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M TO THE BOOKS,
iThirty Thousand Pittsburg Chil
dren Start to School in
the Morning.
A THOUSAND NEW URCHINS.
The Teachers Will Return to Their
Work With Light Hearts.
SPARE THE ROD IS KOW THE RULE.
One Good Lady Takes the Whippings Her
self and is a Success.
LITTLE GIRLS IN TOE COOKING SCHOOL
Lni
can stand. It it worse than to recti re the
blows himself. This mode of punishment
has seldom to be resorted to twieo by the
lady in the same case. It is effective.
It is not hard to fathom the feelinps of
the school teicher. Probably yon might be
tempted to think she foes back to her desk:
to-morrow with unwillingness. She may
hare been spoiled by her two months
vacation.
MFE IN A HAMMOCK.
with society novels for companions instead
of spelling books and arithmetics, is well
calculated to leave a person in a lazy con
dition. Conld the narrow, gloomy confines
of a school, room prove attractive to her after
an outing ot eight weeks? To be tied down
to a routine by the striking of a gong after
her freedom, might seem severe now if it
ever did before I
Ah, bnt yon don't know her. The school
teacher likes that little envelope which she
receives once a month at the Central Board
rooms. She loves to teach bnt she loves her
salary better. Now, here this vacation has
worn ont her dresses. She has met a young
man she thinks it worth while making her-
A WHALE FOE A PET.
The Monster That Amuses a Lonely
Planter of the South Sea.
PENNED IK BY REEFS OP CORAL.
Affection of the Leviathan Won by Picking
Crabs From His Eye.
ANTICS
THAT
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SHOW INTELLIGENCE
" rWBITTIK FOB TUS SISPATCR.J
On a small island in the middle of the
Sonth Pacific lives a planter, the only white
man on the island, which is fnll of brown
skinned folk who cnt and dry the meat of
oicoanut which he sells to trading vessels.
When any stranger stops at his island he
rwRTrnK roa thi dispatch, j
CHOOL begins to-morrow.
This announcement con
tains no news for the
mothers of Pittsburg
households. They "had the
fact lully emphasized
every bonr of the day on
Saturday. Text books
had to be bun ten up,
broken slates replaced
with new ones, and mus
lin covers pnt upon time
worn geographies to keep
the leaves .rom tailing ont.
Two months ago the
books and slates were
thrown aside anywhere in I
vacation, and it is won
derfnl how completely
they succeeded in getting lost while
tbe house was shut np. Look for
them as yon would, in garrett, cellar, bed
room and closet, they re used to show np.
They were just as likely to be found behind
the parlor sofa or inside the pantry. No
matter where they lay hidden, it required a
, well-organized search, a cross mamma and
.disgusted domestics to unearth them.
"Where the books for four scholars in one
family had to be gathered np, and each one
of the lour fitted out with new pencils, new
slates, etc., the task consumed most ot a
mother's time yesterday. By the time she
sees this she will be able to say, "Yes, school
begins to-morrow; I know all about it."
Probably the next thought that comes
into that tired mother's mind is, "Well, I
will be rid of the youngsters most ol the
day. That's one consolation."
PUPILS FOB THE FIKST TIME.
The mammas who can't bear to have their
darlings "out of sight one moment," still
exist, but it is questionable whether those
"darlings" are the kind who whoop and
yell from the front door to the backyard
fence, who play tricks on Bridget, and who
maintain an all-ay romp regardless of the
comfort of their elders. Practical mothers
of this class of juveniles thank the nation
for the benefits of education, and secretly re
joice that the schools may serve also as a
colossal dav nurserr.
-At least 1,000 little bos and girls will
astart to school in this city to-morrow for the
erst time. Directors in all wards huye been
applied to the past week for permits. Pu
pils are required to attend the rchool near
est their residences, unless otherwise ap
proved by tbe board or local committee.
Children or wards of non-residents require
a special permit. For non-residents lees
- are charged at the High School. No child
tinder 6 years of age, and no person over 21
years of age will be given a permit.
So while 1,000 little tots will learn the
etrnctnral features ot A, B and C for the
first time to-mormw, nearly 30,000 pencils
will scratch nearly 30,000 slates in Pittsburg
ot the same time. That many pupils make
np the enrollment of the public schools.
That is
A GREAT ABMY.
Pittsburg school children conld form
many regiments In tbe national educational
camp, and each year tbey would have to
have more room, for a large increase is
to be noted every September. City
Superintendent Lackey's party of teacher's
while in Europe this summer told a British
tutor these facts about our schools. The
fellow calculated that if Pittsburg had 30,
000 pupils the whole United States had
about 100.000. He was simply thunder
struck when he was told that statistics
gathered in '1683 showed that the school
population of the United States was 16.427,
2G0, and that of this number 10,336,105
pnpils and 293,295 teachers were in the
public sehools.
"And it it was not for Pittsburg's quota,"
continned the PitUburg teacher, 'tthat snm
total would read 10,300,000,' instead of 10,-
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enjoyed the attention and gave every assist
ance in his power by drawing up bis lips to
give free access to thegums,and laid bare a
bristling array of teeth, when one side
-was cleaned the planter gave the whale a
slap" between the ear and eve and bade him
turn the other side. Immediately the great
head sank, passed under1 the boat and came
np dripping on the other side. When this
one had been picked clean the whale sculled
quickly ahead until it was 600 or 700 eet
away irom the boat. Then it began a series
ot antics, and displayed an agility scarcely
to be expected Irom so great an animal. It
darted straight ahead, it suddenly backed
water, it swam in a circle, it gamboled like
a dolphin, it threw itself clear from the
water, making s great splash and dangerous
waves when it fell back; last of all it pnt its
head dowu and flukes up, throwing nearly
half its Iencrth into the air and rose Quietly
beside the boat. The chopped meat was
thrown overboard, and we rowed back to
shore while this odd pet was feeding.
