s I ,$L$ vg"" t m 2,- w. fcliEiir x A STORY OP FANCIFUL ADVENTURE. .. WBrOTX FOB THE DISPATCH BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, Author of "Dr. Jekyll anil Mr. Hyde," and Other Notable Works, Besides Stories and Letters FromAhe South Seas. SYNOPSIS OF TKEVIOUS CHAPTERS. Keawe lived in the island of Hawaii. One day be amred in San Francisco with $30 In his pocket. He admired the beautiful hons, one in particular. The owner of this invited him in and sold him the magic bottle for his 150. This bottle granted it, owner's erery wish save that of prolonged life, on condition that if tho owner died with it in bis possession he should bum in hell forever. Keawe soon rerrotted his bargain, but could not get rid of his bottle. Then, de ciding to take the good along with the evil, he wihed for himself a beautiful house. After hav ing all his heart could wish lie sold the bottle to Liopaka. Soon after liu fell in love with beauti ful Kokua, but when about to marry her be finds bohas contracted leprosy. Then he starts to buy back the bottle tbat the Imp may cure him. The bottle could only be sold for less than the owner paid for it. Lopaka had procured his every wish and sold it. Then the bottle passed from hand to hand, and when Keiwehnally found it the price was 1 penny. Though he knew ho could not sell it for less than a penny, Keawe purchased It. was healed and married his love. But the prospect of eternal damnation made him unhappy. Kokua learned the secret of the buttle, and together they went to another land where there were coins of less value than the penny Keawe paid for tbe bottle, hoping to dispose of it. But no one would believe their story and tbey could cot sell it. Then Kokua determined to buy the bottle herself, thus saving her husband. CHAPTER IV. She was a deft woman with her hands, and was soon appareled. She took in her hands the change; the precious centimes they kept ever at their side, for this coin is little used, and they had made provision at a government office. "When she was forth in the avenue, clouds came on the wind, and the moon was blackened. The town slept, and she knew not whither to turn till she heard one coughing in the shadow of the trees. "Old man," said Kokua, "what do you do here abroad in the cold night?" The old man could scarce express himself, for coughing, but she made out that he was old and poor, and a stranger in the island. "Will you do me a service?" said Kokua. "As one stranger to another, and as an old man to a young woman, will you help a daughter of Hawaii?" "Ah," said the old man, "so you are the -witch from the eight islands? and even my old soul you seek to entangle. But I hav: heard of you, and defy your wickedness." "Sit down here," said Kokua, "and let me tell you a tale." And she told him the story of Keawe from the beginning to the end. "And now," said she. "I am his wire, whom he bought with his soul's welfare. And what should I do? If I went to him myself and offered to buy it he will refuse. But if you go he will sell it eagerly. I will await you here; you will buy it for 4 cen times, and I will buy it agaib for 3. And the Lord strengthen a poor girl!" "If you meant ialsely ," said the old man, "I think God would strike you dead." "He wouldl" cried Kokua. "Be sure he would. I could not he so treacherous. God would not suffer it." "Give me the 4 centimes and await me here," said the old man. Xow when Kokua stood alone in the street her spirit died. The wind roared in the trees, and 'it seemed to her the rushing of the flumes of hell; the shadows tossed in the light of the street lamps, and tbey seemed to her the snatching hands of evil ones. If she had had the strength she must have run away, and if she had had the breath she must have screamed aloud; but iu truth she could do neither, and stood and trembled iu the avenue like an affrighted child. Then she saw the old man returning, and he had the bottle in his hand. "I have done your bidding," said he, "I left yocr husband weeping like a child; to night he will sleep easy." And he held the bottle forth. "Before you give it me," Kokua panted, "take .the good with the evil ask to be de livered iroin your cough." "I am an old man." replied the other. "and too near the gate of the grave to take a favor from tho devil. But what is this? '.Vhv do vou not take the bottle? Do you hesitate?" "Xot hesitate!" cried Kokua. "I am only weak. Give me a moment. It is my hand r- rv V ' Q WiU. Xou Do Me a Service t resists; mv flesh shrinks hack from the ac cursed thing. One moment only!" The old man looked upon Kokua kindly. "Poor child!" said he, "you fear your soul misgives you. Well, let me keep it. lam old, and can never more be happy in this world; and as for the next " "Give it me!" gasped Kokua. "There is ynnr money. Do yon think I am so base as that? Give mc the bottle." "God bless you child," said the old man. Kokua concealed the bottle under her holoku, said farewell to the old man, and walked off along the avenue, she cared not whither, for all roads were now the same to her, and led equally to hell. Sometimes she walked, and sometimes ran; sometimes she screamed out loud iu the night, and sometimet lay by the wayside in the dust nud wept. All tbat she had beard of hell came back to her; she saw tho flames blaze, and she smelt the smoke, and her flesh withered on the coals. If ear day she came to her mind again and returned to the house. It was even as the old man. said, Keawe slumbered like a child. Kokua stood and gazed upon bis face. "ifow, my husband," said she, 'it is your turn to sleep. TVhcn you wake it will be vour turn to sing and langh. But lor poor Kokua, alasl that meant no evil lor poor Kokua no more sleep, no more singing, no more delight, whether in earth or heaven." With that she lay down In the bed by his side, and her misery was so extreme that she fell in a deep slumber instantly. Late in the morning her husband woke her and gave her the good news. It seemed he was silly with delight, for he, paid no hecd-to her distress, ill though she dissem bled it The words stuck in her month, it mattered not; Keawe did the speaking. She ate not a bite, but who was to observe it? For Keawe cleared the dish. Kokua saw and heard him, like some strange thing in a dream; there were times when she for got or doubted, and put hands to her brow; to know herself doomed and hear her hus band babble, seemed so monstrous. All the while Keawe was. eating and talk ing and planning the time of their return, and thanking her for saving him, and fond ling her, and calling her the true helper t-rvrxv-j r- c r t I msiBomE tffir Q) after all. He laughed at the old man that was fool enough to buy tbat bottle. "A worthy old man he seemed," Keawe said. "But no one cau judge by appear ances. For