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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 18S9.

THE BELIEF OF THE GYPSY.

A RESUME OF ROMANY ETHICS. Mr. YTakeman'a Farther Observation of the Vagabond Itace The Itaarle Roru Antiquity of the Nomad Creed Ita Peculiarities Home Life, JKtc. Camf, Lake Sebaoo, Mc, Sept. 5. Copyrighted. I once knew a Oy pay named Carpenter nearlyono hundred years old esnctly ninety-pix in tho summer of 1S77, when I was favored with his wise companionship among the beautiful hills and valleys of weFtern Pennsylvania. His j-reatajjc and a certain amount of Look knowledge he had pomchow acquired, mado him a sort of peer among his race. I always approached him with real veneration, and when one day I asked him why Gypsies were wanderers ho instantly answered in Romany: "Because they are God's chosen people !" I am pretty mire tho old rascal did not believe what ho paid, because there, was a unerry, half-wicked twinkle in his eyes; and besides we were at that very moment occupied in dressing some plump chickens, over who.o manner of getting into camp I thought best to throw tho mautlo of pilent charity. Iut ho gravely proceeded to draw a host of similitudes between modes of Gypsy lifo and thono of the ancient patriarchs, laying great emphasis upon tho statement that Gypsies were tho truo descendants of tho house of Krchabites, so loved of tho lord for its loplo's faithful observance of divino commands. Then ho glibly quoted from Jeremiah: "Neither shall ye build houses, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any ; but all your day" yo shall dwell in tents; that ye may livo many flays in tho land where yo bo Mrangnrs. ' If Gypsies may lesaid to powee ethical cr religious principles whatever, they will nil ls found underlying and sustaining their own as saiiiht all other modes of lif Innumerable times have 1 mado tho direct inquiry of my Gvtmy companions and friends regarding this matter, and on every occasion havo 1 been met with a similar nnswer. Tho Gypsy's mind is an utter blank on all matters which tho Christian world regard as marred. Hovt tiled religion is to him ns extraordinary a tinnuo f chicanery ns are his Hack nrts to us. Ho willquoteyou vards of biblo to prove his pilgriming lifo tlio only correct fine. Kut he dors that meruly to con(usi) you; not because ho himself respectj tho authority to which he ha rerourwi, Unquestionably ho believes With his whole; ou his is tho only right way of living. Whatever you and I may believe about that, I havo had too many and indubitable proofs of his integrity of conviction to doubt it. And so what is bis belu-f, what his heredity of mirrcd genii, what the principles and Incentives upon which his life and Hort are planted nud w hat his hopu for and laith in the future stute, have been for twenty-tlvo years my mot earnest and interesting, and 1 Tnunt confchs most futilo and barren, subjects of study among these tawny wanderers of tho teilt and road. It is a noteworthy tact that the llotnany (Gypsyjlanguage contains no exact equivalent for (iod. Indeed it is almoht barren of words designating thu Creator. Tho nearest expression that my moat ftudious and persistent researches and inquiries have tx-en able to discover is that of l'aurie Horn, or Great Head; and yet this literally means a powerful man, a chief fto ten täte, and does not mean a spiritual ieing with omniscient powers. Nor is this term applied to n supremo being save in tne instance. That one is in a singularly universal and always secret sacred legend of theGvpsies; their sole lore pertaining to the infinite mysteries. This story, tradition or legend relates in a picturesque, brief an i almost poetic manner the contest ot the great good spirit and the great bad spirit, as follows: One day the Itaurio Mom (Great Head), whose shining tent was the sky, went out to seek a wild boar for dinner. As no good being will steal from an open tent, tho Baurio Bora drew not the curtain about the door (literally, mouth.) Soon along came th.3 Baurie" Bing (chief evil spirit, the great devil), who saw the deserted tent and cried out with great clee: "Now tho Baurie Bom is gone. I will destroy his boantiful habitation and leavo him desolate!' Then the Baurie Bing drank up the rivers, ate all the pomegranates between the rims of the sky, and licked ui all the .earth's honey. After feasting, ho blew flame on the world, and split the mount ains with his fiery tail. Then he arose to 0, but had swelled so broad and high that he could not get out of the tent-door, and his horns got fast in the wooly tentcurve (cover, the sky). The Baurie Bing Etru;rclel and bellowed, and ten black devils (dasa kala hing) came to help the Baurie Bins awav. Just then the Baurie Kom came back. The ten black devils ran away, when the Baurie Bom took the Baurie Bing in his hand, as though light as dust and hurled him beyond the edge of the sky, into a place where he ever burns, but there never is light. From that day the Baurie Bom placed a great chief to guard his tent-door. In passing it is interesting to find in the three words dasa kala bina (ten black devils) remarkable proof of the extreme antiquitv of the Gypsy race. They are respectively Sanscrit, Ilindostanee and Jio ruany ; and their preservation by these people, independent of any written or firinted language, seems almost bevond beief. But in the tale of the Baurie Bom and the Eaurie Bing are found many symbols of Gypsv thought and feeling. It is thousands of years older than the bible, and it is a curious example of the earliest formulative thought as to a supreme being. He is typified as Wnign, good, all-powerful, but awful in just wrath. Tho devil, too, as the type ot greed, envy and malicious destructive noss, was not a bad notion for 3,000 or 4,000 years a?o; while many of the material instincts of these etrantro folk the sky as a semblance of the tent; tho hunting of the wild boar for dinner, once a perfection of attainment among Gypsies; the feasting and gorging of the intruder; his final discomforture and almost Miltonic casting out into an eternal dark, which Gypsies dread in color, symbol, and in all places at night, when they say they "feel it hurt;" stand out clearly in these tropes and similes. But the most singular feat of the matter is that this notion of a supreme being and an antithesis, the temptation, the fall, the expulsion from a state of privilege, the endlesä punishment for rebellion and sin, and the final sentineling of the Baurie Kom's dwelling by "a great chief," like cur later poetic station for St. Peter, crystalized. in the mindaof pilgrims by the Narbudda and Tapstee rivers from 4,000 to 6,000 years ago, remain intact in the brain and thought of every one of their Gypsy descendants that live; that is, the bare story, the myth of a substance, the wraith of some wondrous lias Been. But that is all. The Orrat Head is nothing to the Gypsy heart. From wherever epranjj m the night of tho ases this bit of lore, while it is clung to a is life, it has no influence on the life. "Ilit'a our way o' thinkinV "Hit's KOoU entmgh for Gypsies." "Hus folk 'u no mind yexin' about w'at nobody doesn't