A COBAL BOUND PBISONEB.
"How did I geijhim?" said the planter, in
answer to my flood oi questions. "It might
be more accurate to say he got me first One
day some years ago I was sailing up the
lagoon with a barrel full ot chopped meat to
bait a pool in the reef beyond. All at once
I lelt the boat lifted np and overturned, and
when I had righted "her ami clambered
aboard, there was the whale feeding on the
meat which bad been scattered all about.
He was only 20 leet long then, but that was
quite long enough to give me a good scare
in addition to my ducking. Somehow or
other he never seemed able to find the pats
back into the sea, and now he is so big that
he conld not get out even if he wished to.
From being afraid of him I grew reconciled
to his presence in the lagoon. One day he
came up close to tbe boat, and though I was
very much frightened, I began to pick these
crabs out of his eye.
"Prom that time he attached himself to
me, and I lound that be relishe'd being
petted. Once when I was ill I
left him nuattended for several weeks. He
came down, the lagoon mnch lurther than
usual, and at last ran himself aground just
below my house and bad to wait several
hours for the tide to float him off. That
shuws that he missed me. Here is another
sample of bis intelligence. When the boys
drum upon tbe bottom of the boat he hears
the souud a long distance under water and
at once comes to the surlace. Then if I
blow the horn he knows that I have come
out to ieed him and comes quickly up to.the
boat. Bnt if I do not blow. the bdrn he
never comes close but frolics around us at
long range. It is not easy to say how much
sense a whale has, but this ought to con
vince any one that my big pet Is possessed
of considerable intelligence."
"William Ch-jbchill.
ATYPEWRITER'S WOE.
She Copies for Playwrights and Finds
Them Half Cracked,,
ESPECIALLY ON MONEY HATTERS.
A Flay That Hade Her Fall to the Floor and
Tear Her Apron.
WEITING LETTERS FOE A L0TEE
MCJ'oS .oeo -nSS
THEIB VACATION- IS ENDED.
, 336,105.
"Why, how do you make that ont?" in
quired the Englishman, "your enrollment
now is only 30,000 1"
"Ah, yes, bnt Pittsburg is famons for
smart boys. "When the educational census
man came along be would say, 'Here is a
boy that is as good as two,' so down went
two instead of one. Whv, sir, if the new
census will be as fair with Pittsburg as it
should we would be accredited with 40,000,
because the brains ot 40,000 are in our30,000.
And don't brains always count, sir? See?"
The Britisher retired with a wonderml
impression ot Pittsburg's schools.
WHIPPINO OUT Or FASHION.
It is a remarkably healthy indication
that as the enrollment of Pittsburg schools
increases thennmberanJ use of the teachers'
rattan decreases. Custom of tbe last two or
three years demands that the schools shall
be governed, as far as possible, without cor
poral punishment. When It is inflicted it
must be done only by the principal or act
ing principnl, and all cases of such punish
ment must be rrpurted to tbe Superinten
dent monthly, Pnpils who evince habitual
indifference may be transferred to lower
grades. In many wards, pupils who shall
be absent two days in a week, or fonr days
in a month, lor any cause, except sickness,
will not be permitted to return without a
permit irntu a member of the local com
mittee. No pupil shall be allowed to leave
school belore the hour for closing for any
v r exceP' sickness, unless autnorized by
the local committee.
Truant playing is considered a flagrant
offense, and no pupil shall be received after
truant playing without authority irom the
local committee, and no such anthority
shall be given to any pupil who has been
guilty of this uffense more than twice dur
ing the current scholastic year.
HEBOIC TEEATMENT.
In the Washington schools of the Seven
teenth ward there is a lady teacher who lor
years has conquered nnrnlv pupils in this
manner: She gets a rattan, or ruler, and
calls tbe scholar ont in front m tk. .Anni
Then instead of whipping him she gives
him the rattan, and, holding ont her own
hands, compels hiui to whip her on the
palms. She will make him strike her with
all his might a given nnmber of strokes,
having first been imposed in pro
portion to the enormity of the offense
Which the scholar was guilty of. To do
such an unmannerly thing as beat a woman,
and to see her flinch under the pain of the
whipping; is usually more than any scholar
self attractive for. To teach means money,
and money means n:w dresses. She goes
back to that coop of a school room without
complaining. Her sorrow Is expressed when
she can't go back when some other teacher
was elected in her place by tbe board.
Principals of the Pittsburg schools have
very attractive offices as a usual thing.
Some are fitted, with libraries. Tbe princi
pals pre er
ATHLETIC SPORTS AITS OT7TDOOE LIFE,
for their summertime occupations. It makes
them all the better physically and mentally
for their work of the new school term.
"Were all things equal, these male super
visors of the schools wonld resume work to
morrow very willingly. Bnt they have not
the incentive. They, as a rule, are not
satisfied with tbe salaries they receive.
Every year some ol Pittsburg's best school
principals drift into other pro essions. or
into business life simply because there
is not financial inducement enough to bold
them to educational pursuits. In Scranton,
recently, I met. a former school principal
from this city. He is now a saccesslul mer
chant there. And in this city one of the
most prosperous insurance agents was form
erly a school principal out toward the East
End. They attest the lact that school man
agement do'n't pay when you have other op
portunities. COOKING AND CHEMISTRY.
