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and such was my momentum that must
have rolled over dozen times.


10 the last 1000 feet you ascend through
a natural fssure in the rocks up a rude
wooden staircase. Snow does not remain ON
Mt Pilatus all the year round, but I passed
several ravines where the snow was 10 feet
deep. A stream ran underneath the snow,
leaving bridge, and there was no incon-
siderable danger in passing by them, as
when they get detached by the thawing they
slide down the mountain side, and woe to
him who is In their line of march.
1t takes about three hours and half to
make the ascent At the base it was warm
enough for seersucker suit, and at the top
heavy winter overcoat would be comfort
able, but as heavy winter overcoat is not
very portable up mountain side, I adopted
the unhappy medium and shivered on the
mountain top. have one consolation in
thinking of the heat which suffered few
hours previous at the base. Shakespeare 8
lines think would come in here:
Oh. who can hold ball Of fire in his hand,
In bare remembrance Of the frosty Caucasus.
THE MOUNTAIN HOTELS.
There are two palatial hotels at the sum-
NIT, and the prices are palatial also. Ny
companion and could have q room with
two beds for 50 each, and the usual Euro
pean charges for candles, services, ETC.,
would run the bill up to several dollars
more; but the lower you are on the mount
ain side the lower the prices are, SO we de-
scended thousand feet to another hotel
where we got good accommodations at
much better rates. Nights on the mount
ain are awiully cold. After we had snug
ly tucked ourselves in the landlords beds
one OF his buxom daughters came into our
room with an armful OF those feather affairs
so much used as bed covering In European
countries. wonder we did not sufocate
before morning.
told the host to awaken me at 4:30 in
the morning to see the sun rise, that being
the regulation thing for tourists on mount
ain tor. have seen Niagara Falls and
the Eiffel tower, but nothing can surpass a
sunrise on the Alps viewed from a mount
ain top $500 feet high. Tie lakes and
valleys underneath were hidden in fat
layer OF mist and the sun shining on this
and on the top OF the snow-clad chain made
sight which shall never forget.
AN ALPINE SUNRISE.
The mist, with the mountain peaks jutting
out here and there, bear a striking resem-
blance to an ocean studded with islands.
The sharp peak of the Jungfrau, clothed in
Its eternal snow, lowered above the other
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themes. It would be infinitely better-it
would be safer-it would be building
on seeurer foundations--if the demand
for such a movement came from the
country itself. If the Queen and
the dukes and the m1llionaires
were to subscribe as il in answer to an ap-
peal from the people, the enthusiasm would
be tremendous; it would be such thing as
never happened before in the history OF
England; talk about noble ladies hinging
their jewels into the public treasury?-why,
every schoolgirl would bring out her
boarded pocketmoney, with her lips white
with patriotic fervor. England can sub
scribe on all possible occasions for the bene-
fit of other countries; Tor once let her sub
scribe on her own behaliP'
Lord Musselburgh went on, though 10
might have been hard to say what half
mocking bravado intermingled with his sp-
parent enthusiasm. ~"And that's where
you would come in. You would be the
emissary. the apostle, the bearer of the fiery
torch. You've done very we'll with the
grocers' assistance of Mendover; but Ianey
having to wake up England, Canada, Aus
tralia, and the Cape to the necessity for
making the Mother Country once for all in
vulnerable, in the interests Of peace and
universal freedom. Why, could become
CAo4uChe 1OO1s ~ ~ goCAis Lucy Cuccfcu
your graduated income tax; but what
would they say to this7 Fancy
what could be done if every man in
this country were to pledge himself to give
years income We don't ask him to 90
out and have his legs or his arms amputated,
or his head shot off; we only ask for years
income-to secure peace and prosperity for
himself and mis- children and his children's
children. If there is any patriotism in the
country at all, who would say no? And
then when there is an iron belt round En-
gland, and when there is a floating mass Of
iron that could be sent at any moment TO
form wall round any OF her dependencies,
then, suppose, there might be splendid
assemblsge in Westminster Hall; and you
and Las the instigators of this great ma
tional movement-but my imagination stops
short; don't know what they will make Of
us"
He himself had to stop short, for be was
passing through a wide gateway into the
grounds surrounding the Bungalow, and
tie carriage drive was almost invis-
ible under the over-shadowing trees.
Presently they had drawn up in 'front.' Of
the long, low, rambling house; and here
were H' windows, and an open door, aud
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-24
BY WILLIAM BLACK
Author of "A Princess Thu" "Sunrse and Many Other
Stories of Highest Reputation Continents.
SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS.
WRITTEN FOB THE DIsPATCl

