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BERLK'SPOORPEOPLE '
How tlio Proletariat Glasses Llvo in Ger
many's ' Brilliant Capital ,
CELLAR LIFE IN A CITY OF TENEMENTS
fifteen Hundred Pcofrlo Nightly Huddled
in Moyor's Hof ,
BUSINESS CONDUCTED IN BASEMENTS
All Sorts of Industries Pursued in Booms
Below Street Level ,
FEEDING AT THE VOLKS KITCHENS
W heron Jlrnl Can llo Unit for Three CrnU
llio I'crsHte-iit I'llcinc it t J'pilillor
Child l.nlior mul It * Uvunriln Tlio
Merlin Now
v , Nov. 19. [ SncclalCorrospondonco
ot Tin : Unn. | Berlin is u city of lints nnil
tbo ppoplo here nro crowilod almost as much
ni the Otilnoso nro In Snn Francisco. There
nro tons of thousands who llvo In oollnrs , nnd
of the 2,000,000 people HvlnR within ttio city
llmita only nhout : iO,03l ) Imvo nioro thnn
seven rcoms. OI this vast population there
nro loss than ! l,003 who hnvo u wnolo house
to tharasolvot , nnJ there nro moro thnn half
a million who only hnvo ono room In tholr
tenements which cat\J3o houtod.
The people swarm utiil they Docomo moro
crowded every year. You see no llttlo
houses boro. The cottage svstom U prna-
tlcally unknown , nnd ttio rich and the poor
nro crowded together In the same bulldlnc.
The dlfToronco lias in the location nnd the
character of the room. The buildings nro
usually of llvo of six storloi. In tbo t > nso-
"
mont "you wilt ilud cobolon , butchers nnd
grocorymen , while uuctt nround tbo courts
every Imaginable trtido goes on nnd families
llvo in narrow quarters nnd work at some
thing or other to inalto n llvolitiood. On the
first floor , If tbo street U a business one ,
there will bo ilr-tt class storei , restaurants or
boor halls , nnd above thoao you may Una n
( Jormnn colonel or a general , or a rich busi
ness man. On tbu same Hoar In the back
rooms will bo cheaper quarters and us you
noiir the top of the houao ttio character of
thn tommls falls nud theirnutnbors increase.
'L'hero is n illfferoncoin rate according to
different p.irts of the cltv , but there are
chcan tenements everywhere und you llnd
the poor lu every block. 1 visited tbo other
day a single house which contained 100 fami
lies nnd in which lived more thnn 1,500 pee
plo. It was n building of about 100 feat
front , run lit UK back , perbaps , for iM ! fuel nnd
built around llvo great courts. There was
no yard connected with it except the o dirty
courts puved with cobblestones , and in these
hollow-eyed uhildion swarmed and old men
and women snt ngnlnst tbo wall trying to
catch tbo son. The building consisted of
six stories nnd it was entered by a passage
way in Inc. middle. At the door of this as I
came in I saw two young women standing
with babies at tholr breasts , and tbo chil
dren plnvinir in the icar woio oi all ages and
sixes.
Ilmlillod In Mojer'n IIof.
As I looked at them and the pcoplo about
thoin it struct : mu that the building wtia
typical of the world. Every variety of lifo
was going on among them. On ono side I
saw two women laugblne. In another part n
young glii nnd an old man were trying to
tench n baby to walk , and as I stood there an
undertaker c.unii through with a little cofiln ,
containing a baby , under bis arm and with
its weeping mother following behind as tis
mourner. This building is known as
"Moyur's Hof , " and it Is ono of the largobt
tenement houses In Berlin ,
x Thiiik of It. Hero nro 1,500 pcoplo sleep
ing every night on an nrea of loss than onc-
hnlf acre of ground. Some of tbo rooms
contain more than ono family , und not n few
of tbo poorest of the renters luke roomers.
1 visited boino of the tenement * . They
Roomed to bo clean , but they were small ,
und thcro were a couple of ncils In nnarly
every loom There were about 100 families
living around each court , and these courts
wore not as largo as the average citv back
yurd. At the entrance to each court there
were blllbouids line these vou lind in larpc
ofllce bulldlugs In American cities , upon
\vhlcli were u-cistored the name * of the
tenants and the number of tholr rooms ,
Upon tbo ground lloor there were lil'.U
stores , and I dropped Into a barber shop nl
tno corner of ono of the couris and chattel !
with the burbor. Ills loom was about live
feet wiuo hy six feet doip , and ho had i
sign on the outside of it stating that bh
prices for shaving woio 5 pfennigs or a httl <
moro thnn n cent , and to out hnir for nboiri
doubln this rate. Ho told mo that ho hai
often a hnnured customers a day and that hi
had double this number ou Saturdays. Hi
sold matches and clears nnd imielo wigs n
well as barhoied , and ho said , that bis ren
for this room was $ -.50 a month , aud that hi
slept hero at night.