When the cooking school opens to-morrow
the pupils will find a new coat of paint on
its walls, its little gas stoves and the cook
ing range nicely polished, and the pots and
pans newlv Japanned. Many of tbe little
girls who will here don the white cap
and aprons have been spending
their vacation in the country. They
hive entertained many an old
fashioned fanners' wife with an account of
this modern city cooking school, and beard
it denonnced by Aunt Bachel as new fang
dangled nonsense." On the other hand the
little misses come home wondering how a
cooking school can possibly be complete
without a cow to milk; without milk to
strain, and withont chickens to feed. How
can she learn in a city cooking school to be
a farmer s wile?
TJp at the High School the laboratory ol
the class in chemistry has been refurnished
and repainted. Abont the only thing that
will be apt to interest the boys there lor the
next ew weeks will be the best mixture ol
chemicals to lorm n explosive taie enough
to kill fish and yet escape the game laws; or
the best formulas for amateur photography
developing outfits memories of vacation
among the mountains will be too vivid for
these young men to forget easilr.
L. K." Stofiei.
IHE CZARINA'S DEAPgESS.
Clever Little Maaeavera of Her Ladyship to
Hid the Phr.lcal Defect.
Berlin Letter to Tbe Olspstch.l
I am told by one of the couriers of the
Emperor who has just returned from Bus
sin, that the Empress is now entirely deal.
When the courier, carrying messages from
Her Majesty, Augusta Victoria, appeared
before the Czarina, a lady in waiting secret
ly wrote down bis message on a piece of
pasteboard, - which was handed to Her
Majesty under cover of a fan, and alter she
bad read it she answered in quite an uncon
cerned manner. So it seems that tbe royal
comedy, which was once played by the
blind George of Hanover, who endeavored
by sundry tricks to keep his terrible afflic
tion a secret, is to be repeated to-day at
Pelershol and Gat-jchina.
In Bnssian court circles it is whispered
that the Czarina's deafness Is a conseauence
of tbe terrible railroad accident of BorBum
when tbe detonation o' the explosives which
were intended to destroy Alexander and bis
family injured the muscles of ber ears. Tbe
affair was not made known at the time lor
good reasons. The story seems plausible
enough, bnt in tbe face of the lamentable
fact that the Czarina's lovely sister, the
Princes of Wales. is likewise "afflicted tbe
question arises, whether the Borkum inci
dent does not serve as a convenient excuse
for an hereditary disease. However, the
Czarina has trouble enough without this ad
additional one and general sysap thy will
be extended to her.
will show him oven the plintitiocs, he will
give him of the best that "the island affords,
he will get up greut concerts and dances ol
the islanders; above all he will take bim out
to see his pet, which is perhaps the largest
and oddest animal that was ever petted by
any man.
"Come along with me," he said on the
morning after my arrival at the island,
"come out and see my pet."
I was not much surprised when he led the
way to the boat, lor in the tropics everyone
goes by sea rather than wlk a mile. The
brown-skinned natives were seated on the
thwarts waiting for us, and in the how was
a barrel full of meat chopped fine.
"What is that meat for?" I asked.
"To feed my pet," he said, laughing.
OFF FOE A SUBPEISE.
The crew rowed away from shore over tbe
quiet waters between the reels.. The island
was surrounded by coral, and from each cor
ner of its northern side, which was about
two miles long, a wall of coral stretched
away northward to meet at a sharp angle
five or six miles away. The! great sea waves
broke into foam upou these walls, but witbin
their protection was a triangle ol water es
smooth as any lake. Out over this the boat
rode easily until we had reached a point
about midway between the middle point of
the reefs and the shore. Here the boys
stopped rowing, and two of them began
drumming with clubs upon the bottom of
tbe boat.
"Shut your eye,' said the planter, "if
you wish to enjoy a surprise."
I closed mv eyes, the boys soon ceased
their drumming and someone blew long
blasts upon a horn. Then that, too, ceased,
and the boat lay motionless and nothing
disturbed the silliness. AH at once I heard
a huge sigh and felt a hot and sickish
breath. There-was no need for the planter
to bid me open my eves, lor surprise or no
surprise the lids would not stay shut. Not
more than six feet away I saw a huge mons
ter floating on the surlace and lookiog at us
with the most expressionless eye that I ever
saw in a living beast.
"There's my pet," cried the planter. "1
raised him almost from the time he was a
baby of 20 eet long, and now he measures
67 feet over all and lots more growth to come
yet."
A JIONSTEB WHALE.
The pet was a sperm. whale. He seemed
enormous when compared with us men. Be
hind the great bead there stretched out a
long body covered in great patches with
barnacles as large as a teacup, and the sleek
flukes oi the tall, lying flat upon the water,
seemed ever so far away, yet ever so much
too near, when 1 recalled whaler' accounts
oi tbe behavior of this animal when enraged.
The great head roie from the sea so high
above tbe water that it becalmed the boat.
Tbe eye was about the size of an ox eye,
and had almost the same deep violet shade.
The ear was not so far distant irom the eye,
a simple orifice in the skin. The color
of the skin was a dusty black, which
became lighter and more yellow under
neath; excent for the barnacles the skin was
quite smooth. '
The great animal lay motionless jnst out
of. arm's reach until the planter called to
him and dabbled his fingers in the water
mnch as one attracts a kitten by scratching
on the carpet Tho distant flukes made a
half turn in the water and the whale moved
easily toward us and ranged up alongside
just touching tbe boat. Tbe planter reached
over the! gunwale and began to pick a
number of wriggling things out ol the
corners of the whale's eye. He handed
several to me and I found them to be small
white cVabs, which, with all their legs
spread oat, would cover one of the old
silver hall dimes. These parasites are a
constant! annoyance to all whales, which
have no (neans'of ridding themselves of the
pest i
22U0TED THE BIDDANCE.
