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P1H ! II. THE OMAHA' SUNDAY BEE.PA 1 PIN ! U-10
EIGHTEENTH YEAR. OMAHA , SUNDAY MORNING , OCTOBER 28 , 1888.-SIXTEEN PAGES. NUMBER 130
IfllTERlNGS ABOUT TOKIO.
Strange Sights and Cuatoma of the
Land of tbo Mikado.
BUILT UP BY HUMAN MUSCLE.
Ulrd'e-nyo View of the Capltixl of
Japan Hloro nnil Household
Kccncs Straw Shoes Japanese
KarininK Ncw Japan.
"CnrpV Letter.
, Japan , Oct. 10.
TOKIO [ Correspondence
of TUB HEE. ] The city
of Tokio Is not down in
the geographies of twenty
years ago. Now it is the
capital of the Japanese
empire and its old name
of Ycdilo is forgotten.
The town which for years
was the city of the shogun -
gun , the commander la
chief of the Japanese
' 'feudal army , has become
" * -"tbo homo of the mikado
'and the center of Now
Japan. In it may be seen better than
any plnco else , how this most progressive
of the oriental nations is putting off its
eastern clothes for those of the west , and It
forms the center of the struggle of the Mon
golian and the Christian civilisations. Just
mldwav between the old and the new , the
aristocrat in his European clothes rides in
his Jlnriksha , pulled by a bare-legged hi other
with a shaved head , and it It the comment of
the social world that the empress has lately
thrown off her comfortable , uiry , loose Jap-
uncso gown for the tight stays and the bustle
of Mr. Worth , of Paris. The crowd
UI'OSTIIK STIIKKTS
Is a strange conglomeration of the cast and
the west. One Japanese has on an American
hat and bcsldo him walks another , his head is
covered with a wheel of straw ns big as a
boy's hoop.and fastened around his chin with
a slraw braid. Both have on Japanese
gowns which arc open at the chest and tied
around the hips with a girdle , but the man
with the American hat may have his feet
htuek Into \voodcn slits or Japaness sandals
while the shoes of the o'lhcr arc undoubtedly
made in a European workshop. Japanese
husbands neatly clad in the latest Hroauwtiy
or Uond street styles are followed by their
wives elegantly dressed In rich soft clothes
of the old civilization , ai.d the whole is a
Htrance , delightful conglomeration of the
picturesque , bordering often uK | > a the beauti
ful and now verging upon the ridiculous.
The queer Japanese signs over the stores ,
great square white boauls with black tea box
characters upon them , or black signs painted
in white have in some instances English
translations to catuh the European eye. Here
is one offering : "Condensed MilK" for sale ,
and another offers "Cock's Eggs of a Super
ior Quality. " Hero is a llquor sign stating
that the store has for sale "Wlao , 13eer and
Other , " and upon the giuza there stood for a
long time a sign which read "Foreign Mon
key Jackets for Japanese Gentlemen. " This
was laughed nt so much , however , that it
was taken down.
TOKIO.
Tokio Is n big city. It covers more ground
than Now York , and it is nine miles long and
eight mlles wide. Over it are scattered
watcli towers for the discovery of fires , and
n view from one of these shows an immense
plain of ono and two-story low tiled houses
cut up by unpaved streets and intorsecstcd
with n network of wide canals. It makc
ono think of Amsterdam and the over
hanging caves of the bouses , the Junli
boats nailing through the city and men act
ing ns beasts of burden carry out the idea o :
Holland. The wind-mills are absent , however
over , but the Hay of Yeddo stretches nwaj
In the distance and the country has that re
ninrknblo green verdure which makes the
Dutch land so beautiful. In the center o :
the city may bo noted specially line buildings
Some of them uro of modern archltuctun
and others are rambling Japanese palaces
They nro surrounded by high embankment !
on which the trees grow , and these are fncei
with inossive walls of stone. Around tin
whole runs a wldo moat and this is known ni
the castle. It wastho scat of the fouda
government mid in it is now located the nov
palace of the mikado. The immense plali
stretching away on every side is filled will
houses and there nro a quarter of n millioi
homes lying below you. Tokio has a millioi
inhabitants , and n guide book of the tow :
itates that it was nothing before the yeai
1000. It is the youngest pi-cat city of tin
eastern world and it will probably grov
under the now regime.
DOMESTIC SCENTS.
A curious city it is. Iho streets look mor
like the bazaars of a fair than the blocks of
city , and their low-ridged roofs rarely cove
nioro than two stories. The floors are tw
feet above the ground , and eaves of the roof
ovcihangBO that fully three feet of groun
is sheltered before the lloor begins. Tli
houses are made of pieces or slides , and dui
Ing the day time the whole front of the lowc
story slides back , and you can see all thnt i
going on within , The Japanese Imvo no fala
modesty , and all the operations of the fnmil
nro visible us you pass along the street. Pi (
turo hero au almond-eyed maiden with a ski
of that riish color shown by the cream of th
Jersey cow , sits flat on the floor before a II
tlo round mirror. Her dress is pulled dow
to her waist and her upper half Is a but
ns that of the Venus Do Medici. Sh
primps and powders and paints her lips re
ns I look on behind my fan nud wonder , an
at Inst thoroughly shocked , I turn my eye
across the street I sco a mother slttln
nearly as bare , on the lloor of the house 01
posite , giving a meal to a linked three-yea
qld boy , who stands up and tugs away llko
lamb. I start from the neighborhood bi
tbo same sights greet my eyes in every qua
ter. In ono house sprawled at full lengl
upon the lloor I sco the father of a faml
lying upau ills stomach nnd kicking up h
bare leps. About him piny half-naked chili
ron and on the canals fullgrown men sou
great boats In tbo clothes that Mnn Frldi
wore before ho was dressed by Robinsc
Crosoc. In another house I sco the famil
cooking going on and In another a party
squatted down at .dinner. There is with
nil , but little dirt nnd the anatomical displi
ns on the whole IB not unpleasant.
