Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 29 January 1897 — Page 3

Chicago, Jan. 28.—The Chronicle says: George W. Van Horn, spiritualistic healer And spiritualistic victim, declares that a

curse-that

The same mnexplainable mental telegraphy that now tells of a happy reunion told In 1867 a direful impending separation hence the certainty, in Mr. Van Horn's mind, of tie realization of the prophecy. Both he and his wife saw the same visions and dreamed the same dreams of hastening disaster, but, says Van Horn, though they loved each other truly, they were helpless to change the issue of fate. Together they »t»w the barrier form, together they saw it descend, and mentally together still they «aw their physical bodies rent asunder by an unrelenting combination of circumstances. Once, and once alone, since then have the two seen each other, and that was- sixteen years ago, and for a space of a few minutes.

United in Thoughts.

Yet, affirms Mr. Van Horn, in all the long ^mlts of separation each has known at every moment what the other was doing. The delicate sensitiveness of hypnotic of spirit CTiggeetion assuaged the bitterness of the ©vent by permitting a continual telegraphic communication. Heart to heart they have conversed, though they have never dared to attempt to defy the force that commanded them to part. But now Mr. Van Horn is as sured that all the evil is to end, and in room 300 at the Parker hotel, 85 Bast Thirty Second street, he is waiting for February 21 to oome. Day by day he sends his spirit messages and day by day through her answers his faith grows stronger.

G. W. Van Horn comes of a fated family. His brothers, M. D. Van Horn, mayor ©f Denver from 1893 to 1895 fell from a third story window and was dashed to death on the pavement below a sister, Mrs. Lou Vail Horn, died in a trance November 24, 1885, in New York his father and mother and an other sister all died unnatural deaths. Unless, as Mr. Van Horn believes, the curse has already worn itself out of his own life, a tragic destiny may still be in store for him. That at last a happy augury become is his foundation for thinking that the hate of the "voodoo" spirit against his family has been sated. After February 21, he counts upon long years .of restful peace, years in which, before death comes, he will have time to sink the wretched memories of the past.

He was born on July 19, 183S, in Delaware Ohio. As a young man he served during the war in the army of the union, and at its conclusion he went to Columbus, O., where in 1866, he met the young woman who was to be his wife. February 21, 1867, they were married ato Bellefontaine. Ohio. He was then 29 she was not yet 18. Spiritualism then, as since, was playing an important part In their careers, and it was by a spiritualis^io teacher, Dr. James R. Cooper, that they were married.

The rights themselves were of wierd character, and the room where the cereal* ny was formed was purposely decked to convey the idea of mystification. With such a4i invitation supernatural influences were .^fcs evidenced by the things that followed, not slow to develop.

Separated By Spirits.

"My wife and I," said Mr. Van Horn, "came west immediately after our marriage and settled in a town then small, but since the capital of a great state. I went into the boot and shoe business. For four short months we lived together and then the spirits separated us.

A murder was committed in the town. It was at first thought to be a suicide, but my wife, under spirit leadership, revealed that it was a murder. The murdered man was a prominent citizen, but the three men my wife pointed out as his slayers were equally prominent. No one dared arrest them, and they set themselves to breaking up onr household and driving us away. Visions came, the spirits ordered, and we left each other. She left the town aud so did I. We have never lived together since. I saw her briefly fifteen years ago, but the time for our reunion had not yet come. She has been under hypnotic control and she cannot come out from it entirely until our thirtieth wedding anniversary. Often I see her spirit form float into my room, and each time at the end of our conversation she says: "I am coming back to you on our thirtieth anniversary, and then we will live together for all time to come."

Mr. Van Horn's Version.

Mr. Van Horn, in the following letter, written especially for the Chronicle, tells the physical history of the strange play in which his role has fallen:

For the benefit of your readers I desire to present a few scientific facts for their consideration, trusting in due course of time to fathom a mystery of most vital importance to the wise men and women of your great city, and if needed to the entire world. My stbry, founded on personal facts and marvelous experiences, is as follows:

On the evening of February 21, 1867, I married my wife, whom I found to be in perfect harmony with my own position and temperament. Her mother's first name was the same as my own mother's first name. Peculiar mental phenomena seemed to present themselves. We had unmerous strange visions to relate. I found her weeping on many occasions and tried to console her. She said she saw the future of our lives. This was during April, 1S67. She relates that she saw our separation (not divorce) and that we should, eventually meet again. In her dreams she found me in this city and we had a joyful meeting.

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'OR THIRTY YEARS

LiOKGU a. w. VAN HORN AND HIS WIPE KBPT APART.

Mingle *t Will and a Keuulon la Sooa Kxpected.

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has hung over him for thirty

years is about to lift. Thirty years ago, he asserts, a malignant spirit power tore him away from his bride of four months, and BOW, lie says, the same force, under the BpeU of & more generous purpose, is about to reunite them. On February 21, the thirtieth anniversary of the ceremony that brought so little wedded bliss, he believes, with a confidence baaed upon a prophetic instinct, which he declares has never thus far failed him, that he will see again inphysical form the womrin whose image has ever been painted upon his brain and heart for thirty years.

