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The Jtoed for tbe snltsn Is cooked by
one man and hUalds, and bobs etkera
touch It. It Is cooked In surer vessels,
and when dene etch kettle is sealed by a
Blip of paper and a stamp, and this Is
broken In the presence of the sultan by
the high chamberlain, who takes one
spoonful of each separate kettle before
the sultan tastes It This Is te prevent
the sultan's being poisoned. The feed is
almost always served up te the sultan In .
the same vessels in which It was cooked, t
and these are often of geld; but when a
baser metal, the kettle is set Inte a rich, ,
golden bell shaped holder, the handle of
-which Is held by a slave while the sultan (
eats, tarn acme is a course, ana is
served with bread and a kind 6f pancake,
which is held en a golden tray by another
slave.
It requires Just twice as many slaves
as there are courses te serve a dinner te
him. He usually sits en a divan near
window, which leeks out ever the Bos Bes Bos
pherus, and takes his ease and comfort la
a loose pembozer and gegelik, with his
sleeves turned up. After he has eaten
all he wants the sultan takes his coffee
and his chllbeuk and lies back In an
ecstasy of enjoyment and quiet reverie,
which he calls taking his keif. Wee be
te tlie 0110 who comes te disturb it.
Tlie feed being cooked outside of the
palace makes It necessary te hare bell
shaped felt covers te clap down tightly
ever each kettle, which has been placed
en a tray. Fer the sultan and royal
family there are magnificent velvet covers
which go ever the outside of these, em
broidered with geld and silver threads
and pearl, coral or turquels beads. These
for ethers are net se handsome.
The sultan Is served first, and he always
eats entirely alone, never under any cir
cumstances deigning te eat with any one,
and as seen as he has begun te eat the
harem Is served. The sultan never uses
a plate. He takes all his feed direct from
the little kettles, and never uses a table
and rarely a knife or fork. A spoon, his
bread or pancake or lingers are far
handler. The whole household Is at lib
erty te take meals where it suits him or
her best, and thus every one Is served
with a small tray, with a spoon, a great
chunk of bread, eud the higher ones only
get the pancakes.
After the harem the officers of the Im
perial body guard, the eunuchs, the cham
berlains and ether high functionaries are
fed, they usually being seated around a
table, and the kettles are offered each one,
who helps himself te ene or two spoon
fuls of the contents of each. It is net
etiquette te take mere, no matter hew
nice tbe dish nor hew hungry, but as the
number of dishes Is always se great no
one need go hungry.
After all the officers and ethers of high
degree are fed the soldiers and servants
?et their feed, aud at the same tlme all
he men employed In the imperial stables
liave tlicire, and during the progress of
the meals any stranger, whoever It may
be, Is at liberty te ceme In and seat him
self and cat. As a general rule three
hundred persons are fed every day who
have nc earthly right except what the
laws of hospitality give. It Is a sort of
perpetual free lunch, and beggars as well
as rich men avail themselves of this-royal
bounty. 4
The sultan has a number of very large
farms, seme of them covering miles In ex
tent, both In European Turkey and Asiatic
Turkey, find these are Intended te supply
all theso things which farms can preduce
te the palace. One of these farms is near
TcLutcbaldJa, where the government la
new about building a fortress, and another
at All-Bey-Kcni, both of theee within easy
ride from Constantinople. There are two
ethers at Koucheukcnlckmedje and Bo Be Bo
yeukchoukmedje. These are all near
Constantinople The ethers are in Asia
Miner. On these much of the grain and
feed of the horses are raised. They are
or were tilled by the compulsory labor of
the Bulgarians, large numbers of them
belntf obliged by conscription te serve se
many months a year en these forms. They
were tied together like cattle and brought
by ferce and treated llke brutes. This
was a sort of tax duty which they were
obliged te pay in labor. It may net be se
new, but'prebably Is.
The soil of Turkey Is very fertile and
productive, nnd from these forma annu
ally are brought en denkeys and in beat3
tens upon tens of vegetables of all kinds,
milk, butter and clierw), mutton, eggs,
poultry and fruit. The amount In the
aggregate Is stupendous, and yet It is net
a quarter enough for the needs of that
household. Nearly all the tobacco, how
ever, comes from these farms, and Is of
the finest quality. -
quality. They de net grew rice, and. In
consequence, buy nearly ene ten of rice
per day (or the inovitable pilaff, COO
pounds of sugar, as much coffee, te bay
nothing of the ether groceries, fruit,
vegetables and meat. Itlce, mutton eud
bread form the greater part of feed for the
majority of Turks; yet, aside from these
they get away with one ten of beef and
half a ten of veal per day, te say neth-
ing of the ether viands aud fish, sweet
meats, confectieneiy, nuts and dried aud
fresh fruits. The waste and cxtravn cxtravn
gance in the kitchen are enormous, and
enough is thrown awny every day te
maintain a hundred families. Much of
this is gathered up by beggars, and the
dogs cat the rest.