Hunts nio , I am told , continually rising li
Builln , and the smaller the Incoino the bigger
gor the proportion of rant. The most'of tin
laboring people HKO to llvo noarthoif won
und a larn majority of tbn people engaged li
thq different industries tmro llvo withii
twenty minutes of their places' of employ
mont. The most of them pav moro thai
ono-fourth of tholr income for rent nnd land
lords iliul it pays to build big houses nan
crowd them rather than to erect small one :
A City til Collar Homos.
The poonlo hero got so llttlo that they can
not think of building liauici for themselves
nnd thov axpuct to pay tunt from tholr birt
till their death. The police regulations re
quire that the rooms shall bo of a certain size
and within the lust few your s the now house
Imvo boou doing Letter as to their coila
lodgings , Tha older parts of tbo city , bou
over , have many rooms which nro not nt a
Solitary , mid It Is astonishing how man
l > toplo ! lvo tiara underground.
Tncro mo moro than 1UO.OOO men , woino
nnd children who are living In collars 1
JJurlln today , and a number of these Imv
rooms In tiiclr cellar tenements which cannc
bo heated. It must bo remembered that th
surface of Herlm Is lint and-tho ( all as t
drainage is very litllo. Tbn result Is thu
these unboatcd collar rooms uro dump , an
us they arj in the heart of the city they ai
very uiihsullbful.
It Is wondurful how much business Is don
In collars In Berlin. About ono-half of th
linmnnso manufacturing of Germany is don
In the shurjo nf house Industry , that Is b
people taking thu work from factories t
their ou n houios or making so mo product <
their own In thorn.
A grout many of these collar-rooms fori
the \\orlclng places of tbn pcoplo by day an
their alc ( > plng places by night. Many i
them are so in QUO that n draft cannot 1
sent through thorn , ana when It U router
bored that som-j of them are six foot bolo
the ulclou nlk it will bo easily socn that the
are not lit for the residence * of human b
lugs.
I have visited nuitqn number of the citli
of ( Jcrmany and I find that this Hut svsto
pruvulu In all the largo towns. Hatnbur
wtTlcb lm buen so badlv hurl by the choler
Is u whitcd sopulfticr. It has beautiful bull
Ings , but some of the streets are so nuiro
Ihut you could hardly dnvo \\agou-lond
hay through thoin , and thuiu are thousani
of cellar tououiQiits. There are u numhor
houses UUTO tthlch Uuvo liumlroil * of faui
Hot lu thorn , and ( ho sumo u tiuo of LiMps
nnd Droidun.
Moro tbuu half the pcoplo In Lolpslopi
lost than $100 u year for tout , at
these people llvo In quartern wno
they cannot Imvo mete tlihn iv
heated rooms. The city hu gooa bulldu
regulations , It is true , but'tho poplo niana
to cat urouuu laom , und this 1 * 10 in near
every ( Jerraan city. Part of the Lei pa
regulations uro that every living room shi
bo ut least iilno feet high. But tbo hone
uro crowded cud the poorer the quartern t !
uiorO pcoplo jou tlua lu thoai. Even tl
hull * nro lot out to night toilers , ft nil the
stofloi of how woman ami tnon of different
fnmltloi nro crowded togolhor inslnulolootru
tucscnu as bad u picture as I found In some
places In Hussln.
At n Voll < 4 Kltchrn.
The people hero are nllvo to the condition
ot the working classes In this respect , nnd
not long ago a member of the Uolatistii ; ;
gathcroJ n largo amount of fuels nbou' the
homos of the working people hero , and from
these verified statements some of tno uoovo
figures are taken. Us nor u were colloctoil
from all the laboring centers , nml It is on
the basts of these that movements Imva been
undertaken to ooltor the laborers' comllliou.
Here In Uorlln meals nro served to poor
people at almost cot prices , and among the
collar Institutions of iho city are the "volks
kltebons , " or the pooplo's Kitchens. There
nro n number of these , and they nro managed
by the ladles of Berlin , who superintend
thorn nnd who take turns In managing thorn ,
They have pooi cooks an ! they foctl nun-
drods of pcoplo every day. In thorn you can
got it ( tinner for about 5 coals , and n bowl of
soup or of rlco costs you 3 cents , whlloyou
can got n'llrst-ctass iup ; of colTuo for 1 cent.