STOKE 1IOQM * .
Th lor nnd the private houses n
mixed together nnd the rich nnd poor to
largo extent , llvo' side by side. Thcro n
certain portioils of the capital populated t
the working classes only , but Tokio' has i
slums , good order is eyerywheri * . The sto
keepers , as a rule , Uro in their own house
and their box llko Shops contain the god
' Ucy ) sell piled up around them. The smi
merchant , us he sits on his hecl or cross
n't * legs a la Turk , can reach o\ery article
| iu to tell , and UIs Uoor-1 bis counter. II
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customers sit on It ns they buy , nnd they arc
not allowed to cater the house without drop
ping their shoes outside. Ths ceilings are
low nnd the houses nre hi long lines or blocks.
Moro of the poorer class , which nro formed
of wood , burn llko paper during n fire. Their
partitions arc thin , nnd paper has in most in
stance taken the plnco of glass. Thousands
of the houses look llko gigantic safes and
vnults. Tlioy have barred windows , and
these nt the second story nro closed with
doors inndo exactly like thosu of the Ameri
can bank vault. Thcso arc warehouses or
fire-proof structures. They are known ns
go downs , and every Tokio merchant has one
of them ,
8THEBT ETIQUETTE.
The streets of Tokio are not narrow llko
those of Chlnn or of the older parts of Euro
pean cities , Ono is not Jostled ns ho moves
along them , nnd the crowd of slant-eyed
men nnd women clad in dressing gowns of
all colors of the rainbow Is a good-natured
ono , nnd they luugh nnd bow low to each
other as they meet. The Japanese back Is
olustic. The India rubber man at the circus
would wear himself out in Japan , and the
Japanese bowers seem to never get through.
They sulanm nnd salaam , mid the lower
classes knock their he.ids against the earth
ns they go down on their knees in paying
their respects to their superiors. It
bothers ono to be the recipient of
so much attention and the American
feels his awkwardness when ho attempts the
Japanese bow. It Is , however , not unplcas-
unt ] nnd with it all thcro Is little servility
and fanning. I am struck with the open
kindly expression of the Japanese face.
They seem to treat travelers as brothers.
They welcome them and are willing to con-
ccdo that thcro nro other good things outside
of Jnpan. They nro manly about it and the
only unpleasant thing is the curiosity which
ono excites among them. Whenever I walk
along the streets of Tokio n crowd of men
nnd boys follow mo , and If I stop to buy I
Had that the street is soon blocked.
ON A STIt.T SANDAL.
Clatter , clatter , clatter 1 What a noise
the people make ns they go along the rend 1
They all wear wooden sandals , and their
Blockings nre a kind of a mitten with a finger
for the big toe. During wet weather their
sandals become stilts , and the whole Japan
ese nation Increases its stature by three
inches whenever it rains. These sandals
nre held to tbo foot by straps coining over
the toes , and there is a straw sole between
the foot and the sandal of wood. A tall
Japanese on n stilt sandal closely approaches
the ridiculous. Ho sometimes tucks up
his long gowa under his belt to keep
it from being spattered by the mud ,
and tbo backs of his bare calves seem to bo
walking off with the man. The Japanese
walk is peculiar. The men put their feet
straight in front of them , like the American
Indian. They lift them high off the ground
nnd they have n get-there-nir about them.
The women wabble and wabble ; they bend
over ns they walk and they have what is now
in America , the fashionable stride. Their
little feet in sandals turn Inwards nnd all fe
male Japan is pigeon-toed. Your Japanese
beauty is not averse to showing her unule
nnd the soul of the Jnpanese beau docs not
flutter when ho sees a two-inch slice of
cream colored skin above the three-Inch foot
mitten. The Japanese shoo store is one of
wooden ware rather than of leather , and the
cobbler mends his shoes with the chisel and
plainer.
MODE OF STIIEKT TIUVKL.
The whole nation Is open at the chest , nnd
only the aristocrats wear underclothes. The
gowns of the men and women consist , in the
summer , of a loose ( lowing garment which
they wrap about them in folds nnd fasten at
the waist with a sash. In this Hash the men
carry their pipes ami their pockctbooKs , nnd
you may often see a curiously shaped Urnss
tube with a head nt the end of it sticking out
of their belt. This Is n penholder , and it
contains mi inkstand nnd brush. The sights
of nn American street are missing. There
nro few carriages nnd lower horses.
