T; . .- THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH SUNDAY, PEBRTTART' 22, 189L' IB 5 - 4 AT(CP D ' U ft Viii- Mrr - If r I M i ggj j.'H V AV esx(j A STORY OP FANCIFUL ADVENTURE. WRITTEN TOB THI DISPATCH BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, Axttlior of "Dr. Jehylt and lar. Hyde," and Other Notable Works, Besides Stories and Letters From the ' South Seas. STXOPSIS OF PKEYIOUS CHAPTERS. Keawe lived In the island of Hawaii. One day be arrived in San Francisco with 150 In his pocket. He admired the boautiful houses one In particular. The owner ol this invited him in and bold him the magic bottlo for bis 150. This bottle granted it owner's every wish save that of prolonged UTp. on condition that if the owner died with it in his possession be should burn in bell forever. Keawe soon roiretted his bargain, but could not get rid of his bottle. Then, de ciding to take the good along with the evil, he wished for himself a beautiful house. After hav ing nil his heart could wish he fold the bottle to Lnpakx Soon after he fell in lore with beauti ful Kokua. but when about to marry bcr be finds be has contracted leprosy. Then he starts to buy back the bottle that the Imp may cure him. CHAPTEK IIL Kever a wink coul.I he sleep, the food stuck in his throat; but he sent a letter to Kiano, and about the time when the steamer would be coming rode down beside the clitt of the tombs. It rained; his horse went heavily; he looked up at the black mouths of caTes aud he envied the dead that slept there and were done with trouble, and called to mind how he had galloped by the day be fore, and was astonished. So he came down to Hookena,and there was all the coun try gathered for the steamer, as usual. In the shed before the store they sat and jested and passed the news: but there was no mat ter of speech in Keawe's bosom, and he sat in their midst and looked without on the rain failing on the houses and the surf beat ing imong the rocks, and the sighs arose in his throat. "Keawe. of the Bright House, is out of spirits," said one to another. Indeed, and so he was, and little wonder. Then the Hall came, and the whaleboat carried him on board. The after part of the ship was full of Haoles whites who had been to visit the volcano, as their custom is, and the midst was crowded with Kanakas, and the lore cart with wild bulls from Hilo and horses from Kau; but Keawe sat apart from all in his sorrow, and watched for the house of Kiano. There it sat low upon the shore in the black rocks and shaded by the cocoa palms, and there by the door was a red holoku, no greater than a fly, and going to and ro with a fly's busyness. "Ah, queen of ray heart," he cried, "I will venture mv dear soul to win you!" Soon after darkness tell, and the cabins were lit up, and the Haoles sat and played at the cards and drank whiskv, as their cus tom is; but Keawe walked the deck ail night, and all the next day, as they steamed under the lee ot Maui or Molokji he was still pacing to and fro like a wild animal in a menagerie. Toward evening they passed Diamond Head and came to the pier of Honolulu. Keawe stepped out among the crowd aud began to ask for Lopaka. It seemed he had Consulting the Laicycr. become the owner of a schooner, none better in the islands, and was cone upon an ad Tenture as far as Pola-Pola or Kabiki; so there was no help to be looked for from Lopaka. Keawe called to mind a friend of hi6, a lawyer in the. town (I must not tell his name), and inquired of him; they said he had grown suddenly rich, and had a fine fine new house upon Waikiki shore; and this put a thought in Keawe's head, and he culled a hack and drove to the lawyer's house. The house was all brand new, and the trees in the garden no greiter than walking sticks, and the lawyer (when he came) bad the air of a man well pleased. "What can I do to serve you?" said the lawver. "You are a friend of Iiopaka's," replied Keawe, "and Iiopska purchased from me a certain piece ot goods that I thought ou might enable me to trace." The lawyer's lace became very dark. "I do not profess to misunderstand you, Mr. Keawe," said he, "though this is an ugly busiuess to be stirring in. Xou may be sure I know nothing; but yet I h.ive a guess; and it you would apply in a certain quarter, I think you might have news." And he named tbe-name of a mao, which again I had better not repeat So it was for days; and Keawe went irom one to another, finding everywhere new clothes and car riages, ana fine new houses, and men every where in great conteutmeut; although (to be sure) when he hinted at his business, their faces would cloud over. "No doubt I am upon the track," thought Keawe. "These new clothes and carriages are all the gilts of the little imp, and these glad faces are the faces of men wbo have taken their profit and got rid of the accursed thing in safety. When I see pale cheeks and hear sighing, I shall know that I am near the bottle." So it befell at last that he was recom mended to a Haole in Bentania street. When he came to the door, about the hour of the evening meal, there were the usual marks of the new house, and the young gar den, and the electric light shining in the windows; but when the owner came, a shock of hope and tear ran through Keawe. For here was a young man, white as a corpse and black about the eyes, the hair shedding from bis bead, and such a look in his coun tenance as a man may have when be is wait ing for the gallows. "Here it is. to be sure," thought Keawe; and so with this man be noways veiled his errand. "I am come to buy the bottle," said he. At the word the young Haole of Beritania street reeled against the wall. "The bottle!" he gasped. "To buy the bottle." Then he seemed to choke, and seizing Keawe by the arm carried him into a room and poured out wine in two glasses. "Here is my respects," said Keawe, who had been much about with Haoles iu his tme. "les." he added, "I am come to buy the bottle. What is the price by now?" AJ that word the young man let hit glass slip through bis fingers and looked upon Keawe like a ghost. "The price," says he, "The price! You do not know the price?" "It is for that I am asking you," returned Keawe. "But why are you so much con cerned? Is there anything wrong about the price?" "It has dropped a great deal in value since your time, Mr. Keawe," said the young man, stammering. f f 1 fc jj yf-M (Xr r V S f ffBfb OTTLE IMP Q) "Well. well. I shall have the less to pay for it," savs Keawe. "How much did it cost you?" The young man was as white as a sheet. "Two cents," said he. "What !" cried Keawe; "2 cents? Why, then, you can only sell it for 1. And he who buys it" The words died upon Keawe's tongue, pe who bought it could never sell it again; the bottle and the bottle imp must abide with him until he died, and when he died must carry him to the red end of hell. The young man of Beritania street fell upon his knejs. "For God's sake, buy it 1" he cried. You can have all my tor tune in the bargain. I was mad when I bought it at that price. I had embezzled money at my store; J was lost else; I must have gone to jail." "Poor creature," said Keawe. "You would risk your soul upon so desperate an adventure, aud to avoid the proper punish ment ol your own disgrace; and you think I could hesitate with loye iu front of me. Give me the bottle and the change which I make sure you have all ready. He is a 5-cent piece." It was as Keawe supposed; the young man had the change ready in a drawer; the bottle changed hands, and Keawe's fingers were no sooner claspedupon the stalk than he had breathed his wish to be a clean man. And sure enough when be got home to bis room and stripped himself before a glass bis flesh was whole like an infant's. And here w a the strange thing, he had no sooner seen this miracle than his mind was changed within him, and he cared naught for the leprosy, and little enough for Kokun, and bad but one thought, that here he was bound to the Bottle ImD for time and for eternity, and had no better hope but to be