Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 28, Number 38, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 September 1879 — Page 2

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, T7EDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 17, 1879.

"IN THE STEERAGE.'

An Experience on a Ounardar "Whit Bights a Passenger Saw, and What Fains He Suffered. Kitchen Refuse mnd Empty Bottles in the Boom Where He Lived Tea That Was Not Tea No Drinking Water to be Had Trying; S3 Potatoes in Tain to Find a Good One Correspondence of the New York Tribune. London, August 15. Three remarkable letters have appeared this week in the - Fall xr-n iri :- ience "In the Steerage ofaCunard Steamer." It is a bold thing to publish such an account. It is always a bold thing to attack a superstition in this country, and the readers of the Pall Hall are among tho class rapidly dwindling, but still numerous who regard the Cunard Line as one of the supports of the British Constitution. A few such narratives as that now published would do much to dispel the illusion. In discussing a quite different topic, the same journal remarked yesterday that there is much which is confused, obscure and antiquated in this constitution. The hallucination about the Cunard Line belong in this category. The ships sailing under that name have merits, but most of them belong to a past generation. Moreover, the readers of the Fall Mall do not make a part of the social stratum which supplies recruits for the steerage ot the Uunard, or any other line, But I apprehend that the attraction of the saloon will hardly be enhanced by a knowledge of the horrors from which it is separ ated only oy a Dui&neaa. uAiivif, u uvw few akivu m nuiu lui UD state of things now revealed. The account is not at all a piece of hearsay testimony. compiled from the stories of various suffer ers, it is a record of personal experience. The author himself endured what he describes. He showed a rare degree of deter mination in committing himself to the en terprise. Lest his resolution should fail him he pat all his money beyond his control except enough to pay his passage and two dol lars over. Me lrankly confesses that the preeaution'wasnot unnecossary-thatif he had had the means to do so, he would have followed the examples of two fellow-passengers, who, at the first sight and smell of the den to which they were consigned, went to the purser and paid the difference for cabin passages. It is for the benefit of the poorer traveling public that he was forced to be a hero is spite of himself. Slow as reforms come in this country and sluggish as the Cunard management is about improvema nts it can hardly be that some good should not be done by such a publication. I can indicate only in the briefest way the nature of this account. It would be better if you could find room to copy the three articles in full; but as they fill six columns, I will set down the heads of the narrative, with an extract or two. The steerage was a wooden cell some 36 feet in lengtfi, 12 feet wide at one end, narrowing to five feet at the other, instead of a ceiling, a hatchway openiag upon the main deck; two dirty ladders, placed almost perpendicularly, forming a staircase. This agreeable refuge was in the hold of the ship, below the main deck; no light or air reaching it, apparently, save from above or below. On either side were the berths. The floor was covered with sawdust. "Ornamentally disposed in the form of a cross, beginning at the furtherand narrower end of the cell, were even medium sized beer barrels, standing on end. Four of these contained empty beer bottles, two broken odds and ends, and the remaining one was filled with decomposing remnants of what had once been food." In the center of the floor was an open wooden grating, the entry to the steward's store-room. This "ventilated"' direct into the steerage; salt and cured fish being one item of its contents. "This dirty, boarded space, not nearly so large as an ordinary room, was the "saloon,' dining-room, and living room for steerage passengers, and was certified to contain 150 persons. The stench combined with the heat was simply intolerable." Nor does this exhaust the list of its attractions. Close to the liathwuv nhotrA tVironnrl, wliiM, t Vi i c(oam vn was entered, stood three barrels, each half filled with kitchen refuse. These stood directly under the rays of the sun, the temperature being 99 in the shade. There they remains! dlirinrr the wliole vovasre. receiving ' .! T . .a..vufcu I. IV 11 VUV, 13 Hl 1 l J daily additions from the kitchen and scullery. J Anrl "rmpnincr nrinn this hatchwntr without i -j 0 I . - - any partition whatever, were the sailors quarters, redolent o Oil and tar, soiled smocks and unelean guernseys- Three lavatories directly faced the passage." The materials