You may not meet a cait in n morning's
walk , nnd the street car , a new
Institution here , is seen only on the Ginsn ,
which is Tokio's Fifth uvcnuu and Hroadway
all in ono. The avaricious cab man is miss
ing , and the Jlnriksha man has taken his
place. Thcso bare-legged , big-hatted men
dart here and there throughout Tokio , nnil
they will run their sturdy legs all day for n
dollar. You may biro them for 10 cents ua
hour and you can have two men to pull you ,
fof double furo. There nre bO.OOO of tbemir
Tokio alone. They are in general HSO al ! ovei
Japan , and China is fast introducing them. I
felt rather nshamcd utllrst of using a man as
a beast of burden , but ono soon gets used tc
it and urges the human horse to hurry. The
average Jinrikshn costs about $20.
HIM IN MIISCLK.
Japan Is a land made nnd run by hiimni
muscle. The cattle and horses are few am
human swu.it makes Japan's bread. Tin
mail wagons are pulled by men , and tin
streets and the castle grounds \vatciedb'
push carts. These are filled with great buck
ets which , fastened to bamboo poles , an
dipped by the water curriers into the dee |
moats , and the water poured into tlio carts
Some of the streets of Tokio are wnterci
with buckets , and I saw bare-legged am
bare-chested men cairying two bii
wooden buckets of water , each of which ,
Judge , held about four gullons. One of Dies
buckets was fastened to each end of a pol
about four feet long and us thick as you
wrist , nnd this polo was balanced on Hi
bare shoulder of the mnn. As ho walkci
nlong lit ) turned a stick which made the wate
drip through a number of holes in the bet
torn of the bucket. Ho carried his load u |
ono side of the street and down the other
and thus laid the dust. His wages were ,
am told , somewhere between twenty am
thirty cents n day , and out of this ho paid hi
house rent nnd kept himself and family.
IIUSIUNDIIV.
It Is human miicclu that cultivates Japan
Cattle nnd horses are no part of Japancs
country scenes , and an American plow
which I saw in a Tokio store , was pointci
out ns n curiosity. If it is used nt nil , it nil
probably bo pulled by men As it is , th
land is mndo fallow with n sort of mattock
which is very heavy , and which has a bind
nbout six Inches wide and two feet lent
The rice llelds of Japan are living mom
incnts of human labor , nnd every grain o
rico you cnt represents a certain amount o
human nuisclo , The llelds must bo lloodc
again and again with water , mid the plant
nro transplanted from their first growth Int
rows. I Imvo seen men nnd women by score
bending their backs and hoeing this rice
nud I am told that their wages run from 1
to ! iO cents u day.
1U1UDBX IIIUUEKS.
Human muscle carries nearly all the bur
dens of Japan , Brown skinned , slant eye
men nnd women with baskets cotainlng so\
cral bushels each upon their backs , pnas b
my window ns I write , nnd others folloi
with great loads balanced across their shoul
K ders on long poles. Six-year-old boys cnrr
two four gallon buckets of water In thl
way and loads of heavy merchandise m
pushed along the roads in carts. Two c
three men nro harnessed up in front. So1
oral push behind with both head nnd hand
Their muscles stand out llko thick cords (
they work. The sweat rolls down the
v brown skin in streams and their faces lee
out from straw hats ns big around as a wi
man's parasol , and their feet uro soled wll
straw sandals. The few horse eaits 01
sees upon the streets are always led rathe
than driven by the men and Japan sconi
to do everything in the hardest wa ,
U is a curious thing that nearly all
THE HOUSES IN TOKIO
and Yokohama are stallions. They are blacl
thick-neckud ponlos , and tlioy are used , as
rule , for driving- riding. The best clai asSS (
horse flesh makes a flee show In Tokio , an
the turn-out of a Japanese aristocrat Is won
nothing. Ho has usually a betto or out-rui
ro ner who goes ahead to clear the way , and h
coachman is stiff mid pompous. Speaking
the stallions , some years ngo , I am told ,
ro was ordered by the government that the sU
roy lions bo kept In certain districts , and tl
10 mures in others. How this may be I Una
not , save that at Nikko , In the Interior ,
ro found nil mures. The Nkko | horses we
. beasts of. burden chiefly , mid they carrli
Js great loads In pack saddles on their back
ill Tbo cart horses hero uro very curious. Thei
08 comes ono along tae narrow business stre >
be of , Tokio now ; He Is led by a rope- halter I
the hands of a brown Mdnned old man % yl
'
has a tut round piece of closely braided itr'u
ns big nround as a good sized parasol on his
head. His feet nnd those of his horse are
SHOD WITH STIUW ,
nnd the straw shoes nro In both cases tied
around the ankles with straw rope nnd nro
made of ordinary rico straw bi aided so that
they form n solo for the foot about a half nn
inch thick. Thcso shoes cost nbout n cent
n pair , nnu when they nro * .vorn off they
nro thrown nwa ; ' . Every cart has n stock
of fresh now shoes tied to the horse or to the
front part of the cart , and la the country
here it was formerly the custom to measure
distance largely by the number of horse
shoes it took to make the distance. So many
horse shoes made u day's ' Journey , and the
average shoo lasted , If my memory serves
me , for about eight miles of travel. It Is the
sutno with the coolies. They throw nwnv
their shoes when they nro worn out , nnd last
night when I was riding In one of these man
power baby carriages , my ostrich-like steed
slopped , throw away his straw shoes nnd
went bare fooled. As ho did so , I watched
the roadway nnd counted eight pair of worn
out straw shoes in a single block.
of Iho work horses Is ns queer ns Ihclr shoes.
