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HOW TO II ft ZOO,
Points Ticked Up in Central Park,
Kevr Tork, That Aro Importaat
for Pittsburg Just Kow.
COST OF A TflOUSAKD ANIMALS.
The Carnivorous Animals Get Only One
Ileal a Day and Then EaTe to Fast
When Sunday Comet.
BEAES REQUIRE BREAD BI THE TOK.
TLs TcojostsM Sut to Kept st i Pohl Htu tflst
tit ixlmili Eijoy Wiea WCi.
IWSITTEX FOB Tint DISFATCH.1
Now that Pittsburg is to have a "Zoo,"
her people are anxious to know how it
should be conducted. New York has a
happy family of 907 members to look after,
and I went down there the other day to see
how the family is regulated.
Begular habits has much to do with the
pood health in the Central Park. One meal
a day is the rule, but the consump
tion of victuals nevertheless is enor
mous. The bill of fare shows little var
iety, but what is served is wholesome and
there is an abundance of it. The gentle
manly superintendent and solicitious physi
cian are combined in the person of Mr.
"William A. Conklin. He furnished me the
following, which will give you an idea of the
quantity oi nourishment the family con
sumes in the course of a year:
Three hundred and seven thousand eieht
hundred and ninety-one pounds hay, C80
bushels corn. 350 bushels oats, 125 bags bran,
156 hordes, 9,095 pounds fish, 2,915 quarts
milk, 32.S50 pounds bread, 1G bushels seed,
100 barrels apples, 44 barrels carrots, 850
head cabbige. Tne actual cost of this sup
ply in 1SS9 was 55.S6S 99, so that the average
expense to the city of each ot Mr. Conklin's
guests was 6 47.
MEDICINE FOK THE SICK.
This estimate would strike Tip, the senior
elephant, as a huge joke, while the three
toed sloth anil the Kinknjou might regard
the bill as exorbitant. The cost ot medicine
administered to the sick in the same time
was only $21 30, or between two and three
cents per head. The animals that eat meat
had to have ice, of course; the bill for that
was $141 25; lor heating in winter, 51,905 25;
rid n? lrom steamer or station to park,
5180 20.
The regular dinner hour in the menagerie
is 2 o'oclock. To remind them it has come
the animals need no gong or steam whistle.
Should the keepers fail to appear with their
baskets and trucks at the appointed hour an
uproar would be loosed beside which Bed
lam would be a pig's whisper. As it is, the
lions, panthers, tigers and all the cat family
begin to show uneasiness as the honr of 2
approaches, stalking up and down with glar
ing eyes and lashing their flanks with their
tails. The elephant changes from his cus
tomary attitude of receiving the small boys'
gi t, shi.ts in a see-saw fashion from one
ponderous foot to another, and his trunk
quivers in the air expectantly. The camel
lets out another link in his neck and the
pupil of his sapient eye distends. All the
aionkevs the Guinea baboon, the mandrill,
the pig-tailed and the spider monkey, and
all the other quaint fellows begin to chatter
and scratch themselves furiouslv; the bears
rub their noses and waddle to the front bars
of their great iron house, and the pelicans
yawp at the harking seals.
JL DiryEEKVT XE3SU FOB EACH.
"What is one animal's meat is another ani
mal's poison, and the largest leasts eat no
flesh at all. The elephant, for instance,
finds hay good enough for him; he tucks
away a bale of it every day. He is one of
the privileged guests and eats morning and
afternoon. In the summer grass is substi
tuted for hay. It is cut in the park and is
served to him as green and fresh as voung
lettuce. The American and Cape buffaloes,
the camels and the deer also find hay and
grass strengthening, the larger animals eat
ing about 25 pounds a day. But they can
not live by hay alone. The deer has, in ad
dition, a pint ot corn daily, which puts fat
on his ribs, and the other animals enjoy a
quart oi oats.
The bears are tremendous bread eaters.
Ten loaves a dav is the portion of each of
them. Superintendent Conklin wonld like
to give them corn bread, hut it's not on the
market. He savs it would hardly pay him
to establish a bakery for the bears and
other bread-eating animals, in spite of their
amazing appetites, so they are forced to put
up with wheaten loaves. The experiment
of feeding meat to the bears has been tried,
hut it makes their hair fall out, and a bald
bear would get scant attention from the
children. Twice- a week the big white
Polar bear has a change of diet, ahlnefisb,
a mes of tomoods, or any other fish in sea
son, being thrown to him. He is not squeam
ish about the freshness of it, and the other
bears do not disturb him as he bolts it, bones
and all. This is a concession to his Arctic
origin, and one of the tidbits that Host
Conklin allows his best behaved animals to
regale themselves of. His bearship could
manage to make out on a straight diet ot
white bread.
THE IXESH OP THE HOBSE.
Such a regimen, however, would ill suit
the vitals oi the cat family. No one could
expect the kingly lion, the royal Bengal ti
gar, the spotted leopard, and the sinewy ja
guar to put ud with baked flour and water,
and they don't. They eat flesh with real
bluod in it Had they a choice of meats,
they would prefer Juicy kid, or the second
cut of the sirloin of a beeve; but the tax
payer couldn't stand that; New York would
soon be in the hands, of the Sheriff. The
dish these noble animals eat is horse, and
old horse at that. "When the New York
horse gets rheumatic in his joints, wheezy
in his bellows, and hangs his head down to
his knees, he still has a chance to escape the
phosphate yard; he may be urged ud to the
park, knocked down by the horse butcher,
cut into stakes and chocs, and eaten bv the
king or queen of beasts. Superintendent
Conklin keeps a regular butcher to cut up
the meat of his cat family. As may be
teen by the above table they ate 156 horses
last year. Of course Mr. Conklin never
serves up a Salvator or a Sunol, not even on
feast days. A horse is a horse when dead,
and a $5 wreck is palatable enough to a me
nagerie lion.
These animals are rather particular about
the way their meat is put upon the table.
They turn up their noses at fat, and reruse
sinew and gristle. The meat is given to
them stripped of these, and without bone,
which they cannot digest An exception
must be made in the case of the hyena,
whose digestive organ is as elastic and as
similating as that of a Sonthside goat.