Strange as it may seem, on the same nights, I would dream atod relate what 1 saw that corresponded with what she saw. Everything thus far has occurred. By a peculiar force of circumstances we became separated physically. Fate and destiny seemed to be our lot in life. It has been sixteen years since I saw my wife. Our correspondence mentally and by mail has at •o time been intercepted. I have heard her ipeak to me and have seen her astral form Saily. No tongue can express our sad and wonderful experiences. During these long thirty veal's wo have planned to meet each other. Only at intervals of years we were fortunate enough to success. Some unaccountable barrier or demoniacal influence overshadowed our lives. My protecting care and support financially and otherwise never •eased. Our love grew stronger daily.

To cap the climax I have deeided on a course that positively will settle the Question. The third acW will take place, thus proving my phophecy up to date.

To a higher power I invAke aid-that my shall meet ins in. this city without fail.

She will appear sson to celabrs*e our thirtieth anniversary as man and wife. The reunion will surely be at the Parker Wtel, 83 and 85 Bast Thirty-First street, tttb city.. I have consiuted many so-called spiritualists and mediums in regard to my phophecies during thirty years. They are all unbelievers. Some day in the near fdture I will convince them of the ultimate 'fulfillment of my prophecies.

Those persons who/laugh now will in due time make due apology for a proper lack of spiritual intelligence. Chicago spiritualism will be weighed in'the balance and found wanting.

G. W. VAN HORN.

Mr. Van Horn has1 lived in Chicago for several years, and as a healer practiced for a- time at 407 West Madison street. He has now practically given up his occupation. Three weeks ago, unable to withstand longer the impelling force, he took up quarters at the Parker house, which has already been designated as the meeting place.

AN UNKNOWN QUANTITY.

Point Where the Honeymoon Began to Wane. The honeymoon had not yet commenced to wane and they were, in the habit of assuring each other every two or three minutes that their love could never die, says TidBits. "I love you," he observed. "I love you, too!" she replied. A pause and an embrace. "I love you more tnan you do me, he replied ,, "I love you more than you do xne, answered she. Another pause and a still longer embrace. "I love you twice as much as you do me, he said. "I love you more t&tii that!" she retorted. "Ycu can hardly do that," he said, with a fond smile, "because "But I do," she interrupted. "No," he returned. ''You see, if I tove you twice as much as you do me, youi love is necessarily less than mine and "Oh, no, it isn't," she pleaded "it can't be! I love you more than- that!" "But,- don't you see," he went on, "if my love- for you is twice—two times'— double—your love for me, your love for me is, therefore—by. adgid rule of ^lalfaematics (to say nothing of geometry)—just half my love for you^-and, therefore—Q. E. D.—less than my love for •you!" "But it isn't so," she pouted "do'n't be silly." "My dear girl," he said, a trifle impatiently, "how can you be such a I mean, now look here, let represent your love for me. Well, then, my love for you being twice your love for me——" "But I love you more than that," she said, as a tear forced its way out of her bright blue eye. my love for you is therefore 2x. Now, what you are trying to prove is that is greater than 2x (x being a positive integer)—which is absurd on your part,, don't you see, darling?" "I don't care," she wailed "I love you more than that and you're just as mean as you can be." "I'm not anting of the kind," he replied in an aggrieved tone. "Why don't you follow out my reasoning?" "There isn't any." "There is, too." "But I love you more than that.w "How can you when "I don't care! I love you more than that." "Hang it all!" "That's right swear at your wife. Mother was right when she said "Well, what did she have to say?" "She said she feared you were a profane and irreligious man."

At this precise point the honeymoon commenced to wane.

FITZ BEGINS LIGHT WORK.

Australian Maps Oat A Coarse of Mild Daily Exercise, New York, Jan. 28.—Robert Fitzsimmons will begin light training today for his battle with James Corbett. According to the articles of agreement with Dan Stuart, who is promoting the fight, neither Fitzsimmons nor Corbett will be notified of the location of the battleground until February 17, consequently neither of them is in position to select training quarters to begin heavy work. Fitzsimmons has decided to remain right, in this city until he hears from Stuart and has mapped out for himself a system of eercises that he will follow daily during his short stay here. He will make daily a 12mile run from the Bartholdi hotel, where he is stopping to McComb's dam and return, skirting Central park. He will use the dumb bells for a few minutes each day and will exercise with the wrist machine. In an interview last night Fitzsimmons said: "I think it is not necessary for me to take any gymnisium work, as I have no flesh to take off and simply desire to make my wind good and keep my muscles supple. The runs and light exercise will do this for me. I won't box or punch the bag for at least two weeks, as I want to give my sore knuckles a good rest before using it. It is all right now the swelling has gone down and the soreness has left entirely, and I have not the slightest fear for it. It is as good as ever it was and I hope to try its strength on Corbett's jaw. "I am epecting to hear from Dan Stuart shortly in order to select a training place, I don't know where the fight will be de-, cided, but it is my impression that it will be in Mexico. If it is I shall engage the same quarters that I had for the Maher fight at Juarez, Mexico. I don't know who will train or second me yet, as Martin Julian may be prevented from going with me on account of his mother's illness. At the present time I weigh about 168 pounds and will be but a few pounds lighter on March 17, when I enter the ring."