a cinder forever in the flames of hell. Away ahead of him he saw them blaze in his mind's eye, and his soul shrank, and dark ness fell unnn the light When Keawe came to himself a little he wb aware it was the night when the band played at the hotel. Thither he went, be cause he feared to be alone; and there,among happy faces, walked to and fro, and heard the tunes go up and down, and saw Berger beat the measure, and all the while he heard the flames crackle and saw the red fire burning in the bottomless pit Ot a sudden the band played "Hiko-ao-ao;" that was a song that he had sung with Kokua, and at the strain courage returned to him. "It is done now," he thought, "and once more let me take the good along with the evil." So it befell that he returned to Hawaii by the first steamer, and as soon as it could be managed he was wedded to Kokua, and car ried her up the mouutain side to the bright house. Now it was so with these two that when they were together Keawe's heart was stilled, but so soon as he was alone he tell into a brooding horror, and heard the flames crackle and saw the red fire burn in the bot tomless pit The girl, indeed, had come to Mm wholly; her heart leaped in her side at sight of him, her band clung to his, and she was so fashioned from the hair upon her head to the nails upon her toes, that none could see her without joy. She was pleas ant iu her nature. She had the good word always. Full of song she was, and went to and fro in the bright house, the brightest thing in the three stories, caroling like birds. And Keawe beheld aud heard her with delight, and then must shrink upon one side, and weep and groan to thiuk upon the price that he had paid for her; and then he must dry his eyes, and wash his face, and go and sit with her on the broad balconies, joining in her songs and (with a sick spirit) answering her smiles. There came a day when her feet began to be heavy and her songs were rare; and now it was uot Keawe only that would weep apart, but each would sunder from the other, and sit iu opposite balconies, with the whole width of the bright bouse betwixt Keawe was so sunk in his despair, he scarce ob served the change; and was only glad he had more hours to sit alone and breed upon his destiny, and was not so frequently con demned to cull a smiling face on a sick heart But one day, coming softly through the house, he heard the sound of a child sobbing, and there was Kokua rolling her face upon the balcony floor and weeping like the lost. "You-do well to weep in this house, Ko kua," he said, "and yet I would giye the head off my body that you (at least) might have been happy." "Happyl" she cried, "Keawe, when yon lived alone in your bright house, you were the word of the island for a happy man; laughter and song were in your mouth, and I Have Come to -Huy the Bottle. She Put the Mottle tn a Corner. your face was as bright as the sunrise. Then you wedded poor Kokua, and the good God knows what is amiss in her. but from that day you have not smiled, '01' she cried, 'what ails me. I thought I was pretty, and I knew I loved him; what ails me that I I throw this cloud upon mv husband?" "Poor Kokua," said Keawe. He sat down by her side and sought to take ner hand, but tb.t she plucked away. "Poor Kokua," he said again. "My poor child, my prettyl And I had thought all this w hile'to spare you! Well you shall know all. Then at least you will pity poor Keawe; then you will understand how much he has loved you in the past, that he dared hell for your possession, and how much he loves you still (the poor, condemned one), that he can yet call up a smile when he beholds you." With that he told her all, even from the beginning. "You have done this lor me?" she cried. "Ah, well, then what do I care?" and she clasped and wept upon him. "Ah. child!" said Keawe. "and yet.whcn I consider the fire of hell, I care a good deal!" "Never tell me," said she. "no man can be lost because he loved Kokua, nnd no other fault I tell you, Keawe, I shall save you with these hands, or perish iu your company. What! you loved me, and you gave your soul, and you think I will not die to save yon in return?" "Ah, my dear, you might die an hundred times, and what difference would that make?" he cried, "except to leave me lonely till the time comes ot my damnation." "You know nothing," said she; "I was educated in a school in Honolulu; I am no common girl, aud I tell you I shall save mv lover. What is this you say about a ceni? But all the world is not American. In England they have a piece called a farthing, which is about half a cent. Ah, sorrow!" she cried, "thlt makes it scarcely better, lor the buyer must be lost, aud we shall find none so brave 'as my Keawe! But then there is France; they have a small coin there which they call a centime, and these go five to the cent or thereabout. We could not do better. Come, Keawj let us go to the French Islands; let us go to Tahiti as fast :is ships can bear us. There we have 4 centimes, 3 centimes, 2 centimes, 1 cent ime; four possible sales to come and go on, and two of us to push the bargain. Come, my Keawe, kiss me and banish care. Kokua will defend vou." "Gift of God," he cried, "I cannot think that God will punish me for desiring aught so good! Be itasyou will, then; take me where you please; I put my lite and my salvation in your hands." Early the next day, Kokua was about her preparations. She took Keawe's chest that he went with, sailoring; and first she put the bottle in the corner, and then packed it with the richest of their clothes and the bravest of the knick-knacks in the house. "For," said she, "ire must seem to be sick folk, or who will believe in the bottle?" All the time ot her preparation, she was as gay as a bi d; only when she looked upon Keawe, the tears would spring in her eye and she must run and kiss him. As for Keawea weight was off his soul; now that he had his secret shared, and some hope in front of him, he seemed like a new man, his feetwentlightly on the earth, and his Dreath was gnod to him again. Yet was terror still at his elbow; and ever and again, as the wind blows out a taper, hope died in him, and he saw the flames toss and the red fire burn. It was given out in the countr ' they were gone pleasuring to the States; which was thought a strange thing, and yet not so strange as the truth if any could have guessed it So they went to Honolulu in the Hall, and thence in the Umatilla to San Francisco with a crowd of baule. and at San Francisco took their passage by the mail brigantme, the Tropic Bird, for Papeete, the chief place of the French in the South Sea Islands. Thither they came, after a pleasant voyage, on a fair day of the trade wind, and saw the reet with the surf breaking and Motuti with its palms, and the schooners riding withinside, and the white houses of the town low down along the shore among green tree, and overhead the mountains and the clouds of Tahiti, the Wise Island. It was judged the most wise to hire a house, which they did accordingly, oppo site the British Consul's, to make a great parade of money, and themselves conspicu ous with carriage and horses. This was very easy to do so long as thev had the bottle in their possession, for Kokua was more bold than Keawe, and whenever she had a mind called on the imp for 20 or 5100. At this rate they soon grew to be remarked in the town; and the strangers from Hawaii, their riding aud their driving, the fine holokus and the rich lace of Kokua, became the matter of much talk. They got on well after the first with the Tahitiau language, which is lit? to the Ha waiian with a change of certain letters; and as soon as they had any freedom of speech, began to push the bottle. You are to con sider it was no easy subject to introduce; it was not easy to persuade people you were ic earnest; when you offered to sell them for four centimes the spring of health and riches inexhaustible. It was neces sary besides to explain the dangers of the bottle; aud either people disbelieved the whole thing