The hyena gets bones and gulps them.
TAKE A EEST ON SUNDAY.
A set quantity of meat is given to each
animal, according to his appetite and needs.
The big tiger leads off with 18 pounds; then
comes tho male lion with 15; the female,
14; leopard, 10; panthers, 8; prairie wolves,
3, and jjcUals 2. One day a week, invaria
bly Sunday, the meat-eaters fast. There is
no religion about this, but the expediency
of giving their organs of digestion a rest.
Mr. Conklin has fonnd that these animals
thrive better on six meals a week. "With
seven they become a prey to indigestion and
are very miserable. A curious thing about
tho Sunday abstinence is that the beasts
know when the day comes round as surely
es a divine who has two sermons and a
christening on his mind. Two o'clock Sun
day excites no craving in the stomach of
the Central Park tiger. "While on a week
day he is prowling and expectant as the
time comes on, Sunday finds him drowsy,
inert and indifferent. The sight of the
keeper who usually Drings nim his foodi
doo rjnt tflr him from his recumbent
posture. This is as true as the almanac,
and Mr. Conklin will swear to it ona
bound volume of the City Record.
Now the monkey is nicer in his diet By
reason of his extremely human appearance
he is privileged to eat twice a day; morning
and afternoon. His first meal is on bread
and milk, and his dinner consists of boiled
rice and apples. Occasionally, as a treat,
he gets a carrot It is great fun watching
the monkeys dine. They are terrible glut
tons, and shy in their gluttony- The strong
eat first, and the weak sit back and grim
mace and chatter in sharp anguish.
LITTLE MONKEYS MUST. TVAIT.
"When the larger apes are surfeited they
snatch up some tidbit an apple or a brown
crust and hold it behind their backs with
a benevolent expression that would have
brought tears of envy to the eyes of Mr.
Pecksniff. Altera while they invariably
forget all around the morsel and drop it
The shivering little monkeys, who have
prudently remained in the background
until the big fellows have made a clean
sweep of the best portions, rush to the .front
and fight for the discarded fragment, biting,
scratching and strangling one another, and
shrieking out monkey oaths in a high key.
As a gastronomic show, however, that of
the pelicans is the most unique and amus
ing. As soon as the keeper appears these
long-billed, grotesque birds get into line
like a squad of soldiers. Pish is their food,
and nothing else, three pounds per pelican.
The keeper, pausing in front of bird 'No. 1,
throws him a two-foot fish. With a gape
that almost divides him in two, the pelican
catches the fish dextrously and attempts to
swallow it whole. He succeeds if he hasn't
seized it tail first, in which case he has to
diseorge it and try again. Pelican No. 2
has now opened himself greedily and a fish
is fired at him. It is in his crop by the
time No. 3 has attracted the attention of the
keeper; and so on down the line, to the
paroxysms of delight of the children. The
seals and sea lions share an inclosure with
the pelicans and also live on fish. They
have hard times getting their own when
their long-billed chums are ravenous, but
the seals are lull of fight and respond to
every yawp of the pelican with a menacing
bark. "
THE SNAKES GOEGE THEMSELTE3.
The alligators are horse-eaters. Their
portion is ten pounds a day, from about May
to October. During the wjnter they eat
nothing, lying much of the time in a coma
tose state. The snakes dine once a fort
night The boa and the python gorge them
selves with a pigeon or a rabbit apiece.
The rabbits and the pigeons are bred in the
park for the purpose, as are also the toads
and white rats which are given to the smaller
snakes.
The burly hippopotamus has two meals a
day; in the morning a pail of crushed oats
and two pails of bran mixed together; and
in the afternoon ten loaves of bread. The
baby hippopotamus, now several weeks old,
is still suckling, but occasionally he picks
up a bit of bread and stows it away. Mr. and
Mrs. Hippopotamus take their bread in a
very undignified fashion. It is thrown to
them by the keepers, and they catch it in
their cavernous mouths without blinking.
The rhinoceroua has the same menu. Pap
won't do for the eagles. They want stouter
stuff, and horseflesh fills the bill. The vul
tures are in the same category. At 2 o'clock
daily several pounds ot horse flesh are
thrown into the big cage, and the birds par
take of it at their pleasure. Sometimes the
bald-headed eagle is so deeply immersed in
the retrospect of a hundred years that the
film over his old eyes shuts out the vulture,
voraciously helping himself, and when the
great American bird flops down to fill his
crop the buzzard is walking off with a
double portion.
A FACT AS SO TEMPEEATUEE.
The chief concern of Superintendent Conk
lin is to adjust the temperature in winter to
the circulation of his wards. In the monkey
houses, for instance, the thermometer must
stand between 65 and 70. Antelopes and
other indoor animals, such as the elephants,
lions and tigers, whose origin is semi-tropical,
must have a temperature of at least 60.
The camels, buffalos, Barbary wild sheep
and deer need no more protection in the
rigorous season than is afforded by their
wooden huts in the open air. The deer, in
fact, are friskiest when the earth Is mantled
with snow, and they prefer it to lie in to
their bedding of hay.
Of the sicknesses that afflict the denizens
of the menagerie, congestion oi the lungs is
the only one that excites grave apprehen
sion. Crowley and Kitty, the famous chim
panzees, whose intelligence was almost hu
man, succumbed to it, and so did the baby
hippotamus born during 1889. He lived
but four days, and an autopsy showed that
his right lung was congested. " Becently the
rhinoceros began to fail and his ailment
was diagnosed as a severe cold. A quart of
whiskey and Jamaica ginger was adminis
tered to him two or three times a day and he
pulled through. Last year a lioness, two
pumas, a llama, emu and sea eagle were
taken down with pneumonia and passed
over to the majority. The usual post-mortem
was held, and they were then stuffed
and mounted for the Museum of Natural
History. Among other losses were some
birds in the aviary that were eaten by rats,
and an elk who died of old' age. He was
killed and cut up by the butcher, and the
stomachs of the cat family were surprised
with a treat of venison.
