knew and quoted Shakspeare. He did rot quite know the difference between bad and good models of English verse, and accordingly when he wrote songs in pure English he seldom rose above the commonplace. But the best of his songs were transcendent, unique almost, in literature. When he introduced English into his narrative and didactic poems he often did so with real effect, and when he contrived, as sometimes he did, to forget the bad models altogether he often wrote both simply and eloquently. Moreover, Burns was neither indiscriminate nor inartistic in his use of English. “Asa general rule, he perceived that as long as he was dealing with scenes and incidents purely Scottish he must retain the speech of the people as part of the local color; when he digressed into reflections or topics abstract and general in their character, he perhaps as naturally had recourse to the language of the larger British world. This bilingual gift of Burns came specially before them in the memorable first volume that he published in 17St>, commonly known as the Kilmarnock edition. It was the reception give to this volume that made him sure of his ground. Xhe book, it was true, was almost without any examples of the song in which Burns was to attain his greatest height as a poet, but it was an astonishing revelation of anew poetic force. He certainly had no wish, Canon Ainger continued, to fall in with the tendency of rr.ost Burns critics of the day and devote his efforts to weighing the good and evil in the poet's character. It had come of late to be a practice, where there was little or no difference of opinion among the critics as to a man’s poems, to open an entirely new inquest into his moral character. “One result of the unquestionable incongruity of Burns’s moral didactic with much of his practice was that it had led his critics to lay stress upon such incongruity to the extent of doubting whether the fine and noble ethical teaching of many of his poems was actually genuine, not only in regard to his relations to women, but in his relation to religion. But there was a dual personality in Burns, as in every one of us—a Dr. Jekyil and a Mr. Hyde—and they alternated in Burns, often with startling contrasts. It was, however, in his judgment, a shallow criticism to speak as if the bad half of Burns was really the true Burns, and as if the other was a concession to the tastes and prejudices of his more respectable neighbors. The startling differences presented lay in the objects on which he alternately looked and pondered. Burns had known what religion in the family had meant by the example of his own father, a devout Scottish peasant; the other type of religion he had come to know through watening it in certain of the elders of the kirk in the Presbytery of Ayr. “He was certain that the ‘Cotter's Saturday Night’ expressed Burns’s heartfelt estimate of the worth and dignity of true religion, as ‘Holy Willie’s Prayer’’ expressed his detestation of the Brummagem Pharisee. Certain influential critics of the day had not scrupled to bring the charge of sentimentality against Burns; but sentimentality was, like bad veneer, a thing that did not last, and Burns’s true sentiment was as pure and sweet to-day as it was one hundred years ago. Unquestionably there was a sentimental side In Bums due to the particular moment of the history of literature when his genius first bore fruit, for anew affection for nature, and notably a sympathy with animals and flowers, had sprung up in men’s hearts. Burns stood, as regarded the old and the new world of poetry, both in

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Scotland and in England, at the parting of the ways. He was at once the climax of the old and harbinger of the new. He brought to perfection what many of his Scottish predecessors and models had practiced with much charm and ability. “In the vernacular Scottish song, in the satire, in the familiar epistle, in dramatic narrative, he rose to a height from which no successor could depose him. He was the greatest of Scottish poets, though not the last, for one other, also of consummate genius, but of gifts widely different. Sir Walter Scott, was to follow. As touching the poetry of England, the influence of Burns was perhaps incalculable. More than any one else, more than Cowper or Wordsworth, did he serve to break up the frost that seemed to be settling upon the lyric flow in England at the end of the last century. “The renaissance of poetry early in this century owed much to him, and those who owed to poetry no small part of their higher education would not grudge him their thoughtful gratitude. At the same time it could not be concealed that the taste of this generation showed few signs of returning to the plain, direct objective simplicity of such as Burns. The poets of to-day that obtained a hearing seemed for the most part afraid of the simple and elementary topics, thoughts, feelings and passions of their kind. They wandered away too often over the head of the ordinary reader rather than by his side. They dealt in riddles and paradox, in the far-off and the far-fetched, they went in for the cultivated rather than for the spontaneous, for mist rather than for clearness.”

