..- . ,.....- .,. . , . ,. ;,. I , , . . , . , r .. s , ,.,., ,t yjirwrwn y- . . .-.. W DISPATCH. T1"- v . i SECOND PART. THE PITTSBURG THE BIGjM. SNAG Which Cut Short the Career of the Great Agricultural Im plement Trust. IT MAY TERMINATE OTHERS Manufacturers Say That the Provis ions of the Federal Act May TRIPLE DAMAGES AND LAW FEES. Inducements for Bringing Suits in United States Courts Too Great. TALES ABOUT TUB TKUST TROUBLES tSFECIAL COHHESFOXPXXCE OF TDK DISPATCH.! Chjcago, April 10. "When the great trust for the manufacture of agricultural implements was formed a few months ago, with a capital stock of $33,000,000, and put in operation with a corps of officers includ ing Eome of the shrewdest business men in the country, and then suddenly dropped like a hot poker by all parties concerned, there was no little curiosity on the part of the public to know why it had been to sud denly abandoned. It was asserted by some that the outcry against it by the press was the chief cause of the downfall of the scheme, but, then, trusts usually pay very little regard to the press. It was then said tnat certain large manufacturers like the McCoraiicks had finally refused to go into the scheme because they could not consent to cive up tneir individuality and take trust stock for their immensely valuable properties. What the Manufacturers Say. The manufacturers themselves explained that it was because of legal difficulties that the scheme had been given up, but very few people believed,' that, because trusts have too often met and overcome all the legal difficulties that could be placed in their way. But the explanation last referred to is probably the correct one. An attorney of one of the firms in the pro jected trust said this afternoon that the rea son the scheme was not carried through was because the lawyers could not convince the capitalists engaged in it that the trust could be operated without running afoul of the act of Congress of last July in reference to trusts and conspiracies In restraint of trade. Pull ing down a volume of session laws, he hastily read over the act, which, with the usual amount of legal verbiage,declares to be illegal, "every contract, combination in the form of a trust or otherwise, or con spiracy in restraint of trade or commerce between the several States or with foreign nations, "'and Punishes Everjbody Who Enters into any such contract, combination or con spiracy"with a fine not exceeding $5,000 or imprisonment not over one year, or both, in the discretion of the Court, and imposes a like penalty on "every person who shall monopolise, or attempt to monopolize, or combine or conspire with any other person o persons to monopolize any part of the trade or commerce among the several States or with foreign nations;" and, as if that were not enough, provides further that any person who suffers injury in consequence of the formation of anv such trust may recover triple damages, costs and attorneys' fees Irom the parties engaged in the trust. After running over the act of which this is the substance, the attorney said that when the attention of the firms had been called to its severe penalties they put the question to their counsel whether they were not vio lating that law by going into the trust. The latter replied that they were not. The trust, they said, was organized as a corporation under the laws of Illinois. Each party going into it would do so in good faith. A Regular Corporation. They took stock in it and paid for the stock its fuli value by turning into the in corporated trust their lespective plants, and the trust would operate them in the same manner as an individual who might buy up and run half a dozen stores iu various parts of the city. They cited the case of the United Glass Company, a New York cor poration located in Chicago, which operates aliout 18 tliflereut glass lactones, stretching from 2sew York to St Louis, which used to compete with each other, and said that that concern had never been interfered with. But, the manufacturers urged, that com pany was formed before the act of Congress went into effect, and they could not be con vinced that the Agricultural Implement Trust could be run without at least great danger of the prosecution ot its members in the United States courts. "The upshoi of it all was," sairk,he, "that the scheme was abandoned. The advantages to be derived from it were not great enough to com pensate for the risks." Triple Damages the Biggest Bugbear. Some of the manufacturers especially feared that section ot the act giving to any person injured triple damages for injuries sustained through the trust, and the gentle men read the following: Section 7 Any person who shall be injured in his business or property by any other person or coiporation by reason of anything forbidden or declared to be unlawful by this act, may sue therefor in any Circuit Court of the Unitea States, in the district where the defendant re sides or is found, itiiout respect to the amount in controversy, and shall recover threefold the damages by him sustained and the costs of suit, including a reasonable attorneys' fee. "The language of that section," he con tinued, "is very broad and sweeping, and the people engaged in that trust found that they would be at once swamped with troublesome litigation. That act, is com paratively new and has been brought into the courts in only one instance, when pro ceedings were begun at Nashville, Tenn., to prevent the formation of a coal combine. The courts have not yet put an interpretation on this section of it, and, until they do, it will be hard to say just what it means. It Would Cause Endless Annoyance. "But there is no question that it might cause endless annoyance to a trust like that tor the manufacture of agricultural imple ments, suppose, for instance, that I am an extensive farmer, and must have many thousand dollars worth ot machinery to carry on my business. The trust is formed. All competition is put 3n end to and the price list doubled. I am, therefore, obliged to pay just twice as mnrh for mvmachinerv as I would have to pay if there were no trust, and I would be damaged just to that extent. Under that section of the monopo lies act I could sue the trust, and it I made out my case I could recover three times tBe amount of the damage suffered, and also my attorney's fee. What an inducement there is in that to sue the trust I The cost of be ginning and carrying on a suit is compara tively light; the profits of one, if successful, may be enormous." "It that act prevents the formation of the Keaper Trust, why should it not also affect trusts in other articlesglass, for instance, or anthracite coal?" the attorney was asked. Other Trusts "Would Bo Affected. In time it probably will," was the reply. "Suppose the Window Glass Trust gained control of that article and foroed the build er, of U of bur big office buildings to make an extra expenditure of several thousand dollars. They could undoubtedly sue the trust for treble damages, and recover, too." "But suppose the trust assumes the form of a corporation and takes the various plants as owner in return for stockregu larly issued to their former owners, as in the case of the United Glass Company." "That would make no difference except that it might make it more difficult and ex pensive for the injured party to make out his case. Of recent years the courts are coming more and more to disregard cor porate forms, and I have no doubt that, if it could be clearly shown that the corporate