QUININE FOB THE LIONS.
If the lions and tigers catch cold a dose of
powdered quinine is given to them in their
lood. They sometimes suffer from dyspep
sia, and a meal of liver set belore them is
readily devoured and acts as a cathartic
They seldom need treatment, however, for
any trouble except ingrowing nails. In a
savage state they keep their nails pared
down by clawing the trunks of trees. In
captivity the nails grow long and sometimes
penetrate the flesh of their paws. It then
becomes necessary to relieve the pain by re
moving its cause. A looped rope is thrown
down on the floor of the cage, the animal's
paws are caught in it and he is dragged to
the bars in such a position that the wound
can be operated upon. Pincers and a clip
with a pair of sharp shears do the work, and
the brute is released sound and cured.
There is absolutely no danger in this
treatment In tact the keepers never
enter the cages if it can be avoided. It
sometimes became necessary for Jake Cook,
who had charge of Crowley, to interview
that pleasing ape at close quarters and vig
orously remonstrate with him, as when he
seized a newspaper or a cap from a visitor
and proceeded to stuff it in his mouth for an
edible, but the keeper was not overanxious
to apply physical suasion.
Teeeenoe Talby.
KASONIC msUBAHCE IN OAHADA.
A Chisago Association Ordered to Quit Its
Dominion Business.
Chicago, Dec. 26. The report tele
graphed from Toronto, that the Northwestern
Masonic Aid Association, with headquarters
in Chicago, and having over $7,000,000
of insurance among the Masons in
Canada, had been ordered to quit
business in the Dominion, does not appear
to alarm the officials of that organization
in this city.
President Daniel J. Avery, of the associa
tion, says: "We accept only Masons in
Canada, and they cannot compel us to put
up the statutory deposit, which, by the wav,
is not $5,000,000, but 550,000, at a minimum.
Should we be compelled, however, to with
draw from Canada, our patrons there will
not be defrauded of the money they have
paid in."
An Awful Punishment.
Cincinnati Commercial Gaiette. J
Philanthropic Old Gentleman Why are
you crying, my little lad?
Little Lad I bought a stogie and was
smoking it when father came in, and he
P. O. Q. Whipped you, eh? But don't
cry.
L. L. N-n-o, he didn't whip me, hut he
said I'd hare to smoke it all, and boo
hoohl
HOBSFOKirS ACID PHOSPHATE
For Abase of Alcohol.
It relieves the depression therefrom.
THE EITAL LOTEES.
One of Alice UacGowan's Stories of
Ranche Life in Texas.
A PERSECUTION AND A MURDER.
Description of Fine Siding at the Christ
mas Tournament.
A HEETIKQ THAT ENDED" TWO LITES
rCOBBISFONDEXCK OP THE DISFATOB.1
Buena Ventuba BANCHE, )
Crockett County, Tex.,
December 24. )
WAS spending
trjr Christmas at Dos
Hermanos' sheep
ranche in South
ern Texas. It was
a big and beauti
ful ranche in a
beautiful country.
The boys had
worked hard all
day long on the
23d, when we ar
rived, - rigging
rings, making
lances and arrang
ing seats for a grand tournament on Christ
mas Eve; everybody was tired and by
mutual consent we went to bed early to be
ready for the next day's festivities.
When tho contestants all rode up and sa
luted, my eye was at once caught by two
figures that came from a tent a little apart
from the general camp In the draw. One
was a big Saxon blonde, 6 feet 2 or 3 inches
in height, with his fair skin burned to a
uniform dark red, from which a pair of fine
honest eyes looked out with startling blue
ness. His features were of a singularly
large and regular mold, with a throat and
chin so beautiful, a mouth so heavy, yet
correct, and a nose so high between the eyes
that it gave him a slightly bucolio look,
like ancient A polios. His proportions were
more fine and just than you would often
see in so big a man; he carried his head and
shoulders magnificently, and his bearing in
the saddle was past criticism.
A BOY AND A LOVEB.
Beside him rode a boy who might have
been 20; he was of ordinary size, slightly
but strongly built, had a pale olive face,
great black eyes and clustering, dark hair.
It was a face that somehow appealed to you;
although so full now of life and spirit, it
had a suggestion of keen sensitiveness, of
hidden capacity for suffering. He was on
an uncommonly fine and spirited black
pony, his saddle was of superb and ornate
Mexican workmanship, and a big white
sombrero, glittering with silver, shaded the
splendid eyes. While they paused in front
of us I saw him look among the spectators
as though seeking someone, then an electrlo
smile flashed over his face, he raised the big
hat and touched a knot of red ribbon on the
side of it I looked up and saw Louie, the
pretty 17-year-old daughter of the house,
blushing and bowing, and I smiled to my
self. "Who are they?" I asked Mrs. Plint, and
she replied quite as if I had indicated them,
"O, David and " "Goliath," I inter.
rupted.
"No, indeed; David and Jonathan. The
tall one is Paul Melton, a young sheep man
over on Live Oak; and the boy is his insep
arable, a sort of protege, and a partner, I
believe, in a small way.
A 'WORK OF BEFOITO.
"Mark used to drink and gamble,I think,
and young Melton got hold of him, straight
ened him up, and has held on to him ever
since. They are always together; you never
see one without the other."
Mark I don't believe I ever knew his
other name oarried off the most rings, and
rode up glowing with victory to crown
Louie queen of love and beauty. As I
looked away from the pretty picture I saw
the blonde giant standing near in a studiedly
unconcerned attitude, but with an expres
sion of affectionate pride on his great frank
face. After this we had a general display
of horsemanship and a great deal of sky
larking. There is no finer sight, to my
mind, than a troop of well-mounted men;
there is nothing arouses my enthusiasm ana
admiration more than fine riding. This is
true of a single horseman, and the
enthusiasm and enjoyment increase
in a geometrical progression with
the numbers of horsemen engaged.
