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Henry Clews Gives a Dead Sure Tip to
All Those Who Like to Dabble
in Stocks and Bonds.
LAY FOE SLUMPS IN THE MARKET
Tka Bay Onlj Gilt-Edge Securities and
Hold Them Till Prices Get Back
to the normal Point.
STUFF THE SPECULATION IS HADE OF.
The Banker Has Borne Tery Pointed Opinions Brgsrd.
in; Women and Finances.
rwBrnxx i-or thx dispatch.
Speculation possesses a powerful fascina
tion for the whole human family. The de
sire to gain money, to accumulate wealth,
and to do so rapidly by some royal road is
inherent in the breast of every man. Charles
James Fox, the famous Enclish statesman,
has said that the greatest pleasure in lite is
to win money at cards, and that the next
greatest pleasure is to lose it in the sam e
way. This sentiment may be generalized
and made more applicable to mankind at
large by saying that the greatest pleasure
in life is making money, and the next
greatest pleasure is spending it. The desire
to make and to spend is the underlying
philosophy of the universal craze for specu
lation. The rapid multiplication, within
the past 30 years, of rail
way and telegraph lines and other business
enterprises carried on by stock companies
has increased the facilities for speculation
to an extent undreamed of in this country
prior to our late Civil "War, and it is to the
conseqnent great increase in the amount of
personal property in this country that the
accumulation ot so many colossal fortunes
within a comparatively :ew years past is
largely due. How to follow in the ootsteps
of the men who have become millionaires
through stock speculation, how to speculate
successfully, how to buy and sell stocks al
ways at a profit are qnestions whose an
swers are now being eagerly sought by a
multitude of men whose number is far
greater than that of all those who have toil
somely labored to find the fabulous philos
opher's stone in the ages that are past.
WE ABE NOT AIL SPECULATORS.
Just as every man born into this world
firmly believes that he can drive a horse
and poke a fire a little better than any
other man, so he also believes that he can
speculate successfully, and even years of
continual failure are inadequate to con
vince him of his error. There can be no
greater mistake than to suppose that any
man can be a successful speculator. "All
blacksmiths," says Bev. Itobert Coliyer,
formerly a worker in that useful trade,
"cannot become preachers, and it would be
bad tor the world if they did." There is a
good deal of philosophy in tha remark of
this popular clergyman, and it is quite to
the point on the subject of which I am
writing.
A thoroughly equipped speculator mnst
possess extraordinary parts and attain
ments. He mnst be an unceasing and in
telligent observer of events at large, and a
sagacious interpreter of symptoms on the
stock exchange. His judgment mnst be
sound, not only as to existing conditions
but as to coming tendencies, and he must
possess the calmness and nerve to i ace un
flinchingly whatever emergencies may arise.
Comparatively lew possess these qualities in
even a moderate degree.
It will thus be seen readily how little
chance of success most men must have as
speculators.
LOTELT WOSIAiT CAS'T SUCCEED.
But the speculative craze is by no means
wholly confined to men. 2ot a few women
in different ages and couutries have fallen
victims to it. From her peculiar natural
organization, lovely woman stands even less
chance of winning success in the specula
tive field than do those of the sterner sex.
Women lack the mental qualities required
to take in the varied points and features ot
the situation upon which successful specu
lation must ever depend. Nature has decreed
that women must he dependent upon men.
In speculation as in other things, they are
parasites, and become utterly helpless when
thrown upon their own resources. The male
sex are ruled by tbem to a great extent it is
true, bnt women effect this through craft
and subtlety, and il left to paddle their own
canoe they are like a ship without a rudder,
compass and archor, when beset by a heavy
gale.
Many people, and especially woman
suffragists and strong-minded females of
every class, will, I am aware, stroncly dis
pute this statement, and will cite against it
such women as Joan o" Arc, Queen Eliza
beth, Catherine of Russia, Mrs. Elizibeth
Cady Stanton, George Elliott, George Sand,
Ouidaanda host of other lemale adven
turers, politicians, revolutionists, reformers
and novelists. I should answer that al!
such women are but the exceptions which
prove the rule and sustain mv theory.
A MAST IX IT SOMEWHERE.
Moreover, none of the fair ones above
named, with the exception of Ouida, George
Band possibly and'Elizabetu Cady Stan
ton to some extent, ever tried their luck at
speculation. In their particular vocation
each ot these women have excelled, but
when all their secret history is known it
will be found that some man was the source
of their inspiration. To alter the present
condition ol affairs and give woman the
first place instead of the secondary one she
sow occupies in all her relations with men
would necessitate a complete revolution in
the physical, mental and moral nature of
both sexes something that no convention
of strong-minded women will ever be able
to accomplish.
To speculate successfully there are certain
things that a man must do and certain
others that he must carefully avoid. First
of all the speculator must be as calm and
impartial as a judge, both as regards the
risks he incurs and the integrity 01 his own
judgment. When a man stakes his money
agaiust prospective changes in financial
values he can more illy afford to indulge in
whims or prejudices or pet theories than in
any other pursuit in which he can possibly
engage. The speculator must not be too
ignorant nor too wise, too timid nor too bold,
too pessimistic nor too sangnine, too slow
nor too hasty, too diffident nor too conceited,
too confiding nor too incredulous. These are
constitutional de'ects, anyone of which may
cos a speculator a fortune.
JUDGMENT AND CREDULITT.
I should therefore lay it down as the first
rule requisite to success that the operator's
judement be not warped by any natural
idiosyncracies; this being securea, a specu-
lator may succeed in spite of his constitu
BOUND
C
tional detects. The operator must be
particularly cautious about accepting in-
" formation technically called points from
unreliable sources. He must beware of
those individuals about as numerous in
and around Wall street as shells upon the
seashore who", according to their own
story, are deep in the secret councils and
innermost thoughts of all the creat money
Jiings identified with speculative enterprise-,
trad who are constantly boiling over with
- the most valuable tips just received from
lbeir intimate friends, Jay Gould or the
Afenderbilts or some other noted wizards of
.finance to buy orBelltnisor that particular
4tock. If you hope to ever make a dollar in
- '"Wall street speculation turn an absolutely
deaf ear to the silly chatter of all such
irresponsioie numan magpies, and shun
them and their advice as you would shun
the smallpox. A very large number ot the
financial wrecks with which the street is so
liberally strewn have been crazed by the
delusive -points furnished by these harpies.