of a pleasant atmosphere surely. The sleeping accomodations on each side of the passage above described, consisted of two-storied cupboards containing each 16 shelves each shelf or tray being 6 feet long by 18 inches wide, and divided from each other by partitions 10 inches high. The berths were the bare boards which formed the shelves; and further convenience of any kind or description there was none whatever. They ventilated directly into the "saloon" aforementioned. Into each of these cupboards were packed 16 human beings, as far as they would go. There were not passengers enough to half fill the cupboards, but the steward insisted on crowding tho full complement into each cupboard, and then locked up the remainder empty. In theory, the married are separated from the unmarried, and the single women from both. In fact, the one married couple were placed in an end berth, and the single women were simply berthed together in one cupboard. "For the rest well, the weather was hot, and the door always open; the partition ran only to within a foot of the top; and if the steamship company thought it unnecessary to provide separate sleeping accommodation for women passengers, it was not for the men to protest. To have don with this part of the subject. 1 quote the account of the ceremony of geting up in this separate part of the steerage: " While the others were engaged upon their meal, I had the opportunity of seeing the ladies rise from their sleeping trays. The door of the berth was open, and I was seated opposite. Our steward (a man), with the easy familiarity of a person accustomed to such scenes, was inside the single women's compartment, helping one to a cup of coffee in bed, joking with another, and amiably threatening a third a young and exceedingly pretty girl to rouse her unless sue speedily got np. My compagnons de voyage seemed to think this nothing unusual. They hardly noticed it among themselves, and a few days accustomed me to these and similiar sights. The spectacle was primitive and indicative of simple confidence, but methought hardly to be expected on board a trans-Atlantic line. So much for the steerage quarters. They are not luxurious, but with civility from the stewards and good food, might be endurable. Neither civility nor good food, however, was included in the Cunard contract. "B." as the writer signs himself seems to be a quiet sort of person, used to the sea, a good sailor, and not easily npset by weather or (what is

worse) foul air, and only anxious to make the best of the lot which he had so adventuriously chosen. But even to him the hardships proved all but intoler

able, for tea tne nrst night the steerage passengers were supplied with a large tin pan containing 40 or SO hunks of dry bread and a plate with two pounds or so of a most ill-looking compound representing butter. "Procuring a piece of the bread, I set about to eat, in imitation of the people about me. In vain, though. The bread was only half baked burned on the outside and dough within. The tea tasted strongly of smoke. I had scarcely taken one gulp ere good sailor as I am I hastily put down the cup, rushed upon deck, and there sat down on a coil of rope." For breakfast, the same half-burned bread, the same rank butter, and what was called an Irish stew; 'sloppy stuff, without seasoning in it, and with little meat in it that was not singularly greasy;" coffee served in watering-pots, of origin and components unknown, but hot. For dinner, the tin pan was filled with small watery potatoes, a fish-kettle of soup, and in another tin, reeking with grease and covered with soot and dirt, were about 70 slices of boiled beef, tough, trashy, and stringy." One of these pieces B. attempted to eat, and, like most of his fellow-passengers, had to give in. Bread was not allowed, and the potatoes, aftertrying 22, he also gave up in disgust and despair. "Such were our meals, with unvarying and monotonous regularity; bread that would have been good had it been sufficiently baked; coffee and tea that would have been tolerable had they been properly made, meat that would have been eatable and nourishing had it been decently cooked; butter that would have remained sweet had it been kept cool. Every meal was served in the disgust ing fashion narrated. It sounds incredible enough, but we are told that not only was the tea and coffee undrinkable, but no drinking water was to be had. Such steerage passengers as had the bad taste to wish for water, were referred to the tap on the main deck the tap which supplied the water used for washing plates and dishes warm and nauseous. Asking for water that could be drunk, B. was told by the steward, with an oath, that if that at the tap was not good enough for him, he could go without. "During the whole of the voyage not one of the steerage passengers on