' 1 he saddle is as big as a lady's side-saddle ,
nnd it is fully eight inches high. The crup
per Is bound with cloth , and it is as big
around ns your wrist and it raised the hoi scs
tall up ns though he had a chest nut bur under
it. The carts nro as rude as the harness , nnd
m hot weather thcro is n sort of straw mat-
ling cover stretched over the horse by means
of two long poles extending out from the
front of the cart to protect the horse from
the rays of the sun. The snmo is done with-
the oxen , who bore work , ns n rule , single , erin
in single file , and the oxen arc shod llko the
horses , with straw. Animals , however , mo
verv few , nhd man power runs ihe country.
They run It very well , too , and Japan Is a
land which shows what man can do without
any beasts of burden , to speak of. Hero nro
line bridges , big temples , grcal moats and
good roads , all made by human labor , lleio
is a country which
lll.OOMS LIKE TUB B OSE
In California , nnd which is kept ns clean as a
market garden , nnd which docs nol look less
fertile. II Is a country with a history run
ning back for tens of centuries , having n
literature , n history , n theater , and a poetry
of Its own. It is a land which has made such
a stride in certain branches of nrt thai Us
curios command n ready sale all over Iho
world , and Us silk worms spin their cocoons
and its maidens weave their product into
silks for the nations. Still , until a very f i > w
years past. It was as bare of outside help ns
Hoblnsoii Crusoo on his desert island , nnd
.steam did not lighten its labors , nor did the
four-footed beast furnish it either muscle ,
food or fertilizer.
TIII : son , or .IU'AX.
I am told Hint only a small part of Japan
is cultivated , nnd the authorities stale that
two tenths of It has as jet not been brought
into use. Still the land that I have seen is
carefully cared for that this seems almost
impossible. The country nbout Tokio and
Yokohama Is divided into garden patches ,
and there is nol n weed lo be seen anywhere.
The soil is us black ns thnt of the Nile valley ,
and it Is as deep as the top soil of the slate of
Kansas , which Senator Ingalls says is so
Ihick tlmt you can push your arm down into
it up to the shoulder nnd pull out earth
whicli is ns rlrh as guano , In your list. The
soil of Japan is kept in this state by the use ,
almost entirely , by the fertilizer of
the water closet Every bil of
night soil is saved nnd Iho sowcraco
is carried in buckets and carts and scattered
over the land. This is done nightly and nt
certain hours of the evening Tokio smells
worse than Naples. There is no system of
sewerage in the city , save that of surface
drainage , and It is a wonder to mo that
cholcia and typhoid fever nre not more often
epidemic. The smells from the fields and
the rico paddies uro ns bad nt curtain times
of the j ear ns is Iho city , and Japan has
much to learn on sanitary matters. With
such conditions no country can hnvo a puio
healthy water , and in many of Ihe homes
hoi o Iho water closet and the well are side
by side. Foreigners do not , as a rule , drink
the waters of Japan without having thorn
first boiled and filtered. J carry a filter and
an alcohol steve with mo , and I never touch
Iho water outside of my hotel.
TIIR WATEK ' L'I'I'I.V.
Sneaking of water calls attention lo wnlci
works. Hero is a city of a million inhabi
tants and according to the latest census ol
1SST > . of more than 2.V,00 ) ( houses. Still , o1
all these bouses , not ono in a thousand , II
nny , Imvo what are called modern Improve
ments , nnd lliero are no walcr or gns pipe1
running through them. The water of Tokic
is not conducted into the houses , but it exist !
in wells nlong the sides of the strccls. These
wells are of wood or slono nbovo Iho ground
and there Is about ono or two to the block
They are ns big nround ns a small hogsheni
sawed off two feet Irom the top nnd tin
water Is drawn from them In wooden buckcli
attached to long bamboo poles. One of tin
sights constantly before your eyes hero is i
semi-naked man or woman tuggine at thosi
bamboo poles to get the water for Iho bouse
supply , and it is from these wells thai tin
supply for the dally baths nro taken.
Flt\NK G. CAUl'ESTUH.
A Summer 1'amornl.
l Uiitnn.
1 would flee from the city's rule and law ,
From its fashion and form cut loose ,
And go where the strawberry glows on It
straw ,
And the gooseberry eiows on its goose ,
Whore the catnip tree Is climbed by Iho ca
As she ciouclics for her prey
The guileless and unsuspecting rat
On Iho rattan bush nt play.
I will watch nt ease the saffron cow
And her cowlet in their glee ,
As they leap in ] oy from bough to bough
Ontholopof the cowslip tree ;
Where the musical partridge drums on hi1
drum ,
And the woodchurk chucks his wood ,
Ami the dog devours the dogwood plum ,
In the primitive solitude.
Oh I lot mo drink from the moss grown pum
That was hewn from the pumpkin tree ,
Kat mush and milk from a niral stump ,
From form and fashion free ;
New gathered mush from the mushroom vine
And milk from the milkweed sweet ,
With luscious pineapple from the pine-
Such food as the gods might cnt.
And to the wlthwashcd dairy I'll turn ,
Where the dairymaid hastening hies ;
Her ruddy and golden red butter to churn
From the milk of her butterflies ;
And I'll rise nt morn with the early bird ,
To the fragrant farm yard pass ,
When the farmer turns his beautiful herd
Of grasshoppers out to grass.