know." "Yous all goes crazy many a time an oft for w'at's hidden." "Kf there's any one mightier, Baurie Bom's jess as like the right one as yours;" and the like, they ever retort, with imperturb

able good humor. They are willing to admit, to please you, that there may bo such a being as God, but they always leave you vanquished by the most benign and suave proposition that if there is, so great a power will take care of even-thing wisely; and, "anyhow, Gypsies is too tritlin' fur anybody's inindin'. let.alono sech mighty I'M!' 1 rememler of one instance among many where in positive desperation in an attempt to give a group of friendly Gypsies some faint idea of God as we conceive Him, and, indeed, of discerning if there was the faintest idea in any one of their minds of a God of their own mental creation, I lost " my patien e and cried out in vexation, "Oh, you vagabonds! Such people deserve no God." "That's jess hit. That's jess hit;" several replied instantly, and with exasperating complacence. "Hus alius kuowed that. Taint like for hus sech things be." And whether the rascals said it with a race knowledge of hopeless outlawry, with despondent consciousness of impossibility of knowing what we regard as of the pupremest importance to know, or to closo an argument concerning a matter no human has yet made clear or acceptable to the Bomany, to me thero was a pathetic finality in their renunciation I could never w holly dispel. It is not fair to say these folk nro blas phemous in their stern and unrelenting refusal to accept what you and I know no other possibility than to embrace. Instead it would be nearer right to set them down as the one race on earth absolutely incapablo of initiative formulation of the idea itself of a God. It is common to hear tho teachers anil lenders say that no people exist who have not inherently an instinctive reverenco for some form of primal creative power, or some sort of a supremo being. I tut hero is one which I assert to be absolutely incapnblo of even the tho timet trilling submission to deity. Certainly no ono who has the most meager knowledge of Gypsies will deny their Intelligenee. No other human beings livo w ho are naturnlly so gifted with all-sullici-rnt intellect. But so far as 1 am able to judge, they do not know how to think God; and the idea of ft Savior, and the plan of redemption as revealed and taught, are positively ' so startling a burlesque on reason and evidence bv things by thorn known, seen and experienced, that no person can secure and retain their confidence and respect who will persist in presenting such idens and proportions to them. As I havo shown in a preceding nrtielo there is no such thlngnsGypsy belief in a future state. As life with them is considered no better than accident, death is the end. I will not sny that they resist tho Men of fnturo existence, They have no belief about the matter whatever, and their rcNontmrnt comes when you insUt upon their having any. If there is such n state, well und good. If not, still well and good. They do not know nnthing beyond the facts that physical hurt or disease and old nge bring death. Heath necessitates putting the remains of the dead away in the ground. When the earth covers them they w no further. Their concerns, material and ethical, are invarlahly with the living. On these lines they are a luminous, but lowly, order of agnostics. They seldom speak of the dead. In tho'JoOor :SiX 'yjixy ballads I have collected, there is not ft line, sentence or thought, expressing faith in, or even hope for, reunion with the dead, even in a Gypsy lover's wildest ravings for his lost other-heart idol. The nearest approach to such a sentiment is expressed not tow ard humans but of animals, and conspicuously of t ho horse. I have witnessed Gypsy grief more poignant tL tho loss of a loved horse than I ever saw expressed over the death of father, mother, child, husband or wife; and on all occasions tho loss of one of these prized animals begets an aw o and silence in a Gypsy camp most strange and inexplicable. " liepeatedly have I seen the entiro members of a band gather round an expiring animal with bared heads, woebegone faces and heart-rending groans interspersed with most piteous expressions from Gypsy men at their utter helplessness to save ; and this to a degree that I have often surmised it pointed to a belief, especially as the trappings of a loved horse are always buried at its death, in some condition of future existence where the rider would again vault his spirited steed. But all efforts to find and fix such a faith have been unavailing. There are few who can believe any good possible anions so faithless and hopelt'sa a people But there is good among them, and of a kind the Christian world might better develop with very great consistency and profit. While Gypsies are without faith, or even law, as we know it, no people live who more rigorously follow, in fact and to the ultimate of spirit, the highest and purest codo of physical and moral observance. They universally revere tho marriage relation. I say universally, and use that word unqualifiedly. There is not an exception. Tho religious faculty as we develop it, and sometimes distort it, being wholly lacking in these nomads, another seems to have taken its place. That is virtue worship. All this begins back of the suckling babe at its mother's breast It is bred and inbred in pre-natal assimilated loyalty. The tent-home government and sur veillance are such that Gypsy children prow unconsciously and irrevocably into hereditarily virtuous lives and loves. Believe it or not, Gypsy men and youths regard virtue of as noble a perfection in men as in sweetheart or wife; and some idea of the awful sacredness of that primal re quirement in woman may be had when tho fact is stated that any Gypsv maiden found, on marriage, to have been un chaste is visited with the most horrible fate that can by any possibility come to her in tins life utter and endless expa triation; and more than once the lives of such have been sacrificed with the calm and unvarying approval of parents and friends; while such a thing as disloyalty of husband to wife, or wife to husband, after marriage, has yet to be recorded of Gypsy on the European or American con tinent. J.poar L. Wakemax. A Sudden Cure. Hamburgur Kalender. A youne apprentice one day. at breakfast. suddenly exclaimed "I am going blind! Ach! I am blind:" Iii master, alarmed, asked how it had happened. "I don't know," wai the reply, "but I am so bhnu that I cannot see the butter on my bread." The good-natured manter, who had once been young himself, begged h's wife to put a bit of cheese on the lad's bread. After supper the old man inquired "Well, my lad, how are your eyes now.' "Thanks, Herr Knieriem, they are quite well again. I could distinctly see the bread through the cheese." A I fferenee. ' Tuck. Mr. Rychus "I happened to eo into Will's room and I found this actress photograph on the table. I didn't suppose he would own such a lliins ' Mn. Rychui ,fVhy, that imo actress, my dear! It is Lady Daisy IJa&haway, the famous London beauty." Mr. Rychus "öh, I though. Pd never seen anything quite like that on tbe stage. Taking; ma t'ofslr Atlvantac Ilcraelf. Jack Overstroke (who Is unwillingly giving Mis Oleerop a swimming; leewon ) "N ow, don't be afraid. J ust trust youracll to me and let me purport you." Miss Oleerop "It's rather an unfair advantage to tnke in water; but you may ask p-p-papa."