form was resorted to only as a cover, the in dividuals composing the corporation would be held liable just as if they had acted as private individuals." Other Instances of Weakness. "Suppose, as in the case of the Patent Medicine Trust, the combine should refuse to sell goods to any person who would not agree to its terms?" "In that case if a dealer lost money through the operations of the trust, I should say he could recover damages under the provisions of the act There is one thing to be noted, however the act .of Congress ap plies only to trusts and combinations in re straint ot trade between the several States and territories and the District of Columbia and foreign countries. Under its terms, therefore, it cannot apply to a trnst which restricts its operations within the limits of a particular State." ITS PRIME NECESSITY. THE GEEAT ADVANTAGES TO PITTSBUEG OF A SHIP CANAL. In Fact the Whole of Western Pennsylvania Would Be I-argcly Benefited by It Transportation Kates on Coke and Iron Would largely Drop. The following communication Irom one thoroughly acquainted with the subject ap pears in the current issue of the Sharpsville Advertiser: Of the consumers of pin metal now using larco quantities ot Southern irons, there ara few who give those irons a preference over Lake irons, for any reason other than that the Southern irons are, nominally at least, cheaper than the Lake irons. There are few of those consumers who would not pay a little more for a good Lake iron than tor the best of the Southern metaL Bat for work in which they can use the Southern metal they will not pay for Lake metal very much more than Southern metal prices. In order that the Iron-making district of Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio (the Eroduct of which is almost exclusively from ake Superior ores aud Connellsville coke) may recover the markets it has lost, and per manently keep its hold of them, the cost of pro duction of pig metal in that district must be reduced so that Bessemer may bo sold, with a living margin of profit, at a price below 13 per ton. That this condition of affairs wonld be reached, at or about the present time, wo long ago predicted. But wo were calculating that before this time the "fire in the rear" wonld be stronccr from West Virginia, Virginia, north west North Carolina and Georgia than from Alabama. The Alabama Boom Ended. Powerful and persistent "booming" of the Alabama district, of which we had no premoni tion, has, however, for a time changed the course of eveots, and the'production of pig iron in Alabama in 1890 was far greater than that of the above named four States combined, Alabama naving turned out in that year 8M.6S8 nettoos. and the said four States no more than 492,493 net tons. But Alabama has nearly, if not quite, touched high water mark, while Vir ginia is coming up on the scale, and she, with the other three States above grouped with her, will eventually produce farwmore than the Alabama district. Virginia bas increased her production from 151.184 net tons in 18S5, to S20.8S9 net tons In 1S90. and here the increase will he, for years to come, persistent. Thus far, however, the product of the entire "South" Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia and Kentucky does not equal that of Allegheny county alone. The .Southern group prodnced in 1890 no more than 1.447,697 net tons of coke and bituminous metal, while AlUcheny oounty produced 1.4B7.788 net tons of coke metal. We have not taken charcoal iron into ac count in this paper. The charcoal iron indus try is of large Importance in various ways, but it occupies a field of its own. Incorporation of the statistics of this industry with those of the coke and anthracite industries is inexpedient. Advantage of a Ship Canal. Charcoal iron, then, being ont of the calcula tion, the champion district (Allegheny county and our two valleys, the Mahoning and She nango), produced in 1890, 28.35 percent ot the entire pig iron ontput of the United States. Pennsylvania and Ohio produced 57.67 per cent of the whole ontput of 1S90, and Pennsylvania alone produced 45.43 per cent ot the whole out put. The output of tho Shenango and Mahoning valleys was 1,224,857 net tons, of which the Shenango valley made 669,608 tons. The two vallers made 99.3SU tons more than Alabama and Virginia combined. We are in the front rank yet: but in order to keep thero we must rednco the cost of producing iron, at least to the degree above indicated. We need to make iron at a cost, per ton, fo labor, SI 60; administration and taxes, SOc; ore, S6 75; coke, $2 SO; lime, etc., 55c; total, $12. And ihis without unduly calling forre duc ion on prices ot stock. But we cannot do this without our ship canal. In 1893 the average freight charge on ore (aggregating the Ash land. Marquette and Escanaba business, and including dock charges) to Pittsburg, was S2 1SJ per ton; to the valleys, SI 75.83 per ton. Were the ship canal In existence, even with a through "toll" of 20c per ton to Sharpsville, the rate from upper lake ports to Pittsbure would not exceed SI 59. and to Sharpsville $1 33 per ton. So the freight on the oro for a ton of metal would be. to Pittsburg 52 5S and to Sharpsville $2 lb tons ore to ton of metal). Canal Should Be Tree. The reduction from present cost would be 69.6 cents per ton of metal for Sharpsville, and 86.4c per ton of metal for Pittsburg. The Pittsburg reduotion would be 26.8 cents, per ton of metal, greater than the Sharpsville reduc tion. The freight on the ore for a ton of metal to Pittsburg would be 42c greater than tho freight to Sharpsville; at present it Is 63?i cents creator. But the canal should bo "free;" and It will be if the communities interested promptly take joint action to that end. With a "free canal" the thronch rate on ore from upper lake ports to Pittsburg will not exceed SI 39 per ton and to Sharpsville ?1 23 per ton. Then tho freight on the ore for a ton of metal will be: To Pitts burg S2 25, and to Sharpsville SI 99. Ke. rtuction from, present rates (per ton of metal) 85.8c to Sharpsville and $1 29 to Pittsburg. By adoption of proper cars and appurten ances for delivering and handling stock to and at furnaces, a saving, upon present practico, of atleast 15 cents per ton of metal may be-eff ected. By the very simple expedient of taking out of the blast-air, before it goes into the blowing tubs, all water that may be removed by con densation, a saving of fuel (and increase ot production per diem) may be effected, cquiva. lent, with coke at 3 per ton in the furnace) to 80 cents per ton of mental produced. Wonld Reduce Coke Rates. The saving effected by the desiccation of the blast air, with a furnace making, in present practice, 100 tons per diem, will repay the cost of the desiccating plant in about seven months. The above specified reductions of cost to be effected by the canal, and the other means here named, amounts to 1 30.8 per ton of metal made. The canal would operate furthermore to materially modify rates on coke, and to re duce cost of transportation of pig metal; the latter result working as directly for the benefit of the furnaces as it would were it an actual re duction of cost ot production. We trust that the people of Western Penn sylvania and Eastern Ohio will presently wake up to the fact that the Lake Erie and Ohio River Ship Cmal is positively necessary to the maintenance of their district in its position as the seat of the principal iron-making industry of this country. We hardly need to say