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IFATXEiN ON POVERTY.
Bad Soenes at the Sign of the
Three Balls.
The pftwebtoker'e Shop M Re.OB.iee of
FMpla in Need of XbmM Bull
now That JProepere In Hard
Time:
"How much yon want lor dat
watch?" he asked.
I handed him a little silver watch
that I paid twenty dollars lor, writes
Annie Woods in the New York Re
corder. 1 had no notion of pawning it,
but waa curious to know what figures I
could get on it, il I, like so many oth
ers in this sad city, stood face to face
with wank .
"Oh, I don't know how you do these
things here," I said, "for I hare never
pawned anything before."
"Veil, I gif you two thaler und a
hallut"
"Mercy on usl" I could not help ex
claiming. "I couldn't part with it for
that."
I left the place and turned into the
next one, for there are plenty of them
down there. There are some in the
BowAry, and on Grand street, but they
are as thick as beehives down on Park
row and Chatham square. As I entered
the door a woman in black passed me.
She walked up to the pawnbroker, held
up a beautiful diamond ring, and asked
howmueh he would give her on it. She
said she had to have fifty dollars. "My
husband lies dead," I heard her say,
"and I haven't enough to bury him,"
I thought I detected a twinkle in his
eye, for he knew she would have to
take leas money .rather than keep the
atone, and it was a beauty.
"That stone's not worth much," said
the pawnbroker. "You couldn't get
more than (35 for it, and that's all it's
worth."
The poor woman was nearly dis
tracted with grief and could stand the
strain no longer. "My husband paid
126 for that ring and gave it to me
when we were engaged. I would
starve rather than part with it, if it
were for myself, but he must be
buried."
Poor thing! she was doubtless one
among many unfortunates who were
Wrecked in the last financial storm.
I could bear this pitiful sight no
longer, and went on to the next shop.
Here I found a lot of women, with all
sorts of things. One of them pawned a
pretty pair of shoes, worth 84 or N for
50 cents.
There was a pretty girl there with
her sualjldn cape. She had it on, and
the bro :er turned her around to ex-uini-
t if fur.
' much do you want?" was his
lirsv uiturance.
"Oh, 1 don't know, how much will
you give?"
"Well how much do you want?"
"I think I ought to get J26 for it
my rather paid 950."
"I'll give you 85," and she took it.
While I stood watching, a man
peeped in rather sheepishly, saw the
crowd of women, and went out He.
had a large grip in his hand, and 1
wondered what he was after, sol fol
lowed him. I didn't have to go far,
for, as I expected, he turned into an
other pawnshop,' opened his grip and
took out one thing after another.
"Say, uncle, what'll you give me for
this coat?"
The pawnbroker took it, laid it
; down, turned it inside out and felt of
',. then said it was out of style and he
would give 01 for it. A
-'J "Holy smoke!" cried the man who
was down on his luck. "Why, J paid
(50 for that Prince Albert."
"It makes no differ', dot coat vas
only vort one thaler to me." And he
stuck to it.
Then the man offered his watch. It
was a perfect beauty. Its works were
jeweled all through, and it was solid
gold. It must have cost (250, but be
got a loan of (50. ,
"Now here's a ring," said the harfl
np man, "which once belonged to Bos
coe Conkling. He gave it to my fa
ther. I guess 'the governor' would
feel pretty rocky if he knew I was go
ing to hang this up. How much for
it?"
Tree thaler und a half."
"Oh, well, I'll keep it then, for 'the
governor's' sake." And he picked up his
treasure and went out.
After he was gone I ventured to ask
the pawnbroker how much interest he
charged? .
"Tree per cent, a mont"
While I was questioning him a wom
an came in and took out a pawnticket
and a roll of hills. He produced a large
diamond earring and they began to
dicker about the interest. Their talk
was in German, but I managed to re
member that "alf monaten" meant
eleven months, and gleaned that she
had borrowed KHS. She therefore paid
" (31.65 interest If she had kept it a
year she would have paid (34.20, more
than one third of what she borrowed, i
Hard? Yes; but all the same the
pawnshop is the only resource of poor
people out of work and out of money.
T Never, they tell me, not in recent
years, at least, have the pawnbrokers
done such a rushing business as for
the last few months. They are the !
banks of the unfortunate. They tide
over many a bitter period of stress in
the lives of those in sight of whose door
the hungry wolf always lingers.
No wonder pawnbrokers never close
down.
A Ban Tropical Viewer.
A flower lately discovered In the
isthmus of Tehuantepec is white in
the morning, red at noon and blue at
night, and is called the chameleon
flower in default of any botanical
name. It is probably a species of the
hibiscus mutabilis. . The colors do not
pass abruptly from one shade to the
; other, but cnange gradually from the
white of the morning to the pink and
red and thence to the blue at nUrht.
The Tehuantepec tree grows to the
size of a , guava tree and gives out
Hf hi MrU ) Umm it ft
THE NEGRO'S SONG.
It Breathes a Badness Induced by
ths WroniraHlB Race Hob Borne.
No Other Btuslo Can Match It In Melan
choly Bweetneu. and It Wan the Only
Thine That Slavery Left Hlm-Rea-
. sons for Ite Bxoellonce.