and laughed, or they thought the more of the darker part, became overcast with gravity, and drew away from Keawe and Kokua as from persons who had dealings with the devil. So lar from gaining ground, these two began to find they were avoided iu the town; the children ran away irom them screaming, a thing intolerable; to Kokua, Catholics crossed themselves as they vent by; and-all persons begati with one "accord to disengage themselves from their ad vances. Depression fell upon their spirits. They would tit at night iu their new house, alter a day's weariness, and not exchange one word; or the silence would be broken by Kokua bursting suddenly into sobs. Some times ihey would pray together; sometimes they would have the bottle out upou the flior, and sit all evening watching bow the shadow hovered in the midst At such times they would be ufraid to go to rest; it was long ere slumber came tn them, and if either dozed off it would be to wake and find the other silently weeping in the dark; or perhaps to wake alone, the other having fled from the house aud the neighborhood of that bottle to pace under the bananas in the lit tle garden, or to wander ou the beach by moonlight One night it was so when Koku awoke. Keawe was gone; she felt in the bed, and his place was cold. Then fear fell upon her and she sat up in bed. A little moonshine filtered through the shutters; the room was bright, and she could spy the bottle on the floor. Outside it blew high, the great trees of the avenue criedout aloud, and the fallen leaves rattled in the veranda. In the midst of this Kokua was aware of another sound; whether of a beast or of a mau she could scarce tell, but it was as sad as death, and cut her to the soul. Softly she arose, set the door ajar and looked forth into the moonlit yard. There, under the bananas, lay Keawe, bis mouth iu the dust, and as he lay he moaned. It was Kokua's first thought to run for ward and console him. Her second potently withheld her. Keawe had borne himself before his wife like a brave man; it became her little in the hour of weakness to intrude upon bis shame. With the thought she drew back into the house.. "Heaven," she thought, "how careless have I been, how weak! It is he, not I, that stands in this eternal peril; it was he, not I, that took the curse upon bis soul. It is for my sake, and for the love of a creature of so little worth aud such poor help, that he now beholds so close to him the flames of hell, ay, and smells the smoke oi it, lying witnout there in the wind and moonlight Am I so dull ot spirit that never till now have I surmised my duty? or have I seen it before and turned aside? But now, at least, I take up my soul in both the band of my affection; now I say farewell to the white steps of heaven and the waiting faces of my friends. A love for a love, and let mine be equaled with Keawe's! A soul fpr a soul, and let it be mine to perish!" . " ITo be continued next Sunday. HOBSFOBDS ACID PHOSPHATE For Wakefulness, Hysteria, and other diseases of the nervous system. GOTHAM SMALL TALK. Murray Turns in a Choice Collection of Short Interviews. GOOD ST0EY OP A EAILROAD PASS. The Onyx ling Predicts a Palace Hade of the Translucent Stone. A TBAYELER WII0 L0YED SNAKE HEAT tCOERLSPONDSXCE OF THE DISPATCH.! New YoRK,.Feb. 21. My short inter views for this week include the following, which are of more than ordinary interest: How He Beached Huntington's Heart Ei. newspaper man Some years ago I had a queer experience with the railroad magnate, Collls P. Huntington. I was doing some corre spondence tor a San Francisco paper, bnt it was at sach long intervals I rarely ever had any ready cash to show for It My desire was to get to San Francisco, whereT came from to New York, but Ineverfiad enough money to take mo as far as Washington. I called on Mr. Huntington, told him who I was and the paper I represented. He Immediately straightened himself in his cbair ami said: "It is a black mailing sheet, repeating It over several times In a vehement way, much to my discomfiture. When 1 asked him for a ticket to ban Fran cisco he again p lid bis pessimistic respects to the character uf the paper I was representing. I informed blni that 1 was not the editor of the paper and had nothing to do with shaping its policy. He told me to bny my ticket I said I was "busted." Then ho argued that I might as well be "busted" here as in San Francisco. I was Arm and declared that I bad to have a pass ticket, because it was a sad dilemma of fish or cut bait He intimated that I might do either without discommoding him in the least Finally I said it was a "ground hog" case, and I wanted to get back to my native beatb (I was born in Indiana) and starve, if 1 had to, gazing upon the calm waters of the Pacific Ocean, where I bad often bathed when an innocent boy. Well, a mighty change took place in the great railroad man. He touched an electric button. A clerk came in and received this message: "Have a pass made out for Mr. Blank from bere to San Francisco!" I then regretted very much that he did not have charge of the Pullman Palace cars so I could have asked for a lower berth or a section to ban Francisco. I am a railroad man myself now, and I imagine I knew just bow Hunting ton felt when I named the paper that had been attacking him so fiercely. Tho Profit in Quick Hunches. Koung lady behind a downtown quick lunch counter If I ever get enough money ahead I intend to go into the lunch business, because it pays a large profit Take sardine sandwiches, for instance, which sell at 10 cents. About seven sandwiches can be made from one box, and the cost of the bread for them all will not bo over 5 cents. The wholesale price of small siied boxes of sardines will average from 8 to 10 cunts a box, so on an outlay of Id cents there is an inome uf 70 cents, or a clear profit of S3 cents. Hard boiled eggs that are pnt down on the bill of fare at 5 cents earb cost the pro prietor by the dozen 2" cents. His profit is over a hundre'! per cent. You see. 1 have poured on the lunch counter business even if I do wear a white aprou and nand victuals overall day long to hungry gentlemen. Of course there are some things which do not have much profit in tuem. such as apde or peach pies. The fruit costs a good deal and requires plenty of sugar ing. There lb a pi ott- made on coffee and tea, but not much on milk. I've got so I can tell a sandwich gentleman from a pie gentleman as soon as he sits down to thn counter. Tronbles of Hotel Detectives. A hotel detective If anyone thinks I have a soft snap I would just like for bim to try it for awhile. One day a guest lost his sleeve but tons, and for two months I did nothing but look for them, and came very near arresting several innocent bell boys, ills sleeve buttons proved to be plated gold, and were found in a pair of cuffs he bad put iu the bottom of his trunk. But women give ten times more trouble tban men. Ihey are aluayslosing something m the jewelry Hue. Instead of depositing their jew elry with the clerk thev prefer running the ri-k of losing half a dozen cems. Often thoy misplace a gem, and there is the mischief to paj. They want to see somebody arrested rightaway. One time I was notified bv a lady, whose husband is several times a millionaire, that she had lost a diamond ring valued at 1,000. I made an Investigation, and su-picion did not attach to any one in particular. But she insisted that I must make an arrest, and so I arrested her maid. The lady became very in dignant at the idea of my suspecting, much less arresting, her maid. I sai'l I could not help it and regretted that I would have to take her maid to a police nation house. I so frightened the "innocent" maid that she brought forth the ring. The lady did not dis charge but kept the maid in her service. Care lessness is the chief reason for losing anything in a big hotel. My advico to guests is never tn expose jewelry in their rooms. Never keep valuables in a hotel room, except those always worn on the person. A "Woman Oat