that if it maintains that position it will soon take rant: as the principal iron-making district of the world. And the people of the great Northwest, in terested in maintaining markets for their ores, and in securing cheap transportation for their fuel, which they must import, will earnestly second any movement made for establishment of this canal: this very necessary supplement to the Sault Ste. Marie Canal. GRAND ARJir men always find tht most reliable news in THE IHSPATCH. A G. A. R. department every Snnday. Linoleums at prices not to be found in anv other store in either city, atWeltv's, 120 Federal street, 65, 67, 69" and 71 Park way. xis BRADSTREETANDDDN Take Slightly Different Views of the "Week's State of Trade. ONE REPORTS A LAKGER VOLUME, The Other Dwells on the Gloomy Situation in Iron Traffic. PROSPECTS OF HIGHER GRAIN PRICES ."SPECIAL TKLIQBJLM TO TUX DISFXTCR.1 New Toek, April 10. Special telegrams to Bradttreet't report a moderate increase in the volume of general business at Phila delphia, Baltimore, St. Louis, Kansas City and Omaha as compared with trade iu the two preceding weeks. The greatest activity, with almost an approach to buoyancy gener ally, is at San Francisco, where the excel lent crop outlook, higher and advancing price of wheat and a steady demand for all products, notably barley, for export to South America, stimulate business gener ally. The significant report is made from Memphis that its tributary country is bare of corn and hay, with the demand brisk for both. Overflows have ceased to affect the trade in the lower Mississippi Valley, but business there has not equaled expectations, aud activity is shown only in the movement of sugar. New York, Boston, Pittsburg, Cincinnati and Cleveland did not increase their general trade aside from speculative lines. Bad weather still lingers in the central West, and heavy country roads continue a check on the interior movement. The Iron Trade Still Doll. Large stocks of unsold iron ore aud the dull state of the iron and coal industries cause lake freight carriers to delay opening navigation until May 15. Leather and hides , are weaker and incline to lower figures. Wool is about steady with shading at Boston and a fractional advance at Philadelphia. Cattle aud hogs are generally 510c higher at Western markets. Drygoods are in slow request, but will improve with steady spring weather.- Print cloths are a shade firmer on declining stocks. An increasing amount of work is being done in the Connellsville coke regions, but whether the strike is practically ended has not been made clear. In other directions labor disturbances have increased within the week. Business failures in the United States number 178, against 216 last week and 157 this week last year. The total from Janu ary 1 to date is 3,726, against 3,665 last year. Gross railway earnings for March are larger and more satisfactory than those for February, there being fewer decreases, and the tendency toward increases being more widespread. Every group of companies shows a gain, both for March and for three mouths, over last year. Increased Railroad Earnings. The increase for March is 19 per cent in earnings, and 2.6 per cent in mileage. The Eastern, Pacific aud Southern companies make the best showings, the Grangers re porting the smallest gain. The total earn ings of 130 companies for three months are $99,951,816, a gain over last year of 5.4 per cent. This follows a gain for the quarter in 1890 over 1889 nf 10.8 per cent Money markets have been somewhat ir regular, the increased demand for funds by speculative interests in cereals, provisions and transportation and industrial securities tending to harden rates at some centers. Bank clearings at 57 cities for the week ended April 0 amount to $1,050,992,093, nn increase over this week last year of 4 per cent At 56 cities (New York's total ex cluded) the gain is L3 per cent Share speculation at New York is active aud nervous, with advancing tendencies and increasing professional and public interest, due to the encouraging crop conditions. The export of $4,000,000 ot gold to Europe has had comparatively little effect. Wheat Is on the Rise. ' Wheat scored another advance this week, and it is not unlikely to go higher, with in visible stocks small, exports relatively heavy from both coasts and foreign demand active. Available stocks show signs of decreasing most rapidly. Exports, both coasts, ithis week (including flour as wheat) equal 2,934,652 bushels, against 2,164,188 bushels last week, and 2,083,719 bushels iu the second week of April, 1890. Exports from July 1 to dateequal74,917,141bushels(from the United States only), against 84,244,057 bushels in a like portion of 1889-90, aud 69,269,016 bushels in 1888-S9. Last week's wheat ex ports have only been exceeded in one week within the current cereal year. Available stocks of wheat in Europe, consolidating Beerbohm's and Bradstreet's totals, equaled 99,808,145 bushels April 1, 1891, 344,000 bushels more than on March 1, 1891, 11,616, 795 bushels less than on January 1, 1891, 9,013,700 bushels more than one year ago, and 485,000 bushels more than two years In the Dominion general trade has not been very active. When navigation opens some improvement is expected. Complaints are heard from the boot and shoe trade at Quebec City. Montreal says trade is dull and merchants are complaining, while Toronto reports a .moderate activity only. The Dominion reports 37 business failures this week, against 36 last week, and 38 this week last year. The total number irom January 1 to date is 633, against COS last year. DnnTake a Gloomier View. E. G. Dnn & Co.'s weekly review says: It cannot be said that the business of the country is expanding, when tbere is a de crease of nearly one-sixth within a single month in the output of pig irou. Iu nearly all quarters the admitted slackening of trade is attributed to merely temporary causes.but the state of the iron trade can't be thus ex plained, and while it may at any time change for the better, it is at present an un favorable symptom. At Detroit char coal iron ,is offered at $18, the lowest. price ever known. It is a hopeful feature, on the other hand, that stocks un sold have decreased duriug the mouth more than one-quarter, both of anthracite and, coke iron, at furnaces reporting. But the trade is very dull, and some Southern fur paces are weakening as to price, while the market for manufactured forms of iron and steel shows no improvement It is said that the orders for rails placed this year do not reach 400,000 tons. Another element, which may prove of great, though tempo rary, importance, is the decision of a great body of miners to strike May 1 for eight hours. The State of Other Industries. The Eastern coal trade is very irregular, buyers waiting the effects of the Coxe inter State decision. Other industries show no material change, though the wool market is more dull. The boot and shoe trade is un commonly dull, with prices tending rather downward. Sales of 500,000 pounds lake copper at Z cents, are reported. Lead is weaker, but tin has been advanced by specu lation. The outlook for the building trades is generally favorable, but labor troubles at some localities are still threatened. Reports from the various centers of trade are about the same as last week, but recog nize temporary slackening even more gen erally, while it is attributed mainly to bad weather and the state of country roads. Pittsburg reports lower prices for iron pro ducts', but glass