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are Frenchmen. Englshmen, Germans, Span
iards and Americans, and mixed with them are
the diverse elements Of the great Mexican peo-
pie. A swell carriage with great coach horses
dashes by you, its silver-mounted harness
glistening in the sunlight and its coachman
wearing gorgeous sombrero and his pants
lined with silver. 1t contains the wife and
daughter of rich hacendado who are going to
take their afternoon ride on the Paseo. Behind
them rides a rich Spaniard in Mexican costume
with saddle, hat and harness as gorgeous in
their gold and silver money can buy, and at
the side of the street runs half dozen little
burros with great bales of hay almost hid
ing their little bodies from view. while
in their rear is poor Indian driving
them with a like bundle of hay fas-
tened on to his back and held there by strap
that comes over the front of his forehead. Here
is a brigand-like peon from the country in a
blanket az red as the opal which shines out of
its diamond setting on the necktie Of the Amer
lean dude at his side. and you note that his
feet are dirty with miles of travel as they show
out through his leather sandals There's are two
ladies' in black on their way to the cathedral 20
mass and the younger one casts sly but mod
est look at you out of her shawl as they pass.
On the other side of the street there is an In
dian girl whose wealth of black hair streams IN
frowsy way down her shoulders and whose
plump form is bent almost double under the
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From the Lewiston Journal.
The true story is told of one time Lewiston
man who several years ago was divorced in the
west. He came east and married a woman
who had also been divorced. They travelled
south a few years later and there, as they sat on
a hotel veranda, the Lewiston man bowed coldly
to a lady who passed them hanging on the arm
of a gentleman. Curiously enough his wife
also bowed to the couple.
She said: 10 whom did You bow?''
ITO the lady, said the Lewiston man with a
sort of flushed look on his face. ''She was once
my wife. 10 whom did you bow? Did you
know her?'
No." said she. II bowed to the gentleman. /
once had the fortune to know him intimately.
He was my husband
The hotel register read: ''NIr. and Mrs. Blank
of -" and this was their wedding Journey.
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THE BACCARAT BEAUTY.
Sympathetic Account of the Attractive Quail
ties of Lady Brooke.

ties of Lady Brooke.
Marquise de Fontenoy in New York Recorder.
Lady Brooke, whose name is just now so
with that of the Prince of Wales, is far more
beautiful woman than her photographs make
her appear. Indeed, l have never yet seen a
portrait that did her justice. With her wealth
OF golden hair, her graceful figure and her ex-
quisite complexion, she has always seemed to
me the perfection of FRESH delicate, hly-like
English loneliness. She is, however, far from
popular in London, fact due to tho jealousy
caused by the partially which the Prince of
Wales shows for her society, and also to the
strong individuality of her character.
She does not make friends easily. has hor-
ror which she does not attempt to disguise for
all bores and for everything commonplace, and
possesses mind of much originality. which is
as active as her body. She drives four-in-hand,
handling the ribbons in q delightful manner.
talks cleverly, is a devoted mother TO her beau
tful children and does an immense amount of
good with her enormous wealth among the
poor, both around Easton Lodge, her country
seat in Essex. and in London. At the former
place she has organized and maintains a school
where over hundred poor girls of tie neigh
borhood are educated and taught dainty
and feminine trades, such as lacemaking en-
broldery Of underwear, &c, commanding both
good remuneration for the present and pleas
ant livelihood for the future. OF course she is
willful and perhaps l might add sometimes
woman is not, especially when, as in the case of
Lady Brooke, she has been taught from her
earlier youth to consider herself the greatest
heiress in London?
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EnuiyOcaI Sentiments.