Ninety years njio in a little grass
matted hut beside tho Niger river a
white traveler lay tossing in the ago
nies of a tropical fever. Sometimes in
his delirium he murmured broken
fragments of Scottish songs some
times, as tho pangs of the fever mo
mentarily abated, the sound of the
bagpipes seemed to ring in his ears,
and, roused to semi-consciousness by
the sweet illusion, the sick man would
rise from his cbuoh of reeds and cry:
"Play the 'Blue Bells of Scotland,'
piper play the 'Blue Bells,' "
Then a woman, dark of face, and
clad only in a blue cotton skirt, entered
the hut Sitting down beside the in
valid she began to softly croon a song
of wondrous melody. In the music of
that African song pathos, sympathy
and anxiety seemed to blend with hope
and confidence, while the sound, ever
soft and low, touched gently the ears of
the sufferer, and soothed him to rest
and sleep, from which he awoke, weak,
but free from the fever'B grasp
That traveler, says the Chicago Globe,
was Mungo Park. In his memoirs he
says: "I am firmly convinced that the
soft music of that negro woman's song
saved my life and gave me now strength
for my undertaking."
How or when the negro acquired his
love of music history cannot tell. He
rodotus tells of the "sounding bows" of
the Ethiopians black bows whose
strings gave out a melody sweeter than
the notes of lyre or cithers, and which
were in great demand at festivals. In
Roman times the Mauritanian blacks
were noted for their musical skill, and
the chroniclers of the middle ages often
speak of the sable musicians who de
lighted the lordly Saracens with their
talent In the strange, mysterious
land of Africa the negro has little to
do and abundance wherewith to sup
port life. Doubtless, in the earlier ages,
he lounged about his hut day after day,
until at last from sheer ennui, he turned
to music as a means of employing his
idle time. As the centuries rolled on
the black became more and more
skilled in musical art until, when his
race first began to see the shores of
America, he was already a vocal and in
strumental genius of high merit.
lint it was among the negro slaves
that the "divine art" reached its per
fection. The poor African, torn from
uis native land, and sent from ease and
idleness to hard work, under an exact
ing master, could not express his
thoughts in the ordinary language of
common conversation, bnt all the pa
thos, all the sorrow of his misfortunes
and his surroundings, acting upon his
sensitive and rbmantic nature, com
bined to produce a type of song which
the world has never seen surpassed.
Perhaps a wife or child would be sold
into servitude, far away from the poor
slave who composed the song; perhaps
u kindly master would pass beyond
death's river, perhaps the slave himself
would be sent into a distant state
never again to see the home which had
become dear to him by countless ties,
but, whatever the cause, the negro
songs remain matchless in their
melancholy sweetness, marvelous in
their patient resignation to fate and
"massa's" will.
But there were gleams of light and
happiness in the life of the slave. In
the evening, when the work was over,
the darkies would assemble in the
"quarters" and, while the 'possum and
the hoe cake, the sweet potatoes and
the corn wore being cooked to perfec
tion by the skillful "aunties," the fiddle
and the banjo sounded merrily and the
uproarious chorus mingled with the
shuffle of the dancing feet.
From these festive occasions sprang
the idea of negro minstrelsy, which has
since become so distorted that not one
person in fifty north of Mason and Dix
on's line bos any idea of real plantation
music or of the real depth and richness
of those unique and matchless melodies..
Since the war the negro has been free,
but he has not forgotten his music, and
he, and his descendants, even those in
whose veins lingers hardly a drop of
negro blood, still sing the songs that
once delighted "young massa" and rose
sadly around "old massa's" grave. But
even among the negroes there was
a great variety of music, tinged by local
ity, of course, and often by the ances
tral tribe of the negro. Thus, in New
Orleans the blacks had a list of songs
much different from the music of Vir
gina or the Carolines. The songs of
Carolina dwelt upon cotton lands and
rice fields; those of Louisiana less upon
material surroundings and more upon
sentiment and love.
Much French blood ran in the veins of
these people and their music showed
the combination of races. Even now, in
Louisiana, the Creole women women of
whom a southerner once said that they
were the most beautiful in the world
the quadroons and octoroons, chant
their songs and lullabies in both French
and English, and the mellow accent of
the negro tongue yet clings to every
melody, in cither language.
The south may change as the years
pass by; the negro may be blended
with the white, and lost from view in
the millions who will yet people that
lovely southern land, but the songs of
slavery, the wondrous expressions of
.ill the music of a hapless race, will live
forever and be sur-g in future ages by
men and women who can claim no trace
of African lineage, and who will re
member nothing of the sable composers,
save the song.
Wanted a Mustache.
"Paint me like a gentleman," said an
American philosopher to an artist; "as
for the likeness, that doesn't amount to
anything." The king of Spain, now five
years old, appears to be of the same
turn of mind. When the sculptor, M.
Querol, at last hit upon a pose for the
youthful sovereign to appear in marble,
the youngster said to mm: "And, above
ull things, please make me a great tall
fellow with l kmf uiutauhaV"
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which Hood's Sarsauarilla give.
"It lives m
pleasure to recom
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my liver, had hip
dijeese and other
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For long time I
t I IV. I. . .
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Hood's BarsaperUla and it built me up.
My recovery I owe to Hood's Banaparilia.
All my ills hare gone and I leal like a
sew person. I sleep well and eat heartily."
mo. uxuaunrs jusllt, uaywaras, uu.
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