board was allowed a drop of drinking water." .The inhumanity, adds our author, of withholding a supply of water on board a steamer during a sea voyage in summer calls for something more than protest. It surely does. But there was a reason. The steerage passengers soon found it out. They complained of the deprivation in forcible terms. "But the stewards in our den didn't mind, for they well knew that thirsty people must drink, and bottled beer was to be had for a price." For the animated accounts of the treatment of the passengers by the stewards I must refer you to the letters. Oaths in plenty, orders in plenty, arbitrary exactions in plenty. To the steward mind, a steerage passenger seems to be no better than a pauper or a convict, and he is treated by the stewards as a pauper or convict ought to be treated. Nor was there any redress. During the whole of the voyage not a single responsible officer belonging to the ship entered the steerage. "The stewards were absolute, they could do as the please, and they did." The one mistake B. makes is when he steps outside of his personal experience to generalize. The Cunard company, he says, confessedly accommodate their third-class travelers better than any other trans-Atlantic line. This "confessedly" shows how much hold the superstition I spoke of has even on the mind of a man who has gone through such an experience as B's. His remark is anything but true. I believe it to be untrue as to several lines. I can testify of my own knowledge that it is untrue of the White Star ships. I visited the steerage of the Bntannica the last time I crossed. No more complete contrast could be offered to the Cunard steerage here described. The steerage of the Britannica was clean, comfortable, light, roomy, and admirably ventilated. The steerage passengers, when I asked, told me they were well fed, and in all ways well cared for. I know they are visited at least once a day by one of the superior officers. I dare say the same is true on other lines the Cunard excepted. G. "W. S. One of John ruueulx's stories. Out in a certain Western fort some time aS1 the major conceived that artillery must b-5 used effectively in fighting the Indians by dispensing with gun-carriages and listening the cannon upon the backs of mules. So he explained hia views to the commandant, and it was determined to try the experiment. A howitzer was selected and strapped upon an ambulance mule, with the muzzle pointing toward the tail. When they had secured the gun and loaded it with ball-cartridge, they led the calm and steadfast mule out on tho bluff and set up a target in the middle of the river to practice at. The rear of the mule was turned toward the target, and he was backed gently up to the edge of the bluff. The officers stood round in a semi-circle, while the major went up and inserted a time fuse in the vent of the howitzer. When the fuse was ready the major lit it and retired. In a minute or two the hitherto unruffled mule heard the fizzing back on his neck and it made him uneasy. He reached his head around to ascertain what was going on, and as he did so his body turned and the howitzer began to sweep around the horizon. The mule at last became excited, and his curiosity became more and more intense. In a secor two he was standing with his four legs in a bunch, making six revolutions per minute, and the howitzer threatning sudden death to. every man within half a mile. The commandant was observed to climb up suddenly a tree; officers were seen sliding over the bluff into the river, as if they didn't care at all about the high price of uniforms; the adjutant made good time toward the fort; a ergeatn began to throw up breastworks with his bayonet; the major rolled over and groaned. In a minute or two there was a puff of smoke, and a dull thud, and the mule oh! where was hel A solitary brute might have been seen turning successful back-somersaults over the bluff, only to rest at anchor finally with his howitzer at the bottom of the river, while the ball went off toward the fort, hit the chimney in the major's quarters, rattling the adobe brick down into the parlor, and frightening the major's wife intoconvulsions. They do not allude to it now, and no report of the result of the experiment was ever sent to the war department. Getting Hot Indeed. ' LonisTiHe Courier-Journal. A soldier yesterday told a Courier-Journal ist that at the battle of JBull Hun be met a fellow-soldier who was very much excited. ' "What's up?" "It's getting hot up here." , , "How do you know?" "Because a sutler's just been killed." A master of English style wrote thus: When you doubt between words, use the plainest, the commonest, the most idiomatic. Eschew fine words ar you would rough, love simple ones as you would native roses on your cheek. liar. . , v

GENEROSITY AMONG CONVICTS.

