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hat among the people, to be held till he returns
victoriOus-or dead.
turn instictively toward Juanita; she was
leaning back in her seat, slowly tanning her
self, her halfclosed eyes scarcely conveying
even an expression of interest in the pro-
ceedings.
Sebastian faces the bull. the flag IN his left
hand, his eyes watching the beasts. His hand
is as steady as rock.
The bull charges; I drew quick breath !:
Sebastian is all right; gracefully, with the
ease of practieed bull fighter, he escaped the
horns. which merely touched the scarlet flag.
A cheer rings out from the crowd, bringing a
flush to his check
Again the bull charges; again and again (:
each time Sebastian is unscathed, but as yet he
has no chance of killing the bull He is facing
it now; slowly he raises the sword the point
never trembles. For one second all is dust the
next | saw his manly form laid out full length
in the sand. Accustomed as ! am to bull fights
I shuddered.
"He is killed." cry the people; she is
killed i" The bull never looks at him again.
passing on to attack the cloak of one of the
matadors. / gaze at Juanita once more. Her
expression has not altered to the least degree !;
her fan merely vibTates little quicker
hated that woman.
A shout fromthe people recalls my attention.
Sebastian has risen, picked up the sword aud
nag, ana is racing tDe Dull once more. There
was silence in the ring like DEATH Again
the sword is raised, again all is dust, again a
form lies PROSTATE in the sand-but this time it
is the bull Sebastian has killed it atone stroke,
feat seldom accomplished by even the masters
of the art.
Never have 1 heard such a shout as rang
through and through the building as Sebastian
approached the gobernador and bowed. He is
paler than ever but a smile of victory lights np
his lips. Then, sword in hand, he turned, ap-
preached and faced JGniata, his dark ewes
gazing into her face. Her expression is the
same as ever; as he bows to her she never
alters a feature. There is no smile of eneour-
agement, scarcely sign of recognition; she
| plucks rose, however, from her breast and
| throws it to him.
He stoops and picks it up, and with his eyes
| fixed on hers lifts it toward his Iips-hesi-
tates- throws it to the ground, and tramples il
under foot.
| A deafening cheer arises from the crowd
| cheer upon cheer.
| look for Juniata. She has left the ring.
Five minutes later, as Sebastian passed
through the archway into the open air. still in
his scarlet and gold, dagger was buried deep
| in his breast.
saw Juniata do it, and it was the only time
/ ever saw her smile.-Blacklro0d' Magazine
"The best thing yeti" That is the way Young mar
put it who made arrangements TO work for b. F. John
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true that Gilrov lost his artillery and part OF
his supplies and wagons. but his loss Of men
after al this lighting did not exceed $500 or
1000 IN killed. wounded and missing.
Mai. Hin, who was an Aid on Gen. Ewell's
staff. was wounded ia the last days fighting at
GETTYSBURG. and was taken back to Williams
port Nd on the Potomac River. There he
was left The writer was put in command of
the most there to eare.f0r and look after the
wounded. lie frequently called 10 see Maj.
Hill. who was a bright intelligent officer. The
Major often mentioned the fight at Ninches-
ter. and said: 1t was Lees fatal mistake
What had such a handful Of men as that IN
der Milroy to do with one Of The most daring
moves that had been attempted during the
WARP Lee had started for Pennsylvania with
nearly the whole Federal army in his rear.
Ia the midst Of his march he turned aside from
his main line and spent four days in battling
with a man who knew nothing but how TO
fight. In the fight with Milroy, Lee lost four
whole days Of marching; he lost IN killed,
wounded and missing not short OF l2,OOO men,
mainly bv deseTtion. 1t was this delay and
the losses he sustained at Winchester that To-
Gated the battle at Gettysburg, and gave Cen
Meade the victory Lee lost the victory OF his
northern campaign through the obstinate and
fool-hardy fighting Of Miiroy at Winchester"
He closed by saying: MIlroy' defeat was Gen.
Lees overthrow, and must end in the hope
that Lee turned aside to fight Milroy"
This is the willing and unasked-for conces-
sion Of an intelligent and devoted Southern
soldier and officer What shall we say Of the
historian who. apparently ignorant OF the facts
of history, Will loosely aud without stating the
truth, say that Milroy's defense of Winchester
was infamously weak? Had Gen. +. II. Mil
roy been put in command aud IN place where
his genius and his ability fitted him, he would
have been the Murat of America. There was
not an officer in the army for the Union that
excelled him in dash and true native courage.
he is now growing old, and the fire and ambi-
tion Of his youth gone. But we are sure,
even at this late period, that he viii rejoice
that some one has the courage and knows the
facts that will DO him justice before the Ameri-
can people. We understand that he is now in
Olympia, Wn. Ter
The foregoing statement is made from facts
personally known to the writer, and he gives
them that 2n injured man may have justice.
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FRANK G. CARPENTER.