AT FASHIONABLE LENOX.

"RiR'i ciMnQ mm i inNAinPQ rai nor Wealthy Children's Preaalns; Showy Mother Miniature Equipage Mr. Wettinghouse at the Opera Fred Nellton's I'retty Widow, Lenox, Ma3s., Sept. 5. Special. Up here in the Berkshire hills, where the very air seems full of spicincss, where tho sun seta in a wondrous glory as it goes behind the great masses of foliage, one seems more than ever conscious that there is roposo to be found on every bight. Ono thinks out all sorts of big thoughts to bo clothed in one's best language as the sun is sinking in its golden splendor, and then one has all tho bigness teken out by the receipt of an invitation to an informal dance, to a supper or to a moonlight drive. There are inns at IiCnox, but nobody who makes any pretensions to being fashionable, unless tho bodif-s aro bachelors, stops at them. It is truo there are "mealera" at Curtis', and many a pretty woman is driven over in a veritable buckboard to get her bit of melon in the morning with its accompaniment of bracing collce. The women aro exquisitely Bnglish in tho morning and French in tho evening. Tho daytime finds them in printed cottons that ripple with ribbons and laces, cottons such as delight tho princess of Wales, while tho evening looks down upon them attired in daintily colored tulles and soft silks that make joyful thu heart of tho French modiste. Inox can, liko Cordelia, lay claim to wonderful jewels in thoshapo of children. It may be doubted if anywhere thero aro such a lot of little tots so perfectly, which means so comfortably, dressed. Bright hued ginghams are smocked to fit tho little figures, and great big straw bats, that givo them a ouaint look, shade the ryes nnd protect thehair. I here isaregular morning parade of tubs in which the children and their friends are packed, each um driven by tho eldest of the family, or if they are very small a tiny groom holds the reins of honor. Out they go into tho country ; a search is nmde for wild flowers, the lunch is eaten and the tub comes homo gori'oously decorated wild golden rod and full of childn -n who have grown decidedly minted and dirty looking, but who have hud a really good time. You see, that's the beauty of tho kind of frocks they wear a good tiuiy don t hurt them, and yet tliey aro, most ol tliom, the children of millionaires. If one hatipens to bo the chill of some hard-workinii clerk, the chances aro it would be arrayed m a silk gown elaborately trimmed v, itlt luce and ribbons, a hat gorgeous with flowers or plumes, and, poor little soul, life wool. I hold no pleas, u re for it because its btt uowu huh in eoutiuual daiiger, and to sit up and look nice was all that was possible, I mm1i all mothers were brave enough to IreHH their children simply. I winh all of them knew that it was not only better scnt but more fashionable, und I am sure that every littl heart would beat w ith greater glee under a gingham gown than it does under a nonsensical mass of lace and hilk which Mary has to work so hanl to achieve nnd which is not only un suitable for John' child, but gives it no pleasure and makes it look like a was doll, l'arty frocks? Certainly but they nro made in tho samo simplu wav, though they are made of tho line.-st mull, and it's jut possible that a great big blue sash with an enormous how is tied at the back. Children and the golden rod flourish alike here; Ixmox is essentially exclusive, and as the fashionable matron considers it tho proper thing to be a mother, thero is no trouble whatever in borrowing a baby at any hour of tho day. Unlike most of tho watering places, here these small people get up early anil sav good night some times before the sun does, which is the right way to do with them if you want them healthy and wise. Who is here? people fashionable, people who are quiet, and people who aro rich. Biches cover a multitude of sins in most places, but as yet Lenox is demanding a little more" than mere money to make it possible to enter the charmed circle. You see millionaires are as plentiful as daisies, and consequently they are not valued as highly as in most other places ; to havo a bit of a box hero to w hich you can ask your friends to stay over Sunday, even if Borne of them do havo to sleep in a hammock swung in the hall, to have the bit of n box quaintly furnished and decorated, and to bo a bit individual yourself from the cachet on the letter of introduction to the inner circle, to ride well, to know how to drive, to play tennis, and to understand the art of dress, all add to your popularity. Almost everybody rides, and, although there are many handsome turnouts, you can feel quite swell in the baby's tub, provided your riding horse is above reproach. You go out to drive and somebody points out to you Mrs. Westinghouse, the wife of the inventor who is so rich that it seems as if setting close to him ono might catch the fever of wealth. She is rather remarkable looking, nnd suddenly you remember what somebody at the house said, and true or untrue.it is repeated: "Last winter at the opera she used to come in her box in a white gown, white shoes, gloves, a largo white felt hat trimmed with white plumes, and her blonde hair was so w hite that really I think 6he muFt have had a dash of powder on it. After she was seated the maid would bring in her boy the child is a perfect beauty, with his long, light curls and soft eyes ; ho looks just like a little cherub quickly his white fur coat is taken off, and" there ho was in a gown of w hite satin, a white felt hat and a get-up exactly in harmony with mamma's. This, of course, w as at the matinee, and wicked girl, who would talk even when Wagner's music was being played, insisted that they eat white cocoanut cakes between the acts so that the harmony of their costumes might not be broken. At other times Mrs. West inghouse w as in bright scarlet, then tho powder was left off her hair and it showed a beautiful blonde; 6ho looked much more chic and Frenchy in the red than in tho white." There goes by another carriage and it is another pretty woman who poes.however, in a dif!erent set, and whose charm is her brightness and the expression of interest that shows in her face all the time. Thia is Mrs. Fred Xeiison rather small, dark like all of the Gebhards, she has undoubtedly in her small, well shaped head the wit of the family. It seems a little odd that she should still call herself Mrs. Fred. Neilson, insomuch as she was divorced from her husband before his death; one wouldn't think she would care to continue using his name. And, by the by, it is very bad form, for while a widow may sign her name "Mary Jones," to tb worid at large and on her visiting cards, she is simply "Mrs Jones." There goes Elsie De Wolfe, the old com rade of Mrs. Potter and her rival in amateur theatricals. Miss iJe Wolfe, who in very dark, is by no means a beautiful woman, but out of her eyes thero is a suggestion of more than ordinary intelligence, and she knows how to dress well. Whenever you ßee her, her get-up is perfect, whereaa I do not think I ever saw a more untidy-looking woman off the stage