A Few Incidents Showing the Character of Some Criminals Not so Bad as Currently Believed. London Tlmea.1 We have all heard of honor among thieves; but the present writer has witnessed an exhibition of generosity on the part of a convict which acted on his moral nature as a refreshing tonic The assizes are going on at the town where I write, and to-day, having nothing better to do, I sauntered into court to hear the learned summing-up of counsel and observe the routine of court business generally. The charge that was being tried was one of insubordination at the Spike Island convict prison against two convicts, called respectively James Kirk and Daniel Bartley. They were charged with wounding a warder by the name ot John Condon. The prisoners pleaded not guilty and conducted their own case. And very well they did it for the most part, though a few questions were asked by them, when cross-examining, which made their cause appear worse rather than better. Several convicts had been brought up on the previous evening from the prison to give evidense. It was certainly a rather unusual sight to see over a dozen men dressed in ngly frieze-jackets, on the arms of which were marked their prison number, length of sentence, and other mysterious signs to see these one after another ascending the stand as witnesses to be examined, not by barristers, but by two of their brother convicts standing in the dock. There they sat, looking round the court with eager, cunning eyes, as though they could never see enough in the short time during which they were allowed to leave their prison. What a chance it was for men sentenced to five, seven and eight years' penal servitude to lay up food for thought that would relieve the torture of dn-k cells and the silent system! The witnesses one could easily see were genuine specimens of the criminal class. People become very expert phrenologists when looking at the "dangerous classes." It is easy to read in tho faces of those who wear a prison garb and have their .hair cropped, all sorts of deadly sin. "What a murderous eye!" we think. "There surely goes a cunning forger." "How terribly developed is the lump of destruction in the case of Ps. 15,9621" Another reflection was forcibly suggested by this rather unique trial. It was this that Englishmen ought indeed to be proud of the majesty of their equal laws, which give even to convicted men not merely justice, but the greatest amount of consid eration. These two convicts were being prosecuted for an assault committed when they were in prison; but had they been sons of the queen herself, dressed in broadcloth instead of in prison frieze, they could not have had a more patient trial. The judge in a courteous manner gave them all the assistance he could, and they were allowed to examine and cross-examine as many warders and fellow-prisoners as they chose. The prisoner, Bartley, then addressed the jury with considerable ability, complaining of having been ill-treated, and appealing for justice. Kirk also addressed the jury, but confined himself to the evidence. The jury, without leaving the box, found Kirk guilty of common assault and Bartley guilty of assault, occasioning actual bodily harm. His lordship then sentenced Kirk to be impris oned for six calendar months and kept at hard labor, to commence at the expiration f his present sentence, and Bartley, who appeared to have been far the worse of the two, to be imprisoned for 18 calendar months. And now the circumstance occurred, to describe which is the object of this paper. No sooner had the judge pronounced his sentence than the voice of the prisoner, Kirk, was heard making a most generous proposal in reference to his companion in crime. Kirk Give me the same, my lord. The judge No; I will not. ' Kirk I have been the cause of bringing him into it; only for me, he would not have done anything at all. Give him the six months, and I will take the 18. Judge That I can not do; but as you desire it, I will take, for you, six months off Bartley's sentence, and only give him 12. There was considerable applause in court at this settlement of affairs between his lordship on the bench and one of the prisoners at the bar. And no wonder, tor it is seldom that a judge is called upon to refuse to a prisoner a longer term of punishment than justice demand', at the self-sacrificing suggestion of the prisoner himself. It would indeed have been difficult to refuse our mite of admiration to poor Kirk as we heard him saying in an impulsive manner: "I have been the cause of bringing him into it; only for me, he would not have done anything at all. Give him the six months, and I will take the 18" "There is," according to Shakspere, "some soul of goodness in things evil, u i : i J : . ; l nnA wuum lucii uvaorviugijr UISIU I uu( mm here, I thought, as I heard Kirk plead for his friend against himself, is a manifest example of the principle. Prisoner Kirk was in the eyes of ordinary people a villain of the blackest hue, and yet he proved himself capable of an act or generosity concerning which most of us unconvicted persons in court would have thought twice before doing. Pharisaic self-righteousness can with difficulty believe anything good of those who have had the misfortune of being caught and imprisoned. On the other hand, a per son who is guilty of even hateful vices need never despair of being considered "respecta ble, if only he be cunning enough to escape detection, or rich enough to purchase immunity. ' The incident, that has been related as it was lately heard by the present writer, proves that a convict is not of necessity wholly bad. It illustrates the fact, that in the case of even the worst and most dangernns characters there are latent SDarks of goodness which only require the breath of sympatny ana connaence to iau inw a gor- i erous glow. . I'll no say men tire villiana a'; Tb ml, hardened wicked. Whs hae oae check but human law, Are to a few roariclod. - Those who have allowed themselves to be influenced by the spirit of him who wascalled the "Sinner's Friend" these "nfagnets for discovering virtue" find such a large mixture of goodness in things evil that they can not be cynical. And in cases where the dark cloud of sin and crime seems to have no silver lining, "what's done," they say, "we partly may compute, but know not what's resisted. I An old and beautiful Eastern apologue occurred to my mind as I left the court where I had learned to believe more in imprisoned human nature. "Jesus," says the story, "arrived one evening at the gates of a certain city; and He sent His disciples forward to prepare supper, while He himself, intent on doing good, walked through the streets into the market place. And He saw at the corner of the market some people gathered together looking at some object on the ground, and He drew near to see what it might be. It was a dead dog with a halter round his neck, by which he appeared to have been dragged through thedirt, and a viler, a more abject, a more unclean thing never met the eyes of man. And those who stood by looked on with abhorrence. , "Faugh!" said one, stopping his nose; "it pollutes the air." "How long," said another. -snail hi is iuui irawn "6"-; Lookathistori'bide,"saidathird;"onecouldj not even cut : a shoe out of it." "And his ' shall this foul oeasi onena our signal

ears," said a fourth, "all draggled and bleeding." "No doubt," said a fifth, "he has been hanged for thieving." .-'- "And Jesus heard them, and looking down compassionately on the dead creature, Ha said: "Pearls are not equal to the whiteness of his teeth." - - "Then the peoplo turned to him with amazement and said among themselves: "Who is this? This must be Jesus of Nazareth; for only he could find something to pity and approve even in a dead dog." And being ashamed, they bowed their heads before him, and went each on his way. ' Prisoner Kirk had undoubtedly been "dragfed through the dirt" during his life of crime; ut I could not help repeating to myself, as he stood pleading for his friend Bartley, and asking to be allowed to bear his punishment: "Underneath a prison jacket a heart has throbbed at least one generous impulse, compared to which pearls are valueless."