THE LATE DR.. J. G. HOLLAND, the eminent
writer and physician, wrote and published in
Scribner's Magazine: " 1t is fact that many
of the best proprietary medicines of the day
are more successful than many physicians, and
most of them are first discovered and used in
actual medical practice When, however, any
shrewd person knowing their virtue, forseeing
their popularity, secures and advertises them
then, in the opinion of the bigoted, all virtue
went out of them" The late DIR. Dio Lewis in
speaking of Warmers Safe Cure, says: "If
found myself the victim of a serious kidney
trouble, would use your preparation" DR..
r. A. Gum, NJ. D.. author of "Gunn's New
Improved Handbook of Hygiene and Domestic
Medicine" says: am willing to acknowledge
and commend thus frankly the value of War
ner's Safe Cure" The celebrated DIR. Thomp-
son, of the University of the city of New York,
says: More adults are carried off by chronic
kidney disease than by any other one maIady
except consumption.
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FOR THE LADIES.
"A dashing young damsel of Ga.
Was a moonshiner. burglar aud IA;
But her neighbors cried: My,

What turpltude! why,
She's a second Lucrezia Ba." Exchange
The organization known as ",Fhe Kings
Daughters is only six years old, but it has 40 600
members
Dresses worn by candidates for confirmation
have grown so elaborate and snowy lately that the
Bishop of Rochester has protested. Young girls
present themselves rather in the guise of bride
than in the simple toilet that BELTS the applicants
for reception into the Church. The Bishop men,
tons false pearls as particularly needing avoidance
by poorer people, and satin shoes by the rich. In
France it is the same. A confirmation dress was
recently described by French fashion paper as
extremely "coquettish." The Bishop in his pro-
test, declares that nothing would distress him
than TO have to send candidate back for wearing
showy or tawdry apparel, but he adds that for ex-
ample sake it may be necessary for him to do so.
A Boston parson who was brought up in n
Maine country town says that any girl who could
turn hapjaeks with q toss and avoid landing the
delicious cake in the firewas eligible for the best
marriageabe young men in the village in his day.
--LetUiSOn journal.
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looprnIanrED BY PRANK @. CARPENTER. ls8s1
Special Correspondence NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
RANGooN, BURMAH, March, 1889.

He biggest jail in the
world is here at Ran
coon. 1t is an English
institution, and its
area is that of a good
sized farm. 1t is sur
rounded by massive
brick walls % feet
high and four feet
thick. On the top of
these walls are watch
towers, in which dark
bearded, brown faced,
East Indian soldiers,
with great yellow tur-
bans on their black
hair, stand and watch,
ready to shoot down
any prisoner who at
tempts to escape. The
gates which pierce the
walls are heavy wood
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Too Late.
[FTiegende Blotter. !

Wife-I wonder what has come over our
Clara; she does not care about going to balls
any more; she pays no attention to her dress
the theater has no attraction for her. and now
she has given up her intended trip to the sea-
side; fancy the child must be unhappy in
love!
Husband-My conscience, what saving
Sarah, couldn't you manage to be unhappy in
love for once?
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PERSONS AND THINGS.