From the Boston Gazette.
There is an old story about the merchant Of
Milwaukee who, during the war of the re-
bellion, being an excellent hand at sketch
ing. drew most admirably on the wall of
his store a negro's head, and under
meath it wrote, in a manner worthy of
the Delphic oracle. ''Dis Union foreber''
Whether the sentence meant loyalty to the
Union or not was the puZZling question which
the gentleman himself never answered, always
replying to inquiries, Read it for yourselves
gentlemen" Thus it came TO be saying in
the town that mo one knows how dat darky
stood ON de war question" Another similar
story of more recent origin is about question
which is puzzling the young ladies who attend
a western female college. 1t seems that one
Of them discovered that some person had
written on the outer wall of the college:
Young women should set good examples, for
young men will follow them" The question
now perplexing the heads of several Of the
young ladies Of the college is whether the
writer meant what was written in q moral or in
an ironical sense.
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furthest Mexico City will be oat OF danger and
. vast amount OF land now covered with water
will be reclaimed. Plans for the sewering of
the city are now under consideration and this
canal will. understand. be eighteen or twenty
feet below the present level of the town. A
very important question will be as to whether
the city will not sink when the vast amount
OF water which il found under it at every
point is removed and whether such drain
age would not be more disastrous than a
great earthquake. The expense OF this
canal, go one Of the engineers tells
me, win Oe five or six millions Of dollars and
fts construction is one Of the biS engineering
projects Of the world today. This expense
however. Ia a bagatelle In comparison with the
loss by single inundatiOn. During the great
food OF 1910 II is estimated that forty millions
OF dollars. worth of property WAS destroyed.
and the Mexico Of that time was not more than
one-ntth the size in wealth or in population of
the Mexico of today. In the DAYS Of Monte
zuma the Lakes surrounded the city Since
then they have steadily receded, but the floods
may vet come. II is only by dikes and by this
Spanish cut that the city has been saved several
times in the past
From the above Il might be thought that
Mexico was a sort of second Rotterdam. IL
L. nothing of the kind. Its 800 miles of streets
arc as dry \ bone and the square houses
which wall The sidewalks with their smooth
fronts Of plaster fairly glare with thirst under
the bright sun of the southland. The town
- As vatorvorks. The roads ere not watersd
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great load of red jars she is carrying and now
through them all comes squad of soldiers,
dark-faced and sullen. under the command of
an officer who looks down, as proud as
Luciter, ont of his saddle. Here are
water carriers and peddlers. millionaires
and paupers. the rich and the poor,
the great and the small-all mixed up together
IN one of the most picturesque and the most
delightful conglomerations you will find any
where in the world. Every way your eve turns
it meets new sight and everything is
strange. 1ou glance about you in bewilder-
ment and wonder whore you are. You put
your hand to your head and almost ask when
the curtain will fall and hide the great show
from view. As you go on you are accosted by
peddlers and good-natured highwaymen in big
hats and red blankets who offer to sell you opals
and queerly carved canes. and little Indians in
ragged clothes thrust boxes of matches into
your face and beg you to buy. The news
boy is here in all his glory and dark
faced old man looks out of the stray
gray locks which fringe his wrinked face
under his broad-brimmed hat and asks aims.
You give him copper and he hobbies off
happy, and makes you feel like benevolent
prince. And so you go on along the street of
the silversmiths. by jewelry stores, whose gold,
and rubies flash their multtudinous
rays back at the setting sun; by dry goods
windows. whose stocks of Paris made goods are
as gay those of 9Th avenue. and on down to
the great doors which. with their portals of
carved stone. admit you to the big palace of the
Emperor Iturbide. which. like all things i'm
perial in this country of Mexico, has fallen
from its high estate and is now turned into an
immense hotel. FRANK G.. CARPENTER.
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No Ear for Music.

From the Chicago Tribune.
quiet little man poked his head through the
Office window and said diffidently:
Il live at 206 Bellevue place"
Eyes, sir, said the accommodating clerk, as
he stuck his pen behind his ear.
sand don't care anything for music"
Il beg your pardon with surprise.
81 say don't care anything for music. I've
probably heard all the best whistling soloists. {"
swell, what of it?'' The clerk was q tribe
impatient.
Nothing much. You don't expect a man to
pay for music he hasn't ordered"
Certainly not. But what in the world"
Exactly. I've never made any arrangement
with Won for music, have r.
''Of course not. We don't furnish"
Swell, wish you'd stop the pumps"
'stop the-what in thunder are You talking
about?h
pumps and music. You're pumping air
through the pines SO hard that it whistles when
] turn on the gas. Always does il near the end
of the month. Now, didn't order that whistle
and don't want to pay for it, but it's going
through my meter like cyclone. You admit
i never ordered il.
The clerk ran his hand under the counter.
though undecided whether 20 pull out a
hatchet or q revolver but the little man went
on.
.you overplayed yourself last night. too :, he
said. ''You put on so much pressure that the
wind blew out the gas. That's wrong. BE ar
tistic. I'd rather be killed by apier than n
bludgeon. The latter Is SO brutal. ia rather
have an expert than a novice go through nav
house. The former will do the lob neatly aud
without any fuss. l hate bungiing worn. So
] say, be artistic. But then YOU are no. going
TO charge me for the whissling. You'll sub,
tract il from the bill, Of course. IN be
obliged TO you."
He smiled pleasantly and backed out Of the
Office. The clerk toyed neryously with thai
something under the counter, but finally
dropped il. Then he made use Of some harsh
expressions and asked rs q special favor 70 be
allowed to make out the next bin for 206 Belle
vue place. 1t viii be q STARTER.
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Almost n Tragedy.