The absurdity and folly of taking advice
from such people may be best illustrated by
a simile. Suppose you had an important
case at law. Would you proceed with it in
accordance with the advice of some bar
room bummer who professed to be on terms
of intimacy with William M. Evarts or
Colonel Eobert G. Ingersoll and to have re
ceived from those eminent legal lights all
the law points bearing on the case? A man
who would do so would justly be regarded
as a madman or a fool, yet many men have
risked a fortune upon the equally irrespon
sible and foolish counsel of some worthless
hanger-on of the street.
ONLY ONE -WAV TO OET TIPS.
If you want to know anything about any
particular speculative enterprise make in
quiry of some established and responsible
broker bearing the general reputation of
being a thoroughly po'sted as well as a thor
oughly upright and honorable man. If
men try to speculate in Wall street and lose
all they possess tbrongh taking the advice
of rumor-mongers and canard-makers, no
more blame can be attached to reputable
brokers than there could be to the eminent
lawyers 1 have named above for the failure
of a suit at law carried on in accordance
with the directions of some barroom shyster.
I have said that the would-be successful
speculator mnst not be too sangnine nor too
pessimistic Many men fail because they
take too bright a view of everything. When
the whole financial sky is heavily overcast
with darkly lowering clouds, which portend
the speedy bursting of a storm, from whose
threatening fury all prudent operators
hasten to take shelter, these too sanguine
men think and loudly declare that every
thing is booming, and that the threatening
clouds are but capfuls of wind which will
soon pass harmlessly away. They act ac
cordingly, and the result is that they are
soon numbered among the disappointed,
mined men who so thickly strew the sands
of time.
THE I-ESSIMIST JUST AS BAD.
Then, on the other hand, who of us has
not often seen and pitied the lugubrious in
dividual with sallow complexion ai.d list
less, lacirinir rait, so suggestive of blue pill.
who, when everything is booming at the
very height ot "prosperity, persists in de
claring that the conntry is going to the
dogs, and sells stocks when everybody else
is buying them.
Many a man fails through operating too
persistently on the same side of the market
He is a bull or he is a bear in season or out
of season. Such a course is pretty sure to
result unfortunately sooner or later. The
successful speculator must be like the wise
and thoroughly skilled navigator. He
nint be ever watching the winds and tides,
and he mnst trim his sails and steer his bark
accordingly. He must be a bull or bear as
circumstances indicate, never changing to
any pet fancy nor adhering to any cause
when the handwriting on the wall directs
the abandonment of it, Lhave said that the
successful speculator must not be too wise
nor too ignorant. If too wise he may be
like the learned physician or surgeon, whose
knowledge of the human body is so com
plete that he fears to run or jump or wrestle
or indulge in any trials of athletic skill lest
by so doing he should displace some of the
delicate arrangements of hfs internal econ
omy. Too much wisdom may make a finan
cial operator too cautious or too confident,
either ol which conditions may ruin him.
The too ignorant speculator like an ignor
ant man in any other vocation is entirely
too much in the power and at the mercy of
others.
A DEAD SURE THING.
But despite the jungle of difficulties and
dangers through which the unwary must
pass to reach the fair haven of success
through speculation, there is one safe and
sure road, bur Creator has mercifully pro
vided a way by which explorers and travel
ers in foreign, hitherto-unknown countries
can tell whether or not they may safely eat
of any Irnit or other vegetable growth that
presents itself to their notice. If they see
it eaten by birds or animals they know that
it is not poisonons, and can be eaten by
themselves with impunity.
Just so there is a way by which the inex
perienced explorer in the field of specula
tion may tell with certainty how always to
speculate to win. There is in New York a
class of rich old fellows who by Ion? experi
ence have acquired the art of successful
speculation. During a great part of the
year they are inactive; but two or three
times in nearly every twelvemonth there are
brief periods of marked decline in the values
of stocks.
THE rEIXOTVS TO -WATCH FOR.
Then these old fellows are seen limping
down to their brokers' offices. They buy-gilt-edged
stocks lor cash, and then wait till
the market has recovered, and their newly
acquired securities have advanced to where
they were before the decline. Then these
sly old dogs quickly sell out, invest their
profits in choice real estate that is increas
ing in value, and retire to their splendid
homes to await another heavy decline.
ir young men desiring to speculate would
follow the example of these cunning, foxy
old operators, and only buy gilt-edged
stocks when depressed through sympathy
with a general panicky feeling, and wonld
keep out of the bucket shops as well as the
sample rooms, and only visit Delmonico's
for light lunch during ousiness hours, they
will be certain to realize at least a moderate
profit on their ventures, and to make more
money than if they operated all the year
round. Henry Clews.
THE CTGHTETG BULBTJL.
How the Bird Is Pelted In Indln Only to Die
Id tun Priza Ring.
Harper's Mapiztne.3
Throughout India people will make pets
of any animals which can be induced to con
tribute to their entertainment. We no
ticed in Delhi that the average small boy,
as well as children of a larger growth, ex
hibited a particular fondness for a certain
little bird of ashen plumage and black
crest. This was the famous bulhnl
of which Hafiz has much to say.
and some Western poets also who have
sentimentalized about the Vale or Cash
mere without even having seen it He is
usually tethered by a string attached to his
leg, and sits upon iris owner's finger, or hops
about on his arm; sometimes, too, he adorns
a tall perch in front of the doorway. A
lady at the hotel remarked that 'it was
touching to see how fond these poor people
were of their little birds."
The mystery was soon solved. Returning
from a drive one afternoon, we passed the
colossal gateway of the great mosqne, and
saw that the broad and towering flight of
steps before the principal entrance was
covered with scattered groups of people, all
intent on some occupation of absorbing in
terest So vast and imposing was" the
architectural background that the crowd
of little figures suggested one of
Martin's weird pictures of the Judgment
Day. Some great religious ceremony was
evidently going on. So we got out, deeply
impressed, to obtain a nearer view, when,
behold, in the centerof each little group
was a pair of these birds in mortal combat
and they fongbt as plnckily as the bravest
oi game lowl, and breathless was the inter
est shown by every spectator, whether street
urchin or shawled and turbaned merchant
A MOSQUITO EXTEEHmATOB.
Arrangement! by Which ilie Insect Is to be
Electrocuted.
An electric insect trap has been patented
by an American resident of Paris. It con
sists of a cage, the bars of which are ar
ranged alternately to form the positive and
negative wires of an electrical circuit In
side the cage is placed an incandescent
lamp which attracts the mosquitoes, and
they fly against the me.al network only to
be killed by the electrical current Thus,
they are not only killed, but are also lured
to another part of the room, away from
where the occupant is sleeping.