Here there were 12 or 15, among the best
riders I have ever seen, all mounted on fine
and well-trained horses. It is very easy to
talk about picking up Jiandkprchiefs and
quarters from the ground, leaping on and off
a horse, or hanging on one side of him and
firing from under his neck, all the while
going at full gallop, but there are not so
many, even among thorough-going cow men,
who can perform these feats, as is supposed.
LIKE A THUNDEKBOLT.
However, there were several,in the party
that could perform all these and many more
to admiration; there was no poor or even
mediocre work. JToung Melton's riding was
something magnificent; he sat like a tower
on his strong iron gray, and as he came
sweeping down the trace the impression of
force and power was tremendous, over
whelming he was like an embodied thunder
bolt He bore down upon two fellows who
were racing, ran the gray between them,
grasped right and left and went on with a
man in each arm while the two horses sprang
away with empty saddles. Everybody ap
plauded loudly: "Melt's scooped the whole
race. Hurrah for Meltl" "What 'd ye
leave the horses for, Melt?"
But the boy's was a very form for the eyes
of young love to linger on. The spare
young outline, the lithe, springing grace,
the light alertness and vigor, and fearless
ness! He seemed a glowing incarnation of
youth and love and valor. Whether he bent
lorward or back, twisted sideways or sat
erect, he seemed just poised in the saddle;
every movement, every attitude charmed
and satisfied the eye with its perfection of
unstudied grace, like the something inef
fable in the slant of a bird's wing, the turn
of its glossy head or the glance of its quick,
bright eye. The big fellow rode as finely as
a man could ride, but there .was something
more than horsemanship in the boy's riding.
LOTEES IN THE WALTZ.
We danced that night to the peculiar and
beautiful Mexican music. A harp, a viol
and two violins, played by Mexicans who
were musicians all the time and shearers In
the season, comprised our orchestra. We
had the Golondrlna, La Paloma and soft,
dreamy, waltzes, with their singular inter
vals, piercing sweetness and unexpected
and tender accompaniments. .
1 saw my boy waltzing with Louie. They
came past me once and both young faces
were flushed and bright with smiles. Pres
ently they passed again walking and on
Mark's face was the shadow that somehow
I had felt a prescience of from the "first
The light was gone from his eyes, the
color and smile from his lips. Louie was
chattering gaily and laughing up to him,
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The Duel on tht Plaint.
but he looked past her, with a look of fierce
pain in the great black eyes, at a young
than, a new comer, on the other side of the
room.
"Come and look at the tables," whispered
Mrs. Flint We wept out, and in running
about, helping, arranging and devising, I
forgot the boy for a time.
Presently I slipped out into a side veran
da, to cool my heated face a moment in the
soft and chilly air. Almost simultaneously
with my opening the door two men rushed
together just in front of me with knives in
their hands, and the next instant the tower
ing form of young Melton dashed noiselessly
onto the porch. He plucked them apart as
though they had been two kittens, held the
stranger.in his right hand, fairly shaking
the knife from his grasp, and pushed Mark
gently but firmly toward me, against me,
and through the open doop.
EOTH COULDN'T LITE.
"Don't, Melt, don't," said the boy, "one
of us has got "
"Wait with him till I come back," said
young Melton, and away he went, carrying
the other fellow, like a rat, by the back of
the neck.
Mark turned on me a look of agonized
desperation, a face drawn and blanched and
.blackened almost beyond recognition, all
the beauty and softness struck out of it; the
great lustrous eyes blazing, the fine sensi
tive features quivering fiercely.
I slipped my arm through his and we
walked quietly up and down the silent hall
way. I could hear his heavy, gasping
breath. I could feel his heart leap, and his
frame tremble, and was still striving to
think of some word to say that might soften
the savage thrnst it must have been that
tore him so, when Melton came up to us,
and with a grasp of his hand and a kindly
look from his blue eyes, drew Mark away.
"Hullol Where's Jake Shackleford,"
called someone just as the pair went through
the gate.
"Oh, IsentLum home with him; he'd
got too much and was noisy," I heard Mel
ton rejoin in a lower key.
After they had left the crowd behind I
saw Melton's great arm thrown across the
boy's shoulders and was sure I heard a
choking sob.
A HUNT IN THE CANONS.
An hour later I saw them at supper, and
I do not think the others found anything
amhs; but to me there was visable a fleeting
but frequent shadow on the boy's face and
a pathetic solicitude and concern in his big
friend's manner. The next day, which was
Christmas, the men went bear hunting up a
very wild and rocky canon, while such of us
women folk as liked to ride and were fond
of sport set off to find a certain wildcat
that held forth in a low bluff some six or
eight miles away across the plains. Mr.
Melton was our guide and protector, while
Mark was dragged away by the bear
hunters.
As we rode home in the late afternoon,
full of scratches and glory, with a big cat
skin and a tiny, snarling puff of a kitten as
trophies, Mr. Melton and I got far ahead of
the others, and this is the story of Mark's
troubles, as he told it to me:
"His folks moved out to Esperanza, a
couple of miles above my sheep camn, about
four years ago. They were New England
people. Everybody hated thp old man on
sight He was a mean, close-fisted, cold
blooded, snakey sort of fellow. His wife
was a warm-hearted cwoman, bnt she hadn't
much sense. She ran the house, and him,
too, though, when it came to the pinch.
A SAD BETELATION.
"One day the old man, who was abusing
Mark, was so outrageous and insulting, and
called him snch vile names, that the boy
went and got down a gun to shoot him. His
motner screamed, threw her arms around
him and held him. I reckon she was wild
with terror, and she took Mark off and told
him how she was not his mother. His own
mother was a poor, pretty young servant
girl she had had in the first years of her
marriage, and whose ignorance and youth
her husband had wronged. The girl had
died and she had raised and loved Mark as
her own.
"Now, there was a nice thing for a 16-year-old
hoy to have to bear. He came
.down to my camp the next morning and
told me about it He sat about like some
poor dumb creature that's been one-half
killed by a bad shot It must be so, he
said, for this fellow Jake Shackelford that
came out with them and was afterward dis
charged by his lather, had told some other
people.