I visited ono of these the other day. Two
nice looking old ladies stood bahlml a cli > an ,
white count or , and ruck of these were great
boilers of soup , with cooks presiding over
thorn. The room was , I ] ifclg , about liity
feet long anil not tnoro than twenty wide.
It was , In n collar , and It wa-t divided up Into
compartments for women and men. At the
entrance there was a o.uhler , who cavoyou-
chccio for what you wanted upon the pay
ment of the money , nnd you walk boon to
these benches in the loom , where you can
sit down nt long taolos and oat. r I luld down
it cents nnd bought a bowl of soun. It was
innilu of beans nnd contained nearly a quart.
I look a bowl of rlco of about the samoilzi1 ,
aud I sippad nt u l-cuut cup of coffee nnd
found it not bad. Kverythlnu was us clc.m
ua could be , and the class of pcophi who uero
outing appeared respectable. One of the old
ladies told mo that they often fed as many
as 1,01)0 ) a nay , and that they gave suppers
as well as dinners. They s.tld that thu in
stitution paid Its expenses , and that it did
not try to make money.
Nearly all the vcgotablo stores of Berlin
nro in cellars and there nro numerous ! lsh
stores , especially these which sell dried lUh ,
below ground. 1 am surunsed to see what
well dressed people coino out of tnoso collnrj
nnd how well the pcoplo dross on ttio low
wages they receive.
Wage * in Ilorllu.
The average wages ol common laborers
throughout Germany rnneo from ? 1.50tol
n week nnd Iho mass of working men hero ,
both skilled nnd unskilled , do not got moro
than from 2. > cents to SI a day.Vhon ono-
fourth of this is paid ( or house rent nnd the
food of the family purchased there is but
little loll , and 11 la a wonder to mu how the
people can buy any clothes ut nil. I nm told ,
however , that many of the pcoplo have
several trades and that they do" work at
home , outsldo of their hours of labor , and all
the members of n poor man's .family do
something to increase tbo family income.
There is a law against children being otn-
plo.xed In the factories nnd iliov have hero a
compulsory system of education , but thosn
are evaded to n considerable extent ami
children uro hardly able to walk b'ifore they
do something. Llttlo girls are taught to sow
almost ns soon as thov can handle the ncodlo
nnd good sowing ( Hrls who matte buttonholes -
holes hero consider themselves well paid
when they make from tJ to $1 u month.
GUIs who sow upon shirts got nbout
these same wages and the greater part of
such sowing girls wortf nt homo.
There nro n number of chiluron who mine
n living in Germany by singing on the streets
of the cltios during vacations and during the
pans of the day when they nro not in school ,
I caw a clerical old man going nbout with
such a choir of boys the ether uay. Ho was
dressed in a long ulster xvith n capo which
came down over his arm * , and ho carried it
little singing book In ono hniiil. Ho bad
aboti' , a tlo/.en little fetlowa ranging from 10
to 12 years of ago , and he m irched with these
from house to bouso mid from court to court ,
stopping at each and having the boys siug
nopular songs whllo ho kept time us tholr
master. Thcro was no instrument to accom
pany them , but the Illtlo follows kept uor-
fect time , nnd at the close of the singing one
of the ooys wont around with u toy bank
into which the bystanders put pennies , and
such coins ns were thrown down from the
windows ho picked up and put iu.
I followed this old man and his obolr
through several of their street concerts , und
I was much saddunoa by the look of the chil
dren. The bovs were hollow-eyed ana palo ,
and they seemed to have no spirit nbout
thorn. They neither smiled nor laughedand
the old man made ino think in some way of
Pagin , the old Jew who trained the thieves
In "Oliver Twist. " 1 asked ono of the boys
as to his wages , and ho told mo that ho got
twelve marks a quarter , oruboutl a month ,
llnvo ulrcudy spofon of iho little boys
working on thostroots , nnd you will seldom
sea a girl of any ago id In. She Is taught to
knit as soon us she ctvi hold the needles , and
When she is watchine the children she work"
industriously tuvnv nt her stocking ,
htrcot IVddlurrf.