why did the old reprobate re quire the bottle?" "My husbiiid,"said Kokua humbly, "his pumose may have been good." Keawe laughed like au angrv man. "Piddle-de-deel" cried Keawe. "An old rogue, 1 tell you. And an old ass to boot. For tbe bottle was hard enough to sell at 4 centimes; at 3 it will be quite im possible. The margin is not broad enough; the thiugbegius to smell of scorching brr-r!' said he, and shuddered. "It is true I bought it myself at a cent, when I knew not there were smaller coins. I was a fool lor my pains; there will never be fonnd another; and whoever has that bottle now will carry it to the pit." "Oh, my husband!" said Kokua, "U it not a terrible thing to save ourselves by the eternal ruin of another? It seems to me I could not laugh; I would be humbled; I would be filled with melancholy; I would pray for tbe poor holder." Then Keawe, because he felt tbe truth of what she said, grew the more angry. "Heighty-teiglity," cried he. "Xou may be fille I with melancholy if you please. It is not the mind of a good wife. If yon thoueh" at all of me you would "sit shamed." ' Thereupon he went out; ami Kokua was alone. What chance had she to sell the bottle at 3 centimes. None, she perceived. And if she had any, here was her husban ' hurry ing her away to a country where wasDOtbing lower than a cent And here on the mor row of her sacrifice here "was her husband leaving her and blaming her! She would not even try to profit by what time she had; but sat in the house, and now had the bottle out and viewed it with unut terable fear, and now with loathing, hid it out of sight By and by, Keawe came back, and would have her take a drive. "My husband, I am ill," she said, "I am out of heart. Excuse me, I can take no pleasure." Then was Keawe more wroth than ever with her, because he thought she was brood ing over tbe case of the old man, and with himself, because he thought she was right, and was ashamed to be so happy. "This is vour truth," cried he, "and this your affection 1 Your husband is just saved from eternal ruin, which he encountered for tne love ot you and you can take no pleas ure! Kokua, you have a disloyal heart" He went forth again furious, and wan dered in the town all day. He met friends and drank with tneni; they hired a carriage and drove into the country, and there drank again. All the time Keawe was ill'at ease, because he was taking this pastime while his wife was sad, and because he knew in his heart that she was more Tight tban'he, and the knowledge made him drink the deeper. Now, there was an old, brutal Haole drinking with him, one that had been a boatswain of a whaler, a runaway, a digger in gold mines, a convict in prisons. He had a low mind and a foul mouth; be loved to drink and to see others drunken, and he pressed the glass upon Keawe. Soon there was no more money in tbe company. "Here, you," says the boatswain, "you are rich, you have been always saying. Xou have a bottle or some foolishness." "res," says Keawe, "I am rich. I will go back and get some money from my wife, who keeps it." "That's a bad idea, mate," said tbe boat swain. "Never you trust a petticoat with You Jlave IU 1 See That. dollars. They're all false as water; you keep n eye on her." Now, this word stock in Keawe's mind, for he was muddled with what be had been drinking. "I should not wonder but what she was false, indeed," thought he. "Why else should she be so cast down at my release? But I will .show her that I am not the man to be fooled. I will catch, her in tbe act" Accordingly, when they were back in town, Keawe bade the boatswain wait lor bim at tbe corner by the old calaboose, and went forward up the avenue alone to the door of his house. The night had come again; there was h light within, but never llAnnlil ipl w Keawe Looked Through the Doorway. Hi -V sound; and Eeawe crept about the corner, opened the back door softly and looked in. There was Kokua on the floor, tbe lamp at her side; before her was a milk-white bot tle with a round belly and a long'neck, and as she viewed it Kokua wrung her hands. A long time Keawe stood and looked in tbe doorway. At first he was struck stupid, and then fear fell upon him, that tbe bar gain had been made amiss and the bottle had come back to him as it came at San Francisco; and at that .bis knees were loosened, and tbe fumes of the wine departed from his head like mists off a river in the morning. And then he had another thought, and it was a strange one tbat made his cheeks to burn. "I must make sure of this," thought he. So he closed the door and went softly round the corner again, and then came noisily in, as though he were but now re turned. And lo! bv the time he opened the front door no bottle was to be seen; and Kokua sat in a chair and started up like one wakened out of sleep. "I have been drinking all day and making merry," said Keawe. "I have been with good companions; and now Ionly come back for money, and return to drink and carouse with them again." Both his face and voice were stern as judg ment; but Kokua was too troubled to ob serve. "You do well to use your own, my hus band," said she, and her words trembled. "O, I do well in all things," said Keawe, and he went straight for tbe chest and took out money. But he looked besides in the corner where they kept the bottle, and there was no bottle there. At that the chest heaved upon the floor like a see-billow and the house span about him like a wreath of smoke; for he saw that he was lost now, aud there was no escape. "It is what 1 leared." he thought "It is she who has bought it." And then he came to himself a little and rose up; but the sweat streamed on bis face as thick as tbe rain and as cold as the well water. "Kokun," said he, "I said to you to-day what ill became me. Now I return to house with my jolly companions," and at that he laughc'd a little quietly "1 will take more pleasure iu the cup if you forgive me." She clasped his knees in a moment, she kissed his knees with flowing tears. "01" she cried, "I asked but a kind word!" "Let us never think hardly of the other," said Keawe, and was zone out of the house. Now the mouey Keawe had taken was only some of tbat store of centime pieces they had laid in at their arrival. It was very sure he had no mind to be drinking. His wife had given her soul for him; now he must give his lor hers; no other thought was in'the world with him. At the corner by the old calaboose there was the boitswain waiting. "My wife has the bottle," said Keawe, "and unless you help me to recover it, there can be no more monev and no more liquor to-night" "You do not mean to say you are serious about that bottle?" cried tbe boatswain. "There is the lamp," said Keawe. "Do I look as if I was jesting?" 