"I was awfully rushed with shearing, and
before I knew it the boy had gone. He
never was home again, but went up to
Esperanza and got a place in a lumber
yard. He made some awful bad plays, and
no wonder. He got drunk and got to
running with a gang of pretty tough men.
But the old lady always loved him; she
wrote to him, and finally went to Esper
anza, bought him an outfit and sent him
over to East Texas to sohool. He was away
two years.
THE BEAUTY'S CHOICE.
He hadn't been hack a month, keeping
books in Esperanza, when he saw Louie
Flint, whom Jake Shackelford was crazy iu
love with. Anybody would love the boy;
ot course Louie preferred him, so Shackel
ford, like the low dog he is, went about tell
ing his tale, and the next I heard of Mark
he was all broke up and drinking again.
"I went up and got him to go down to my
ranch w ith me. He's been with me ever
since. I've got a bunch of cattle and he
has charge of them. He never drinks, nor
gambles, nor swears; he's got lots of grit and
courage and he's all life and go; but there is
something like a wontan about him that
makes him more to me than any brother
could ever be.
"Can't he ride the prettiest you ever saw?
That saddle and sombrero of his are both
premiums lie won at roping contests and
tournaments. He"
We were within half a mile of the house
with one or two rises and dips between it
and ourselves. Suddenly a shot -rang out
on the still air, then another. My com
panion started, beckoned me, stuck spurs
Into his horse and launched forward like an
avalanche. I followed as fast as I could,
but I was fully five minutes behind him as
I rode over the last rise.
NEITHEB DID LITE.
There, in the hollow, was a group of men,
standing in the lull glory of a prairie sun-,
set, the golden splendor all about and upon
them. In the midst knelt young Melton
beside Mark's motionless form. Mark's
head was on his arm. I rode up and dis
mounted. The big tears were running down
his face as he tried to staunch the bleeding
of a great wound in the boy's breast
"O, Markl O, Mark!" he said.
In a moment later the fathomless eyes un
closed and gazed long and calmly into tbe
West; then turned suddenly toward Melton
with a look in their lambent depths, which
I can never forget.
"Melt, I'm glad," he said; then after a
pause, '.'It's better."
The look of yearning love and trust slowly
faded" from his eyes; then a mist clouded
their splendor, he turned his cheek upon
Melt's arm and breathed no more.
Pour men rode up on streaming horses.
"Where is he?" said Melton, rising and
struggling with his sobs.
"He turned and fired on us, and wo shot
him," said Mr. Flint. "Bennet's bringing
his body in." Alice MacQowak.
Holiday goods in shape of diamonds,
watches, jewelry and musical instruments
arriving daily. Largest Hue of musio
boxes, Gallingeb's,
Mtrsu 1200 Penn ayenue, 1200.
Ladies' long wraps at an unprecedented
reduction. Garments that were $25 and $40
now $5, $8 and $10. Huoua & Hacks.
TTS3U
With fine well-stocked warerooms, com
prising a complete assortment of foreign
and domestic wines and liquors of the best
brands known to the trade, the house of T.
D. Casey & Co. offers to its holiday patrons
an opportunity of purchasing genuine pure
liquors at a moderate price. Call at 971
Liberty street and examine the stock, "wsu
Call op 1626 and have Haugh &Keenan
send for your'furniture needing 'upholster
ing. su
Solid Gold Spectacles and Eye Glasses
At $3 CO per pair, regular price- $5, at
Hauch's. No, 295 Fifth avenue. Tusu
TIE LATEST DANCES.
New Figures and Combinations for
Lovers of the Had Whirl, .
A SUBSTITUTE FOE THE MARCH.
Galops and Waltzes That Are to ha Fash
ionable on the Floors.
SXHPH0SI OF MUS10 AND MOVEMENT
1WBITTEX FOB TBS DISPATCH.!
This is the age of conventions, and one
closed in Brooklyn the other day the issue
of whose deliberations ought to be interest
ing to hundreds ol thousands in this country.
It was a convention ot dancing masters, and
the professors of the art terpsichorean had
gathered there from almost every State in
tbe Union.
Knowing that the fashion of mad galops
and waltzing, which reminded one of the
charge of collegiate football players, had
temporarily, if not permanently, been
retired to oblivion, these composers
calculated wisely on the growing
tendency of modern dancing, which
is in the direction of quiet grace.
The majority of the productions submitted
at this convention were from Western pro
fessors, which shows plainly that the pre
vailing idea that the wild and wooly West
is far behind in the formulating of new
ideas is entirely erroneous. Here is a com
plete explanation of the new dances which
will be taught during the coming season:
TO ItEFLACE THE 2IABCH.
The assembly gavotte is enterely a new
production, and will no doubt soon take the
place of the timeworn march or promenade
which is now invariably used to open all
festive gatherings. It is the product of the
fertile brain of William Pitt Elvers, of
Brooklyn. The dance, which can be
performed to galop, schottische or
gavotte music, is introduced after the
preliminary rounds of the promenade. The
dancers form in two circles, one within the
other. Those iu the outer circle begin by
marching or gliding toward, the right, still
keeping the circle intact, while those of the
inner circle perform a similar movement,
but in the opposite direction. Alter several
of these revolutions the dancers composing
the outer circle gradually blend into the in
ner one, there being an opening left in each
circle opposite the same point
The members of the inner circle, by fol
lowing the end dancers of the outer ring,
gradually assume the positions of those who
changed to the inner circle. This is repeat
ed several times, the constant changing pro
ducing a dazzling effect upon the observer,
which is greatly intensified when the
dancers change from circles to spirals,
squares, octagons, etc, at the command of
the conductor.
THE MOVEMENT PEOPEB.
Any number may participate in this ex
hibition, the limit being regulated only by
the accommodation of the floor. In the
dance itself which immediately follows the
promenading' tho gentleman presents his
right hand, his partner giving her left. The
first movement is made by the dancers tak
ing four short slides, the gentleman with the
left foot the lady with her right foot Re
versing their positions an equal number of
slides are made in the opposite direction. In
the second position the gentleman takes his
partner in the regular waltzing position and
performs one complete revolution. Chang
ing from the waltz both partners face the
front and move forward in a walking move
ment It is here that the adaptability of
this innovation is readily seen when the
dancers take their position for a galop,
schottische or gavotte, according to the wish
of the partners. ..