" "Lend a hand," said the master of this
unwieldy; pet, "if you have any sympathy
with a su Bering cetacean. Just scoop ont
bis moutl i while I am busy with this ear."
.. r fmlt ti . r l,nntt mnnti nvutfa .v fib
liberties rlth an elephant than to handled
the whalt , bnt I ieoa mv that the afiljBil
THE TBAMP'S WAENIUO,
Dlysterlons Work Tlini Reunited la the Boy
cott ot a Boarding Sonar.
IWEITTElf VOB THI DISPATCH. I
I know of one house that is not troubled
by tramps. It is tbe boarding house of Mrs.
K., which has been singularly free from
these pets ever since one bcautitul spring
morning, in 1887. On that morning a di
lapidated pedestrian applied to Mrs. K. for
"a bite to eat,' and that lady, feeling the
inspiration of the joyons day, and the exhil
aration of the acquisition of the new
boarder, bad given bim a cup of coffee and
some bread and butter. He sipped tbe
coffee, took a nibble ot the buttered bread,
thanked Mrs. K., and, remarking that there
were times when it seemed a pro anation of
one's spiritual nature to eat, slowly departed,
with a far-away look in his eyes and a mel
ancholy lassitude in his steps pausing long
enough at the gate to cut an odd-looking
hieroglyphic on the bark of a tree. '
Since that day Mr "K. has never been"
bothered by a tramp. Occasionally one
would reach the gate, but on seeing the tree
would turn and pursue bis pilgrimage. .,
This naturally excited curiosity among
the boarders o. Mrs. K., as well as in the
bosom ot that good lady herself a curiosity
wbich was not gratified until one evening
last week. It was just alter supper, and
Mrs. K. and most of her boarders were sit
ting outside in the summer twilight,
when a tramp approached, beheld the
hieroglypbio - and turning to leave,
was hailed by the star boarder and
questioned as to the meaning of the in
scription on tbe tree. The wanderer was
non-commital at first, refusing point-blank
a bribe of a square meal Irom Mrs. K., and
not consenting until tbe star boarder bad
taken up a subscription of 35 cents as an in
ducement "I will not translate the character orally,"
said tbe trampTpocketins the innd. "There
aie some things which can always be better
written than spoken. I will write out the
translation of the mark on tbe tree, and
when I am gone you may read it."
Then be scratched somethiug on the star
boarder's newspaper and vanished.
This is what the star boarder, with un
mistakable feeling and appreciation, read
aloud: "The sign on the tree means: 'Pass
on, boys; this house uses oleomargarine.' "
POLK SVf AIM.
PICTUBESQTTE HELIGOLAHDEHS.
A Bride's Costume Karpaaslngly Strange and
Elaborately Ornamented With Pins.
Serlbner.
Tne national costume is not yet discarded
in this Arcadian isle, but it is generally re
served for holidays anC Sunday. Women
look demure in red petticoats (ringed with
ydllow, dark jackets, aprons of snowy while,
and black poke-bonnets. As a lact, how
ever, the bonnet is seidom seen except on
dowagers, the head-gear of young women
being a light-colored shawl, worn Spanish
lashion. The men wear top boots, blue
trousers, white linen "Jumpers," and
sou'wester hatr. But even they
are seen more olten in a quiet,
conventional dresi of somo serviceable
stuff. A bride's cistume is surpassingly
strange, the chief leklure being a till hat or
crown, elaborately ornamented with pins,
and Irom which fills & fringed mantle.
Even her personal finery, however, is sec
ondary to tbe trappings of the bed, which is
decked by heracll and her friends in the
bridegroom's bouse. Tbe whitest ol linen,
plenty oi lace, and doubtless a mountain of
leathers, go to make it sumptuous. Guests
are bidden by the lovers together, in person.
Alter the marriage ceremony in the church,
the party repair to the new home, and par
take of a national cake, eaten with a sauce
of syrup and melted butter. When the
merry making is over, the whole party go in
procession over every street on the island.
More eating and drinking and dancing, and
at last home.
QTJEEB W0BK OP WASPS.
Tbey Tackle Tinted Paper and Produce a
Querr-Looklne Nret.
At Anner Mills, near Cionmel, the gar
dener lately found a strange-looking object
suspended from a slender branch of an ap
ple tree. It was nearly .spherical, about as
large as an ordinary-sized cannon ball, and
was streaked all over with tbe brightest col
ors. He soon discovered that it was a
wasp's nest, but for some time was pnzzled
to account for its varied' tints and singular
formation. At length tbe problem was
solved. His employer had some time be
fore procured a Quantity of long paper shav
ings ol different colors red, blue, green,
yellow and white which be bung over bis
strawberry beds to protect tbe fruit from tbe
attack or birds and insects.
A colony of wasps, Instead oi being
'warned off," made frequent visits to these
colored streamers, and with singular Inge
nuity, reducing tbe paper to pulp, soon car
ried it away for tbe construction of their
nest, which quickly grew under the united
efforts of quite any army of these busy little
artists. The most wonderful part of their
work is the regularity of the undulating
lines of color as they were earned round
from tl&t to tide.)
rCOBBESPONBENCE OF TBE DISPATCH. J
NeW Yoke, August 30. "I'm that sick
of plays I could go and jnmp off the Brook
lyn bridgel"
Tbe exclamation came from the lips of a
pretty typewriter who has an office in the
principal theatrical exchange in New York
and who makes a specialty of dramatic
work. AH plays and players' "parts" are
done on the typewriting machine now; as
are also a good many theatrical contracts,
though most of these are on regular printed
lorms. "
"If people had to read all the dramatic
rot brought in here for me to copy they
would never enter another theater," con
tinued this sprightly damsel. "You have
seen a good many stupid things on the
stage and read o. many more you wouldn't
go to see. Well, they compose the flower of
the flock. You jnst ought to read some of
these that never reach the dignity of pub
lic presentation! They are probably numer
ically in the same proportion as rejected
manuscript in a great publishing house is
to the accepted articles."
