Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 27, Number 35, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 27 February 1897 — Page 7

BEAUTIFUL IN DECAY.

THE WHITE WALLED CITY OF CADIZ, IN SPAIN.

It Was Founded Three Thousand Tears Ago and Wm Once a Grand Seaport, bat Now It Lang-ulshes In Poverty For

Lack of Commerce.

'Special Correspondence.]

CADIZ, Spain, Feb. 12.—It is not far across the strait from Africa at Tangier to the Spanish peninsula at Tarifa. Ten hours on a slow going steamer take one far up the western coast of Spain to its most beautiful port, the white walled city of Cadiz. On the way we pass the promontory of Trafalgar, where Nelson, in 1805, gave the finishing blow to Spain's supremacy on the ocean. This great victory was such a blow to Napoleon's ambitions, offsetting his victories by land, that the fact that it was also a deathblow to Spain's schemes of maritime conquests is generally overlooked. But it was, and nothing since tho destruction of the armada was so terrible for the nation.

On the morning before that great naval battle in which "England's darling" lost his life the combined French and Spanish fleet rendezvoused in this same harbor of Cadiz. From the masthead of Nelson's flagship were counted 18 French and 10 Spanish ships of the line, which soon after, to their sorrow, sailed out and gave the British battle.

At tho present time you will find more British ships in the harbor of Cadiz than of all other nations combined, for England takes Spanish wines and salt in great quantities and returns her manufactures all in British bottoms. As for our own trade, there are so few arrivals here of American ships as to make it hardly worth tho while to mention them.

Charming city of Cadiz I Once the grandest seaport of southern Spain, now it languishes in poverty, eating out its

A VIEW OF CADIZ.

heart for lack of commerce. But, though poor, Cadiz is clean, a statement one cannot make of many other cities of Spain. It is a walled city, with sea walls and miles of fortifications, which afford delightful promenades. Its commanding situation on a hook of land, with a magnificent bay behind it, completely landlocked and separated from the interior country by rivers and marshes, early attracted tho attention of those bold sea rovers, tho Phrouicians. They landed hero and began the foundations of a city about 8,000 years ago and were driven out by the Romans 1,000 years later.

Coming down to times comparatively modern, we find Columbus fitting out here for his second voyago in 1498. With his fleet of 17 ships and caravels he sailed so proudly for the West Indies, only to return seven years later a prisoner in irons. Ho was not the first victim of Spanish ingratitude or the hist., and, though King Ferdinand commanded that his chains should be removed and that ho should bo received at court with high honors, yet tho iron had sunk into his soul, and ho never recovered from this indignity.

I found Cadiz in a flurry of prepara tion for the last struggle in Cuba for tho retontion of those islands which Columbus discovered for tho Spanish crown 400 years ago. Only Cuba and Puerto liico now remain to Spain of :11 the possessions sho once controlled in the new world, which included all the West Indies aud Central and South America. All now are gone, audit is the fear that they shall lose their grip on these remaining isles and be obliged to sever forever their connection with the hemisphere their sailors brought to tho knowledge of Europe tfcut makes them so desperate,

I was here eight years ago and found warm welcome everywhere, but on this trip I have boon regarded with suspicion and even some hatred. The Spu^iarus are, as a rule, kind hearted and pleasant to meet as you find them in the clubs, hotels and plains. Although none of them would invite you to his house and make you acquainted with his wife and family, still that is the result of racial custom and not of individual reserve. With all their pride they are amiable, and with all their haughtiness they are extremely poor. This city of Cadis is typical of all Spain, with perhaps the exception of Barcelona, and it reminds me of a stranded hulk, its bones bleaching on a coral reef, a forlorn wreck of what Was once a mighty slup, hopelessly cast away through the ignorance or wickedness of its pilots. As the only seaport of importance on this coast of Spain in the days when this kingdom held vast possessions in America, Cadis was rich and prosperous. But now the main support of the port is the ftoneral Transatlantic company, with its steamers for the West Indies, which has its docks and works here and gives employment to a large proportion of its inhabitants.

Barring the alight tokens of suspicion of which I have spoken, there is nothing here to mar the pleasure of a stay. And whatever may be the sentiments of the male portion of the population there is certainly no hostility manifested among the ladies. Within the restricted circle of their opportunities they will welcome the American visitor with oat* stretched arm*, for the same conditions

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maids

A Charitable Woman.

