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able to say that the stockings are those very
latest null silk ones, and the shoes are
white pebbled leather. The hat, lace straw,
whose painted silk rivals nature. The
maker charged about S125 for the whole
affair and one petticoat of fluffy lace cost s12
more.
1--WE only wear the rig twice." says my
fair informant, "because twice ruins it; yet,
when we are married john swears over bill
for ready-made cloth dress, and says, Deuce
take it, why dou't you wear the simple little
white gowns you used to be content with
when 1 was counting you?'"
The hour after the bath is delicious, gay
and melodious one at Narragansett. Before
returning to their hotels to dine all hands
crowd into the Casino, thronging the lawn
and piazzas, and forming an impressive and
vari-colored picture as they daily with
pretty ices and picturesque drinks. The
drink part of the arrangement is somewhat
surprising when it is remembered that
Rhode Island is a prohibition State. A
special favorite after the dip in the sea is
THE FRAGRANT MINT JULEP.
think the young women prefer this be-
cause the bunch OF green which crowns it
sets off so prettily the clean pinkness of
their faces, just as ferns display the delicate
rose with an added beauty. At any rate, 1
have counted fully two dozen juleps in front
of as many girls during one sitting on the
Casino lawn. A string orchestra discourses
the while most enhancing melody, and
what with the mutual loveliness of the gray
granite building, the exquisite toilets Of the
women, their beauty and vivacity, and the
blue sky blending into the bluer sea, the
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SOME oDIoUs COMPARISONS.
New York contains about four times as
much farming land as Egypt Suppose the
farmers of New York, irrespective of the
capitalists and town people, had to pay a
tax Of S225 600, 900 year they would be as
heavily oppressed, in proportion to their
lands, as are the Egyptians. II they had to
pay simply the tax of from 81 to SO an acre,
they would have to mortgage their crops;
and If, in addition to this, they had to pay
import and export taxes, and taxes on their
sales, the result would be an almost imme-
diate bankruptcy. Egypt is not much big
ger, in reality, than Massachusetts. 1t is
only about the size of Maryland. Suppose
that Maryland had population of 5000, 900
to live of her farming lands. and should tax
them at the above rate, and you get the con-
dition OF Egypt to-day. Verify, the pound
OF flesh of the shylock of Venice was not
more rigidly enacted than is now being cut
off the pounds of flesh of the Egyptian
peasants by the English and other European
creditors.
These creditors watch the condition of
their debtors, and they see that all of the
proceeds go into their pockets. Each of the
Cabinet officers of the Khediye has sub
minister under him, who is a foreigner, and
the proposition for nearly everything pass
through the hands o. this submit mister be-
fore they get to the Egyl tian who is the
Khedive's counsellor. The most of these
sub-ministsrs are English, and the Egyp-
tians are now practically controlled by En-
gland. England dictates the ministers the
khedive shall take into his Cabinet. 1t
dictates the rate OF taxation, and in fact is
the controller of all state matters in Egypt.
The Khedive. 1 am told, would co much
more tor the people if he could, but he has
to submit. The English officers receive
large salaries; and though they are numer-
ically, and in the matter of owning prop
erty in Egypt, fewer than either the French,
the Italians or the Greeks, they are in in
fuence and dictatorial power the leading
European nation of Egypt.
FRANK j. CARPENTER
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sett too, and all is not frivolous and volatile
there, There is big leavening of culture,
and estheticism is visible. A feature of the
sights is Little Lord Fauntleroy in multi
pile. Chaps big enough to be boyish are
kept girlish by this maternal craze, and the
unwilling imitators of Mrs. Burnett's
goody-goody youngster are often unhappy
in their long hair and feminine touches OF
toilet. They are Juvenile Grosyenors de-
scended from Gilbert's Patience" really.
for that effeminate character is realized in
miniature by the Fauntleroy of the story.
1t is funny to see how some of the dupli-
Gates at the seashore anonymously drop the
manners of angelic desnetude and become
hearty roysterers, while still wearing the
costume of sickeningly-sweet goodness.
The Fauntleroy nonsense yielded this ve-
randa dialogue:
Mamma-Now. remember. Bertram, you
mustn't run too hard, or you'll perspire and
spoil your Fauntleroy shirt.
Bertie--Yes, dearest.
Mamma-And you mustn't wipe your
nose on your Fauntleroy sash, or mamma
will have to whip you.
Bertie-No. dearest.
Mamma-Above all things, remember
under no circumstances, take your hat of, !,
because your Fauntleroy curls are sewed in
the brim.
Bertie-Yes, dearest. Oh cuss that
Fauntleroy boy, dearesti KAMERA.
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subsidized was that of resuming her journey
toward her lover; but soon enough the i'm
possibility of such thing rushed upon her
mind with such force that, with piteous
moan, she sank again into state of uncon-