than Mrs. Totter. If Miss De Wolfe had become a professional she might have succeeded in a good stock company playing minor parts, but having neither the beauty nor audacity of her co-laborer, she certainly would not have lecome a star. The number of coaches about here make tho learning how to get upon one with grace a question of importance, and every girl who has not a small foot educates herself to hide the size of the one she really does possess by a graceful disposition of her draperies. The very full skirts are given rather tho cold shoulder, for the women of Lenox evidently think, as does Monsieur Worth, that their general assumption, "would reduce ladies and chaudH?rmaids to tho same level." No one can claim that thero is much variety in a plain, full skirt, though a touch may be given it by the border about tho bottom, or the arrangement of tho girdle. However, fat women do not look well in them, and they cannot be said to make round tho angles of

the thin ones. The only women who can wear them successfully aro those who aro medium in size and in amount of llesh. Just fancy a ßhort woman, who weiirhs 175 pounds, arrayed in an accordion skirt and a full, round baby bodice, with a belt and buckle! She looks liko a silk mcabbag w ith a string tied too near the middle. Kqually ridiculous is a great, tall girl, whose bones are covered with skin rather than flesh, in a scanty, plain skirt and an Bmfiro coat with lomr tails. She looks exactly liko an umbrella with a case on, Hiid w Iicd she tons this oil" with an enormous hat you don't know whether sho is going to a fancy ball as a mushroom, or what her intentions are. But from her appearance you arc sure that, though they nr misplaced, they are honorable. How ought these two women to drcs? This way. Tho stout ono should have a skirt that in some parts describes long lines, light straight plaited panels, or sott draperies, but slightly looped. Then it seems ns if tho size- was as much duo to tho skirt as to herself, and thero aro no lines encircling her lik the bands about a barrel Her bnsquo should be after Worth's latest devieo a tolerably long postillion in the back with a rich fringe trimming, and it should bo drnped a little itcros tho front, but with its trimming running down rather than across. A jabot of black lace is jiermissible, and a black lace frill may bo the neck finish, but if you enro anything for your appearance and Iiavo a full, round, plump neck, don't look as If you were trying to choke yourself by wen rln ir a string of beads. The slender woman muv have the plain skirt, but I hero must bo plenty of material In it, and the border about the edge, while it may be deep, must have a broadening rather than a narrowing efl'ect. Mn can put on the round full bodice and n great wide girdle, but from under the girdle and dow u on thu skirt must fall two broad ends of libbon, m that the Hat look resulting from no reeds and no bustle is done away with. Stout or thin women look best in lom wrap, for In one It hides the bones, and in thoother it gives length and concculs the ravnges of llesh. I say the ravages of flesh and mean It, for it Is what tho, American women of to-day ore grieving over. Here, where women live well nnd easily, where worries ore not many nnd where life is a continti-il quentlon of "what pleasure coir.? next,'' there are more stout women women who ore unbecomingly stout nt thirty-live than I have ever wen. They lack the wisdom of the Knglish woHum in dressing this flesh. It is true that in the dsytime) übe will wear red and she does look as she drives out as if she lived for her dinner and nothing else, but when that dinner timo comes she knows how to robe herself for it. She knows that tulles and soft crepes and muslins are out of her province," and hhe puts on instead the statcdy silk, or velvet with its long train, her most gorgeous jewels, and the flesh that in tho daytime made her almost a monstrosity, in tho evening makes her majestic, Tho American woman clings to Iter white tulks, her many colored silk muslins, and 1 am sorry to say, too often forgets that dancing and tho 17." pounds aro not in harmony and that a perspiring beauty is not a particularly refined looking object. One talks of dress, because here it is much discussed as a fine art, and in time the robing o' ho fat woman will reach that legre1. Ono talks of books and wonders why it is that the men w ho writo good Knclifh cannot write good stories, and then somebody moan that Saltus lant book is "nastily realistic," and then somebody else suggests as an antidoto that they go in town and see Sothern, as if Sothern were healthy enough to bo on antidote acainst Saltus. This even strikes a troop of girls as being amusing and has such an etTect on them that luncheon as nn antidote for hunger is spoken of it is proposed, accepted and the wholo gossip ing group adjourn. And with them goes Bab. Cardlnul wnmn't Old Age. Button Journal. Cardinal Newman, who is now in his eighty ninth year, cordially receives American visitors whenever hi health permits. He is simple to a degree in his habits, getting up until quito lately, even if he does not do still between 5 and 6 in the morning, both in summer and winter. He then sayt mass in a chapel adjoining his bedroom, and afterward takes his breakfast, and duriug the day presides oyer the meals of the fathers at 1 o'clock and at 6. Oa great feast days such as that of St. Philip Neri, who founded the concreiration, or of fcts. I'eter and Paul the cardinal conduct the service of bene diction for the boys in the school chapel, but even thia lipht enort has been more than he could frequently undertake daring the last two or three years. $ A Zealous Functionary. Freisinnige Zeitung. A new road was,about to be made in a certain parish in the lJohnierwald. The surveyor came, took his observations and, with considerable care and exertion, staked out the road. When this part of the work was done he went to the mayor of the parish and said "I must ask you to see that the poles are not stolen over bun day." On Monday iuoruii:? the surveyor came back. Sure enough the stakes had (rone. The mayor had locked them up for safety in the town hail. Hare Yon Ever Tried It? Very few people know how many different ways there are of chan"inar a quarter of a dollar. According to a Philadelphia man who had more leisure than business on his hands, there are 315 ways of changing that piece of money. The pieces used are the 20-ceut piece, 10-cent piece, r...ni .n.i ,, 1-ceut piece. To make all the changes without using the same coin twice would require 1,233 1-cent pieces. Gl 4 twos, 373 threes, 1S4 fives, 50 tens and 9 twenties, making 2,534 pieces, worth J.7i. ' - - The Itroken Sentence. . Texas Sifting. - Once a lady who had been disappointed in love, wrote with a diamond ring upon a window pane tbe following line "(Jod made man upright, and he" Here the sentence stopped. A gentleman chancing to tee it some time afterward, added to it the following might have remained so, but lie created woman, and she Cause For Congratulation. Chicago Liar. New York statesman (to prisoner condemned to death) "Let me congratulate you. ' Frisoner(brichtening up) "Hai ray sentence been commuted?" New York statesman "No; but you will be the first man in the world to be legally put to death, by electricity." Kralni Alwayt Win. ruck. f! rata I afafaLman f t ATt M ."T An Ina ra villus riuiviiiu iwtti f as v J auvrvfl via. that every o&nriititt your paper haa supported (luring the past twenty years haa Jbeen de leateoT' Great editor fhotlr "Yes. tir. I know it: and if you don't do what I want, hang me if I don't uppvrt your'