GEORGIA HAS A NEW WONDER.

Thirteen-Year-Old Fannie Hester Perforins l\1any Marvelous Feats. Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 28.—Georgia has hal several eccentric women, but a little girl just discovered is able to discount all their performances. Her name- is Fannie I-Iester, 13 years old, and until three months ago did not differ from the commonplace type of Georgia country girls. Last November, by so simple an occurrence as the visit of a tramp painter ,tho little girls miraculous muscular power was discovered. The painter entertained the family .with tales ofcppirit rapping, of table talking, and Miss Fannie tried. It was seen that her hands imparted some inexplicable force to whatever, she touched. It was at night when the disco\ ery was made, and on going to her father's bed to tell him of it she touched one of the«posts with her hand. The post promptly left the floor and thumped two or three tfmes. The bedstead weighed eighty-six pounds and the man reel in ig on it 140. Miss Hester appeared at the court house in this place before a larg£ and incredulous audience last night and went through her regular performances. Various tests are made. A man is asked to take a firm hold on a tin pan. The young woman touches the palm of her hand against the bottom of the pan and the pan moves and twists in spite of iho man's utmost efforts to hold it. A stick or steel rod held at the ends by a msra gyrates and see-saws, no matter how great the resistance, -,-sj -,r-

A Woman's War, at the Avenue Theater Friday, 29th.

ORI&IN qflynch law

IT IS CLAiitCD BY IRELAND AND THE UNITED STATES, a

One Story In Support of Each Country. Colonel Lynch of Lynchburg:, Va., Versus a Mayor of Galway, Ireland—Tho latter a leather Unusual Kind of Man.

«.it seems to be apart of the unwritten law of the United States to bang some criminals without the formality of a trial by jury.

Lynchburg, Va., advances a claim to the originality of tho idea, and the olaim is skillfully maintained by a refersnoe to Well known facts that actually existed prior to and during the Revolutionary war. At that period the country was thinly settled and the founts of justice few and far between. Desperadoes and Tories of a guerrilla type, taking advantage of the unsettled condition of affairs, plundered, robbed and killed Indiscriminately wharever and whenever they pleased. A distinguished officer of the patriot American army, Colonel ChBrles Lynoh, organized a protective force, arrested the outlaws, and at a sort of drumhead court martial first satisfied himself and his comrades as to the guilt of the accused and then hanged them to the nearest tree without reference to the constituted authorities.

At first this was known as Lynch's law, and the term has gradually beoome modified into what we know today as lynch law.

Colonel Lynch's brother founded Lynchburg, hence the name of that old town. Now, as in fact nearly all of our law, both civil and military, comes from the other side of the watsr, they, too, over there, have a olaim that lynch law originated with them, and in proof of the assertion recite a very curious historical tradition which occurred during the reign of the seventh Henry in England. The system of government was not then aa completely developed in Europe.ns it is today, for baronies, cities and leagues, although often subservient to ono great centralized power, were in a measure independent of outside control anil managed their own private affairs almost exclusively, except during a general or foriegn war, when they united foroes for mutual protection. Galway, in Ireland, was one of these cities, and Mayor James Lynch Fitzstepbens was the great Li Hung Chang, or chief mogul, who was not only supreme judge, but also commander of the inilitin, ohief comptroller of finance, director of commerce, and in fact the holder of all the political plums worth having.

Mayor James Lynoh Fitzstepbens found it neoessary to send his eldest son to Spain on a commercial mission. The boy was of a wild, reckless disposition, and instead of attending to his father's business, straightway got on a tear and soon squandered the funds intrusted to him in the wildest sort of dissipation. This compelled him to borrow'a large sum of money from a merchant to whom he was accredited, and the usual result followed—that of giving notes bearing his father's name, every one a forgery. However, with this money the young man concluded his business arrangements, and whon he embarked for home t.he nephew of the money lender accompanied him back to Ireland, where he was to receive payment for the loan.

Young Lynch was in a box. There was no way he oould personally settle so large a debt, and he dared not avow his defalcation to his father. So one night, ^ihile calmly sailing across the bay of Biscay, he induced some bf the crew of the vessel to assist him, bought tho silenoe of the rest, and then the young Spaniard was seized, bound hand and foot and quietly tossed overboard. The ship belonged to the murderer's father, the seamen were in his emcloy, and Spain was far distant. Returning to Galway, he told his father a tale of how the young Spaniard had started with him, but that a gale had blown the foreigner overboard, never mentioning, however, the matter of debt.

Years passed on, and James Lynch Fitzstepbens, Jr., now a prosperous merchant, became as widely respected as his father, but it was remarked that he did no business whatever with the Spanish houses. One day the elder J. Lynch Fitzstepbens received a pressing summons to attend the deathbed of one of his old seamen, who had served him long and faithfully. Impelled by remorse, the dying man let the cat out of the bag, confessing the whole villainy of the mayor's only son and told of his share in the crime. It was a frightful blow, but the old i}an determined to do the right thing, cost what 7C might.

