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SECOND PART.
ANOTHER COZY HOMESTEAD.
How a Man of Moderate Means Can Build and Furnish a
Comfortable Home.
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fort above all
things is the
desire of the
average man
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means and
ambition i n
building a
Lome. While
this is a good
precept and a
needful in this age of outward show and
often inward mcagerncss, it need not be car
ried to the verge of severity, as much may be
done for beauty's sake, with litUe, if any
sacrifice to the just, true principle, home
comfort.
The house presented with this issue is not
expensive to build, and yet is fine enough
for any neighborhood, as the adjacent build
ings may be large or small, witti equal ap
propriateness. A large expansion roof, such
as is shown here suggests coolness and com
fort luring the hot season and ample protec
tion as well irom winter's storms.
The materials used in the exterior con
struction are: foundation walls, stone; first
floor, clapboarded; second story and roofs,
shingled. The story heights are for first
floor, 10 feet; second floor, 8 feet; cellar, G
feet 6 inches, and the cost is about 2,500.
The cellar is under the kitchen only, but
may be extended if desirable. No open fire-
places are allowed you, as the intention is
to use stoves, yet a' fireplace and mantel in
the parlor would add much to its attractive
ness, and add but little to the original cost
The washroom, situated, as may be seen by
a glance at the plan, back of the kitchen, is
supplied with stationary tubs, and supplied
with hot and cold water, a great convei teuce
to the housekeeper, and one of the "solid
comforts" referred to above.
The plans speak for themselves, simplic
ity, convenience and ecouomy of space being
the first consideration; and offer ample con
venience for a moderate sized family. With
out attempting to go into a detailed consid
eration of each room as to color, a few re
marks on the subject in general may not
come amiss, as a guide in selecting and ar
ranging. When room are painted or papered in
tints of color, the combination necessary to
carry out a pleasing effect is sufficiently
simple and easy; but even in this great care
should be taken to have the tints of a soft
and agreeable quality.
There are greens and greens, grays and
grays; in the one case as ugly and displeas
ing by their rawness and crudity, as in the
other they may be solt and harmonious,
agreeable and refreshing to the sight.
"What can be more uncomfortable than a
crude emerald green? Soften it, however,
with either a little sienna or other moderat
ing color, and make it suitable in depth of
tone to the size of tne room, and jour skill
and taste will make it as agreeable as it
would be otnerwise repulsive.
In deciding the colors for rooms, their as
pect should be well considered, giving cool
and refreshing shade lorthe south, and warm
comfortable colors Jor the northerly expos
ures. The use of a room should also influence
its color. Pictures require particularconsid
eration; the color of tne walls should be sub
servient to them. Sage green is a good
tone should the room aud its pictures be
of moderate size. On the other hand if the
picture be badly painted, and the room quite
large and lighted irom. above, a deep quiet
red is an excellent color.
If in the selection of tones and colors, in
the decoration of the borne, natural or ac
quired tastes are confessedly missing, the
suggestion is offered, first ot all to select as
your housekeeper one who has by his work
established himself as one who understands
bis buincs.
Nowadays the sale ol wall paper is a
special avocation,, and every well-estalb-llshed
concern has one or more men in its
sJl7 whose trained or natural taste fit
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them to act as guides to the purchaser as to
proper colors and effects. First learn or
have your salesman learn for you the shape,
size and general character of the room;
number and position of doors and windows;
the form of the fire place; the condition of
the ceiling, and style of cornice; the amount
of sunlight the room receives and the direc
tion whence it comes. Indeed all circum
stances and conditions of the room should
be known.
The use to which the apartment is put
shonld then determine much concerning the
quality and style of paper to be used. Still
further limit your latitude of choice by your
wish to lighten the room if gloomy or to
subdue or darken it if it be too glaring.
These principal points settled, proceed to
follow your own taste if you feel confident
of success or that of your salesman if it is
merited.
Pick out the body paper for the walls
first, then grade or "match" all else up to it.
Nine rooms out of ten are spoiled or seri
ously marred by the independence, preju
dice or perversity of the purchaser who
wants, and it must be confessed from a busi
ness standpoint, ought to have his own way.
A good salesman will "catch" the direc
tion ol a customer's wants and aid in find
ing just what suits, subject to the condition
of use to which the article is to be put. In
the selection of paper hangings the person
ality of the purchaser should not be sub
verted. There is plenty of scope for the preference
of the purchaser after the selection of the
proper line of paper. The desire of the oc-
cupant should decide the generafc style of
decoration, whether lively and gaor " som
ber and severe.
It is always safer than otherwise to get as
much happiness and cheer as possible in the
room, by means of the lightness and bright
ness of your decorations. It is obvious, but
not always observed, that a paper with a
large pattern is not suitable for a small
room, a: it will tend to make it appear
smaller. Paper with a perpendicular de
sign tends to heighten a wall and raise a low
roof. A chamber with a cold northerly
light can be warmed and cheered, while a
room flooded with southern sunlight can
be shaded and subdued by the proper
choice of color in the paper. Bich and
heavy hangings make a room more comfort
able, it must be remembered, though, that
dark papers, especially in rich qualities,
absorb an immense amount of light, natural
or artificial.