GOOD SOU, FOR CORN. Inqnlry Intc Agricultural Resources of tlie Philippines. Washington Letter in Chicago Post. The administration purposes finding out as nearly as may be precisely what will be done toward making the Philippines of agricultural value to the world. Naturally this work falls to the lot of Secretary of Agriculture Wilson. Speaking to-day of what the administration intends doing he said: “We expect to learn more about the resources of the Philippines in three months than the Spaniards did in 300 years. Fortunately for our purposes we have in the volunteer army now at Manila a force of men fully competent to do this work. In fact, it would be a comparatively easy matter to discover among our volunteers enough ‘ologists’ to run an entire government with all the scientific attachments of a modern institution. Some months ago my attention was called to the fact that A. P. Hayne, professor of viticulture and olive culture in the University of California, and of the agricultural experiment station of that State, was attached to the volunteer force in the Philippines and second lieutenant of Battery A, of the California Heavy Artillery. Knowing Mr. Hayne to be a man of scientific attainments, I requested the secretary of war to detail him to make u thorough examination of the agricultural resources of the Philippine islands. Mr. Hayne has organized a force of forty or fifty men to aid him in his researches. Among these gentlemen. who are all in the volunteer army, are eight or ten graduates of agricultural colleges. They are not confined to California in point of residence, but come from various sections of the Northwest. As I understand from private advices received from Manila, Mr. Haynes force embraces experts in entomology, forestry, biology and several other branches of scientific agriculture. “Up to the present time,” continued Secretary Wilson, “Mr. Hayne and his force have not had an opportunity to investigate the resources even of the Island of Luzon. This is due in part at least to the fact that it takes a tong time for communications to travel between Washington and Manila. Owing to the great expense of cable communication between these two points we are obliged to depend on the mails, and it requires about two months to send a letter from here and receive an answer, and vice versa. Now that peace is formally declared, after the ratifications of the treaty have been exchanged between Spain and the United States the work under Mr. Hayne will be pushed forwrrd vigorously. Knowing the character of men under him I feel safe in the prediction I make that we will learn more about the islands in three months than the Spanish did in the centuries they held sway and sovereignty over them.” “Have you received anything in the way of a report from Mr. Hayne up to the present time?” the secretary was asked. "Officially nothing has come from him.” replied the secretary, "except a requisition for some necessary supplies with which to conduct the work. These I have ordered sent and have done everything in the power of the department to facilitate his work of investigation. One of the gentlemen in the department, however, has received a letter from Mr. Hayne in which he says he secured a variety of vegetable seeds from the commissary supplies and planted them in the grounds of a small agricultural experiment station established by the Spaniards near Manila. Os course, at the date the letter was written it was impossible to say W'hat would be the outcome of this first experiment in a tropical island conducted under the auspices of this department, for It was then sett! time, notharve t. I feel :u e, from the teports we have received of conditions of soil and atmosphere in the islands, that many of the vegetables and some of the grains common to the United States can be produced In the Philippines though doubtless the southernmost and northernmost islands will differ considerably from each other in this matter. I do not think that wheat, rye, oats or barley can be raised there with a profit, but I think maize or

Indian corn can lie profitably cultivated throughout the group. “It is not so much, however, to learn which of our vegetable and grain products can be successfully transplanted to the Philippines,” continued the secretary, “as it is to ascertain what vegetable growths there are suitable for introduction here, and what products indigenous to the soil of the islands can be made profitable crops in the United States. Then, too, it is desirable to“ know something of the fauna as well a& -es the insect life of these possessions. At present our knowledge of the geography, geology, forestry, biology and many other jaiints on which we ought to be well informed is meager in the extreme. In fact, it is confined to such reports as have been made from time to time by travelers who have visited the group. Spain does not seem to have ever made comprehensive, much less scientific, investigations of the resources and possibilities of her colonies. However. I do not expect Mr. Hayne to bo able to do much until after peace is formally proclaimed, save such limited work and investigation as he may be able to carry on in the immediate vicinity of Manila.” “Has Mr. Hayne been regularly appointed an official of the Agricultural Department?” the secretary was asked. “Mr. Hayne,” was the reply, “Is still an officer Ip the volunteer army, and he will continue in that capacity; but he will be designated an honorary special agent of the Department of Agriculture. This will give him standing in the department, which will enable us to honor his requisition for such implements and appliances as he may need in his work. He will not. however, drawl pay from this department.” “Do you intend to conduct similar eiqpPlfl ments in Porto Rico and Cuba?” the secretary was asked. “Yes,” was the reply, “I shall begin such an investigation in Cuba at once. The members of this party, like that in the Philippines, will be drawn from the volunteer army. Why, in almost any American volunteer regiment there can he found enough scientific men to carry on work of this kind and do it thoroughly. 1 am confident the result of these investigations will be highly satisfactory in every respect. Time alone can tell what the ultimate results flowing from these investigations will be. Conditions in the tropics differ so widely from those in this country, which lies wholly in the temperate zone, and the habits of the people are so dissimilar from ours that we cannot say in advance what the final outcome of these investigations will be or to what temporary or permanent results they will lead.” What Vonne Wanted. Washington Post. Years ago, when John Russell Young came to Washington as private secretary to Colonel Forney, who was secretary of the Scna'e, the latter asked him to pick out any place he wanted on the Senate side of the Capitol. “Any place I want**” asked Young. “Yes,” replied Forney. "But the only place I want Is a place which you cannot give me,” said Young. “And what is that?” asked Forney. “I w r ant to be a senator of the United States,” said Mr. Young. And as he oould not be given this, he would not take susything at all. Mr. Depew’i* Latest Job. Philadelphia Record. Caller—ls Mr. Depew in his office? Office Boy—Yes, sir; but he’s busy; Mr. Choate has submitted to him his stock of after-dinner Jokes, and Mr. Depew is checking off all those that have already been used on the English.

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