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A TROPIGAL CRUISE.
JJeverlj Cramp Continues His Voyage
Among tlie West Indies.
THE ISLAND OF ST. CHRISTOPHER.
Sadden Changes From Day to Sight in the
Tropic Zone.
THE EARTHQUAKE AT GUADA10DPE
rcOXSSSFOXDEXCE Or THE DISPATCH.!
MAKTINIQTTE,
"VTXST INDIES,
March 28. There is
not snch a thing as a
wharf in all the West
Indies. At most of
the ports there is a
good harbor and safe
anchorage, but some
of the islands have
only open roadsteads
"where ships could not
stop 'were the sea sub
ject to the same con
ditions that prevail
Banana Tree on the If orth Atlan
tic But the -water is as smooth as a goose
pond, except in the hurricane season, which
lasts from August to October, and is at its
leight at the time of the autnmn equinox.
St Thomas, SL Christopher or St. Kitts,
as the island is Jamiliarly called "for
ehort," Uustatia, Xevis. Montserrat, and
some others, are simply masses of volcanic
lock, without springs, rivers or any other
Eoureeof -water, except the rains, which
laust he caught before the drops touch the
.ground, for the bottom seems to have fallen
out and so moisture remains upon the sur
face for more than a few moments after the
heaviest rainfalls. Bnt notwithstanding
this they are gardens of the most prolific
vegetation, of which one can have no idea
until he has seen it The trees
seem to live upon air, as their
loots are often out of the soil and
.cling to the rocks like creepers. The
branches are covered with the most beauti
ful of air plants, which feed upon the at
mosphere and require nothing bnt a place
to cling to -while they inhale the breeze.
One of these air plants which Providence
las provided for the comfort of man upon
almost all the -volcanic islands where there
is no water, is a vine whose cup-like leaves
are always full of the purest and sweetest
liquor, refreshing and invigorating to the
tired mortals. But a great drawback to the
pleasure of existence is the multitude of
creeping things that infest all the islands,
reptiles, lizards, Fpiders and vermin of
manv kinds' with poisonous fangs. Their
number is legion, and their variety is a great
..delight to the scientific bug hunters.
A. BUTCH COLOSTT.
St Enstatia is a Dutch colony under the
protection of Holland, and looks as if a
lit; le fragment of Rotterdam or Dortrecht
had been dropped into the sea. The princi
pal port is Basse Terrae, which was once
called the Gibraltar of the "West Indies, be
cause of its formidable fortress. "When the
Dutch were in fighting trim it bristled with
destructive guns and impregnable works,
but in these piping times of peace the
bomb-proof casements are leased to the
lizards and centipedes, and the parade
.ground is overgrown with underbusb.
St Kills is an English colony of 30,000
or more people, nine-tenths of whom are
intelligent, industrious and temperate
negroes. -A great difference is to be noticed
in the several islands regarding the condi
tion of toe b.acks. In the English islands
they ai t much r.ore advanced in civiliza
tion than An thos under the control of
France or Sp ain. The staple product of St
Hitts is sug-ar, and there are some fine
plantations, b ut the island has always been
uniortnnate arid la s suffered severely from
earthquakes, fc urricanes And other natural
disasters.
The water in .thin part of the sea is an in
tense blue a tit t .no painter has ever suc
cessfully imitated which betokens great
depth; and its temperature is quite warm,
as it catches the full influence of thit mys
terious current called the Gulf stream.
There are persons on every vessel who are
willing to tell ytm all about it; but the
wisest men, even the captain of our vessel,
of whose learning wi! all stood in awe, con
fess that the problem so far has not only
vexed but puzzled science, and the theories
ot its origin and existence are siinplv guess
work. The boundaries of its ink-blue wa
ters are so well defined down here that they
can be easily distinguished from the rest of
the sea, even by one who has no expectation
of witnessingthephenozne non, and in the nar
row straits where the noi thward and south
ward currents pass they clividc the channel
with the most accurate impartiality, and the
ripple which fringes the line where they
meet can be at once detected.
js. arrsTEKious sxiSEAar.
The Gulf Stream has a volume of water
larger than all the rivers of the world com
bined; deep, warm, and intensely blue, its
tepid waters refuse to mingle with the rest
,ot the ocean; but where it fin ds its source,
and what mysterious gravitatio.u causes its
A- Bit of Tropical Beach.
ceaseless and mighty flow cannot be ex
plained by man, who must, in his puny ig
norance, let it be as an illustration of the
wisdom, goodness and omnipotent care of
the Creator, who has thus provided a per
petual warming apparatus for half the civil
ized world.
There is a splendor in the tropic sunset so
unlike the Northern gloamings that we are
familiar with, that at each day's close we
have a new surprise. The sun blazes away
at his level best until his rim touches the
horizon, and then he bobs down out of sight
in the most undignified and startling man
ner. There is no gradual sinking, as if to
the sound of slow music, like tbe Northern
sun goes down, but tbe change from noon to
night is so sudden and unexpected that you
ieel there must be some mistake about it,
and make a mental promise that you will
ctndv the phenomenon more closely the
next time.