Spcauiug of the Berlin stroat sights there
is no place in tbo world where the people
work , so hnrd for a penny und whore botli
> woidon nnd men glvo you so much for sc
1 llttlo. At every corner you llnd inou will
red caps who nro known as dlontsmon am
who will carry a letter or n parcel to almos' '
any part of Berlin for 0 cents and you pas'
In every block women loaded down wi.tl
great Uvo-bushol basitotsof moat nnd vege
tables which they nro carrying homo fron
the marknt for about the same rato. There
are flower peddlers ovorywlioro untl there
tno old fellow with toys who soils turkey :
and monkey * fhodo of wood und pamtcu u
ridiculous colors.
Whllo visiting the stock exchange th
ether day I dropnoa into n buor hall foi
lunch and was suiting nwnyviili u jrea
mill , ' of boor between my bites of chcoso am
rye wlieii ono of these fakirs came up bosld
mo nnd laid down on ttio table i
microscope. As ho did so , ho nskoil mo If
did not want to see what Ulnd of cheese
nad boon eating. I held It up to the lleh
nnd I snw lu It through tlio microscope ,
do/on hundred-log bugs as big as the Urges
potato blip , each ono nf which had borribl
horns and great teotli. Ho laughed as
shuddered nnd pushed the cliocso back-am
then adored to sell mo the mlcroicopn for 1 !
cents , but 1 was disgusted at having in ;
meal spoiled and refused.
There nro many queer things about th
newspapers , anil few of iho Ucrlin journal
hnvo largo staffs of reporters. Tlio loca
news Is uoout the same in all papers , nnd none
ono thinks of trying to make n scoop , ns It I
culled , or lo have iho news In advance of hi
follows. The odliors of the morning paper
Icnvo tholr olllcos ut t ) oclock and tbo panor
s nro In press ut U , By 12 o'clock oven th
r printers have gone lioran. and when ( Jcnoi. ;
ii von Moltko died at 11 n'olocli ono night so in
iiy time ago there was only ono Berlin news
y paper that Imd a line nbout It In It
issuoof tbo next morning. The announcement
n mont of tlio dentil wus published In No\
n York nnu oUowliora in full , but the Gonna
o nowspaponi right here nt homo know neil
hit ; about It ,
o Know the Vnliio of
itd Tbo newspapers here publish items froi
ito their contemporary journals which the
o should Imvo bad themselves , saying that th
other paper says so and so , nnd there is n
o life in Benin journalism. Tbo papers hav
o not a very largo circulation and they do nc
o make u great deal of money. The biggest i
y thorn sells something like 100,000 copies , an
o this paper makes flUT.UOO n year and thii.li
> f it docs wonders. Men who wrlto for tb
papers nro moderately well paid , and editor :
n in-ceieh gat from ft,000 to f\UOO u year.
d Tbo Germans are good ndvortlsorj , an
thora scorns to bo no reason why the napoi
Bhojld not do bottur , Kverythlng under tti
nw sun is put in the paper in the sbapo of a
w advertisement. Ana there Is a great deal <
> y social tiOKs that wo publish for notblni
a- which Is put lu here at so much per llm
Engagements nro generally announced in tl
FS newspapers by tbo parents of the brldo on
in also by the groom , uud tnoro uro a Iim
R.i inR. number of matrimonial advertisements ,
i , which men and womea state their goc
dw qualities aod nstc for husbauds and wive
def bomotlmcs men udvortlse , staling that tb <
of have a daughter whom they wish to got ref
lib of , and In ono year there were 400 advo
of tlscments In ono paper of persons soouir
ilia bettor halves , Murriages nro also publlshi
ia in the same way , uud tboro 1s a llxod ra
for binhs uud deaths.
IV ThoUoimnns uro very proud of havlt
Hire children , and it Is generally expected that
rove son or u daughter will maUo his or her a
vo poaranco In the nowspipor columns luunoc
atoly upon bis appearance in tbo worl
KO Thcro Is always numbers of death notlct
and tbo oilleiul advertisements of the cl
amount to something , AdvertUeuiontn
111 patent meolclnos have as much promlucm
OS in the Berlin newspapers aa in ours , uu
ho altogether tbo German is a very good udvi
ho User. PIUNK U.
"DEAR LITHE ISLE OF MAN"
Where the People , Thonjh Undar British
Dominion , Uavo Perfect IJonu Uulo.
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FEATURES OF THE MANX CONSTITUTION
Orry Iho Viking frniucil It Nine C'ontiirlos
Aeminil Tndiy It Is Antlroly Opnrnnt
\Vtioranlir.it\Ts Mint llo rinitlly Ap-
| iro\cil 1 > y ttio People.