'That is so," said the boatswain, "You look as serious as a ghost." "Well then." said Keawe, "here are 3 centimes; you must go to my wife in the house, and offer ber these for the bottle, which (it I am not much mistaken), she will give you instantly. Bring it to me here, and I will buy it back from you for 2; for that is the law with this bottle, that it still must be sold fora less sum. But what ever you do, never breathe a word to her tbat you have come from me." "Mate, I wonder; are you making a tool of me?" asked the boatswain. "It will do you no harm if I am," re turned Keawe. "Tbat is so, mate," said the boatswain. "And if you doubt me," added Keawe, "you can try. As soon as you are clear of the house wish to have vour pocket lull of money, or a bottle of the beat rum, or what you please; and you will see the virtue of the thing." "Very well, Kanake," says the boat swain; "I will try, but if you are having your fun out of me I will take my fun out of you with a belaying pin." So the whaleman went off up the avenue. and Keawe stood and waited. It was near- tbe same spot where Kokua had waited tbe night before, but Keawe was more'resolved. and never faltered in his purpose; only bis soul was bitter with despair. It seemed a long time he had to wait, be fore he heard a voice singing in the dark ness of the avenue. He knew tbe voice to be the boatswain's, but it was strange how drunken it appeared upon a sudden. Next the man himself came stumbling into the light of the lamp. He bad tbe devil's bottle buttoned in his coat; another bottle was in hishand, and even as he came in view he raised it to his mouth and drank. "You have it," said Keawe. "I see that" "Hands off I" cried the boatswain jump ing back. "Take a step near me, and I'll smash your mouth. You thought vou could make a cat's paw of uie, did you?" "What do you mean?" cried Keawe. "Mean?" cried the boatswain. "This is a pretty good bottle, this is; that's what I mean. How I got iffor 3 centimes, I can't ro.ike out; but I'm sure you shan't have it fori" "You mean you won't tell?" gasped Keawe. "No, sir!" cried the boatswain. "But I'll give you a drink of the rum, if you like." "I tell you," said Keawe, "the man who has tbat bottle goes to hell." "I reckon I'm goiiig,.anyway," returned the sailor; "and this battle's the best thing to go with I've struck yet No, 'sir," he cried again, "this is my bottle now, and you can go and fish for another." "Can this be true?" Keawe cried. "For your own sake, I beseech you, sell it to roe!" "I dou't value any of your talk," said the boatswain. "You thought I was a flat now you see I am not; and there's an end. If you won't have a swallow of rum, I'll have one myself. Here's your health, and good night to you!" So off he went down the avenue toward town, and there goes the bottle out of the story. But Keawe ran to Kokua light as the wind; and great was their joy that night, and great, since then, has been the peace of all their days in the Bright House. The End. POK TODNG PEOPLE. THE DISrATCn has just closed a con tract for the latest and best thine; from tlio pen of the Inimitable ntANK It STOCK TON. It is called " THE COSMIC BEAN," and Is a fanciful and humorpns extrava ganza, intended to amuse and instruct. The wonderful bean is of such extraordinary character that it takes the place of all other foods and can be'made to produce all kinds of drinks. This is the nucleus around which tbe tale of the twin Kings of Tanobar is elaborated. Tho story will be illustrated by DAN BKAKD, best- known, perhaps, as the Illustrator of Hark Twain's book, "A Yankee in King Arthur's Court" Mr. Stockton is just now In the zenith of his powers, and THE DISPATCH could hardly present a more attractive feature than his new story. Publication will begin next Sun day and conclude Sunday, April S. A Yell' of MIst Itising at morning or evening from some-lowland, often carrier in its folds the seeds of ma laria. Where malarnl fever prevails no one Is .afe. unless protected by some efficient medic inal safeguard. Hostctter's Stomach Bitters is both a protection and a remedy. No person who inn-bits, or sojourns in a miasmatic region ot country, should omit to procure this fortify ing agent, which is also the finest known rem edy for dyspepsia, constipation, kidney trouble and rheumatism. Opening Dally, New designs in American and French plaids; new shades in cashmeres and serges, Euglish suitings, Jamestown suitings and many other styles of early spring novelties now on exhibition at astonishingly low prices at H. J. Lynch's, 438-140 Market street. ihrsn M MM V Household goods packed for shipment. Hatjgh St KZZXAM, 33-34 Water street. BO GOTHAM SMALLTALK. A Plunge in Cold Water Is a Good Thing lor a Singer's Toice. POKER DEFEATED THE FORCE BILIt A Exporter's Daring Interriew With Arch bishop Corrljan. HOW PLANTS GROW IN THE TEOPICS rconr.isrONDiNCE ot the dispatch. l New Yoek, Feb. 27. Daring the week I gathered the following interviews, which I submit to the consideration of your rcad--ers: Culture of the Human Voice. Baroness Anna "Von Me'yerinck, sister of the great German sculptor Hoffmeister Tight lacing is a great enemy to the human voice. No woman can ever attain great fime as a lyric artist who laces so tight she can scarcely breathe. Tbe blood must cir culate freely in every portion of the body if anyone wishes to enjoy 'good health. I studied singing in Germany, where it is necessary to know something abont physio logy. For some time I have devoted my time to voice culture, and I find that young girls not only ruin their health, but their chances of becoming great by tight lacing. It may seem incredible, but Eome women have actually deformed their anatomy by putting themselves in the vise of a corset. The human voice is not natural in tone when the blood is bad. Healthy exercise, good, wholesome food and plenty of sleep are necessary to keep a singer's voice to its natural tone. Bathing is necessary, but not to excess. I am almost amphibious and delight in cold water bathing. My father was. an officer in the German army when E was quite a girl. He was sta tioned at Potsdam, and every morning, even during the winter, I used to take a plunge, into a large tank of cold water. It became a question as to whether the soldiers should bathe in cold water every day. Everything de pended on the surgeon. Ho happened to meet mo ono day. and I told him I bathed every morning in cold water. "That settles it; tbe soldiers can do as much as a young girl." and he gavo orders for them to bathe daily. Do not stay in the water too long. Tho hygiene of the voice should be studied with tbe hygiene of health. Learning Poems by Heart, i Sidney Woollett. elocutionist Tbe way mem ory can be trained is by constant exercise. I know 13 of Shakespeare's plays and Tennyson's Idyls by heart, besides a volume of miscella