The Monmouth inquirer., 1898-09-01

that is wrought upon II. or IL may
be a fat hemstitching OF the actual
square. Pillows much affected by the
collage girl are of unbleached muslin,
the college initial or insignia embroid-
cred in the centre in a large bold de-
sign and in the proper color. The fin
ish is usually ruffie, hemstitched or
buttonholed in the same shade
Hunting the Condor.
In the lower Andes the condor. at
one time, became so great pest to
the sheep -raisers that five dollars a
head was offered for every bird captur-
ed. The great vultures were hunted by
allowing them to become gorged upon
a carcass placed as bait for them, and
then chasing them ON horseback with
lariats. One of the hunters thus de-
scribes the chase:
When a condor has gOrged itself with
food it cannot rise for fight unless
after long distance of running to-
give itself a momentum. 1t can get
over the ground, however, as fast as a
dog. Our method was to follow the
birds for half mile or more. and then,
as they rose for flight. to throw our
lariats over their heads. An expert las
soc could send his rope over a condor's
head, and so manage it that it was
slipped down until IL touched the
shoulders of the wings before it would
be frightened on the bird.
The condor was then prisoner, but
able to use his powerful pinions,
breathe freely, and lead the horseman
a wild chase across the plain, turning
in all directions in his frantic fight,
but unable to rise higher than the
length of the lasso. When the rider
tired of the sport, he would turn the
horse about and lead the. chase himself.
forcing the unwilling bird along until
it tumbled, spent, to the ground, and
was dragged to death at the horses
heels.
Women Hod-Carriers In Buda Pesth.
l must in all sincerity draw another
picture. / caught its outlines, not in
one of the crowded cafes or along the
Boulevard or down by the side of the
blue Danube, but up back street In
one of the new quarters of the rapidly
growing city. l had seen the same
sight in Bucharest the day before, and
knew what it meant Brick and NOR
tar, and the many ways of lifting them
up and down, have always interested
me. | know the slow, measured tread
of big, red-shirted Pat as he clumisly
climbs the vertical ladder the hod on
his back, and can still hear from the
bricklayers above the cry of Mort
sitting down between the unioored
beams of the several stories. l know.
to, the more modern hoist, where a
turn of the lever sends both brick and
mortar flying skyward to the scaffold-
ing overhead But a girl of sixteen
and a gray-haired woman of sixty were
new types OF brick-and- -mortar-carriers
TO me-. And not in one place alone, but
wherever a building is in course Of
construction.
Narrow platforms instead of ladders
are made for them, running zigzag up
the outside scaffolding. The mortar
fall mixed by women) is dumped into g
tub. a pole is thrust through the ham
dies, swung over the shoulders of two
women, and the weary climbing to the
top begins. | saw one dark-eyed bare
footed girl-she was pale and thin
enough clothed only in skirt and
chemise, rest the tub for moment at
the first landing. and press her hand
TO ner Slue as IL Ill great paul. LIS cAu-
er one waiting for her patiently.
With all it's beauty, dash, and en-
thusiasm, it must be a curious civili-
zation which tolerates and makes pos
sible a sight like this. 1t made my
blood run cold and hot. 1t was as if
one had pioughed with fawn-
But this custom, hideous as it is, can
not. think be counted for many more
years against these people. Their prog
ress in social order is too marked, let
us hope. to permit of long continu-
ance of this degradation. IF. Hopkinr
son Smith, in Harper's Magazine
Burnt orange as a favorite color
seems to have been thoroughly con-
sumed: ashes of roses is the now more
popular and natural sequence.
People who work for you may be as
slow as cold molasses in getting Job
completed, but they break all records
in coming after their money
History repeats itself, excepting il
country neighborhoods, where evela
one makes it his or her particular busi