Sunrise is the same, as sudden andes
startling. There is no aurora lighting up
the northern sky, no tinted clouds to drape
the morning sun; no blush, no rosy rays,
stealing up from the east to herald" in the
day, but the sun jumps out of the darkness
above the waters, when suddenly it is broad
lay. It seems as it does in. the theater
when strong light, without warning, is
turned upon the scene. One moment it is
dark, with the stars much brighter than
they ever are at home; the next there is a
flush, the sua is blazing fiercely at you,
every star is gone, and the tropic day has
begun. There are only two periods in the
24 Hours, it is either midnight or high noon.
But the sun never goes down without a lin
gering gorgeousness to mark the place
where be felL It does not last long, but
snakes up for it in brilliancy, and fades- as
jsuddenly ai it came. As soon as it is cone
iron, can see the start tremble and flash ia
fMsBL
the fathomless sky, that seems in contrast
with these brilliants as blue as the sea,
A TROPICAL NIGHT.
The world ii a vast mass of shadow,
sprinkled with diamonds, almost as numer
ous in the water as in the skyj for these
tropic seas are full of these little phosphor
escent animalcule? which turn to light when
agitated, and a line of pale fire like the
the milky way of the heavens always fol
lowed our rudder. Each wave is tipped
with a flash, so phosphorescent is the foam.
The darker the night the more brilliant is
the phenomenon, and when the breeze is
strong enough to stir the pater into white
caps it looks as if a shower of diamonds
were falling into the ocean. The tropic
moon is about the same that we are accus
tomed to perhaps a little morV languid,
bigger and whiter, with the smutch on her
face a little more conspicuous than in
Northern latitudes.
After only a few days one feels the influ
ence of the climate, and is somewhat more
tolerant of the lassitude he sees in the nco
ple. Ton get a little of the "manana," the
to-morrow tendency, yourself, and notice
that the hammock you are lying in is even
more comfortable than the one you have at
home. There are plenty of things you might
do, things which perhaps onght to be done;
you should write, or sew, or repack your
trunk, but it is so much easier not to that
you lie with folded hands and an abandoned
book in your lap until the bell rings for
dinner.
On several of the islands under English
control, coolies from India3nd the East
Indian Islands have been introduced as la
borers, to take the place of indolent and re
fractory negroes. Although one able
bodied negro can do as much work in a day
as two coolies, the latter are much more in
dustrious and docile, and, although they get
but a shilling a day, and often less, manage
to accumulate money, and are as thrifty
as the Chinese. They are nnder the
protection of the Government, and the
planter, when he wants help, applies to the
colonial authorities. In case of disputes
and trouble the Governor is the arbitrator.
The planter is obliged to furnish food, shel
ter, clothing and the services of a physi
cian when the coolie is sick, and can require
of them only so much labor a day.
IfEVIS AND GUADALOUPE.
The little island of Nevis, near St. Kitls,
is famous for being the birthplace of Alex
ander Hamilton, one of tbe first and great
est of American statesmen, who, when a
mere youth, took an active part in the es
tablishment of the Government. He was
born of Scottish parents in 1757. His
father was a Scotch planter, and died when
the son was yet a child. His mother did
not long survive her husband, and leit
Birthplace of Josephine, Martinique.
Alexander Hamilton an orphan in indigent
circumstances, when he was about 15. Then
he was sent to friends in New York, where
in his 16th vear he entered Kings College,
now Columbia.
The Island of Guadaloupe, which was
the first land toucbed by Columbus upon
his second voyage of discovery, in 1493, is a
little Garden of Eden. The eastward half
or Grande Terrse, as it is known, is low, and
can scarcely be seen from the sea, but the
westward island, divided from it by a salt
marsh, is a massive volcanic mass which
stands as one of the grandest features of the
entire archipelago. The peak called
Souflriere rises directly 5,500 feet above the
sea, and looks much higher than it really is
because of its abruptness and rugged out
lines. In shape and general formation the
mountain resembles Vesuvius, being about
the same altitude and covered with extinct
craters, masses of lava, pumice stone, scoria;
and other volcanic substances. The sides of
the mountain are cut into monstrous ravines
and craters which show the violence of its
commotions in the past centuries, bnt toward
the edge, where lies the little port of St
Francis, it is very fertile and produces most
incredible crops of sugar, coffee and other
tropical products. Back of the town, upon
the foot hills, are broad slopes facing the
western sun, covered with fields of sugar
cane and dotted with handsome estates, some
of them centuries old, and embowered in
mangoes, bananas, tamarinds and palms.
The mountain is an uncomfortable neigh
borhood, however, and the people live in
perpetual terror of earthquakes and erup
tions. It was in 1843 that the last great convul
sion occurred, which was one of the most
frightful on record. The town, of Point-a-Petri,
the capital of the island until that
time, and one of the most populous and
prosperous cities in the "West Indies, was
entir ely destroyed. Five thousand people
perished instantly, and as many more died
of injuries afterwards. There have been
gentler shakes in later years, often enough
to keep the people in a state of apprehen
sion, and old Souflriere is always in an ugly
and uncertain state, vomiting volumes of
pumice stone and ashes at times, and
almost always breathing much smoke and
sulphurous vapor.
GATHERING LIMES.