ME .WESTERN RUSTLERS.

AN EXPLANATION AND A DEFENSE. Arter Which Follows Mach Information About Washington Territory Vast Timber Supplies Property at Iloqulam Cray 'a Harbor. MoxtrsANo, W. T., Sept 3. Special. I eee bo many paragraphs in tho eastern papers, condemning our "western business methods," or painting our western "rustlers in eo grotepquo a form, as to arouse a suspicion of their business in tegrity, that I feel justified in interposing a defense. Ikfore passing judgment, people should study tho conditions. An Arabian philosopher onco 6aid: "After a long experience I havo observed that people are moro liko tho times in which they livo than like their ancestors." So I, after considerable travel in many lands conclude, that people aro moro liko their immediate surrounding than even 'liko the times in which they livo." Tho samo man, who in Connecticut, with good capital, would make wooden nutmegs, in Washington, with no capital, would inako wooden ships. Tho aino man who, in Ithodo Island, would waste tho lard from his bones, rack his fevered brain and dwarf his soul in pawning natural desires for lean pennies, that nge might not go down in poverty, in Washington would clutch health from tho ocean breeze, bear a broad breast, open an ofTico in a borrowed tent, to in debt for a month's board, livo on salmon and stalo butter, dress in a sfraw hat and a grin, and beforo a grav hair dared invade his sunburned temple, h would inako a "half million in timber deal ' nnd corner lots. Tho neotdo of tho Kitst have read of theso rapidly acquired fortunes, and too often conclude that they are tho fruiti of chicanery, and that intriguo and heartless scliuming enrich the few at tho expense of thn confiding many. These conclusions result from the natural inability of men to conceive great enterprises, while cramped by narrow and nthilrary conditions. The peoplo of the l'.nt nenmo Ms r( making money by "violating business methods, but wo only violate what thy consider "business methods." Our"iiietlioils" diller no moro from their "methods" than do our surroundings from their surroundings. Ambition sours or cowers according t tho opportunities. In the cramped and rmirow lit grent Indu'drls nro products of long nnd patient htirdiH'NS care; in tho Went, with no capital but ' check, nnd tho credit born of dauntlcus pluck, n factory rises in a month, nnd tho whirr of machinery echoes among tho hills before thu wlld'uhltnals retire beyond gtltinhot of the vol klugin.iti'w camp. In the 'Ani cities grow ; III tho Wext they nro built. IntlioDast It takes c:mli to improv; in the Wrut it takes pluck and energy, and cash bunts the active man of brains, ami fill his rurso before payday comes. In descrying tho JiUMiich methods of tho Wert, real twtnto dealers coinolnfor a full share of abuse, Ah ( a stir's wife, all "should bo above suspicion," but they aro not. Hut nowhere bus the "genuine real estate shark" beun more persisetnt than in the cities of the sound yet wlm has invented iu any of thoo place's that lias not mado money by the enterprise. This is not a burned desert like South California, nor a wind-scorched Kansas, but a country with fertile soil, never failing fruits and grains, vast mineral wealth and a crop of timber which will take a hundred years to harvest, nnd w hich is annually increasing in valuo in nlnio.st geometrical ratio. Thero is no "boom" in Washington; thero never has been and never will lc, Washington is simply tho most inviting country on earth for tho speculator, tho manufacturer, the trader, tlio farmer or tho home-seeker, and this grent movement is simply an inundation or invasion of the state by those clauses, who are coming from all God's creation and Kansas. They come to stay. Of courso men coming west must uso intelligence and business Bagacity, as wo havo sharks and Shylocks among ua, and, though roost all place3 will improve, some will improve moro rapidly than others. Whereever ono goes in this country ho will hear enoujrh about the "great future" of the place to arouse suspicion, but my observation is that nearly all the so-called "schemes to build towns" in Washington, nro honest efforts to make money by building up centers of business, and that most all who buv build or enter into com merce or manufacture almost invariably make excellent investments. For the benefit or entertainment of my eastern readers, permit mo a brief review of a case that ha3 recently come under my immediate observation". I think I have gathered the facts from reliable sources. The Gray's Harbor basin has great re sources. On the harbor or its tide waters there are several pretty towns. All are active and promising. Each have eloquent champions and they are somewhat dis turbed by local jealousies. At each place one is reasonably sure to hear the whole truth if not more. Montesano, the county seat of Chehalis county, is at the head of tide water naviga tion, and tho converging point of all roads leading to the harlor. Cosmopolis lies on the south side of the river, twelve miles below, and tho active town of Aber deen on the north side, three miles further down. Below Aberdeen is Cowpoint bar, which presents preat obstacles to navigation, as it has the shoalest water between tho harbor s entrance and Mon tesano. Below Cowpoint bar is lloquiam, at tho mouth of the lloquiam river, Whilo this town is below all interior bars, there is not what is termed, in eearaen's phrase, "deep water" until you get full two miles west, or further down tho chaa nel. Opposite this deep water, where the great ships may lie at anchor or ride at will, it was suggested by some shrewd business man to build a city. Ind was purchased a few months ago, the site located and a move for a connection by rail with the great Northern Pacific system at Centralia w as inaugurated. The vast timber supply north of this point on the Humptulip and the lloquiam, the latter of which is navigable twelve or fifteen miles and the broad fertile valleys and prairies also directly tributary to these points, made this a popular enter prise. In March and April last, the ex citement wore a fever heat, ana iana in the dense forests from one to two miles away, sold from $"0 to $100 per acre. The same gentlemen that were concerned in the creat industries at Hoouaim were rart owners and manasrers of this so-called "terminus" property. They would not plat or sell a lot during this demand, but made every effort to secure the building of a railroad. A sale in the spring, with the prevailing excitement, would have made those concerned very rich. But while they refused to put it on- the market, they employed fully one hundred men and kept them at work at an expense of $l'50 per day for two or three months. As time passed, thero turned un a hitch in the plans for the railroad. but the efforts were renewed with greater zeal. In June the property at lloquiam, three miies above the "terminus," was thrown on the market all at the eamc price with contracts for building on tho b'usi ness street. The lote were sold, $200 for corner and ?150 for inside lots. They "sold