From the Chicago Tribune.
Eureka. have yoa ever looked death in the
face"
In the dim light OF the single gas je. that
fickered lonesomoly in the sky parlor of n
West Madison street boarding house the form
of a young man who asked this question in a
husky. trembling whisper cast vague
shadow the dingy wall and heightened the
unearthly ghastliness Of his palid face
la hal she laughed scornfaly. '.what
does il matter TO ven. George SpoonamoreY"
1T matters 60 you y he Kissed between his
set teeth. Eureka Plumduff, the last hour of
your life has come! You have carried your
ficklencss, your ceceit, your heartleSs treat
ment OF me little too far"
He laid a zlungshot. n sandbag a uair OF trass
knucklos. two bowie knives. hottie OF vitrol
and brace Of derringers On the table, drew
from under his coat huge cu;lcss and adj
vaneed upon the glTi, who now turned 10 fly.
1T IL no use y he said. in a harsh. grating
voice. THE door is locked and the hey Is IN
my pocket DO not undertake TO cry out II
You do shall smother you with tlis. And he
snatched his ovcrcoat IRON the chair on which
il hung and held il threatening over her.
The truth flashed upon the horror-struck girl.
She was alone with mailman.
In times of deadly Peril the brain. Unless par
slyzed with terror, acts WITH hshtning-like
quickness.
Aninspiratiou born Of despair flashed through
the brain OF Eureka I1Inlaaf.
George" she eaid, calmly, II shall not resist
I am willing TO die. But before YOU do this
dreadful deed let me say just one word
Il will give you thirty seconds = he answered,
hoarsely.
hear a boy calling out: 'Ilnriag zo,aahank,
extra edition All about tine -
The young man dArtcd 10 the door, unlocked
IL In a fiarh, aud, ma he tumbled down the stair
way. three steps n a time, his voice rang
.... al fl,e l.pilttiuo with tle sr.rtf.
Hold on. there. boyl wa-a-a-ait. What the
sco-o-o-orsy
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HE CITY OF MEAlCO
is the nearest heaven of
the great capitals of the
world. 1t is more than
a mile straight up in the
air above London, Ber-
lin. Paris or Washington,
and it is hemmed in by
great mountains which
kiss the sky with their
frosty lips some two
or three miles higher.
Here among these noun
tains there is a little
oval-shaped valley about
fortv-five miles long and
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Unsophisticated Pareat-''Hello. there, nurse;
what's the baby yelling that way for? I can't
read at ALL"
Nurse-"He's cutting HIS teeth, SIR
U. P-Well. see that he doesn't do e any
more, or you lose your place. Life.
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loo Indulcent.

From the Boston Transcript.
Il have such an indulgent husband" said
little Mrs. Doll
''Yes, SO George SAYS" responded Mrs. Spite
full. Sometimes INDUCES too much, doesn't
he?'
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u is impossible for mans business 20 con-
Time long exactly at the same point IL must
either advance or rutrograde. When you stop
advertising which way is your business goinsS
-Prsnters Ink
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CITY OF MEXICO.
A Bird's-Eye View of the Wonderful
Capital of Our Sister Republic.
BRIGHT STREET'SCENEs.
The Lakes of the Mexican Valley and the
Danger of Inundation-An Immense Drain
age scheme Being Worked by American
charlottesville 100000 Cathedral.
49, HE CITY OF MEXICO

Correspondents Of The Evening Star. |
MrxrrO Cry Juue 10 1891 ]
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DRINKING.