Not dti Better Hair.
Customer (handing back a mutilated
coin) I want a better half.
Balesgirl (abstractedly) Oh, sir, I thank
tod, but I'm engaged to George Bobbins.
THE
KEST FOR THE WEARY,
Food for the Hungry, Joy for the
Sad, All in a Little Leaf.
THE WONDERFUL COCA PLAUT.
Hoir it Is Cultivated in South America and
Used by Natives.
ITS HABITUAL USE DOESN'T INJDBE
rCOBEXSrOKDINCE OI TBI OISFATCS.1
IiA Paz, Bolivia, June 30. One of the
most important industries of Bolivia, as well
as of Peru and Ecuador, is the cultivation of
the plant known to science as erytbroxylon
coca. For many years past Bolivia's crop
of dried coca leaves has averaged a trifle
over 7,600,000 pounds. Of this vast amount,
fully S5 per cent is consumed at home by
the native Indians. About 30 per cent of
the remainder is divided equally between
Chili and the Argentine Bepnblic Peru
gets 10 per cent of it; Europe 5 per cent;
and the United States none at all.
Since alkaloid cocaine has lately come into
general use for producing localansssthesia the
demand for the coca leaves lrom which it is
made has greatly increased, though withont
sensibly affecting the markets of South
America. Soon as the application of co
caine to surgical uses became common, the
British Government sent out a commission
to collect the plants and transfer them to
India, and already the plantations of those
far-off colonies are yielding so profusely
that they furnish plenty of leaves for the
German manufacturer who supplies the
world with most of the cocaine that is used.
KATURE OF THE COCA PLANT.
It must be remembered that the cocoa
palm, the seeds of which furnish the choco
late of commerce, and the coca plant from
which cocaine is made, are not related to
one another in any way, but belong to
different branches of the vegetable family.
Erythroxylon coca is pot a tree, but a
small shrub, growing from two to five feet
high. It flourishes best at an altitude be
tween 3,000 and 6,000 feet above the sea,
in sheltered places where the climate
is warm and moist without excessive
heat In this country it attains its
greatest perfection in the Province
of Yungas, where the mount
ain ridges, crossing in every direction, leave
deep hollows and narrow valleys between,
giving all varieties of climate with the pro
ductions peculiar to each. That section
not only produces the best coca in the
world, but vanilla and chocolate beans,
sarsaparilla, coffee, quinine, oranges, figs,
bananas, grapes, apples, pears, peaches,
plums, strawberries, quinces, cherries, chir
emayas, mangoes, apricots, sugar cane,
corn, wheat and barley are gathered from
the cooler heights, the sunny hillsides and
the lower villages.
A good deal of coca is also grown in Pe
ru in the neighborhood of Cuzio; but it is
of inferior quality, as the hot, dry atmos
phere thickens the leaves and destroys their
delicate flavor.
HOW IT IS CULTIVATED.
The lower mountain sides of the Tungas
and other valleys are laid ont ig terraces,
each terrace about a yard wide and well
supported by a wall of stones, in which the
little coca bushes, closely resembling tea
plants, are set at regular distances. The
seeds are first sown in beds, and when the
plants are a few inches high, they are trans
ferred to the terraces, jm o fertilizers are
used, but great care is taken that no grasses
or other growths are allowed to spring up
with the coca.
Each bush yields three generous crops of
leaves in a year, and sometimes four, where
the conditions of soil and climate are pecu
liarly favorable. Each crop is called a
mita. The first known as the "Marzo
mita" (March crop), is generally picked in
January; the second, or "St John's mita,"
is gathered in May; and the third, or "All
Saints' mita," in October. The harvest
time, however, is by no means uniform, de
pending greatly on the weather, the rain
and other accidents.
The crop is gathered by Indian women,
who pick it, leaf by leaf, squatted upon the
ground in front of a bush. It is slow work,
because the tiny leaves must not be brokeu
or the central fibre torn; and it is believed
that if the apex of the plant is touched, or
if any animal brushes against it, all the
leaves will instantly wither.
DRYING AND PACKING.
Following the women come men with
large sacks, who collect the gathered leaves
and carry them to the cachi, or coca-yard,
to be dried. The cachi is enclosed by a
wall, and paved with flat stones that are
kept perfectly clean. The morning snn
striking down on these stones, heats them
so that when the leaves are spread smoothly
over the surface they become perfectly dry
in a few hours. Then they are re-collected,
more carefully than, ever, having now be
come somewhat brittle; and carried to the
press, the latter being a primitive machine,
with a crossbeam made of the hard wood of
the country. When completely dry the
leaves still retain their bright green color,
even after having been packed for months.
The press has a box which holds precisely
25 pounds. A lining of dried banana leaves,
soft as silk yet strong as leather, is put into
the box before the coca is poured in. When
tnrned out of the press the package is called
a certa; and two certas, 0 pounds, when
lashed together form a tauibo, or "drum."
The latter is wrapped in coarse sacking and
more banana leaves, and makes a bundle
which" measures about three cubic feet. In
this shape it is toted over the mountains to
La P.iz, on mule or llama back, to be de
posited in the Adriano de coca, or coca
custom house.
GOVERNMENT GETS THE LION'S SHARE.
The average price of coca to the producer
is 22 cent (gold) per pound; but out of
this he has to pay a tax of 24 ceutavos
(about 13 cents gold) on every pound.
Think of cultivating, picking, drying and
packing the tiny leaves for that small profit,
to say nothing of carrying them several
days' journey over the mountainsl
The Government derives no small share of
its revenue from the coca business. The
right to collect the tax is "farmed out." or
sold to the highest bidder, sealed proposals'
being received for the privilege.. The man
ner of tax collecting in Yungss is a fair
sample of the mode throughout the
country. Tanacachi, a village near
the western terminus of the val
ley, lies in a narrow canyon between impas
sable mountains, through which there is but
one road. All the streets ot the town ex
cept that one leading into the canyon road
are securely walled up just outside the sub
urbs; so that all cargo must pass by way of
the Custom House, which stands at the
head of the canyon. Whenever an Indian
passes with a pact: on his back or a load on
bis mnle, if he does pot stopand show what
he carries, or pay the tax if it be cocoa, he
quickly finds himself in trouble. Out
rushes a customs official, armed with a long
iron poker which has a screw-like appara
ratus at oneend and a heavy rawhide whip
attached to the other. The screw point he
thrusts deep into the middle of the cargo to
determine if any cocoa may be hidden with
in it; and should the Indian resist he does
not hesitate to use the whip on bis back ad
libitum.