It was on the island of Guadaloupe that
the Carrib Indians had their stronghold in
the days of tbe Spanish conquest, and here
their king or cacique lived, whose power
and ability are described in "Washington
Irving's "Iiife of Columbus." This tribe,
like the rest of the aborigines, is almost ex
terminated, and the remnant, consisting of
a few people, is located in the mountains of
Dominica, living in huts, cultivating little
gardens, and making baskets, which are
sold throughont the "West Indies. All the
islands in this group are favorable to fruit
products, but the best are not suitable for
shipment, and decay upon the trees. Lime
juice and citric acid are produced in large
quantities, ana are a profitable source of
revenue. There are extensive lime orchards
on nearly all the islands. The trees are
small and thickly planted,and require little
attention except in keeping the under
growth cleared away. They bear two crops
a year Boys and girls gatherthe limes as
they drop from the branches, rnd carry
them to the mills, where they a:e crushed
bt'tween heavy mahogany rollers. The
juce runs into pans and is then boiled
doi vn in iron kettles to a consistency of
svnip, when casts are -filled and shipped to
lEumpe where they are sold at from 100 to
5150 each. Another source of revenue is
the cultivation of cloves, cinnamon, nut
megs .ind spices. The hurricanes often de
vastate' the plantations,destroy the shipping
in the harbor, and ruin in a few hours the
labor of ' years.
The 1 sland of Martinique is, in some
respects, the most interesting of the whole
croup, ami more delightful than the others
for a prolo nged stay. As the steamer ap
proaches th e first land visible is tbe lofty
peak of Moiunt Pelee, 4,500 feet high, whose
slope is brocen into great ridges, between
which are found wild ravines, roaring tor
rents and picturesque cascades. The coast
scenery is wild and beautiful. Naked cliffs
rise 1,000 feeO- perpendicularly from the
water's edge. As the vessel rounds the
Point of Pearls rock the beautiful embow
ered city of St P.ierre appears in view and
awakens shouts ot delipht from the passen
gers, for it is a sp- lendid panorama, with a
background of l nountain magnificence.
Here the great rock, s are piled up at angles
with which the It ws of gravitation and
geology seem to have nothing to do. Soma
are lying bottom u pward, some on their
sides, precipices seem to have 'been opened
the wrong way and g orges appear in the
most unaccountable ilaces. .Mountains
have Been heaped together byaome mighty
convulsion, and vastmJasses of detached
cks are piled unon each other like coal in
bin, illustrating the tu&iultBous passions
nature. iSEV.ESiiV cjtom-f.
THE LOELWG ROOM.
Lovely Little Nests Built in tlieTops
of New lork Housfe
WHERE -WORRIES CANNOT ENTER.
Places Where Society Leaders Can Enjoy
Genuine Privacy.
MKS. ItOEGAirs MADISOff SQUARE EIEIB
nrKimnroK im sispatcb.1
The indifference or people out of town to
the advantages of situation Is always a cause
of surprise to people who spend their lives
in city blocks. The points ot the compass
seem to have no meaning in the country. I
have seen stately mansions built with walls
scarcely pierced toward the eastern sun, and
the living rooms bravely breasting the north
and west winds, while the owners were ab
solutely unconscious tbat they had thrown
away what other people would spend high,
to secure.
On the other hand people who lire in de
tached houses can have no idea how city
people manoenver for light and air. Money
can't give a man the sun on all sides of his
house. Mr. Jay Gould with all his millions
can't get it None of the "Vanderbilts has
it The ingenuity with which architects in
sert niches and break up walls, in order to
get little openings into which the sun may
peep for a few minutes each day.i pathetic
The sky in town is a coveted sight How
few of us ever see more than a narrow strip
and that at the risk of an aching neck. The
wonderful pageant of tbe heavens is almost
effaced through the tyranny of bricks and
mortar.
A POPULAR APARTMENT.
How tired nerves sigh for and prize the
sky's reposeful depths. I know oi a house
retained when the march of progress had
gone further up town, because from an in
valid's conch could be seen nothing of the
town but Grace Church's slender spire, its
circling birds and the wide canopy of the
sky.
The introduction of the elevator into pri
vate houses has set about a movement that
is fast gaining force in fashionable life and
which includes all these. Heretofore the
top floors have been practically unknown
regions; hither tend the furniture when it
becomes shabby, and the insignificant mem
bers of the family and the poor relations
climb to sleep. There the servants roam at
will. But the elevator has obliterated the
stairs and the result has been not only the
rescue, bnt the apotheosis, of the top floor.
It is now the most popular and the most
exclusive part of the house. The mistress
has entered it and shut the door. Guests
who visit the drawing room may never be
considered worthy to be received on the top
floor. A visit there is a seal of intimacy;
it implies all manner of distinguished
qualities, of being what Dr. Johnson Would
call a "clubable fellow," regardless of sex.
To be more specific, the demands of socia
life on every New York woman are so grea
that her physical and nervous constitution
demands a place where she can retire and
pull herself together, a place where she can
shut out the distractions of her household,
where the sound of the door bell does not
reach her, and where she is spared the pain
of hearing hr servant aver she is not at
home. It is such a retreat the top floor gives
her. There she can repair in the morning
in neglige, and can lie on a couch in the
blazing sunshine; she can toss a book on the
floor, leave it lie, and can enjoy unabashed
the fascinating confusion ot things out of
place. This abandon is also delightful to
those of her intimates who may come to tell
her how sweet is solitude from out of the
depths of divans and cushions. There they
may gossip over tea, without fear of inter
ruption or amuse themselves with whatever
may be the fashionable diversion of the mo
ment In brief, it is a place where one can be
oneself alone or in company, hut where no
one can enter unasked, not even the hus
band of one's bosom downstairs or the babes
about the knee on the lower floor.