The estlmate is that It costs per year te
supply the feed for the sultan's house
hold, horses and animals, aside from
the value of the product of the vast
farms, very nearly If net qulte
$5,000,000; cost of furniture, bedding
and carpets, $3,000,000; drugs, women's
clothes, jewels and cosmetics, $10,000,000;
caprices of all kinds, $15,000,000; sultan's
clothes and bedding, $2,000,000; sundries,
prcseilts and servants' wages, $4,000,000;
plate, geld and silver dishes, $2,600,000;
carriages, 474 of them, $474,000. Total,
$41,474,000. That Is a snug little sum,
but It is an under rather than an over
estimate, as every ene who has lived long
In Turkey and had means of Judging and
seeing the reckless extravagance of the
royal household will concede. New Yerk
Herald.
Tim Mente ami the 6age.
Ouce upon a time a Meuso went te a
Sage and said:
"Tell me, O. Wise Man, a Hcmcdy for
my Trouble. I am be small that peeple
leek upon me with contempt."
"Be content, O, Meuse," was the reply
of the Sage, after Reflection. "If your
size was increased ten fold men would
Blmply shout "Bats!" at you.
Meral. Thore are werse Cerns than
theso which ceme te us. Detroit Free
re,s"
Ruula'i Cotten Imports.
Rusla imports annually 1300.000.000
pounds of cotton, chiefly from America
aud Egypt, but It Is believed that recent
acquisitions of the czar in central Asia
are excellently adapted for cotton raising.
Seme has already been grown at Khiva
and Bekhara, and an oxtenslve system of
inlgatleu Is being created te develop
ether land for this crop. New Yerk Sun.
C.He the lteji TrnilM.
Prison officials urge parents te glve the
boys trades. Only elghty-ntne of the CCO
convicts received last year In the eastern
penitentiary of Pennsylvania had trades
when brought there.
What Ate Weeds Ter?
"The hardest question I ever had te an
swer," sold a gentleman who had just
ceme down from the Thousand Islands,
"was put by my llttle boy while the train
was rasslng through a small Btrlp of
weeds. 'Papa,' he shouted, the rearing
of the train making it difficult te hear,
are there any lleni an' tigers an" bears lu
these weeds? 'Ne,' I said. 'Well, If
thcre-aln't no liens an' tigers an' bears In
weeds,' he shrieked above the din, 'what
de they have weeds fort'" Utica Oh-server,
THaVCfttCAAO UTTER THIEVES.
"OtetkaeaetV the Mart Ac-
f Hi Mm et Thtlr TraAe.
ThentaJ. Mack aaa Frederick Ober-
kaapf are the names riven by the two
"star" letter thieves lately jailed la Chi.
eage; and If half that's related of then be
MACK. OBBRXAMP.
true, they have beaten the record In the
line of mall robberies, for the police found
In their possession three trunks and a
large valise full of letters. This was
only their unasserted plunder, for It ap
pears that their custom was te sort tbe
etelen letters ss fast as possible, destroy
all that had valuables In them and return
the ethers te the boxes. The amazing
feature of the esse Is that they had com
plete salts like these worn by mall mes
sengers and a large assortment of keys te
street mall boxes; and that they main
tained then- system of robbery for two
years before they were captured.
During all that time complaints had
been pouring into the Chicago office.
Pestmaster Jndd had been filing them
and putting his "searchers" en the track
of the lest Tetters, and in each case proof
was given that the letters had never
reached the office. The trouble given te
'the department and the danger te the
postmaster's official head may be Imag
ined. In the captured letters were scores
of drafts for small sums, ranging from $3
or $3 up te $100, but very few -for mero
than the latter Bum. Their main aim was
te capture the. mail directed te insurance
offices, in which they were remarkably
successfr'v
fcOf course, both men are "innocent,"
according te their story, and the guilty
party Is one "Edwards," who cannot be
found; but as the pictures of both men
are In the police books and the letters and
keys were found In their possession, their
innocence will be hard te prove. The au
thorities express much surprise that se
many letters containing drafts and bills
should bf dropped in the street boxes.
ennnsAMFF's ltoeif.r
Such letters should always be mailed In
the posteffico only. As te putting a bank
bill or greenback in a letter, any expert
can detect its presence at once by merely
passing the letter through his fingers. If
such a lett.r gees te Its destination un
opened It Is only because it passes through
the hands of honest men only..,
Fresh Air In Parish
The foreigner puzzles long ever two
facts which confront him immediately
and which remain te the end absolutely
true and as absolutely irreconcilable. The
ene is that the Parisian is essentially an
out-of-deer animal, and submits te cold
or damp, or even an occasional wetting,
with entire disregard of ordinary demands
of comfort, quite content if only he may
watch the shifting throng with no win
dew between. The ether is that this
same Parisian gees home te a room in
which every crack is stuffed with cotton,
winds his or her head in flannel, and turns
pale if the suggestion of a draught makes
itself felt. In omnibus or car, in public
bailer theatro.er church, ventilation is
the cardinal crime and air a terror, and
the unhappy foreigner gasps and rapidly
asphyxiates where the Parisian rejoices.
