OUT FOB 1111 AIRING, Inmates of the Workhouse Prac ticing the Agrarian Arts at Claremont FARMERS OF THE SLUMS. So Prison Cough for the Hen Taken to Hr. Warner's Hostelry. HE SOON LEARKS THE LAZT HE5. Will Frcdoefl FiTe Thousand Bushels of Potatoes This Tear. HOW THE LAND HIS BEEN FERTILIZED rwxrrrrjr fob thx sxarxTczJ t . K lSS HJ i wUFffisMffi, , "srrhz.SXZJ-fX Ai-Aa mm mav make Farmer Brown's bead swim when he Lean of them across in Fawn township. To TJtllizo Unskilled Prisoners. "So, yon see, we can raise crops here that are ont 'of reach of the ordinary husband man because of the large amount of labor required," explained Mr. Henry "Warner, the Superintendent "Wo have to keep these men here out of the way of soeiety.and we have to keep them Tor nothing. Many that come to us are unfitted for the mechan ical toil inside our shops. If we did not Lave this farm they would hare absolutely nothing to do. So we may as well make tbem work in growing food for the susten ance of all the prisoners. 'There are some people,' continued Superintendent Warner, "who argue that an institution" like this could invest its money at 6 per cent interest, and buy vege tables cheaper than it can raise them. It is not true. By the very reason of having to find some employment for the cIrss of prisoners of whom I spoke we have been able to obtain a higher perfection of fertil ity in our farm than farmers usually can attain. This enables us to grow our vegetables easier. Aeain, with this sur plus of unemployed labor, we can attempt larger crops than farmers usually can do. These advantages, I imagine, would give us the bulge on other producers ir we were to go into the open market with our sense of freedom makes them work better, X am told. laziness Always Crops Ont. Yet, it would be a mistake to think that they all work willingly. If there is any laziness dominant in a man work on a'farm will fetch it to light. When a guard's back is turned for a few moments two-thirds of a gang of convicts have been known to in stantly rest on the handles of their hoes. Left to themselves for ten minutes, it is not nt all beyond the range of possibilities that they would relapse into that favorite amuse ment of all laming humanity swapping stories. Bill Blank would not work at hoeing this spring. He "soeered" until he sot to de moralizing the other men, and the guards reported him as n. g. He was then put at pushing wheelbarrow. That suited him no better, aud .the axle of the borrow got clogged up in a few hours. Nxt he was tried at unloading fertilizer and lorfcing it over the ground.' If any man under the sun, with sound olefactory organ, can re main stationary at this particular employ ment, then he ought to be given the cake for laziness. "Well, "Bill" practically went to sleep over this branch of the granger business. "Rftnl ltirt. ?Awn In Ilia Kornvnril " nd- j vised the boss farmer. IT IS UP-HILL WORK. American Merchants Have a Great Deal to Contend With la WAE KETfS AKD PKICE8 ARMERS from the slums of a great city! "Toughs." fresh from the Central police station in Pitts bunr.' or the lockuD in PvWW Allegheny, sweating over - neaps oi leriuizer in mu newly-plowed fields of the countryl How it did my heart good to see them work! But their bloated faces, their bleared eyes, their wicked scowls, their depraved visages, their sullen mien bahl The freshly upturned earth, the green grass, the odorous blossoms, the pastoral surroundings, the delicious sir itself, all are too pure for such contaminat ing men to labor amid. "Does farming pay?" These prisoners of the Allegheny County Workhouse will have some practical ideas along that line when they go back to town, and it might not be a had scheme to let a reporter meet them at the West Penn Railroad depot and "interview" them. In the meantime, I will let readers decide for themselves whether the experiment of buying a big farm and operating it with convict labor has been a profitable investment. What the Land Is Worth. The Workhouse Farm wss only pur chased three years ago. Prior to that time the entire property owned by the prison con sisted oi 50 acres lying between the river and the top of the hill back of the railroad at Claremont, and that is chiefly occupied by the immense buildings necessary to house 700 persons. Those 50 acres were bought 21 years ago for $300 per acre. The property now consists of 204 acres. It ex tends one mile back from the summit of the hill, and this bcautifnl piece ot tableland, when purchased three years ago, cost $225 per acre. Now it is worth infinitely more for one very peculiar reason. That is that through the cheapness of convict labor it has been fertilized up to a higher degree than any individual farmer, or farming corporation either, could afford to do. It has become the finest garden, perhaps, in Western Pennsylvania. When bought it was only in average condition. One of the large flat boats owned by the workhouse is frequently floated aown the river to Herr's Island. There it lies while Superintendent Emil Winters, of the live stock yards there, has all The Reftise or His Cattle Fens dumped aboard. Then the boat is towed back to Ciuiemoct and the refuse taken by wagons, driven by prisoners, back over the hill to the farm. There the convict farmers scatter it over the fields. Stable fertilizer is a valuable and scarce article in the coun try, and farmers usually can't get enough for a small farm. But thousands and thousands of tons of the best article have thus been distributed over the workhonse soil each season. Tne result is splendid fertility. These pseudo grangers from the barrooms of the city accomplish what scarcely any in dividual farmer in