Such are the possibilities of the "lolling
room,"jas a man has named it, although
every woman does not exact all that the
room is prepared to give. The late Mrs.
Mary Jane Morgan had the first of these
rooms. Mrs. Morgan was not a woman of
fashion, but her decorators carried the news
and her great wealth and manner oi spend
ing it made what she did and what she had
matters of interest
MES. MOEQAN'S EYEIE.
Mrs. Morgan's home was on North Madi
son Square, a block that some compact of
ownerships has preserved from the clutches
of trade. From the eyrie that Mrs. Mor
gan chose for herself she had before her the
park in all its loveliness; her nearest neigh
bors were the birds in the treetops. For her
the sun painted pictures in the sky each
evening, and during the day for her enter
tainment was the ever varying panorama of
Fifth avenue and Broadway.
The room was the width ot the house, the
usual hall bedroom being an alcove thrown
into the main room. The three windows
were united by a long divan nearly the
height of the window sill, and so wide that
Mrs. Morgan could lie at ease propped up
by cushions, bathe in the sunshine that all
day flooded the room and realize the delights
of oriental luxury in depths of silk and
down. The windows that gaze onto the
park were in stainless glass, the design be
ing wrought out in the leads.
The hard wood floor was strewed with
magnificent rugs; the walls were wainscoted
a man's height, and the roof ceiled with
American butternut polished like satin.
Between these two the wall space was hung
in raw silk. There was but little elabora
tion, the panels had only slight relief and
the carving was scarcely more than an ac
cent Large vases of the rarest porcelains
held exotic plants from her finely equipped
greenhouse, for the light and sunny warmth
of the room made it an admirable adjunct
to the greenhouse.
The room also served Mrs. Morgan for a
water color room, and here she brought
those of her most precious works of art she
wantea to enjoy silently. Instead of an in
timate friend, a dainty repast and an in
spiring cup o' foa, Mrs. Morgan would have
some painting brought up and placed on an
easel, and when its presence had become too
familiar, some other work of art or object
took its place. In this manner a woman,
all ofwhose wealth would not purchase an
hour.of health, prolonged and refined her
pleasures.
A rLEASANT BETBEAT.
The region around Stuyvesant square is
one of the most picturesque parts of the
town. St George with its towers, a reajly
imposing mass, rears above the pleasant
garden with its splashing fountains, and
Second avenue, which is one of the noblest
streets in town, cuts the garden in twain.
The spot is also dignified by some of the
handsomest private residences in town. Mr.
Rutherford Stuyvesant ocenpies one corner;
a block below is the capacious residence of
Senator Evarts; on the nppcr corner is the
home of ex-Secretary Fish, set in a garden
with trees where it wears an air of quiet
luxurious ease that manv more pretentious
houses cannot achieve. Next door lives his
daughter. Mrs. Sydney "Webster.
Mrs. "Webster is the fortunate owner of
one of these top floor retreats. Beneath her
spreads the pleasant prospect of Stuyvesant
Square, her companions are towers of St
George, and her choir the birds and bells.
Her room is tbe width of the hoube, and in
closes three windows. These are so recessed
that they make practically an alcove and
are connected by divans. The opposite
side of the room has an oval sweep, and
is wainscoted in a way that architects
would find interesting, and women with
a mind for closets worthy of their most
eloquent and expressive adjectives. The
wainscoting is built out, this allows for
recesses within, placards as the French
call them, closets containing a dainty buf
fet, and enclosures for precious things, that
mar or mav not be secret as one mar choose.
This wainscoting is "broken aew asdtaen
by niches. These are arranged to hold some
object of art rare vase with flowers or a few
shelves for the most companionable books
for nothing is introduced into such a room
for mere form. Above tbe wainscoting
forms a shelf on which are placed objects of
art and rare plates. These in effect form a
frieze, for the wainscoting is high, against
a background of old Spanish leather which
in centuries past did service in some chateau
in Spain.
UNIQUE DECORATIONS. ,
This wainscoting, I should have said, for
it is a distinctive leature, encloses the doors
on each side and tbe mantel. The wood is
French walnut and the same wood is" used
in the ceiling beams which are exposed.
Between these the plaster has been decorated
in color. The floor is hard and strewn with
rugs. In such a room a woman carries her
own indiyiduality. No room is complete
until the personal touch is given. This the
most accomplished architect and decorator
cannot counterfeit. Here, consequently,
one must leave what cannot but be the most
attractive element of the room.