Mae
on
He
LADY Of the bride od @ liberal 0sr
Masrec
ionne in
Msiis effort conceal from M Ellison their social
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they have only to climb that number Of feet
are very much mistaken as the path up the
mountaInls 30 zig-zag that five times $500
would be nearer the mark. Hereafter when
I want to admire the view from mountain
top shall take train for that point and
lacking that mode of conveyance shall be
content to admire its beauties from the
valley underneath.
On my way to Venice, for few months
sketching, I stopped few days at Lucerne,
one of the most beautiful spots in Switzer-
land. Across the lake can be seen the tow
ering forms of Mount Righi and Mount
Pilatus. The latter, which is higher than
Mount Righi, looks more precipitous and
rugged, but Mount Righi is more in favor
with amateur climbers, for the simple reason
that 1t il not so firing.
THE MOTLEY CROWD.
The most awe-inspiring things about a
climb up the mountains are the merciless
rays of the Gun beating on you while toiling
up its base and the Arctic GOODNESS when you
get to the top. The first thing to do is to
provide yourself with stout stick about
eight feet long, with a long steel point. I
took the steamer for half hours ride to a
village on the lake where one of the mount
ain parks commences. On the steamer
can be seen a choice collection of types
from many countries The Englishman in
his suit oil tweed, ,Knickerbockers, etc., and
the usual white streamer around his hat;
Germans, Austrians and Hungarians,
many of them having feathers and eidel.
weiss in their hats, and some with stout hob
nailed shoes and knspsacks and all armed
with long poles.
There are English and American girls by
the score. They can always be easily
known bY their straw hats, generally black,
with brim only visible with telescope
II American girls could only be persuaded
how hideous they look with these cookie
shells, am sure they would quickly dis
card them. The French women, OF all other
nations, appear to the best advantage in
travelling. Like their English and Ameri-
can sisters they do not wear their worst
clothes when travelling, but appear as be-
witchingly at Saint Marks in Venice as
they do on the Boulevard des Italiens.
The American small boy was, as usual, to
the fore in the boat. He criticised any
thing and everybody increasingly, and was
evidently monarch Of all he surveyed.
ACTUALLY CLIMBING.
e For the first 1000 feet up the mountain
the heat is intense. shed garment after
garment until the shedding could 90 no
further. Several thousand feet further up
I could see the goats skipping nimbly
around. and from my position I wondered
they did not tumble down into Lucerne
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and the manner Of doing 1t is to form
National Patriotic Fund, to which every
body, man and woman, merchant and ap-
prentice, millionaire and club waiter, can
subscribe, according to their means and the
genuineness of their patriotism. Here is q
chance for everybody; here is test of all
those professions Of love Of country. Why,
it would become point Of honor, with the
verv meanest, il the nation were thoroughly
aroused, and ifa splendid example were set
in high places. The Queen, now-who is
more directly interested in the safety of the
country than she is?-why should she not
head the list with e100, 900? would call
the fund the Queens Fund; and 1 should
not wonder ii we were to get two or three
maniacs-very useful municipalities
they would have been called in other days
to cut their possessions in hal, and hand
the one half bodily over to Her Majesty:
that would be something like an example?''
"But is it all a wild speculation, Mussel-
burgh?" asked Vincent, who was puzzled.
"Or do you mean it serIously?"
"Ha and hum" said the young peer sig-
nifcantly. That depends. should want
to sound some of the dukes about it. And
first of all 1 must have some sort of scheme
ready to get rid of obvious objections. They
might say, oh, you want to treble the navy?
Then in 20 years you'll find yourself with
crowd Of obsolete ships, and all your money
gone.' That is not what / mean at all. I
mean the formation of an immense volun-
tary national iund, which will keep the
navy at double or treble its present strength,
not by a sudden multiplication Of ships,
but by gradually adding vessels OF the
newest construction, as Improvements are
invented. An immense fund, doubtless; for
of course there would be maintenance; but
what couldn'ta rich country like England
do if she chose? And that's what I'm COM
ing to, with regard to you. my young Demos
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pleasantness thereof There was only one
unrequitable defcien cy-namely, the lndis-
position and Consequent absence of your
respected wi e, Lady Borthwick, which lie t
the gladness OF our heart incomplete, and
which is still recorded in the pages of our
diary.
"Since we do not wish Her Ladyship to
permit her absence and our not meeting her
to cause oblivion. we have sent ring for
her. And we make you medium of ex-
preston of our heartfelt regaros and an ex-
ponent of our affection and gratitude toward
this family. "NAsR AID DIN, SHAH"
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RINGS FROM THE SHAH.