THE EFFECT OF THE DRUG.
The principal consumers of coca in Peru
and Bolivia are the Quichua and Aymara
Indians. In the tombs of the aucient Peru
vians there may always be found buried
with the mummy a small quantity of ' coca
leaves, together with an earthen vase or jar
that once held lime or potash. To this day
potash is eaten with the coca. The whites
and cholos (hall-breeds) seldom use coca at
all, except sometimes as an infusion in cases
of debility. The infusion is made in the
same manner a tea, except that the first
water is thrown away, being too strong and
bitter. The second steeping is not disagree
able to the taste and is extremely exhilarat
ing. A species of wine ii also being made
for sitdieLial purposes comparatively a
PITTSBURG DISPATCH,
new invention, whose beneficial effects re
main to be proved.
. The increase of one's powers of endurance
by the use of coca leaves, especially in the
higher altitudes, is something marvelous.
Aside from relieving sirroche, the distress
ing difficulty of breathing incident to exer
cise in the thin-air of the Andes, it is said
to completely abolish all sense of hunger or
fatigue. It is an undoubted fact that an
Indian, when well supplied with coca, will
travel from 60 to 75 miles a day, carrying on
his back the load of a llama, almost without
food for days together. Indeed he considers
food as of secondary importance, or rather
as third on his list of necessities, diluted al
cohol coming next to coca.
HOW THE LABORERS USE IT.
The laborers of this country are univers
ally Indians, and all employers must fur
nish a certain amount of coca to each man,
or he will not work at all. In the mines,the
least allowance per diem is five ounces for
every man, and eight ounces is sometimes
given. Thus supplied, an Indian win work
willingly and well from 4 o'clock in the
morning until 7 P. M.. taking nothing to
eat in the meantime. He generally has food
of some sort before beginning his labors, and
after 7 in the evening he eats whatever he
can get
His first cud is accumulated in about two
hours, from 4 to 6 o'clock, taking it leaf by
leaf, stripping the central stem between his
teeth, and from time to time adding a few
grains of potath. This alkali causes a burn
ing sensation on the lips, but is soon incor
porated with the cud, serving to neutralize
the acidity of the leaves and at the same
time aiding digestion by provoking an
increased flow of saliva. At 10
o'clock A. M. the employer gives
him hair an hour of rest He then
throws away the morning's chew, rinses his
mouth with alcohol, and industriously be
gins the accumulation of a second cud.
Again, atl"30 o'clock, another rest is given,
which he employs in making a third chew.
At 3:30 the same performance is repeated.
Strange to say, the most inordinate use of
coca is not followed by delirum tremens,
nervousness or any other effect that may be
noticeable on an Indian, even after he has
lived on it for two or three days, taking lit
tle or no food and enduring excessive
fatigue. Whenever opportunity offers he
win eat the bact numbers ot omitted meals
in one gigantic heap, thns showing that no
serious disturbance of the stomach has
arisen from his coea intoxication.
THEY BEACH A RIPE OLD AGE.
Neither does its habitual use seem to af
fect longevity, unless it may be to prolong
it One never meets a toothless or bald
headed Indian, though one hundred, years
is here considered their average span ot life.
There is a cheerful Methuselah in Cbuqui
bambilla, who claims ts have just turned
his one hundred and forty-second year, and
the parish priest supports his statement by
the church record of births. This aged
Indian does not look any older than his
great-grandchildren, and declares that for
more than ninety years he has not tasted
water or any liquid whatsoever but chicba,
the native intoxicant made from fermented
corn; that he has eaten coca three tines a
day ever since Ke was ten years old, and
has seldom had animal food except on Sun
days, sometimes having no meat at all for
months together, but subsisting entirely on
corn, barley and quinita. Instances are not
rare of Indians who attain 130 or even more
years of age, yet retain full possession of
their bodily and mental powers.
No doubt the aperient qualities of coca
tend to prevent disease, and are most useful
in counteracting the obstructions caused by
a diet of larinaceous food alone. One can
not find an Indian anywhere in Bolivia or
Peru who has not bis huallqui, or pouch, of
coca. The leaves are retailed in every little
tienda in quantities to snit the purse of the
purchaser, and on "beggars' day" (Satur
day), a handful of coca is more gratefully
received by the poorest mendicant than if
every leaf were silver coin.
Fannie B. Ward.
HUNI'lAG THE "WOODCOCK.
An Inkling ot the Import That Can be Had In
New Jersey
Philadelphia Press. 3
I have tried various sections for wood
cock shooting, and am satisfied that there's
no gronnd east of the Ohio or north of Vir
ginia can be raoie confidently relied On for
good sport than Middle Jersey, embracing
the counties of Hunterdon, Somerset and
Essex. In company with two friends
I was on woodcock ground bright
and early iu the morning. I had
with me a slow but very steady
pointer. Another member of the party had
a fine-looking cocker spaniel, of which he
was very proud, and the third was accom
panied by a rough terrier, a veritable board
yard in appearance. What on earth is the
man going to do with such a brute as that in
the field? we asked. "Now, gentlemen,
take time and see my dog perform, and then
vou can criticise bim with iudement"
We were now on the edge of a swamp
about five acres in area. I knew it well and
had never failed to get birds there. We
separated, I keeping along the edge to give
my dog a chance. My English friend's
cocker jumped into the tbicket, making
n great noise. Clearly a case of lim
ited performance, I thought, and so
it proved, for the dog was in a great
measure useless, and half his master's
time was taken up iu thrashing the
brute. The Marylander, with his board
yard, got the first bird. As thev had not
been hunted, they lay close and I shot my
first at a clean point and not ten yards from
the muzzle of my gun. In the meantime it
was evident that the terrier knew his busi
ness. I got a sight of him now and then
stealing quietly through the dense brush,
flushing his bird with one quick, sharp
bark, and he did hfs retrieving beautifully,
carrying the cock by the wing tip, and then
going back to work. In fact, I never saw a
finer performance of the kind. The swamp
was fairly alive with birds, and we bagged
all we could carry.
riBST AKEBICAH WHIPPraGS.
New-Amsterdam School Boysand Quakeress
Diary Clark Were the Victims.
Sen York Times.
The first whipping iu school on this side
of the Atlantic was done by the old school
masters of New-Amsterdam. Dutch young
sters used to cut frequent hookies, and it
was customary for the parents to turn their
children over to the "schul-meister" for
discipline. Flogcing In colonial days was
not common in the schools, though with
other English customs came that of
using the "birch." The first person pub
licly whipped in America was a Quakeress
named Mary Clark, who was given 20
stripes for preaching in Boston iu 1667.