sustained with improving trade. At Cleveland general trade is fairly active, especially in lumber, and at Cincin nati machinery is very brisk, but other trades only fair. At Chicago, wheat, dressed beef and wool show considerable increase over last year, but sales of dryaoods fa" be PITTSBURG, SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 189L low those of last year, the first adverse re port in the trade for many months. News From Trade Centers. The clothing and shoe trades are still showing gains. Business at Detroit is dull; at Milwaukee and Kansas City only fair, and at St Louis not very strong;, but at St. Paul'spring trade has been very satisfactory, and at Omaha and Denver fair. At New Orleans trade is quiet; at Memphis .caution rules, but at Savannah the prospect is bright, and there is improvement at Jack sonville. Speculation in breadstuff's halts, though wheat is a fraction higher. Corn is three quarters lower, but oats half a cent higher; pork 25 cents higher, but lard and hogs a shade lower. Coffee is three-quarters of a cent lower, and cotton has declined a six teenth. Haw sugar has advanced a six teenth under the very heavy demand since the duty was removed, but refined grades are unchanged as yet In general the spec ulative markets are rather inert, and the general average of prices is now 2 per cent lower than it was two weeks ago. Exports are fairly maintained in the aggregate, but the movement of wheat, flour and corn falls far below last year's. Exports Find Their Limit. The returns of foreign trade for March ap pear to indicate an excess of about 7,000, 000 exports over imports, but the exports cannot be expected to enlarge from this time forward. The money market here is quite undis turbed, though at all Eastern markets there is more than the usual disposition to lend ou call rather than on time, aud at Boston there is considerable stringency. At Phila delphia and Pittsburg money is easy, but at Cleveland there is some pres sure; Cincinnati is a little close, and at Chicago there is a good demand at 6 per cent At other Western points generally the money markets are comparatively easy, and at the South not materially changed. Collections are not, as a rule, quite satis factory, owing to bad weather and bad coun try roads; but the Treasury has again put out about $3,000,000 in a week more than it has taken in, aud no signs appear of heavy gold exports as yet CLEANLY AND CHEAP, HOW TO BUEH COAL WITHOUT MAKING VEEY MUCH DDJT. Some Suggestions From a Gentleman Who Talks From Experience How Mr. Eichbaum Saved Many Bushels of Coal and Needed No Smoke Consumer. Joseph Eichbaum has something to say to the people of Pittsburg, now that they are forced in a great measure to go back to coal for fuel, and it seems a pity that they can not be made incline their ears and act on Mr. Eichbaum's suggestion before the city again assumes its old-time funereal hue. Mr. Eichbaum's suggestion is not patented, and he asks nothing for it but that the city be kept'as clean as possible, and as he figures, it seems strange that anyone burning coal and having the same to pay for does not catch on at once. Here are some of the results : Some years ago he had a flue boiler, 1G feet by 36 inches, for power, and an Eclipse boiler for heating, and the con sumption of coal under them to get the service required was 42 bushels of coal a day. As the flue boiler did not give enough steam, Mr. Eichbaum had the furnace en larged, and thereby secured ample steam for all purposes, without using the Eclipse boiler, and the consumption of coal under the new arrangement was but 18' bushels a day. He subsequently reset the same boiler, and gave eight inches space between the boiler and the walls, instead of the custom ary four inches allowed, and secured the same result by the combustion of 15Jf bush els of coal, a little over one-third of the amount originally employed, and the smoke escaping from the stack was scarce percep tible. Another Successful Experiment Another boiler 22 feet by 38 inches bad its furnace enlarged in the same way, except that the space at the sides could not be en larged, for want of room. Its consumption of gold was 45 bushels a day prior to the enlargement and 21 bushels a day subse quent thereto. In this case the coal was weighed during six days preceding and six days 'succeeding the enlargement. In the first experiment the grate surface of the lurnace was enlarged from 9 to 20 feet and in the second from 14 to 21 feet, just 50 per cent in the latter case. Nearly all the gases were consumed by the perfection gained in combustion and added to the saving of fuel the fouling of the. atmosphere by the escape of smoke was almost entirely avoided. Mr. Eichbaum says he does not base his theory and practice on any pretension to. scientific knowledge, but wholly on ob servation and experience. When he was steamboating economy of fuel was a do' sideratum on the Western and Southern rivers and he had a master stoker employed to whom $40 a month was paid when stokers could be had iu any port for $25 a month, but this man's skill in firing saved the owners of the boat several times his extra cost. Mr. Eichbaum observed that this stoker would not allow the furunces choked with raw coal as did ordinary firemen, but first coked the coal in thefrofitof the lurnace and then spread the coals by degrees so as to not only get more heat than other stokers, but at a much less expenditure of fuel, and he did not have the facilities for doing as much as he qould have done with an enlarged grate surlace. Can Re Done in Every Honse. Mr. Eichbaum says the same results can be achieved in household consumption by similar methods, nd it is well known that some grate setters can give the same heat in a room with less than half the coal con sumed in grates 40' years ago. He attributes the waste of fuel in Pitts burg to the cheapness of coal here in lormer years. In the East aud in some portions of the West, where fuel has always been ex pensive, the matter has received study, and the Corliss engines are pro vided with furnaces built on scientific principles, the amount of grate or furnace room beine calculated according to whether anthracite or bituminous coal is to be used. As coal will never again be so cheap in Pittsburg as it was in the days when the surplus could not be shipped, the matter is an important one, not only as re gards cost for manufacturing and house con sumption, bnt as has been demonstrated, Mr. Pickwick's observation that dirt aud prosperity go together is no longer axiom atic. Why not make an effort to get along without smoke in ouratmosphere, especially when it is cheaper to do so than not? As we have wasted in seven years a supply of natural gas that ought to have sufficed 20 years, we should at least try and get some salvage from our experience" Wall Paper. Liucrusta walton, pressed goods, hand made goods; also cheap and medium grades, with ceilings, iriezes and borders to match, and a full line of wood moldings, at Welly's, 120 Federal street, 65, 67, 69 and 71 Park way. tts Special Bargains In Jackets. Ladies' stylish cloth blazers in black, gray, tan, embroidered collar, ?3 95, would be cheap at S3. Very fine reefers and silk ornaments, rolling collar, tan or black, at 54 85. worth $7 50. Hundreds of new ones opened yesterday at Bosenbaam & Co.'s. Now Is the Time To select wall paper. See our extensive stock. John S. Koberts, 414 Wood street. An Ail-Around Superiority. A reliable brand of beer is