neous poetry. My process was simple: I went bard to work and learned them by rote. Some times I would read ten lines over carefully several times and then attempt to re peat them. If I failed I would keep at them until I knew tbe lines perfectly, then I would try ten lines more. By memorizing ten lines at a time thoroughly I had little trouble to repeat an entire poem of a thousand lines or more. My favorite way of memorizing is while I am walking. Often I have walked 15 or 20 miles repeating loDg poems like "Miles Standish." "Enoch Arden,'r and Elaine." It somehow comes natural to me to memorize while walking. I seem to remember better what I have conned. Shakespeare's plays are difficult to memorize because the author has so many striking lines and so many original characters. Naturally it is more difficult to re cite dramas than poems. If I happen to make tbe slightest mistake in reading my lines I hear from it, so I am careful to know what I recite perfectly. A Thorough Musical Training. A Young Lady Singer In Society When I was 17 years old I joined tbe Rubensteln Club and the Metropolitan Musical Society, and sang in these two organizations tor several years under tbeHelusion tbat I was a sweet and artistic singer. But 1 always had difficulty in getting mv notes to come out full and clear. "Surely," 1 said, "I must have a good and artistic method or else I would never be per mitted to sing in tbese artistic societies." One day I sang before a noted vocal teacher iu this city and I learned -to my dismay tbat my method was execrable and my voice fast verg ing toward a mere cnesc ecuo. ..nis vocal teacher Informed me that for several years I had been doing my best to ruin my voice. I re signed all the societies and clubs and put myself in the hands of this noted teacher, paying 5100 a quarter for two lessons a week of one hour each. I was forbidden to sing anything but ex ercises. In three months .my voice had im proved considerably, and in six months I had a new voice and an artistic finish which aston ished mv friends. I do not wish to disparage the Kubenstein or any other musical society, but my advice to young girls who have voices is not to join a singing club until tbey have had a tnorougn musical training. Delsarte and Common Sense. A Disciple of Delsarte 1 believe iu Delsarte, but many of his followers, especially in Amer ica, are cranks of tbe first water. They like to be ridiculed and abused, no matter how, so tbey get publicity. They talk abont grace, har mony and beauty, and yet tbey are holy scare crows in dress, and in attempts at what they grace. They rail against the high collar worn by dudes, and say it prevents a graceful bow'. Now I know that many men who are not dudes wear high collars because they have long necks. Nothing so ennobles and beautifies a long necK of the stringy order as a high coll-ir. It tbe long necked mau tried to be graceful aud winning in a turned down collar he would be ridiculous, just like a woman who is thin and bony atteuipting to be beautiful by ex posing her neck and shoulders in a low neck dress. The stiffest and most negative people I have ever met belonged to tbat class who call themselves "disciples of Delsarte." And yet they harp upon grace, and "sweetness and light." More unmitigated rubbish is taught in the name of Delsarte than ho ever conceived of. The New York people cannot be fooled. Pneumatic Tubes for the Mails. Postmaster Van Cott, New York The ques tion of pneumatic tubes to facilitate mall de livery in tho city bas been discussed. It will come in time, but not just yet. All of tbe branch stations In the city could have pneu matic tubes to the main office, and instead of sending tbe mall down by slow delivery wagons the tubes would bring It donn in less than a minute. Tbe mail for delivery could be sent to the branch offices in a few minutes time. It would certainly mean a gain of several hours' time each day: The Utopian postoffice of the future will have pneumatic tubes, and hun dreds of facilitates which are now lackinz. But I do not think that any instrument or device can ever be invented to distribute mail. Em ployes will have to read the superscriptions, and, of course, celerity in distributing depends upon them. Pneumatic tubes are costly. Thus far those in use are small and not capable of carying moro than three or fourleners at a time. A tube to do efficient service would have to be laree and capable of carrying at one load a good many pounds. It will take millions of dollars to Institue a pneumatic tnbo service. At present I tblnk tbe system ot rapid mat! de livery in this city is as last as any that can ba devised. Tho Fallibility of Physicians. A Life Insurance1 Agent The .most fallible men in the world are doctors. Tbey seldom agree and tbey are easily taken in. I insure a great number ot men and I have a timo with tbe doctors who examine the applicants. I much prefer old and experienced physicians to young ones just beginning. Tbey are zealous and are apt to give tbe applicant a disease be never had and never will have. I played a lit tle game on two joung doctors. Two brokers applied tor Insurance. Ono was examined some days before the other and pronounced healthy and eligible for insurance, but tbe other was rejected because of some alleged or ganic trouble. I got a distinguished old physi cian to examine tbe "rejected broker, and be gave a verdict directly opposite to the two young doctors. Now these two brokers resembled each other very much, so I bad the first brother, who bad been accepted,-to apply under tbe name of his re jected brother. Well, he was promptly re jected and his disease named ihe samo as bis brother's. 1 called the doctors down and read the riot act to them. They are not my exam iners now. You see they get their little 15 for each examination, whether the applicant is rejected or accepted. I have often wondered if tbey got pay only in case of the applicant being accepted would make a big difference in the diagnosis of cases. I could tell how imag inary diseases have been saddled upon healtby men and alarmed them so they actually lost flesh and prepared for death. Many ills are imaginary. Give me old doctors every time. Plants In the Tropics. Colonel Julian K. Larke, Veteran of the Crimean War Soon after the Civil War In this country 1 went to the tropics to reside. 