"Mrs. I-'imiy Williamson of New Jersey," pays the Boston Transcript, "daughter of the late Chancellor Williamson, secretary of tlie State Charities Aid association, has become a corresponding member of the Massachusetts Prison Reform league. The prison comrnittcc of New Jersey is greatly interested in the practical and humane prison reforms .in Massachusetts. The committee has sent a formal letter to the Massachusetts league expressing the desire of co-operating and becoming an auxiliary, working over the same lines. Mrs. Williamson is woman of tine presence, with literary ability, devoting a large part of her fortune to charity."

Mrs. Cuno&'t Foresight.

Mrs. George Curzon possesses a fair share of the cutcness of her nation. When she packed her trousseau to go to Europe, she packed her jewels separately and sent them on by a previous steamer to the one she intended traveling by, and the result was that they arrived intact. If she hat! carried them with her, they would probably have disappeared in transit, for when she arrived in England, at Lord Scarsdale's (her first halting ptece), she* found that all her boxes had been ransacked and every packagc turned over in sesreh of them.

An Old Settler.

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Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy is indeed The World's Great Spring Medicine." It has come to be recognized as the best possible spring medicine to take, and the people everywhere use it during the trying spring months to tone up anew the relaxed nerves and reinvigorate and enrich the blood. A spring medicine is a necessity if one wishes to keep in perfect health and vigor during the changes from winter to summer. This perfect spring medicine, Dr. Orient's Nervura blood and nerve remedy, is

prevail here as in some parts of South America, whero nearly all the males have been killed off, and the fair ones are left to languish and to waste their charms on desert air. The 'Gaditanas" are very pretty aud vivacious, gentle and swcot tempered. I do not claim to be tho first one to make this discovery, for as far back as tho second decade of this century, to go no farther, their charms were sung by the poet, no less a personage than Lord Byron. This is what, he says in his poem called the "Girl of Cadiz:"

are long to woo

And frigid-even in possession, And if their charms bo fair to view Their lips are slow at love's confession. But, born beneath a brighter sun,

For love ordain ml the Spanish maid is, And who, when ftSvdly, fairly won, Enchants you like tho girl of Cadiz?

Who, indeed? We cannot deny that tho noble lord was an authority on this subject, but if my memory serves me he also wrote equally tender lines anent ladies of other nationalities. The last one was always the most enchanting with Byron, and that was the one he had in mind probably when he wrote the lines quoted ubove.

If I do not imitate Byron and confess to being smitten by the charmers, I will at least confess to being in love with the city. .Seen by day or by night, shimmering in the white sunlight or bathed in silvery moonlight, Cadiz is a fascinating city to look upon. With its romantic history, its noble architecture, its association with great names—as Columbus, Cortes, Da Soto, Las Casas— it deserves abetter fate than now seems imminent. J. A. ELDRIDOE.

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with Hoetetter's Stomach Bitters. It will then tracks." and possibly lea*«yoa unmolested and In peaceable possession of your own comfort in the fat are. Peril always attends rhcomaf *r»,

Use and Abuse of Money.

There arc many fellows at college who have money and use it well, but the mere fact that a man has cash in his pocket does wot get him on to athletic teams, or into college clubs or societies, or at the head of his clasa It helps him on if he's a good chap. It holds him back if he isn't. Then by and by, when you. get through college, you will find it just the same in businesses of all kinds. Money seems to holp a good man along and seems to be the worst enemy of a bad man. So that to think only of money first, and then of 'doing fine things with it after it is gained, is pntting the cart before the horso. And, if you want to be in the senate, it's the wrong way to go at it to go down to South America and work in a gold mine for 20 years simply and solely to "raise the cash" for the purpose of buying tho votes of a state, even if such a procedure were moral and right, which is unquestionably not the case.