ike hot cakes." as many of them would

have done at double the price. All were treated alike and tne terms enabled almost any wage-worker to buy. As before indicated, the destinies of "lloquiam and the proposed town at the proposed railroad terminus were linked together, not only because ot tho loint ownership of the managers, but because while the "terminus," being off deep water is intended ns the commercial cen ter, lloquiam, by its splendid river water ironi ana tne levpl nature ot the and, is peculiarly adapted to become the industrial and manufacturing center of an extensive country. lloquiam is already Quite a business place. It lias but one saw-mill, but I am informed that its output for the year has more than equaled all the other mills on tho harbor. It has very extensive wholesale houses and builds some fine vessels. It has good schools, churches, hotels and about five hundred splendid people, with about twenty-five buildings under way and forty more, including a fine hotel and a large and beautiful bank building. Messrs. Arnolds Foe? of Iowa aro conducting the latter enterprise. ' l lie town is indebted, not more to its natural advantages than to the wise policy of tho company, which has the direct caro ot Mr. deorge r. hmmerson. This gentleman is a member of the firm, is sole manager of tho great mill and the extensivo wholesalo houses, and anv person who bv energy, industry and intelligence show's nltnelf worthy, finds himself able, not only to buy a lot, but to buy building material, and thus wo see some as handsome cottages as can be found in tho West being erected by persons of moderate means, as far as tho ownership of tho land is concerned, lloquiam lias censed to be a "ono man town," but the skillful hand of the "one man" energy is seen and felt in every public enterprise. In other towns the water front is private property, nnd held at very high figures. In Iloquiain the company, though .ho most of its interests are cone, holds fifteen miles of fine water front, where deep-sea vessels mny lie along the sides of the banks. "Not one inch for sale," says Mr. Kinmcrion, "but t - mi iiuecii innen in irive away to any wnu win uso it in profitable industry." A few days airo I was waitimr over in tho town for a steamer, and met a gentleman who wns endeavoring to secure grounds for a large sash and door factory. Tho location he had selected was iiisullicirnt in size and Mr. Kinnterson re1. un hand two lots, at double the prlco or which he had sohl them a few weeks ago, and gave tho entiro property, worth from seven to ten thousand dollars, to the enterprise. The whole water front property is ln ld for gratuitous diKt'owd to iIiom) w ho w ill use it. 1 he firm will also draw out of the retail trad iu any line whenever anyone will utart iu business with a Suitable stock of good. Hut the "terminus," or point, before referred to ns being three miles below, has been christened tlray's Imtbor, The property has been platted nnd thrown on tho market, nnd Is selling oiiite rapidly. Tho prices vary according to location and the terns nro one-third down, the balance in one and two years, with a deduction of -lo per cent, of tho purchase price, providing a building is t-reeted equaling in value the price of the lot. The Company has for rn etal weeks been spending !;.'ihi per day In building wharfs to deep water, grading streets an. 1 making other improvements. A delightful drive along the bea h connects the two towns, nnd over a hundred men are workiniron the (Jrnv's Harbor A. Centralia railroad. I nm informed bv gentlemen of good business standing that a greater force is at work on tho ( en tralia end, and that the work will bo pushed us rapidly ns possible to completion. The Northern Pacific railroad, with which this lino connects nt Centralis, is the greatest railroad corporation in the West. It is not only the cheapest and most convenient for passenger tratlie, but tho most prompt and reliable freight-car rier on tho continent, and if these enter prising gentlemen succeod .in connecting tho great Pacific ocean with the great l'ncitic railroad, by this shortcut, it will earn immortal glory and reap a rich re ward. I w ill not sav that all schemes for money-making show such apparent busi ness integrity, but I believe this is not in exception. This is the way towns aro built in tho West. If they are "mad schemes" for money-making, there is surely "methods in madness," for it would seem that all who join in in the enter prise are to share in the rewards, in what do these "methods" diller from those of the Kat, except in their greater magnitude, which is made possible by tho fact that the world is coming to us .' Gkoik.e W. Bell. A Deadly Toothpick. Boston Herald. "Do you know." said a physician to a Iff rail man yestenlay, "that the great American habit of toothpick-chewin? is responsible for a larjje number of human ills? If you have CTer noticed these things much you have observed that a good many people who take their rorals at restaurants or hotel cafes and runh out immediately afterward to business snatch on the way a toothpick, sometimes several of them, and thrust the little wooden spears into the mouth. In nine cases out of ten they don't use the toothpick quickly and as a matter of business, hut they retain it in the mouth after all necessity for its functions has censed. They chew on it and wabble it about under the jaws, and finally the niece of wood is reduced to a razeed pulp. and then it is usual! j castaway. Very frequently small particles ot the wood are wallowed, and I know of one man who was in the habit of eating his toothpick. I became acquainted with him because he wanted me to give him omething to heal his stomach, which was really in a lacerated condition, lhe small paruciei of wood that are swallowed frequently lodce in the walls of the stomach somewhere and induce gastrio disturbance. I know of several cases which proved latai. Will 'Wrltlnff Become a Lost Art? Ko-Uon Traveller. Will the coming man write? Not at all. There will be no more need of his learning to write than of his learning to spin. Writing will have become one of the lost arts, and a wholly unnecessary art, by the time the coming man appears. His writing will be done by the phonograph, which will be placed on his desk as pens and ink are now; and whenever he has a story, a poem, un essay, or a private letter to indite he will simply talk into the nhonoeranh and send on the plate which has recorded his words. The teaching of penmanship will be unknown in the school of the future, and writing, in the present fashion, will be regarded as much amonif barbaric methods as we now hold the rude hieroglyphics of the ancienU to be. A Natural Inference. rjudK-c.i VnA Mother "See the baby. Henry. He's holdinjr out his hand to you. What do you Fond Father"! don't know; but as every body says he takes after you, i suppose ltUa tootsy want! some pin-money. A. Warranted Inference. If. Y. World. Little Five-Year-Old "Mamma, is Mr, Momma. "Why, no, George; why do you ask?" "Well. I taw him measuring listen waist with his arm last nignu' A "Cher la Worth More. Ifack. marked Mrs. Riverside Rives to Mrs. Morris Parke: "she calls her cook a 'chef.' " "The idea!" replied Mrs. Tarke. "Why, the only pa ya her an u.en aoliara a montn r i Bound to lie In the Swim. fuck.) City Nephew "What in thunder are you standing m that water for, uncle? Uncle Enoch "I'm soakin' th' blackint off my old cowhides, o m ter make 'em look like them Taller shoes yoa city xo.ks wear."

PORTER'S OPEN LETTER.