In Mrs. "W. K. "Vanderbilt's house this
room was originally called the sewing room,
for parlors, boudoirs, sitting aud living
rooms had been exhausted in the organiza
tion of the house before the top floor was
reached. But the business of sewing is car
ried on elsewhere, and this room is dedi
cated to hours of familiar ease. Its fitting
up is a suggestion from the domestic archi
tecture ot England, and more directly from
Haddon Hall, that famous historic pile in
which Cromwell put on such frills and
aped the aristocracy. The room is
wainscotted high in pine, and is
merely a succession of small
squares row on row. The wood
is pine painted Tuscan red and brought to
an egg shell gloss. The mantel is copied
from one in Haddon Hall, and has fire fac
ings of Carlisle stone with an overhanging
mantel panelled as the wainscotting. The
wood is carved in pilasters above the wains
cotting and is apparently used to support
the cross be.ams, which make sqnares that
are plastered and painted old gold. This
room catches all the sun of the east and the
sun of the south, which includes also the
western sun and the panorama of the sun
set Immediately joining this room is an
other that is used as a conservatory, and
through sliding doors this room of lively
cheerful red obtains a fascinating vista of
green.
THE LADIES' COMMITTEE.
The character and disposition of the room
is disclosed in its furniture. It contains ab
solutely nothing but divans, ottomans,
cushions and low tables. None could be
more eloquent of the delights of a "lolling"
room. But it must be confessed that these
rooms sometimes have a more bracing air.
It is here that the ladies' committees meet,
and the committee is an important element
in a fashionable woman's life as an assem
bly or the Patriarchs' ball. Indeed, if the
walls of these luxurious treats could speak
they would probably reveal nothing more
genuinely humorous, and in every way en
tertaining, than the doings oi the ladies'
committee.
The most complete advance yet made in
this upward movement for light and air haa
been made in the new home of Mr. Ogden
Mills, the son of Mr. D. O. Mills, the Cali
fornian. Mr. Mills' house is on Fifth ave
nue aud Sixty-ninth street, and overlooks
the Central Park. To live on this park is a
happy lot, if one doesn't mind the malaria,
and has faith that it will yet be properly
drained. But Mr. Mills has lifted himself
above the evening dews and damps, and can
enjoy to his fill those acres of lawn and
wood, which he has not to keep shorn and
trimmed, and those miles of drives and walks
which he has not to sprinkle and keep clear
of snow. The lower floors of Mr. Mills' house
are in fact state apartments. Here may be
the balls and formal banquets; the living
rooms are on the top floor. There isrepeatediu
a familiar wa jail the details of thelo wer floor.
In front is the living room, the entire width
of the house, which occupies two city
lots. This room is in French walnut and
after designs ot the renaissance. Behind it
is the dining room and in attendance on it
the butler's pantry, kitchen, and everything
that may render it independent of the rest
of the house. This,-it seems, gives to city
life, a life of brick and mortar, its most
ideal aspect It enhances the valne of
wealth and commends it wholesomely. The
evs rests on nothing that is not lovely, the
roar of the streets is afar, and above all are
the delights of privacy, the bosom of the
family is no longer mythical.
A YOUNG GIEIS SANCTUM.
Touching this same subject there is a
growing custom, and which is considered as
one of the educational influences of the day,
to give the young girl of the house a sanc
tum on the top floor. For this the elevator
is not necessary, for her legs are active and
strong, as nine out of ten her mother's are
not. Into this room no one enters without
her permission. Here, if she so chooses, she
may have a frieze of her favorite actors'
photographs, here she mav practice with
some likewise enterprising friend the
fragrant cigarette, here shemayessay poetry
and trifle in art Here her reading is prac
tically unrestricted. It was in snch a den
that the daughter of a strictly orthodox
house made the acquaintance of "Robert
Elsmere," which a friend puts in as evidence
of the unqualified freedom of a young girl's
sanctum.
In such a room a girl's individuality de
velops and if there are any warning signs,
they will eventually appear more openly,
and in time for check or reproof, and they
will occur under the parental roof.
A very pretty example of such a room be
longs to a young girl who must be nameless.
It is what is known as a hall bedroom on
the top floor. Her taste in photographs in
clines to royalty, and here she enjoys the
company of the most interesting of the
crowned heads of Europe. Around the room
as a frieze are Baphael's "Hours," a frieze
broken on one side by that quaint fantasy
of Church, a mummy's head smelling a
rose, and on the other hv Giotto's head
of Dante. The furniture has been espec
ially designed for the room. Here are her
books and everything that is most dear to
her. In the window is a window seat, and
beneath it is a locker for further treasures.
To insure her crcater privacy, in the lower
halt of the sash is the royal entrance of
Queen Elizabeth into a castle courtyard, a
splendid piece of color in stained glass and
filtered through this is the more prosaic
aspect of the street
Here this young girl reigns supreme.
Sometimes she receives visits from other
members of her family. But she is always
notified in advance that- no undue libertv
may be taken of her privacy.
Maby Gay Humphbeys.
- OKLAHOMA HOTEL RULES.
Directions Which Transient Gociti (re Re
quired to Obicrve Faltbfnlly.
Philadelphia 2iorth American.
1. If the bugs are troblesome you'll find
the kloroform in a bottle on the shelf.
2. Gents goin' to bed with their boots on
will be charged extra.
3. Three raps at the door means there is a
murder in the house, and you must get up.
4. Please rite your- name on the wall pa
per so we know you've been here.
5. The other leg ot the chair is in the
closet if you need it
6. If that hole where that pain of glass is
out is too much for you, you'll find a pair
of pants hack of the door to stuff inlt
7. The shooting of a pistol is no cause for
any alarm.