( Copyrlaliti'l , 1931.1
Wo of Man , Nov. 10. "Djir
llttlo Isle of M.in , " Elian V.innln Vog Vooa ,
h the fold tlllo by Its natlvoi ot ono of the
most diminutive nnct Interesting Island
countries to bo found li the civilized world.
It Is n sturdy llttln bit of so.i-glrl land , sol
in Iho turbulent Irish sea almost equidistant
from Engl-iinl , Ireland nud Scotland , forever
withstanding tno llorcoH ot ocean currents
and the-wildest uf ocaan storms. The hardy
llttlo nation Inhibiting it has coaolossty bid
dollauco to the m.iolstronu of conlllcilng interests -
torosts of man nnd governments socking its
thrall , and from almost prohlstorlo llmo has
presorvoa so remarkable n national ludo-
pandanco that to thl ? il.iv It oompruo * prac
tically the only folk oa Hrltlsh soil Mio enjoy -
joy the full uannflts of solf-gnvornuiont.
Jlrlolly told the llttlo M'inx nation has had
three periods of history a porloJ of Collie
rule , ono of Nor o supremacy nud one of
British dominion. In the tunth century thu
Vikitijja camo. They haJust ( overcome Ice
land and established their Nor < o kingdom
there. Wlipn they found the "ao.ir llttlo Isle
of Man" they made short work ot taking
complete possession. The women wuro dnrk-
halrod , falr-sklnnoJ nnd blue-eyed. Tlio
Vikings were freckled nnd bloaohod as to
hnlr and eyes. Ttio Manx nation of today
sprang from the union of these handsome
Collie women and these hugo freckled men.
The latter were led by ouo Orry. Ho Is
called King Orrv now. Whether ho was a
sea rover or the son of n Danish or Norwe
gian monarch does not matter. Hut ho bo-
oarao king of Man and the Isles. Ilo was
great without the tltlo. Ho gave tbo Mnnx-
men tholr tlrsi constitution. It was qulto
llko thuthlch had Just boon clvon lo Ice
land. It was a good ono , too , and thn proof
of U is that with llttlo change it has existed
to this dav.
ConnUtullun ,
King Orry divided the Island into six shin
shires. Thsy nro the Manx "sheadings" or
representative divisions of the present timo.
Each sho.idlng olectca four men by
a popular vote to a Inwraiikinir
house called the House of ICoys ,
probablv from the Norse keiso or chosen
men. They were the people's dolegntcs , Just
us tuoy are loday. Then King Orry gave Iho
church u shnro in iho government , but pro-
vontoJ its supremacy. Ho established n
Tomvuld court where church ami state sat
together. Iwo lawmen , called deemsters ,
ou for the north nnd ono for the south , wore
appointed. Those woio equivalent to the
IcoUndlo "speakers of law. " These romam
unchanged. Orry then had built , after the
manner of the lava law rock of Thlngvolllr.
nn attillolnl Mount of Laws. The House of
ICoys sent up laws to Iho Tynwald court , or
the latter sent them down , Assent in joint
session And the klug's sanction concluded
tbo m.iklng of law. But laws were never
operative until the king , the court and the
House of Kovs naa convened on Tvnwnla
hill und promulgated thorn bv rending them
tlrst in the language in which they were
written , and second in tbo languagi of the
people.
Every essential feature of this patriarchal
'
nnd rop'ruscntatlvo government established
early in iho tenth ceuturv exists m its origi
nal simplicity today. The Manx are the
only Norse nation loft thut can show so
close and strong a binding to tno days of the
Sasas through nn unchatlgoa governing
system. Ana the folk-of this llttto Iblatid
are the only people acknowledging complete
British dominion who nro In no way inter
fered with from Westminster , nnd who en
joy tbo actual practical blessing of homo
rule.
rule.A bravo and bloody history has the llttlo
island from King Orry's time aown to its
unreserved cession by Its then rolcning duke
tothocrown , for a consideration of . 110 , OUO , In
1825.
System of Government.
The system of government is Interesting
from its simplicity. Electars must bavo a
property qualification in the bboadings ol
jntToccupancy. or jKS ownership. In towns
voters must possess a Alt oceupanoy or
ownership qualification , and this sum gives
nil women unmarried , widows or spinsters ,
tbo same vested right ; a neht which ,
although vexing to women suffragists , is
rmoly exercised.