Helen Campbell. " '
rreildent of Hajrtl.
The president of Haytl i3 agalnvenThei
run, and the supposition is that he has'
been "voedooed" net "conjured," as the
ex-slaves of the United States would
mean by that, but unseated by the dis
content of the mere ignorant blacks who
are bnako-elatcrs, or "voedoolsts." He is
a dark mulatto, and his full nema Wlyqnls
i-ticnne rencite
Salomen, but he
isn't a "Solemon"
of a ruler and has
enjoyed anything
but "felicity."
much of his life
having been
fiassed amid rovo revo rove
utlons and civil
commotions and
many years of it
inexile. He is 70
years old and a
nominal Chris
tian, but sus
pected of leaning
tewaids s n a k e
worship or "voo "veo "voe
doolsm," a faith
which seems nat
ural te the un-
lnnrrlit. African.
This Is the ninth
general revolution
en the island, be
sides llttle insur
rections and con
spiracies, silicon emu; halouen.
1804, whet the"t4r
llaytlaus became Independent of France:
but as the eastern pert of the Island then
bolengod te Spain there are two little re
publics, the eastern called San Dominge,
the Spanish name for the whele island.
The whele island Is 405 miles long, and
the total area neatly 20,000 square miles.
The two sections occasionally engage In a
"Avar of races" that is, the Ilaytien
army slips up en the Demingan, fires a
few bhets and runs away, and vice versa.
In 1840 President Faustin Souleuquo led
5,000 Haytlans te cenquer Sante Dominge,
but President Santana. met and defeated
them with 400. It is related '.ban an
Englishman out hunting, net aware that a
war was in progress, walked between the
two armies and get shot in the nose,
whereupen he joined the Demlngans and
completely routed the Haytians. The
island contains evor 1,000,000 of people,
three-fourths colored the remainder
whites and mestizees
Washington at a Farmer.
A certain farmer and granger, about a
hundred years age, wrete the following
farm notes geed yet: "Economy in all
things is ae commendable in the manager
as it Is beneficial and dcslrable te the em
ployer, and en a farm It shows itself In
nothing mero evidently, or mero essen
tially, than in net suffering the provender
te be wasted; but, en the contrary, in
taking care that every atom of it be used
te the best advantage, and likowlse in net
permitting the plows, harness and ether
Implements of husbandry and the gears
belonging te them te be unnecessarily ex
posed, trodden uudcr feet, run ever by
carts and abused in ether respects." That
farmer and granger's name was Gcerge
Washington. He was as geed a farmer
as he was Father of his Country. Globe Glebe
Democrat. He Knew About It.
Sunday Scheel Teacher New tell me
what is duty? Llttle West Ender (Just
back from Europe) It'a something you
don't pay unless you have te. Philadel
phia Recerd.
It Is estimated that the total number of
books In all the American public libraries
is 21,000,000.
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M!3iMm .
CHIKESE UteRYMElC
WONQ CHIN POO TELLS OF THE
BUSINESS tH NEW YORK.
The Almend Eyed Journalist Shows Bew
Hit Countrymen Are Bet Vp Financially.
Tfc Xjnterle or the "Whey" or Syndl.
eate Tha Laaadiyacn' Iaw,
The question lias frequently becnaaked
by Americans, "De these Chinamen wash
clothes In ChlnaT Hew ts it that nearly
all who come here enter the laundry busi
ness? De they leve UT" Ne, they de net
leve it any mero than any ether kind of
labor. They did net evas knew what the
"Mellcan man's" shirt looked like, much
less hew te dress one, befere they caine
te America. Laundry work In China is
Invariably done by women, and when a
man steps into a woman's occupation he
loses his social standing.
They become laundrymen here Blmply
because there Is no ether occupation by
which they can make money as surely
and quickly. The prejudice against the
race has much te de with it. They are
fine cooks, neat and faithful servants,
and above all, very skillful mechanics at
any trade they hare a mind te try. In
the western states, hcre their value Is
better understood, they are used In as
many different positions as any ether
foreigners, ana the laundry business is
occupied only by these who fall te find
ether employment.
KO OTHER ALTERNATIVE.