Pennsylvania would dare undertake, viz.: to raise 5,000 bushels of potatoes at one crop. There is money in potatoes, at least this spring, but the amount of labor involved in planting, nurturing and harvesting 5,000 bushels is so tremen dous that it would scare any thrifty farmer out of the idea of such an experiment. It requires -30 and 30 men at the workhouse to do the seeding alone, and when tne potatoes ripen they must be taken out of the ground at once or freeze. Where is the farmer who could employ the small army of employei needed to gather in the crop? A Crop of KaTy lieans. Another thing that the specimens from the city slums propose to do this spring is to plant for 500 bushels of navy beans some thing winch no firmer in Allegheny or Westmoreland counties dare undertake. To buy these beans in the open market you I f M WMMHMM EURG DISPATCH. T 1 IBGr, SUNDAY, MAY '"lO, Sil ' ' ' ' I ..- . i i i ! i u - i ,, ,,.,. . i I. i-i i .. if .1. . in- i- ,i i , . . i JB1 HORROBSOFMAYDir. , : r- i, I Annual MoYing in New York's JkA TH P WkMVw I Jf ' 1 Business and Flat Districts. fllfefV V W& 'Vf ' I THE ABABA5D HIS TENT OUTDONE. II'jJn yrTWX ZVXT IV ' I Elegant Furniture Always Stands homiest twit ' V tZzsys - , " " ' vm on the Sidewalks. 7 , " WWm M TUB SECOXMIAAD HEX WM ililr Ss:i::'- .v r-v l M A FANTASTIC TALE, INTRODUCING HYPNOTIC THEORIES, ft WBITTEK FOR THE DISPATCH , 9 CRAWFORD,, GETTING SOUTH AMERICAN TfiADE. The Iojastlco of Freight Bates and Other Discriminations. CHILE icoitncsroxDENcx or tub disfatce. 1 ' Santiago de Chile, April 9. Through President Balniaceda has only about lour months more to serve, his most sanguine friends hardly think he will live to Ree his successor inaugurated. Should he succeed in. completely defeating his toes, which is not likely, he would surely fall by the hand of some revengeful assassin; and in the event of victory by the opposition, his lata is sealed. It is said that even the officers of the Chilean navy, many of whom the Presi dent formerly loaded with favors, havo signed a solemn compact never to lay down their arms till they have hanged Balmaceda in the Plazi Mayor of Santiago. The President has sot once shown his face outside the Moueda during the last three months; but, having sent his family out of the country, lives in strictest retirement, eating and sleeping in the presence of an armed guard. As the close confinement is telling upon his health, he is about to re move to the Quinta formal a beautiful public garden near the outskirts of the capi tal. One would think that an unwise plan for his personal security; but no place is happens that he has to pay for things he has never seen, months before their arrival.' " The Return Cargo to Europe. Another inducement to European trade is the advantage to the shipper of otlng sure of a return cargo; while with the TTnited States at the present status of commercial re lations, the voyage one way is pretty sure-to he a dead loss. Another unfavorable cir cumstance is that the heavier merchants in Chile are altnost universally Europeans, and. they naturally look for European goods, whereas, were Yankees engaged in hnsiness here, they wonld use home articles whenever practicable. The ubiquitous commercial traveler, with his crrin-sack. flirtatious pro pensities and chronic smile, is not abroad in South America as at the North; neither is advertising carried to anv such extent. Many leading United States firms iisae no tices and price-lists especially for the South American trade, generally printed in the two languages; but by tar the better plan would he to advertise as extensively and at trnctively in the local papers of these cities where their iarcs are little known, as at home where the public is familiar with them. But in spite of all drawbacks. Chile re- v ceived iroin the United States lint year abdut S2,S63,237 worth of goods. The last official statement I saw gave the total an nual imports as approximating 930,341,351 in value; and the exports tbu.oiu.oa? the latter fagnres,ot course, including guano, salt-peter and precious metals. The principal articles received from the United States arc agricultural implements, machinery, cotton goods, lumber and para fine. Oar country now does a good business with Chile in the hardware line, though formerly England monopolized it. The screws used in Chili yet come from Great Britain, but all the nails from the United States. Wall paper is another item of con siderable export. The cheaper grades come from Germany, also common printing paper and coarse stationery; hut everything in the "art" line of wall papers, besides the novel ties and superior erodes of stationary, are received from the United States, FINANCES OF THE WHEELBARROW GANG. produce, but of course, we do not. All we raise goes into the months of our inmates. Eaves Xts of Marketinc. "But in addition to raising stuff cheaper than other farmers do, we have still the other advantage of having the stuff right here on our ground. To feed nearly 800 per sons would require a tremendous amount of marketing if we had to buy the food. Just think of what we.are saving each year. Esti mating our forthcoming crop of 6.000 bushels of potatoes at 50 cents per bushel ves, I know they are worth lrom ?1 35 to $1 45 per bushel now, but let's put it at a low figure we will save buying $2,500 worth of potatoes. Our 500 bushels of beans at $2 per bushel, will be worth f 1,000. The 15,000 heads of cabbage which we are going to have, at 5 cents a head, willbetheeoniva- lent of $750. The winter onions we are going to pat in 250 bnshels will be worth $1 25 per bushel. "Besides all these we are growing the 15,000 ccaliion onions