It Contradicts Ttterly Previous Statement of the Coal Operator. To the Editor Sir: The open letter robFished recently in the Drazil Timti, written by II. II. Porter of the C. k I. C. company, addressed to the striking block coal miners, is a significant document in more thaa one particular. Mr. Porter invites the miners who hare at any time been in the employ of the Brazil block coal company to come to Chicago and be showa conclusively that for three years post the company has made no dividends; that the stock has steadily declined until it is now worth but 60 cents on the dollar, and that the company has oUered every cent for min ing that it can possibly pay. Doubtless, this proposition was merely a tub was thrown to the whale for effect. The miners say that Mr. Porter's company should show these thing conclusively to a board of arbitration here at lii-Hzil. When this is satisfactorily done to disntcrested men, tho miners will accept the wages ofiered. Put Mr. Porter labors to explain that, a the transportation of a ton of coal Irom israil to (. h tea go is hut the equivalent of the digging of a tou and a half, tbe miner should accept the price os'ered and be content. He fails entirely, however, to how the llraz.il miners why it is that th? digging f a ton and a half of coal' exacted from the block miner a th equivalent of transportation, a diitnnce of lö' miles, while the bituminous miner at Coxville is required to mine only a ton as ruch equiva lent lor the d ist. 'iik of Kn miles. This schedule is in violation of all known laws of ratio. Thu: The transportation of a ton of bituminous coal irom t. oxvule ti t. hii'ago, Iii miles, is worth. cents, or the djiriritig of one ton: therefore the transportation of a ton of block coal from Kranl to ('hiragn. 13 miles, is worth one dol lar, or the digit'in of a ton and a half. Itut how does this proposition of President Porter tally w i i It that mude by the olherrs of the company here (h lalti r part of June,, to th el ect thut if the committee of miners fuilrd to show from their hooka that they ha t ma h more than ! per cent, for the pat year, they should fli'ree to l'o lo work. This was re ganled by alt us nn H'linision tint the com pany hil l been rcid.ing i per rent Put now comes Mr. Porter to say lluil they have had no lividrnds for thieo vciirs. Ak'nin. how dor Mr. Porter's derlamtion, tlint their slock is worth bnMiO rents on the dollar, consist with lhat of the oliiccrs of lhe company bete, ho, before the bonrd of equalization lt .In tie, mied their stork at par and worth I1 cent on the dollar? That statement wnsinaile nnd openlr verified before the bonrd two month after the strike had come on. I Mr. I'orter'a letter to be understood to inenn that the stock of the company has declined from P to rrnt on the dollar since the last of .lime? lf, what etlranrdl nary r.viea have operated to depreelntc 40 per cent, wuliln ao abort n lime? With ihesn rontrndli-tory statement, the public, can arrcpt Mr, Porter's open lrttrronjy a A stroko ol policy to rmnt puMio tyuipntlif lor llie company an.! arrest the r,ow . rontri billion to the strikers. ft. AY CnrMTY. iiinii.S'pt. :. SOMETHING! OF A HOMANCE. A rather Meet II. a iMuubler and (iltsl ller Ilia fropertj. Mt'Xt, Mo., Hept. 4. Tweiitydlve yrr Ago John .i''lT"H a Hun and Ml P.i-lU Morris una nmnle l in limit k, PniidolpU county. 1 our vein later, niter a daughter bad hern horn they sr) ur.itr.l, she olitAlnlllj divorce, lie went W'e.t nn I was i. ever heard from. Hi wife married a man named Crosahltti u ho died ft few year a'o nnd ho came to this e.iy, her he ha lived In abject pn. erly ever sltK-e. .at week I -a Itoe, w ho has Inen living In nn ubsi-uro part of M..nn county for several )eur learned that Ins I.III k" hl' r, w Iiomi he had liot heard of tor over twenty Jrms, lived in Mexico. II invited her tu coiim nnd see him, which hb conamted to do, and lids week t-he went to him. After a Joyful ineetinii he prekeiiled her will a deed to all Iii. possessions, which amount to several thousand dol.nr. Tho Mimliiui of I.lfe. If death I but "a sleep, an t a forfeiting," A calm olillvi'jti a'.t.