The next to suffer in this manner were
Christopher Holder and John Copeland,
both flogged on account of their religious
belief by thePuritans in Boston, and with
in the next year 12 persons were publicly
whipped because they were Quakers.
After the whipping of Copeland many
left Massachusetts and settled on Long Isl
and and in the Dutch colonies, but they
were treated there in the same way. One
llobert Hodshone was accused of holding a
meeting 'at Hempstead. He was brought
over to New-Amsterdam, dragged throngh
town at the tail of a cart, and then taken
before the Town Council. He was whipped
inside the fort and fined 600 guilders, and
because he could not pay the fine he was un
mercifully flogged a second time.
FIAK0S D5T THE SCHOOLS.
The London School Board Likes Them and
Talks of Swimming Baths.
London Illustrated News.
The question of supplying pianofortes in
schools -was again under discussion at the
weekly meeting of the London School
Board, on a motion by Mr. Helby to rescind
n previous resolution in favor of such provis
ion. By 22 votes to 18 it was determined
to adhere to the former decision, the number
of pianos being limited to 160. The Sohool
Management Committee were directed to
bring up a scheme with reference to the la
ititntion of swimming in the tohools,
SUNDAY, JULY ' 27,
SC0KES THE AGENTS.
A Sonbrette Throws a Little Lisht on
Tricks of the Trade.
MANAGERS DECEIVE AND TRIPLE.
No Hatter Dow Capable the Artist She
Host Hustle for a Place.
BT0RT OP A PENNSYLVANIA GIRL
ICORKXRFOXPXircx OP THE DISPATCH. I
New Tore, July 26. She was a Penn
sylvania girl. She was petite, rosy-cheeked,
short-haired, blue-eyed and lithe of limb.
Her retrousse nose, set at a convenient angle,
sniffed at the rest of the world, while her
solid chin meant business. Her costume of
black and white was prononce and displayed
her trim figure to advantage. She had a
swinging gait, a sort of a boyish swagger.
As far as you conld see her on crowded
upper Broadway you would instinctively
put her down for an actress. The swagger
is the result of long playing boys' parts.
"I played boys' parts when I was 4 years
of age," said she, snapping her fan out with
a quick, nervous gesture. She was all snap,
touch-and-go. "When I look back to that
time," she continued, "and think of the
ups and downs of travel, of stock and com
bination, of one night stands, of jumps
across the continent or over the sea, of
nights of singing and dancing, of counter
feit and real grief why, I think I might be
grey and wrinkled."
The shapely head was for a moment laid
half seriously against a slender hand, which
enabled me to note that her short hair was
dark and soft and glossy and kicked up its
heels on a fair neck yet untouched by time.
AN AMBITION that netee dies.
"I was born to the stage, as was my father
before me. We always hate what we are
condemned to do, don't" we? Yet, I could
not live any other life and be happy or satis
fied. Even now, after a short vacation, I
long for the roadwith its life of constant
change and activity. I could pack in two
hours for Australia or San Francisco, or
anywhere else, and the short notice wonld
be an inspiration! My father went on the
stage when he was 9 years of age. His
name was J. A. Coleman. He died six
years ago, aged 46, after an eventfnl life on
the boards. He was a low comedian and
character acter and theatrical manager.
"There were three of us girls; Alice,
Louie and myself Clara. We were widely
known in our early days, ten years ago, as
the Coleman sifters. We were born all
around the conntry, I in Philapelphla, my
sister Alice in Lancaster, Pa., and Louie in
Baltimore. So, you see, we were not only
born to the profession but born on the road.
Our home, ii people connected with the
modernized dramatic profession can be
truthfully said to have a home, is at Car
lisle, Va. My earliest recollection of the
stage is associated with an Iowa town where
my father was playing. I did some fairy
business, being put forward at four years of
age. Imagine what a little tot I was 1 My
sisters were in the same piece. It was an
amateur performance, but we attracted so
much attention that father was advised by
his friends to bring us out.
ALWAYS LIKED DOTS' PABTS.
"My stage life dates from that period. I
played boys' parts even then. I remember
I wore little trousers and was called a
chubby little boy. I couldn't read or write,
of course. They had to teach me my part3
just as you'd teach a child his A B C's.
Dear mel How sleepy I used to get those
nights! As soon as I went off I would sit
down in the wings and fall fast asleep.
They'd get so seared for fear I would lose
my cue. If thev woke me up I'd be Bure to
do it When they let me sleep I would be
all right I would jump up and rub my
eyes and go on with my lines just as if I
had been running them oyer, in my childish
slumber.
We had a manager who used to come
over every night to see me sitting there
asleep, just as a child would at home. It
was home to me. I was very proud of my
performanre. They used "to say to me:
"Well, little one. what can vou doV"
Whereupon I'd flare up and answer that I
could do my business as well as any of
them. It used to make me angry, and they
often did it to plagne me, I suppose. We
made a hit, playing thus together, and were
great favorites, drawing the best people
family people, you know. There were very
few children on the staie theu, none but us
starring. "Well, we just kept at it from
that day to this."
The fan now played about the soubrette's
face with a lively motion.
NOT A BED OP EOSES. -
"During the earlier time onr schooling
was such as we could snatch on the road
from our governess, and more connectedly
in the summer vacations. If any stage
struck young girl could look ahead and see
what we had to go through it wouldn't re
auire the intervention ot her friends to pre
vent her going on the stage. For several
seasons we traveled under Harry Miner's
management. My father went with us. I
was then 10 years of age. Under Miner we
had great success. My business then was
little soubrette parts. I introduced my
singing and dancing little Irish jigs and
reels danced in wooden shoes and played
on the banjo. I used to do the juggling act
on the banjo you've seen that twisting
the instrument in the air while playing.
They called me 'the baby with a banjo.' I
had a little banjo just big enough to handle.
Sometimes it was charged that my banjo
was a dummy, and that the playing was
done behind the scenes, and they used to
watch me sharply.
From Miner'swe wentback under father's
management in California, and then con
tracted to visit Australia. But just at that
time sister Louie died, when the contracts
were annulled, and we retired to our home
in Carlisle, Pa., for a couple of years.
When Alice and I returned to the p'rofes
sion we went with the Berger family, and
they took us all over the country, and from
Hew Orleans we sailed with them for Cnba.
Oar Cuban experiences were the most in
teresting of my stage life, though in some
respects most disagreeable.