But here In New Yerk as yet there Is
no ether alternative. Many an able
minded man as well as skillful mechanic
who came te America te better his condi
tion may be found wielding the polishing
Irons In a New Yerk Chinese laundry.
It takes from seventy-five dollars te two
hundred dollars te start one of these
Chinese, wash houses, and the way most
cf these laundries are started would give
valuable tips even te an American Wall
street deacon. The main oxpendlturo In
a Chinese laundry is a stove and a trough
for washing, and partitions for dry room
and sleeping apartment, and a sign.
As a rule it requires f 100 te open a
laundry In New Yerk. But this amount
Is a fortune te a newly arrived China
man, and unless he starts Immediately
into the' laundry business, he would be bo be
ceme a burdeu te seme of his friends.
The Chinese Immigrant, unlike his Euro
pean compatriots, never corner here unless
no Is safely surrounded by friends or
relatives upon his arrival. These Imme
diately initiate him Inte the mysteries of
the laundry business. In eome friendly
laundry the nowcemcr is placed tinder a
six months' apprenticeship, beginning at
the wash tub, until he reaches the Ironing
table, and lastly the polishing beard.
These apprentices begin with $3 per week
and beard, and a gradual addition of $1
per week after the first months, until they
are able te take charge of a laundry them
selves. Then if he has money he hires a
place and hengs out his sign. If net, he
gees te ene or two friends, and they will
call a "whey" or syndicate for his benefit
in the following manner.
KYBTEE1E8 OP THB "WHET."
Suppose I have an established laundry,
and want te borrow $200 at a certain per
centum premium, but I cannot find any
ene Chinaman who is able te lean me the
amount. I put up a notice In Mett
street that upon such and such a day I
wish te make a "whey" of twenty men,
who all are Buppesed te be situated llke
myself, each wanting 'te borrow $200.
When we twenty borrowers all ceme to
gether we each put down $10. Then each
ene secretly writes upon a slip of paper
the amount of Interest he is willing te
give te get the $200. These slips are
cnrefully scaled and thrown into a bowl.
At a given time they are opened, and te
the highest bidder gees the $200, less the
Interest, which is invariably doducted
Immediately from the principal,
i Frequently as high as $4 is offered for
theuse of $10 for asingle month. In
such cases each of the nineteen ether bor
rowers gives te the lucky ene only $0
apiece for the $10 aplece which they
make hint pay next month. Then the
next highest bidder gets thi $200, less
the Interest he offered, and no en, until
the entire twenty, at twenty different
times, have obtained tbe use of this $200;
but the ene that comes the last, having
offered the least interest of them all,
reaps the harvest of the "whey." This
methed is adopted by most Chinese laun
drymen In New Yerk and ether large
cities te open new laundries. It partakes
of the gaming flavor which is cantivatlng
te every rue Celestial.
Ne Chinaman can transfer his place of
business Inte the hands of another with
out at least thirty days' netice in "China
town," en Mett street, and the buyer Is
net required te pay him mero than half
of the purchase money until the legal
thirty days are past. This Is the laun
drymeu's" law, mede four years age in
this city, te prevent a laundryman from
absconding from his creditors. Upen the
completion of the thirty days creditors
and debtors must meet at the transferred
laundry, and when all of the old debts
are liquidated a clear title of the laundry
Is given te the new owner. Weng Chin
tee in The Cosmopolitan.
Origin of the Cattle ltan;e.
The origin of the range cattle growing
industry In the United States dates back
te about the Fifteenth century, when
horned cattle were introduced from' Spain
by way of Moxlce among the Pueblo In
dians residing along the east bonk of the
Rie Grande. loiter ou the early colonists
te the republic of Texas took with them
herds of horned cattle, and In this way
Texas became the mother of the range
cattle industry in the United States.
Here It was almost wholly confined until
after the rebellion. Prier te the late war
nearly the whele of Texas was given up
te cattle growing. After the war the dis
banding of the great armies lessened the
demand and Texas swarmed with great
herds in excess of the market demand and
local consumption. Cattle were of llttle
value, and yet these herds were rapidly
Increasing. What was te be done? The
mero onterprislng ranchmen of Texas be
gan te leek for new ranges and markets
that would consume the enormous surplus.
California then had but few cattle. The
states of Kansas and Nebraska and the
territories west of the Missouri river were
uparsely populated. The vast region of
maguliiclcnt grazing area te be found
there, and upon which the buffalo reamed,
readily offered the temptation for a fleld
of experiment.
If the wild bison could subsist en these
plants and In the valleys and parks of
the Recky Mountain country, why could
net cattle? Winter and summer the
buffalo found sufficient grass, and hence
the mero enterprising Texas cattlemen
came te the conclusion that domestic, cat
teo, bred and raised upon the prairie grass
of Texas and left te their own exertions
for a subsistence, would be adapted te the
fine grasses of the plains of the west and
northwest states and territories, and
where at that time only the buffalo grazed.