that manufac tured by the Iron City Brewing Company. This beer is better than any German article, and English porter cannot compare with the Tj-no fiitv porter. TIME TO TAKE TROUT. Only Two More Days of Grace Left for the Speckled Beauties, THE SEASON OPEK1NG TUESDAY. Peculiarities of the Fish That Is So flard to Get and Good to Eat. ANGLERS WHdTE CAGGIlT MAKI OF 'Eii Next Tuesday is the last day of grace for the trout, unless he can tall back on the law of Moses and claim immunity on thegronnd that, with the hog, doe, coney, horse and various other animals and fishes, such as the eel, he is unclean, having no scales. It is evident that in Egypt, where Moses got his bringing-up, there were no trout, or he would have made an exception in his djetetic regulations to their detriment. From the 15th inst until July 15 trout may be taken with hook and line, but they are protected from wholesale takers who operate with the seine, and this protection amounts to consid erable their taking is a science which only enthusiasts can master. April 1 opens the season in New York State, but this season it will not greatly de populate the trout, as he is not overly hun gry until tempted by .the wanton sunburst which even 2 south has not been ardent this spring. f In this State no' person is al lowed to catch speckled trout with anything save rod, hook and line, under penalty of $25, and be cannot use these implements on Sunday under like penalty. They may be caught otherwise for the purposes of propa gation, however. In the Eastern part of the State on most trout brooks the closed season lasts through this year, and in some counties two years, as peo ple are not allowed to fish in the dennded streams until the fry placed in them have attained three years' growth, but on the Western slope of the Alleghenies most of the brawling mountain brooks are open, as the stocking was done several years ago, and the streams were never fished out as in the East Trout Fishers of Allegheny County. There are no tro'ut worth speaking of in this county, and consequently nots many trout fishers. W. G. Schirmer, pharmacist, states that he doesn't know of more than 50 all told in these two cities, and he is an enthusiastic angler who had rather pull out a well sized speckled beauty than eat spring chicken and waffles. He and other enthu siasts will, in course of a few years, be able to take their favorite in most streams adaptable ior trout culture in the State, as in Lancaster oounty alone over 100,000 fry were distributed. Last year Mr. Demutn also put into the Conestoga, a lot of croppie, rock bass, calico bass and wall-eyed pike, locally called Susquehanna salmon, and some black banded sunfisb. There does not seem to have been as much energy displayed by the Pish Commission in the western end of the State.but J. W. Hogue, fish Warden, is making a strong fight to succeed Mr. Long, and if he gets there, there may be expected to be a stirring of dry bones, as Hogue is an enthusias twho works with his sleeves rolled up. Fishing for Trout a Science, Trout fishing is a science, and differs ma terially from that of fishing for bull heads, which anyone can catch if he be willing to risk wounding from their spines, though there are some people who exhibit skill in catching the latter withont hooks. They tie the bait on the end of a line, and when the bull head or catfish pulls they draw him gently within an inch or two ot the surface of the water, and then with a spasmodic twitch, accompanied by considerable muscu lar effort, land him on the shore. This sys tem requires dexterity that only comes through practice. If the fish's nose is al lowed to come to the surface before the twist of the wrist necessary to laud him, he lets go and goes back into his element. Mr. Schirmer, who is a successful trout taker, says be has no theory to propound. He states that he gets trout by sneaking up on them like a snake "if necessary, but he is inclined to indorse the method of Jndge Sutton, of Indiana county, who is supposed to know more of the art than did old Izaak Walton. Judge Sutton wears a rubber suit, or did some years age, that enables him to wade to his; armpits if necessary. He starts at the head ot a brook and meanders leisurely down stream, casting bis fly ahead. His success has been great, and some say it is because the trout does not see up stream very well. How the Fish Is Usually Taken. Mr. Schirmer, however, thinks it is be cause the bait floating down does not appear suspicious as it does if the angler throw it up stream, as the latter operation requires more exertion, and is liable to discompose the fish, which expects his prey to float down stream, as it usually travels that way. Mr. Schirmer states that he never had any pronounced success fishing for trout with flies but gets them with both feet with worm bait, aud he does not appear to have any especial . preference among worms. Mr. Schirmer enters his protest against the law which provides that bass shall not be taken before June 1, as he says they afford no spnrt aftlr the time set and the taking of them in May wuuld not interfere with spawn ing. Captain William M. Dalgleish, a veteran angler, who regards the trout as the only Pennsylvania fish worthy of the ambition of an ichthyologist, says that, added to ordi nary gumption and experience, it is neces sary to take into consideration the state of the weather, and give the speckled beauties a varied menu. Though they like flies, i.t must be understood that they don't want them as a steady diet, as the trout has a dainty palate and wants variety. Captain Dalgleish says that after a heavy shower millions of flies are knocked flown into the brooks. The trout gorge themselves, and the day following they must be oflered a change," or they wiil turn up their aristo cratic noses and roll over in bed for another nap. In such case3 something in the way of dessert must be offered, and it is well to be provided not only with flics, but with worms in various colors. . Particular as to Their Food. Once, up in Ligonier, the Captain states that he was out with a large party, and they fished for an hour or two in a large pool. The trout paid no attention to flies, aud they tried worms. He was the only one of the party who, at the start, could get a bite. Alter he had drawn out half a dozen the party wanted to see his bait. They had white, erub-worms, large angle worms, mis cellaneous worms, bugs, etc., but nothing that tempted the palate of the trout. It was found that Captain Dalgleish had been bait ing with a bright red worm so thin that it had but little more capacity than sufficient to hide the hook. The party skirmished until it had provided itself with the same kind ofbait,and the result was that over 100 large-sized fish were taken out of that pool. While the trout isscareely known in this county, it is plenty in Westmoreland, Fay ette, Indiana, Cambria, Somerset and Clear field counties, and, in fact, in all the moun tain counties where the .brooks have not been exhausted. The main trouble is that the streams are fished so persistently that after a few days in each season there areno fish left large enough to be worth angling ior. The nearest places for good sport are about Ligonier and Confluence, though some Pittsburg anglers do not think it much of a hardship to go as far as Clearfield county. ' Though some people say trout will not fciia vet on account of the""backward spring, i . M the frogs have beencroaking and squeaking for two weeks past, and