8. It you're too cold, put the oil cloth
over your bed.
9. Caroseen lamps extra; candles free, but
they mustn't burn all night
10. Don't tare off the wall paper to lite
your pipe prith. Nuff of that already.
11. Guests will not take out them bricks
in the mattress.
12. If it rains through that hole overhead,
you'll find an umbreller under the bed.
13. The rats won't hurt you if they do
chase each other across your face.
14. Two men in a room must put up with
one chair.
15. Please don't empty the sawdust out of
the pillers.
16. Don't kick about the roches. "Wo
don't charge extra. ,c .
17. If there's bo, towel handy, use' a pieee
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A STUDY OF MANKIND
As It Appears to Bessie Bramble at
-. , a Southern Health Eesort.
THE BOARDIHG HOUSE AUTOCRAT.
Business Hen and Politicians IPo Safer
From Inactivity.
CLKEGI WHO QUARREL OVER CROQUET
rcosBXSroKBxxci or the dispatch.:
Aiken, S. C, April 25. "The proper
study of mankind is man," is one of the
noted sayings of the old poet of Strawberry
Hill. This being true, no justification is
needed for talking about, moralizing over
and writing dp the subject of mankind as
shown and to be known at winter resorts in
the South. Men made immortal by their
brains and power to grasp this great subject
Man have bequeathed much knowledge
to those of -to-day as a groundwork for ob
servation and text books for study, but
there is nothing like the sohool of experi
ence for getting the most profound, inter
esting and amusing comprehension and ap
preciation of the subject "Man," says
Pascal, "is the glory and scandal of the
universe. It is beneficial that he should be
sensible not only of his glory, but oi his
meanness."
In his progress through life and by virtue
of education, environments and circum
stances he becomes possessed of opinions,
prejudices, sentiments, habits, thoughts and
manners that make him a pleasant com
panion or an intolerable bore; a delightful
iriend or a veritable Dr. Fell; a cheery,
bright, jolly good fellow, or a cold, sour,
snarling ill-mannered creature, who, as God
made him, must pass for a man; an honest,
true, sincere, noble-hearted being who in
spires love, or a selfish, cruel, cross-grained
creature held in contempt by his fellows.
All of these sorts and conditions of men are
to be found among the travelers who spend
the winter under the Southern sun in pur
suit of health, novelty, time-killing, or to
follow the fashion.
the passing show.
Everywhere are to be found the materials
that give play and spice to wit and humor:
that give depth to sympathy and pathos;
that wake to vigor the noblest sentiments
and emotions; that furnish the finest touches
of both tragedy and comedy, and, pethaps,
no place forms a better stage for the scenes
than the resorts where people go for a good
time and to let themselves loose from the
.restraints of business, to relieve themselves
of the wearying grind of every day routine,
and to give themselves up for the time be
ing to the pursuit of laziness and the study
of their fellow creatures, their self delus
ions, eccentricities, inconsistencies, differ
ent ways of thinking, different standpoints
for opinion, and their divers and wonderful
methods of expressing thought in the En
glish language.
People go to the summer resorts for rest
and the enjoyment of a good time in the
glowing days of midsummer, but the winter
resorts are chiefly frequented by seekers
after health, by invalids who find in South
ern climes a refuge from the rigors, snows
and stoims of Northern winters, or by peo
ple of wealth who, by potent power of
money, make all the year a summer of
pleasure and delight
Here are to be met men broken down by
stress of over-worked brains, neglect of the
essential requirements lor physical health,
and retired out of "the swim" to engage in
a fight for life; men who, having secured a
competence in well placed investments,
propose to enjoy the cream of life and the
sunshine of prosperity; clergymen who
have worn out their throats in dispensing
the Gospel to "miserable sinners," and by
generous leave of absence are engaged in re
pairing their shattered energies, and in the
endeavor
TO SECURE FBESH YOICES.
and new power of lungs to fill their pulpits
as of old; scholars who, to economize time,
have burned the candles at both ends, and
then found themselves the prey of nervous
prostration, and condemned to spend weary
months in recruiting health and toning up
their nerves; politcians who have worn them
selves out in working for their candidates
and downing the friends of the opposition,
and then, when the fruits of victory are won,
.they turn to ashes, for with strength wan
ing, health wasted, the shroud and pall iu
view, the knell in hearing, they know the
game grows desperate, and that they must
fall out of the procession, and let the vic
tors pass on with palms of rejoicing, while
they retire into the obscurity of the invalid
brigade, and seek solace for their sorrows in
slops and tonics.
Here is to be seen a valiant Republican
le ider who has had to sink his ambitions,
give way and play to lesser men, resign the
rod of empire and endure the pangs of see
ing the wrong men reaping the fullest
sheaves, while.he is laid on the shelf, as it
were, where his main thought is as to his
diet, his chief effort is confined to a walk of
half a square with feeble steps and slow,
and where he spends the long, long, weary
days in monotonous twaddle and mournful
retrospective. Grnel, tea and toast, bread
and milk, replace the canvas back and
champagne of the many days agone, and
the junkets and banquets that gave zest and
crown to the enjoyment of lestive hours
"ayout the twal have given way to the
decorous-game of whist and then to bed
with the chickens. It is not to be won
dered at that he sits in his easy chair and
looks forth into space sadly, that the fur
rows on his face grow deeper, that his
smiles are ghosts' ot gayety and that melan
choly has marked him for her own.