Tbu island is divided Into ten electoral dis
tricts , comprising King Orrv's original six
sheadings of Glanfaba. Middle , liushcn ,
Avro , Uarft and Michael , a.tcu of which
loturns three repiesontutives , Iho citv ol
Douglas wllh three , and tbo towns of Ham-
suy , Peel ami Cnsiletowp , the ancient cair
ital of Man , with ono oach. These twenty ,
four representatives constltuto the House ol
Kovs , corresponding to our house of repre
sentatives at Washington.
Tboro Is an upper bouse called the council
whoso powers uro similar to these of oni
Bonato. It is composed of the lord bishop ol
the uloceso i ( Seder and Man ) who bus a so.il
but no vote In the British bouse of peers ,
the nttornoy-gonornl , tbo rcceivor-gonornl ,
tbo two deemsters or judges whose onicos
almost a rolio of IJruidlsin , are precisely a :
constituted by the Norse King Orry , tlu
clerk of tbo rolls , the water bailiff , the arch ,
deacon and vlcar-gonoral , over which tin
licutonnntgavcrnor { , a crown appointment
presides.
The doomstors or judges who have author
Hy to determine all causes , subject to anpea
to the government staff , uio still required t <
take iho same curious oath ns when the nn
clout "Breast Laws , " these not reduced tc
writing until 1417 and orally handed dowr
fiom ono deemster to bis successor , prevailed
vailed , They swear "by this book and b <
tbo holy conlonU thereof nnd by iho woii
o j dcrful woiks thai God hath miraculously
wrought In heaven ubovo and Inthoeartt
baiicuth in six days und seven night !
* * * without loquost of favor or friend
ship , love or gain , consanguinity or aftlnlty
ouvy or malic" , to execute the law of tlui
isle justly betwixt our sovereign lord (01 (
lady ) the ulng ( or queen ) and his ( or her
subjects within this Isle , and betwixt imrtj
and party , us Indifferently as Iho herring'i
backbone doth llo In the inldst of the rish.
Tjnuiilil unit Nt. John's Clinrcli ,
Members of tbo House of Keys aio oloctec
for seven yoars. The governor may at unj
time dissolve iho house , In case of pormanon
opposition to tbo council , when , as In Eng
land , "an appeal to the country" Is taken
Council and ICoya vole separately , Concur
rent majorities of each are required to pusi
measures ; nnd these measures , which dl <
not formerly go Into operation until promul
gated from T.vnwnW hill , now go Into elite
on receiving royal assent , which 1s soldon
denied ; as thoao clover patriarchal folk kooj
a well-conditioned lobby In attondnnco 01
the House of Peorsat Wostmlusier.
All Manx laws are called uols of Tyuwald
and the Tynwald court may still , as l,00i
yeais ago , bo hold ut auy ttmo iu spools
session at Tyuwnld hill , but must as thai
convene yearly for the promulgatlor
nf the laws , though , legally , they ma ;
have already goao into effect. Thl
, ceremonial has now become it natlouu
a. holiday called Tynwald day. U is hold 01
10 tbo 5th of July , or on the Uth , if the Gil
fdo happens to fall to Sunday , Undoubted !
: o 40,01)0 ) of the W,030 Inhabitants of Man nr
Ind unfailing In attendance , nnd the coromon
) d always attracts thousands from Lancashire
s , Ohosblro and Cumberland m England ,
'J The Tynwald bill is situated just west o
IU the coaler of the Island between tbo citlo
IUI' of Douclas aud Peel , anil llos In the romai :
I'll ? tlo pass between tbo Cairn aud Ureob
? d mountains , Traditionally it is said to hay
to been fanned of earth brought hero la cart
uud creels from every narUhof the island.
Two hundred yards from the bill , called I
n Manx Crouk-y.Kolllown , or St. John1
church hill , is the Imposing church of S
I1 , : John , tbo gift of tbo crown to the Island , j
a. u a splondld odllloa lu the early decorate
13 , style , built of South Barrulo granite , j
ty. wvi * erected In 1617 on the site of R forme
of church built In 1C99 , which was lUelf pri
CO coded by a temple to Thor. At the eoutl
J , west corner of the present udiuco U
ir- strange Uuulo monument quite a thouaan
yours old with au almost Ulcj.'lblo imcrlptlc
nonliving that "Inoshur onRrnvoil these
Hunos , " nnil the Invol In nil roundabout Is
callad the Currngb-Ulati. or "tho eray bog
or swamp. " "
Ulinre tlio 1'onpln < Vftyrnrn Ihn l.nwu.