How m English Indy Has Fallen Under the
Notice of His Highness.
Illustrated News OF the world.1
The magnificent diamond ring shown in
our illustration is that which his Imperial
Majesty, the Shah, has graciously sent to Sir
Algeruon Borthwick, M. P. by the hands
of the Nawab Mira Hasan Ali Khan, with
with an autograph letter in Persian, and
the following translation:
"After compliments,
1.-THE time of our companionship with
you, and the happy days passed in your
neighborhood. are delightful souvenir
of our last years travels, and I con-
tinually revive in my recollections the
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parts OF the world. In most OF the tropical
countries women wear clothes purely for
ornament.
Every tribe has its different idea of
beauty. I took sketch to-day OF the Hot
tentot Venus, who is considered the most
beautiful woman of the African tribe to
which she belongs. She is the wife Of q
king, and painting is now being made of
her from photograph by the artist of the
Musuem. She must weigh at least 400
pounds and she seems to run all to fat She
is SO fat that when she lies down on her
back she has to have her maids to help pull
her up again, and in this fatness and gross
ness consists her beauty in the eyes of the
Hottentot man.
BEAUTY BY FORCE PUMP.
The Hottentot mothers stuff their babies
with food in order to make them fat They
force milk into them as though they were
so many geese and they were trying to make
pate de fol gras of them, and many a young
girl is whipped by her mother because she
will not eat till she bursts. This fatness as
q sign Of beauty is also characteristics of
Korean woman. The fat Korean is sup
posed to be wealthy, and a girl who would
weigh one-sixth of a ton ought to have a
very rich father. The Korean woman is
more 0Ver-OreSSeQ tnan nef American sister.
She wears pantaloons and skirts, and she
never goes out without green cape thrown
over her head, through the front of which
she makes a crack with her fingers Just
wide enough for her to see through.
In this African collection are some Of the
heaviest bracelets and anklets which are
found in the world. handled one anklet
made of brass, which was as big around as
your wrist and which weighed about four
pounds. 1t would be impossible for a girl
to run with such thing on her leg, and
there were bracelets by the dozen of iron
and brass which weighed about a pound or
more Some of these bracelets were OF
ivory. Some were spiral like a watch
spring, and others were as thin as bangles
COSTS JUST THE SAME.
In India women often wear bracelets from
the wrist to the armpit, and I have seen at
Benares on women whose black skins were
covered with a cotton dress consisting
merely OF a sheet wrapped around them,
and which all told could not have cost more
than % cents, bracelets of gold, silver and
brass which would have purchased Paris
costume In the hill tribes of Burmah the
women wear great bands of brass around
their necks, and it is said that one woman
will sometimes carry as much as 30 pounds
in this way. In the collection at the
Museum there are necklaces of iron, brass
and gold and the objects are of all shape
and description. The most curious neck
lace, to me, was one Of human fingers, but
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in the cases, and a
great part of it is yet to
be classified. I had a
private look at some
of its curiosities to-day,
and M eyes grew big
as I handled the jew
elry worn by the la
dies of the Congo.
About the only things
that q Congo girl cares
for are her belt and
bracelets. She wears, in
fact, nothingelse. The
belt is ornamented in
various ways, and I
am told at the Mu-
scum that this belt
constitutes the adorn-
ment of many savage
women in different
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NEW SAFETY PURSES.
They Are So Contrived That None but the
Owners Can Open Them.