His first act was to arrest his son, whom, despite the entreaties of his wife and relatives, he committed to prison on the charge of murder. The next, to secure other evidence, whloh was obtained in the persons of four or flvo survivors and eyewitnesses, those who had not taken part in the crime, but merely looked on the accomplices, strangely enough, had either all died, or left for other parts.

The mayor, by virtue of his office, presided at the trial, heard the verdict of guilty and pronounced sentence of death on his son. Few persons believed the sentence would bo executed, and many resolved that it should not. "Neither the laws of God nor man can demnnd such a sacrifice at the hands of a father," they argued, "for it is horrible, wicked and against nature, and, after all, it was only the carcass of a hated Spaniard in the balance against his own son."

No use. The judge was steel, and he set the day for the execution. Then the women took a hand. Mother, sistets and relatives canvassed the community, and the result was that on the morning when tho mayor-judge appeared with bis son, surrounded by the officers of justice, on the way to execution, a rush was made by a large crowd of citizens, who had formed for a rescue.

Unable to contend against such numbers. the resolute old man ordered the culprit taken baok into the house, where he had been kept since tbe trial for greater security against escapo or assistance. The mayor was the last to retreat, strongly barring the door behind him and securely barricading the windows. The mob set up a shout, for they supposed thoy had succeeded in preventing a hanging, but little did they know the spirit of that stern old man. In a few min%as prisoner and judge appeared at an upper window. The crowd below were stricken speechless at what they beheld.. They saw tho mayor himself fix a stout rofla around the neck of his son, who made r.o resistance, and, after embracing the latter once, resolutely launch him into eternity. This act of stern justice so confounded them that t^ioy dispersed in silence.

After the death of bis son Judge James Lynch Fitzstepbens resigned his offioeand spent the few remaining years of hislife in retirement and prayer.—St Louis GlobeDemocrat.

JENNY LIND.

Her Appearance In America Arotstd Unparalleled Enthusiasm. Hon. A. Oakey Hall believes that nc singer ever created tho furore that Jennj Lind did upon t.he occasion of her professional visit to America. Ho was present "when Jenny Lind sang in Castle Garden," and recalls in The Ladies' Home Journal the famous artist a:nd the unparalleled warmth of her greeting. In describing her first appearance on the American stage Mr. Hall writes: Bui now expectation is to end. for therc? advances froiji behind. Jbe partition in the flat which at onoe serves as screen and board, a lady with frwuttjafe

X^RRE HAUTE K1PRBSS FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY .9,1897.

At Ami 4here is a hush over the gnat audience, foe wirely never before mi than seen so unpretentious a prima donna* Where are her diamonds? Vhere the per* sonal ornaments, jeweled stars and ribboned orders that have been showered upon her by. the old world's royalties and grandees? wakening from the surprise at such simplicity of toilet as might have appertained to a simple Swedish maidei) —not of high degree—rthe crowd literally goes wild With enthusiasm. Tbe men and women rise' from their seats with one naovement a§ of .a drilled army, while 5,000 throats produce a volume of welcome that must amaze thb crews of the vessels without. "Handkerchiefs are waving frantically in air regardless of tearing tbe delicate lace of their edges, gloves by the hundred are being burst by handclapping, and a torrent of bravos is being hurled toward tho plump little lady in white, whose eyei are becoming moist, but who stands with an air of dignity quite distinct from th« ordinary self consciousness of the average prima donna. To her face has come the blend of womanly sweetness and modesty, with childlike simplicity. As I gaze Bhe seems to mo an embodiment of tbe confidence of genius and the' serene wisdom oi art Minute after minute passes, and yet the cheering, the clapping and the waving contihuo. Never before, even in spasmodic Paris, has such a triumphant welcome bees accorded her."

THE LOVELY GREEK.

She Paid as Much Attention to Her Toilet -j as Does a Professional Beauty. If tho Greckn women were beautiful, i( was not wonderful, considoriug the care they gave themselves. The fashionable Grecian woman was of free customs, bul she was not depraved. Sho resembled a professional beauty more than any othei class of modern women, but she was fai superior in learning and accomplishments. She could bs a politician and write eloquent speeches for the head of the republic to deliver. She was versed in sciences and taught them in public, and she was also poetess, winning laurels oyer male competitors. Her toilet was not her only and sole, occupation, though it did take a great part of the morning.

It begins by: her slaves friotioning hei from head to foot, then placing her in a bath of perfumed water, after which she was again frictioned, this time with ivory brushes, called trigilles. This dono, she is anointed with perfumed oils and aromatic fumigations, and then, being wrapped in a sheet, sho is laid on a couch, where she partakes of refreshment before the dressing process begins.

Tine hair is first attended to. It is brushed, combed and rubbed with perfumes then it is waved or curled with hot irons previously to being dressed in the latest fashion. Gold' bands, jeweled pins, pearls and silken nete are in turn worn to complete the headdress, which in itself is an artistic study, as every statue of Venue tells us. The hair being, dressed, the eyebrows and eyelids are touched with income, and the teqth are brushed with perfumed powders. A perfumed water is also kept for some time in the mouth to perfume the breath. "The whole person is finally sponged with an astringent lotion to prevent wrinkles, and finally the face and neck are genviy touched with a white wash. The hands and feet are also scrupulously attended to. They are rubbed with softening pastes, and tho hands are ayed pink and polished until they shine like glass.—Philadelphia Times.