So paper intended for apartments to be es
pecially occupied in the evening, if elegant
with rich coloring, must be strongly illumi
nated. In the matter of drapery curtains
and hangings for the home, while taste
must dictate their usage, a few general
points must be kept in view. If the walls
are decorated with much ornamental effect,
the cnrtainsshould be either of plain ma
terial or plain centers, with decorative bor
ders. If curtains are figured simplicity of pat
tern is highly desirable; should, however,
the pattern be well defined in form, its color
should be ot the same depth, as to light and
dark, or two tints of the same color. Cir
cles, straight lines crossing the fabric, and
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diagonal lines are all correct decoration for
our curtains, or they are improved by the
folds which form them into subtle" and
beautiful curves. If the pattern of a curtain
consU of graceful forms, the design is apt
to become feeble when hanging in folds.
The size of the pattern should be consid
ered in relation to the size of the folds of the
material, and to the openness or closeness of
the material's texture. If the folds are
small the pattern may be small, but if large
the pattern should be somewhat larger. On
an open fabric the pattern may be larger
than on a close fabric Texture plays an
important part in the effect produced by
some curtain materials; hence it should be
carefully considered.
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THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH.
These two great features, the wall and
ceiling decoration and draperies have been
considered more at length here, as they are
the first and most important factors in the
arranging of a home, all else to a greater
or less extent being subservient to them, as
in furnishing the needs and tastes of the
householder are made easier by the correct
principles embodied in the keynote. No at
tempt has been made in this article to dictate
the fine gradiations of color from hall to
attio as the slitrhtest variation in con
dition will mar or utterly destroy the
scheme; but an attempt made to lead the
householder, by suggesting a few of the
fundamental principles to be considered in
fitting and furnishing, leaving the consum
mation to his or her own judgment in the
matter of detail.
Before c!osing,a few words,not dictatorial,
but merely suggestive as to one room only,
the parlor; as' will be seen by the sketch,
the interior seems a little elaborate for so
simple a house, but it is the "center" room
of the house life, and a little more elabora
tion for dignity's sake is not out of place.
The woodwork may be of pine or white
wood in style slightly architectural rather
than decorative as more fitting the nature
of the apartment. The woodwork should
be painted in quiet color to harmonize with
the wall and ceiling, and it will be found
that in spite of its apparent elaboration
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the cost will not exceed the original estimate
given.
For furniture a mixture of strength, com
fort and convenience for this room is for use
not show. The floor may be wholly carpeted
if desired and the window simply and daint
ily hung with light material of soft coloring.
Alight ray of coloring for the general effect,
cheerful and attractive rather tnan somber,
will not take any from the dignity of the
room, but will add rather than detract to its
attractiveness by a happy blending of the
two qualities.
The two smaller sketches, the simple what
not and the small bamboo table, are sugges
tive of good and effective furniture for the
parlor; these find their place more among
the odds and ends of decorative effects, rather
than among the "solid comforts," but it
must be borne in mind that the little re
quirements of life do much toward lifting
our minds out of every-day ruts, and help to
lighten our burden, simple as thpy may
seem to the praotical business man who
looks more for the "solid" than the "anhc
tic," in his home life.
MAN! OIL SUITS ENTERED.
Leniers flcrambllDB to Come to Some Agree
ment Willi Formers on Forfeited Land
About SI. 000.000 Itcmnlt Involved
Tho Granger Knew HI Baslnesa.
It looks now to the average Fourth ave
nu: oil man as it a whip has jnst been put
in the farmers' hands by the Supreme
Court that will be used mercilessly. "Well
posted operators say unless something is done
at once, suits amounting to $1,000,000 will
be instituted before two months, based on
the decision of non-forfeiture of an oil
lease.
Some idea of the suits already instituted
by farmers to recover rentals on leases
supposed to be forfeited was given by a
member of the exchange yesterday.
"Our oil company," said he, "is a small
concern as compared to some of the big in
stitutions here, but within the past two
weeks we have secured a release from 40
farmers. 11 more are holding off, and three
have instituted suits against us to recover
rental on land absolutely worthless."
Colonel E. H. Dyer, of the Kanawha Oil
Company, says the celerity with which the
average farmer got onto the fact that he had
the leaser in his power, was something won
derful. The news spread like a plague, and
an enormous number of suits will be en
tered. The decision is very unjust, he says,
inasmuch as the farmer has the best of it.
The general result, however, will be of ben
efit to the trade, as there will be a summary
squelching of the speculator in land, who
wheedles the farmer by promises, then either
sells out at a big figure, or if the land is
worthless, throws up the lease. This sort of
adventurer never intends to drill a well, and
as for rentals, never gives the farmer any
thing but promises. As a result the farmer
has become so excessively wary and shy that
he soon promises to become extinct as a
leaser, except to well known companies.
There are, he said, no doubt many oil com
panies, or even individual leasers, who have
in their possession from 200 to 500 leases,
supposed to have lapsed, and if they are
pusDed for back and for future rentals, it
will take a good many thousands to square
up with the farmer.
There is only one really good lease, a new
one issued, that will protect all parties. This
lease is the Heydrick No. 4, aud there is a
general rush to, put this lease in the place of
the old non-forfcitable afiUir.