Shopping. Colonel J. R. Furname I was passing along Fourteenth streot recently with a friend, and meeting a lady, who evidently was on a regular shopping expedition, I poltely lifted my hat and bowed. She looked at mo iu a blank kind of a way and never returned my salutation. My friend, very polite, had lilted his bat also. I could see he was very much embarrassed, thinking I was snubbed or had played a llttln joke on him, so I said: "Tho lady is my wife." "Your wife, and never recognized vou?" he re piled with an incredulous luak. The lady was my wife, and w as soabsorbod in her shopping tht although she saw me. she looked upon me as a species of mankind iu general and did not recognize me. Shopping is more intense and absorbing than love or any abstraction of genius. When I told my wife I had met her she could scarcely credit it Getting Out an Illustrated Paper. W. J. Arkell, onnerof a weekly illustrated paper ortno I had much rather get out a daily tban a weekly paper. So many pictures have to be killed in a weekly illustrated paper on account of events happening sooner tban expected. And than fo many pictures have to be kept on hand to be ready for any emergency. Why I have had one of my papers made up five or six times before it could go to press. J ust as the form would be ready to go to tho press something would coma in on tho wires that would require an entire change of pictures on some of the page. But these are tint tho only drawbacks. Artists are men of genlu, at,d instead of their coming to jou tn get work you havo to go to them, knock at their doors, take off your hat and go in and plead for what vou want done. I am not drawing on my imagina tion, but stating cold facts. I always like for an artist to have an interest in my paper, and then I can, as a rule, count upon his co-operation. He Lived On Snake Meat General James K. Furlong, once on Grant's staff I have traveled all over Asia and Kurope and have had some queer experiences. Becom ing satiated with travel and sight-seeing, I con cluded to remain in Montcbooris, a provinca iu China, a month or so. Every day my cook served me with a kind of pot pourri, a mixture ot rice and other things. I enjoyed the pot pourri every day for a month aud then my ap petito for it was killed. Returning from a reed b:rd1iunt I came upon the house I was living In from tho rear. I saw my Sepoy servant busily engaged In chopping small black snakes into small fine bits, when I asked him what he was cutting up snakes for, he replied: "Whv for you to eat, Sabib." I told him I would not eat one for any amount of money. Then the Sepoy grinned and cnoly informed me that the chief mgrediebt in the pot pourri was snake. Tbat cured me of eating any kind of a gumbo mixture that came along, especially whilo I remained in the Orient Tricks of the Great Specialists. Charles EL Coon.cx-Asslstaut Secretary of the Treasury A mau wbo has a big reputation as a specialist, often has away of prolonging mat ters rather to the patient's detriment While I was in London several cars ago I bad some kind of throat disease that required a surgical operation. 1 went to a famous specialist and had him examine my throat carefully. He said be would have to operate, but tbat my throat would need "touching up" for several weeks. I went several days and had my throat "touched" by the great physician. TLen he left the city for Germany and bis assistant took his place. Well, I did not care to have his assistant take charge of the case, 'and so I con cluded to wait for the return of the f pecisllst. One evening I called upon an old friend of mine, a surgeon in the British army. He was in bis army quarters, and in tho course of con versation 1 told blra who I bad treating my throat He looked into my throat and asked me to He down on the sofa. "It won't hurt yon, and in two minutes I can perform the op. eration," he said. Well, I scarcely felt it and wheal offered him a sum of money be said it was merely a friendly operation, not difficult, and there was no charge. Very soou I was en tirely well, and sent the great specialist pay for his "touching up." 1 was Informed by one who knew that my billlwould have been quite- a small fortune if I had had the operation per formed by the specialist We often ignore the fact that doctors wbo have no great reputation sometimes have great skill and do not prolong cases. A Gift From Prince Bismarck. Count de Wartegc, husband of Minnie Hank There afo things that money cannot buy, although they have no intrinsic value. Bis marck has heard my wife sing often, bnt he never sent her any special token ot bis pleasure until recently, when he gave her his photo graph with bis autograph attached. As be never gives his photograph with his autograph, i certainly prize the compliment to the prima donna. He gave ber this token of his admira tion last January. We all consider Blsolarck a grand old man and Germany's benefactor. Redeeming Feature of Philadelphia. Dr. Horatio Guzman, Nicaraguan Minister at Washington If I should be asked about.tbe young ladles in the United States I would first pay a tribute to those who live In Philadelphia. The Quaker City young ladies are beautiful. On the streets and in the drawing rooms beautiful young girls can be seen. They am beautiful in the aggregate and are not confined to isolated cases. It is Pimply a characteristic of the Philadelphia girt to bo beautiful. In New York there is a great deal of style. The young ladle-i are attractive and charmingly stylish. Boton can boast of literary looking young ladles, and thoy have many lovely charms. Of course this is my observation. I do not pretend to speak as one who bad made the question a special study. There are beauti ful girls in all the cities, but the predominating characteristics in each city aro noticeable. The Massachusetts Liquor Law. Ex-Governor Oliver Ames, of Massachusetts We have a great deal of trouble in my State about liquor laws. The man who goes into a saloon in Boston, instead of standing up by tho counter and ordering his drink in the usual way, has to take a scat at a table and order a sand wich or something eatable and with ithls drink. It is the old victualling law revived by Governor Brackett It Is a mere subterfuge and liquor is drunk all the same. Looking over the statutes the Governor discovered the law and badit pnt into operation. There is no doubt tbat It helped to defeat bim. Men, when theydrlnic, as a rule, prefer to decide for themselves whether they shall sit or stand. What Is the ditference between drinking whisky standing or sitting, is more than I can see, as it manages to be drunk all the same. Danger in Cheap Sponges. A druggist of experience For the past SO years I have dealt in sponges, and few people have any idea of the great difference between a cheap and high priced SDonge. A fine sponge h properly cured is more lasting than and gives mora satisfaction tban a dozen cheap ones. The cheap sponges soon fall to pieces from use and soon refuse to soak much water. But there is real danger tn small cheap sponger pur chased at anv third class place. la tbe big hospitals a great many sponges are used in washing out wounds. These sponges are thrown or given away, and by a process of bleaching aro made to do duty again. They are sold by dealers who have no reputation tb lose. Of course they are cheap. Wbo wants to have a sponge that has washed out many wounds, fresh or old, to be rubbed over his face or on his person. A good, fresh sponge is certainly as healthy as any towel or cloth used for tbe same purpose. There are spjnges and sponges. Teaching the Heathen Chinoe. A young lady who teaches Sunday school les sons to two Chinese boys in an Episcopal church on Fifth avenue My two sons of the Flouery Kingdom can speak but little English, but I really thiuk they have a good idea of Christ and His mission on earth. Tbey seem very apt at learning and kneel and stand up at the proper time during church services. Both of them wear cues though, and would not