Trained Chameleons.

Muoh has teWi-Written abotit the beauty, the stupidity and the viciousness of the lizard tribe, and I want to say a word about the intelligence of .the chameleon, a little reptile belonging to the great lizard family, and in size the antipodes of the alligator, its big brother.

The incident I now relate came tinder my personal observation, and demonstrates that the chameleon is susceptible of education and can be ranked with animals classed muoh higher in thesoale of intellectual development.

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Miss Henrietta Keene, a little lady of 13 years, living in, Philadelphia, was presented with two Florida chameleons, and she at once began instructing and educating her pets. By 'continued gentleness and kindness she won their confidence, and at her call they would' raise their heads, list-! was not canny.

en, and then coine running quickly. Soon thoy responded to their names—Brinton and Baby—and nodded their little heads knowingly.

She then taught them to stand up on their hind legs and put their little fore paws together and stand In the attitude oft prayer, looking-:solemn and closing their eyes. At a signal they would quickly prostrate themselves, roll over on their backs and pretend to be dead, lying without motion until told to rise and embrace, which tbey would-do with every sign of joy.—Washington Star.

How a Chimney Was Straightened. The straightening of a chimney staok at a brick ana tile works in Earnest, Pa., was accomplished in a novel manner. The stack is 122 feet high, 11 feet square at tbe base, tapering somewhat at the top, and weighs 400 ~ns. Tho walls are 86 inohes thick. The top was found to be leaning 45 inches from the vertical iine. To right the chimney 10M inches of brickwork was removed from the foundations on three sides. As tho bricks were removed square blocks of wood were inserted one after another until three sides of the structure rested on the blocks. Between the blocks substantial brick piers 6 inches high were built, leaving a space inches between the top of the piers and the bottom of the undermined brickwork. The blocks were then set on fire and kept burning evenly, if one burnod faster than the others, the fire oh that particular block was checked, so that all were made to burn uniformly, and as the blocks were reduced to ashes the stock slowly righted. As the top gradually swung back through tbe 45 inch arc small fissures appeared near the base. In every groove a steel wedge was driveif to maintain the weight of tho walls. The entire work consumed ono day, and the reduction of tho wooden blocks to ashes required one hour.—Electrical Review.

Two Hundred Feet of Fish. A few thousand years ago there mu3t have been high water out in Wyoming. And that water njust have been full of fish. Geologists liare recently discovered immense hills andjriainsamile and a half above tho level Qf, the sea made entirely out of the bodies of fishes turned to stone. These beds of potrifled fish, containing millions upon millions of individual specimens, cover hundreds of square miles in the northwestern _part of the state. In some places thesq, beds—almost a solid mass of perfectly fossilized fish—are from 150 to 300 feet in thickness.—Chicago Record!-

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Worst Form of the Collecting Mania. Nearly every man has tbe collecting fever at least one timer in his life. It may bo coins, or it maybe foreign stamps, but tbe very worst form of the disease is that which comes when- lie is vainly trying to collect money enough 'to pay his bills.— Amus&ng Journal.

The female mosquito has given a bad name to tbe whole race, she alone doing all the biting and staging for the family.

The Teyoge betwmu New York and^LiTSgKiol osiers 2^082 knots

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familiar Victorian bandeau of hair about her temples proclaims this statuesque lady whAT THEY REVEALED TO A PARTY to be the long expected Jecnx Lind.

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OF VISITORS.,

(he Opium and Gambling Dens and Dawe®honMS—Depraved Human Ifatnre In Its Worst Form—A Nightly Scene In One of the Coffeo Houses. ,'»&$

The too great xeal of a native servant WHS the unexpected means of enabling the writer to gratify his wish to see something of the darker side of that great city on the banks of the Hughli. where it had been ordained that he should dwell for a Mine, and these experiences are given Scotsman. An interview with a most charming and reasonable inspector, and the soothing effects of a drink cooled by more conventional means, led to tils offering to conduct us around the slnm/s.

After some delay in mustering forces W8 started to explore, forming a dignifl®^ pro* cession. As advance guard a native policeman armed with a lantern, which we found was much needed next, two inquirers into things, escorted by two inspectors, and the rear brought up by three more natives. One of the party Vho bad been in a state of unrest, bewailing the fact that he had not armed himself with a large stick—what unknown perils he was prepared to brave who shall say—was much comforted by the display of force. First, then1, through absolute darkness, where we blindly followed the swinging light ahead, between rows of native huts, the eaves of which on either side almost overlapped, so closely were tbey packed, to a miserable den where some habitual smokers were easily distinguished, gaunt and hollow cheeked. Our entrance seemed to cause no surprise. Perhaps a listless glance would be thrown in our direction, but what a change when a pipe was ready and handed to a smoker!

There was something terrible in the eagerness with which they inhaled the smoke. It is a tedious process. Each pipe holds but a drop of opium, which, when prepared, is in a soft, sticky state. This, held on the point of a wire over aflame till it swells to several times its natural size and takes light, is 'pushed into the little clay bowl, whioh, inserted in a straight stem of bamboo, forms the pipe. Three or four powerful draws exhaust the charge. The seasoned smoker will smoke several of these pipes before he falls asleep. Having seen how it was used, it was interesting to come on one of the shops where the prepared opium is sold. It was the property of some very amusing and friendly Chinamen. Possibly tho friendly spirit they showed was aroused somewhat by seeing with whom we were.