-r earjr years. Life's ai.ailiws vanish mitt, our l it sun's settinf, A I'd lilo 1 but tho nit snure of our tears. Not thin", tib death! th shadow that tisne o'er us, ("hlllinj the weary hrnln, the tire I hrt! Life's thn lowi creep around, alx.ve, befora us; At the horizon's ve.tfe tuny all depart. Oh friendship wtet! with thy aitong arms enfold us, Ward off the blow from hiehouraat Learta shrink. Not nunc so gor! as lliey ho lore wo jU hold u, Nur all so bad as they bo hate us, think. Take at its worth the h uinMest Rift life brief us A Jewel docs not slay such apjH-ar! Weigh who our own th cruel word that atings ut, And learn to know the smile that hides a tear. Purever blest the s!oet that knows no waking! The rest that Mewed nature give her own ; To her great heart her feeble children taking the soothes their pain acd stills th Jr faintest mos a. Forever done the smiles, the tears, the laughter, t'orcver done, the weariness and strife; Oh kindly shadow of the preat hereafter J Oa weary, weary shadows of this life. Madiaon, Ind. Hkssie 1L WooLroar Wbrtt is Girl Should Leara. Mail and Express. To sew. To cook. To mend. To be jrentle. To value time. To dres neatly. To keep a secret. To be self-reliant. To avoid idleness. To mind the baby. To dam stockings. To respect oid age. To made pood bread. To keep a house tidy. To control her temper. To be above possiping. To make a home happy. To take care of the sick. To humor a cross old man. To marry a man for his worth. To be a helpmate to a husband. To take plenty of active exercise. To see a mouse without screaming. To be light-hearted and fleet-footed. To read some books besides novels. To wear a shoe that wort cramp the f . . , , a IU uc IS nuuiaui nvuiau uuui. sua lavuiu stances. Ouavint Mnrriage Notices. The Springfield Union has been collecting some quaint and curious marriage notices of. the old times, and here are three of the best: In P.ozrah, Auzust, 119, Mr. John Bate of tVilliamatown, Mass., to Miss Mary Ann Bass of the former place, after a courUhip of on hour. Is this n t angling well, I ak, Such tender liato to take? T r i.. i . .. -i. . - T.. The P.ass, though, caught the Hate. Married, at Pridcewater, Deo. Iß, 17f, Capt Thomas Baxter of tjuinry, aged sixty-six, to Miss Whitman of the former place, aged fiftyseven, after a lone and tedious coumhip of forty-eiVht years, which they both sustained with uncommon fortitude. In Boston. April, lWl, by the T.ey. William Sabine, Jr-seph Willicutt to Miss Susan WhiU marsh, after a tedious courtship of thirteen days and but thirty-five days after the death of his former wife. The beat way, It aeems, a deep sorrow to smother l ot the loss of a ifj is to marry another. Fought Over a "Woman. Greknsbcbo, Ta., Sept. 4. New has just reached here of a riot among the Hungarians at the Standard mines, near Mt, Pleasant, ia which one of the lluns was so badly beaten that he died a short time afterward. Another was shot throuph the leg and severely hurt. The fi?ht, it appears, was occasioned by a dispute between two burly Hungarians over woman. ITow He Preferred Them. Epoch. 1 Simeral (to waiter) "Brin!; me two tg9 toat and butter, and a cup of tea." Waiter ''Yes, air. How will you have yont ejr, air?" timeral-'Trcsh." Faith Th nralna. truck. Col. Shejwd (cnthusiasticallj) 'Caat w editor be a Christian?" Mail and Erprt Headers (wearily) "Yes J but every Christian can't be an editor.''

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