Although this dance was not brought be
fore tbe convention, the unanimous indorse
ment which it received when explained to
the professor's classes and performed by
them, moved the latter to bring it to the
members' notice, in consequence of which it
has met with universal favor.
THE OX70BD WILL STAT.
Of the round dances the Oxford minuet
will stand pre-eminent, for in grace and
beauty it bids fair to rival the minuet of the
early part of the century. The movement
in the Oxford is not unlike that of the mili
tary schottische, although it partakes in
places both of the now obsolete minuet and
of our latter day galop.
Both partners advance four steps slowly,
changing hands and returning slowly to the
original position. The gentleman then
takes his partner in the waltz position and
dances to galop time, changing to a balance
movement, accompanied by quick musio.
NEW MOVEMENT TOE GALOP TIME.
L'Eclaire, a pretty dance to be done to
galop time, is expected to become quite pop
ular. The gentleman begins with the left
foot, the lady with the right, and makes a
Bhort slide sidewise. The right foot is then
drawn closely to the left, and a transfer of
the weight of the body made to it Leaping
backwards on the left foot he then slides
from the right to the side. The left foot is
again drawn to the right, and another slide
made from tbe right to side. Drawing the
left foot for the third time to the right, he
glides again to the side. Another drawing
of the left and a transfer of the weight of
the body to the'same, is followed by a spring
forward from the left to the right member
and a slide from left to side. Drawing the
right foot to the left, and sliding from the
left to the side, completes the dance.
The "Portland," a round dance somewhat
similar to the polka, begins with the lady
and gentleman facing to the front, the gen
tleman's right hand holding his partner's
left Four steps forward to polfca time
composes the first part In tbe second part
the dancers take the waltz position. A
glide sidewise, two glissades and a turn half
round to polka steps complete the dance.
Becommence with opposite foot
ONE OP THE LATEST.
- The "mettlesome" is another round dance.
It is performed partly to polka time al
though special music has been prepared for
it The couple stand close togethw-witU
hands crossed and facing the same direction.
Commencing on the loot farthest from the
partner, tbe lady's being the right and the
gentleman's the left, they glide forward one
step. Drawing tbe other foot forward, still
retaining the weight of the body on the
advanced foot, they hop forward, the other
pedal being pointed toe downward and the
knee bent Another hop is made on the
same foot, followed by i passing ot the other
foot in front, the limb being straightened,
toe still pointing down and outward. The
performers then slide the back foot forward
and the advanced one backward. '
Counting one, they again change their
position's, and spring on the advanced foot
with the other pointing in the same manner
as described above. Another spring and
the raised foot drops, and carries the weight
of the body. Crossing partner's hands the
couple slide forward on the foot farthest
from the partner, hop on the same and ex
tend the other foot to the side, keeping it
meanwhile upraised. Turning around they
recover their original position, and begin
again on the same movement
OOES TO THEEE MUSICS.
The Vienna is another production of the
season that is entirely original. It is also
classed among the round danoes. A pleas
ing feature or this terpsichorean novelty is
its adaptability to the musio for the galop
or polka, although speelal music has been
composed for it. Its graoe and deportment
will no doubt make it popular, for in many
ways it resembles the old minuet. It is
danced in two parts, the first part showing
the couple side by side but facing In oppo
site directions, the right hand being pre
sented. The first movement, a balance, is
followed by a "straspe," which is made
while the dancers count four. Turning to
ward each other they reverse their posi
tions and repeat the balance and strasDe.
The position assumed in the second part is
the same as in the waltz, tbe movement
consisting of a glide, sidewise, and q half
turn in one direction and a repetition of the
same in the opposite direction.
0f tbe .other new round dances which
await the public's endorsement the bizarre
and fascination waltzes head the list The
latter is a very graceful composition, and
cost its originator much time and patience
in arranging it It is the production of Mr.
D. S. Brencke, of Chicago. The bizarre is
the work of Mr. William H. Fletcher
Bivers, of New York City.
IWO 5EW EQUABE DANCES.
Only two square dances were accepted at
the convention, although there were several
submitted for approval. The two chosen
were the elite lancers and the melange
quadrille. Mr. M. B. Gilbert, of Chicago,
is the originator of the lancers, and from
the reports of the success which it has met
with iu the West there is little doubt that
it will become quite popular in the East be
fore the season is very far advanced.
It is composed of "five numbers. In the'
first number, the first four lead to the right
and salute. The same chasse outward, each
gentleman turning the lady opposite him,
with both hands, and passing her to his
right Forming lines facing original part
ners, first and second ladies move forward
and back, and then chasse outward and stand
on the right of the lines. First and second
gentlemen move forward and back, and
chasse outward and remain on the left of the
lines. All move forward and back in lines
and turn partners to places with right hand.
In tbe second number the first four move
forward and back. First and second lady
cross over, and chasse to the left First
gentleman and second lady and second gen
tleman and first lady join hands, the gentle
men taking the ladies' left hands in their
right. All chasse to the right First and
second lady pass to the left First lady
joins hands with third gentleman and
second lady does a similar movement with
the fourth gentleman, all turning half way
round and forming lines of three. Gentle
men face outward and the ladies face the
center. All chasse, lines moving to the
gentlemen's left. Return chasse, and all
turn partners to their places.
MOVEMENT IN LINES.
In the third number, the first four move
forward separately, and form lines of four.
All retire in lines, move forward and salute
and again retire in lines. Gentlemen, with
left hands, turn partners to places. In the
fourth number all turn corners half round
and salute, making an exchange of places
and partners. Turning new partners with
the left hand, gentlemen salute. All move
forward to the center and salute vis a vis,
afterward returning to their respective po
sitions. Ladies cross right hands and move
half way around. Changing to left hands,
they retire to their partners and turn with
right hands. All dance four times to regain
their original positions.