Thus the study of the life and habits of
the buffalo led te the Idcaithlch has made
this the greatest range and cattle growing
country in the werjd. Net a few Texas
men came, and seme from California, and
all dreve their herds into this uuwer
country. Their sucress caused ethers te
fellow, and eastern speculators were at
tracted by the line opportunities for in
vestment. Thus sprung up this wonder
ful Industry, for seen the unoccupied ter
ritory of the plains country of the west
was tilled with great herds of grass raised
cattle cattle that knew net home or
master, and te wldch grain would hnve
been almost a scarecrow. And with all
this there came a cowboy, sul generis,
about whom there clusters be much of
romance. Denver Cor. Glebe-Democrat.
A roelhh Anlca!.
"Yeu were out drlvingwlth Mr. Snooks
bury last evening, Naemi?' t ''.
"Yes."
"isn't tliat u- magnificent horse- he
owns?" -
"Well, 1 don't knew, but I think It
very foolish?" -r"1
"Why?" . , vv;y ,
"It made him held en te the lines with
both hands every etep of the way. "Lin
coln Journal.
LATE S6TH 0ftEEN.
iMr-kg -Bit Life &e Tartly
In-created
Maa'roed B-apply.
Seth. Green was bera in Rochester, N.
Y., May 19, 1617, and learned the cem''
aaea branches in the common schools
there acquired the tools of education
only, for he educated himself in the field,
the forest and the workshop. His, first
business venture was In a fish and game
market, which he developed Inte a large
business. In 1833 he carefully studied
the habits of Canada salmon In the
pawning season, and wtlclng the
enormous waste of lmprtgnated eggs,
concluded that artificial hatching
was possible and would be pref.
ttable. He found thai the Chinese had
artificial hatcheries centuries nae. Lieut.
Jacoby, of the Russian army, produced
artinciai impreg
nation in 1W1,
and seen after the
French made
seme experi
ments; but there
was no special
eucccss in that
line till that of
Mr. Green.
Mtlrila final u. -HhbbL' 1 '
rles of expert-
MhAHfa iaS a4
Hrfyoke. Mas" ,BBaBH'
perfected his general system by which
the sperm Is brought into contact with
the eggs and the latter hatched in boxes
with a minimum of waste. He waa tb
Inventor of the shad hatching box, first
put into use in 1869 en the Connecticut
river, and his brother, Menreo A. Green,
elaborated the idea, and constructed
troughs with trays of wlre bottoms, the
water running ever the trays from the
ends. And finally Mr. M. G. Holten, u
nephew of the Greens, introduced an im
provement by which the number of trayj
could be increased at will, the water
rising from the bottom through the scries
of trays. And with this addition fish"
culturlsts pronounced the tystcm thce
rctlcally and practically perfect.
The trays are twenty-seven Inches wide,
placed ever each ether six trays deep, and
each tray contains 12,000 eggs, showing
hew enormous the production mav be ou
a small area and hew much superior this
Is te the first system of hatching en
gravel. The Greens have "crossed" tbe
salmon and the brook trout, producing a
red spotted progeny which grows a fifth
faster than cither of thoparent varieties.
They also "crossed" the California salmon
and the brook trout; but the female of
the new hybrid is net able te expel her
eggs, which fellow the type of the salmon
while she fellows that of the trout, se the
hybrid Is net reproductive. Lately they
have crossed striped bass with shad,
ualmen trout with white fish, and the
herring with the shad, nnd the eggs have
hatched; but it is net yet known whether
the resultant hybrid Is reproductive-
Massachusetts organized the system of
state fish commissioners immediately
after the war. New Yorlc'adeptod It com cem com
pleteln 1089, Horatio Seymeur, Rebert
Barnwell Roosevelt and Seth Green being
the first commissioners. Fifteen million
young shad were seen turaed loeso in the
Hudsen, and in all waters ever 100,000,
000 whlte fish.
Seth Green has received several medals'
from various governments In honor of
his splendid achievements te natural
sclence and in Increasing the feed supply.
Twe geld medals and ene tllver medal
tire from the Soclete d'Accllmatleu, of
Paris; ene geld medal from the Interna
tional Fibchcrci Ausstellung, of Berlin,
and a bronze medal from the United
States Centennial exposition.
Adulteration of Communion Wine.
A clergyman who prides himself en
using nothing but the purest u Ine at lilrf'
communion table was recently much dis
gusted by the exhibit made by a chemist
who happened te be his guest for a few
days. He and the chemist were discuss
ing the wine question. The chemist de
clared that at many communion tables
doctored and adulterated wines were used.
The deminie Eald that whatever ml cut be
the case clsewhcre, there could be noth
ing wrong with his communion wine, for
he always made a point of purchasing it
himself, and of patronizing nene but the
most reliable wine merchants.