CLEBOYMEN AND CBOQUET.
The clergymen who are laid by for repairs
to voice and throat, and for the restoratior
and renewal of power and unction always
play croquet, Iu the maintenance of piety
and ministerial decorum they frown upon
whist and billiards, but they go at croquet
with leligious fervor, and squabble over the
play like a lot of small boys over a game ot
marbles. Nobody can realize how true it
is that
"Men are but children of a larger growth"
until he sees the brethren of the cloth play
croquet when away from home for. their
health.
Another style of man to be found at health
resorts is the man of affairs, who has been
compelled to let go the threads of business,
to give up his daily occupation, and seek in
cnange of scene and summer dime the
treasure that is essential to all enjoyment of
life. How he does chafe and fret. He im
agines he cannot be spared; that without his
wisdom things will go to pieces; that his
fingers are essential in the pie,' but with
misfortune's hand heavy unon him, he
sooner or later learns resignation to the in
evitable, and grows familiar with the fact
that his present business is to get well
that nothing else wilf avail; that ambition,
success, the amassing of wealth and hopes
of fame are empty mockeries, when the
power to achieve has gone.
Another sort of brother encountered
everywhere is the crusty man just ill
enough to be cross, and cantankerous
enough to fall out with everybody, and find
fault with everything. He objects to chil
dren and their racket and their manners at
table; he has a ferocious hatred of pianos
and players of classical music; he despises
the coteries of women who sit about tbe
piazzas with their fancy work and monopo
lize the easiest chairs; he abhors jokes and
enters into none of the sports; he wraps the
drapery of his supposed superiority about
him and holds, himself high, holy and
.alone. The girls poke fun at him, the
women laugh at him. and his state gener
ally is that ot chronic high dudgeon, which
is not conducive to the cure of the inflJw
mation of his "bronical tubes," as rncsl
1 .11 .1...M
people viui viicui.
THE BOABDINO HOUSE AUTOCRAT.
One of the prevailing tvpes in almost
every boarding house is the autocrat, not
only of the breakfast table, bat of dinner
and Juncaeefi aaa .tea as jweu, Me lays
dawn the law on every subject He .pro
nounces the dictum in every case, fie
dominates bypower of voice, length of
tongue, and gift of gab everybody who ven
tures to utter a word of dissent from his
views. He is usually much of a mugwump,
and hence Republicans and Democrats are
alike held up to scorn and derision on occa
sion. He assumes to be an oracle upon
every subject. He takes pleasure in 'be
littling everyDooy s arguments, ana in con
troverting everybody's views.
In one case we hear of, however, the
"autocrat" ha been blocked In his little
game. So obnoxious had ho become, and
especially in his animadversions upon
women, tbat a bright little dame took itinto
her head to give him a "set down" in orig
inal style. She called a parlor meeting and
unfolded her idea. As most of the boarders
had suffered from his sarcasm they fell into
the scheme with ardor. The plan was sim
ply to ignore all of his attempts at argu
ment, all his flings at women, all of Tais
sarcastic remarks. They were to be left to"
fall into a dead silence. "When he attacked
anyone, there was to be no reply, and the
subject was to be changed by some of the
conspirators immediately. The plan, it is
said, has worked well. The moment he pro
jects an argumentative assertion into the
general talk, no reply is made, and the
weather, or the text, or some subject foreign
to his remark is brought into play. Any
failure to carry out this plan of squelching
an autocrat put a fine oi 25 cents into the
fund to buy enchre prizes. The poor fellow
having everything his own way, and no ex
cuse for falling upon anybody with an
avalanche of words is profoundly puzzled,
and deeply disgusted at he knows not what.
GAY OLD 3IAID3.
Independent old maids are all the fashion
and all pervading at the winter resorts.
How times have changed when women go
hundreds and thousands of miles away
from home without either a chaperon or a
champion, a guardian or a protector. They
go into the offices of hotels and bargain for
rooms and bully the clerk, and get the best
the house affords, as well as any man, and
perhaps better. In old times the maiden
aunts who failed of a husband were content
to exist, as it were, on.sufferance. They did
the drudgery of the family, earned and
saved the money to send the boys to college,
nursed their brother's and sister's children
through the mumps and measles and whoop
ing cough, and made themselves generally
useful, but received no salary and but
scant consideration. But the old girls now
get all of the fun there is going.
"We have two in mind at present who
have been "doing" the South all winter.
With plenty of cash and good clothes, they
have had a gala time. Although neither of
tnem are young or Handsome enougn to oe
attractive, yet they can command every
comfort and pleasure, and they glory in
their independence. Judging by them, it
would appear that old maids have the best
of it as far as a good time in this world is
concerned.
Other notable figures at Southern winter
resorts are the men who have come down in
attendance upon sick wives. These form an
endless subject for talk upon the piazzas
among the workers on sofa pillows and
bureau scarfs and tray covers. He who is
attentive and devoted to his invalid com
panion comes in for no end of praise and
appreciation, while he who more selfishly
considers his own pleasure and amusement,
gets pretty well scored all around.