"After our return from Cuba we made a
similar tour of Texas under father's manage
ment his last. It was also the last trip
Alice and I made together. Since then we
have been in separate companies playing
soubrette Darts. I went last season with
'Ivy Leaf.' In the latter I played an Irish
part. You ought to hear my rich brogue 1"
Here she laughed as she gave me a speci
men of County Mayo.
OBJECTS TO THE MANAGES'S STOET. "
"Now, I've been reading a recent inter
view of yours," said she, snapping the ex
pressive fan and eyes at once, "in The
Pittsbubg Dispatch. That thing on
soubrettes, you know. Why don't you print
the soubrette's side of the case?"
"And what is the soubrette's story?" I in
quired. The dramatic managers and dramatic
agents are the most vexatious set to deal
with of any other people on earth. This
manager says the best soubrettes do not
have to hunt engagements that managers
are after them. Most of those he mentioned
as particularly clever are members of his
own companies for the coming season.
Every one of them probably sought engage
ments ot half a dozen managers before he
got them, and there are plenty of others in
New York uueugaged at present who could
doubtless play the parts equally well. A
good many of those have played better ones.
The questions of salary, of particular roles,
of the strength of a piece, or its financial
backing, all enter into the matter of an en
gagement No actress litres to go out in a
new piece, and, everything else being equal,
she will not do it. No one wants to
risk her reputation by going with an un
tried play. No one likes a part in whioh
she is conscious she canuot appear to the
best advantage to herself, regardless of the
demands of the play. No one llkei to go
out with company that may get stranded
1890.
before it is out six weeks. Aud no one likes
to go ont with any company with bad peo
ple. Many married women do not wish to
go with any company unless their husbands
are also engaged, and vice versa. All of
these things are considerations. This is why
professionals begin at once and work dili
gently to secure a suitable engagement"
they'be pdll of deception.
"And now for this system of engaging
and engagements. It is probably the worst
that-could be divised. I go into an-agency
and have my name, references, salary ex
pected, etc., entered. If he gets me the en
gagement desired I pay him so much
money. This agent will get just as many
on his string as ne possibly can. While I
am waiting I go to such managers as I
know and apply directly.
" 'Good morning' says he. 'I want just
that sort of a soubrette." I'll take your ad
dress and let you know in a few days.'
" 'Sure?' says I. But he don't He don't
expect to ee me again and I know it
" 'Come in and see me, let's see Friday
at 12 sharp,' says another.
"Well, I call at 12 sharp on that day.
" 'Come in to-morrow at 10,' savs he.
'Do you thins: it worth while?' I in
quire. " 'Well. I you Bee, I'm negotiating with
a certain lady and if
"Now, why don't they tell people the
truth? It would be just as easy and would
settle matters to say, 'I have filled the
place,' or 'I have the proper party in view,'
or 'you will not do.' But a manager wiil
give out that he wants a soubrette. That
gets out, as be intends it shall get out, and
he gets 20 to CO applications. He is like a
woman who goes shopping with an unde
cided mind aud little money paws over the
goods. '
AND TOMPOOLEBY BESIDES.
If a professional puts any faith in what they
tell her or in their acts she would sit down
and do nothing that season, for she would
decline good offers in the hope of securing
some particular better one. And of all the
tomfoolery why, yesterday I received a
postal fron an agent asking me to call at a
certain hour. I did so.
" 'We wanted to say that the 'His Boyal
Nibs' is being fitted for the road. How
would you like it?'
" 'I am charmed. You know my salary
and'
" 'Yes; but they are thinking of writing
in a soubrette part If '
" 'Why, good gracious, man! haven't
they written the part? And you bring me
down here through the hot sun to tell me
that? Mad? Well, I should say.' But he
sent me over to the manager of 'His Boval
Nibs.'
" 'We haven't decided yet whether to
write in a soubrette part or not,' says he.
" 'Then why don't you?' says I.
"'The author of the piece must be consult
ed. He is the man who'
" 'Good morning,' says I. 'Better write
your play be ore sending for your sou
brette, and off I waltzed, hot, mad and yet
very much amused."
The lively little lady laughed merrily as
she recounted her experience with various
agents and managers. She could afford to
laugh, as she has several flattering offers
for the coming season, "only," says she,
"not one of tbem is just exactly what I
want a boy's part"
Charles T. Mubbay.
A MONZEY-EIDDEN CITY.
The Frisky Animals fllnke Life a Burden,
bat They Can't be Killed.
Harper's Magazine.?
The head center of all monkeydom is the
holy city of Muttra, or Mathura, a sort of
supplementary Benares, on the river Jum
na. Here we find another species, the same,
I think, from which the organ grinder gen
erally selects his partner. The principal
care in life of the citizens is to protect them
selves and their property from the depreda
tions of this privileged class, for, as they
are sacred and what animal is net in Hin
dooland? they cannot he killed or molested
in any manner.
Every window in the town is barred with
lattices, as not even the highest is out of
their reach, for they could give points to
the best gymnast that ever swung on a tra-
Eeze. Along the underside of the highest
alconies they follow one another in single
file, leaping past intervening brackets, or
with one bound they clear the street, and
swinging from the pendant branches of a
banyan tree, in they go at some small open
ing left for a moment unguarded, Inred by
the sight of a bowl of milk on the sill: and
when they are chased out again at the point
of the broomstick, they go and console
themselves among the stalls of the fruit sell
ers in the bazaar.
IN AN 0EIEHTAL CITY.
People Mnke Their Toilets la Pabllo and
Covrs Occupy Booses.
Harper's Magazine.
Here is a scene in oriental Ahmedabad:
As the sun is just up, the people are open
ing their doors and windows, and standing
up their beds against the walls; some are
performing their toilet operations in full
view of the street, and gossiping with their
neighbors as they squat in their doorways.
A whole row of them are brushing their
teeth with wood sticks in unison over the
gutter. Brown babies of all sizes are play
ing in the doorways among the chickens and
kids.
Here is a bouse carved like a jewel-box,
the heavy door is sumptnonsly wrought
with cross-beams ornamented with prnject
ing'metallic bosses. While we are lost in
admiration it suddenly opens, and a couple
of cows rush madly out and clatter down the
steps of the portico; cows in this conntry do
not objeet to going np and down stairs. We
are not to suppose, however, that this is a
barn; it only happens that the cows, in com
ing lrom their quarters behind, are obliged
to traverse the lower floor of the family man
sion. '
BIO NUGGETS OF GOLD.