Evidently the customers, of whom "tb6i,e was no lack, were viewed with distrust, as they were only admitted to a cagelike lnclosure in front of the counter, from which there ran up to tho ceiling stout wooden bars. These people buy the pure opium at tho government nuctions and then prepare and retail it to their emaciated customers, to Whom, needless to say, no credit is giten. The worst feature of the habit is that the victim will stop at nothing which may enable him to get the drug. Evidently we wore in the Chinese quarter of the town, for we were taken on through many turnings of squalid Btreets, to where some of these lovers of roast pig were gambling. Our arrival seemed to alarm some of tbem —probably new hands—who thought they were doing something very wicked, whereas the habitues knew that this mild form of betting—the stakes are very small—was winked at by the authorities. Their chief game was extraordinary for tho remarkable skill shown by the croupier. A number of cowries wfire thrown on the table, perhaps a couple of hundred or so, and partly hidden by an inverted saucer being placed over as many as it might cover, that one might have as little idea of the actual number as possible. Tho shells were then rapidly raked away in lots of three, and the players bet whether three, two or ODe would bo left When perhaps half the number had been removed in this manner, the saucer was lifted to get at the rest. Strange as it may seem, the moment this was done, although there might still be a large number of cowries left, both around and under where tho saucer had been, the bank at once stated what number would remain and actually began to pay winners. Of course tho raking was not interrupted, and we could thus see if the bank wafe correct, but in the four games we watched they were never wrong. Long j-ractice must have given them a sixth sense. It

In tho course of onr wanderings we visited three coffee houses. These consisted of mere open sheds of great size, in which on forms scattered about the most villainous looking mon of ull kinds wore sitting or squatting, drinking the innocent beverage from which tbe places get their name. The policeman said that one of these shops was generally a wife draw for any criminal they might want. It-would certainly have been far from pleasant to have had to enter such a placo by oneself. In the center there weep invariably one or two nautch girls dancibg. Of the dances perhaps the less said tho better. \V passed on down a long, broad street, Curiously quiet and orderly, turned sharp to the left through a dark gateway and found ourselves looking through a window, on a silent shape lying on a stone slab the morguu. One could not help being struck by the very orderly appearance of the strocts, and, remarking this to one of our guides, we learned that here, as elsewhere over India, the prestige of the ruling raoe has a great controlling power. As a fact, the chief trouble the police have at night 5s when some sailor, maddened with the vile liquor he has bought in some native grogshop, breaks out. We were to have a. startling example of this. Wc had just entered a curious sort of music hall frequented by very rough customers, when we saw a sailor, who bad evidently been having some sort of dispute, suddenly pull out a knife and go for a man. 1 hey seemed to be ready for this sort of thing, for before he could do any serious mischief two policemen were on him, and the arm that held the knife was smashed with a blow from a truncheon. Unfortunately .they did not 6top there, and it was a sickening sight to see how tho poor wrcteh was battered about. Ho had to be carried away by the police. It seemed horribly brutal, but presumably soft measures %ro not for a maddened ruffian with a big l^life in his hand and tho power and will to u^e^it.— London Globe.

HER POCKETBOOK.-

rrhe Difficulty a Woman Has at Times tn Trying to Locate It. "There it goes again, and it is the third time this month," wailed the map as he hung up tho telephone and seated himself wearily at his desk. "My wife just called me up to see if 1 had seen anything of her pocketbook around the house last night.

,a

lost it,

of course. She is dead certain, though,, that burglars or the hired girl have pinched it. "I'll bet that

tho

women of Chicago

lose enough money every 3"ear,r^° P®y the Interest on the national debt. Ibey wont have any potftets

in their

clothes and go

around everywhere carrying their pocketbooks iu their hands. About onoe a month the average woman will ley down on the bargain counter or in the grocery store and never think of it again for hours afterward. "I tried to break my wife of the habit by making her an allowance every month liberal enough to pay all household expenses and leave hor a. decent margin jor pin money. I informed her th'it shewould b»»vp tg stand_aliig^yife^y

carelessness, as I would not make them good. This worked all right for a month because my wife wanted to buy a couple of new dresses, and, as she actually seemed to belieTe I meant what I said, she discarded herpocketbook and carried her roU in mm* safe place about her person, the exact location of which I was not able to discover. This did not last long, however, as she complained that she was embarrassed "by being obliged to seek the seclusion of a dressing room when she happened to be down town and wanted to draw on her fun da "The next month she lost herpocketbook twice, and I was obliged to pay the grocery bill out of my own pocket or have our supplies cut off. Now she has lost it again and is broke. fif I "Well, women are mighty queer creA-i

tures, he sighed as he'sYgned hiTname to!

fully, "the Lerd only knows how we

REMARKABLE CELERITY.