There once was & brave of the Sioux
Who into a gun muZzle boux,
To see if it twas loaded
The rifle exploded,
As he ought to have known it would doux
Boston Courier.
The mild Winter and over-stoeks of canned
goods are said to be peculiarly disastrous to the
retail grocery trade
-Kangaroo leather has become so important an
article of commerce that the Australians have set
about protecting the animal by forbidding the
slaughter of it from the lst of January to the lst of
May.
Large tobacco farms, to be worked and managed
by skilled Cubans. have just been established at
De Funiak Springs, Fla. Tobacco grown there
from Havana seed is said to be even finer and more
delicatey favored than that from Cuba itself
One of the results of the Paris Exposition is a
cask bigger than the famous tun of Heidelberg. 1t
will hold champagne.
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WHITE HOUSE KITCHEN.
A Ecn.iniscence OF Little Tad Lincoln in 1862.
rWfde AaoaI,e


Both the steward and the cook had remon-
strated with 9 Master Tad upon bringing into
the kitchen Of the White House " such squads
OF poor, dirty, hungry street urchins 70 be fed =
and at last Peter said that Mrs Lincoln must
be told.
Tad few into rage, ran upstairs to see his
mother himself, aud on finding her out searched
the place ior his busy father
Meanwhile the small objects of his charity
waited az the lower door, for Peter had abso-
luteiy refused 70 let them step inside"
The indignant boy spied his father lust
crossing tie yard, with head bowed, eyes to the
ground, talking earnestly 70 sir. Seward as they
walked TO the Department of State together.
he cried out 10 him at once: Father father
can't ! bring those poor, cold, hungry boys
home with me whenever l want tor Isn't it
Cur Kitchen"
By this time Tad had his father by the hand.
who stopped short to listen at the frantic ap-
peal.
Can't give them a good warm dinner to.
day, say2 They're just as hungry as bears
and two Of 'em are the boys Of q soldier too
And, father, I'm going to discharge Peter this
minute. II he don't get cut the meat and chick.
en- and pies. and all tho things we had left
yesterday. Say, mayn't II Isn't it our kitch.
en-, fatherg'
Secretary Seward was shaking with laugh.
ter. Mr. Lincoln turned 10 him with twin
kle; Seward, advise with me. This case re
quires diplomacy"
Mr.. Seward patted Tad on the back, and sait
he must be careful not to run the Government
IN debt, and the President took Tad's littl
brown haaas in his own big one, and, with
very droli smile, bid him 10 run along homt
and feed the boys" and added. Tell Pete
that you are really required TO obey the Bibl
by getting in the manned and the blind, an,
that he must be better Christian than he is y
In lsce ffor, T.
passed through the yard on their way to tn
Cabinet meeting and no less than 10 smal
boys were sitting with Tad on the lower steps
cracking nuts and having State Dinner"
Mr.. Lincoln remarked that the kitchen toa
ours"
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THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE: WASHINGTON D. c. THURSDAY 1s

half an inch thick and about six inches wide,
and put them at intervals of six inches around
the whole wheel. They now form set of steps,
by which the men standing upon the wheel may
move it around, aud upon this great wheel there
are 135 men, bare to the waist and clad only in
waist-cloth, standing and stepping upwards. All
of them have chains upon their feet and many of
them had iron bracelets upon their wrists.
Every prisoner has an iron collar about his
neck, and the legs of the worst characters are
so chained that they tie up the chains to their
waist clothes while at labor. These chains
jingle musically as these 270 legs keep con-
tinually stepping upward, and | noted that two
of the men were handcniIed and chained to the
upper bar above the wheel, so that they had to
60 whether they would or not.
We keep the prisoners on the tread d-mill !"
said the Warden, for Is minutes at time,
and then change for Others Those two men
who are fastened there have refused to submit
to a certain kind of punishment which will
show you hereafter. They will soon come to
time. and will be glad to do as we bid them"
Just below this tread-mil, seated on the
ground, with their hands clasped and looking
up at u.s. were the 135 men who formed the
relay. They did not seem unhappy, and though
| was told there were many bad characters
among them, they did not look SO brutal as
many prisoners l have seen in our own peni-
tentiaries.
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A Strategic Prayer.