SAN FRANCISCO TO NEW YORK. The Distance Walked by a Call foro Ian in 05 Days. New Tork Herald. Dennis Collins, who left San Francisco, CaL, on the 1st of June last to walk to New York on a bet of $3,600, and whose progress has been noted from time to time by the press of the cities through which he has passed, was found at Harry Hill's last evening, having arrived in New York shortly after 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Collins who is apparently about 50 years of age, has a stout, sturdy figure, and looked the picture of health. In reply to the Herald reporter's inquiries Collins said: "I left San Francisco on Sunday morning, the 1st of June, at 10 o'clock. There was a crowd of some five or six thou sand persons to see me off, for the wager had somehow or another become known, and the boat which took me across from San Fran cisco to Oakland was so crowded that it was with difficulty I could keep moving, which, according to the terms of the wager, I was compelled to do. In starting I took to the railroad track and kept it all the way until arriving here. I was to have walked right to the depot at Forty-second street, but the officials would not let me do so on account of the tunnel, so I had to come the last portion of my journey by the road. It was a very pleasant trip, and my average for the 95 days of the walk (I was to do it in 100) equals about. 35 miles a day, pretty good walking you'll admit. I don't know as I'veanything to tell you ot much interest about the jour ney. I jogged along steadily day alter day, just taking time to eat and stopping at every station. 1 came on the road to get myself checked by the agent ot the railroad com pany. This book (exhibitinga medium sized note-book) contains the entries of my journey and of the places I passed, all signed and officially stamped by the railroad companies' agents, so that there might be no mistake. Besides this a gentleman representing the in terests of those who bet against me, a Mr. Pierce, came along with me, travelling by the cars and meeting me at certain points on the road every 24 or 36 hours to examine my note-book and see that 1 bad kept duly on the track. The weather was very pleasant, nor did I find any inconvenience from the heat until arriving at Albany. I then, for first time during the whole of the walk, began to leel unwell, my feet pained me and my ankles began to swell. 1 was afraid at first that I was going to be real sick, but I got over it and am as well now as ever I was, and am ready to start back walking if anybody cares to wager against me. Mr. Pierce, who came on to i ew l ork before me, was to have met mo at tho Central depot; but, I suppose, owing to the rain he did not expect me, so I have not as yet been able to hnd him. The only adventure I had that I can recollect as as being of any interest was when the Indians in crossing the plains stole my red silk, gold-embroidered sash, lhey kind of fancied it I knew, and I tried to look out for it, but the way the darned cusses walked off with it made me laugh at the time, though I did feel kind of vexed. Ihe wager was made between Mr. Ead and Mr. King for $3,500, Mr. Ead backing me. I'm to get $1,000 for this. Of course I had regular rest every night, and never ate a meal except at a hotel." Parental Sympathy. Parents express too little sympathy for their children; the effect of this is lamenta ble. 'How your children love you! I would give the world to have my children so devot ed to me!" said a mother to one who did not regard the time given to her children as so much capital wasted. Parents are fatally wrong when they grudge the time necessary for their children's amusement and instruction, for no investment brings so pure and so rich returns. The child's love is holy; and if the parent does not fix that love on himself he deserves to lose it, and in after-life to bo wailing hU poverty of heart. The child's heart is full of love, and it must gush out toward somebody or something. If the parent is worthy of it, and posesscs it, he is blest; and the child is safe. W hen the child loves worthy persons and receives their sympathy, he is less liable to be influenced by the undeserving; for in hia soul are models of excellence with which he compares others. Any parent can descend from his chilling dignity, and freely answer the child's questions, talking familiarly and tenderly with him; and when the little one wishes help, the parent should come out of his abstractions and cheerfully help him. Then his,mind will return to his speculations clastic, and it will act with force. All