She is tall and panther-like in move
ment, dark-eyed, brown-haired, masculine,
quick and keen ot speech. With a little
encouragement she unbosoms her long
pent-up spine ot rebellion.
they'be ceazt.
"No, you couldn't pull me into a theater
with a span o Norman horses. I'm sick of
plays and disgusted with players and play
writers. Know any playwnters? They're
the biggest cranks you ever saw. All play
writers, like poets, are crazv more or less.
They couldn't write such jim-jam stuff and
be sane like everyday business people.
And poor well, they're usually as poor as
the plays they write never have enough
money to pay tbe typewriter lor copying
their little pieces that is, most of them. If
one out of a thousand o' these playwriters
makes a hit some other lellow gets the
money. Just like an inventor. The inven
tor makes a strike with a patent smart
man with money buys it for asongand puts
patent on market, bin art man with money
makes'fortune inventor lucky to continue
to keep out of poorhouse."
'The glory and reputation of it."
"That's what they live on. Whf. these
playwriters are the vainest set ol men in the
world, next to actors. They think their
little piece js going to upset the universe.
They always ask my opinion."
HEBE'S AN INSTANCE.
"One day a 6eedy looking man with long
hair and a companion with no hair at all
came in with a play. The long-haired man
bad written it and the bald-headed man was
his backer. It was a five-act play. Put on
the way it stood it would run from 6 o'clocK
in the evening till 1 in the mornlnp. Their
asked me what the charge would be to copy
the play and furnish the parts. I said 510
for the play and $12 for the parts. The
bald-headed backer nearly fell down stairs.
As for the author, he just Ipoked around in
a dazed sortof a way as if he had been asked
for half a million, or was trying to figure out
theuumber ol beers 522 would buy. When
the"bald-headed man recovered he mildly
suggesteC-thal peiuapsl meant J2.
" 'When you read the play, put in the
author, 'I'm sure It will please you.' As it
it would pay me lor copying it! Yes, he was
in dead earnest, too.
" 'I wouldn't read it for less than $10,' I
replied. 'That is my price.' ' ,
"They went away to see if they couldn't
get it done cheaper, I suppose.
THE WOEK BEQUIBED.
"But very few typewriters understand tbe
preparation ot plays. It is a business. The
manuscript is usually bad sometimes hor
rible and is not in any kindol shape. The
parts must be picked out, the cues, scene
plot, scenery, properties, exits, entrances,
etc, written in, and this in regular form
convenienUbr and intelligible to the actor.
Each part fs bound together.
"Well, I'm getting away. The bald
headed man and the long-haired author
nnany came back to me. i. cut off S4 irom
the price and took the job. They paid me
in a flO bill six ones and the rest io dimes
and nickels. The long-haired man iur
nished the nickels. I began the play on a
Friday morning, and was to have it readv
with the parts by Monday noon. I supposed
the company was ready for rehearsal, they
were so particular about the time. I gave
the bald-headed man a sheet of paper and
pencil and asked him to write down tbe char
sctars ""'The what?' said he.
." 'The characters names of your people,'
said 1, 'so I ran put 'em in.'
" 'Oh. put in anybody,' said the author.
'We haven't that Is, the company is not
just ready.'
IT -WAS A STTJNNEB.
-upon my word," laughed the pretty
typewriter, "that play was the funniest
piece I ever got out. So far as my assistant
and I were concerned it was the howlingest
kind of a bowling success. I fell off ot my
chair four times in the first act Asformv
girl, she is a little stout and was in mo
mentary danger of apoplexy. L-iugb!
Mr. Eflaoger came up from the Exchange
in the basement to find out what was the
matter. When we told him it was the play
he said he'd buv that play without looking
nt it. We shouted through the locked door
that there were 24 working characters in it
and ne went away with a deep groan, nar
rowly escaping a couple dozen actors who
were ready to ask for engagements on the
piece.
"Us girls laughed till weened. No sooner
had we fairly quieted down than one of us
would snatch topy i nl walk up and donn
the floor, spouting the lines. Oh, it was the
worst I ever s iw! There was not a char
acter in tne piece who was allowed to speak
grammatically. As for the stage business
I tan scarcely keep Irom shedding tears
even now when I think of it. To crown all
don't you know, that con ounded couple
came in on us suddenly the next day and
surprised us in the middle of the lun..
OPINIONS DEMANDED.
" 'What is your candid opinion of the
piece?' timidly inquired the author.
" 'Yes,' put in the bald-beaded msn,(who
looked like the keeper of a hot sausage
stana at vouiuacnvu, wnat uo you honest
ly think of it as that is, as lax as you've
gone?'
" Think of itl' said I, solemnlv, 'why
it's greatl It's immensel U I" hadu'l
spent that money on pool tickets this morn
ing I'd give it back to you and do your play
lor nothing!'
"I was so full of laughter that I was seri
ous almost hysterical. They took it seri
ously, too, and were almost ready to fall on
each other's neck for foy. They went away
and didn't come back for a -week. Had
probably got drunk and been locked up. As
soon as their backs were 'turned we locked
the door and looked at each other a moment
We had exhausted the ordinary expressions
of hilarity. All we could do now was to sit
down in tbe middle of the floor and tear our
aprons."
It was enough, to make anybody scream to
hear the pretty typewriter tell it, for she il
lustrated her text in a vivid way as she went
along.