1 had often heard about the wonderful foliage of tbe trees and tbe rapid growth of the plants in thai tropics, nut I imagined them Muncnausen yarns. I went up tbe Amazon river and one day I saw a large green float upon tbe water. I ordered my men to row to it aud 15 of us dis embarked and stood upbn the floating object. It proved to be the leaf of a water lily. One day I was in one of the hottest towns in the tropics and conclnded to experiment. I dropped the seed of a plant upon a stone wall. By the next morning the seed had grown to be a plant over three feet tall. On tbe third day the plant was so large it had foliage enough to give a magnificent shade. We do not know any thing whatever about tberapld growth of plants in this cold climate. Millionaire's and Their Money. Hon. David T. Little, Orator, of Dlinois Every time I come to New York I get to think ing about the great wealth of certain men here, and wonder .why they do not put it to good use. Now, when William Vanuerbllt died his estate was valued at 8200,000.000. and yet be left little to educational or charitable institutions. He could have perpetuated his name by making a w"iso distribution of. say 8100,000,000. Suppose that he had endowed an educational institution in every State in the Union, where scholarships should be free to de serving and poor young girls and boysT The benefit to civilization and generations yet un 'born would be incalculable. His name would live like Washington's, Girard's, Peabody's and other good and philanthropic men. As it Is, in a century tbe name of vanderbilt may not be known. Jay Gonld and the Astors ought to turn their attention to eleomosynaiy or educational Institutions if they do not wish to have tbe blanket of oblivion placed over them. If i was a big millionaire I would cut a wide swath and leave money to educate, uplift and ameliorate the condition of mankind. Humor In the Revenue System. Special Agent Internal Revenue The lnter- nal Revenue system is more or less a farce. I am on duty in New York, and every day the absurdity of the revenue system is made ap parent. There is a big liquor firm that will have'to undergo a big expense-jnst on account of tbe peculiar system Uncle Sam has adopted. This firm has a large vat, or tank, capable of holding several hundred gallons of whisky, and tbe other day I was invited to inspect it and grant the revenue stamp for so many gallons of blended whisky. You see, several different brands of whisky are placed in a tank and allowed to remain six months or a year to un dergo the blending pracess. Well, because the tang aid not have one or two gallons more i bad to refuse to accept it, and ordered the firm to immediately fill the tank or get rid of more than half of it. Tbe rovenne system is indeed peculiar, and would make tbe groundwork of a comic opera. How to Make Chocolate. Chef at a Chocolate School Tbe school is no fad. but a useful reality. Three afternoons every week I give lessons free to those ladies who present cards which are given on applica tion several days previous. The ladles who come belong to tbe best society, and now and tben one is from the four-hundred set. It only takes one lesson, as a rule, to teach them the art ot cooking chocolate and cocoa. My cook operates npon a gas stove In the middle of the school room while I do the lecturing. First, I make cocoa. Tbe milk is brought to a boil, and tben the cocoa, already dissolved in bot water, is poured in and stirred until it boils. A maid comes in, bands around ze cocoa (I speak ze English-French when I forget) to the ladies, ana while they are sipping I have the chocolate made. Take cold milk and tbrow into it broken bits of chocolate cake, and tben it mnst be stirred until it boils. Those who use hot milk to make chocolate have a very poor stuff. I have taught the school over two years and graduated over 2,000 pupils. Peculiarities of Hotel Guests. A Veteran Hotel Clerk It takes a man with an amiable disposition to make a successful hotel clerk. The ills and sharp talk tbat we have to endure put us to the test. Some men can never be pleased with a room, ana grumble all during their stay. Those guests who are never satisfied with their rooms have to be changed frequently, and very often when they are moved to the most undesirable rooms they say: "Now we have decent rooms, after a struggle." Ono guest, who registered from Indiana, objected to the color of the carpet in his room; it was too dull colored and had no design tbat he could make out. "I'll bet you S10 3 ou are not a native of Indiana, and tbat you were not raised there," I said, looking bim sauarelrin tbe face. He answered that I was correct. "You are from Philadelphia," I said. He was astonished, and answered In the affirm ative. I gave him a quiet room on the eighth floor, which had a flaming red carpet, and he was placated. No Western man is particular about carpets; he wants air and convenience to get out. Lydia Thompson's Grievance. Lydia Thompson Why do tbe newspapers speculate upon a woman's age Is what 1 would like to knewf I had no sooner appeared in my new comedy in New York than facetious para graphs appeared in the papers abont my ge. I am not in my swaddling clotbes I candidly ad mit, and I have not reached the ripe maturity of Rider Haegard's "She," so I think as long as I am fresh looking and entertaining it is de cidedly ungallant to criticize my age to the ex clusion of my acting. One thing Is certain, I am not as old by ten years as some papers as sert. A mau is in his prime at SO years of age, but wben a woman passes 10 some mgallant critics call her passe. Billy Florence's Memoirs. William J. Florence. Actor Am I going to write my memoirs? Well, I have been asked to often, and I intend to devote some time to the work later. Mr. Jefferson made quite a success with his reminiscences and deserved it, because tbey were very entertaining. I cannot sir hni I shall be ready to nive mv volume to tbe public. An actor who has had a long and varied experience and been successful bas a fund of anecdotes and incidents usually at bis command. The house where I was born is still standing in Albany. The Old Maid as a Wife. A Man Who Has Been Married Three Times My second wife was an old maid and re mained a painstaking old maid during our 12 years of married like. Everything had to be precise with her. She was what is called a regular married old maid. The bed clothes bad to be folded on tbe bed in a nice and pre cise way. Every piece of bric-a-brac in the house bad to remain in a certain place and never, under any circumstances to be moved. I had to wear a tie of a certain color all the time and otber iron-bound, riveted crocbets, kept me, as it were, a prisoner to conventional ity. But I was happy with my old maid wife, and when she passed beyond this vale of trouble I never remembered her crocbots, but her goodness. Points of Physical Training. Ex-Judge Horace Russell I have a library of books on tbe art ot exercising and hygienic gymnastics. Every day I manage to take a long walk, and in my office I have Dowd's apparatus for indoor exercise which I frequently use. Ono of the mot interesting articles I have read lately about health and exercise was written by