A Dollar n Week nnd IJonrd.
Some Bohemian laborers had agree
to go to work in n tinshop in Philndc
phia for $1 a week and board. The
had made a contract on shipboard wit
the owners of Ihe tlnehop , who wer
passengers , binding Ihomselves to wor
two years at the sum named. Tlioy wor
very anxious to land and got on t
Philadelphia for the 81 a week 1 > (
nanza that was promised them , but th
collector said no , the agreement was
violation of the contract labor law , an
their dreams of opulence in the land i
the free nnd homo of the bravo wei
rudely shattered. A dollar n week an
board docs not seem much a windfallan
yet there are hundreds I might sn
thousands of men in Now York at thl
moment who would bo glad to got i )
c , The other day the Herald modestly a' '
u
uIf ludlng to its value as an advertisin
Ifh Ifd medium , mentioned the circumstanc
, h that ono advertisement in its columr
iIs for an nsssstant bookkeeper brougl
Is some 375 applications for the place. Tli
IsU Evening World lately had a report (
U 1- tramping all over town , day after da ;
1o applying for employment to porsoti
w who had advertised for help , ami the
I writing up his experience , the sura ar
: o substance to which was that every pluc
idB. ho applied for was taken before 1 :
B.o could get around to it. For the to
B.it thousandth time the warning may 1
itn given to men out of-work to stay nwr
10 from Now York unless a place has bee
10w secured before they come-
\
A BREEZE FROM THE PACIFIC
I
"Silver" Stewart , Makes a Great
. Spteah.
FACED BY PAUPER LABOR.
The Swimming of tlio Gilbert
Islntider8 I/os Angelcg Heal Rg-
tate Operation * Cleveland's
Dcatii-bcd Repentance.
i
SAN FUANCISCO , Oct. 22. [ Special
correspondence of THE BIK. : ] The Gil
bert Islanders have left us , returned to
their native specks of rock amid the
blue waves of the Pacilic. Two of them
gave a great swimming performance nt
the Cliff House , before they embarked
on the schooner Addle C. Hazelllne.
The two best swimmers of the party , or
rather , to bo exactly truthful , the two
whoso constitutions best resisted the
cold of our waters , were named E-gce-
bor-wa and Nnrkndn , and they went
through the vehqmont surf that beats
around the Clill House llko veritable
mermen. But thcro was an American
sailor who swam wltb them for the fun
of the thing , and who made just as good
a showing. He had been wrecked on
the Gilbert group nnd spoke their lan
guage fluently. He was consequently n
great boon to the people who had paid
their fifty cents to sco the swimming
from the veranda and windows of the
ClilT House , and it , was from him that I
learned their names. E-gcc-bor-wa
sounds somewhat Digger Indian-like ,
nnd the men somewhat resemble the
Shoshonci , who are the best specimens
of the race , as the Diggers of Northern
California are the worst. Thcro was
a soconil exhibition in the afternoon ,
and Egccborwa ' climbed this time
onto seal rock , giving those creatures
n fearful scare. Narkada was taken
with a lit of coughing when in the midst
of the breakers , and if ho had not been
promptly rescued by the sailor and the
other nntho , ho would have lost his
passage homo beyond any doubt. All
the islanders wore suffering from
colds and bronchial trouble , which
? coined strange , /or San Francisco ha-i
been remarkably free from fogs consid
ering the time of year. Lee , the sailor ,
said that the.y would all have died from
consumption if they had not been sent
homo. So that showa pretty plainly thai
there is no real solely for a pulmonary
invalid north of Sanla ; Barbara. And
yet people from the east who have weak
lui.gs come and suttloj in Ibis cilt\ and
all along the C'oitra ) Costa range on the
other side of Iho bay , and expect to be
nil right. It is clenrlv a. mistake.
'
LOS ANGULUS .IIU L.'KSTATU OPKUA-
"
There is every reason why southern
California shoulg" became a great and
populous community , but the real estate
men , particularly in Los Angeles , take ,
in my opinion , a wrong way. A
combination -of thqin publish in
that citv a paper , which is
distributed grntuHously in whole erin
in part. On the editorial page are
statements about lots which I copy vcr
balim.
"Five years ago lots on Downey ave
nue , in East Los Angeles , were sold for
$100 which cannot to-day bo bought for
$10,001) ) . " "Less than nine months ago
lots in Meadow Park were selling for
S" ) ( ) each , and they are now eagerly
sought after at $350 each. " "Lots in
tlio business center of Pasadena arc
selling for $1,000 a front foot , and lots
opposite the now opera hou e are now
bringing from $ .3,000. to * S,00 ( ) each.
I took Ihe libgrty of asking a Pasa
dena journalist whether these state
ments wore true. TruoV" ho answered
in a llamo ot rage. "True ? No indeed !
This is not journalism , it is shojr lying.
And it is not business enterprise either ,
but unmitigated ijcoundrolism. "
' J'Al'l'KK LAIIOU.
J'ACi : TO KACB WITH
It is clear that frpm common sense
principles there pagi bo no wisdom in en
deavoring to obtain enormous prices
for building lots.t' Southern California
offers unusual inducements to men pre
pared to deal in dried fruits , in sweet
wines , in raisins nnd ulits , both almonds
and walnuts , ttndf its climate in so be
nignant that the rheumatic sullerer
loses his pains , and the consumptive re
gains health and strength. But though
Ihoso things increase the population
they cannot largely increase its wealth.