At Lent It Seemed So to One Quite Versa-, tile Young Actress. The other day I was interviewing a rather celebrated actress of the lighter stage, who before she became, thanks principally to her superb shoulders, such a popular favorite, was, it is rumored, in a very humble position indeed. The interview was getting along very well. I had obtained from her full details as to the reason why she does her hair in the peculiar fashion she affects and had noticed, though not, of course, for publication, that the roots were a different color to tbe rest.

I had gained ample information as to her extraordinary fondness for her mother and had discreetly forborne to ask her whether she bad got that harmless but necessary parent on the three years' hire system or merely week by week. I had

praised her wonderful complexion while: pretation

speculating where she bought and had

Suddenly there came a knock at tbe door, and her maid entered it with a telegram. She tore it open. It oame, she informed me, from the director of a well known French music hall, offering her fabulous terms for her shoulders in a series of living pictures. "And look," she said, holding out the envelope for me to see, "what a wonderful invention the telegraph is and how quick. This has come all the way from Paris, but the gum on the envelope is still wet."—Pick Me Up.

insecure Buildings.

If there is any one thing that the public has a right to expect, it is proper precaution on the part* of builders to make the structures tbey erect 6eoure and thus avoid danger to lif« and property.

The records of collapsed buildings, fallen walls, insecure foundations and death traps generally figure up into an aggregate that is simply appalling. The occupant is not supposed to know that the house he lives in is not safe. Indeed it is not his business to know. It is the business of the builder to make everything right, and failing to do this he should be hold to the strictest account. The temptation to slight work and to use inferior materials is too strong to be resisted by unscrupulous builders, but the results of such a course are too disastrous to pass by without notice.

There must be something radically wrong about buildiijg inspection when such structures are passed by the officials. The suggestion that the contractor who knowingly puts inferior materials into buildings should be found guilty of murder in case the buildings collapse will meet with approval from all sensible persons.

The owner orders the work and pays the bill. He has a right to expect exactly what he pays for, and failing to get it the culprit should be punishable by severe penalties and by the full limit of the law in csAse his work is" so Saulty as to collapse either in the process of building or at anj reasonable time thereafter.—New York Ledger.

si, The Abolition of Slavery. In the first place, the citizens of all the southern states have been affected in isore ways than they imagine by that defunct institution of slavery, of which many of them have no personal knowJ*dge. They are likewise affected today by the fact that they are brought into perpetual contact with a free alien race, to whom they are theoretically bound to allow legal and po-( litioal rights, but to whom they cannot allow sooial rights without the risk of disintegrating their own civilization. They are further affected by the fact that in every locality aud grade of society men and women are to be found who represent an old order of things, who inculcate sooial and political principles alien to American ideals, and who seek in every way to foster sentiments that favor southern segregation and that antagonize the unifying forces at work in the rest of the nation.

They are affected finally by tho fact that the dominant political party for many years practically treated them as citizens of a section and by its legislation wolded them into a compact mass of taxpayers, who, rightly or wrongly, regarded themselves as tribute payers. The generation, then, that has built up tlie south of today is united by ties of sentiment and interest, whioh, while not strong enough to endanger the permanence of the Union, are strong enough to have overcome till now the forces that mako for divergence and to warrant tho critic and historian in speak-r ing of a southern people heterogeneous in mangers, but homogeneous iu idea.—W. P. Trent in Atlantic.

Genuine Hospitality.

"Talk about hospitality," remarked a broken down actor, "the place to find it is in the far west. The last time I was out there wo were playing 'ITnole Tom's Cabin,' with a roal mule. We played to fair business and paid our bills until we reached Red Bluff. 1'bere tbe owner of the opera houso hod a piano for an orchestra, and it stood just below the stage. When the mule came on, some one in tbe audience got funny, and, throwing a lariat around the neck of the animal, pulled him off the stage. The mule and tbe piano got mixed up, whioh ruined the orchestra, und whon he got away from tho piano the mule kicked down one of the boxes before he walked through one of the seats to where the fellow with the lariat wanted him. I had a mouth organ, with which I went on with the orchestral accompaniment, and we clowd tho play with the fellow that captured the mule riding him around tho opera house. "The manager of tbe theater olaimed damages, captured all of the box receipts and we could not get out of town. Of course, we expected to walk, but I'll be blamed If the landlord didn't pack us all with our baggage in a box car, give us plenty of lunoh and .send us clear to Virginia City without "lr paying a cent. He was the most hospitable fellow I ever saw.1'

Washington Star. i.\\4 vcV 1

Instinct. i. .v**J/

"Can you lend mo 810?" asked the two headed girl of the fat lady. "Guess I can," said the fat lady, "but you don't mean to tell me you have spent all vour salary already?" "I—I didn't m£an to," replied the two headed girl, almost in tears, "but thero was such a lovely vase pnt up at auction, and I got to bidding against myesSt before thought. "—Chicago Record-

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would manage to get along without 'em." dragging in the bips and loins, painfuj —Chicago Tribune.

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IN A CHINESE THEATER. tf The Plays Are Steady, Dignified, Dramatki

JIJ.

but Rarely Hcmorons.