in most sections fish are supposed to bite freely when the frog orchestra is fully tuned. GRIP IS FADING AWAY. Druggists and Doctors Predict an Early End of That Malady, hut Spotted Fever Is on the Increase Smaller Death List for This Week. . Yesterday's drear weather had bnt little effect on the grip, but six new cases of spotted fever have been reported, and it is feared the weather will have a still worse effect As for the grip itself, however, it is steadily decreasing, and especially so in the the last three or four da vs. Druggists say the demand for prescriptions has dropped off from one-half to two-thirds since last week, and the doctors are predicting an end of the epidemic in a few days unless the bad weather continues. The health office records also show a decrease; yesterday only 22 deaths were reported. Of these three "were from cerebrospinal meningitis, 1 from simple meningitis, 5 from pneumonia and 1 from straight grip. In the week ending April 4 the total number of deaths was 233. During the week previous there had been 211 deaths, but during the present week the cumber will not reach more than 200. In the six days now passed only 179 deaths have been recorded. During the week ending April 4, as has been stated, there were 233 deaths, against 106 deaths during the corresnonding week of last year. Of the deaths last week 23 were caused by grip; pneumonia proved fatal in 65 cases and bronchitis in 21. Of the re mainder diphtheria caused 5; typhoid fever, o; cereuro-spinai lever, i, putuisis puimou alis, 18; tabes mesenterica, 3; syphilis, 2; rheumatism, 2; cancer, 2; meningitis, 7; con gestion of brain, 2; apoplexy,- 4; paralysis, 2; hydrocephalus, 2; convulsions, 11; insan ity, 1; diseases of circulatory system, 5; asthma, 3; croup, 1; laryngitis, 2; congestion of lungs, 4; diseases of digestive sys tem, 9; diseases of urinary system, 4; premature birth, 4; old age, 5; gangrene, 1; debility, 6, and violent causes, 7. fifty nine of the deaths were those ot infants un der 1 year ot age, 34 were between the ages of 1 year and 5 years; 13 were from 5 years of age to 20 years of age; 45 were from 20 years of age to 50 years of age, 71 were be tween the ages of 60 years and 80 years, 10 were over 80 years old, and in one case the age was not stated. In the Old City there were 62 deaths; East End, 102; Southside, 43, and at 'the institu tions, 21. In regard to nativity 110 were Pittsbnrgers, 31 were natives of other parts of the United States, 1 of Canada, 7 or Eng land, 30 of Germany, 41 of Ireland, 1 of Italy, 3 df Scotland, 4 ot Wales, 1 of Poland, and 4 were not stated. Among those now suffering from grip and its complications is Sister Seraphina; the Mother Superior of St. Andrew's, Manches ter. She is dangerously ill from pneumo nia, brought on by grip. Sister Seraphina was a Miss Fitzgerald. She is an aunt of the late Alderman Cassidy. Will Inihoff, well known in. Jeanette, is confined to his room on Penn avenne. Grip also carried off Edward Engle, of Ohio street, Allegheny, yesterday morning. He was22 years old. The malady also continues to prevail among the dogs, and in McKeesport the animals are being shot as soon as signs of sickness are noticeable. . A RECORD of tho week's doings In local society in THE DISPATCH every Sunday. A newspaper for everybody. LATE SEWS IN BRIEF. Prof. Tyndall Is improving. Oklahoma City went Democratic The grip is waning in New York City. The Swiss insurgents must stand trial. All Buffalo school teachers have the grip. Chicago people are buying Canadian cattle. Rev. Joseph Cook is ill at Fort Scott, Kan. The usurping Rajah at Simla bas been exe cuted. It snowed heavily In Minnesota Thursday night Senator Carlisle says lie is not a Presidents! candidate. Wind, rain and snow storms did great dam age In Illinois towns. The first train passed through the Port Huron tunnel yesterday. The Canadian envoys were well pleased with their reception by Blaine. " Mrs. McKee was acquitted at Borne, Ga., for the murder of Mrs. Wimple. General Rosecrans is much improved In health, and is now able to sit up. Governor Burke, of North Dakota, pre dicts a big wheat crop In his State. The United States steamer Mohican has ar rived at San Francisco from Honolulu. A tornado at Nevado, Mo., did great dam age to property and ended one human life. The "BigFonr." of Chicago, bought 80,000 head of Texas cattle during the past few weeks. Dissensions are probable in the Iowa Farm ers' Alliance over tho Southern Alliance policy. Twt unknown negroes have been arrested at Evergreen, Ala., charged with train wreck ing. The first negro of the Savannah bar was admitted Thursday Johu H. Kiuculs, of Vir ginia. ' ,j The funeral of P. T. Barnum was observed with simple ceremonies at Bridgeport, Conn., yesterday. Rumored that the Northern Pacific has of fered to sell its entire Manitoba system to the Canadian Paciflc. Tho fiist case of spotted fever has devel oped in a Polish colony at Elizabeth, N. J., and causes much alarm. Tho American bark Payson Tucker en countered a heavy yellow dust storm at sea, 50 miles off Cape Hatteras. Mormons will not allow their old temple at Kirtland, O., to be removed to Chicago and ex hibited at the World's Fair. Eight-year-old Clarence Robertson mur dered bis playmate. 4-year-old Emma Straw, with a stone, at Ricnburg, N. C. Bismarck has not yet accepted the Reichs tag candidacy for Gceslemunde. If defeated, he will be nominated for Breslau. Rev. Mr. Davis, the English dissenting clergyman who refused to toast the Queen, is in hot water amonp;his co-religionists. Henry Knblman, proprietor or the Goorgla Hotel at Dallas, Tex., has been arrested charged with burning his establishment A Dale county (Ga.) man named John Jones tried to kill his U-year-old son for a trifling offense by hanging. The urute is in jail. Parnell's private secretary. Henry Camp hell, M. P., has sued the Cork Herald for libel In connection with the Mrs. O'Shea scandal. -The people and press of Jamaica are clam oring for reciprocity with the United States, but their Government seems to be indifferent. Minister Pauncefote has telegraphed to Ottawa that Secretary Blaine has fixed October 12 as the date for the Canadian reciprocity con ference. The Brussels Chamber of Deputies has de cided in favor of household suffrage. Voters must be 25 years of age at least and pay 10 francs poll tax. A H-year-old boy at Huron, S. D.. Fred Huntley, has been sentenced to 11 years iu the penitentiary for killing his father, a prominent politician, last June. Patrick Murray, an cx-convict, who was stabbed at Syracuse, N. ., Thursday by Walker, the well-known colored baseball player, died yesterday. The Dominion Immigration agents have ad vised their Government that the outlook for immigration to Canada this season is more dis couraging than ever. The Lower House of Minnesota has passed thn eight-hour labor bill and the elective fran chise fraud bill, the latter prohibiting tho solicitation ot votes. The removal of a rail byection laborers in their work caused a bad wreck on the Louis ville and Nashville Railroad near Louisville. Several persons severely injured. J. il. Plummer & Co., dealers in rubber goods in Boston, are financially embarrassed, aud ask for an extension. Tne liabilities are stated to be between 500,000 and 70,000. The Toronto Board of Trade passed resolu tions favoring more intimate trade relations with Great Britain, and protesting against the English Import duty on food products. Thero were landed