In the fifth and last number there is' a
grand moving to right and left, the side
couples leading afterward to right and mak
ing a grand salute. After separating from
partners and forming in lines facing each
other, all chasse to the left,. then chasse to
the right and repeat the march", the first
conple leading down the center, followed by
the other couples. All turn to right and
left to regain their places in line. All
move forward and back in lines, and turn
partners to their places. The second time
the first four lead to the right, the third
couple leading the march. The third time
the sides lead to tbe left and the second
couple lead the march. The fourth time the
first four lead to the left and fourth couple
lead the march, finishing with a grand right
and left movement. In the second and
fourth numbers the side couples lead the
figure. In the third and fourth numbers
the lead is made to the left, and when the
lead is made in that direction, the turn is
always made with the left hand.
AN INDIANA NOVELTY.
Last, but not least, comes the Melange
quadrille, the production of Prof. Oscar
Duenwig, of Terre Haute, Ind. It is di
vided into five parts or figures, each num
ber in the several figures being danced either
two or four times before continuing to the.
next The hrst ngure has for an Introduc
tion the waltz. After this introduction the
first four move half right and left, the side
couples on the half right The first four
move forward and back, followed by the
side couples, in a similar movement All
waltz and repeat, all bringing the perform
ers to their places.
The second figure has for its Introduction
the mazourka. All move forward and back.
Ladles form half chain and face new part
ners, all chasse-croicse and turn partners
with both hands; glide mazourka to finish
and repeat to bring ladies back to their
places. The introduction of the third figure
Is the schottische. All join hands and move
forward and back. First four turn half
right and left All join hands, moving for
ward and back, the side four moving half to
right and left Schottische to terminate.
The same maneuver is repeated to return
ladies to theirpUces.
. The introduction of the fourth figure is the
polka, opening with a grand chain half
round and a balance to corners; the move
ment terminates with a final turn with the
left hand. Bight hand is presented to part
ners and a grand chain to places completes
the figure; the Berlin polka to terminate.
The fifth figure opens with a grand square.
First four move forward and back, forward
again and salute, ladies balance to right and
exchange partners, waltz with new partners
to final. Each number must be repeated
four times. The dance concludes with a
grand waltz.
Of the dances which were approved of at
the meeting in 1889, and readopted at tho
last meeting, the Parisian gavotte, L' Berlin
polka and diamond lancers are the most pop
ular. Hand O'Keepe.
THE BAHCE IS JAPAX
Orientals B eglnnlng to Take Kindly to an
Occidental Custom.
Japan Matt
Tokio was unusually quiet on Monday
for an Emperor's birthday. The review of
the troops in garrison, which generally con
stitutes the prinelpal event of the day, had
to be postponed on account of His
Majesty's indisposition, and thus the
city remained undisturbed nntil noon,
when the boom of big guns rolled out from
the saluting battery and the ships lying off
Shinagawa. In the evening the Minister of
State for Foreign Affairs and Viscountess
Aoki gave a reception at the Bokumeikan.
A vast number were present, probably
1,500, including Princes of the blood, Min
isters of State, nobles, members of the corps
diplomatique, and other notables, official
and private, foreign and Japanese.
The building was beautifully decorated,
and though the crowd seemed denser than
ever, it was observed that, either owing to
special arrangements, or because considera
tion is becoming a more widely-practiced
virtue, a reasonable space was left for the
dancers. The Japanese have evidently lost
much of the enthusiasm which for a time
threatened to reconcile them to round dances
in Occidental style. The disposition to
take part in these was rarely evinced last
evening, but the square dances always en
listed a strong contingent of Japanese ladies
and gentlemen, who went through every
figure and step with precision.
There was, we regret to say, a total ab
sence of Japanese costumes, but it could
not be inferred that this was due to any re
vival of the fancy for foreign fashions on
the ladies' part. Bather must it be attrib
uted to the fact that what may be called the
foreign-frock-wearing section of the Tokio
fair sex alone were present Doubtless the
novelty of these huge balls has to a
great extent worn ofi, and Japan
ese ladies no longer emerge
from their quiet homes to - assist
as interested and slightly surprised ob
servers at entertainments not altogether con
genial to the national taste. Judging from
the demeanor of some of the guests, how
ever, it was conjectured that a ball, in west
ern style still presents novel features to cer
tain Japanese, for a numerous knot of gen
tlemen, probably provincial members of the
Diet, watched the proceedings with sedate
but palpable curiosity.
The Yokahama community was not very
largely represented, the long railway jour
ney and the unseasonable cold of the even
ing doubtless acting as deterrents. It need
scarcely be said that all the arrangements
were perfect, that the refreshments and sup
per were excellent, that the music was good,
snd that a brilliant display of fireworks de
lighted not only the guests, but also a con
course of thousands of sightseers covering
the Hibiya parade ground and the adjacent
streets.
BROOKS LAW TINKERING.
THE CHI2ZHB OF PHILADELPHIA T-Ttra
THE JUDGES.
Opposed to a Board of Excise Commis
sionersAmendments They Would Like
to Have Made Judge "White to Act
Again In Pittsburg.
Philadelphia, Dec. 27. The action of
the Philadelphia Judges in regard to the
Brooks law has excited discussion of that
law in every quarter. The Philadelphia
Judges unanimously decided that the duty
of granting licenses to sell liquor was not
properly-a judicial act, and declared that
they wonld not sit on the bench in a license
court They also adopted a memorial which
will be presented to the Legislature asking
that the power of granting licenses be placed
in a board of excise commissioners.
This action on the part ot tbe Judges has
stirred up considerable opposition, and a
committee appointed at a meeting of the
citizens of the county, and representing all
the various denominations and leading in
terests, has prepared a counter memorial to
the Legislature opposing the transfer of
power from the Judges. After reviewing
all liquor legislation, this memorial states
that it is impossible to avoid the conclusion
that when the Constitution of Pennsylvania
of 1790 and the succeeding Constitutions
speak of the Court of Quarter Sessions they
mean a court, one of whose duties it is to
hear and determine the question to what
persons and for what places liquor licenses
shall be granted when the Legislature re
quires them to do so; also that the Brooks
law is In harmony with the laws of 1830 and
1834 and ail previous legislation.