She had done something naughty and her
mother had sent her off to bed little earlier
than usual, and told her she would punish her
for it in the morning. The child knelt down
to say her prayers and she put in this interpo-
lation
heaven not for altogether, but just for to-mor-
row?"
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After going through the works, was shown
the punishment referred to by the Warden. 1t
consisted of the turning heavy crank 10000
revolutions day, and this crank was so regu-
lated that weight could be added to it and be
made heavier or lighter as the iailer wished
A clock-like index on the outside of the cells
registered the number of revolutions turned
and there were half dozen men engaged in
this fruitloss business when l visited the prison
1t made me think of Charles Reade's story of
Never Too Late to Mend" and its possibil-
ities of cruelty rose up before me. .0n the
whole, however, believe that this Jail is well
managed, and that the prisoners are we'll
treated.
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it was pushed to the
buzz saw. In one place
the elephants were pill
ing up the logs, aud
they would lay them
one upon the other as
evenly as though they
We're calculating the
distances by the latest
edition of Rays arith-
metic. They would
kick with their mass
i've feet one of these
logs into place, and in
some cases where it
was necessary TO carry
two logs, a rope being
tied around them, the
elephant would pick
IN the end of the rome
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We first visited the condemned cells. They
were about as comfortable as those of the aver
age American jail, but the prisoners slept upon
benches and had wooden boards for pillows
Their bed-clothes consisted of piece of coffee
saeking about as large as the average sheet and
outside their cells, for it was jHst breakfass
time, were two little boxes of food, each half
the size of cigar box. One of these contained
rice and the other vegetables, and l am told
that the allowance Of the prisoners is pound
and half of rice and four ounces of vegeta-
The National tribune., 1889-05-16
ELEPHANTS At WORK.
How These Mighty Beasts of Burmah
Pile SaW-LOgS and Lumber.

The Biggest Jail in the World and IFS 1000
Burmese Prisoners-The Terrible Tread-Mll, and
How IL Is Operated-Burmese Tatt0Oing, and
How II Is DOne-GoSsip About langOoH-ihe
Coming City of Burmah-ItS Wonderful Mount
ain of Gold. and Word about the BurmanS as
Buddhists.
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en-, doors, bound with iron ana entered by
smaller doors so little that the prisoner mnst
stoop down and crawl through There are
now nearly 1000 prisoners inside these great
walls, and 500 Of these are sentenced for life.
They are nearly all Burmese, and are in for all
kinds of crime. Executions take place here
and excite DO comment. The number now
awaiting the deSth penalty is four man
was executed this morning. and the gallows
had hardly stopped swinging when l visited
the execution ground. I got admission through
a letter of introduction from our Consul, Mr..
WIG. Rcddie and one of the English Wardens
conducted me over the vast prison. / found
Of yards, each of which contained big one-story
buildings of brick and wood, and the most of
which were the workshops Of the prison. The
doors were opened by black-skinned jailers as
we passed through wall after wall, and the pTis-
oners we met saluted US by dropping down on
their bare knees or squatting on their heels
and putting the palms of their hands together
in the attitude of prayer as we passed. The
first sight as ] entered was 20 Burmese ready
to 90 outside OF the prison TO work, and these
squatted down in this way rs we came up. The
prisoner can do no damage with his hands
ciasped in this way, and the regulation is to
prevent the Wardens being taken off their
guard and assaulted by some of the desperate
characters which you find here. 1t was curl
Gus sight, this sguatting down of hundreds of
men in this way. In some cases they took
down tubs Of water from their heads which
they were carrying, and in others dropped
their knives or tools aud clasped their hands
together.
The National tribune., 1889-05-16

ALL competent authorities say Bright's Dis
ease has no symptoms of its own, but presents
the symptoms OF other affections. Warmers
Safe Cure is universally recognized as a specific
for Brights Disease. That is why it cures so
many other diseases. which are caused by the
kidney affection. 1t restores the kidneys to
healthy action.
The National tribune., 1889-05-16