They Are So Contrived That None but the
Owners Can Open Them.
There are some good things in safety
purses now, says a writer in the Pail Mdll
Budget. They can be laid down without
any fear that the contents will disappear.
Many women have an unhappy knack Of
leaving their purses about 1t is to these
that the safety purses appeal. They are
q puzzle to the uninitiated. A purse
with silver mounts will have the opening
spring hidden away in one corner. Yet all
the corners look the same. The way to
open another is to turn the spring right
round. Another purse deceives you into
the belief that the bottom is the top.
Sealskin, without the fur. is the latest
novelty for purses. The American purse is
handy for carrying in the hand. It's quite
half foot long, so the owner can get good
grip on it. The double purse is a useful
article. The roomy half of this is for
coppers.
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Swallows as Carriers.
Pail Mall Budget.1

Pail Mall Budget.1
Some experiments made the other day at
Dunkirk certainly proved that swallows are
not only swifter and more sure in their
flight, than carrier pigeons, but that they
can also-notwithstandin all that has been
said and written to dispose the fact-be
made as tame as any other birds. But who
that has ever seen the pitiful sight of sval-
low in captivity, with its bright eyes dull,
and the sheen all vanished from its glitter
ing .plumage, can believe that a swallow is
made for anything but "the free airs OF
heaven?"
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this was used by the medicine men OF a
certain tribe rather than as an ornament for
women.
Two of the most beautifully formed
women | have ever seen were pointed out to
me by the curator of the African exhibit,
from picture in the possession OF the Mu-
scum. They were young Kafirs dressed in
the costume OF the country. They have
high shoulders, beauti nj busts, plump
forms and long, 1.-the limbs. Their hair is
curly and their noses are fat and am told
that in this 4 ,tness they hud part of their
beauty. Mothers think that the & t nose is
;he only beautiful nose and they press down
upon the noses of their babies to spread on
their nostrils.
AN OILY CREATURE.
There is one thing in dressing a Young
Kafir lady that is de rigeur. She must
nave coat of grease every day before she
can 90 out OF the tent. She oils herself nm
I'll her black skin shines like patent leather
and theu she is ready for a siege She has
en idea that scars add to her beauty, and
you will notice that in many cases Kafir
womau's arm from the wrist half way up to
the elbow has natural bracelets of raised
flesh. This is done BY cutting the arm when
the child is young and filing the wounds
with ashes made of burned snakes. These
ashes pr0duce, TO certain extent, the effect
OF tattooing, aud you will find the tattooed
woman N nearly every country.
Prof Hitchcock, who has Just returned
from Yezo, the island which lies between
Japan proper and Eastern Siberia, has
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ENICE, August y.
HAVE climbed my
frs: and last noun
tain, one of the Al
pine peaks being
enough for me for q
life time. It is now
q week ago since I
made the ascent as
we'll as the descent
of Mount Pilatus
which is only 6, 900
1eet nigh, and my
bones have not yet
resumed their nor
NAL condition but
feel as if I had a
severe attack of
rheumatism. Those
who imagine that
when a mountoin is
nplv a Q00 feet high
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Pretty Girls of Foreign Lands as
Seen in the New Exhibits of
the National Museum.
FAT MAKES A HOTTENTOT BELLE.
Anklets Weighing Four Pounds Adorn the
African Charmer, and Hideous Scars
Cover Her Arms
EAR HOLES USED AS CIGAR HOLDERS.
japanese Lady Who Can Dance on Silver Dollar,
and Some TattOoing Feakh
rcoRRrsroxDrNcz OF THE D1srArcH.1

rcoRREsPoNDKNc1 OF THE DIsPATCH.l
WASHINGTON, August 2S.-The Ma
tional Museum has just received large
collection of articles from the wilds of
Africa. This exhibit has not yet been put
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point not to move her head in sleeping.
There is no more luxuriant hair in the world
than that of the Japanese, and this probably
comes from the shaving of the head when
she is baby. The custom of shaving the
head and blackening the teeth upon mar
riage is dying out, and the Empress is
doing all she can to discourage it.
ORIENTAL WATERFALLS.
Different styles of hsirdressing prevail in
different parts OF China, and the water all is
known everywhere. The Korean girl wears
her hair on the nape of her neck, and the
lady servants of the palace wear about a
bushel of false hair on the tops OF their
heads. The Aino women wear their hair
down over their ears like the men, and per-
haps the only short haired women in the
world are those of Siam. The Siamese girls
have beautiful forms. and as your boat floats
in and out among the water home of
Bangkok you see many of them standing on
the steps of their floating houses taking
their daily bath.
They throw cloth around them and step
down to their waists in the water and there
splash themselves to their hearts content.
They have skins of a rich chrome yellow,
bright black eyes showing out of buttonhole
lids, and their hair stands up like porcu-
pine quills all over their heads. They have
a roguish look and they are by no means
unhandsome. MISS GRUNDY, JR.
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UP AN ALPINE PEAK.
Ascent of Craggy Mount Pilatus,
Overlooking Lake Lucerne.
BEAUTIES OF A SUNRISE SCENE.
The Panorama Of Fair Switzerland as Seen
Through the Clouds.
INCIDENTS OF The PERILoUs TRIP