Rather make up your mind what you want to do and then try to make a financial success of it as well as all other kinds of successes. If it is the hid« and leather business, try to make money each year, but try also to make money fairly, to learn the trade thoroughly and to keep pace with tho literature, the politics, the life of your own day. If it is the ministry or law or literature, try to make both ends meet each year, and to make money just the same, but don't forget that all these branches of work require something besides cash to make tho.m succcsses. In a certain way it is just as wrong to try to believe that money is an evil as it is to let yourself believe that money is the

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TEKRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MALL, FEBRUARY 27, 1897.

exactly what the system needs at this season. It not only purifies, but makes rich, red blood it not only strengthen• and invigorates the nervous system, but re-energizes and revitalizes the nerves by feeding them with renewed nerve force and power it is not only an aid to digestion, but it creates a regular, natural, and healthful action of the bowels, liver, and kidneys, which in the spring are always sluggish and inactive. By all means use Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy this spring.

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thing worth having. It is a great and good thiug when you have learned how to use it and a mighty poor thing when it is abused. Decide, therefore, on "what work you will set out, without regard to money, and then try to mako a financial as well as an intellectual success of it—Harpers Round Table.

Dupin and the Epigram.

Dupin's belief in the omnipotence of epigram as amoral veneer for political as well as other immorality was to a great extent justificxl by his thorough knowledge oi and his supreme contempt for the majority of his countrymen, and especially for those actively engaged in politics. He knew that in France one well delivered epigram is sufficient to start a man on a prosperous career, sufficient to hurl the man at whom it Ls leveled from the pedestal he has climbed with infinite trouble and perseverance. And, seeing

f.hat

he had not his equal

in the faci) ty for coining them, not even in Talleyrand, that his peer in that respect, Rivaiol, had been in his gravo since the beginning of the century, Dapin had never been very sparing of them. From that moment, however, be began to sow them broadcast, taking care not to hide his light uudcr a bushel, fcr modesty was not Dapin'a besotting ait- Bather than piaad and not be reported he refused to plead at ail, which* in fact, he did when asked to defend Beraiigcr a third time. Oi curso he did not say so in as many words, bat no one

his dupe, because every one was aware that, as an exceptional measure, the government intended to exclude reporters front the tn.iL—Van Dam's "Undercurrents of the Second Empire."

Hotel*

American hotels are so taken tip with the desire to dazzle us that they sometimes make us uncomfortable. Ii is very fine and impressive to have one's carri handled by two men and a big boy aud (hen a little boy when calling upc®

friends at a great hotel, but it is fatiguing nevertheless to wait SO minutes and then have tho little boy come down and tell you they are not at home. Though most of us cannot abide somo of the nuisances of the foreign system, such as being charged extra for soup una service, yet many traveling Americans, who are sufficiently unpatriotic, say that our big, glittering hotels are no1' quite up to the standard of the best ones on the other side in the small details of making one peacefully and restfully happy. The innkeeper's instinct for knowing exactly what is wanted without being told is more highly developed over there. They have oee.ii at it for so many more generations.—Jesse Lynch Williams in Scribner's.

Triplets In China.

In the southern provinces of China there is a superstition that if triplets are born one of the throe children will eventually beoome a noted rebel, writes Dr. Henry Liddell in Demorest's Magazine. In order to avoid that direst of Chinese curses, a bad son, a "wise man' is sent for in order to decide w* of the three children is the destined sheep. The three infants having been conveyed into a perfectly dark room, the "wise man" takes three pieces of twine, each of a different color, as white, red and black, and, entering the room, ties one of these pieces of string round a wrist of each baby. The one which, when brought out into the light, is found to have the red string on its wrist is drowned like a puppy.

Guimpes Again.

Mothers will rejoice to learn that guimpes are again in the mode for littlo girls as well as for very little boys.

Some especially pretty and simple models are copied in the drawing. One, of pique, has six crcss way strips of heavy white inserting uion the yoke and a finish to the sleeves of Hamburg inserting and narrow edge. Tucking, which comes by the yard, in batiste, makes the body of some guimpes. These wee waista often are seen in pretty colorings—Ecmetimes even in scarlet and dark blue dotted wash fabrics. They are worn with littlo overslips, yoke and skirt in one, or tiny wool jacket and skirt. The gniinpe takes the place in the small girl'B wardrobe of the shirt waist in her mother's.—Margery Daw in New York Press.

Numerous unsolicited testimonials daily received by its proprietors clearly demonstrate the fact that the reputation of Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup, the infallible cure for all affections of the throat and chest, has suffered no diminution in the last quarter of a century.