The producers' combination at the Ex
change is quietly working for a clause in
the present law that will help them out ot
their difficulty, but just now there seems to
be no other way than to nse only those
leases which have the proper saving clause,
in case the land is not profitable. This,
however, will not help them out of leases
signed in thepast, and many concerns are
confronted with the glaring prosDect of pay
ing a bonus for 99 years (the terms usually
made if possible) to a chuckling farmer for
land good enough for turnips perhaps, but
the oil man isn't in that business.
T00E THEAI UNAWAEES.
Colonel Dick Not Pleased With Delamater'a
Indoraemenl.
Colonel Sam Dick, of Mcadville, who is a
bitter opponent of Delamater, went East
last eveuintr. "That indorsement the Senator
received in his county does not mean
much," he said. "The three week notice of
the primaries was not given, and they took
us unawares.
"Andrews had been working quietly in
the field for some time. Not long ago Dela
mater delivered a warm eulogy of Senator
Quay at a meeting of the Young Men's Be
publican Club in Meadville that will hurt
him throughout the State."
Art In Advertising;,
If yon want something odd, call on the
Pittsburg Photo-Engraving Co., Engravers.
Publishers and General Printers, 75, 77, 79
Diamond st Hihs
French Chalets. An immense assort
ment of the handsomest printings from the
best makers' lines. The styles we show can
not be obtained elsewhere in this city.
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PITTSBURG-, SATUKDAT, MAEOH 8, 1890.
HOW SPANIARDS DINE
Tho Every Day Food of Mountaineers,
Grandees and Espadas.
SOME QUEER KITCHEN UTENSILS.
Desolate Scenes and melancholy Faces Un
der Snnny Skies,
THE LIITLE 1TJXDEIES OF THE POOR
COBEESP05DE-SCE OF THI DISPATCH.
Bakcelona, SrAiK, February 27. It
may not be true the world over that the
physical aspect of a country reflectively
stamps facial peculiarities upon those who
all their lives are subject to such uncon
scious influence; but, during my few weeks'
wandering in Spain, I have been repeatedly
impressed with a similarity between a uni
versal look of sadness in the faces of men,
women and children and an almoat uni
versal sadness and desolation on the face of
nature. This is, of course, an observation in
a general sense. Spaniards of cities, and all
Spaniards in social and business activity,
possess uuusual light and luminousness of
face. So, too, here and there in fruitful
valleys and mountain glens are the most
colorful bits of scenery one can anywhere
find to enjoy. But I never yet came upon
any country whose general aspect prompted
so lugubrious emotions, or the faces of
whose people, unless stimulated into ex
pressiveness by unusual prompting, wore so
woebegone and doleful a seeming.
I have now, and in something of a zig
zag way, giving opportunity for extended
scenic observation, traversed the Spanish
peninsula from the Atlantic to the Mediter
ranean, aud in all that distance have not
set eyes upon a square mile of territory
where forest, stream, vale, and habitation
of man or beast, blended in the perfection
of harmony and repose, such as can be
found in ten thousand spots in New England,
ten times ten thousand in old England, and
ten times that number throughout the whole
of our own loved land. Rivers are torrents
tearing through grimy and unshapely crags,
or streams of chocolate-colored putridity
pushing through vcrdureless valleys to the
sea. Valleys, save in rare instances are
lonesome reaches of leaden land, with no
marks of the husbandman's home-love, care
and thrift that tempt, despite sterility, the
sheltering thicket, copse or orchard.
Mountains are either fearful and forbidding
peaks, shattered by volcanic action, or
interminable barren billows of treeless clay
against a steel blue sky. Desolate moors,
objectless steppes, immeasurable morass and
waste, complete the desolation upon which
the traveler's eye vainly searches for restful
beauty and winsome loveliness in nature.
They are not in Spain.
THE SAD-FACED SPANIARDS.
Even the forests which may be found, ex
cepting only the chestnut groves of Galicia,
seem to have been pounded back into the
earth by tempests of wind or pinched and
shriveled by simoon and sun; while the
much-sung olive groves of Spain, aside
irom tneir trilling ioliage ot grayish blue
and green, seem hacked, gnarled and
twisted into shapeless deformities. Indeed,
this characteristic of gnarledness shows not
only in the trees and shrubs, but also in the
very herbs of Spain, I cannot understand
how the most sunny-hearted traveler can see
in such desolation, insufficiency and de
formity, aught but dreariness and sadness;
and, whether or not all this has had through
the centnries the effect produced by assimi
lation of kind in taking brightness and
sunniness from the countenances of the peo
ple of Spain, I do know that the average
Spanish face, in repose, has a look both
ol vacuity and dolorousness in it that sug
gests at first glance all manner of heart
tragedies.
I have found peasant women sitting at
their choza doors, mountaineers resting be
side winding goat paths, sentinelas pausing
in their beats, officers seated in their sad
dles, business men for a moment alone,
friars halting as if in meditatiou, and the
fairest of Spain's fair women unconscious of
observation at their balconies, each enjoy
ing good fortune according to their place in
world, and each with a face so full of that
which ordinarily bespeaks all but extreme
anguish, that one could not but feci a sense
of the keenest pity for the pathos there be
held. Yet make any one of these conscious of
your presence; arouse them with musio or
song; touch them with the magic of self-interest,
or social friction, or love, and the
whole body is at once in action, the entire
mental power is instantly marshaling its
various forces, and whatever is that marvel
ous and mysterious thing shining through
human eyes and giving nlay to every linea
ment of the human face, kindles and flames
into matchless radianco and light.