parents can find a few minutes, occasionally, during the day, to read little stories to the children, and to illustrate their respective tendencies to good and bad feelings. They can talk to them about flowers, birds, trees, about angels, and about Gad. They can show interest in their sports, determining the character of them. What is a surer way than binding the ohild to the heart of thepaivnt? When you have made a friend of a child, you may congratulate yourself you have a friend for lile. . - Were the Apostles Harried Henf Baltimore Oawtto.l Some of the highly cultivated Boston peo ple who have a theory that entirely too much attention is paid to women in this day of civ ilization, are coming to the front with some puzzling facts. They want to know whether any of the 12 apostles ever married, or whether there is any record in the Bible or elsewhere of any of theirchildren. If there was a Mrs. Matthew, Mark, Luke or John, nobody ever heard of her. They point to the fact that Christ had brothers and sisters but no wife or daughters; there is no woman in the trinity. Women were not allowed to speak in the early Christian churches. The Bible takes no more account of women gen erally than the Koran or any other oriental book The ancient Greeks were the only people who gave, women in those days a partnership in the affairs of life and they were pagans and idolaters. . This is really horrifying, and the ladies should call an indignation meeting In every city in the land. They might establish the fact that one of the apostles was a married man; for we are told r that one of the rel wife was sick of a ft atives of Simon , Peter's fever on a certain occasion.

BCINED BY LOTTERIES.

King Theebau's Latest Piece of Inaane '' i Deviltry. . Kangoon Carretpondenot of the London New. His own palace being a regular sink of iniquity and horror, Theebau is doing his best to make the whole royal city little better. Having hit upon the idea of a lottery to raise money, he is now flooding the place with lottery offices, each of which has a different venture running, and draws off weekly. Tho consequence is that the town is in a state of perpetual excitement; the minds of the people are unsettled; those who have money spend all they have on tickets; those who nave none prowl about in search of some one to plunder. Trade was bad enough before. The present pernicious state of things is likely to put an end to it altogether. The king, it appears, was told of the stoppage of business. What other business, he asked, can show a return of 10,000 rupees for an outlay of two rupees? The consequences are likely to be most dismal, and the popular vengeance will probably wreak itself on the king. At any rate, let us hope so. Cultivators are selling off their farming stcok, and having try after try at the State lotteries. There are neither sellers nor buyers to be seen in the bazaar; ever one hovers about the lottery offices and longs for the drawing. To fill up the totals the faster, groups of 10 to 20 people are allowed to club together to buy a single ticket. What a row there would be among its members if such a confederacy were to win! There are at present 13 offices, each under the superintendence of a minister of high rank. The rivalry between these worthies as to who shall get most money, and so earn the royal favor, intensifies the msichief. They fall upon all manner of dodges to entice the people away from all other offices to their own. Letpay, i. e., pickled tea, (or rather the pickled leaves of the Elodendrum Persicum,) cheroots, betel, toddy, bands, theatrical performances, all manner of inducements are held out to induce hesitating speculators to leave all other places, and cleave but to the one office. One manager has hit upon the device of returning one pice about a farthing for each ticket taken, and scores heavily in the meantime. Probably ' that elderly person, the Hpoung-Woon Myo-Woon, lord high admiral and town magistrate, in one, keeps the best arranged establishment. It was certainly he who first began to try and allure the people. He secured the old Custom House for his place of business, a wide expanse round about it being secured by a strong fence. He fixed up to start with some dozen; or more punkahs to cool the brains and soothe the feelings of excited clients. Porous pots full of deliciously cold water, with tin drinking mugs attached, were arranged on stands ail round about, The antisoporifi.e letpay, the gigantic, but soothing tsag leik (green cheroot,) the good betal were heaped on tables everywhere, and vanished with surprising