seriousness. At that sound a dark little
woman, quite past the prime of life, and
wrinkled enough to haye been 80, came from
behind a curtain which covered a narrow
doorway and hurried with soft swift footballs
to the bedside. With singularly kind and
gentle expression she peered in the girls
lace, touched her pale forehead with her
thin, sallow Fl ngers. softly adjusted the
rich covering of the couch, smoothed the
pillows and then, with catlike noiseless
motion, slipped into chair close by and as
sumed an attitude of expectant, solicitous
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full girl. The vision recalled his youth and
the season of careless, happy idling in the
companionship of the pure, the beautiful
and the good.
The Holy Mother bless the poor girl, :"
ne softly said. She has found out poor
exchange for the bottom Of the sea-
His wife looked up at him and warm
flush stole over her prenaturely witbered
cheeks. She arose and going to him laid
her hands on his strong shoulders and said:
My dear husband, we must save her; we
must make her our child.
The man appeared to shake himself, as if
drawing together his wits after fit of alb
straetion. He smiled grimly, but not with
out a lingering tenderness, as he responded:
You forget" he said, trying to assume
the swagger. "You forget that Captain
Cortes will have something to say in the
matter" With this he turned and abruptly
left the room.
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is ledge of mud built in the side of the
room. There are no windows, and the
cooking is usually done out of doors in a
little earthen, pot-like stove. The food of
the family Is a mixture of sorghum seed,
millet and beans ground up into a -four and
baked into sort of big, round, fiat cake.
A large part of the food of the fellahin con-
sists OF greens, and watched one eating a
turnip yesterday. He began at the tip of
the root, and ate the raw indigestible vege-
table to the very end of the green, leaving
not a vestige of it. L have seen them eating
clover, and am told that they seldom have
any meat. Out of the milk of the butfalo
and COW they make a sort of curd-like
cheese, which is extensively used. They use
no knives, forks nor spoons, and at supper
they have, in addition to their vegetables, a
sauce of onions and butter, into which they
dip pieces of bread and eat it.
1t is no wonder they remain poor. They
have been taxed for ages to such an extent
that they could barely live. Ismail Pasha.
the last Khedive, would, am told, often
collect taxes twice year, coming down
upon the farmers for a second sum after he
had demanded the regular amount. If they
were not able to supply it the tax gatherers
sold their stock at auction, and he had the
right to make such as he pleased work for
him for nothing. At present there are
about 5000 900 acres of land under cultiya-
tion in Egypt, and there is an agricultural
population OF more than 1000, OOO This
gives less than one and one-f tn acres per
person, and the taxes amount to from 81 to So
an acre
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| watchfulness. Although she was the wife
| OF Don Alfonso her face was French in all
| its features, and when at last Pauline re-
| turned again to consciousness, it was the
accent OF Provence that came to her ear.
"Dear little Mademoiselle, it murmured
tenderly, "do you feel better now?"
A'soft hand brushed with a cooling touch
! across her cheek and temple.
Pauline lifted her heavy lids to look into
those deep-set insistent eyes that hung over
her so inquiringly. The voice was soothing
in a way and the hand was so motherly and
comforting to one Who, an orphan from
childhood, was now so far away from every
familiar sight or sound.
'Just drop of this, my child" the lady
added. letting fall small liquid potion be-
tween the girls parted lips. "You are
much better now, dear; you are going to get
WELL"
She took Pauline's bloodless hand and
chafed it lightly with the caressing touch of
woman iamishing for love and for some
thing to love.
and sleep little more, just little more; it
will do you good"
Whether it was the liquid or whether the
magnetic contact of those motherly hands
and the lullaby-like intonations of that
sweet, soft voice wrought the effect, Paul
inc Iell at once into gentle and refreshing
sleep. Once or twice she stirred lightly and
murmured: Eyes, Louis, I am coming"
The watching woman smiled strangely
meantime and gazed with dreamy remi-
niscent expression out over the bay to where
the sun was gliding some vagrant gulf
caps till they looked like vague floating
domes of gold.
1t is scarcely possible for one to realize
now what place Pensacola must then have
been for refined and gentle woman to be
Gagged in; the years have hurled us forward
so far from those wild. lawless, free -booting
days that we can think oil them only as ap-
pearing hastily through a mist of romance.
The reality was romantic, indeed, but it
was harsh, cruel, painfully devoid of any
high strain of endeavor, and wIthal bru-
tally coarse, no matter how picturesque and
interesting may have been its setting.
Dona Hortense (thus we must name the
wife of Don Alphonso) had felt to the last
thrill the loneliness, the starvation Of soul,
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He Made a Mistake.