A. DIONIFIED PEOPLE.
I have never seen the subject discussed,
and only yesterday I asked an intelligent
Barcelonese about this sadness in Spain's
face and the faces in Spain. He was a
Catalonian, a Spaniard and an advocate;
three kingdoms of egotism in one empire of
assurance. He shrugged his shoulders aud
gravely answered; "Spain is older than
Palestine. Her fair color is faded a trifle.
Her people are grave and mournful in re
pose because of the weight of their dignities.
Spaniards are the first aud greatest ot men."
The answer will hardly satisfy everybody;
but the subject may be one of interest to
those who come after me in Spain.
There is one important advantage, in the
line ot information, which my tramping in
foreign countries gives ma over the ooserva
tions ot the precise and formal traveler. He
proceeds with due stateliness from the lead
ing hoter of one city to the leading hotel of
another, where, barring trifling forms, he is
served with the same viands, prepared in the
same manner, even if he should make a cir
cuit of theglobe. In my humbler associations
I perforce discover what the people of any
country eat, how they eat it, and, pretty
generally, how it is prepared. The people
of Spain are never gourmands. Save in cer
tain quarters in the great oities, the tables
even of the aristocracy are not to be com
pared in richness aud variety of food with
those Of Americans in moderate circum
stances. Practically, there are but two
meals each day, the desayuno or breakfast,
at 11, and the coznida or dinner, at 5 or 6
o'clock. In the houses of the well-to-do,
were you companion or guest, the breakfast
room and breakfast would seldom be found
more extravagant than this: The room has
marble and stone flagging, whitewashed
walls, and perhaps a tiuy fountain playing
near the folds of the swaying cortina before
a vast, and often iron-barred, window. Tbe
chairs will be of rosewood, mahogany or
ebony, straight, tall and comfortable; the
table is huge aud broad; its linen is im
maculate and fine; while its plate is gro
tesquely figured and massive.
AN INFOBMAI, DINNEB.
Flowers are often piled loosely on some
odd piece of plate, and not stiffly perched
before you. There will be a few decanters
of wine; as many piles of excellent crisp
bread; and, winter orsummer, several plates
of fruit. Soup is served first. Meat and
vegetables follow; and then frnit and wine
are enjoyed. The entire meal is without
formality, and both as to the crder of serving
and manner ot partaking, is invariably to
each individual's liking. After fruit and
wine come the cigar and cigarette; and
during the entire meal, conversation, often
extending to whimsical banterings with the
bare-armed criadas or serving girls, whom
both the gentleman and lad; of the house
address aB "My daughter," seems to be,
rather than eating, the chief aim of the family
Jgatheringt At dinner 704 will find, tiutlri
family's habits quite as simple. The table
is likely to be set nearer the window. Its
linen is fresh and snowy white. There are
Gallons of ice-cold water in huge glass
ecanters. Fruit, usually melons and or
anges in season, are bountifully piled upon
the table the melons already sliced to be
handed around, the oranges pared and set
near you by the dozen. Then the soup is
brought by the servant, still bare armed, but
otherwise in voluminous folds of white gar
ments. Following soup comes the universal
puchero of the Spaniards, that stew of all
sorts of fish, flesh, fowl and vegetables,
which is ever food, drink and desert among
poor and rich, and which, with bread of the
best quality and marvelous bounteousnesi,
make the entire repast.
The common red wine of Spain is drunk
out of old-fashioned tumblers throughout
the meal. At its conclusion, from the quaint
old sideboard, or quainter mahogany cup
board, the hostess will bring a glittering
decanter of cherry brandy. This is served
in tiny glasses, and all. including the ser
vants who assemble in the dining room a
few moments for this kindly custom, par
take. Then again come the cigars, cigarettes
and a half hour of banter and rally, iu the
enjoyment of both of which the hostess often
heartily joins.
PECULIAE COOKING STOVES.
The regime of the lowliest peasant in
Spain does not differ a whit from the one de
scribed save in degree. The puchero is
everybody's dish twice a day if it can be af
forded. Little beyond this is needed or de
sired, and on the tables of the rich or poor
no pastry or puddings are ever seen. The
Spanish method of cooking fortunately pre
cludes these. No stoves or ranges can be
found in Spain save infrequently in the
houses of the nobility, and at those more
important hotels where wealthy travelers
are entertained. In these the French cuisine
is in vogue. In every kitchen of the mid
dle classes, or cottage of the peasantry, will
be found a solid brick structure built against
the wall and with a flat top. Into this.from
the interior side, extended little apertures,
perhaps 18 inches deep, with openingsa foot
square. Bound holes from four to six inches
in diameter are cnt in the top of each.
These, literally "pigeonioles," are called
hornillas. They are all the stoves the peo
ple of Spain ever knew. Charcoal is
lighted in tbe hornilla, fanned to a white
heat by wisps of rushes, or by the tiny
fuelle or bellows, and all food is cooked
above these, chiefly in cumbrous earthen
ware ollas or pots.