and many hundreds of beets and carrots, which yon may estimate for yourself at lower than siarktt prices. We raise enough of all of them to supply the prison all the year around. The vege tables I have mentioned are all necessary tor the soups and cooking of a penal institution like this. We grow none of the fancier grades of garden stuff like asparagus, peas, etc. Good Thine fr ho Inmates. "Here is another blessing that comes to the prisoner from raising our own stuff we are able to set aside one plot ot ground for the An Experience With a Stoer. Ho was sent Thero lives a steer, im mense in his build, frightful in his appear ance, ugly in disposition and hoarse. in voice, and there they had erected a pole which revolved in a circle in front of a roller to which every day the steer was har nessed,and compelled to go round and round until some oi the savageness was extracted from his temper. "Bill" Was allotted the work of driving this wicked steer. For awhile it seemed easy enoneb, and "Bill" began to think he had struck a "snap" at last. His thoughts wandered away to the "Point" in Pittsburg, and lie grew drowsy in contemplating the lun he would have there after awhile. "Whtop!" and "Bill'.' was suddenly aroused by a kick that sent him flying back ward over the pole. Before he could gather himself up the steer had again come around the circumference of the circle, and was now, with head low, aiming for him with a lunge. .The ring in the Bovine's nose had been pulling hard enough to make him bleed, and he was crowing savage with the smell of blood. "Bill" was kept busy lor the next hour, and after- two or three davs oi such exercise he begeed to be allowed to go back to hoeing. He is quite a farmer' now. But the majority of the prisoners sent to the fields are fair sweaters, working com paratively well under the lash but few of them work without it I mean, of course, the rhetorical lash. Two Institutions Compared. Two years imprisonment in solitary eon- TUB TC.AZA OF SANTIAGO. f A GANG IN ME FIELDS. Guarding the Plowman. wonld pay about 4 cents per jiouud, or 52 40 per bushel (any commission mrcbaut will tell you that is a low estimate), and jet farmers Siereabonts do not raise them to any grea xtent. Why? Because it is too la borious. The whole cost of the beans is in the labor that must be expended upon them. Few termers attempt iliorc than a 20-bushel crop. But the worthy city grangers named above ere actually preparinc lor a crop of 500 bushils, and when grown they will be picked, hu'led and cleaned by "Betsy" Moran, "Dirty Mag" aud the myriad of other women who are sv..t to this institution from the dives of Pituburg. This is ho experi ment. It was the size of last year's crop at the workhousu These scavengers uf society, nho must have the strongest drinks when they arc oa the turf, would naturally Be supposed to work easily among strong vege table foods. So they are planting now lor between 15,000 aud 16.000 scollion onionr. 25J bushels ot uig winter onions, and 15,000 head of cabbage These are crops which culture of tomatoes and green corn, which we would not buy if we had to go into the market for our produce. Bnt with onr ex cellent farming at cheap labor we are able to raise enough oi these two articles to feed to the men once or twice a week as so much of a treat thrown in. They wouidn'.t tret them if we hadn't the garden. It makes the health of the inmates better. A remarkable fact about the farm is that nothing goes to wastp. It they didn't have the farm there would be no room for live stock and all the refuse of the kitchens would be waited. At present the slops of the kitchen are enough to feed 100 hogs of tne Dest oreeds, and there is enough grain raised on the place to feed the swine before slaughtering time. With these 100 hogs are furnished the pork for the prisoners. Besides raising enough corn on the farm for these hogs, plenty of hay is secured for feeding the excellent pen of cattle owned by the workhouse. Cattle could not be kept there it there was no farm. At present thc&e cattle furnish the finest quality of milk to the prison, and hundreds of pounds of butter arc churned from it monthly by the female convicts. They Enjoy the Open Air. Each gang of prisoners detailed for work in the fields is well guarded. The guards men are clad in bright blue uniforms with brass buttons, and carry two loaded re volvers in their pockets each. Thus far there have been verv few escapes lrom this open employment. Many of the men regard it as a treat to get out in the open air, with a stretch of vision unrestricted by prison walls. The view from the plateau on which the farm is located is commanding. It is a pretty picture in itstlf if yon could not see up and down the Allegheny river for many imles. The whole farm stretching a mile in each direction, is divided up into fields and orchards, checker board fashion, by white washed board fcnce. On the brow of the hill sits the great barn of the prison, surrounded bv granaries, cattle-sheds, hog-pens, etc A mile back a deep bit of woodland iring-s the limits of the realm, in which there is a log-cabin wage, irom whose port-holes an armed. guard tceps waicli on the border. Between the barn and woodland lie field after field, ifnd on a pretty suuny morning, like the one when I was there a visitor last week, a gang of convicts tethered by no chain, nor hin dered by any iron balls may be seen work ing in this field, another sanad in yon pas ture, and here aud there a single plowman, I ..AJ t.1. V..... .M. i,.-. -, I. 1 iwbm.-u uuucALi, uinug tno son, witu no idea of making a break iorliberty.