at the Barge Office in New York yesterday 809 steerage passengers from Rotterdam. A number of the immi grants, whose examination proved unsatisfact ory, were detained for further investigation. JAPAN'S TEA HOUSES AND TEA GARDENS. J Country Inns and Town Hotels Lovely Places to Rest Sum mer Houses Filled With Flowers and Fairies. There are three or four kinds of tea houses in Japan, from the lordly native hotels patronized by the Duke of Connaught at Kyoto and Miyanoshita and the sumptuous Koyokwan Club at Tokyo down to the hum ble inns which a stranger has to put up with in the country, and the taverns where the Japanese disports himself in the great cities. There are tea gardens usually attached to the great temples. The Japanese evidently believe in the Roman proverb, Commtcere serio ludo, for the temple grounds are always full of shows and stalls fdr holiday makers, in which foods and drinks, archery, knock ing down the gods of wealth (a species of Aunt Sally), trained monkeys, or quack dentists are conspicuous. Some of these tea gardens are very beautifal, writes Douglas Sladen to the New York Sun. There is one at Nagasaki, terraced in the hillside, which has its whole face covered with the ex quisite and interminable Temple of the Bronze Horse, eloquent with memories of Pierre Loti's fascinating Madam Chrysan theme, commanding a view on one side of the fantastic mossy-thatched roofs of the great Shinto Temple and on the other of the green, Firth-like harbor, once black with the bodies of nearly 50,000 Christians. Some Historic Haunts. There is another we loved o haunt under the shadow of the Geographer's Monument at Shiba. After we had been spending a morning rambling through the temples of the dead Shoguus, glorious with scarlet and gold and carven peacocks and dragons, or toiling up over sod heavy with the fallen needles of the Cryptomeria pines, to the bronze-colnmed shrine in the dark wood that holds the famous gold lacquer tomb of Hidetada, or fairing on a public holiday, or watching the tortoises iu the Lotus Lake, we used to haven ourselves with a sigh of relief in this little tea garden, ou a hill with a great scarlet pagoda halfway down its slope, and a view across the bay, broken in the foreground by the flimsy French built island torts and the Japanese fleet, and bounded on the horizon by the blue bills of Kanozan. The tea garden consisted only of the view and of the broad benches with futon (cush ions) strewed over them for the Japanese to squat on. Every time you went there the pretty little musume, gay with scarlet obe and gaudy hairpins, used to approach with a tray full of cups of tea flavored with salted" cherry blossoms. For the mere fun of the thing, because she did it so quaintly and prettily, we would wait until she had sucked in her breath and rubbed her knees with her hands (which is the out-of-door equivalent to the kowtow), and then send her back with an "Irimasen: Yokohama bieru-sake dozo" ("I don't oare about it; give me some Yokohama beer, please"); and then the old woman, the padrona who ran the place, would come out, suffused with smiles, Ior Yokohama bieru-sake cost 35 cents a bottle, and the cherry blossom tea about 5 cents for the whole party. A Tea Garden in a Temple. AtKameido they have a lovely tea garden in the tenmle of Sugawara No-Michizane, the patron of Japanese literature. One has to cross over tne lamous uorse-suoe unuge, over which the arch is so steep that it has steps like a treadmill up its Pace, to a tea house formed by a natural arbor of wistaria iUCU wistaria! I doubt if the world has its equal. The arbor stands on the water's edge, and in May, when the Fuji, as the Japs have named the wistaria, alter their neerless mountain, is in full bloom, the water is swept by vast, leathery racemes of delicate, lilac-colored blossoms three or tour leet long, odorous of honey and buzzing ffith bees. Jap bees have learned (very likely the Japs have educated them, as they educate fir trees to dwarf themselves, and plum trees to tie themselves np into knots) not to take the slightest notice of people who go to drink tea in their honey orchards. Another delight:ul tea garden is the Gwa-rio-bai, or Garden of the Sleeping Dragon. We went there in springtime, when the COO queer gnarled old plnm trees, which are supposed to look like dragons, were one mass of blossom. Under the trees, with their shower of fra grant blossom, were the few benches which constituted the tea house. The trees were all stuck over with pieces or paper contain ing poems, for these gardens were the former rendezvous of the Japanese poetical Eisted fodd. All the trees had mossy trunks, and noth ing can be imagined more delightful than this antique orchard. Patience Well Rewarded. Very different was the tea garden we went to at Kobe on the night ot the Mikado's naval review. A wicket marked by a great square lantern of rather dubious reputation admitted us into a funny little garden on the Chinese pattern, full of lotus ponds, with artificial waterfalls, and quaint tiny bridges, and islands, and pagodas, and the stone votive lanterns, Ishidoro, and fantastically trained fir trees, and little summer houses, which could be rendered private by drawing the paper shoji (shutters). ., When our rikisba boys knocked and we were admitted a little gaily dressed musnme led us to one of tbese summer bouses, and was proceeding forthwith to draw the shoji. We expostulated because we had gone there for the quaintness of the garden and not for amorous seclusion. The expostulation was in sigus and broken Japanese; so our musume flew away and returned with two of the tall iron candlestieks, a couple of feet high, which stand on the floor and hold their candles on the point of a spike instead of the regulation socket, and (ob, horrorsl) a box of "Bryant & May's" matches. She then dropped on. her knees and waited to see what we were going to order for the good of the house. We ordered a bottle ot Yoko hama beer, and sat down to listen to the tinkle ol thesamisen wafted across the gar den, and wait for things to develop. We were rewarded ior our patience, because presently the shoji, which were glimmering behind the lotus pond and its native lanterns, were flung open by an excited Japanese, overheated by the sultry evening and over eating and sake, and alternately making love to the geishas who performed before him, and getting irute with them for smiling more amorously at the youuger gentlemen of bis party. , Forced to Retreat In Haste. We felt grateful to him for leeling so hot, for his party made a most picturesque tout ensemble. The quaint Japanese summer house, with its raised floor, dotted with soft futon (cushions) a couple of feet square, ou which squatted, in a couple of crescents, a party ol Japanese gentlemen with the regu lar jipauese banquet before them live fish, potatoes aud syrup, sea slugs and plains, lisli soup and be.ui cakes, and sakel sake! sake! and on the other side a group ol geisha elrls, with their whitened laces and gor geous coiffures and costumes, playing the koto and biwa uud samiseu,and monotoning in their squeaklittle voices, the floorbeing dotted all over with the tall candlesticks and the little tobacco nionos (pipe stoves) ior smokers. The excitable gentleman, as he heated, was divesting himself of his clothes at an alarming rate, so we thought it prudent to beat a retreat, having ladies in our party. A teahouse means a hotel, and varies from the low-browed country hotel, which would only