The Tynwald niounto itself , to which n
brand graveled pathway loads from the en
trance to St. John's chunttf , li n curious nrll-
lloUl construction. It 1 } fc.jrt feet iu cirouni-
fercnce nt the b se , nndrUes by four con-
contno platform * to n hfcinht of about tuolvo
foot. On ino uppermost of these aland the
governor , lawmakers , olllclals nnd church
dignitaries of tbo island during tbo promul
gation of tbo laws. Until quite rccont tlmos
tno entire text was readvboth in the English
nnd the Manx Inngua oai ,0tit now only the
titles nnd side notes ara r < nd aloud. A htico
canopy shelters the mount , hold In place by
seventeen ropes let Into rings In ni many
slonos ut the bottom of the bill , or ono for
each parish of the Island.
Proceedings nro bjgun nt 11 o'clock In Iho
forenoon by services in St. John's.Vlion
those nro ended a stately ofllclal procession
to Iho mount begins in tno following order :
Three policemen , Iho six coroners , the cap
tains of the seventeen parishes , the clorirv ,
the four high bailiffs the House of Kojs , thu
council , thu sword-bearer carrying the sword
with point upward , nil followed by the lluu-
tenant governor with his chaplain , rurgcon
to the household nnd tuo chief constables.
All tilled onieluls comprise ibis ancient
Tynwnld court. The court Is llrst "fenced , "
that IK , now ns lu the misty days , all per
sons nro warnoil "upon lyfo nnd iym
that no mnn make any disturbance or
Blirrlng in tlio lime ot the Tvnwahl ,
moreover no rising inuko in tbu
King's presence upon pain of hanging and
dr.uvingo. " This "leoclng" Is done by Iho
coroner of Ulanlnba sheading , who from 1m-
inomoritil custom ju boon chief nt the six
sheading coroners of Mm. 1'bo Manx coroner
ner is called "toshliiBh jioavcy , " or "chief
man of the Inw , " nnd his functions nro simi
lar to thoia of our Bhortft.
.Moro Hutu u TlioiMiiuil Venn * Did.
When n syllnbus ot the now statutes has
been road bv iho doonuiur or judge of the
north , tlio pro csslon loturns hi tat. John's.
The two crunches of thu legislature sit apart ,
the council in the chnucol and tbo kov.s In
the south nlslo. The promulgation of the
laws Is nttesled , when Iho governor , by mes
senger , rcqucsls the attendance of the keys.
The two bodies then sit in joint house , nud a
largo amount of annual routine government
business , such ns receiving Iho accounts of
state colleges , asvlutus nnd road fund * , es
tablishing i tiles for maintenance of public
Institutions and the appointment of commit
tees , Is transacted.
Hero is n coromonv moro thnn a thousand
years old. The whole of the llttlo Manx na-
Ion Is here Just ns In King Orry's timo.
'ho great impressivcnoss of tbo suono is not
nly In us nntlquliy , but in Iho proof Ihnt
lore nro n people who , while respecting tholr
government nnd rulers. In this sacredly pro-
orved custom thus annually serve notice
ipon their rulers that alter nil thov nro Mill
mt the servants of tbo people , ami that the
icoplo shall over remain gro.ucr than tlio
hlnir or things created to serve them. And
his is the amno sort of Intelligence which
tmcric.m people are colng to make clearer
and clearer ' .o their own public servants iu
good time.
If you-voro much in England us I have
> ooti vou would oocomo very fond ot tho'
'dear llttlo isle of Man , " truly not ns n
ilanxman lavas tl , with un exultant and tin-
ularablo devotion , for that could not bo ,
mt In the luvlllo wnv' vlilch comes from
oeling you hnvo found n spot glorious in the
lerolsm and traditions ot > iiU people , Bpcc-
rally fair iu us su.i setting as n glorious
oao cut from a resplendent bed of bapphlro ,
and weird und louder in. its mountain slopes ,
rlcns und streams ns tbo'misty carries of
Scotland's north. *
AH been I rum tlio So.i.
Becnuso of this I often- , run away from
'nullah mainland to thwto sweet und nosplt-
iblo shores. It is but n few hours sail to
ilan. j'ou are scarcely out of sight of ling-
and when Manxland comas in view. Twice
: have sailed entirely nround this little gem
of the Irish ss.J. Frotnlinyquarter at which
you view it , its onllie length , which is but
.hirty-livo miles , its greatest ureadth which
s but twelve und its Jtlno , bold face from
sea-odgo lo mist-crowned poalc nro always
completely In view ; always suggesting , re-
vraltng , utmost thrillincUn their marvelous
lanoramie cbaugcfulnesa and over so rug
gedly noble , so solemnly .palm , so tcnaoily
sweet and silent , that through your roasting
eves your heart is st'-ongoly stirred and
stilled.