The chemist showed him, by the appll
catien of a few very einiple tests, that
what he had supposed te be the purest
wine was a doctored article, made of ex
ceedingly cheap materials and colored
with logwood. There are many ether
cases in which similar investigation would
be followed by similarly unpleasant dis
coveries. There Is ene easy and certain way te
obtain for communion purposes the "pure
julce of the grape" In a Btyle above criti
cism as te clther fermentation or adul
teration. Real graps can new be procured
at almost any season of the year. Te
Boueeze out the juice, strain It and mix It
with a sultable quantity of water Is nH
easy and slmple as making a. pitcher of
lemonade Why don't eome of the
churches introduce this plan? New Yerk
Press.
Kxpcrlence of a Human ".Sandwich."
I am a "sandwich." Yeu don't rccog rcceg rccog
nlze me 1n my present plain and rather
dirty attire, but if I should sling en the
great advertising beards that cover me,
front and back, and carry handsfull of
bills, you would knew me a ouce as iv
familiar person you met en Ollve street
or Broadway many times a day. The
name of "sandwich" must have been all
Inspiration of borne funny man, and It
describes us exactly, a pioce of flesh,
doubtful as te oye and condition, between
two beards as hard as any rusk or biscuit
the lunch counter patron ever dreve a
wedge into. We are the professional
perambulating advertising mediums of
very many rcspoctable oencorns. The
beards are painted en both sides, and It W
only a matter of adjustment of therepes
ever our shoulder which displays te the
pedestrian world either the merits of
"Peter's Purgatlve Pellets" and "Dr.
Flle'e Palnlcbs Cern Lifting Jack," or
"The Evening Star All the News Befere
It Happens," and "Smith's Corrugated
Shirt Fronts."
Ours is an humble calling, you will say,
but it has its pleasant side. If we have
small salaries we also have small respon
sibilities. Our days are passed in pacing
the most frequent streets. The advertis
ing beards shield us from bad weather
and hide any rents In our garments. We
Bee everything that Is going cm, and often
wonder that the reporters get se llttle
that is interesting. Few peeple step u i
te engage our attention, and go we are
generally wrapt up In our own medita
tions. Yeu wouldn't believe It, but seme
of the "sandwiches" are pretty well edu
cated. They purchase books at the eecend
hand stalls and contrive te keep posted en
current events by reading the newspapers.
I once knew a "sandwich" who was n col cel col
lege graduate. That was in New Yerk.
l'eu bce his rich father had cost him
off and the son was trying te humhle the
"governor's" pride. Be every morning
when the old gentleman would come out
of his residence te tnlie his carriage for
downtown, his eon would appear Iwfere
mm wearing tee auvertiscmcnt or a corn
doctor, with a hideous bunion covered
feet in the raiddle. and would try te hand
him an advertising dodger. Once, en
Broadway, New Yerk, 1 met a very tall
young negre, very foppishly dressed, with
a cane, diamond, tall hat and an Immense
fctandlng whlte cellar. Half a block fur
ther down tbe street I met his exact
counterpart, and half a block further an
other just llke him. Everybody was as
tonished and turned about te leek after
the third fellow, if he had net befere
looked after the ether two. Imaglne the
general surprise when ou the back of each
tall African's shirt cellar was seen printed
in plain black letters, "Use Jenklnb'
Seap." "Sandwich" lnGlobc-Dcmecrut.
A SlUtake Often Made.
Mtn often conceive that they have sur
mounted an obstaeleer overcemo an evll
when In fact they have merely get used
or accustomed te it. "Hew are you now
adays?" asked a retired physician of a
friend who had been euffcnnj" from an
ominous" complaint. "Oh, I am betterl"
was the answer, "unless it is that I am
only getting used te this ene thing,"
Philadelphia Sunday Scheel Tiineg.
THE
.K.Ipiv.vW MA uJ
WISmLti
'DCCLiNti rOf; MINSTRELSY,
The
7tgre of Ante-BeHawa Days Gene
from the AmWineaeal mace.
Hew many readers remember the old
Christie tnlnstivls, which created such a
furore durlug' the year reeeeedlBg the
war? If there are many, and of course
there Is no doubt that tnere are, they will
remember the old plantation scenes, the
goauine negre of the south, wtie in
crude way, full of humor and mirth, and
the qututessence of unalloyed hipplaess
in splte of his rags and plain feed. They
gave us the dialect of the southern plan'
tatlen. with all the local coloring and cub
toms. They sang us the negre songs,
which linger in the brain as a delightful
reminiscence of true meledy. It Is a pity
that they are no mere.