The puchero is ordinarilv made by sim
mering for four hours finely cut lumps of
bacon and beef (often varied with bits of
mutton, chicken and nsh; in one pot. in
another, briefly, all manner of edible veget
ables are placed nnd stewed until tender,
and to ihese are often added bits of chopped
sausage or pork for seasoning. The vegeta
ble mess is cooked low, that is, until no
more than juicy. This is first placed in a
large receptacle, and the contents of the
other olla, which have also been cooked un
til tender and savory, are turned over the
former. The highest ambition of the peas
ant is that he may have bacon or other meat
in his puchero every day of his life; and
anyone who has partaken of the delicious
and savory dish, with a good appetite whet
ted by miles of tramping behind the grate-
lut act, wilt Know now to nonor ms numme
longing.
POOK EXCUSES TOE FOOD.
But all Spanish peasants are not able to
auord the daily luxury or tne puchero. u.nen
other and cheaper stews, brotbs and soups
take Its place. There is tbe bacauao nerbi
do, or soaked codfish and stewed potatoes;
the rich stew of rice, oil, salt and water; the
olla diversa, a sort of puchero with what
ever can be scraped together lor its ingre
dients: the Dotaie or pottage of oil. beans,
potatoes, red pepper and water; his sopa de
ajo or garlic soup, of broken bread, oil, salt
and garlic; and that perhaps poorest excuse
for food iu Spain, the gazpaco, which, in
summer, forms almost the exclusive subsist
ence of the lowly. It is composed of spring
water, chopped onions, cucumbers and let
tuce, Droxen siaie arena, 011 aau sail.
Fruits and liquors, both of which at all
times are marvelously cheap in Spain the
commoner pure wines selling in rural dis
tricts at 6 and brandy at 8 cents per quart
become really a part of the food of the peas
antry. Every morning on setting forth to
labor all members of the family take a
copeta or tiny glass of brandy, or brandy in
which anise-seed has been soaked, and
munch a few crumbs of bread. This serves
until the desayuno or breakfast. The wife
and children who remain at home make this
meal upon potaje, or oftener of fruit and
bread, or raw vegetables and bread.
The husband, when leaving for his day's
labor stores his tobacco, matches and per
haps a bit of sausage in his sombrero, and
is always provided with the alforja, a small
saddle-bag, which is slung over his shoul
der. This contains two or three pounds of
bread, salt, raw vegetables, especially to
matoes, which are eaten by the dozen, and
fruit in its season. When he returns at
night, if in summer, the entire family take
their comida upon stones or three-legged
stools outside the choza door, or if in winter
the savory puchero. or other stew is eaten
from the same huge dish, or as I have seen
in Brittany, fairly divided and dished info
cavities in the thick top of the stationary
table within. Then if it be within the peas
ant's means, a draught of wine Irom the
wine-skin is taken and this family of few
needs or anxieties, after the never-failing
cizaretts, are ready for sweet and dreamless
sleep.
FAMOUS BULIrFIGHTEBS.
Strolling through the magnificent cafes of
Barcelona yesterday with my friend, the ad
vocate, he was able to do me what he re
garded as the highest favor and honor that
can come to a stranger in Spain. This was
an introduction to an ambitious and already
almost famous bull-fignter, or espada, of
this city. This recalled personal reminis
cences of this class of men aud some inter
esting facts concerning the greatest two liv
ing espadas, Francisco Sanchez and Luis
Mazzantini. The latter I have known.
Perhaps the most famous of all matadors,
the espada primero of the world, is Francisco
Sanchez (alias Lagartijo). He is probably
the most daring, skillful bull-fighter that
ever lived. His handling of the wild and
savage bulls of Jarama is something marvel
ous. He now seldom appears, $10,000 being
the price demanded and secured in advance
lor each performance. He is a very great
pet with the Spanish nobility, is very rich,
and was the warm personal friend of the
late King Alfonso. Other famous espadas
are Bafael Molina, Angel Pastor, Jose
Gomez, Hermosilla, Juan Sanchez and Luis
Mazzantini.
The latter is rapidly becoming the first
Spanish favorite. His life has been full of
romance and adventure. He was destined
for the priesthood Dy his parents, who were
people of refinement and proper aspiration.
He possessed a poetic, restless nature, and
ran avay from the university. Joining- a
band of strolling musicians, he wandered for
several years through tbe Spanish provinces,
breaking many a fair lady's heart, and hav
ing his own heart broken by a sweet little
peasant girl of Aranjuez. His friends finally
lound him and secured him a Government
position in the postal department at Madrid.
But he deserted this. Then he wrote poems
which were gladly printed, but would not
sell. Soon he sang in opera ; but fame was
too great a laggard. Then he publicly an
nounced that he would become the most fa
mous bull-fighter of Spain. Spain laughed
at him. That alone gave him note. Then
he gave the Spanish people this saying:
"Not a king, but a tenor or a bull-fighter
only can enslave Spain I" He isstill yonng.
He is always a gentleman. He has already
amassed wealth, and is the only rival of the
peerless espada Francisco Sanchez in the
affections of the people of Spain.
Edgab L. "Wakemait.
It fetches one up very short, to be seized
with pleurisy, pneumonia, or any acute
throat or lung affection. Dr. Jayne's Ex
pectorant proves a -handy help in such at
tacks, and is besides good old-fashioned
emedy tor all coughs ana colds.