The committee suggests that the law he
amended as follows:
L That tbe Courts of Quarter Sessions of
Philadelphia and Allegheny counties shall
have tbe same power to grant onrefuse whole
sale licenses as the Courts of Quarter Sessions
have in other conntles ot the State where
licenses are granted under existing laws.
2. That spirituous or vinous liquors shall not
be sold In a less quantity than one gallon, and
malt or brewed liquors In a less quantity than
five gallons.
8. That no brewer, distiller or wholesale
dealer shall allow any liquor sold by him, her
or them to be drank npon the premises where
ALL AT A SACRIFICE!
We haven't the room to carry Holiday articles until next season, and wouldn't if we
could. Therefore all goods will be closed out immediately at about half price. Come at
once if you want any of ther extraordinary bargains offered.
2ryr --uh's GIFTS
Your Hew Year's gifts will cost bnt little money if you take advantage of this
special sale.
Prices cut to pieces on Plush and Leather Boxes,
Albums, Pictures, Derby Silverware, Hungarian
Art Goods, Easels, Match Safes, Manicure Sets, Etc.
FURS AND MUFFLERS.
Our entire stock of Furs will be closed out in short order. These prices will Mk
them, go, else we're badly mistaken:
All 75c Muffs reduced toJIOc.
All f 1 25 Muffs reduced to 75c
Beal Monkey Muffs reduced from $6 60 to $1 $0. '
Beal Monkey Muffs reduced from $7 50 to 13.
Silk Mufflers reduced from 81 25 to 65c .
Silk Mufflers reduced from $1 60 to 75o.
Silk Mufflers reduced from 52 00 to fX
JACKETS AND WRAPS.
Note these sweeping reduotiosj and 1 in need of winter garment tike our advice aa4
buy at once:
$10 00 Seal Plush Jackets now $ 7 65.
S12 00 Seal Plush Jackets now $ 8 75.
15 00 Seal Plush Jackets now ? 9 75.
(16 50 Seal Plush Jackets now $10 60.
Odds and ends in all departments have been marked down to figures proportiaaaUly
low. Make a tour ot each and seleot what you want
CPCPl A I ---TW8 week e w111 offer 660 Pairg flne BTeneh Woven Corsets, never b
OrCulHL fore sold under $1, at 75o a pair. Take your ehelct. They oeaie it
drab and white, are all new and warranted perftot fitting.
MILLINERY 'WAY DOWN.
In our Millinery Department, which is conceded to be the most complete In Western
Pennsylvania, final cuts have been made and the opportunity Is now offered t buy stylish
headgear at your own prices. The assortment is still large and with the great VaHety
shown it will be easy to make a selection.
P. S. New Embroideries, Laces and Underwear now opening dally.
t5?The balanoe of our magnificent stook of Holiday TJmbrellaj goes this week
gardless of cost to us.
peibaviT
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NOTICE!
TO ALL THOSE WHO ARE HOLDING
GUESS TICKETS IN THE PRIZE CON
TEST, TO HAVE THE SAME RECORD
ED AT HIMMELRICH'S SHOE HOUSE
BY TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30. OTHER
WISE THEY CANNOT BE RECOG
NIZED, AS THE ANNOUNCEMENT
WILL BE MADE JANUARY i, 1891.
SHOE HOUSE,
916 Braddock Avenue,
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Are cordially invited to call at once and examine our massive display of Holiday Qlftt,
we can show you girts suitable for the old and young, and at the verr lowest prices.
Oar line of watches It unexcelled by any house In this city. Diamonds In enonaoM
quantitlet,and Rings, Eardrops, Lace Piss, Chains, Bracelets, Charms, Silverware of every
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the same may he sold, distilled or stored, nor at
a oy place provided by such seller, distiller or
dealer for that purpose. x
Judge White will go upon the bench in
the License Court in Allegheny county ia
the March term, unaided by any of his asso
ciates. This is the third time tbe Judge
has been upon the Licence Court bench.
The work of the License Court is expected
to be more extensive than formerly, as many
of the old applicants, refused in former
years, have taken heart at the recent decis
ions of the Judges of the Supreme Court and
the remarks and actions of the Judges of
the License Court
INFANT PRODIGIES.
People Who Develop Remarkable Power
at an Early Age.
There have been many persons whom, if
we are to place full credence in their biog
raphers, Dame Mature has given an extraor
dinary share of precocity and cleverness.
Of these human marvels tsw have been mora
renowned than Anne Maria Schurman, the
little German girl who, at the age of
12, perfectly understood the German, Low
Dutch, French, English. Latin, Greek,
Italian, Hebrew, Syrjac, Chaldean, Arahio
and Ethiopian languages, besides having
hundreds of other accomplishments too
numerous to mention. At the age of 6,
without previous instruction, she cut
paper into remarkably delicate figures
in strange and curious patterns;
at 8 she learned to paint
flowers as true to nature as art could paint
them, after only nine hours' practice, even
exceeding her tutor in elegance of design
before tbe end of the third lesson. Her
talents for higher attainments did not
develop until after she had entered her
teens, when they were discov
ered in the following manner: Her
brothers were studying in an apartment
where she sat at hef work, and it was no
ticed that whenever their memories failed
she prompted them, this, too, without any
previous knowledge of their tasks except
that which she had gained in hearing the
boys crone them over. At tbe age of 15 she
had made startling progress in her studies;
especially was this true in regard to her
knowledge of the sciences, and her skill
in music, painting and sculpture
was also extraordinary. As an illustration
of her talent for modeling, we may mention
the fact that she once made an excellent
wax portrait of herself, taking the features
from a mirror which worked on a revolving
tripod. Almost every European potentate
has copies of her letters in their cabinets,
which are kept, not alone for the clearness
of their diction, but on account of the ele
gance of her style and the beauty of their
written character.
S18 00 Seal Plush Jackets now $13 CO.
(18 00 Seal Plush Sacques now $10 00.
$20 00 Seal Plush Sacques now $14.60.
$25 00 Seal Plush Sacques now $18 75.
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