- Hie finement," is the substance ot a sentence often heard. echoing throuch the courtrooms. The man whom it is imposed upon goes to the State penitentiary in Allegheny. When his term is expired he comes ont 'into the world again pale and emaciated. The cough he has tells of the disease he found lurking between those dark dungeon bastions. Sta tistics will prove that a larger percentage of the deaths in. the Western Penitentiary are from pulmonary consumption, the natural outcome of close confinement. A pitch-fork is put in his hand, and he is told to use it. He laughs at the very idea be who never worked a whole week at anv thing in town, except, perhaps, the ligh't fingered accomplishment of toying with Thf Wo A Acute earn. other people's pockets. It wonld make yon laugh to see that man use that pitch-fork. He ncajly stabs a comrade by accident severaltimes. Next he is lold to drive the plow or harrow, or tjke a pail of seeds and gn along the "hills" You will roar to watch him.lt He makes such comical breaks, but gradually he improYes. He can't help it He is an idiot if he don't. And every night he goes back to that prison with a greater appetite than yon can find in a prison of the solitary confinement sort. Sleep? Yes, he sleeps so well that there are none of those prison ghosts to haunt him in the quiet vigils behind barsand locks. When that man's term of so-called im prisonment is over Tie goes back to Pitts burg, brown as a berrv, healthy as n child, and cheerful as a bird how could he help it, when birds have been his constant com panions among those orchard frees? Aat hira, 4,doe farmlng'pay?" ' Ii. E. Sxorixii. safe from the traitor, and ' nobody in Chile would be surprised at any hour to hear of Balmaeeda's murder. Five Dollars for a Chicken. At the best of limes food is dear iu Chile, because so much, of the country is not agri cultural; and now that supplies can no longer be brought in from al)road,.prices are so tremendous that distress prevails. Think of paying 55 for a small chicken, $10 for a pound of tough beef, f 20 a can for condensed, milk', $50 a tack for flour, and SiOOfor a half-grown hogl There is uo set standard of prices, but they range according to the ne cessities of the people, and the figures above quoted have actually been, paid in Chile within the past fortnight A few evenings ago the good citizens of Santiago were treated to a little scare. From private dispatches received by the government, trouble of .so mo sort was ap prehended, bnt the particulars were not made public The police force was largely increased, and everybody sent home from the clubs, cafes and other 'resorts at an early hour. la the theatres, the second act was well ender wav, when it was announced from the stage that by government order the people were required to quietly disperse But nothing came of it, however beyond consiueraoie grumoiing aDOUt "that tyrant, Balmaceda." Now that the Chilean steamers are all engaged as war vessels, there is onlv.the English line to bring mail down from Pan ama; hence letters lrom the United States come less frequently than before. All postal matter going out oi Uhiie, whether bound for Europe or the Northern continent, must be sent over the Andes on mule back and across the Argentine Eepnhlic by rail, to the other ocean. Since the British S. 8. Company has things all its own way in these water-i. the travelers' lot is not a hap py one. The Inconveniences of Travel. It is a fact that one may jonrney from Valparaiso to Europe, away around through the Strait of JVlagellirn a vovace of 42 davs for less mooertban.it costs to go up the western cost to Panama a run of 20 days, including numerous stops, and which ought to be made in half that time. In other words, the monopolists charge in the 'neighborhood of 10 cents per mile for transporting you from Chile to the United States, either to California or via the Isthmus to New York; and only about 2 cents per mile to Europe. Not only that, bnt the English corpora tion whicn controls navigation on the west ern side of the hemisphere, seems tn have purposely arranged its time tables so as to miss connection with the New "York steamers at the Isthmus. Nine times out of ten passengers are landed at Panama a day or two after the' PaciDc Mail has left Aspinwall for the north, and are compelled to endure the danser, annoyance and ex pense of more than a week's stay on the fever-haunted Isthmus when, at some seasons of the year( a few hours are quite long enoneb to give one his everlasting quietus. Freight and mails are subject to the same treatment, and it looks as if the whole thing were a scheme to divert South America trade from the United States to Europe. I have recently interviewed some mer chants on this subject, and have gleaned the following facts: iduu a ccntnry ago Chile received more goods from tho. United States than from any other country; but now we come fourth on the list Great Brit ain sending by far the largest quantity.Cer many second and France third. What Manufacturers Must Contend With. The principal reason of our falling off is from lack of decent means of communica tion. Shipments from the Northern Bepnb Jic are generally made at New York or Bos ton, although a few articles come from Philadelphia and others from Baltimore. They must either go away down aronnd Cape Horn or be landed at Aspinwall, trans ported by rail across the Isthmus and re shipped at Panama. The freight charges from New York t.. Valparaiso via the Isth mus are more than double that from Euro pean ports to the same destination; and it is Slid to be about 30 per cent cheaper to ship goods from New York to Europe and thence to South America than to send them by way of Panama. So very high arc