Passing on into the workshops, I saw be-
tween three and four thousand Burmans at all
kinds Of labor. They were doing every species
Of manufacture common TO the country, and it
was a good opportunity to study industrial
BuTmah. Here the men were weaving, using
hand blooms not unlike those of the rudest Of
the country districts of America. and in the
next room about a score of men were pressing
out oil from some kind of vegetable-seed. There
was carpentering and blacksmithing wheat
grinding and woOd-carVing going on, and
everything was done by hand The oil.press-
ing machine consisted of a heavy stone the
size of a milestone placed on the top of an
other Of the same kind, and to the upper stone
was fastened long bar, which was also weight
ed with pieces of rock. The pressing was done
By half dozen men, three of whom were har-
messed to ropes attached to this bar, aud the
other three pressing behind it. They pushed
the bars around just like the horses pull that
which operates the thrashing- g-machine, and the
sweat poured down their bare backs and their
muscles stood out like great cords with the ex-
ertion. "This," said the Warden, =" is about the
hardest work the men have to do. We put
prisoners at this when they first come in, and
sometimes make them work here for punish
ment" In the rice mills and those for the
making Of -four the work was done much about
| the same way and all of the rice and -four made
for this prison is ground out by haad. Each
! man IS expected TO make ana clean 1sbout 81
! pounds daily, and there were about so mon at
work when / visited the shop The water
works of these prisons are operated by human
muscles They consist OF great wheels, upon
which men stand, and walking step by steI
from one cog to another, turn them, so that the
water is drawn up in little buckets of tin OF
bamboo and spilled over into a trough, from
whence it is carried TO the various parts of Tho
prison. IL is the weight of the men that forms
the motive power, and this is the same for tht
carpenter and the blacksmth's shop.
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there is as much art In tattoolng as IN painting.
Burmah ranks with Siam as the land of the
white elephant. The Burmese believe that the
spirits of Kings,inhabit the bodies of white ele-
phantS and King Thebaw had two or three ele-
plants at Rangoon who had palace of their
own and who were treated like Kings. They
were known as the :" Lord White Elephants"
and they had draperies of silk and bands of red
cloth upon them. when they went forth they
had - says one of the best authorities of Burmah,
"goldcn and white umbrellas over them, and on
their foreheads were plates of gold and golden
tassels hung down over their ears. They had
regular attendants who paid court to them, and
they were every day bathed with scented san
dal water"
When the English took Burmah they carted
the white elephants away, but there is one
here at Rangoon. lie is kept rather as Curl
osity than as a royal prisoner, and his imperial
legs are tied with rope. The ordinary ele-
phants have to work for their living and they
are used throughout the interior for riding and
for the hauling of timber. They are used here
in the saWmills, and ] took a carriage and
drove out to see them to-day. ] spent an hour
in watching them work, and i venture to say
that there are no animals IN the world which
display such intelligence as these elephants of
the sawmiils. Their every action shows the
evidence of reasoning faculties, and they used
their wonderful strength with the greatest of
skill and with calculating of what seemed to
be cause and effect. There were two at one saw
mill, each of which was, judge. nearly as
large as Jumbo. Both had men clad in turbans
and gowns seated upon their great heads, and
these talked to the elephants" by rubbing
their heads this way and that with their heels.
Each had in addition sharp brass hook, and it
was wonderfulhow with this and the heel they
made the elephants do just what they wished.
have never seen an American sawmill which
had more logs and bigger logs than this one.
Many of them were over 20 feet long and some
were over two feet in diameter yet an elephant
wopld kneel down and put his tusks under one OF
! these heavy teak wood logs, aud throwing his
| trunk over it, would carry itacross the yard and
place it carefully upon the truck, along which
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bles twice day This prison uses more than
G,00O pounds of rice daily, and this is equal to
about 1900 pounds when it is cooked. The
murderers of the prison were all natives except
one, British soldier. who had killed two Bar
mese women in Northern Burinah. He COM
mitted the murder not in war but in quarrel,
and his appeal for pardon has been refused. He
viii probably be hung before this letter is
printed. In another room was an Indian nurse
who had tried to murder whole family OF
English by putting poison in the food.
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In going through it had chance to observe
many fine specimens of Burmese tattooing. The
prisoners were all tatto0ed from waist to knees,
and all of the Burmese men cover this part of
their bodies with tattooing a boy is tattooed
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Have you ever seen the treadmill of an Eng
lish Jail?
understand that all of the great iails Of
India have them. They are institutions which
/ would not like TO see in an American prison,
and indeed there are many things here which
in bad hands might be turned into instruments
of terrible cruelty. The blacksmith shops or
machine works of this prison contain at least
100 men. They have pulleys and wheels just
like a great American establishment, and in
the carpenters shop, where another hundred
perhaps are employed, are the belts and wheels
which run the buzz-saw, the planing-mill
and the other machinery incident to such an
establishment. All of the power for these two
shops is furnished by the tread mill, and stood
for half hour watching the men who operated
it. Imagine low, narrow room $50 feet long,
and in this put six great cog-wheels, each about
~ feet in diameter, so that they make, one con-
Jipuous wheel from one end of the room to the
other. Let the cogs on this wheel he boards
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