Julian Hawthorne and entitled "Hygienic Morality." I was so delighted with the sound sense and practical advice contained in the article I bad it struck off into convenient pamphlet form. It told now to improve one's physical health and strength without ever touching a dnmb bell, orpnlliug a weight. It may not be generally known, but runntnz is a healthful exercise. Few people overrun, ex cept those going into regular training. It -ft ill not do tn over exercise. Men Learn Quicker Than Women. A Female Sewing Machine Teacher If any one th'nks that teaching women how to sew and VLSI all tho attachments on a machine is a delightful pasiime I only wish he or she would try It just once. The amount of stUDidityin the world is almost inconceivable. When I first began to give lessonsfor the machine com pany I was very much discouraged. ,1 went home and had a bitter cry, and almost resolved to give up teacbing. For ten years I have been going to houses where machines bave been pur chased and giving tbe owner lessons. Often I gave ten lessons at tbat many different lionsei inasinele. morning, and sometimes over 20 a day. Women are not mechanics, and are but children wben beginning to Iparn how to sew on a machine. Actually many women cannot tread tbe machine and use their bauds at the same tune. One woman pushed the macblno all around tbe Hoar trying to ue her hands and feet at tbe same time. No doubt it Is very awkward to some women to use their feet in an up-and-down motion and their hands iu a pushing motion. AU tbe hands have to do is to keep tbe cloth straight and feed tbe machine. Tbe action of tbe handsis inconsequential com pared to the feet, which give the motor power. Ihe majority or women cannot put in a single attachment even after they have carefully read tbe directions. Some do not know bow to thread tbe needle properly. Oftentimes I give a lesson before the husband, and be at once comprehends and helps me to teach his wife. Women are bright in some things, but when it comes to handling machinery they show an ignorance simply astonishing. Now and then I find a woman wbo can do everything entirely from reading directions. I call them polished jewel. CHABI.ES T. MUSRAT. THE PRESS IS AHEAD. It Leads the Church and State in the Becognilion of Women. ACTION AT THE EECEHT MEETIH0. Tha Press Clnka May Eventually Take the Place of tbe Salon. EIGHTEENTH CENTURI IXFLUEXCES rwfciTTiN roa tub rjispATcn.' The International League of Press Clubs was born in the Common Council room in Municipal Hall, Pittsburg. It was a very quiet event as far as the, public wa con cerned. Drums did not beat nor trumpets sound, and yet i( was very important. "Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets," said Napoleon. If he were alive to-day he would very likely see In this combination of the great power of the press a force more for midable than tbe standing armies of the world. Although- Alexander has bar ricaded the printing press with bayo nets, bas closed colleges where germs of thought are nnrtured, has exiled the foremost thinkers of tbe Empire to the frozen regions of Siberia, yet no power of his standing army of a million f e " avail against the pen as wielded by the spirit of the age. William of Germany, young as he is, knows that public opinion as voiced by the press is a force he cannot afford to run against. He can close up printing houses and imprison editors and shut the mouths of thinkers by virtue of bayonets and bread and buttet arguments, but, like a' rubber bag, tbe press, when squeezed in one place, will bulge at an other. To suppress by force the effects of free thought is only to make tbe cause more vigorous. The Recognition of Women. "What will make this first meeting of tbe International League of Press Clubs forever famous was its warm welcome to women working iu the field the extension of fra ternal relations and equal rights and priv ileges. The press has thus gone ahead of the church and State in doing justice. While tbe Methodists are busy fighting over tbe admission of women as delegates to their General Conference, while the Presbyterians are very much exercised in their minds on admitting them into the General Assembly and permitting them to become Deaconesses, and all the other denominations are wrest ling with the matter in some shape or other. The press in its representative capacity has gone to the front, and left tbe reverend brethren in the rear, struggling to keep tbe sisters out Tbe politicians will bave to fall into line with the press, and the vexed question will soon be settled. Large events oftentimes turn on very small binges. Tbe admission of women to tbe Press Club' of the world seemed to many, perhaps, a small matter, but to others it seemed the little fire tbat will kindle a great matter. It meant that the press was committed to justice, and did not intend to sneak in at the tail end in granting it. It meant tbat the press was making itself felt as the light of the world that its writers constituted the ministry most powerful to move the minds of men. Pittsburg has al ways felt proud of.being the birth place of tbe Bepnblican party, whose leading prin ciple was the abolition of slavery. It has now another matter of pride that of lead ing in the line of freedom for women. Women a Century Ago. In the early days of the eighteenth cen tury, when the forefathers and foremothers of this country were struggling amid the privations of pioneer life, the "press clubs of that age were found in the drawing rooms and club houses of London, and the salons of France. These differed as do the ideals and character of the nations. In the Eng land of Swift, Pope, Walpole, Johnson, Addisou, Burke and Pitt it was hardly con sidered respectable for a woman to write, to have views, to discuss theology, or philoso phy or science. Chesterfield says that tbe conversation in tbe drawing rooms of Eng land was frivolous, and mainly on the sub ject ot the weather, whist,, or small gossip. but in tbe .trench salons the women dis cussed literature, political economy, the philosophy of Diderot, Voltaire, Descartes, the theology of Bossuet and Massillon and all the questions that concern mankind. The literary men of France were polished by association with women "tbey were civilized by conversation." The famous salons of the French in the eighteenth cen tury can never be reproduced at least on American soil, says a recent writer. Tbe society of tbe days when Madame de Lam bert, Madame de Tencin, Madame du Def fard, Madame Necker and others entertained "the fnimortals" of the French Academy of their day when the giants of intellect found their matches in the intelligence of the women of the time, can never come again, says another, but who can tell? The Clnb Nay Be the Salon. It may be that the charm