steamer rates of trans portation rram the United States that most goods are sent by sailing vessels around the Horn, occupying from four to six months in transit. One great reason why the Chilean merchant prefers to trade with England, is because the goods arrive in the same steamer with the hill Oi lading, and 90 days of grace being allowed on the latter, he has a chance to realize his profit before making payment. If frpta tho United States, the hill comes by steamer jn about 30 ilays, while the roods renuira nearlv half ? year to be wafted by sails; and it often The duties and high rate of exchange pre vent much importation of furniture, though a good many cane-bottomed chairs are re ceived. Ready-made frame work for the most expensive chairs and sofas ia imported to be uphobtered here, and "knock-down" articles, in trade parlance that is, in pieces, to be nut together when arrived. Excel lent farpiture is made in the country,' but the cabinet woods, including mahogany, walnut, oak, cherry, etc., are all imported. Pianos come chiefly from Kraocejand Ger many, and are commonly of the cheaper g'rades, though' what With transportation charges, duties and hijjh rate of exchange. they cot more than the best at home. For these reasons there is little -sale for fine nianos here, such as Cbickerifigs, Stein ways, Knabes. etc The United States furnishes Chile with most of her cotton 'cloth; but until, Uncle Samuel makeasome diflerent arrangement in regard to the tariff on wool, he can never compete with Europe iu.tb.8 manufacture of woolen goods. All the drugs, too, come from Europe, except a few pills, plasters, patent medicines and specialties. Many of the familiar pictures which grjee the walla at home are seen here the big tod fish which pertains to Scott's Emulsion, St Jacob with his bottle ot oil in hand, the smirking phiz of that old humbug, Lydia Finkham, etc., etc, the legends settingforth their respective virtues being printed ia the. Spanish language The Light and the FueL Ail the kerosene used in Chile comes from the Uuitcd States. The coal is mostly dng In the country notably at Coronel, lota and Pnuta Arenas, the latter place being the convict colony at the tip-end of the con. tlnent; and a little anthracite is imported from England. The United States fur nishes most of the clocks, articles manu factured from India rubber, refined sugar, lubricating oils, soaps, perfumes and "Yan kee notions." Onr silver-plated ware is in great demaud.and much preferred to that of any other country. Chile makes her own fireworks, and uses a great quantity of them: bnt gets ail her gunpowder, as well as most of her munitions of warfare, from x.urooe. a lew wagons are sent down Irom the United States, bnt not many finer ve hicles, as there are several carriage manu factories in the country. We supply most of the materials, however hubs, springs, trimmings, and even the wood that is used; but as good carriages are made here as any where in the world. Harnesses,- saddlery andtirrups are also znanulaetured in the country. Most of the materials used in photo graphy, including all tho plates, come lrom the United States. Despite heavy duties thereon, the poor photographers manage to worry along by charging $& per dozen for caoinet-size photo. As the natives are ex cesjivlv given to having their pictures taken, the artists, as a rule, not only suc ceed in making both ends meet, but lay by something for rainy weather. The dentists, too, nine-tenths of whom are from the land of the Stars and Stripes, keep the wolf n long way lrom the door by charg ing outrageous prices, compared to which the $10-an-honr rule of Mexico is a mere bagatelle. I knew a ludy who had Ihe misfortune to loosen A false tooth from the front of her plate. She rushed to the near est dental surgeon and what do yon think he charged her for sticking that same bit of ivory back on the snme old plate, at the ex pense of perhaps a quarter of a cen's worth of piaster parik? Twenty dollars! Of course sne "ivicfced, but in vain. He calmly fold her that nobody in South America touched a tooth for less than that sum, and lhat in many places she would have been obliged to pay even more. One hundred dellars for a set f "uppers," that elsewhere cost from 5 to $10, is considered cheap in Chile, and I know several- dear creatures (in a doable sense), who carry .-.round in their months from 500 to Jl.OOO" worth of cold in thn form ot plugs and fillings. The instruments and materials, as well as those who use tbem, are mostly from the United States. The pleasure lovincChileans buy most of their billiard tables from us, and lately n good maiiy Chicago elcvature hare been in troduced, they having become qnlte the fashion in private houses a. characteristic extnivagancn where tho ca'sa arc rarely more than two stories high. Then are Edi son telephones iu every town and city; find until recently the Brush electric light was used iu Santiago till, through mismanage ment, tho company ailed disastrously and the city went back to gas. Fannie B. Ward, Brace Up. There is a prodigions number of persons wiio feel very much down at the heel just finrr. Alllbev really need is n dose of St Patrick's Pills to cleanse hod renovate their system. It would do tbem more good than a dollar bottle of any blood puriiyer. Fjor Sale, by, ail druggists. wsu iconnasroxDESca or th dispatch.! New YoiSk, May & "The first day of May ia no longer the gigantic bugheur it used to be," remarked an old New Yorker the other day. We were watching the low ering of a pair of heavy safes from a sixth story window in the .night preceding the great annual moving day. Nevertheless, there issufJScient picturesqueness