One Six Inches In Diameter Recently Fonnd
Oat West. ,
According to the Spokane Falls Review a
mysterious prospector returned "very quietly
a day or two ago from the Ccour d'Alene
Beservation with an odd shaped bag of
bacon, which, however, broke while being
moved around and disclosed a nugget of
gold, extremely heavy and nearly six inches
in diameter. It was calculated to be worth
about 5750. Compared with some of the
nuggets fonnd iu California in the early
days, however, these nuggets are but a pet
bles to a bowlder.
According to a writer in the Virginia
(Nev.) Chronicle, the largest piece of gold
ever found in this State was taken out of
Carson Hill, Calaveras county, in Novem
ber, 1854. It weighed 193 pounds troy, or
2,340 ounces. Several other nuggets, weigh
ing from six to seven pounds that Is from
72 to 84 ounces were found in the same
locality.-
GLOVES WHILE YOU WATT.
' s
In London Yon Can Get a Pair of Kids to
Order In 75 Minnies,
llrygoods Economist
Jugla, of London, will deliver a pair of
kid gloves an hour and a quarter after they
are ordered, provided he has a skin of tbe
correct shade in the house. The nearest ap
proach to this is done here by a firm who
make gloves to order, and will always give
tbem in two days, unless they -have to dye
tbe skin to match some particular color.
They can deliver a pair for the evening if
ordered early in the morning, though they
do not like such hurried orders. They
charge 60 cents more for an ordered than for
a ready-made pair.
Learning- a Dangerous Thins;.
Weary Wiggins I hear Mueiey has
learned to write.
Lazy Leary Yet, signed bank cheek
to-day.
Weary Wiggins Ii that so? How much
did he get?
Lazy Leary A little over three yean, Z
think.
WILL-O'-THE-WISPS
That Men Have Chased Throughout
the Ages and Neyer Caught.
IS HAPPINESS TO BE FOUND?
How Ancients and Moderns Wonld Entrap
. tbe Fleeing Phantom.
THE0RI BI PHILOSOPHER AND POOIi
rwarrrax tob tui dispatch".
Voltaire says somewhere: "Happiness is
but a dream, and only pain is real. I have
thought so for 84 years, and I know of no
better plan than to resign myself to the in
evitable and reflect that flies were born to
be destroyed by spiders and man to be con
sumed by care."
It would, therefore, follow that to avoid
all pain, whether mental or physical, is. ac
cording to his philosophy, the best method
of pursuing happiness, and of securing such
portion of it as the world with all its phan
tom joys and vain delusions can give. An
other profound philosopher puts it that if
pain could be eliminated from man's life,
and he were delivered from bores, he would
be as nearly upon the pinnacle of bliss as
it is ever possible to get in this world of
woe.
But the unorthodox philosophers were not
the first to propound the pessimistic fact
that life is a system of misery. They were
not the first to proclaim "All is vanity and
vexation of spirit," that "Man is of few
days and full of trouble," that "Man is
born to trouble as tbe sparks fly upward."
Job and Jeremiah and David and other
holy men of old have told of the miseries of
life in their day. "Even a good man findeth
always sufficient cause for monrning and
weeping, and he fcnotveth that none can
live in the world without tribulations," says
Thomas a Kempis, of holy memory.
A QUESTION OP THE AGES.
Is life a blessing or a curse? This has
been a question in all ages. The thinkers
of all times have deeply concerned them
selves as to what wad the object of lite. It
has been shown in thousands of sermons
that this world life is a harsh apprentice
ship to fit souls for the joys of heaven it is
a term ot probation. But long before the
days of Christianity and Calvinism Sopho
cles, who has been called "the high priest of
humanity," said that "not to be born at al!
is the greatest of all possible benefits, bnt
inasmuch as man h.is appeared on earth tbe
very best thing he can do is to hurry back
where he came from." This was not strange
doctrine for the days when a birth was
hailed with lamentations, and death was
celebrated with songs of rejoicing and
festivals of welcome. Suicide was con
sidered an act of wisdom when for any
reason of poverty and misery, happiness was
not to be secured. When men grew discon
tented and disheartened over the hardships
of the world, or when they were afflicted
with tbe rheumatism, hay fever or other
chronic diseases they agreed with Pliny
that "Nature's most pleasing invention was
brevity of life." It was in the times of such
teaching that the old saying so frequently
duoted "Whom the gods love die young"
originated. Epicurus held and taught in
his tcbool of philosophy that when life was
no longer a delight, death became a benefit
and suicide was to be commended.
How widely different are the views held
nowadays when the theory and practice is
to prolong life to the latest minute at any
expense of suffering and distress, and sui
cide is counted a crime only to be condoned
by tbe charitable construction of aberration
of mind.
POLLY TO BE TVISE.
Socrates held and taught that the object
of life was to acquire knowledge, but, as
somebody asks, of what great avail is it to
acquire knowledge, when it comes too late
to most for practical purposes? One of the
saddest things in life is that when people
by study and experience have just learned
how to live wisely, they find the lesson has
come too late, and they are called by the in
exorable decree of death to pass to "the great
beyond."
A philosopher of the present day, how
ever, in view of the blstory of the world
maintains that the happiest people are the
ignorant, whose thoughts and wishes do not
rise beyond the satisfying of their physical
wants, and insists that the development of
the intellect among the masses increases
their suffering and misery. If this be ad
mitted an true, then it will be seen that edu
cation instead of being a panacea for mnch
of the misery of mankind is only an aggra
vation by which discontent is fostered and
tbe evils of poverty are intensified. A
thinker of this school insists that every
schoolbouse planted in the South by North
ern missionaries throngh mistaken benevo
lence subtracts from tbe happiness or the
race it is proposed to benefit la his little
cabin in the woods and among the corn
fields with hog and hominy, the colored
man leads a contented, happy-go-lucky life,
but with added knowledge he becomes dis
contented, unhappy,and joins the great army
of growlers and idlers.
A EETTJBS- TO PESSIMISM.
In these days when freedom of thought is
encouraged rather than repressed, when the
theological creeds of past centuries are be
coming less onerous and overpowering, when
the mind of man is open to specnlation and
contemplation of subjects hitherto held
sacred from criticism or dispute, society
seems to begetting around to the old ideas
of the ancients on the subject of life. Pes
simism is rather becoming the fashion.
Henry George sees poverty and misery in
creasing with advancing progress. Human
nature, he thinks, is not improving. A
harder and more helpless slavery is being
imposed upon the mass of mankind than
what bas been destroyed. The blessings of
material progress are being turned into a
curse. And, amid all, the struggle for
bread grows fiercer and stronger. The rem
edy that George provides is to make land
common property. But who believes that
that would hurry up the millennium?