There is no grec fortune to be made
even in raisins , fir though the demand
is great , the competition with Spain
makes prices lo . Many a working-
girl has tried her hand al picking mus
cats , and found that she could hardly
earn livingexpenses. How often I have
heard stories of fcupposod wrong from
people who had gone south lo work tit
raisin making. Tlio fact is thai in al
most all the products of Southern Cali
fornia , the produ'cer comes face to face
with the paupoj ) , labor of Southern
Europe nnd wages must bo low. I dc
not like to say that southern Californui
must be peopled with poor families if al
all , but the facts .squint that way ,
Therefore the booming of the Los An
geles veal estate men is sickening folly ,
CLKVKLAND'S BKATII IIED IUM'BXT-
ANCU.
The administration has suddenly
awoke to Ihe fact thnt California was
mud clear through , -made so by a long
series of hostiln outs and studied ne
glect. All of a s id Jon there has been n
change , a sort of b ) yenth hour rotor-
nation. oka oust have informed
* tiiKivJt * Somq t-/F- \
the president thai the Californium
were in ccstnci6s oer the Chinese ox-
elusion bill , artd that there was n
clmnco for hinv to , regain the good
opinion of the Piciflq slope by paying
faomo attention tQtho wishes nnd wanti
of that section , til
It is , after all | a part of the United
States , though Mr. Cleveland had lor-
gotten it , and Secretary Whitney ovl
dently never knew > .t. Dr. McAllister
the United Status commissioner of inr
migration in Frisco , took upon hitnsoll
to po-o.ns tho.chiinplon of the Chinese
and to do all in Ms power to frustrate
the workings of/tho ' bill , more parties
larly with rogarq to'tho return of tlu
coolies on the-Bong Kong steamers
His appointment vus promptly revoked
and ho woke oni morning to tind hii
head in the ofjlcilkl sawdust. The olllc (
was conferred u on William II. Thorn-
loy , who is the * ate commissioner. II
happens thnt McAllister ought never t <
have been appointed , for the Unitci
States law on th lsubjeel says explicitly
that the chief i immigration commib
sioner of every ; stiitb shall also receive
ceivo the federal Tappolntmont , s <
that there inky oe no clashing
of authority , whenever prompt no
tiou WoniM .nec bwiry , Still i
Is n sign tlmt Cleveland fools either re
morse for the past , or inquietude for
the future. Another significant straw
with regard to the change of base of the
administration is furnished by the
treasury ruling on fruit juices. Arpad
Hnrnzthy and all the vlticulturists
have contended that the duty ought
to be $2 a gallon for all such liquids
when they contained alcohol , and a
clear showing was mndu that cherry
juice was largely used in the manufacuro
of fraudulent wines. The treasury has
ruled at lust that cherry juice must
pay a duty of 32 per gallon.
Had this been done before , Cleveland
would have had the vote of the wine
men of the north ; had Cleveland been
from the first sincerely anti-Chinese in
sentimoiit , ho would hiivo had the
vote of California solidly. But
these appeals for votes made
so unblushingly now , disgust us ,
and wo feel contempt , not gratitude.
"SILVUIl" 8 > Ti\VAHr MAKUS A QHKAT
felT.KCH.
If California and Nevada have boon
stamping grounds , for millionaires who
wanted to buy a senatorship , everybody
must admit that the two states have
turned out two men , Stewart and Jones ,
who are authorities on the silver ques
tion. They never speak upon that topic
without being listened to with great at
tention. Senator Stewart made , a day
or two ago. a great speech at the re
publican wigwam , and ho fairly let
himself out , just as on occasions a
blooded trotter will do his utmost.
After ho had spoken about the Chinese ,
which comes Hrst ns a matter of course ,
ho looked round humorously at nis audi
ence , giving a shako to those reddish-
gray locks of his. "Now shall I speak
tbout silver or the tarill ? " "Oh d - n
, ho tariff I" cried someone , giving
lonry Wnttcrson his right change ,
'lot's hear about silver. " Then all the
ludienco rose up and yelled "Silver , sil
ver. " Your eastern men will never
islcn to the mining side , and say , its
ill solf-intorest. Of course the eastern
liipitnlists have no interest on the other
lide ! The real question is whore the
iiiblie interests lie. Stewart scored
Jlevelaud in the most dreadful manner
recapitulating every hostile act of the
man. Ho wound up by saying : ' 'Clovc-
and is the tool , the servant of the gold
contraction conspiracy of Europe and
America , and if ho bo elected , gold
standard contraction will go on , as he
, vill veto every bill that looks toward
ho release of silver. His schemes in
, ho silver conspiracy have reduced
iroperty IW per cent ; they have made
.ens of thousands poor ; and have put
norc and more wealth in the hands of
.he rich.1 Then there nro o a yell
hat would have made birds fall from
.ho . sky. M ) inightv was the concus
sion of the air. Blaine himself could
not have evoked more enthusiam
O.V MOUNT II
Old Lick's bequest for the great ob
servatory on Mount Hamilton is begin
ning toyiold substantial results already.