in this moving mania to interest almost anybody not to the manner born. Think of folding up your 1,000-pound safe in the night and silently stealing away. The Arab would give it np. Those Arabs and lahmaclites and Kiti tites who infest the nine-story beehives oi the lower city can tell you something about this annual move that would make your haircurl. The attemptof late years to mod ify the evil by changing leases so they will expire in the fall iustead of in the spring has been but partially successful. It waa the offspring ot the flat craze, rather than the result of arecosmzedbeistiy inconvenience. the flat landlords realizing the importance of chaining their tenants down to New York during the summer. Storing for the Hot Months, , If the leases expired in October the ehances of renewals were greatly improved. At present it is a habit with this class of tenants to pnll up May 1, store furniture for the hot months and return to flat life in the fall. Perhaps the habit would be.more com mon were it not rendered-so disagreeable and expensive. Still, a proportion of about one in ten families go through this process every year. They rip up carpets that will never fit any other possible combination cf rooms, fay f 10 a load for transportation of their honsehold goods from the flat to the storage warehouse, pay $10 a month for storaee, pay $5 a load to have stuff sent to a new flat in the fall, buy new carpets or have old ones made over and pay liberally for repairs of furniture in jured on account of handling. Any frugal woman who has a family can readily see that this is an expensive and a vexations process. That ignis fatuns "couutry board" leads them on and on until they flounder in the quicksands of domestic misery. Bnt the same party never, or rarely, makes the same mistake twice. What Happens on Stairways. When the rippinz-np -and moving fever fastens upon two or more families of the same tenement at the -same time it is dread ful. This combination is not unusual on the first day of May. Everybody knows what working one pair of dark and winding stairs with furniture means. When the third floor tenant of an eight Toom flat is coming down with his honsehold goods and the filth floor and the feurtb floor joins him with their worldly possessions, you can bet there is enough to make Korae bowl. Perhaps there are two or three other tenants out in the street with loaded vans waiting to get in. , - Thls-azzravates matters to sUeh an "extent that some women faint at the very idea 6f such a combination of circumstances, and before coming face to face with them. There are usually lrom two to fonr able-bodied ruffians with each van, and they hear -about the same relation to each other as the old volunteer fire companies bore toward each other at a fire. If they don't break the furniture oyr each other's heads the owners are lucky. If the janitor gets boiling drunk on that particular day, and stalks np and down the pavement howling like King Richard III. alter somebody's gore, who can blamq him? Must Go Through It Twlco. Add to the scene, if you please, seven to ten children who couldn't be kept ont of the way with a club, and two or three half crazr servants and there you are. Multiply ail o'f this by two, for there is a rising of the sun and a going down thereof; these people must settle down somewnere else before dark. Speaking about darkness briugs me back to the curious social phenomenon of night roving. There are several reasons that might be given for moving in the night one that it is cheaper to move than to pay rent; another that vans and men are less dear; and another, that it hides the pov erty of one's possessions. The latter reason fs a strong one. Nobody likes to have his kitchen table or parlor carpet criticised. Some people pnt a couple of thousand-dollars' worth of furniture and things into a flat where the next door neighbor across the hall had about $50 worth of stuff, all told. It is noticeable that the costly material is always moved with great deliberation, the most elegant portion being allowed to stand along the sidewalk for half a day, while other things are hxed; again, the other fel low goes in and comes 'out under cover of darkness. This tender diffidence is enough to make one blnsb. It is the weakness or the much loved and considerably abused sex. No matter nobody else understands as they understand how women size np the-r neighbors by a swilt, sweeping inventory of their furniture. One of the tniarles Money Brings. Altogether different is moving day in the more aristocratic quarters of the town. Those who live in-the elegant and costly private residences rarely more. When they do the goods usually go to the dealers. The family take no part in the proceeding, and the male servants attend to the de'aiU. It is the business, or office part oi the town, where things are made to hustle on the 1st of May. While the leases expire and begin some where else on th$ same day, it is recognised by everybody as impossible for people to change places in one short 24 hours. As a rule the process of gettine ready begins two or three daps previously. For three or four days, therefore, the halls will be blocked with nmce inrnicnre, saies, dooks, etc Vangling fr.om wlnduws in every direction for a week may ho seen" black cubos or burglar-proof metah The rpd tin sicn "Danger" Is so com mon along the walks that Jew people notice it at all, and those who dn generally ro rteht amns nruior inn swinging saies uunoul the trembling ot an eyelash, ami wholly regardless of such a thing as luck. At long intervals one of these Bates breaks loose and smashes down frmii top torv to thn sidewalk, hut as Inns