THE PEOPLE THIKST.
Citizens Cannot Drink the Unpalata
ble Kiver Washings.
SOME P0IHTERS ON A PURE SUPPLY
A Flan for Utilizing Mountain Springs in
the lough Talley.
0THEE TALK ON A LITE QUESTION
"TJghl What nasty stuff," is the general
exclamation on the Southside when a citi
zen holds a glass of water up before drink
ing it. The condition of the water tbe past
week has become, unbearable. It is not only
muddy, but slimy and smells bad. In lact,
it is impossible for some to drink it, except
from necessity, and then, though it satisfies
thirst in a measure, it leaves a taste in the
month that suggests fever or some other dis
ease and is nauseating. It a pitcher of
water stands for an hour or so, a bUck sedi
ment forms in the bottom a quarter of inch
thick and the water is still so muddy that
one cannot see his hand on the opposite side
of the glass.
It is common when two citizens meet and
the subject is broached, for one to say, "I
have not drunk any water for weeks." At
the boarding houses no one drinks water; it
is all tea, coffee or milk. Many, who never
drank anything stronger than water before,
have had to resort to coffee or tea to quench
their thirst. The saloons, too, have noticed
an increase in their patronage. "If such is
the case now what will we do when warm
weather comes?" said a lady to a Dispatch
man. "I have got along until just recently
because I had ice; but what are we to do
when we cannot get ice? There is no ice
left and even if the companies have machine
ice, it will come so high that we cannot
afford to bny it
"With a view of finding out just what the
citizens do think iu regard to the water
question and a remedy, a Dispatch re
porter started out on an interviewing tour.
Alderman Succop was first questioned. He
said: "There is no use of talking about the
condition of the water; it is too well known
to agitate. We have to drink, and I sup
pose will have to put up with it."
"But is there no remedy? What do you
think ought to be done?" queried the re
porter. SOME OTHEE SOURCE NECESSARY.
"Well, the final outcome will be that the
city will have to look to some other source
for its water supply, and that time is not far
distant. The towns all along the rivers are
making them too much like sewers. Where
that source will be must be determined by
engineers who are perfectly acquainted
with the subject of water supply."
"What do you think about the lakes as a
source; do you think this scheme, which
has often been broached, practical 1"
"Well, it might be practical, but too
costly. There must be other sources of
supply in the mountains, .mere are many
mountain streams; why not utilize some of
them ? Take the Cheat river, tor instance.
It is only about 61 miles, in a straight line,
from Pittsburg. There are other streams
that may be nearer. That could all be as
certained by a little investigation. If you
want to find out more about the water
sources in the mountains see John W.
Keramler."
Mr. Kemmler was seen, and proved to be
very well informed on the subject. He has
traversed most of the streams abouta Pitts
burg for some miles while searching for
Indian mounds and pursuing his other
archaeological studies. He is an old resi
dent of tbe Southside, and has' turned his
information thus gained to account in
formulating what he thinks would be a very
feasible plan for obtaining a source of pure
water supply. In explanation of his plans
Mr. Kemmler said:
MOUNTAIN SPBING3 ATAILABLE.
"I have thought a good deal over the
water questioh. We cannot long use the
water from the rivers. Tbe towns all along
tbe rivers are building up fast, and empty
their contaminations into them. It is com
mon practice along tbe river to throw dead
horses or other dead animals into the rivers.
Sewers and the filth irom mills and factories
add to the contaminations. We mnst look
to the mountains. The lakes are too far
away to be considered until all else fails
to point out a supply. The Yough
iogheny river has been spoken of,
but its banks, too, are fast being
dotted with settlements, and we must look
beyond. Why not nse the mountain springs
in the Yough Valley? There are large
springs all along the valley; or wherever tbe
small streams enter into the Yough they
could be utilized.
"Eeservoirs could be made at the different
springs and the small streams could be
dammed. A main supnly pipe could run
up the Youehiogheny valley, and pipes run
from the springs and streams to connect with
it. It would be a system of drainage of the
mountain sides. The pipes might have to
run to the Blue Bidge, a little above Con
nellsville, but that would make tbe distance
to Pittsburg short. I think it would make
a natural fall of about 100 or 125 feet That
would hardly put the water into the South
side basin, which is 210 feet above the river.
The Highland basin is 357 feet. Low basins
could be constructed, and would be neces
sary in order to have a supply always on
hand.
POINTERS ON WATEE SUPPLY.
"I have noticed one thing in my
frequent jaunts alone the wood, streams
emptying into the river that beautifully
illustrate the effect of the forests on water
supply. At Thompson's station there is a
little stream which starts up in the wood
land. Its banks are fringed with woods,
and the country is almost in its primeval
state. The stream never rnns dry, and tbe
water is as pure and sparkling as a poet's
dream would have it Take streams like
Saw Mill run, Chartiers creek and others
I know, which were once the same. Now
the woods are beginning to be thinned out,
and the streams go dry sometimes. You
find a stream with its banks fringed with
trees and you are sure to find pure water.