part from them for any consider ation. It took me a long time to make them understand tbat Christ was divine. They im agined He was an idol tbat had been tound over 1800 years ago at Bethlehem, in J uilea, and had been" buried alter having been exposed on tbe cross, and then stolen and hidden by those wbo worshiped the idol. It was hard to get them away Irom the Joss idea. One of them asked me if God was buried in Judea as well as His son. When I explained that tbey lived above the clouds an incredulous look came upon the boys' faces and one said: "Melican man bab tings way up." I could not deny that we worshiped a being far above us, but all around us. How long did it tike me to make them understand tbe divinity of Christ? Well, nearly tour years. They are bright boys. Ochiltree Will Not Plead Guilty. Colonel Thomas P. Ochiltree, cosmopolitan It Is generally supposed I play cards, and tbat at pnkorM am an adept I scarcely know the gamo and I rarely ever touch a card, and then it is only in a social way. Some very large sized poker stories have been credited tome, but that Is something I do not do gamble. I know poker is considered a national game, and not to play it well Miows a lack of a certain kind of American polish, but I acknowledga mySleficieucy cheerfully. To mv mind there are other games as entertaining as poker, such as whist cribbage aud eucnre. I presume the absorbing and perennial interest in poker is all owing to the large amount of money at stake. Once and for all, I want it distinctly under stood that I am not a card player, and never have been. As for gaming, well, my opinion is contained in these lines paraphrased from the Latin: Gaming, that direct felon of the breast Steals more than fortune from its wretcbed thrall: Spreads o'er the soul the inert devouring pest And gnaws, and rots, and taints aud ruins all I Flirting O vor the Wires. A young woman telegraph operator in New York City Is there much flirtation over the wires? So many have asked me this questionl During certain business hours there is little time to flirt or seud conversa tion messages. Now, I bavo chargo of an office somewhat uptown, and naturally nearly all my mes-ages go" direct to the Western TJuion building, and I know tbe operators on duty as receivers. Soma months ago I received a message from an office not so farfromme. As soon as tbe instrument began to tick I knew a man and a rapid operator was at work. I asked bim to go slow. Thereupon he ticked this on! to me: "Has tbe strawberry blonue been taking soothing syruu?" It made lueitirious audi ticked back: 'VNune of your Impertinence. Sir Impudence." Then ho answered: "Come to sea me, Daisy mine, when you are rested." I took the message, and as soot, as I Could I sent for my orother to go and settle with thu impudent operator. Ilo took the elevated cars and returned in an hour and a bait smiling as if a splendid joke had been plajcd upon me. The impudent operator was a woman who weighed over "00 pounds. She had come in from some neighboring city to see a friend of hers, tho telegraph operater (a young woman) who was in charge of tbat special telegraph ofilee, and the tilt with me was merely to guy me. There is not much talking over the wires. It is a sign language, and wbeu a girl cannot sea anyoue his conver sation is not highly appreciated. A Confession From St Louis. Congressman IV G. Neidringhaus. of StLouis Although I reside In St Louis, I would cer tainly like to see the World's Columbian Falra success. I am not so narrow gauge, so canker eaten with jealousy, as not to wish success to Chicago. A few men in St. Louis beat torn toms.sent off firecrackers and hurried to Wash ington to ask Congress to send the fair to St Louis. Tney were not our most prominent cit izens and simply represented themselves. Wo really did not want the white elephant It is not a case of sour grapes: but St Louis, in truth, did not want the World's Fair. We hava a great, expanding, perennially interesting aud never boasting cltv, and we can afford to reach out tbe great hand of friendship to any city, es pecially Chicago, and say: "God speed you; we wish you success and will do all we can to help you, but we are not abxlous for the white ele phant" We must all put our shoulders to the w heel and'work for success. ,- A Solid Edifice of Onyx. William Cooper, Mexican onyx king There' is enough onyx iu Mexico to last about a de cade,Nand then it will become an extinct ma terial, unless mines are discovered elsewhere. Such a great demand exists for onyx, both in this country and Kurope, I cannot supply with all my mines. I keep hundreds of miners at work quarrying onyx, and jet I cannot half supply the demand. No man now would think of erecting a One bouso without having the in terior decorations largely composed of the finest onyx. A certain millionaire who is build ing a house ou Fifth avenue intends to have a grand staircase of onyx which will cost some thing like 300,000. The famous stairway of the famous "peacock" mansion of Mr. Leland In London will sink into insignificance beside this frand Corinthian stairway of translucent onyx, expect to see a solid odlflce of onyx in this city. It would stand longer than the Coliseum. Chables T. Muekat. It Takes Land to Speculate. Boston Commercial Bulletin. J "Sid the grocers maka anything on sugar?" asked Lamkiu. "Yes," said Broker Margin, "thoie who had any tand did." WASHINGTON GOSSIP. Carpenter Collects a Lot of Interest ing Short Interviews. SOME VEEY KAP1D U0NEI-MAKIHG Speaker Eeed 837s Newspapers Slight tbe Kewa of Congress. THE POLITICAIi DRIFT FOE 1892 tCOREESFONDINCE OT TUX BISF.i.TCn.1 "Washington, Feb. 2L It is a liberal education to live in Washington. Every other man yon meet here, is distinguished for something, and fresh information and bright stories dropout in ordinary conversa tion faster than did" the pearls and diamonds from the mouth of the good little girl in the fairy tale. The following are the gists of short talks which I have bad during the past few days with distinguished characters. I give them as nearly as possible in their own words: " Selling Our Gold Abroad. Governor Rodman M. Price, of New Jersey The United Btate3 made a great mistake when it first permitted our gold to go out of the country. 1 am abont 75 years old now and I was In San Francisco in 1815, acting as Navy Agent of the Pacific coast, and I had instruc tions to give drafts on the Uni-ed States Treasury for all tho gold tbat was brought in to me. In this way the Government practically controlled tbe gold product of California, and. bad we continued to receive gold in this way, the balance of trade would never have gone against us and we would have tbe best credit of any nation in the world. The Government made money by it too for tbe cold always overran what we paid for it when It was re-weighed at the mint. 1 was in California when gold was discovered and my money drove the first pile in the harbor of San Francisco. Did I make anv money out there? Yes, I did, but I made itout of real estate rather than gold. I bought a lot in San Francisco one day for 51", and I sold it ins'de of a year Tor $100,000. and dnnng those booming times I made $3,000,000 In three years. I was one of the first candidates for Congress in California, was elected and counted nut. The election took place in the spring of 1850. I came back to Now Jersey as soon as tbe matter was settled and ran for Congress there and was elected and got my seat. Sojou see I ran for Congress on tbe Pacific and tbe Atlantic slopes during the Bame year and for the same Congress. Senator Tabor as a Money Maker. Senator Teller,- of Colorado 1 supposo the most remarkable instance of money making in Colorado was that of Senator Tabor. Tabor put $S0 Into a mlue and got out tl.WJO.OOO. He grub-staked two prospectors, and they dis covered tho Little Pittsburg. After tbey had found It, the prospectors were offered JS'X) for a third interest in tbe mine, and they asked $1,000. Tabor, who was then a