as nobody Is killed Mew Yorkers don't mind It Harvests for gecond-Hand Men. II yon overlook the second-hand furniture shoos at this seosonof the year you makou great mistake. Heavens! what a pile of house hold coeds goes Into tbe insatiable maw of the middle man and for a mere eons. Downtown it In of3c f nrniiuro of ersry conceivable char acter. When a rotten corporation starts out it must slimy up well In furniture, it must ho sjtick and span new and the best qnalitr. whop that ftnff goes to tho second-hand dealer in the corse nf acnuplonf months nr so, lrithflngt 23 per cent of cost the rreilitors are doing well. 1 he next day thcftnU in the dealf r' haiiils advances toaoraewbereuoartSO per cent or 74 per cei.t of original cnt. Yon can bI1 onr or those le.ilcra J75 worth of kitchen otulf ror fi, if you strike one hort mi that line; or, ynu rem toy rartago -and let him clcsa it out as a job lot on 10 percent m;ninl elon. He will un everything in a flat as It stand' atf rm SO to 25 percent or original enir. If It he in goxI:c(iiditjou.and rip It np and cart ttoHlntttfchourS. He will tel 50m s onhat stuff for more than Itamt direct from tiio fur niture store bueh Is the uncertainty of auc tion buying. Csabz.es Tjieodoek Mtjukat. MARION Author of "Mr. -Isaacs," "Dr. Claudius," "A Roman Singer," and Many Other Stories That Have Taken Mania as, Standard Literature. CHAPIEr. XXV It was shameful, base, despicable, and she knew it. A moment ago she had longed to tear herself away, tn silence him, to stop her ears, anything not to hear those words that cut like whips and stnng like scorpions. And now again she was listening for the next, eagerly, breathlessly drnnk with their sounds and reveling almost in the unreality of the happiness they brought. More and more she despised herself as the intervals be tween one pang of suffering and the next grew longer and the illusion deeper and more like reality. Alter all, it was he, and no other. It was the man she loved who was pouring out his own love into brr ears and smoothing her hair and pressing the hand he held. Had he not said it once, and more than once? What matter where, what matter how, pro vided that he loved? She had received tbe fulfillment of her wish. He loved her now. Under another name, in a vision, with an- 1 yet, If he had remembered,- he would hart Been where be waa in the long time that had passed since his awakening. "Did you ever la your long -travels-hear tbe name Unorna7" she asked, with a smile and n little hesitation. "Unorna? No. I cannot remember. It is a Bohemian word it means 'she of Feb ruary.' It nas a pretty found half famil iar to me. -I wonder where I have heard it." "Call me Unorna, then. It will remind us that you found me iu February." ' After carefully locking and bolting the door of the sacristy, Sister Paul turned to Beatrice. Sha baa set down her lamp upon the broad, polished shelf, which ran all round the place, forminr tbe top of a con tinuous1 series of cupboirds, as in most sac risties, nsedi'or the vestments or the church. At the back of these, high presses rose half way to tbe spring of the vault. The nun seemed a little nervous, and her voice quavered oddly as she spoke. It she had tried to take np the lamp her hand would hare shaken. In the moment oi dan- H 'I -. V BEATRICE TETXB HEP. STORY. A ErlBhlChitd. Father Eemember, my son, hens lay, bnt ships lie. Joimnr A aw, say dou't ships lay to? other free and another voice, yet still, she was herself. As in a storm the thunder claps come crashing through the air, deafening and ap- J palling at first, then rolling swiftly into n far distance, fainter and lainter, till all is still, and only tbe plash of the fast-falling rain is heard, so as she listened.the tempest of her pain was passing away. Easier and easier it became to hear herself called Beatrice, easier and easier it grew to take that other's place, to accept the kiss, the touch, th word, the pressure of the hand that-were all another's due, and given 10 herself only for the mask she wore in bis dream. And the tide of the great temptation rose, and fell a little, and rose higher ncain each time, till it washed the fragile feet of (he last good thought that lingered, taking refnge on tbe highest point above the waves. On and on it came, receding and coming bick, bjgher and higher, surer and snrer. Had she drawn back: in time, it would have been so easy. Had she turned Lnnd fled when the first moment of senseless joy was over, when she conld still feel all the shame and mush ror ail the abasement, it would have been over now, and she would have been sate. But she had learned to look upon the advancing water, and the sound ol it had no more terror for her. It was very high now. Presently it would climb higher, and close above her head. There were long intervals of silence now. The first ruth of his speech had spent itself, for he had told her mneh and she had heard it all, even through the mists of her chang ing mood. And now that he was silent, she longed to hear him speak again. She eonld never weary of that -voice. It had been music to her in the days when it fud been full of cold indifference now each vibration roused high harmonies in ber heart, each note was a. full, chord, -and all the chords made but one great progression. She longed to hear it all again, wondering greatly how it could never have been not good to hear. Then with the greater temptation came the les, enclosed within it, suddenly re vealed to her. There was bnt one thing she luted in it all. That was the name Would he not give her another her own, perhaps? She trembled as she thought of speaking. Would site still have Beatrice's voice? Might