Edward Bellamy holds that the golden
age will come as a result of the nation be
coming a great trnst or corporation, and as
suming control of all the industries of the
country. But will it? An English phil
osopher affirms that there is no happiness
for nineteen-twentietbs of the world's in
habitant. Will Bellamy's ideal or life
make this conntless host happy and con
tented? If all men are to become happy in
his way, would it not repeal the whole ordi
nauce'ot foreordination?
TOLSTOI'S STEAKOE XHEOBT.
But another remedy to abate and finally
make void the miseries of life is not only
proposed by Schopenhauer, the apostle of
pessimism, but by Tolstoi, the reformer,
who bases his religion and views upon a
literal interpretation of Christ's Sermon on
the Monnt What seems strange is that tbe
unorthodox pessimistic philosopher should
advocate for tbe abolition of all the ills of
life the same system of celibacy held by tbe
fathers of trie church and supported in'their
practice. And Tolstoi, with all his
ardent piety, backs up the scoffing
Ebilosopher with the same view and
ases his argument on the teachings of
Christ and his apostles and Bible proofs.
"Christ," he says, "did not marry, nor did
he establish marriage; neither did his dis
ciples marry." Hence it follows as he
adds, that "to contract marriage is, from a
Christian point of view, not a progress to
better things, but a fall." He says in sub
stance that the argument against celibacy is
that it weuld result in the annihilation of
the race, but as the race is doomed to death
anyhow, both by religion and science, it
would make little difference whether it came
sooner or later.
These strange views from inch widely
different sources will ktrike the world as
fanatical, ridiculous and unnatural, but
with the illustration of economy, where
celibacy is practiced as more holy than
marriage, they can hardly be denounced as
impossible; But, while tome may prefer a
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single life either from the standpoint of the '
High Priest of Pessimism, or from agree
ment with the extreme views of Tolstoi, or
from the teachings of the holy fathers, or
from motives ot prudence, It is quite mani
fest that the great majority for a long tima
yet will agree with old Dr. Johnson, that
"though marriage may have some pains,
celibacy has few pleasures."
Bessie Beamble,
C0HGBESS IS INFEEIOE.
Stephen B. Elklns Passes Same Comments)
on Modern Statesmen.
Stir York Press.
S. B. Elkins was in the city during tha
week, having come over from his summer
house at Elkins, W. Va., which is also his
voting residence, to attend to business af
fairs here. He has been in Washington
frequently this summer, and it is said that
he has often been called to the White Housa
to give bis advice to the President I was
talking to bim here about some phases of
national legislation, when he said, among
other things:
"There were some big men in Congress
when I was there as a delegate from New
Mexico. The war period had created great
men being the opportunity under which
great men develop. I was looking over tha
personalty of the present Congress recently
and could find no great men to compare
with that time.
"Yet this Congress has had work In it,
and there is a possibility that it will maks
the greatest record in important measures
of any Congress since the war. If
it passes the McKinley bill and the Fry
shipping bill, in addition to the silver
bill, it will have accomplished the most im
portant legislation in a quarter of a century.
In my opinion the silver bill is more im
portant than the tariff. We could not get
along withont additional circulating
medium withont having financial trouble.
We have a tariff bill now, under which wa
can get along if the McKinley bill fails to
pass. As to the Frye shipping hill, it will
enable us to keep in this conntry the $150,
000,000 we annually pay to English vessels
for ocean freights, not to mention passen
gers. It is a measure in which the vitality
of tbe country is involved."
AN ELEPHANT'S DIHNEB.
Old TJjder's Keeper Disappointed Him, Bnt
Ho Did Not Gel Lefl.
The famous elephant Hyder's cakes wera
baked in a very simple oven; the oven, in
fact, so often alluded to in Scripture. It
consisted of a large earthen Ali Baba sort of
jar, in the bottom of which a fire of dried
grass and twigs was kindled; and while tha
embers were still red the cakes were stuck
all around on the inside of the jar to bake.
One day Hyder's mahout had gone throngh
this process, which he completed by cover
ing the jar with a lid on which he heaped
sumo siuues, auu wien went into tne oazaar,
leaving Hyder in comfortable anticipation
of his dinner.
The time arrived for taking out the cakes,
but not so the mahont. At length Hyder's
patience was exhausted, and the cakes wera
running considerable risk of being burned,
when, tugging at his pickets, be managed
to get rid of his front fastenings, and wheel
ing round, he found he could just reach the
oven with his trunk. He cautiously lifted
off the stones, removed the lid and ate tha
cakes. He then put on the lid, and, re
placing the stones one by one .most care
fully, returned to his place, and it he had
not been watched in this maneuver by Mr.
Boyd, the mahont might have wondered to
his life's end how the cakes had disappeared.
MADAME A. RUPPERT
Complexion Speclaltis.
Mme. A. Ruppert's world-renowned faca
bleach is tbe only face tonic in the wort which
positively removes freckles, mo.u patches,
blackheads, pimples, birthmarks, eczema and
all blemishes ot the skin, and when applied
cannot be observed by anyone. Thousands of
ladies and gentlemen are using it daily in Pitts
burg, and in all parts or the world, with pleas
ing results. Call at my office and see testi
monials from ladles of Pittibnrg and vicinity
wno do not wish their names published. Tha
face bleach can only be bad at my branch office.
No. 93 Fifth avenue, Hamilton building, rooms
203 and 04, Pittsbnrg. or sent to any address on
receipt of price. Bold at S2 per bottle, or throe
bottles,usaaIly required to clear the complex.
Ion, $5. Send scents postage for (nil particulars.
jyl6-10I.su MME. A. KUPPERT.
WOTECTED.IHDDSTRY
Jtcther. Come in oat of the snow. Toall est
Soar death ot cold from vet feet
CMMrtn. Mother, onr shoes esnt get wet; jot
fcnot that wa bxn
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on them, and water can't f throogo.
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withont the labor of scrnbbhur. is saehataxoiy, Ws
will tell yon how an oat far ci 81.00 will obtila It,
sad still tha floor won't look painted. Use.
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Atk tn Jruq Paint and Banue Tvmishtng Store.
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LADIES
Who Value a Refined ComplexlM
MUST USE
MEDICATED
It Imparts sbrUUant transparency to the
kin. Removes at pimples, freckles, smd
dlj colorations, and makes the skin delicate
ly soft and beautiful. It contains no lime,
white lead, or arsenic In three fltlfultitl
pta-h; or flesh, white and brunette.
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