grocer, was mad because they would not take tbe !800, and he growled as they went on to develop it. He changed his tune very soon, however, for they took out (600,000 the first year, and not long after this Talmr came down to Denver and called on ex-Senator Chaffee. I w.is present when he came in. He told Mr. Chaffee that he wanted o buy out onp of bis partners and he wan'edtoborrowJOO.OOOtodoyr. Chaffee did uot lend him the money, but 1e afterward got It of someone else, and he soj , ut 0j3 interest in the mine to Chaffee and otber3 for $1 000 0T0 J!lJln,3Xs.'wi.Jt 'u other mines, and he made $3,000,000 inside or a year. He has lost some money and be has made some since then, but I doubt whether he is worth more than this anion lit to-day. Colorado is full of possibili ties. Prospectors are eoing through the moun tains by tne hundreds, and the chances for finding big mines are as good as they ever were. A Tunnel Under Bering Strait. Dr. Sheldon Jackson, the Alaskan educator A railroaa may be some day put across Bering Strait, but if so it will bavo to go under the water instead of over lr. The distance from America to Asia at this point is 40 miles, and a tunnel might be used. Tbe breaking up of the ice and the current Is such that it would destroy any bridce that could be made, and the only other means nf crossing would be by ferry boats in tbe summer and by reindeer sledges in the winter. The reindeer is tbe best animal for Northern Alaska, and I hope tn se Con gress adopt mvscheme for buying 1.000 domes tic reindeer in. Lipland and bringing tbem over to Alaska.' There fcre about 30.000 people In this part of the cnuntrv. They are starving,, but the reindeer would keep them alive and would give tbem occupation. The Laplanders have reindeer by tbe thousand. Tbey use their meat for fod and tbey find a great deal of sustenance from tbelr milk. Reindeer milk is as thick as molasses and it is so rich that you have to dilute it before you can drink it. A good reindeer will give a large teacupful at a milking. I spent thn summer among these Northern Alaskans, and I was as faraway in nmi respects as though I was on the banks of tbe Kongo. I had to travel 6,000 miles from Sitka by water in going in and out around the Aleutian Islands to get to my destination, and I was 2,500 miles from Sitka, in a straight line. Tbe part of Alaska I visited is wild and desolate In tbe extreme. There aro no trees, and the climate is so cold tbat vegetables cannot be raised. It will cost about $15,000 to buy these remdeor and it will cost sumetbing to teach the people how to take care of them. Speaker of the Now House. Hon. Roswell P. Flower, of New York I am not a candidate for tbe Speakership and I have never thought of being Speaker. I don't even know wbo the present candidates are, and my idea is to let them develop their strength, see what they can do during the coming sum mer, and next fall we will elect the strongest and best man. I don't know that New York will have a candidate, but it always has Its opinion as to nominations, and generally ex presses tbem. I am not at all afraid of the next Congress being a crazy one and I can tell you how we can prevent anv foolish speeches being made upon the floor. We will hold caucuses about twice a week and get tho different men to ventilate their ideas in the caucus. Such of them as are good we will take advantage of and bad ones will notget into the newspapers. In this way we can sizanp our men and can keep the pariy together. .1 tried this plan n a series of dinners I gave in 1882, when I was one of tho Board of Control of the Executive Committee. I dined all of our party in Congress and got them to express their opinions at the table. From their speeches I was able tooutllne a plan which aided us materially during the campaign and the same would be the effect of the cau cuses. 1 Desks in the House. Hon. T. P. O'Connor, member ot Par liament from Ireland The famine in Ireland is at present very bad, and it will continue until the now potato crop is ready to harvest. I visited Congress during my stay in Washing ton, and I think there are some things In which our Honse of Commons has the advantage of your House of Representatives. I did think that the desk s which you have for members were a good thing, bnt I now see that they are out ot placo in a deliberative assembly. They enable erery member to bring his Drivate busi ness Into tbe Honse, and be carries on bis cor respondence and manages his campaign there, whereas be could not do this in case he had to write on his bat as ho does with us. I think tbat our plan secures better attention tor the speakeis, better order and le3 noise. Oklahoma Beady for Statehood. Governor Steele, of Oklahoma Territory Oklahoma is nearly as big as Ohio, and it is going to make one of the finest States In tbe Union. It has the bnest agricultural laud un der tho American flag. Cotton and corn grow there side by side, aud our land is as rich as a 40-year-old barnyard. We have now 60.000 peo ple, which is mora than Wyoming or Nevada, and wo are about ready for Statehood. Our population was built up like Alladtn's palace, winch rose in a night. Oklahoma was settled in a day, and tbe people are now camped all along the Cherokee strip waiting for it to be opened to settlement. Ic will be taken up within a month after the bill is passed. We have a good many things in our .Territory of which the rest of the country has no knowl edge. We have never had a geological survey, but our undeveloped resources are wonderful. Our coal area is one ot the best In tbe West, A sample of mineral paint was brought Into me tneotner day, anu wastnen sent on tooiansas City to some paint makers. Tbey replied at once offering to bring a plant and come to the Territory to make paint for one-third of tbe net profits. We bare great beds of asphaltum, and we don't know just what elso we have. Our 1 erritory is booming, we bavo three railways, half a dozen good towns, 22 newspapers, and several of our best cities hare three dally pa pers. Wo aro alive and don't you forget It. Congress and tne Newspaper. Speaker Reed The newpapers of the United State influence public sentiment more tban does Congress. The publication of our pro ceedlngs in full in the Congreuional Record detracts from Congressional influence rather than adds to it. England has but one news center or center of public sentiment, and this is London. The United States has half a dozen, and the newspaper correspondents de vote themselves to tbe reporting of matters of local interestln their various sections rather than to the giving in full the general Con gressional news. If the Congreuional Record was abolished, the news of Congress wonld be made much more important in the eyes of tbe people, and our proceedings wonld be much more fully reported. As it Is, In the New York newspapers you will find a fuller account of tbe Legislature at Albany than yon will ot tbe doings ot Congress, and this is due both to our rules and to the Record. 