make one decent room if all the parti tion shutters were pulled ont, to real hotels like Yaami's, at Kyoto, and the Fnjiya, at Miyanoshita, which had good enough ac commodation ior an English prince. Yaami's, where the Duke and Duchess of Connaught spent a fortnight, stands at the head of the native hotels of Japan. It ia situated on the hill of Maruyama, overlook ing the great city of Kyoto, the stronghold of the Mikados, and for 700 years the capital of Japan. All around are huge groves of trees, and just outside it, separated only by a wall, is the great and important Chionin Temple, the parent house of the Jodo sect of Bud dhists, and the' possessor of the mighty bell, 18 feet high and 75 tons in weight, which shakes the hotel like a small earthquake every time it is rung. On the European Flan. The hotel Itself has most delightful gar dens, with a little scarlet shrine to "Inari," the "rice goddess," and fish ponds, and waterfalls, and a clear running brook, and tangles of scarlet azaleas and camellias al most hiding the winding stairways of mossy stone which lead np to the quaint beetling gateway. Just outside the Duke's rooms there was another little garden, or court yard, built in on all sides, and containing fantastic rock work, azaleas that were per fect snowballs of blossoms, tall purple irises and an exquisite bronze fountain, while tall bronze storks stood about in various postures. This tea house, or hotel, which was three or four stories high, had apital European rooms, with doors and walls, and commanded magnificent views. The furniture, was all risht Ior ns old cam paigners bnt it must have been a change to the Duke and Duchess to have to share one basin iu a little wooden washstand that could be rattled up for 50 cents, with a tin slop pail watching them, and, at the outside, a cane chair apiece; however, the beds wera clean and comfortable, and there was. plenty of variety of food, and the proprietor spoke excellent English aud sold the Duke whisky which could be bought down iu the town for 45 cents a bottle (charging him, I suppose, a couple of dollar). But though it is lnnny to look back to, Yaami's is really a very good hotel for people to go to, the rooms are so clean and airy and command such a lovely view, and the food was so plentiful and the proprietor so obliging aud our bed room boy was familiar with the Chinese classics and explained the allusions allegor ized in every curio that we had bought Something In Everything. Japan is a tissue of allegory. The simplest decoration ou the humblest article of do mestic use emblemiz:s something. Every gaudy picture that comes to America a mud dle of red and blue and bad drawing, is an ' episode in the life of some famous person age, jxyuiu i luu iiiusi iiiieresuu ciiy in Japan, and Yaami's the finest of the native hotels, but one gets, perhaps, more fun out of the Fnjiva at Miyanoshita. The wait resses and the baths would be quite enough of themselves what baths they were! made of wood about six feet long by three feet wide, by two feet deep, sunk in the floor, and filled with steaming water, con veyed through two or three miles ot bamboo piping, from the bowels of the slumbering volcano above, Ojigoku. which, being in terpreted, means -Big Hell." The Duke of Connaught told me that he never enjoyed a bath so much iu his life as at Miyanoshita. One stripped off one's clothing and, wrapped up in a crepe kimono, ornamented with Japan blue palm trees and storks, was conducted to one's bath by one of the ravisning little musume3, scar letkirtled and gaudily hair-pinned, who waited at the hotel. To a shy man it was a little embarrassing, but, in Japanese ethics, bathing is the merest trifle. Fanny little damsels these musumes were, with cheeks as plump aud as rosy as ripe red plums, and white teeth and silver laughter. They had all sorts of engaging little tricks, 'but there never was a shadow of immorality in the honse. Mr. Yamaguchi, the proprie tor, was a martinet in such matters. The Fujiva itself was a low wooden building, only one degree removed from a Japanese style hut, that is the part reserved for Eu ropeans, but it leads to a charming Japan ete part, with Shoji and Chigaidana and Tokonoma (the guest chamber recesses), surrounded with blossoming cherry trees, growing out of the face of the ravine, on a spur of which-it stood, commanding a glori ous view oi the gorge, with its dark mount ain river and cluster of waterfalls. In one of the rooms there was a ceiling of firwood, as gray as chinchilla, a color which it has gained by being stored away for 500 years. This Mr. Yamaguchi assured me was not uncommon. Prettiest Ilonntaln In the World. At the Fnjiva the tabic was almost ai good as the club hotel at Yokohama, pro verbial through the far East for its cooking, and Miyanoshita is a delightful place, perched up in the hills almost nnder the shadow of Fujiyama, which is 13,000 feet high and the most beautifully shaped mountain in the world. If one climbs over Ojigoku, the "Big Hell," with boiling quicksands for the unwary, one has the sacred mountain standing right np before one, and the bine Hakone Lake at one's feet, and the whole gorge of Miyanoshita is superlatively lovely with its blossoming cherries and camellias and azaleas and irises. Miyanoshita will always bring a tinge of regret to us, ior it was from Mi yanoshita, on Good Friday morning of 1890, that, as we stood round laughing and chat ting, the Canadian Missionary Large went to meet his death so heroically at Azabo. that higbt at the hands of the Japanese assassins, whom, unarmed as he was, he at tacked in defense of his wife and child, though they were armed with the deadly Japanese swords. The other mournful event was the death, soon after our return, of the little daughter of Mr. Mollison, whose childish beauty, like Millais' "Cherry Kipe," had made her the theme of wouder there. She lived just long enough to be chosen, lor her beauty, to present the flowers to the English royal party on their landing in Japan. Much quainter and more Japanese than either of these hotels was the liusashiya jt Nara, a genuine Japanese tea house, but wofully interior in comforts for the creature. A genuine Japanese tea bouse is lacking iu the two prime essentials of civilized life. Bed and bread are unknown factors, and so are milk and doors and tables and chairs anil beer. One has to take off one's boots before one can co in. Rice does duty lor bread, and sake, or the wishy-washy Japanese tea, without sugar or milk, for drink. Meat it never procurable, and only occasionally fish, chickens and eggs all together; though one can generally obtain one or the other., 4 Vow Hotels Are Closed. What an uncomfortable night we spent at Nara, half way Irom Kyoto! It had come on to pour; aud we had to have our 'rikisha hoods and tarpaulins drawn, so that we could see nothing of the road, and when we got to our hotel at nightfall we discovered that we had left our passports behind, and should have had to have gone back straight off, i 1 my jinrikisha boy had not fold the head of the police tnat we were frienJs otbe English prince, aud that Count Sido, the Japanese functionary in atteudacce on the prince, would certainly make, a very-great, fuss it any incivility were onerea totne prince's friends. This, or the fact that it was exceedingly raiuy and there weres lady and child in the party, mollified 'Deg- " berry." who said we must be sure toretars KWt
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