not her own breakdown the spell and destroy all at once? Yt she had apsken once before. She bad told him that she loved him, and he had not been unde ceived. "Beloved " she said nt l-st, lingering on the single word, and then besiutlutr. He looked into Ucr face us he drew her to him, with happy eyes. She might spejk, then, ler he would near tones not hers. "Beloved, lam tiretlf ray name. Will you call me by another?" She s-.oke very softly. "By another name?" he exclaimed, sur prised, but smiling at what seemed ustrange caprice. "Yes. It is a sad name tn me. It re minds me of many things of a time that is better forgotlen, since it is gone. Will yon do it for me ? It will make it seem as hough that time had never bi-en." "And yet I love yonr .own name," he said, thoughtfully. "It is so much or has been so much iu all ilu-c years, when I had nothing bnt vour name to lave."' "Will you'not do it? It is all I ask." "Indeed, X will, if yon wonld rather have it so. Bo voa think there is anything that I would not do, if you asked it nt me?" Thoy were almost the words she had -pokon to him that night when they were watching together by Israel Kafka's side. She recognized tbem, and a. strange thrill of triumph ran through her. What matter how? What matter where? Tbe old, xeck Jess queUions came to her mind again. If he lovtd her, and if he wonld but nail her Unorna, whait could it matter, indeed? "Was she not herself? She smiled unconsciously. "I tee it pleases you," he said, tenderly. "Let it be yon mlsh. Wha tiabe will you choose for yonr dear sell?'' She hesitated. She conld not tell how far he might restes-be wxut was, past. A ad gershe.had b;en orave and determined, but now that all was over her enfeebled strength felt tbe reaction from tbe strain. She turned to Beatrice and met her flashing black eyes. Theyoung girl's delicate nostrils qnivered and her lips cnrled fiercely. "You are anerr, my 'dear child," said Sister Paul. "So am I, and it seems to ma that oar anger is jnst enough. 'Be angry and sin not.' I think we can apply that to ourselves." "Who is that woman?" Beatrice asked. She was certainly angry, as the nun had said, but she felt by no means snre that sha could resist the temptation of sinning if it presented itself, as tbe possibility of tearing Unorna to pieces. "She was once with us," the nun an swered. 'I knew her when she was s mere girl and I loved ber tberi, in spite of her strange wars. Bnt he hns changed. They call her a Witch and, indeed, I think it is the only name for her." "I do not believe In witches," said Beat rice, a little scornfully; "bnt whatever she is. she is bad. I doanot know what it was that she wanted me to do in the church, upon the altar there it was something hor rible. Thank God von came in time! What could it have been, I wonder?" Sister Paul shook her head sorrowfully, hut said nothing. She knew no more than Beatrice of Unarna's intention, but she be lieved in the existence of a Black Art, full of sacrilegious practices, and credited Unorna vaguely with the worst design which she conld think of, thongh In her coodness she was not able to imagine any thing much worse than the saying ot a Pater. Nosier backward in a consecrated' place. Bbt she pre'erred to lay nothing, lest she should jndge Unorna unjsftfy. After all. she did not know. What sbeUiad seen had seemed bad enough and strange enough, but apart rom the fact that Bea trice bad been iound upon the altar, when she certainly had uo liusines to be, and that Unorna liad acted like a guilty woman, there was little to lay hold of in the way of fact. "My child," she said, at last, "until we know more of the -troth and have belter advice than we can give each other, let us not speak of it to any of the sisters. In the morning I will tell all I have seen in con fession, and then I slt&ll get advice. Per haps yoa should do the same. 1 know nothing of what happened before you left your room. Perhaps ynu have something to reproach yourself. It is not for me to ask. Think it over." "I will tell you the whole truth," Bea trice answered, resting her elbow upon the polished shelf and supporting her head in her hand, while she looked earnestly into Sister P.ial's faded eyes. "Think well my daughter. I have no right to any confession from you. If there is anything "Sister Pan), yon are woman, and I mnst have a woa.an's help. I bare learned something to-night which will change my whole life. No do not be afraid I have done nothing wrong. At least, I hope nob While my father lived, I submitted. I hoped, but I gave no sign. I did not even write, as I once might have done. I hara often wished that I had was that wrong?" "Bnt vou have told me nnthlnir, dear child. How can I answer you?" Thenua was perplexed. "True. I -will tell yon. Sister Paul, I am fire vid twenty years old. I am a grown woman and this is no mere girl's love story. Seven rears ago I was only IS then I waa with tny -father, as I have been ever since. My mother had not been dead long then perhaps that is the reanon why I seemed to be everything to my lather. Bat tbev had not been happy together, and I had loved her best. We were travejing no matter ( where and then I met the man I loved. He waa not of our country that is, ray fathers. Bv ws of the same people as my mother. Well I loved him. How dearly, you most guess and try to understand. I could not tell yoa that. No one could. It began gradually. -tor he was often with us In those dtys. 3y father liked him for hw wit, his learning, tboagh he u young, for his strength and manliness, for a hundred Kftewiwklwfthlagtoii(e. IwiiH?'l V i ib& ,ti J-1 S&Wtai MMmae
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