1 hope the time will come when matters of public interest can be more quickly brought before Congress than is possible uow. How Mark. Twain Copyrights. Editor Jobnson, of tbe Century Magazine The copyright bill is bound to pass sooner or later, and it will, I think, go through this session. I believe it will cheapen books to American readers, and it will make literature a profession. As it Is now. a man who bas a copyright in England bas to bavd tbe book pub lished in that country before any where else, and be has to be also lu the country at the time it is published. Mark Twain copyrights his books in England as well as in America. He has tbem issued a few hours there before tbey are Issued bere. and he goes up to Canada and stands on the Niagara bridge when they are is sued from the press. Republican Party In Bad Shape. Colonel W.W. Dudley It seems to me that the Republican party needs regeneration. There are too many diverse elements pulling in different ways, and the Democrats are solidly against tbe whole. The defeat of tbe election bill was a serious mistake, and it will have a bad effect upon the country. What we need more than anything else is hones: elections and the assurance tbat every man's ballot will ba counted. As to candidates, I do not think tbat President Harrison will be renominated, and I do not think tbat be will desire renomination. There are numbers of good men. and among the possibilities I would mention Speaker Reed. McKinley, Senator Allison. General Alger, and last, and by no means least. General Clarkson. Clarksou would make a strong can didate. Ha would bring all the young blood of the party to tbe surface, and would be elected if it is possible for us to elect anyone. Senator Sherman is also a possibility, and there are others who bave a chance at tbe nomina tion. As to the Democratic candidate, it may be Cleveland, but I would not be surprised that when tbe convention meets. Hill may ba the nominee. Story of a Water Color Sketch. Mr. Henry Moser, the artist I sold a picture tbe other day to Senator Kellogg, over tbe story of which the Senator laughed heartily. It was a water color sketch of a little negro boy and girl playing checkers, and I took it from life. My first models were two little negro boys. Sambo and Jim, and both were as bright little ragamuffins as you will find in Washington. At the third sitting Sambo did not appear, and when 1 asked Jim what was the matter, he said with a grin on blsfacr: "Oh, Sambo, he ain't comln' to-day." "Nor' said L "No." said tbe little darkey, as he laughed again and sucked his thumb. "Un Sambo hain't comln' to-morrow neither." No?" said 1 rather surprised, "and why?" "No, un Sambo ain't comingnextweek.nelther. He can't come no more. Sambo's data!" Well, 1 bad to take Sambo out of tbe picture, and I got that little colored girl to take bis place. Mnst Reduce Uncle Sam's Expenses. Judge W. D. Uolman, Congressional Econo mist I am not a candidate for the Speakership, and Judge Bynum will probably be tbe only man presented from Indiana. The watch-cry of the next campaign will be economy in Government expenditure and this will be a bigger issue than the tariff. I predict that tho next Congress will be tbe most conservative and creditable we hive bad for a dozen years. It will surpass tbe Forty-fourth Congress, the first session of which reduced the approprlatioos S29.O0O.00O and resulted in tbe election of Tilden' and Hendricks. I was a member of that Congress, and at its second session we cut down Uncle Sam's expenses $31,000,000, and our appropria tinn at that time were only a little over $100, 000.000. This year we expect to spend $362,000. 000 and tbe increase is asiounding. it is astonnding and terrible and the people won't stand it. The McKinley Law In '93. Ex-Senator Cheney, of New Hampshire The chief issue of the next campaign will be tariff, and tho Republican candidates will be elected. Who tbey will be. I don't care to prophesy. It seems tome tbat President Har rison is very strong to-day. and be bas made no mistakes. As to the Democratic nomination Cleveland will probably bead the ticket, and It seems to me tbat the election of Hill as Sena tor from Heir York was tbe result of a bargain by which Clereland was to get the Presidental nomination. I bear Gorman also mentioned He is a strongman aud a good manager. I suppose tbe Democrats will have a practically free trade platform. They cannot misrepre sent the McKinley tariff bill as tbey did during tbe last campaign. Even the clerks in our New Hampshire stores aided them. I remember one day during the last campaign I passed through my kitchen anl saw the cook had laid in an extra barrel ot sugar. Wnen I asked why she had bought so much, she told me that the clerk had told bcr of the McKinley tariff, and that everything was going up. I in formed her tbat sugar would ba at least 2 cents a pound cheaper as soon as tbe bill went into effect, and I give this merely as an example of what went on all over tbe country. 1 was in London at the time the bill was before Congress. Tbe business men there were excited over it, and a big manu facturer of polo told me it would ruin bim if It passed. Tne truth ol the matter is tbat a pro articles it affects, and the people will find this tective tarm always reuuees rue cost oi tne out by tbe opening oi tne next campaign. Woman's Suffrage In the Northwest. Miss Susan B. Anthony, Woman's Suffragist I think tbe women hare been badly treated by the politicians of North Dakota. They prom ised to favor us when the State was admitted, but they kept us out of the Constitution. I campaigned in tbat State and other parts of the Northwest last summer. There is a large foreign population, and among this a man is not considered ot mucb account unless be gives bis wife a whipping once a week. I saw women doing the hardest of work in the fields, and I saw one pulling a plow. Tbe suffrage movement'is growing, and it is a shame it does not prevail in tbe Dakotas. It is only a matter of time, and we are gaining steadily. Feaxk G. Cabpexteb. THE FETISH OF THE HOUSE, An Instrument More Potent Tban Reed's Gavel in Congress. Washington fost. Look back toward the east entrance. You see another page, with hands in front of him, clasping what appears to be a mas sive silver-bonnd ebony club. It Is sur mounted by a globe of silver, upon which the h'emispheres are traced. A silver eagle, with outstretched wings, is perched upon the globe. The whole resembles the lasces carried by the Roman lictors before the tribunes in time of peace, and before the consuls, returning from war. It is a bundle of 13 ebony sticks entwined with a silver band. These 13 ebony sticks represent the 13 original States. This club is the mace represent ing the authority and dignity of the House. Its enstodian is the sergeant-at-arms. It is kept in his office when the House is not in session. The page carries it through the lobby and into the chamber. It is placed at the side of a malachite pedestal. This mace tras made in 1834, although it bears tbe date ol 1841. The latter date was engraved upou it at the time it was repaired and mounted. It weighs about 20 pounds. The mace remains upon its pedestal nntil the House goes into committee of the whole. Then it is lowered and remains lowered till the committee rises. Notwithstanding its prominence and significance, a mau might serve six mouths in the House, of Representatives without noticing it. This would be more likely to happen if the members sat on the Repub lican side of tbe Chamber. There tbe Speaker's desk hides it from view. But let a storm rise; let the pulses of the members be quickened with passion and hot words be uttered; let clenched fists be shaken and members rush toward the main aisle in rage and fury and the mace will appear. It will be borne alolt majestically over the area in front of tbe Speaker's'desk, np tbe main aisle, aud down the tide aisles, calming the, tempest, cooling the disputants, calling the House to its sober self, and causing mem bers to resnme their seats. '.They recognize its significance as a symbol, and submit to the authority it represents. " Ingalls' Iridescent Dream. CMeaf o Tribe ne.1 There is a constant complaint of the lack of morals in politics. There is no place yet discovered, even oat of politics, where there is an OTersnpplr. - - USING WILD PLANTS. Absinthe, Lavender and Other, Dis tillations of the French. COATIHGS TO PEESEEYB IR0i? Directions for Getting 'the Best Eesiltt from Tea Leaves. APPAEATD8 FOR PDEJFIIXG WATBB IFBEFJLSXD TOH THE DI8FXICS. t There are two species of the absinthe) plant the large and a small. Tha I'rger, generally known as wormwood, grows abundantly in various districts of Central Europe. In manufacturing aBsinthe the npper leaves and twigs of the plant are macerated with hysop, calamus', citron, elle, anise, fennel, badiaue and other vege table substances. The decoction thus ob tained h distilled, and the product treated with alcohol, sugar and various coloring