rapidity. At first the Hpoung-Woon used to openly allow that he supplied all these comlorts at the expense ot the people, making use of surplus funds for the purpose. Since then, however, he has given that up, and now perpetual pwais, Burmese dramas and bands are added to amuse the crowd. These bands are a dreadful infliction to a foreigner. If you started half a dozen lunatics to play the bagpipes, and at the same time presented all the children in the neighborhood with penny whistles and kettle-drums, you might have a fair substitute. But nothing delights a Burman more than to sit and listen to this dis cordant row, and he falls asleep and wakes up again with an ever fresh delight. The best point about the Hpoung-Woon is that he always invites the people in a kindly way to come and try their luck. One or two of his colleagues have hired bullies, Turanian lambs. who go about threatening lalse accusations if any but their master is patronized, while one man especially an individual with the awful name of ayiodan-31vo-V oon Uo Xbah Oh sends his subordinates to the Chinese gam bling-house keepers and forces them to sub scribe periodically for 50 tickets at two rupees each for the privilege ot gambling. He is said to get about 400 rupees a month in this fashion. Fired by his example, the Yaw Shway-deik and Tine-dab. Atwinwoons also - ' ' w - make use of their court influences to draw subscribers. Brokers and Burmese traders who have business with the palace are put down for a hundred tickets or so on pain of losing their contracts. Oobonays, fasting days or feast days, when, according to the old law, all offices and courts in the kingdom were closed, and even the king's audiences were suspended, are now disregarded. Draw ings are held without scruple on these oldfashioned sacred davs, and one of the Woon donks is advanced and unprejudiced enough to have selected Dama-vone, a place of wor ship and prayer, for his lottery office. All the old lines are upset, and the minds of the people are in a state of perpetual, unhealthy excitement, it must come to an end soon. and it will probably bean exceedingly uproarious one. The Burmese make bloodthirsty rebels. Discovery of North America. A Wall street broker laid a wager one day that Christopher Columbus discovered the continent of North America and, of course. lost it. It is surprising how many intelligent persons entertain the same error. Knowing that ne discovered a numoer oi lsianus mine Western hemisphere, they think he must of necessity have discovered the continent also. They forget that he died in ignorance ol tne grandeur of his achievement Tbelieving CubaTerra Firma and other islands he had found, to be remote parts of Asia. Amerigo Ves pucci, after whom JNorth and bourn America is named did not discover this continent properly, either. The land he discovered lay near the equator, and he, too, was deluded with the notion that it was a portion of Asia. John Cabot was the discoverer of JNorth America (some suppose in May, 1497), which he likewise supposed to belong to the domin ions of the Grand Cham. , He sailed along the coast for 300 leagues, and went ashore, without finding any human being, although he believed the country to be inhabited. II is remarkable that the three great discoverers of the Western world should have been Italians Columbus having been born in Genoa, Vespucci in Florence, and Cabot pre sumably in Venice. Ihe birthplace or Cabot is uncertain, as are his age and the place and time of his death. But the fact that the license granted him by Henry VII. calls him Kabotta, Venetian, would seem to determine the. question of his nativity. The discoverers had a sorry fortune. Columbus, as we are aware, was treated with the blackest ingratitude bv the king of Spain. When officers.' of the vessel on which he was carried, a prisoner, to Spain offered to remove his chains, imposed upon him by royal order, he replied. "I will wear them as a reminder of the gratitude of princes." He died, as everybody knows, neglected, in extreme poverty, of broken heart, Vespucci had many trials and died rtoor. and Cabot fell into such obscurity that no one can tell how or when or where he died. Surely the auguries attendant on the birth of the Western world were not favorable, and in a superstitious age might have led to the belief that its history would never be marked by good fortune. Said a woman. who had refused her lover "This is, perhaps, not the -first mitten you have received, Mr. Brown.". .Bat perhaps it is the first you have ever given, aiiss onnva, lie retorted. ! r a ; .