Thomas Evans, the glass manufacturer,
said that he was inclined to look at the
matter from a liberal standpoint He did
not believe in blaming the Mouongahela
Water Company, but, if the water is im
pure, no matter who furnishes it, something
should be done. Mr. Evans' residence is in
Allentown, which receives its supply from
a tank, the water being pumped from tbe
reservoirs on the hill opposite the river
pumping station. This doubtless ac
counts for the Allentown water being
more clear than that on the
Southside, as it gives it one more chance to
settle, Mr. Evans said that the water
should be properly filtered. At his home
none is used without filtering or boiling.
He said that Chautauqua Lake would be a
good source of supply, and the proper thine
for the city to have done before they laid
the main across the river at Tenth street,
at a big expense, would have been to com
bine with Allegheny and bring water from
Lake Chautauqua.
To add to the bad condition of the water,
the pumping works of the Mouongahela
Water Company were short for gas Monday,
and the reservoirs have been very low. The
Slumbers have been jubilant, as they have
een kept busy fishing out chunks of mud
from hydrants and tanks.
Tbe bad condition of tbe water has
boomed tbe sale of mineral and soda waters.
as well as tbe saloon trade, xne conee ana
tea dealers report a very lively trade this
winter, which can be traced to more being
drunk, on account of the muddy water,
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FROM CHAMBEBS' JOuTCJAl. nXCSTBATED BT
THE DISPATCH.
When the second son of the Bight Honor
able tbe Earl of St. Marylebone, commonly
known as the Honorable John Wentworth,
Bichelieu Delancey, threw up his commis
sion as a lieutenant in Her Majesty's Life
Guards Blue, and vacated his apartments in
the Albany, he purposed making an entirely
fresh start in life. To accomplish this he
not only left his native land, literally to
pitch his tent some 6,000 miles to the west
ward of the British metropolis, but also re
pudiated so much of his name a3 was not
absolutely necessary for his identification
and the exigencies of business and society
in the far West.
That he was tolerably successful in his
endeavors to construct his own fortune may
be inferred from the fact that, some four
years after the Honorable John'ssuddeu dis
appearance from sundry Belgravian ball
rooms and Pall Mall clubhouses, plain Jack
tiv y0 "
fa MfrTr If
-WHEN JACK DEEANCEY FtKST SAW MET.
Delancey found himself tbe owner of a
trifling matter of 30,000 acres of rich grazing
lands, over which roamed the finest and
largest herd of shorthorns in Wyoming Ter
ritory. Above and beyond all this, Jack
Delancey was the most popular young man
in the eastern part of the Territory, both
among his neighbors who were not very
numerous and with his 'cowboys,' who
were decidedly numerous. To them all,
after the Western style, he was Jack De
lancey no more and no less. But although
this energetic scion of the House of
St. Marylebone had discarded the 'Hon
orable and the 'Wentworth' and the
'Bichelieu,' and had transformed 'John'
into 'Jack, he was still a Delancey. He
might have called himself Moses Smith he
might have even adopted a Yankee drawl
and seasoned the . same with powerful
Western slang, but he would still have re
mained a Dflancey.
For, notwithstanding that the young man
affected big untanned boots, buckskin
breeches, a red shirt, and a sombrero hat;
though he dined at 13 o'clock with 'the
boys,' and excused without a mnrmur such
luxuries as table linen, cnt glass, and silver
ware; though he slept in a hammock,
rolled up in rather coarse blankets, and
took his morning plunge in the little creek
which lurmsbed batbmg laciuties tor all
his men he was still Jack Delancey, and
it needed not the courtesy title accorded
him in Burke's 'Peerage' to proclaim this
fine specimen of a sturdy Briton as the
'Honorable' Jack Delancey. So, although
all the stockmen and farmers and cowboys
within 50 miles of the Delancey ranch
freely addressed the weaithyyoungEng-,
lisbman as 'jacE, tney cneenuuy yieiuea
him such marked deference as was never
paid to any other man in the Territory, and
such as Jack Delancey himself had never
dreamed of demanding.
It was at the first big 'round-up' after
Jack's arrival in the West, and the boys
were dining after a hard morning's work
branding the young cattle.
'That thar Delancey o' youm is blooded 1'
said a gaunt Kentuckian from a neighbor
ing ranch. 'He's got the generwine liqnid
in his veins, yon kin betl He's squar',
boys, an' he's fair, so he is.'
'Be me faith, he is that samel' responded
a son of Erin. 'He's a lad after St Patrick's
own heart. Shure he's aiqual to none ar
rab, thin, be jabers, I mane he's second to
none!'
'It wnr told up to the station, when I wnr
over last month, as he wur a dook or a Lord
Mayor or sumthln' when he wur on the old
sod. I'm a trifle shy of eech-liKe pranks as
palmin' off incogniter. Looks kinder slip
pery, as if a feller wnr 'shamed of his own
name an' previous record.'
This last speaker was Calvin Larned, a
ranchman of small means and smaller en
deavor, who made a practice of 'throwing
mud' at his neighbors, and who was really
ouly tolerated for the sake of his daughter
Metta.
That's right, Call Wouldn't be you if
you didn't shoot yonr dirty mud,' retorted
one of the men. 'Jack Delancey's got grit
and sand, anyhow, which is more than can
be said of you.'
'And I tell yon one thing, boys,' said a
strapping young fellow, as the men mounted
their ponies to resume their work; 'Jack
Delancey bas got something beside pluck
he's got a great kind heart and clean hands.