Exhawttng.

"They say early rising is very unhealthy." "Of course. Many a woman has broken down her constitution getting her hush-Mid up in time for breakfast.''— Chicago Record.

LQce bU'cosness, dyspepsia, headache, constipation, soar stomach, indigestion are promptly cored by Hood's Pill*. They do their work

Pills

easily and thoroughly. Best alter dinner pill*. SB cents. AO dnmists. Prepared by C. Hood ft Oa, Lowell, Kasa. Tbe only PHI to take with HoodU 8anapariQa.

FOR LITTLE FOLKS.

A PIN PIANO.

It IS Called a Pinnetta, la Kasily Made and Is Very Amusing.

Have you a cigar box, a bit of tisstie paper, a paper of pins and a tack hammer? Well, that is all you need to make a pinnetta, and I am sure the pleasure and amusement it will afford you and your friends will amply repay you for the trouble.

First, you take the box and nail down the lid, then cover the whole box with bright colored paper so that it will look pretty. Then tack the pins along the edges of the bottom of the box. You must be very careful in the pounding of the pins, for this is the difficult part of the work.

Have your sister or somebody sing the soprano part of any song you like, note by note. Perhaps, unless the singer has a perfectly true voice, you had better use some instrument to tune your pinnetta by. Use new, straight pins and

pound them in until they sonnd exactly like the singing, just as a violin is tuned with a piano. The deeper the pins are driven the higher the sound. If a very high note is desired, small black pins are best, and for bass notes large needles are best, but common pins can be used for all. A very little difference in the depth of the driving makes a great difference in the sound. Suppose you want to play "Two Little Girls In Blue." You sing the first word, "an," and drive the first pin in until it keys exaotly with it, then the second word "old" and tune with the second pin, and so on to the end, placing the pins about a quarter of an inch apart or closer.

Holding tho box firmly in your left hand, or, better, placing it on a table, you take along pin in your right hand and run the point along the middle of the pins in the box as they stand upright. You should run the pin in your hand according to the time the piece is written in.

The pinnetta can be made in perfect tune, played in perfect time and has a clear, sweet sound, like water running over stones. If you possess any musical talent, yon can make the accompaniment of chords on another box and have a very pretty duet.

Any one can make and play a pinnetta.—Chicago Record.

When the Moon Is Round as an O. When the moon is rotind as an O And summer is in the sky,

Then Maud and Philip and Joe And Jenny and John and I Outdoors in the moonlight go,

And gayly we play "I spy" Where the lilao bushes grow And the poplar trees so high Their filigree shadows throw.

When the moon is round as an O And frosty the winter sky, Then Maud and Philip and Joe

And Jenny and John and I With joy o'er ths crusted snow Downhill on our ooasters fly Or skate on the pond below.

And we laugh in the winter sky When the moon is round as an O. —Delia Hart Stone in Youth's Companion.

A Living Alarm Clock.

A young Lancashire lad makes something like a living acting as a living alarm clock. He lives in a village, and every weekday morning about 4 o'clock goes from door to door Causing the peo pie who are his customers and who pay a few cents to be awakened in the morning in time to get to their duties in the neighboring mills and workshops.

weight a Candle Hopping.

One person holds a lighted candle, another has an unlighted one the one with the unlighted candle has to light it at the lighted one, both persons hopping on one foot all tho time. Bedroom candlesticks should bo used, to prevent the grease from the candles falling about—New Orleans Picayune.

Like Papa's.

A 6-year-old was seated in a barber's chair. 'Well, my little man, how would yon like your hair cut?" "Oh, like papa's, with a little round hole at the top."—Exchange.

Keep Salvation

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It is a sovereign

the gymnasium.

iy for cuts, strains,

bruises and sprains, to which acrobats and athletes are liable at all times. It is the greatest cure on earth for pain. 25 cents.

Ibsen.

Bjornstjerne Bjornson, whose son married Ibsen's daughter, speaks thus of the dramatist's pessimism: "Ibsen is no Norwegian. His ancestors were Scotch, as might be seen from his Calvinistic beliefs and his gloomy views of men and life. It is a lamentable fact for the Norwegians, but pessimism has been brought into Norway by a foreigner."