We deal with some mighty mean people.
My charge is $10 for a play whether a farce,
two-act or five-act drama. They nearly all
want something for nothing. A well-known
stage manager came to me one Saturday to
get out the properties from the prompt book.
He was to stage the play Monday. He is
an expert, aud gets $500 for stagiug a plav
that is, arranging the scenes, properties,
placing the people, adjusting them to their
Sarts, or their partstto- them, etc. Well.ihe
ad me get a stenographer and kept us at It
a full evening. Not because the matter
amounted to much, but the trouble of get
ting It together.
"What do you suppose that (500 man
gave me? Fifty cents! He'paid by tbe
folio. I was so mad I could have thrown
tbe money in his face. No; I didn't do that
I gave it to an actor to get something to
eat They'll keep the manuscript of a
play lying around in the office drawer for a
month, or six months, nntil the company is
engaged and everything ready lor rehearsal.
Then they'll rush in on Saturday, and de
mand the parts for Monday.
SOME tVELIi-KNOWN PEOPLE.
"I did 80 contracts for Panline Hall.
The work ou jht to have beeo worth $50, but
I thought tbe bill looked a little bigb, so I
cut it down to $30. They kicked the roof
off almost, and made me take 525 finally,
and I had to wait a month for the money.
Some oi these people insist on my working
nigbt and day to get a play out by a certain
time, then go away and don't come back for
the matter for a week or two.
"Stuart Bobson is the best man to work
for. He's just as nice as be can be. I'd
break my neck to fill a-contract with such a
man. Then there's Cecil Clay, Bosina
Votes' bosband. He's another nice man.
Horace Townsend, Treasurer of tbe Dra
matic Authors' Society, kept two of us a
day and evening doing press work for the
'Sea King.' I sent him a bill, but never
got a cent He came back and increased it
I was glad he didn't borrow money of me."
The sarcasm of this was searching.
"Borrow? You laueh. Whv. von don't
know these people as I do. Just the other
day an actor (our building is swarming
with actors and managers every day, you
Know; Drought in a pair or can buttons,
worth, I should say, abont CO cents, and
wanted me to let him have 23 on them. I
gave him a quarter and"
"Did he take it?"
DOE3 A TISK SWIM?
"Take it 1 You bet your life he took it 1
He would have taken 10 cents. Swell-looking
young lellow, too. He didn't leave his
cuff butioas, either. A nice looking actor
came in one day I don't know why tbey
should come -to me probably would strike
anybody I was the handiest individual
angel and asked me for 56. It was to g0
to his mother; said hrs mother was looking
or a remittance from him. Remittances o
this kiud usually come the other way, I be.
lieve. He bad just signed lor tbe seasn
and wonld pay me irom his first week',
salary. His story about his mother wa
ver pretty and I gave it to him. This wag
a year ago. His first week's salary hasn't
been paid yet I never heard about him or
his mother since, anyhow, and I don't sup
pose he would lie about it.
"About these plays. I copied a German
play two years ago. We use English let
ters and German spelling. The nlav wax
laid 780 years before Christ That play has
turned up in my office three times. Dog
eared? Well, when a play has been handed
down a couple of thousand years, you know,
withont getting on the market, it is liable
to get mussed up.
SAMPLE MANTJSCBTPTS.
"Talking about mannscripta some of this
stuff is so bad I can save time by rewriting
most of it before doing the typewriting.
There is one well-known playwright who
can't read his own writing after he is
throngh with it Stuart Bobson can't read
bis own writing. He wouldn't know his
own check irom a washbilL"
"Wby don'tryou get married, Miss Parker?"
"Get marriedl I can't afford to support a
husband. It is as mnch as I can do to
make a decent living lor myself. All the
men I usually meet are living off of some
woman who is working hard on the stage.
I don't want to go back to the stage for tbe
sake of keeping a man. They come too
high."
"A man-hater, eh?"
"Oh, no, not at all! I never saw a man
worth bating. When I see these miserable
specimens of manhood banging around our
building and holding down the corners on
Broadway I am perfectly satisfied to pound
away at this machine and preserve my in
dependence. A LOVER'S HABD TIMES.
"Speaking abont this reminds me of a
correspondence I am now conducting for a
man and with his sweetheart I am em
ployed to write all of his letters. I'sign
ins name. a.e can scarcely write at all,
though he furnishes the material and gives
me a general idea of what is to be said. I
don't nse the machine, but write it all out
in bold, masculine style. He has been
qnarreling with her lately. Here I get in
some fine work. He can't understand
language unless it bos an edge on it like the
back of an ax. She does, thongh, bless
your heart! You can just bet they are hav
ing a great time of It
"The other day I wrote her 14 pages of
note trying to fix up thinga. I worked hard
over it. and I charged bim $1. He almost
tainted. Some people expect to bny such
work on tbe basis of mere physical labor
like you were digging potatoes. Funny,
isn't it? Just as it a newspaper would pay
you only 50 cents for an article becapse it
took you but an hour to write it. It takes
brains, education, experience and gumption
to do first-class typewriting. Perhaps I
ought to put gumption first,tor without com
mon, raw-boned everyday horse sense a
stenographer or typewriter isn't worth much
beyond simple routine work.
. Chas. T. Mtjbbay.
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rWBITTXX TOB TK DISPATCH.!