It doesn't make any difference whether he
was a Lord Mayor or a Lord Chancellor
over yonder he was a gentleman, and he's
that yet. Now, boys, whoop 'em upf Stir
up those critters livelyl'
This last champion of the individual un
der discussion was Jade Delancey's fore-
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man. Just who he was or where he hailed
from, not even hi3 employer knew. He
had introduced himself" as Spencer
Knight, and claimed although his years
were iess than 30 to be an 'old
Westerner.' He told Jack that he was orig
inally from 'the East,' but had settled in
Wyoming when he was very young, with
the intention of 'growing up with the conn-
How Delancey became acquainted with
Spencer Knight matters little. The En
glishman stumbled across him in Kansas
City, where Knight after the manner of
Wyoming stockmen during tbe dull season
was indulging in a 'toot' Delancey ren
dered tbe young fellow, who was a man
after his own heart and about his own age, a
valuable service, which saved Knisht from
tbe disgrace of arrest and possible imprison
ment; thereby placing the Western man for
ever in his debt This was before Jack
bad located as a ranchman. Being a fairly
good judge of human nature, and
rightly estimating that Spencer Knight
would noc speedily forget a kindness, De
lancey invited that young man to enter his
service. The compact which they then made
had never been regretted by either; for,
after fonr year3 of bard work and constant
companionship, if Knight beheld in Jack
Delancey his ideal of a gentleman and a
friend, Jack knew, as well a3 he was aware
of his own existence, that with his faithful
servant and friend, Spencer Knight, he
might safely intrust his possessions, his
life, aud his honor. And by Jack De
lancey, of Wyoming Territory, honor was
as highly treasured as ever it bad been by
the Hon. John Wentworth Bichelieu De-
lancey, of Her Majesty's Life Guards Blue.
Now, although Cal Larned had uttered
from time to time many disparaging re
marks in regard to his prosperous young
neighbor similar to his speech at the 'round
up' dinner party, he was in reality very
anxious to secure Jack Delancey for a son-in-law.
As a matter of fact it looked as if
this ambition of the lazy stockman would in
all probability be gratified. In older com
munities, Cal Larned's surliness and general
aptitude for picking quarrels might have
been laid to that very convenient scapegoat,
dyspeDsia. On the plains of Wyoming that
disease is unknown, and as cowboys usually
'call a spade a spade,' they passed upon Cal
vin Larned the very laconic but expressive
verdict of 'mean ens.' To his general mean
ness Larned added the vice of laziness, for
which reason, undoubtedly, he was toler
ably civil to Jack Delincey, and en
couraged his pretty daughter, Metta, to ac
cept the attentions paid her by the hand
some Englishman. He figured on the prob
ability that if Jack should marry Metta he
might 'pool' his business interests with
those of his son-in-law by turning over his
miserably small herd of cattle to Delancey,
and himself roam hither and thither at his
own sweet will and at Jack's expense.
How the unsavory and unsatisfactory
Calvin ever became possessed of so pretty
and good a girl as Metta Larned is one of
those conundrums the answers to which are
locked securely in Nature's sealed books.
When Jack Delancey settled in Wvominsr.
Metta was 20 years old. She had then lived
with her father on the plains for five or six
years, having left her mother a thousand
miles away in an Illinois graveyard. How
Jack Delancey came to pay marked atten
tion to this girl is no conundrum at all. She
was the only marriageable girl within a day's
ride of the Delancey ranch. Women are scarce
articles in Wyoming, and unmarried women
are especially few and far between. Metta
Larned was unmarried, she was young, and
she was pretty. Not onlv so; she was well
informed, fairly well educated, and pos
sessed of much good common sense. She
was, from a social standpoint, the superior
of all her neighbors, except Jack Delancey
and, perhaps, Spencer Knight (Knight
was peculiarly reticent in regard to his ante
cedents, though that he had received a
liberal education became constantly mora
apparent)
Yes, Metta Larned was pretty; bnt she
had not the patrician beauty of a hundred-and-one
young dames whose acquaint
ance and favor Delancey had for
sworn when he struck out for the West
Met was clever; but there were many
branches of knowledge that formed the ABC
of Jack's own sister's education of which
the girl was as ignorant as she was of Greek
verbs and Egyptian hieroglyphics. Met
dressed 'nattily,' jet her neat home-made
gowns would have presented a rather
'dowdy' appearance alongside the most or
dinary efforts of Worth or Elise. To sura
up: Met Larned conld thoroughly appre
ciate a good book in good English, she could
make an apron or hemstitch a handkerchief
with the utmost neatness, and she could
manufacture pastry which would have re
flected credit upon a Parisian chef. Bnt
then
When Jack Delancey first saw Met, on a
breezy summer afternoon, with tbe sleeves
of her simple white dress rolled up, a huge
linen apron protecting her from the dusty
flour, while with her chubby hands she
fixed up' a batch of bread for supper, the
ex-guardsman involuntarily confessed to
himself that the girl looked 'killing.' Bnt,
later on, as he pondered over a cigar, Jack
Delancey's good sense forced him to admit
that it would be extremest folly in him to
thinkof a girl like Met Larned as his future
wife. Xt was not snobbery, in that Delia.
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