Professor Holden , who is the director of
the institution , took every night , dur-
'ng the month of August , when the
noon is notably resplendent , and is
called the harvest moon , a series of
photographic views of our planet's
satellite .with a large photographic
'ens. These are more than live inches _
n diameter , and show all the elevations
; ind depressions with startling minute
ness. Jt is customary to call those ex
tinct volcanoes and plains , but at first
the student only sees things that are
inexplicable to him. Professor Proctor
would have enjoyed these photographs
could ho have seen them , for
they rcali/e startingly his con
viction that the moon is a
dead world , without atmosphere ,
without water , hence without life. The
director says that very few other local
ities would have permitted such contin
uous photographing representing the
satellite from the first faint crescent of
the young moon to the last faint cres
cent of the old moon in the morning
sky. The University of Southern Cali
fornia has determined to go in for
astronomical observations also , and to
erect an observatory on Wilson's peak.
It is unnecessary to say that the presi
dent , Dr. Uovard , has determined to
beat the Lick observatory , or perish ,
and he is negotiating with Alvin Claric ,
who makes big lenses for a forty-two
inch lens , whereas the lens of ln Lick
telescope is only thirty-four inches.
The total cost of the Bovard telescope
will bo about a hundred thousand dollars
lars , and it will bo steered by Professor
Pickering , the astronomer of Harvard
college. San Francisco docs not feel
unhappy at the prospect that Los
Angeles will have a larger telescope ,
as in that ease California as a state
will then have the two largest tele
scopes in the world. There can bo no
doubt that great things for astronom
ical science will bo accomplished by
both.
A CITY "COIINMCHK" ItOAD.
Dear old Frisco is much more like a
European city than an American. Its
roots wore developed when its popula
tion was intensely cosmopolitan , and
the result has boon most delightful to
every one who has in Him a good spice
of Boheminnism and artistic feeling. If
you look at the bay you see the lateen
sails of the Italian fishing boats , and
you might easily believe yourself in
some nook of the Adriatic , so blue are
the waters and the air , and to rich
the coloring of the mountains. A
project has been advanced for a
locomotive line almost similar to
the cornicho tramway of Marseilles ,
which is one of the most beloved -
loved institutions of that famous city.
The idea was taKcn from the mountain
road two thousand feet above the level
of the sen , which follows necessarily
every contour of the alpine heights , and
bears therefore a faint resemblance to
the cornice of a coiling , from which it
takes its name. A company has put up
two and a half millions for the immedi
ate construction of a bolt line of rail
road along all the wharves , and to the
North Bench , and thence to Channel
street. The lawyer of the company at
tended a meeting of the harbor commis
sioners and made the proposal. Ho
stated that when the work was com
pleted it would bo turned over to the
state as a free gift , with the solo proviso
that any road entering San Francisco
should have the right to shnro the
track and that no road should
bo excluded. The harbor com
missioners did not consider that they
had authority in the matter and the
question was referred to the state attor
ney. We feel pretty much like old
Priam , or some other Trojan , who feared
the Greeks , oven when they brought
gifts. Our railroad companies are notorious
rious Greeks , and have given us good
cause to fear them , Otherwise the roao
would be a blessing , and would bo largely
patronized by tourists. TIG.
Dam Luiz , klnic of Portugal , who trans
latcd "Hamlet" Into Portuguese some yean
ngo , has Just published a translation of tin
"Merchant ol Venice. " The monarch , ii
addition to being a linguist and poet , is a vlr
tu seen variout instruments. . .
THE EVENING BELLS OF HEAVEN.
( Tor l/ie / 6'witMl/ .l
Whoa down the mystic ploiunlni ; falls ,
And earth her dusKV curtain draws ,
When all repo ofill is the hour ,
We mount Imagination's tower ,
To catch the strains of far off chimes
Uorno on the brctvc from sunny eliuics ,
The evening bolls of heaven.
Now soft and low they coino and go ,
In rhythmic music ebb and flow ;
While blended in the clear refrain
Voices long hushed wo hoar again.
They breathe a ciulotu-o through the soul
Of blissful rest , our final Koal ,
Those evening bells of neavci.
With chant of saints who sweetly sing ,
Exultant now they Joyful ring ,
And high through heaven's starry dome
Victorious peal the welcome homo ,
Where flowery meads , nil trouble o'er ,
Invites the weary evermore ,
Those evening bells of heaven.
King on , clilmo on , celestial bells I
Of faith mid hope your story tolls ;
Peal on the trembling evening air ,
Surcease from toll , n call to prayer.
And when wo sleep In death's dark night ,
Hlng on , and loa-1 Us through to light ,
O , evening bells of heaven.
Milt. A. U. Went.
LOVE MUST CONQUER-
Sun Francisco Call : Edward Stan
hope , after graduating from Harvard
and spending live years on a pleasant
tour in Europe , was called Homo by the
sudden death of his father to find that
ho was left penniless to hammer out Ills
own living.
He had been educated to bo n gentle
man , and therefore no business man
wanted him. At last , when all hope
was ebbing away , he happened to attract
the notice , one day in the street , of a
Boston merchant named John Jnmo.
Mnrtyn. After some questioning Mrs
Martyn engaged him to teach French
and German to his invalid daughter
who had gone south for her health on a
Virginia plantation.
In his bluff way the merchant asked
Stanhope to promise on his word that
lie would not make love to Kenn , his
daughter. "She is too young to be any
thing but romantic. " ho said.