On the moorland above tbe old gray vil
lage of Carbaix, io FinMere Finistere, the
most westerly province of Brittany stands
a cottage, built, as all the cottages in that
country are, of rough-hewn atones. It is
a poor, rude place to-day, but it wore an
aspect far more rude and primitive 100 years
ago say on an August day in the year
1793, when a man Issued from the doorway,
and, shading his eyes from the noonday sun,
gazed Ioog and fixedly in tbe direction of a
narrow rilt, which a few score paces away
breaks the monotony of the npland leveL
This man was tall and thin, and unkempt,
bis features expressing a mixture of cunning
and simplicity. He gazed awhile in silence,
but at length uttered a grunt of satisfaction.
as tbe figure of a woman rose gradually into
sight She came along slowly in a stoop
ing posture, dragging behind her a great
load of straw, which completely hid tbe
little sledge on which it rested, and which
was attached to her waist by a rope of
twisted hay.
Tee figure of a woman rather of a girl.
As she drew nearer it could be seen that her
cheeks, though brown and sunburned, were
as smooth as a child's. She looked scarcely
18. Her head was bare, and her short petti-
STflNhf)
that is! Mondleu!" Then with asuddea
exclamstion he sprang up: "What hi
that?" he cried.
He had been sitting with his back to the
barn, bnt he turned now so as to faee it
Something bad startled bim, a rustling la
the straw behind him. "What is that?" he
said again, his hand on tbe table, his face
lowering and walcbiul.
The girl had risen also, and. as tbe last
word passed his lips, sprang by him with s
low cry, and aimed a frantic blow with her
stool at something he could not see.
"What is it?" he asked, recoiling.
"A rati" she answered, breathless. And
she aimed another blow at it
"Where?" he asked fretfully. "Where
Isit?" He snatrhed bis stool, too, and at
tbat momenta rat darted out of tbe straw,
ran nimbly between bis legs and plunged
into a hole by the door. He flung the
wooden stool after it, but of course, in vain.
"It was a rati" he said, as if before he had
doubted it
"Thank God!" she muttered. She was
shaking all over.
He stared at ber in stnpld wonder. What
did sue mean? Wbat bad come to her?
"Have you bad a sunstroke, my girl?" he
said suspiciously.
Her nut-brown face was a shade less
brown than usual; but she met his eyes
boldly, and said, "No," adding an explana
tion which for the moment satisfied him.
But he did not sit down again.
Wheu she went ont he went out also.
And though as she retired slowly to the
rye-fields and work she repeatedly looked
back at him, it was always to find his eyes
upon ber. When this had happened half a
dozen times a thought struck him, "How
now?" he muttered. "The rat ran out of"
the straw 1"
Nevertheless be still stood gazing after
her with a cunning look upon his leatures,
until she disappeared over the edge of the
rift and then he crept back to the door of
the barn, and stole in out of the sunlight
into tbe cool darkness of the raftered build
ing, across which a dozen rays of light were
HALF HIDDEN IN THE STEAW WAS A TOUNO MAN.
CABDINAL HEWMAH'S HABITS.
Deffnini Ucculnraa ibe Clock and Always
Uobn.t In Health. '
Cardinal Newman led a life of mathe
matical regularity It was this regularity
ol life that gave bim, no donbt, his length
of years and robustness ol health. Alter
breakfast be always made bis own bed aud
did up his room. His lunch consisted ot
a bowl o soup with a little bread, and a
single glass of light wine.
In his afternoon walks he wonld either go
to the school playground and wateh the
cricket or lootball; or he wonld go into
Birmingham, and there might be seen
poring over an old bookstall. He usually
walked, bnt occasionally drove in a neat
little brougham tbat was presented to him
by friends. when he was raised to the dignity
of Cardinal.
A GIANT'S DECOBATIOK.
A DABKSB PIGTUBE.
"No, we don't often have to anek fan.
Feat for Which tlio Aix-laCbapelle Goliath
Was Honored By Aa Emperqr.
Carl Westphalen, tbe Aix-la-Chapelle
"Goliath," who is just now causing snch a
furor in London, wears a decoration on bis
breast that was given him by the late Em
peror of Germany for prowess on the battle
field. "Goliath," then plain Carl West
phalen, was at that time attached to the
artillery. One wet night the French were
pressing them very hard, and the "retreat"
was sounded.
One of the guns became embedded in a
trench, and the united efforts of horses and
men tailed to move it Tbe word was given
for it to be abandoned, when Carl, who was
passing at the time, eame to the, rescue, and,
placing bis shoulder to tbe wheel, he made
one mighty effort and the gun was saved.
Poiiaeaard br Uimielf.
Boston Herald.
Bertha I think George is a very self-possessed
young man.
Emma Yes, he is. I know several girls
to whom he proposed, but who voulaa'-t
hare bim.
coats of eome coarse stuff left visible bare
feet thrust into wooden shoes. She ad
vanced with her head bent and her shoulders
strained 'orward, her face dull and patient
Once, and once only, when tbe man's eyes
left her for a moment, she shet at bim a
look of scared apprehension; ind later,
when she came" abreast of bim, ber breath
coming and going with her exertions, he
might have seen, had he looked closely,
tbat ber strong brown limbs were trembling
under her.
But the man noticed nothing in his Im
patience, and only chid her for ber slow
ness. "Where have you been dawdling,
lazy-bones?" ne cried.
She murmured, without halting, that
the sun was hot
"Sun hot?" he retorted. "Jeanne is lazy,
I thinkl Mon dien, that I should have
married a wife who is tired by noonl I had
better loit you to that never-do-well Pierre
Bouoat Bnt I have' news for you, mj
girl."
He lonnged after her as he spoke; his low,
cnnnlng face the face of tbe worst kind of
French peasant flickering with cruel
pleasure, as he saw bow she started at bis
words. She made no answer, however In
stead she drew her load with increased ve
hemence toward one of the two doors which
led Into the building. "Well, well, I will
tell you presently," he called alter ber.
"Be quick and eome to dinner."