He-My dear Miss Angel, will you not
partake of just little pale. pink. cream
and one bonbon, which fear will not be SO
exquisite as you are accustomed to in
Boston?
She-What break? I'm not from Bos-
ton. live in Kansas City.
"Well, am a fisht Here, waiter, bring
us double order of pork chops ana some
turnips with the peeling on.
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Couldn't Have Been Hot.

Mamma-Are you warm, Bobby?
Bobby (in bed9-Yes, mamma, as warm
as toast.
"why, no you're rot. You are as cold
as you can be-"
"well. I'm as warm as the toast we had
for supper"
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In PHARA0H'S LAND.
How the ShylOcks Of Europe Are
Bleeding the Egyptians.
FARMING TAXES SO PER ACRE.
A Telephone to the Sphinx and Hotel at
the Pyramids.
THE REAL ESTATE BOOMs IN EGYPT
rrRox OUR TRAVELLING CONFESSIONAL
CAIRO. EGYPT,

CAIRO. EGYPT,
June 2. Modern
civilization is max
ing rapid strides in
the land of Egypt.
The young giant of
the West whose itch
ing palm is reaching
out toward Japan,
China, Korea ard
the lands of South
Asia, has already a
strong grip on this
birthplace of history,
and the Egypt of the
past has days that
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-07
GAY NARRAGANSETT.
Life at One of the Jolliest and Host
Democratic Seaside Resorts.
BELLIES WHO DRINK MINT JULEP.
Beautiful Girls Who Bewitch the Unsus-
picious Stranger.
THE TROUBLES OF FAUNTLEROY BOYS
CORRESPONDENCE OF THE pIsPArCH.i
NARRAGANsETT PIER, r. l., July 4.

N TIL you VISIT
Narragansett Pier
J you have not seen
one Of the gayest
and most democratic
spots that the sea
beats against. and
i f any well-bred
stranger desires to
go away this sum-
mer, and be adopted
by a lively q n d
handsome crowd OF
jewellers, let him
come here with a
good wardrobe and
be accommod a tie d.
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Everyone is out in, the sunlight, not afraid
to be seen or heard. Before you are aware
of 1t you are friends with the best half Of
the population, and are drinking mint
juleps on the Casino lawn with girl whom
you were actually rushed into an acquaint-
ance with. 1t is bewildering, but most peo-
pie say it is nice. At any rate, this hail
fellow-well-met manner of being jolly at
Narragansett is what has gwen the place its
uniailing prosperity. There is never one
''of year" at this resort. Newport can be
empty, but across the bay you will find the
faithful people at the Pier, sticking to the
old-fashioned hotels, and bathing as no
other people bathe on the whole coast.
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An Old Remark i'm Order.