SOME SBBIOUS BEFLECTIONS.
This type of man goes off on horseback
excursions with the girls gay as a lark,
while she whom he has vowed to love and
cherish is Ielt to tbe care of strangers and
servants. This adds to the grievousness of
being ill, and gives little encouragement to
recovery, but then he says she is quite com
fortable without him, aud there is no sense
in his losing everything. Most women
would say that such a man was not worth
having around, but still it is not conducive
to a calm and heavenly frame to have a hus
band outrage all of the proprieties by flirt
ing and riding and driving with gav young
girls, regardless of Mrs. Grundy. But the
sisters have their eyes upon them, aud that
there is a rod in pickle for both classes may
be safely assumed.
The "W. C. T. TJT. sisters at the hotels and
cottages excite no little comment Their
object in coming South is health, recovery
from nervous prostration, general debility,
weak lungs and other afflictions sent by
heaven as trials of their faith; but, while
they talk of prohibition in the parlor and
wear their white ribbons on all occasions,
they yet have to take tonics and stimulants
and egg noggs and "sich," because tbe doc
tor prescribes them. It is amusing, not to
say amazing, to hear some of these good old
girls discourse upon the wickedness of fer
mented wine at the Sacrament, the propriety
of teaching children through temperance
text books that wine and all liquors are
rank poison, and then, contrast their theories
with their practice of following tbe apostle's
teaching by taking a little wine for the
stomach's sake and a little whisky for the
restoration of their health. Itreminasoneof
the story of Susan B. Anthony of her visit
to the editor of a health journal. This
journal was devoted to the advocacy
of vegetable diet, and was virulently
opposed to the eating of flesh in any shape,
manner or form, as a practice that was bar
barous, inhuman, and destructive of good
health. Every month the magazine teemed
with the horrors of flesh eating and the joys
of vegetarianism with the evils following
the drinking of tea and coffee and the ad
vantages of nature's beverage. "When Susan
B. came down to breakfast, however, there
was the steaming fragrant coffee, and juiey
steak fresh from the gridiron. "Why, bless
my heart, how is this!" she exclaimed; "I
thought you people were devout and rigid
vegetarians, and ardent opponents of tea and
coffee." "Well, Susan, you see, we say a
good deal more than we do," was the reply,
as this editor, who was the oracle of vegeta
rianism, served out the steak and gravy.
The moral is plain.
BEST IN A BOCKEB.
In his book on "Jonathan and His Con
tinent," Max 0'K.ell describes how Ameri
cans enjov themselves at the winter resorts
in the South. He tells somewhat derisively
of how they get up and breakfast and then
sit on rodcing chairs on the piazzas and
wait for lunch timc then to rocking chairs
again, where they wait for dinner after
dinner Tocking chairs again until bedtime.
This is a good deal the style of it in the
Southern resorts, but the rather dull
Frenchman seems to think they would be
better engaged in picnics, and excursions,
and fishing or going about, but if he had
known Americans better, he would know
that to many a rocking chair on a piazza
with the pleasures of fresh air, warm sun
shine, peaceful quiet and books and papers
is picnic enough. That to go helter
skeltering over the country in pursuit of
pleasure and- excitement is not the Ameri
can idea of rest. After the whirl, and ex
cltemept and madding crowd of city life,
nothing for a time is more restfully blissfal
under Southern suns than a rockipg chair
on a piazza, where the gay and giddy world
can be seen passing as in a panorama before
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Last spring I was troubled -with bolls; one
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thpse who find in sky and air and
breeze and balm of flowers the rest
they crave and love. The French Idea
of a holiday - may be to be forever
"on the go," or gad rushing hither aud
thitherbut to the health-seeker, the tired
man of business, or the rundown house
keeper, a piazza and a rocking chair and
something; to .read have charms beyond ex
pression. It may not be a French fashion,
or so English, you know, but it shows that
Americans enjoy the liberty ot doing as they
please and of spending their holidays in
most striking contrast to their rush of busi
ness. Bessie Bramble.
A LETTER FROil LLSCOLN.
A. Model Epistle of Condolence Treasured
In England.
The following is a copy of an autograph
letter ot President Lincoln, which adorns
the walls of a hall in the College of Brase
nose at Oxford. Many American visitors to
the famous English seat of learning have
looked upon it with deep interest, and it is
treasured: by the authorities of the college,
not only as a memento of the martyr Presi
dent, but also as a model of clear English,
gracefully expressing the highest sentiment:
Executive Maxsion, J
Washington, November 21, 1864. J
To Mrs. Blxby. Hoiton. Mass.
Dear Madam I have been shown In the
flies of the War Department a statement of
the Adjutant General ot Massachusetts that
youare the mother of five sons who have died
gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how
weak and fruitless mast be any word of mine
which should attempt to begulra you from the
grief of a loss so oTerwhelmlng. But 1 cannot
retrain from tendering to yon the consolation
that may-oe found in the thanks of the repub
lio they died to save. I pray that our Heavenly
Father may assauee tbe anguish of your be
reavement, and leave you only the cherished
memory of the loved ana lost, and the solemn
pride that must be yours to have laid so costly
a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom. Yours
very sincerely anu respectfully,
Abbaiiam Lrscour.
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