DRINKING.
Quench the thirst by drinking, about one
hour before meals and retiring, all the water
that the body craves-drink nothing else be-
tween meals.
ALLOWED AT MEALs-Stilld dry wine and water
(half water), beef tea, water with or without
little lemon juice or good whisky or brandy or
gin, clear tea or coffee. Tea and coffee may be
sweetened; lemon juice may preferably be
added to tea. Not more than half pint of liquid
must be taken at any meal, and the less you
take the better. Do without drinking at meals
If you can, and you can if you will only try and
keep trying.
To BE CAREFULLY AvoIpED.-Sweet wines,
all sparkling or effcrvescing beverages, such as
champagne, soda water and ginger ale; all fer
mented. undistilled liquors. such as ale, beer,
cider, DC; liquors, cordials; distilled liquors
unless diluted, one part of spirits to at least four
| OF water, iced water all iced or chilled drinks.
Smoking allowed il it agrees, but one good
cigar at the end of each meal is the limit.
To reduce corpulent children give them half
| pint OF hot water to drink at the specified
times, and put them on the two-thirds Sails
bury diet Let them fully satisfy their appe-
furious to them Children are the best Judges
| themselves as to what they require. and rarely
eat more of such plain. healthful food as they
should have or than nature needs.
1t Is not SO with adults, who are much more
likely to over eat to satisfy the cravings of a
fictitious and artificially created appetite or
merely to please the palate.
EAT LESS AT DINNER.
When dieting for corpulence grown persons
should not merely avoid certain articles of
| food, but should diminish the quantity taken
| at every meal. 1t can be done, as can vouch
for Like Others, used to eat regular course
dinner, beginning with soup and ending with
dessert and coffee. Now dinner is my lightest
meal, as eat only little beef and one small
| saucer OF vegetables, and / can confine myself
to this meager fare at hotel table d'hote
while seeing others enjoying the delicious
yiands forbidden to me, and furthermore can
even deny myself a sip of water or any other
| fluid during the repast. At each meal eat
but one-third as much as used to.
But to return to the children. They should
never be allowed to eat hot bread Of any kind
nor fresh soft bread. Neither should the Baut-
ers. The bread should be not merely toasted,
but put into the oven and dried hard. Il
may be buttered. Even of this bread one
should eat little as possible, for il IL now
conceded that bread is not the staff OF life, but
death.
The reader will naturally desire to know II
after reducing the weight BY the Salisbury sys-
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-12-21
Register. 1t will be too late after Decem
ber 81.


If Gov. Hill loses the Senate seat he
fought so hard to win he will have only
himself to blame. The fact that for ten
months since his election he has ignored
his position in the Senate gives the sena-
tors fair and legal reason for declaring
his seat vacant. and he has done nothing
surely to entitle him to any excess of
courtesy at the hands of the Republi-
cans who form majority of the upper
House.
Gov. Hills object in hanging on to his
Governorship can be explained only on
one of three hypothesis. Either he was
afraid that by the surrender of his place
to more scrupulous man the Legisla-
ture might fall into the hands of the Re
publicans, or his personal antipathy to
Jones was strong enough to restrain him
from taking his seat in the Senate until
his term as Governor had expired, or he
was enough of a peanut politician to
seize upon his opportunity TO draw two
salaries. Whatever was Hills motive
the result is the same. The man who
next year will be a prominent candidate
for the Democratic nomination for the
Presidency has left the great State of
New York TO be represented by single
Senator since March A, 1891.
The people owe nothing to David b.
Hill. He has left no trick unturned to
thwart their will and defeat their ver-
dict in the election of State Legisla-
ture. If by legitimate means he can be
deprived of his seat in the United States
Senate the people will say "Amen."
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-12-21

Not very long ago one Dougherty,
known as "Mary Anderson's mash" re-
leased on probation from the Flatbush
Brooklyn) insane asylum, returned with
a pistol and shot dead DIR. Lloyd, n
promising young physician, against
whom he had some fancied grievance.
He narrowly eyed DR.. Tracy, another of
the asylum staff, but concluded, as he
afterward explained, to let him go, "be-
cause he was a young man just starting
ing in life, and possibly might have
parents depending upon him.
Ii would seem that one such lesson
should have been sufficient for the
managers of this institution, but the
Harvey murder described in Saturdays
NEWS would seem to indicate that the
experience was lost upon them; for Har-
vey was q lunatic ''out on probation" F"
in whose head strange voices sounded
and in whose mind queer fancies lay and
brooded. He was monomaniac upon
suicide as well, and altogether seems
quite the man who ought to have been
kept in custody.
Whose fault is it?
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-12-21
THE PULSE OP THE PRESS.