New York Tribune.l
The old remark is again in order that q
great many college students are broadened
years.
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TAXED TO DEATH

The best lands of Egypt pay 50 an acre.
and this is only one form of Egyptian taxa.
tion. Just outside of Cairo there is Gov
ernment Office, through which every piece
of produce brought into the city for sale
must pass. and every article is taxed. The
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chievous ewes meet your own, and they
have an invitation in their attractive depths.
IF you are an utter stranger you wander idly
about the piazzas, the beach, the cliffs, and
always the feminine eve regards your move
ments. You need not bother yourself about
seeking a meeting with these pretty
creatures. Time and chance will look out
for that
SECURING THE VICTIM.
One Of them simply has to say: "I would
like to know that fellow" and she knows
him within half hour. The last resort is
to his fate, as was the case with by no
means good looking young fellow who
came down from New York one Sat-
urday night to stop over Sunday. This
young man had thought of no greater
,luxuries during his little outing than a
change of fare, swim and q ride. But
after eating his supper on Saturday night
he discovered that he was not to be let of
SO easily. He had lounged up to the parlor
door in his hotel to watch the dancing, for a
quite pretentious ball was going on, and
while leaning gracefully against the jamb
group of women espied him. The ring
leader-a very sweet and stately blonde,
shrouded, in diaphanous draperies-dis-
cussed the situation for a moment with her
friends, and then began searching for some
one to perform the act of bringing the lamb
to the shrine. She met the o6liging young
clerk of the house coming away from the
lce-water tank in the Office, and to him she
indicated the innocent New York youth at
the door of the parlor. The clerk was not
in the least surprised at the request the lair
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The Fi.bermep,. Voice.

Puck.l
The fisherman sang in the mountain pass
As be gayly went TO his fishing place
And his thought and voice were both Of bass-
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A SIMPLE COSTUME.

The girls are various, of course, but here
is bewitching example. We all know
this get up. 1t is silk null, I am told, and
there are yards and yards and yards in it.
II is made on a fine silk foundation. The
lace about the throat is a mere film of web
like quality. On the same authority am
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his prey. The young visitor listened to the
proposition made, looked at the source from
which it had originated, and yielded himself
up with a gracious smile. He danced the
hours away with the truly lovely blonde,
and ate ices with her in the refreshment
room. The next day he foated her over the
rollers in the bath; on Sunday night he
strolled about the piazzas with her-there
are no electric lights at Naragansett-
when he started for New York next morn
ing he promised he would be down every
Saturday night for the remainder of the
summer. There is no easier place on the
coast to meet beautiful girls, and to have a
better time after you do meet them, than at
this same jolly Naragansett pier.
NOTHING STOW ABOUT 1T.
gansett is particularly slow. These have
caught wrong gllmpses of the place. They
have evidently gone in when the crowd went
out, and gone out when the crowd went in
The people here have routine, and their
pleasures are taken spasmodically. About
the only way to realize the immensity of
happiness, beauty and blithesomenessw which
finds haven at the pier is to stroll down the
ocean drive to the little crescent beach at
noontine, and take chair under the roof
which runs the length of the bath houses.
You can't get into hotel with a crowd, be-
cause all the hotels are nothing more than
good-sised boarding houses. You must
therefore watch for the contents of the long
line of these houses to converge, and the
best opportunity you get for this is at the
bathing hour.
Bathing is the soul of Narragansett. 1t is
carried to the point of frenzy. Il inaugu-
rates, it sustains. it brings to a crisis in
Vulnerable affairs of the indiscreet and in
toxicated heart. doubt if at any other
place in the world the seashore man and the
summer girl are found in such profusion of
callow excitability as right here on this
short strip of sand.
UNFORTUNATE YOUNGSTERS.
But there are sedate people at Narragan-
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SOME oDIoUs COMPARISONS.

more than $40. .000, 900 went to pay the inter-
the Egyptian Government in the past.
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CHAPTER I.
FRENCH