Let us first oonsider the Chinese theater. In Contrast with the vaudeville perform* ance of the Bowery theaters and garden* is the Chinese play—steady, dignified, dramatic, rarely even humorous. Here, in stead of some unnamable sooial scandal being utilized as the dramatic impulse of their play, the national history, the great* est fictions of Chinese literature, embody* ing innumerable moral precepts and exam* pies, are the subjects for the actors'inter

The

^QTY

obtained her highly colored explanation o. quintessence of etiquette marks his manthe way she had got her diamonds for my paper while keeping my own more prosaic one for myself.

Chinese actor hixhself in

embodiment of dignity, while th«

ners. He endeavors to oaacetd rather than betray emotion.

Do the-Chinese dance? Never, neither in China nor in America, unless they hav# becon%e so far denationalized as to be com Bidered a foreign graft on the wester* stalk which occurs not oncein 1,000 cases. There is therefore no dance upon the Chi nese stage. In all their performance, from beginning to end, there is nowhere au? sort of a dance, from tho likeness of th minuet of a century ago to the latest ballet step of todfay. The Chinese look upon such a thing as entirely beneath the digni"£y of a Chinanian, and such a performance Wauld be received with disgust and hisses.

A well known New York daily newspaper recently made itself ridiculous and I- feded its own ignorance to the skies by ]t«if.C-ripg with btautifpl cerenlty to th« wickedness of »he v. 1^*^53le performance in the Chinese theater. A «iy»eville per-, formancein a Chinese theater! TI»3reis n« such thing. Even more than that, to a Chinaman it would be an insupportable scandal that women should appear upon the Btage as freely as they do in America and Europe. Such a thing never wal known either in China or in the Chines* theaters of America. A woman appears only when her husband or father is a member of the company, and then in th^ most insignificant parts, and her identity is suppressed rather than advertised. Worn* en's,parts in 99 cases out of 100 aro take! by men, and these are enacted with a mod« esty and humility which we would fain see copied by the actresses of our stage today, aye, even by some of our women themselves. Could a little of the Chinese dignity, reticence and womanly modesty b« poured into American blood it would be a good thing for the American people and an admirable specific for tho American "girl of the period." There is therefore no comparison to be made, from a mora] standpoint, betweon the Chinese stage and the vile, immodest and frequently obscene performances-wblch the white people ol the Bowery put upon their boards.—"Th« Chinese of New York," by Helen F. Clark, in Century.

An Expensive Traitor.

There are not many nations in Europa rich enough to treat themselves to a traitor like Captain Dreyfus, who is assured!} the dearest object in that line that has evei ex'sted. We might perhaps have four heroes for the same price. The government machine, with its usual genius, has so skillfully arranged matters that It costs us $12,000 a year to Maintain in a distant islet a man who has been .Leaded publicly for treason. If he lives only -0 jears, Which would not be extraordinary, he will have cost his countrymen, reckoning in the interest, a little more than $400,000. Never did any man who saved his country cost as much as. that.

It is also the first time on record thai any human being Inspires a great enough interest for people to spend 14,000 francs a year merely to learn the condition of his health. If a minister happens to dreain some night that Dreyfus h3s escaped, that costs 1,500 francs in telegrams the next morning. If Dreyfus catches cold, it tnke« 1,000 francs to announce iho evest to tha proper authorities, while if a Gmmatf or English vessel is sighted sailing past. th« lie au Diablo wo have to pay 2,000 franc?.

Besides this, the keepers and watchmen on the island are subjected to the most cruel discipline. One has gone in ad on account of the weight of responsibility, two men have been devoured by sharks ia going from the island where the governo* lives to the He au Diable to find out how Captain Dreyfus had slept at night, and pale, nervous, restless beings aro seen walking about anxiously, with a frightened look, startled and driven out of their wits at the slightest sound, having hardly timo to eat end sleep. Thoy never take their eyae off a very tranquil person, who walks his hundred paces after breakfast, smoking his pipe, with his hands behind his back. They are people with a clea* conscience, who watch a man who ha4 committed a crime.—Paris Figaro.

"Whist In America.

The inipre-siou is general that until recently the Americans have whist playirg nation. It is difficult to reconcile this view with the fact that early in this century, when Hoyle was tne only authority, various reprints of JUS worlts were circuited in tho United Scates—o. g., "The New Pocket Hoyle" (PhiladeIphla, 1805), "Hoyle's Games" {Boston, the same (Philadelphia, 1617). No doub a diligent search would roveal the existence of other editions. American reprints of Matthews and Bohn are also to be found, dating about the middle of the present century, and the conclusion forced on ns is that whist has all along held its own in American society, notwithstanding the contemporaneous popularity of another admirable four handed game—viz, euchre. Cavendish ir Scribner's.

Window Displays and Prices. A well arranged window without price tickets Is like a well dressed man wno cannot talk. Give him a tongue »nd thoughts speak. Give a mute wmto Je tongue of tickets and you have a salesman tfho never tires of taiking in .yo interests. All that is nec*s«t^ is to give him a new tbeuie—that is, change windows often.—Hardware.

Helnrloh IH of Germany was designated the Black on acoount of the

colo7°

eyes and beard and his dare complexion.

The reed, in several places in the bKsmentioned

a measure, was 6 cubits, or 10

feet 11 laths*.