An objection Of few Southerners in
this city TO a Southern play now running
in New York theatre is stated to be tn It
lit was not courteous to bill the play with
a United States flag" This is interest
ing. With what do they want IL billed
Confederate flag New York Press.
Calamity squawkers are attempting to
discourage the establishment of beet
sugar factories in this country. Notwith-
standing. there will be, in the next year or
two, great developments in the industry
of producing beets and converting them
into sugar Cincinnati Commercial Ga
zette.
Mr.. Blaine'has won the enthusiastic sup
port of his party throughout the country.
His position reminds us of the famous
race in which the yacht America outsped
all competitors. When Her Majesty
1.-The America" "And which is secondP'
she continued "There is no second" was
the answer-New York Herald.
The one great overwhelming issue be-
fore the country is tariff reform. Nothing
should be permitted to obscure or inter
fere with that. In that direction lies the
public welfare and Democratic victory.
The Democrats of the Fifty-second Con-
gress should move aggressively forward
on that line. aud avoid the silver pitfall.
Give silver n back seat, Mr.. Speaker Crisp.
Boston Post.
The men with whom Mr.. German is
most intimate and in whose schemes, po-
litical and financial, he is most deeply in
terested, would very much prefer TO see
Mr.. Blaine, or Republican OF of his sort,
in the White House. Mr.. Hill would pre-
fer. above all things, to be in the White
House himself, but IL he were convinced
that that was impracticahle, the greatest
Joy that could visit his sad heart would be
to defeat Mr.. Cleveland.-New York
Times
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4. W. LADD CO,

aiming in practical direction. 1t is
hard for Americans to realize the des-
perate condition of the out-of-work class
in England. Our own out-of-work class
is always relatively small, and is never
beyond reach or deep in distress. In
London the workless people are of i'm
mense number, and their condition des-
perate, for avery large proportion of the
whole cannot command employment,
however temperate or energetic.
The successful reformation of ex-crim-
inals on Gen. Booths plan may often be
open to question, but the work through
out has the merit of representing per-
sonal contact with the poor and desper-
ate. No religion can claim merit that
does not include this element of attack.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-12-21
DECEMBER.

A flight of snow-hirds huddling north,
Etched on the dull-grav atmosphere,
Against the dull-gray, sullen sky.
Across the wide and frozen mere.
Upon whose blue aud languorous breast
The water-lllies lolled IN June,
The wind among the the bendcd reeds
Plays shrill, high, and lonely tune.
Level and brown the meadows stretch
Between the hill of needed fir;
Only bare branches bend and toss,
Where wild. pink currant-blussoms we're.
In stubhle fields the cattle stand
With dropping heads beside the stacks.
And horses feet strike crimson sparks,
As they spring down the frozen tracks.
One maple-tree stands gray and cold,
With thin arms TO the sky outtlung-
All, mel IL seems but yesterday
That wild birds In its branches sung,
Loved, mated. nested latter, taught
The rapture OF their own sweet notes
A very raVishment Of song
To little, tremulous, startled throats.
With mournful cries the wild geese Gy,
Hurrying 90 the red-lipped South.
The only warmth-one crimson rose.
Sweet as a woman's unkissed mouth. "a.
The bleak tidc-lands and grieving gulls.
Where ono, blue waves aud sunlight were
Md in my breast memory.
MASIe once va that glad heart OF her.
FRANK Leslie's Weekly.
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PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Ii Hung Chang the viceroy of China,
is seriously i'll. lie is suffering from in
fuenza and may not recover.
The condition of Major Mckinley has
undergone no change lie is still confined
10 his room aud is unable to see anybody.
G. :. Montgomery, n California million
aire, has Joined the Salvation Army, with
his wife. Both have adopted the uniforms
of the salvationists.
Sir Edwin Arnold makes the proudest
boast that he has been writing for thirty
years, and cannot recall one single SEN
tence that he would wish To erase.
Walt Whitman, the poet, is so enfee-
bled by old age that he was unable TO send
"A few lines of verse to Mr.. Whittier in
honor of his Sith birthday yesterday.
The report that Senator Dubois Of Idaho
was trying To secure Sl,2JO clerkship in
Washington only a few years ago Is de-
MED. From lsS2 90 1875 he served rs mar
shal OF Idaho, and was subsequently in the
JOth and 5lst congresses