lconzrspoNpzxcz OF THE prsrAroH.i
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VENICE, August 9.
HAVE climbed my
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After the sore is healed bigger wire il
put In. This is followed by bigger one
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-31
HALLowELIs QUALIFICATIONS.

Among all the public men in the state
of Kansas, not excepting any present
members of congress, it is doubtful if a
single individual could be found who. in
all respects, would equal James r. Hal
lowell as a representative of the people
in congress. He is remarkably equipped
for, and wonderfully adapted TO the
work. No man who knows HallowelIs
characteristics and the nature of the
duties of a congressman will hesitate to
endorse the above estimate of his qualifi-
cations. Self-assertive, wide awake
and strong-voiced, in less than thirty
days after taking his seat he would
be known to the entire body as Hallowell
from Kansas, while his open CHEEKY
ways would insure him the good will
and fellowship Of every individual MEM
Der be he from the North, South, East
or West. His enthusiasm is of the wide.
open-eyed and catching kind, re5istless
where good feeling prevails and tor
rent where there is trouble. Many men
of probably equal brains and experience
but lacking in these essentials so
marked in Hallowell, are lost and I'M
heard of in that great body of represen-
tative Americans. Hallowell would be
as hard to lose in such an arena as it
would be TO obscure an electric light by
surrounding it with flicker tallow-dips
Jim Hallowell couldn't be overlooked
anywhere, not even at a funeral, es-
pecially if he was taking hand at the
burial of the opposition.
When it came to department work his
industry and energy would equal his en-
thusiasm on the floor. His brusque
hearty manner would prove the sesame
TO the favor of bureau heads department.
al clerks who would soon be found ex-
erting themselves to accommodate and
meet the requirements of the hale and
hearty Hal, from Kansas. As nine
tenths of all that constituency desires
of their congressman r. of, from and
through some of the departments,
a man of Hallowell's character be-
comes very important. And Hallowell is
one who never becomes discouraged,
another significant qualification for
congressman who must often, in secur-
ing the rights of some constituent, sur
mount and ride down rebuffs and re-
fusals over and over again. In short as
we said in the opening of this paragraph,
there is not one public man in thousand
so peculiarly well equipped, mentally
and physically, for so successfully and
satisfactorily discharging the duties laid
upon, and for meeting the amending de-
mands of a constituency, as is, and as
would be, Col j. r. Hallowell.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-31
ILLOGICAL LOGIC.

The Atchison Champion charges Sena-
tor ingalls, with the responsibility of
Blaine's defeat for the presidency and
Cleveland's election in 1894, and under
takes to prove it by this bit of logic:
Ingalls, traded st. John when he was a
candidate for governor for third term
and secured, or at least aided TO bring
about, his defeat; this placed st. John in
position to be offered the nomination of
the Third party prohibitionists for presi-
dent and that he thus drew off enough
votes in New York from Blaine to give
that state to Cleveland which elected
him. This shows the Champion in as
desperate straits to defeat its fellow-citi-
zen, the senior senator, as it would have
its readers believe he is in to prevent his
defeat. The Champion presumes, first,
that but for st. John there would have
been no Third party candidate for presi-
dent, and second, that if there had been,
such other candidate could not have
drawn away enough votes in New York
to give that state to Cleveland. Falla-
cious logic, and purely presumptive.
Upon equally as plausible line of argu-
ment it can be proven that water is the
parent of a threshing machine. For in
stance: Necessity is the mother of in
vention; water is a necessity, mother
is parent, a threshing machine is an
invention, therefore-Bah!