Making Women Eligible.

The Alabama legislature has passed a law making women eligible as county superintendents of schools. On Jan. 80 Governor Johnson appointed Miss Fannie Cabiniss register in chancery for Madison county. A commentator says that "these are considered long steps in the direction of woman suffrage in Alabama.

The South African boer does just as little work as will keep himself and his family alive, toad most of that he gets done by Kaffir servants, who, in the mate out af the way districts at any rate, are practically slaves.

Hall's Hair Renewer cures dandruff and scalp affections also all cases of baldness where the glands whiclr"feed the roots of the hair are not closed up.

Fifty Years Ago.

Grandfather's hat! And within It you

Leave for tho South.

5 0 & N Lim*. 2.01am 3 & Ev Ex*. 5.38 am 7 NO&FlaSpl* 3.40 pm 1 Ev& I Mail. 3.20 pm

see.

Grandfather's favorite cough remedy. Whether 'twas Asthma, Bronchitis or Croup, Or baby at night waked the house with a whoop, With Ayer's Cherry Pectoral Gran'ther was sure That no cold or cough would e'er fail of a cure. In hats the styles change, but the records will show Coughs are cured as they were 50'years ago.

Ayer's Cherry Pectoral

has no equal as a remedy for coughs, colds, and lung diseases. Where other soothing elixirs palliate, Ayer's Cherry Pectoral heals. It is not a cheap cough syrup, whioh soothes but does not strengthen it is a physician's cough remedy, and it cures. It is put up in large bottles, only, for household use. It was awarded the medal at the World's Pair of ninety-three. It has a record of

50 Years of Cures.

RAILROAD TIME TABLE

Trains marked thus run daily. Trains marked thus (J) run Sundays only. All other trains run daily, Sundays excepted.

VANDALIA LINE.

MAIN LINK.

Arrive from the East.

7 West. Ex*. 1.30 am 15 Mail & Ac* 10.05 a 5 St. L. Lim* 10.19 a in 21 St. L. Ex*.. 3.44 3 Mail St Ac. 6.45 11 Fast. Mail*. 9.04

Arrive from the West,

N. Y. Ex*.. 3.30 a 14 Eff. Ac 9.30 am SO Atl'c Ex*..12.41 8 Fast Line*. 1.50 2 N. Y. Lim*. 5.22

Leave for t.ho West.

7 West. Ex*. 1.40 a in 5 St. L. Lim*. 10.24 a 21 St. L. Ex*.. 2.40 ro 13 Eff. Ac 4.20 pm 11 Fast Mail*. 9.00 c»

Leave for the East.

12 Ind Llm'd*11.20 a 6N. Y. Ex*.. 3.25am 4 Mall & Ac. T.15 a 20 Atl'c Ex*. .1:7.40 8 Fast Line* 1.55 pm 2N. Y. Lim* 5.27

MICHIGAN DIVISION.

Leave for the North.

Ar. from the North

6 St Joe Mail .6.20 am 8 S. Bond Ex.4.20

13 T. H. Ex... 11.17 am It T. H. Mail. 0.40 ptn

PEORIA DIVISION.

Leave for Northwest. Ar. from Northwest.

7 N-W Ex 8.00 am 21 Decatur Ex 3.30

20 At.ltc Ex .11.30 am ttEast'n Ex. 7.00pm

EVANSVILLE & TERRE HAUTE.

NA8HVILLK LIMB.

Arrive from South.

0 0 & N Lim* 3.55 a 2THE&X* .11.00 am 80 N G& FSj!* 3.20 4 C&lnd h:' H.10 pn

EVANSVILLE & INDIANAPOLIS. Leave for South. Arrive from .South. 33 Mail & Ex.,9.00am 48 II Mixed. 10.10 a n» 49 Worth. Mlx.3.50 32 Mat 1 St Ex. 3.00

CHICAGO & EASTERN ILLINOIS. Leave lor North. Arrive rvntn North 60 & N Lim* 4.50am

3 lux*..

2 II & O Kx. 11.20 a 9 M.VTK Lor. HUr a 8 NO&FSpl* 3.35 1 A-Ev Kx. M.w

10 TH&M hoc 4.10

5 O N Un.M !.55 rrt

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