The negre of the south In the ante-war
days hea disappeared from the amuso amuse
ment stage. We have new In negre min.
etrelsv an cntlrclv different kind of burnt
cork artist. He Is dressed up in garb se
fantostte as te put te shame the tailor's
flights of imagination, If he ever has any.
He talks a jargon which Is no mere the
lauguoge of the cotton picking slave than
it is of Greece. He acts boletereusly and
his fun is of the neUy kind: the mero
nolse he can create the "better it seems te
be. We have our minstrels dressed llke
courtiers In the time when court ces.
lurae was carried te the extreme. We
have them dressed In apparel that seems
te be n cress between today and yester
day, the present and tbe past. Seme
times the cork is unceremoniously left off
nnd we hare our negre minstrels in
whltel
There Is hardly a trace In the present
mlustrelay of tbe geed, old fashioned
negre minstrel of twenty years age. By
a process of nvolutlen he has ceme out a
being which Christie and Backus and the
rest of the pioneers en the minstrel stage
would never recognize. He is a lusus un
tune of minstrelsy. Negro minstrels In
theso days was a study, The negre of
the eeutn during the tlme preceding the
war wa3 it peculiar institution. He was
Indigenous te the soil. He was a study
and there was Bome delight in studying
him. The present relic of the minstrel is
a purely modern Invention, brought Inte
being te B&tlsfy the everlasting desire en
the part of tbe publle for change and
novelty. We de net critlclse the man
agers of the minstrelsy of today for this
radical innovation. They want te' make
money and they cater te the prevailing
taste te gel It.
Anether regret that ene feels who leeks
back upon the minstrelsy of the days of
Christle Is caused by the music. The
present minstrel Is a ballad singer. Se
was the minstrel of the past. Bat new
he sings ballads of a let of mushroom
composers who exist solely for the pur
pose of writing ballads te be sung by the
minstrel performers. There Is no Indi
viduality about the music It Is senti
mental, sometimes sickly sentimental,
aud no mero. An Inliulte variety of ten
der subjects is covered and drawn upon.
If America ever hed a class of musle
which can be ntrlctly called American, It
Is the muaie that Stephen G. Fester com
posed. He was the author of "My Old
Kentucky Heme," "Ellen Bayne," "Way
Down Upen the Suwanee River," "Willie.
We Have Missed Yeu." "Hard Times."
"Oil, Susaunn," "Nancy Till" and hosts
of ethers. Fester's melodies were an Il
lustration of slave llfe. They wero net
only cast lu the best meld of puromeledy,
but they were, with their words, full of
pathos and the healthiest kind of eentl eentl
nvent. Festcr'a musle ought te be pre
served because It is ee distinctly Ameri
can music The tunes covered a variety
of Etylcs. Some were rollicking in their
rhythmle effects. Some were perfect
Idyls. Some wero leve tongs which never
have and uevcr can be excelled. The
charm of simplicity and innocenco hung
evor thorn all. It Is a pity that We have
lest this musle as a feature of our min
strelsy of tedav. Detroit Free Pm.
"TWEET, SWEET.
We rambled through the meadows creea,
Ulie children at their play,
He told me of the wonders eeen
In distant land away (
I prized the mero as loepsr crew
Tue stenea de weuiu ion
,1 found WnTjroed. I firoreil him true
llenr could I leve tee will ;
"Tweet. Sweet," from the npple tree,
A IIUle bird nans te ulni and ine.
We patnered flower In the lane,
Ter 'twin the month et May,
And ede year heuce lxs'd come again
rrweuia be our wedding day.
Oh I mlttly did the hours By
And happy waa tny heart.
He told me "after thl Reed b'y
We norer mera shall part."
"Tn ect. Sweet," from shrub and trw,
The llttle till da tang for blm and ran.
1 he cant wind rese, the aalts were apreid,
Ills Kblp meTCd out te tea;
Hy galler boy climbed tbe meat head
And threw a kiss te me.
'Tl twenty years age Mnce then,
And once nffaln 'ttt Vay;
The gun ahlnea bright, the flowers bloom
Sly trceacs all are gray.
"Tweet, fiwect," ting the blrda In Riee,
Hut net it uiy leve came back te roe.
Dcatha from Lead Poltenlngi
In the list of deaths from poisoning lu
Great Britain 011 lu a single year
nlnety-flvo.er overono-slxth, were caused
bv lead. The pedple of all clvlllzed ceun
tries nie in need of Bpcclal caution con
cerning the use of lead. Ixjad pipes, lead
faucets, lead solder, and In many ether
forms, lead ts n. mibtle and tcrrible dan
ger. Theusunds Buffer from lead poison
ing who de net die thereby. It should
never be used, wheu by corrosion It can
liccoine an clement lu feed or drink. The
Hymptems are se easily laid te ether
causes that it can de serious mlschlef bo be bo
fera Its presence is suspected. Its use In
red preclpltate as a solder ou pipes Is
specially dangerous. Next te lead, the
cases of polseu most numerous were from
opium, then from carbolie acid. Bolla Bella Bolla
dennn and alcohol, aconite, chloredyno
nnd hydrochloric acid fellow in the list
with nearly equal pace. Fer suicidal pur pur pur
pose carbolie acid was used In forty-two
cacea, morphine, opium and laudanum In
forty-eno. The fashion in suicide is very
variable Globe-Democrat.