He entered nimseli by the other door.
The house was divided into two chambers
by a breast-high partition of wood. The
one room served for kitchen; tbe other, now
half lull of straw, was barn and granary,
owlhouse and dovecote in one. "Be
quick!" he called to ber. Standing in the
house room he could see her head as she
stooped to nnload the straw.
In a moment she eame in, her shoes clat
tering on tbe floor. Tbe perspiration stood
in great beads on ber forehead; and showed
how little she had deserved his reproach.
She sat down silently, avoiding hi eyes,
but he thought nothing of this. It was no
new tbiug. It pleased bim, if anything.
"Well, my Jeanne," he said in hi gibing
tone, "are yon longing for ray news?"
The hand she stretched out toward the
pitcher of cider, which, with black bread
and onions, lormed their meal, shook, but
she answered simply: "If you please.
Michel."
"Well, the Glrondlns have been beaten,
my girl, and are flying all over the country.
Tnat is the news. Master Pierre is among
them, I do not doubt, if he has not been
killed already. I wish be would come this
way."
"Why?" she asked, suddenly looking up
at last, a flash of light in ber gray eyes.
"Wby?" he repeated, grinning across tbe
table at ber, because be would be worth
five crowns to me. There are five crowns, I
am told, on the bead of every Girondla who
has been In arm, mv girl."
The French' Bevolution, it will be under
stood, was -at its height The more moder
ate and constitutional Republicans the
Girondlns, as they were called worsted in
Paris by the Jacobins and the mob, had
lately tried to raise the Provinces against tbe
capital, and to this end bad drawn together
at Caen, near the border of Brittany, Tney
had been defeated, however, and the Jaco
bins, ia tbis mouth of August, were prepar
ing to take a learlul veugtance at once on
them and the Royalists. The Beign of Ter
ror bad begnn. Even to such a boor as tbis, '
sitting over his blark bread, the Bevolution
had come borne, and, in common with many
a thousand others, he wondered what he
could make of it.
The girl did not answer, even by tbe look
of contempt to which he had become accus
tomed, and for wbicb be hated her; and he
repeated, "Five erownsl Ah, it ia money,
shooting, laden with dancing motes. In
side he stood stock still until be bad re
gained the use of hiseyes, and then ha' be
gan to peer around him. In a moment he
found wbat he sought Half upon and half
hidden by tbe straw lay a young man ia
the deep ' sleep ot utter exhaustion. His
faee, which bore traces of more than com
mon beanty, was now white and pinched:
his hair hung dank about his forehead. His
elothes were in rags, and his feet.bound np
In pieces torn at random from his blouse,
were raw and bleeding. For a short while
Michael Tellier bent over him, remarking
these things witb glistening eyes, 'xnentne
peasant stole out again. "It is 5 crowns!"
he muttered, blinking in the sunlight" Ha,
ha! 5 crowns!"
He looked around cautioner, but Could
see no sign of his wife, and after hesitating
and pondering a minute or two, he took tbe
path lor Carbaix, bis native astuteness lead
ing him to sannter slowly along in his
ordinary fashion. Alter that the moorland
about tbe cottage lay seemingly deserted.
Thrice at Intervals the girl dragged home
her load ofstaw, bnt each time she seemed
to linger in tne barn no longer than was
necessary. Michel's absence, though it was
unlooked for, raised no suspicion in her
breast, for be would frequently go down to
the village to spend tbe alternoon. The sun
sank lower, and the shadow of the great
monolith, wbich. standing on the highest
point oi the moor, about a mile away, rose
gaunt and black against a roseate sky, grew
longer and longer, and then, as twilight lell,
the two coming home met a few paces from
tbe cottage. He a.ked some quesiioos about
tbe work she had been doing, and she an
swered briefly. Then, silent and uncom
municative, tney went in together. Thegirl
set the bread 'and cider on tbe table, and
earns to the great black pot which had. bees
simmering all day on the Are, poured aome:
broth into two pitchers. It did not escape
Miebel'a ruzal ere that there was still a'
little broth left in the bottom of the pot,sad
this induced a new teellng in mm anger.'
When his wife hailed him by a sign to the
meal, he went instead to tbe door andr!
fastened it Tbence be went to the corner
and picked up the woodchopper, and armed
with thii came back to bis seat
The girl watched his movements first with
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twilight was come, and tbe cottage was al
most dark, and she was alone with him; or.
It not alone, with no one near who could
help ber. Yet she met his grin of triumph
bravely.
"What is this?" she said; "why do yom
want thai?"
'THVie th ral " hm ftnnr.FP(1. trrfmlv ThLB
eyes an hers. ,
"Wby not use your stool?" she strove to
mnpnirtr mr Tioart siTnV?ntr - I.
"Not for tbis rat," be answered.
might not do, my girl. On, I know all
about it," he continued. "I have beea
down to the village, and seen the mayor, and
ne is coming np to letcn mm. tie nodded
toward the partition, and she knew that
secret was known.
"It Is Pierre." she said, trembling r
lently, and turning first crimson and th
while.
"I know it. Jeanne. It was excellent
you I Excellent! It Is long since yim haVa
done such a day a work.
"You will not give him no?"
"Mv faith. I shall I" he answered, tjfc
log, ann pernaps really eeling. wonder,
her simplicity. "He is S crowns, gi-
You do not understand. He is worth'
crowns, and the risk nothing at all."
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ii ue uau ltceu angry, or snowa aaytMl
oftheiuryo the suspicious huiband;llf
oeen aeout to ao tnis ont or lealonsy or
reage, sub wouiu nave quaueu oeiore
though she bad douehim no wroae-. s&vV
wrong of mercy aad pity. Bat Ms mm
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