of literary inter course, the pleasure found by kindred souls in intellectual society, the expression of free thought, the wit of wisdom, the brilliance and play of genius may be found in the coming golden days of the press clubs, in which men and women will enjoy the best, that life can give together. Young literary men in the last century made their debut iu the celebrated salons of these grand dames of France, instead of in the role of a re porter for a daily journal. These women wielded much power, and to get into their good graces meant advancement and posi tion. To some it was indeed daily living. The literary dinntrs tbat were splendid in their appointments and faultless in their cuisine, were as acceptable to tbe inner man, as was tbe literary least tbat came on with the walnuts and tbe wine. Madame de Tencin was queen of her salon for SO years. These weekly gatherings frequented by all the literary lions, famous orators, and preachers, were governed by the laws" the hostess chose to lay down. Madame de Lambert, known as au author in her day, entertained constantly the poets, men of science, and philosophy and theology. Her salon was known as respectable, to dis tinguish it from the newer school, which consisted ol a smarter set wo were more given to the follies of the world. The Downfall Of the Dourbons. No gambling was permitted, but here poets"iead their latest love songs, philoso phers gave vent to their newest theories, and the discussion of every public question was permitted. It was for this reason that they were held injear by tbe court. Not with out reason, since, doubtleKS, in these meet ings of men and women of great intelligence were produced the germs of the devolution and Bepublic and tbe downfall of the Bour bons. , All of the "40 immortals" of the fam ous French Academy were frequenters of the salons of tbese brilliant women. It is therefore not surprising that many of the coveted places Were reached by virtue of their favor and influence.- It is held, and by some believed tbat tbe honors of the Academy were Destoweu strictly upon tnose who were distinguished for merit and genius and therefore worthy, but the truth is now, and was then, that it is not transcendent powers, of mind that win the prizes. These are dictated by the powers behind the tnrone. In Madame Limbert's day, when this pet project of liichelicn's was in its prime, it was taid tbit no man had a chance ib the Academy unless he had been presented to ber and could secure hr influence. When Madame Necker had -tabliabed her famous Friday evenings she possessed vast influence in the 'distribution of the prizes and desired sears. To become a member of the Academy at tbat time was not only a great, honor, but was a means of great advancement in life. Sbe controlled tbe vote of tha academy, as Madame de Pompadour controlled the King and man aged politics. What Influence Will Do, How much powerful influence ean do in this matter fs shown by the admission of tbe Duke de Blchelieo, who tu admitted whf fa not yet24. bat who had almost tben run the gamut of vice and dishonor. He had never written anything beyond a lew letters that marked, about tbe ability of an illiterate cockney, and to m.ake him one of the guardians of .the purity of the French language gave token of some very powerful feminine influence indeed. When such disgraceful reprobates as be secured admis sion, while, Pascal and Moll ere were left out, it seems plain tbat Influence, and not genius, hare much to do with tbe defect of tbe Academy that Napoleon noted want of intellect. The names of the members 100 years ago are most of them forgotten. With" lew exceptions, the historical roll is mostly composed of the names of men who may hare had some fame in their day, hut are dead and gone and done with. It would be something to know, if women are behind tbe scenes now pulling the wires and filling the seats. The French Academy now, says a" recent writer, does not give its members prestige. As ac counts go, it was a distinction to be desired, but like kissing it has always gone by favor. Such select and exclusive academy is not needed in our republic of letters. Honors tbat can be bought, or that have been se cured by intrigue, are as useless es bogus titlesof "nobility. The desire for fame is common, but the ability to earn it is to the few. With men and women associated to gether literary clubs far beyond those so re nowned may be expected. Instead of "back stain," influence only, women, with full power of expression and vote, will exer cise none but proper sway, and will have to depend upon their powers of mind to hold their own. What the world will come to heaven only knows, but it can never go wrong when the press stands for righteous ness. Bessie Beamble. VEBESTCHAOIK DIDS'T BLTJHBEB. Controversy Over One of His Horses Set tled Beyond Dispute. Ever since the Terestchagin paintings were placed on exhibition in Allegheny a fierce controversy has raged among artists, amateurs and horsemen, touching the action of a white horse in tbe large "picture of "The Prince ot Wales in India." Opinions seem to be about equally From Plate IS, EadwcarA Muybridge. divided, many claiming tbat it is impossi ble for a horse, while in motion, to have two feet, both belonging to tbe same side of the body, off the ground at the same time, as represented in the painting, -while others as stoutly claim tbat this is a possible and fre quent action. For tbe purpose of settling the controversy, and because it is a fact of general interest. The Dispatch publishes Jfrom Plate BtO, Eadweard Muybridge. the accompanying cuts from instantaneous photography reproduced in "Mnybridge's Animal Locomotion." From these it will be seen that the action is possible, and that Yerestchagin cannot be charged with com mitting a blunder in this painting. 