A Peculiar rre Charm.
In the south of France they make a
very peculiar leve charm la n very pecu
liar way. Under certain ceremonies which
I de net understand very well the yeunir
woman catches and boxes up a frog In a
bes with a let of llttle holes bored in the
weed The casket is then buried lu an
ant hill and left there for two weeks.
The ants of ceurse attack the prisoner
aud eat up all his flesh, and all that is left
Is tbe creature's beucs. Among these Is
a shield shaped bone about as large as
ene's thumb neil, upon ene end of which
li u llttle hook. The girl takes this bone
mid has It blessed surreptitiously by the
priest without his knowledge that Is,
blie exposes it during the benediction at
the mass and then she hooks it en the
clothing of her sweetheart that Is te be.
I was gravely assured that the charm,
when properly prepared with all due cere
mony nud care, had never been known te
f.tll. Ch!catreLNnu-.
nie llutdl lUgUler ut fle.
The register at Eome of the faohleuablo
hotels will neon be among the ununcd If
notnraeugtho forgotten things. There
Is a movement en feet te abolish It en
tirely, and sooner or later, llke n geed
many ethor things, It will have te go.
People ere busier inw than they usodte
be, or else) they are lazier. Formerly hotel
guests registered their names and the
places from which they came with a geed
deal of nccuraey aim attention. New
moitefthe public men and generally all
lady travelers decllne te allow thelrnamei
te nppear en the book at all. They simply
give their names and placei of rosldcuce
te the clerk, who notes the tsame and
sticks the llttle card ceutalnlng tbe In
formation In the ofllce rack. The real
object of the register wa3 te nccommedato
the outsider any way, and even in this
renpect hai fallen Inte disuse. The
'r.trnngcr comea In looking for a friend
and consults the book, and nine tunes
out of tu If he does net find the name en
the register li'J turns and a.ikn the clerk If
the person he bocks is stepping in the
house. This is a fast age, and the regis
ter scorns te be In the way new op the
hotel (leak. New Yerk. QrattlUc.
jjrKnveus mbadaehm.
The Nerves
Meaaberg says that neural la la the prayer
et the serves for healthy bloefl." 1 hU It
equally true el every form of nervous dlaease.
It tha bleed la la a normal condition the aer aer
veutiyatem receives Irem It the atrength Its
functions reqnlre. Hence the all-Important
uueitien of the purification et the bleed again
Impresses itself upon us. A moment of tare
lal thought enables us te reallae wry Heed's
BaraaparlllabytlaBotverte purify the bleed
produces eures lu a great variety el dlaeaaei
te an extent hltkefte unknown,
" When I began taking Heed's (anaparilla I
waa remaned te the bed neerlv all the lime.
Hen I am up the best part of the day, bare a
belter appetite than for ttve years, and am net
nearly se nervous as I hav beaa." M A"
A. lUit.il, Moetewn, Philadelphia.
Nervous Headaches
" I have been for years a great sufferer from
nervaus headaebe of an nn niually eevare ty pe.
1 have tried a great many remedies, bat never
found any irllef till I began te ute Heed's Bar
sapailUa. Batere the second bottle was gene
uxy boadaebea were net se severe nor te fre
qnent I am Just beginning the fourth bottle
aud have net felt se well for years. The eon.
fused dliay feeling In the Head Is absolutely
gene, and my general health la wendet felly
Unproved. I write tela, hoping It may Indue
some otter sufferer like my sell te try this In.
valuable medicine." Mia. W. B. OaarwateaT,
Bhelter Island, Suffolk Ce , M. X.
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has become weak or thin, promotes a new
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'in restore the original color of my hair,
which lni turned prematurely gray, fused
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11 1 was afflicted some three years with sealp
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cniulu tny scalp disappeared and my balrre
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A few years age I suffered the entire less of
mv hair from thHetfeeieel teller. I hoped that
after a time nature would repair the less, but
1 watted In valu. Many remedies were sug;
Rested, none, however, with such proof of
merit as Ayer's llalr Viger, and 1 bevan te use
lu The result was all 1 could have desired, a
growth et hair seen camn out ad ever ray
at, and grew tn be as soft and heavy as, I
ever bad, and of a natural oelor, and firmly
ict:'-J. II. I'ralt, Opofferd, Teas.
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