There is not another picture llko it rising
above the boundless waters the throbbing
bca ojidlossly threading its circling fore
ground as with u gloaming delicate thread ol
pearls , Tuon n purple rim of shade A-herc
iho blue waters ripple upon tbo ahlnglo or
murmur beneath the cavernous cliffs. Then
n higher thronJtng of rou and white aii'l
green where iho towns and hamlels , massed
imong mvrllo , creepers and sycamores , looli
back upon upland nnd down upon soa. Then ,
rounded hills nllamo with porso , fold on fold
of green nnu puce , molting into dreamful
lieights among Iho lender clouds. Change
less , this is the over-changing picture as you
"npproach it wullo your lioart-volco , if nol
your toiifuo , can only articulate , "Mystic ,
radiant , redolent Isle of Man 1"
EIXIVU L. WutEMtx.
FEROCIOUS NOKWEOUA.N WOLV.SS
ADespernte Il.ttMo Which Kusiiltod lu tin
Doatlt uf Thrno .Mini.
I hnvo li'intcd ' coyotus on tlio wostorr
pluitis ana wolves in Canada und tin
northwest , nnd I hnvo iilwuys thouphi
tliut n coiillict with Siberian blood
hounds would bo as terrific 113 any
hut Tor rottl work there ia nothinc
like a pnuk of Btarvinjj Norwll
wolves , says a writer iu the Sportsman' )
Review. It is BOirothint' hoyond tlu
iirwginutivo ability of the Ainorlcar
liuntoi1. Althoutjli wo were told thai
wo mipiit possibly moot an attack , we
hntved the rijlo , however , all heiiijj wel
armed in case of nood. Wo procooduo
about twenty miles without any soriou ;
incident , when , just as wo were .
a little fro on crook sotno twontj
yards wide , u Btntngo Bonsatioi
soumod to take hold of out
deer they bhlvored and tromhled ani ]
the iialrs on their backs Flood on end
"WolvesI" yelled my driver , and IK
hojrati to lash tlio door , ono of whicl :
promptly alippud ou tlio ice , fell dowr
und Unified liiinaolf up in the Iiarnc3s
thus Horiously impudliig1 our covotctl
progress. "Lloys , " said 1 , "t.ond ovori
huilot liomu. " Just at tills moment sb
iiorco , hungry wolves came galloping
toward ua about twenty yards away.
Tlio deer regained his footing and
away we dashed.
Wolves can run as , fast against tin
wind ns with it ; so .uati the door , Lu
they had a heavy sleclj.JJvo people and i
foot deep of fro/.on , ciliated snow to contend -
tend with. Wo hud now run about 1ml :
a mile , a wolf dropping once in a while
but on they came in ijjpfcaslng nutnben
ou our Hank. You wonder , perhaps
why I did not shootn Woll. I will tel
you. A running ) wolf , while the
shooter ia in a ! # ad behind tlu
trotting deer , is .dillloult to hit
I had only 100 A partridges am
Icnow it would bo ijniulnoss to wiisU
them If the drlvof vould only atop
but that wan impossible , tin ho and tin
door were frantic fro ' /right. / At tliii
moment ono of the wolves jumped upoi
the doord Hank , aiJfl' ' was nromptl ;
killed ; but this kind of game could no
last long , so I projiar.ed to dismoun
some of our pursuers. * ; Straddling th
daahboard , every time a wolf jumpoi
for the deer I nhot at it , and hit hard o
killed nbout BOVOM , Jusi at this moment
mont , as wo were making progress in ou
defense , our door , who had hurt his hi
by the fall , cumo to a stop and th
rear sled dashed into us. The collisio
was frightful , tumbling and spilling u
all out , and the confusion was groat.
culled out to the driver to Bavo the dooi
us wo wore instantly H'irrounued by th
maddened , bountifully furred wolvo :
Door , driver , wolvoa and we travoloi
wore soon in a torrillo melee for life
Just us I hud bojrun to despair , all i
once the wolves thut Is , tiioso tin
were allvo ran away ns fust as they hti
corao. Wo Imd lost t\vo guides , on
driver and three door.
Broken How wants another railroad , a pi
vaio normal school uud electric lights.
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