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The application of the Ready Relief tn th Etrt or parts where the pain or difficulty exts will afford ease and comlort. Thirty to sixty drops In halt a tumbler ot water will in a few moments core Cramps, (Spasms, Boar Stomach, Heartburn. Slok Headache, Diarrhoea, Dysentery, colic. Wind in the Bowels, and all internal Pains. iTaveiers should always carry a bottle of Radway's Ready Relief with tnem. a fw drops In water will prevent sickness or pains irvui cukuib oi waier. ll is oetter than French oranay or outers as a stimulant. FEVtin AHD AGUE. Fever and Agae eared for CO cents. There la not a remedial agent Is this world that will Radwaya Beady Relief, fifty oenta per bot0R. RADWAY'S SAESAPAEHUAN RESOLVENT, THE GREAT BLOOD PURIFIER. Changes as seen and felt as thev dailv nwnr. after using a few doses! 1. uooa spirits, disappearance of weakness, languor, melancholy, increase and hardness ot flebU and muscles, eis. 2. Utrength increases, appetite improves, relish for lood, no more soar eructations or water-brash, good digestion, calm and undisturbed sleep, awaken fresh and vigorous. 8. Disappearance of spots, blotches, pimples, the skin looks clear and heal to v, theurlue chauged from its turbid and cloudy appearance to a clear seerry or amber color; water passes freely from the bladder through the urethra without natn or scaldiDs: llula or no sediment; no Pain or weakness. 4. atarkea diminution of Quantity ana fre quency of involuntary weakening dine barges (if alHlcted that way) with certainty of perfect cure. Increased strength exhibited in the secreting glands and functional harmony restored to the several organs. a. i euow tinge on tne white or tee eyes, ana the swarthy, saflron appearance of Use skin changed to a clear, lively and healthy color. o. x noee snneriog irom weak ana ulcer tea longs tubercules will realise great benefit In expectorating freely the tough phlegm or mucoous from the langs, air-cells, bronchi or winapipe, mrost or neaa: aiminisning ue frequency of cough: general increase of strength throughout the system; stoppage or ness around the ankles, legs, shoulders, etc.: cessation of cold and ch-lls, sense suttocfi'.lon nara o reaming ana paroxysy oi co ign on log down or arising in the morning. All ese distressing symptoms gradually and surely disappear. 7. As oay alter a ay me isarsapaniiian utaken, new sings of returning health will appear as the blood Improves In parity ana strength disease will diminish, and ail foreign ana impure deposits, noaes, tumors, cancers, hard lumps, etc., be resolved away, and the unsound made sound and healthy; ulcer. fever sores, chronic akin diseases gradually disappear. s. xn cases wnere we synem nan dvcd hbmivated. and Mercury, Quicksilver, Corrosive Sublimate have accumulated and become deocslted in the bones. Joints, etc.. causing carries of the bones, rickets, spinal caryatares, contortions, white swellings, etc., the Harsapanlla will resolve away-these deposits and exterminate the virus of the disease from the system. V. 11 tnose wno are tasing vnese mnjicmw for the cureof chronic Scrofulous or MypnlllUo diseases, however slow may be the care, "feel better" and nnu tneir general neaitn improv ing, their flesn ana weignt increasing, or even keeping its own, it Is a sure sign that the care Is progressing, in these diseases the patient either gets better or worse the virus of the disease is not inactive; if not arrested and driven from the blood It will spread and con tinue to undermine the constitution. Asaoon as the Sarsaparilliau makes the patient "leel better," every hour you will grow better, and . Increase in health, strength and flesh. The great power of this remedy is in aiseasea that threaten death as In C0HSUHPTI0H of the lungs and t tuberculous phUnta, scrofula. Bypniioia uisesses, w-uu, lm-Kcuvimuu, and Ulceration of the Kidneys, Diabetes, Stoppage of Water, (Instantaneous relief afforded ; wnere csmetera uw , a wbv wit ri tne oainiai operation w uiuuk these instruments) dissolving stone la the bladder, and in an cases oi Inflammation of the Bladder and Kidneys. In tumors, nodes, hard lamps, and spyhfloki ulcers. In dropsy; In general sore throat, ulcer-, In the tubercles of the lungs; la gout, dyspepsia, rheumatism ; In murcural deposits it is in -these terrible forms forms of oisease, where the human body has become a oompteia wreck, and where every hoar of existence Is torture, wherein this great remedy challenges the astonl hment and admiration of the sick. It (is in sncn cases, where all the pleasures ot i.nM annear ent off from the unfortunate, aud by its wonderful, almost supernatural agency It restores them to a life and new existence where this great remedy stands aions in Its might and power. 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