FRENCH vessel
1 bound for Mobile
y was captured and
,)sunk by q Spanish
cruiser soon after the
I recapture of Pensacola
by the Spanish fleet
in 1719. One prisoner,
a slender and beauti-
full girl. was the only
prize secured by the
. The fight had been
and deadly one, with
1t not uncommon in
days, when a naval en-
ent, at best, was a mere
of broadside and board
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But there are sedate people at Narragan-
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-08-23

had an unusually bad time with that
cursed father OF hers, the other day,
and was-rather demonstrative, in fact.
| don't wonder that you were little
surprised. You believe me, don't you,
dearcstpn
But Margaret could not answer just
then. She had thrown herself into
Hans forgiving arms, and was sobbing
rs if her heart would break. She did
not care il fifty inQuisiti We maiden
aunts and hundred sharp-eyed
Olivia's were in the windows looking
ut her. To think that she had wronged
and hurt and insulted II man so good
and true as this one was? Gould he
ever forgive her? Could she ever for
give herself?
Your picture is the one | mean TO
exhibit, dearest, and if you like ! shall
send poor Marie Larue's with it, said
Hans, after he had assured Margaret
again and again that all was forgiven,
and that her conclusion in regard to
his conduct in the studio had been the
most natural in the world. "Ah, Mar
garet! | could paint you blindfolded !
know every tint and curve of your dear
face"-Anthony L. Anderson, in Mil
waulee Wisconsin.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-08-23
New House Decoration.

A house decoration which is bound
to supersedc paper hangings for the
walls is painted tapestries, even among
our only moderately wcll-to-do people.
| dropped into the American Art
school, in Twenty-third street, on
Monday, and spent a very delightful
hour. | was shown some splendid
specimens of painted tapestries, close
ly resembling the old Flemish work.
One piece in particular was II superb
example of coloring that will last for
ages. 1t represented IA stream with a
boat floating upon it. In the boat were
youth and maiden in loves dalliance.
A cupid at the prov steered them on,
mayhap TO the land of eternal love and
flowers But it was not the scene so
much rs the workmanship that appeal
ed to me. The actions Of the figures,
the vivid richness OF the background,
and the solid brilliancy of technique
were wonderful
| understand there will soon be some
OF this work on exhibition at Pittsburg.
1t is work that will wash. never fade
and is, in fact, lasting. The method
OF preparing the paint for applying to
the canvas SO that il cannot be scraped
off or washed out is secret known
only TO the principals and workers of
the American Art school. Pittsburg
Letter.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-08-23

NJ Pasteur is threatened with q
rival. DR.. Pcyrand, a consulting ply
stefan at Vichy, claims TO have discov-
cred an efficient method for treating
rabies. BY injecting into rabbits the
essence of the familiar herb called
fansy" he produced what he calls
hydrophobic intoXication, or some
thing very similar, and with virus
thus obtained he mingled 10 per cent
of choral. He injected several ami
mails which had rabies with this pro-
phylactic. and he processes TO have
cured four out of six. This limited
experience, however, can scarcely be
regarded as a sufficient test of the sue
cess Of the new mode OF treatment.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-08-23
Tic King Smoke.

There is divinity doth hedge y
king" says the poet. Bat the follow
ing shows that II baby king is very
much like ordinary babies.
The King OF Spain is called Alfonso
Nil. He IL a very small King, not
yet three years old, and rs some one
has we'll said he h the most COM
Portable throne in Europe, on his
nurses lap. The Spanish government
pays 81, so, 00J annually for his main
teuance, so you see king is a very
expensive luxury which we can very
well do without His Austrian mother,
Queen Christina, however, is very
fond OF him. and thinks he is worth
more than all the gold in the world.
When grave amb ssadors come to
visit her, she will ran out of the room.
bring in the little King, hold him up
proudly, and display his plump arms
and pretty little feet.
Once she went on journey to
Northern Spain. The chief magnate
of the district, "a duke, prepared q
courteous address Of welcome, which
nc commenced TO read. just then the
baby King began TO cry; the Queen
blush ed; but the duke WIS both quick
wittel and Kind hearted, aud he
stopped reading with the remark:
when the King speaks his subjects
should keep silence. This made the
Queen laugh, caused everybody 90
feel good-natured, and the cry soon
ceased