So it was that Edward Stanhope came
to bo a member of the Martyn family ,
and through Serena's aunt , Mrs. Con-
yar , regarded him askant at first , she
was compelled to own that ho was a
young man who knew his place.
The daughter , a wilful little blonde
of sixteen , was a bewitching pupil , but ,
though wonderfully quick in catching
the conversational language , was stub
born about rules and routine. "I want
to read and talk , " she would say , "and
" . wont learn whole pages of horrid
, 'orscs and rules. "
So they read and talked , and Stan-
lope , in spite o' his resolutions , soon
bund himself hopelessly in love with
: iis pupil.
It was a year before matters came to
i climax. Honn had been ill , and in
: ier delirium her aunt heard words that
earned her to send Edward Stanhope
iwtiy. unless they were prepared to give
.his . one pet idol of the household to his
oving cure.
It was not Mr. Martyn'n nature to
nince matters , and ho sent for Edward
Stanhope to como to his private sitting-
'oom ' as soon us ho underrtood the case.
"I findo must " ho said
\\o part , very
; ently. "and I regret it deeply ; but I
ivlll send \ou to Boston ns our corresponding
pending clerk , if you will accept the
josition. "
"Part ! Go to Boston1 ! cried the
foung man.
"Is it not best for you ? "
"Yes. You arc right ! You have
guessed , then , the secret I thought I
guarded so well. "
"That you love Ronn ? "
D"Yes. Lot mo toll you my story , Mr.
Martyn. You think that I am a pre
sumptuous fool , but perhaps you will
change your mind. I am a gentleman
by birth , but my parents wore lost at
sea when I was a boy. One of the pas
sengers on the steamer saved my life
and brought me to his homo His own
wife and child wore lost , and ho became
fond of me. He was wealthy , and ho
adopted mo. giving mo his name and
loading mo to suppose that I would be
his heir , ft was wronging no onoas his
nearest relative was a nephew , who is
immensely rich , and has lived for years
in California. There was no expense
pared in my education , and yet I was
taught nothing practical no trade , no
profession , by which I might earn my
bread. When I left college my bene
factor , whom I had called father for
many long years , took mo abroad , and
wo traveled together for four years.
Then for the first time we separated , ns
he giow homesick , and I was wild to
visit the eastern lands. Ho returned
home , almost forcing mo to join a party
who were bound to Oriental countries.
After a year or more of travel I re
turned to Paris to find a summons , two
months old , to return to America.Vlion
I reached my old home my dear adopted
father was dead , and I was thrust into
the world penniless. The lawyer who
attended to all of my benefactor's legal
aflairs told me there was surely a will ,
leaving mo everything , but it could not
bo found. The nephew claimed the en
tire estate and sold the homestead. I
loft Norfolk stunned and came to my
'
old home to find a stranger in posses'-
sion.
sion."Bless
"Bless my soul ! Your adopted father's
name didn't happen to bo Wainwright ,
did itV This didn't happen to be the
homestead , oh ? And your name isn't
Edward Wainwright , is it ? "
' 'You know me then ? "
"Not a bit of it. But why didn't you
tell mo your name instead of masque
rading under another one1" ;
"My name is Edward Stanhope. When
I lost'nll else Mr. Wainwright intended
to give me , I gave up the name I held
onlv " by his adoption. "
" "Oh , that's it. Well , Mr. Stanhope , I
had not been hero a month when I found
the will of Mr. Wainwright in that
queer old desk in my bed room. Konn
wanted the desk , and when wo emptied
it wo found this important document be
hind one of the drawers , very snugly
hidden , but quite accidental , I judge. J
sent it to your lawyer , who informed me
Ihnlyoung Mr. Wainwright had disap
peared. "
"Tho property is mine , then ? "
"Yes , I suppose there will bo some de
lay about selling the house again , and it
is a bother to mo , since I really feel al
homo hero. "
"But why need you sell it again ? You
know my love for Kena. If she will
listen to mo now that I dare speak "
"Oh , yes , bless mo , how forgetful 1
am ! Yes , yes ! You wont want that
position of corresponding clerk.1'
"But I will never forgot the kindness
that offered it to me. "
"Yes yes and you wont take my lit
tle girl quite away from mo. The house
is largo enough for all of us. "
There was a "nine days' wonder'
when the missing heir appeared , bui
Rena "listened when Edward dared t <
speak , " and when the "prince came U
his own again , " a sweet-faced princes
reigned athii side ,
Liberal Patronage ,
You made us welcome with
a generous grasp.
It was home from the start.
We got right to business.
The trade temperature is go
ing up and up.
We had a double purpose in
our advertising ; to make the
better quality of our Tailoring
known , and make you sure of
saving money.
We could do it twice as cx-
peditiously by being sensation
al ; that plan of trade getting we
detest. We want no varnish
on our speech today that will
peel of next year.
We have the goods and prices
o accomplish our aims.
We have been at our business
'or a good many years. We
now the merits of honest cleal-
ng and fair profits ; the both of
vhich we own the right to name
by long experience.
All our wisdom is giving to
producing garments that will
make you steady and friendly
customers.
A large assortment Suitings ,
Trouserings and Overcoatings
at moderate prices.
TAILOR
1409 Douglas St. , Omaha.
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you don't like here. It will be
a question of which < you like
best all arc tempting. So with
the Tailoring of them.
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