1 Y0TJKS JUSTUT H'CABTHY. A Wise Decision Treads Him From Politics to literature. Young Justin Huntly McCarthy intends to resign his seat in the House of Commons, in order that he may devote his time and energies entirely to literature. The deci sion is a wise one. He is not the sort of man to shine in the House or upon tbe plat lorm, and he has already made a mark in literature. He is at present busily engaged in writing a play, and hopes to bring out another volume of his "History of the French Eevolution" very soon. The proprietors of Black and White have commissioned him to write a weekly Par liamentary letter, and he is also to act as their theatrical critic. Mr. Huntly Mc Carthy lives in semi-Bohemian style at his father's honse in Cheyne Gardens, Chelsea. Every room in the house bears evidence of the presence 6f literary men. He is a hand some, well-dressed young fellow, snave and courteous in manner to everyone brought into contact with him. He must possess a considerable stock of energy somewhere, for he gets tbrongh a tremendous amount of work. BXDaOffilffKS l(PortraitjoXjrncyfadffogi o Old Print,)) lc ft T 'hSM1 FTERvtKejtreatyTof ..Vienna'," saysSir Henry LytTon) tJuiwcT, in his biography ot l alleyrand, ". ialleyrandi declared that his. health required the waters of Carls' bad, observing that a.dirMomatist's first-duty aftena congress' was to take -carejof his liver." Thissentencebesides ex pressing the jwit ipr,2 tne great i statesman, aiso snows t nis , De lief, in rthe'virtueoJtiUjearlsbadimineralvatcrswhichfarej Unsurpassed orthei?cTofJ'diseasedthe4liyeridneys,1 'and . bladderXcatarrhlof Mth'etomach.Tdiabtes?Prheunatisl., ,'goutrchronicfcoristipationrand raiye.uretityoriMopuriy remeay.Vimporieujjuiretijiruiii I'CarlsbadTbvtEisnerl&jMendelson (C66iBarcIayiSreetrNrkr.rPam-; 0 OiDrtruiayjoncti, iv.... "i- phletslsentifreeponjapplication; X miu-ai NOT MUCH .OF A FLYER Facts and Figures Abont the Far Famed Mi. Carmel Air Ship. EITIBGDISHER FOR CAE-STOYES, New Method of Jratinj Champagne That Is Sure to Prove Popular. BACTERIA IN THE COCQASDI'S MILI iraXFAEXD TOB THE DISPXTCff. ! The results ot an examination into tha merits of tbe latest airship, now being ex hibited in Chicago, are not reassuring. After flying round for a few minutes the machine is gently hauled down and the loss of hydro gen gas made good, if required, from a port able generator. -It was first said tbat this model airship, which is about 30 feet long and 64 feet in diameter, was to carry a passenger, possibly two, but the lifting; power evidently amounts to but a few ounces, and the balloon is pulled down be tween finger and thumb. The propeller makes about 60 revolutions a minute, and tbe speed of the apparatus is from 3 to 3f fe.et per second, say 2-to 2.4 miles per hour. This seems slow indeed when it is remem bered that tho French war balloon La franca bas been driven 11 miles per hour, and that in 1SS1 M. Tissaudier showed at the Electrical Ex position at Paris a model electrical balloon 11 J feet long and 4K feet in diameter, which lifted its own motive power, and traveled at the rats of 4 to 6 miles per hour, with a maximum development of power of 431-foot pounds per minute. Tbe inventor claims that the airship proper will be driven at 200 miles an hour by a gas en gine of "100-borse power, weighing only 220 pounds. To those acquainted with modern gas engjne practice, in which the weights run from 300 to 1,000 pounds horse-power, aud who under stand tbe fixed limits of possible pressure, which are less than with tbe steam engine, this statement ot the inventor is very much open to question. Even if it were true, tbe re suiting speed would not be over 33.12 miles per hour, aslnay roadlly be determined. Tbe shape of tbe machine, too, is very much against it. The balloon chamber is a circular spindle, the largest diameter being at its middle with tha front and back halves substantially similar. But it is now well established as an axiom ot aeronautics tbat to obtain the minimum of re sistance the greatest diameter must be well forward of the center, tbe front end compara tively blunt and tbe rear end much tapered. Every known kind of fish or fowl bas this form, and it bas long ago been determined that it is the most hopeful form on which to base any attempts to solve the problem of tbe flying ma chine. New Champagne Procesx. Champagne, as is well known, is but an or dinary wine, charged with carbonic acid gas. The old process of manufacture, which has boen adopted for more than 150 years, was tedi ous and expensive. Anew apparatus enables large quantities of wine In one body to be sub jected to tbe necessary process of fermentation, under the impulse of tbe germs caugbt, as is were, from tbe atmosphere, upon wood fiber moistened with sugared water. The f ermenta-' tion can tbus be controlled to a nicety, and the) manufacture goes on with smoothness and cer tainty. Not only is a much cheaper wine thus produced, but one which possesses many of the essential requisites of an ideal medical wine. Fountain Marking Brush. la a new fountain marking brush tho mark i ing material is contained in an elastic bulb, pressure on which projects the paint or mix ture along a barrel or pipe to the brush itself, to which tbe supply can tbus be accurately regulated. The brush can be pushed further out of tbe barrel wben it becomes worn, and) tbe device is made in brass, tin or zinc Fire Extinguisher for Car Heaters. It is to be hoped tbat the possibility of )-' in railway cars will not much longer exist, w as tbat much to be desired consummation hail not yet arrived, a new extinguisher may for a short time be welcome. Tbe invention consists of a tank filled with a water solution of bi carbonate of soda, with a valve outlet at either 1 top or bottom, connecting with pipes leading; to tbe interiorof tbe car stove or beater. la the top portion of this tank is suspended a small vessel containing sulphuric acld.wbicb, . wben forced into contact with tbe bicarbonate bythejarof a collision evolves carbonic acid I gas. The combination of the chemicals exerts a nressuxe of 75 pounds, which is sufficient to pour a powerful stream of lire extinguishing! gas npon the burning fuel, thus causing not! only an instant suspension ot combustion but I an immediate and total extinction of tbe fire, j A small extinguisher, embodying the same? principle, can readily be applied to lamps with,) the same certainty of results. The Culture of Bacteria. A new use has been found tor the juice of the unripe cocoanut. This fluid, which to thst' initiated tastes singularly mawxisb, is a most j grateful and cooling drink to those suffering from fever. It is largely patronized, too, by sailors, who seem to acquire more than their wonted thirst while in tropical waters, and their favorite trick of "sneking the monkey." i as- the process of absorbing the liquid from a hole cut in one end of tbe shell into which a priming; of rum bas been poured is termed, has been from time immemorial one of tneir much cherished recreations as soon as tbey could es cape, from their hlp. The idea, however, of i using tbe milk of tbe cocoanut as a culture medium for bacteria is a new one. In investi gations which bave been made in Cuba during the last two years, this fluid was used very ex tensivoly, and it was found to be a great con venience to have a sterile culture-fluid always' at hand, ready to use at a moment's notice. therdisea&sfrequiririgffi)nild fc CARLSBAD. SPKUDEI. SALTfc Is mi a rcrt pvnpturt. It u is alimmts tod constittttioiul mne4. Obura tht g mint imported ftftici. Do not b inpotcd pon by imfupulooi df i1tv T)i Kfrms mutt hsvt lhtsieitturiDfa'EittrtMeiM!dioDCo.5ol Acrats, tt Barcli Su N Y-'w every bottle. 'J r" .i f. 'r'