matters. Absinthe is a powerful bat de structive nerve stimulant, which maybe;, valuable in cases of exhaustion or extreme fatigue, bnt, like chloral and opium, It i liable to abuses, which far outweigh the) benefits. The effects of general and unre strained absinthe drinking in France are coming to be recognized as forming the) basis ot one 6f the greatest dangers that now threaten the physical and moral wel-' fare of the people. Three of the-profitable Industrie peculiar to Southern France are the distillation of essential oil Irom wild aromatic plants, tha manufacture of perfumes from cultivated flowers and the preparation of preserved Irnits by the procesr or crystalization. Tha harvesting and distillation of lavender gives employment to a large share of the peasant population men, women andcbildren and so pro use is the supply that in good seasons the people who gather and sell lavender to the distillers at very low prices are able to earn as much as 80 or 90 cents oreren 51 per day, wages that are considered mu ifiicent in that country of scant employment and ill. requited labor. Three hundred pounds of dried lavender plants are required to pro duce one pound of essential oil. The modern u"es of lavender are for the manufacture of cologne and as a perfume for toilet soaps, for which purposes immense quantities are im ported annually to this country, and as a sweet, ening and antiseptic odor for linen. In medl. cine it Is employed as an excitant and tonic in tbe treatment of paralysis, hypochondria and epilepsy. Another industry which has Become a mo nopoly for no other apparent reason than be cause it was first snccrssfnlly undertaken in. its preseire abiding place, i tbe manufacture of' the liqueurs nenedictine and chartreuse. When recently a fabnlons snni was offered to tha monks of La Grande Chartreuse tor tbe pro. prietary rights of their renowned cordial.it was not for the secret of its manufacture, for tbat has lnng.been accurately known, bnt for tbe right to use tbe original labels and bottles, which are the gnarantee ot genuineness and purity. It is regnrded as probable that at so verr distant day most of the industries here re ferred to will be carried on successfully in this : country, and especially tbe manufacture of CV sential oils from various wild plants. . , Preservatives of Iron. After a series of laborious investigations into ' the effect upon iron of the various preservative substances, Prof. Lewes bas come to tha con. elusion that protectlves of tbe clas. of tar and its derivatives, such as pitch, black varnish, asphalt and mineral waxes, are amonj tbe best, t The small quantities of acid and ammoniao! salts, which frequently occur in tar and tar I products, must, uowever. be removed. Ir, in addition to this, tbe class of substances men- , tloned is applieu hot to warm iron, an enamel is found on the surface of tbe Iron, which it not like other coatings, microscopically porous, ' and therefore pervious to water. Spirit or naphtha varnishes are condemned by Prof. Lewes: varuishes to which a body has been given by some pigment, generally a metallio oxide, are preferable to the last class, if tha solvent used is not too rapid in its evaporation, and if care bas been taken to select substances which do not themselves act injuriously upoul iron, or upon the gums or resins that are to bind them together. Bow to Make Tea. A tea expert says that a pound of teawilll furnish 300 cups of liquor, if it is made proper Jy, but tbat the maximum benefits of the leaf,! coin in tne matter oi quality anu quantity, ara seldom enjoved because -f the general ignor ance of what appears to be so simple a process as to require no care, the method of brewing. He says tbe tea leaves should be put into an earthen or agateware pot (never use metal), and stand on the back of tbe stove until thor oughly warmed. Then hissing hot water, which bas been freshly boiled, should bepocred in, and tha pot should be placed at the back of tbe stove for teu minutes, where it will keep hot but not boil. At tbe expiration ot thai' time tbe tea will be perfecr. but If it is desired to keep it so, the I.qnor muitbe poured off into another vessel, so as to separate it from tha leaves, which after awhile wonld give off an as tringent element. In serving, tbe cups and tbe cream should be warm, and the cream should b0Put m tne cups bcloretae tea. Ingenuity of the Jap. A well-authenticated story which has Jnit come from Japan wonld indicate that the wily Jap does not confine himself to the beaten paths in the exercise of his Ingenuity. A. ga'ntleman broke the mainspring of bis watch, which he took to the nearest jeweler. Some what to bis surprise tbe watch was returned to him apparently In as good running order as ever, and it ran all right nn'il tbe rainy season et in. "hen it stopped. Being in tbe city of Tokio at that time, tbe traveler took tbe watch to an English workman, wbo on making ex amination was a'toni-hed to find that the cun ning JaD bad nut in a spring mad- of bamboo, which, so long as it was kept dry, remained elastic, but duiing tbe wet weather had gathi ered dampness and lost its power. Steam on the Roads. Tbe steam phaeton introduced into Paris by M. Serpollet. resembles an ordinary phaeton, and has under the bodr of tbe carriage a Ser pollet motor, with an Inexploslble boiler, and a funnel bent down to discharge tbe smoke nnder tbe bind wheel of tbe'veblule. It is guided b a single Iron wheel, after the manner of a tri cycle. On a good country a speed of 13 miles an hour is said to bavo been kept np with; seven persons in tbe cariiage. Tbe tank holds enough water or a journey of 20 miles, and tbe supply of fuel in tna bunker is equal to s run of 30 miles. The feeding of theengina with water and fuel is done automatically, A New Water Purifier. A new apparatus for purifying water bas ap peared in tbe form of a still, whicb Is described as consisting of a series of large flat disks ot metal, placed upright and kept In position by pipes running horizontally on the top and bot tom. Water is boiled in a vessel and tho steam is conducted from tbe same to the dub, through a pipe. Tbe steam radiating from, tbe water is condensed in the disks by a cur rent of air and the water is collected in tha bottom pipe." The size of still designed for family use has eight disks, and is said to distill a gallon of water in au hour. The Culture of Bubber. ' Seed for the culture of robber bas been sown) iu Coylon and the seedlings are reported to be) flourishing among tha den-e jungle. Itissng. gested that a large tract of country could easily be covered wltu profitable trees by simply colt lectlnc and sowing broadcast every year in th belts or useless jungles adjoining the estates ar few bushels of tbe seed ot the Ceara rubber tree which grows in the island. These patches; of rubber trees might in time come tn bo much, better and an infinitely surer Investment tnaa cinchona, which has been largely cultivated,' now is. Paneling of Kobbor. A very artistic effect bas been obtained by India rubber panels or vaneers, which are very' beautiful in color, but, unfortunately, too cost ly far general use. In England a very thin gum elastic bas been used as a wall covering, par ticularly wbeie the walls were exposed to damp. The surfaco was printed like paper hangings and In some cases lithographed, and was very beautiful. Another advantage of s covering of gum elastic vellum was tbat IS. could be easily washed. Substitute for Gutta Fereha. A diminution In tbe supply of gutta perch. Is threatened. A Portuguese scientist Is said to bave discovered a substitute. It Is insolnbla In water, softens nnder beat and hardens in tha cold. It receives, moreover, and retains a givea molded snape, can oe cast into very win sneeu ana IS cananie to xaite tne most minaio is nresslon-i on lu surface. Though white whs it flows from tbe tree. In Its dried shape it I ol a chocolate color, resemoung guita pen "-
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