jljBflysjjHKBfivKijyE ?Pv3r, vjjtwrw- rft'JJjV? BWJWTF'SO'SW r,p. WT 20 THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH, SUNDAY, OTTLY 5, 1891. i r A PRINCE OF POVEHTY "Will Be the Groom at the Wedding in England Where Boyalty Will Pispori This Week, THE BEIDE IS PENNILESS, TOO. Scores-of English XoWcinen are Open to American Purchasers at Very Low Rales Just Now. LEGENDS OF A GREAT WATERFALL. Dr. Dolcles rivjxMiiAn to Transport Ibe ropalatidii r Iceland to Alula. rWHITTEN FOE THE DISPATCH. At last thp Kaiser, with a numerous re tinue of nobles and servants, has arrived in England, primarily to visit his royal crandmothcr, and s-econdly to witness the marriage of his ecoml cousin'rin- V5t.ces.fc Louise of J Schleswig-HoHein 'fllTrv f Anhnh-Desv-u. . ; 1 The bride is a fair. but lather heavj faced dam-el of 19 Queen Victoria's fourth child, if any importance attaches to that f.ict. It may be nice to be a princes' and have powerful Lings and queens make a fuss ocr n '- marriage: it may alo be a pleasure to 3iai" the occasion of the marriage made al most a national holiday, and previous to it hac ambitious newspaper correspondents falling over each other in their efforts to pain information concerning the trousseau, the details of the ceremony, etc., that it may be cabled to the innermost recesses of Tiin buctoo. where the ladic pay so much atten tion to cotume, but, after the band ceases playing, the kings and queens go marching t-tifly home and the affair is entirely over, it may not be so pleasant to settle back into the obscurity and uninspiring atmosphere surrounding a roal prince, who ha scarcclv 1 cent to rub against another in hfs royal pocket Prince Aribcrt is a very nice young man and comes of u highly" con nected faniilj, but what can his "poor old lather Freidrich do when out of the paltry tithes derived from his little State of some thing over L'00,000 population he has not onlv to support himself, but a family office children and a number of grandchildren? And what will Princess Louise do" Her l.ither is in even worse shape financially, he and his intensely rojal consort being de pendent on a princely income of '0,000 lavished on them by the Enelish govern ment. We derive a ray of hope from the report that the royal grandmother is sup plying the wedding outfit, and it may be that the Kaiser wiU look out for Aribcrt, otherwise it would occasion no surprise if the newly married pair were compelled to go lortu witu a oeggmg oasKec Titles to Be Had Cheaply. Talking about impoverished nobility re minds me that the condition of some of the members of that usually favored set is at tracting attention out of the ordinary on the other side of the water at present, and some of the radicals are demanding that pro vision be made for some of the dependents by rich relatives before they make a show tif the English nation. During a recent trial for a small debt, a son of the Earl of Airlie declared that his total income was just 3, or about S14 52 a week. It was proved that he was neitner a spendthrift nor a drunkard, but was merely penniless and had no occupation to help him out. Among the other unfortunates might be mentioned the JIarquis of Donegal, who lives in a third rate house and street of Eon don, with hardly enough money to buy food, and also the Earl of Belfast, who, on being hauled up for debt the other day, confessed that he had been training horses lor a living. Any of our American girls who contem plate dickering for titles with ducats need have no fear on the score of a limited field. Of late the English heath has become as proline ot purchasable counts, marquisesJ ana cans as Italy or x ranee. Lord Dudley and Lady Brooke. It is only a few 5 ears since Lady Dudley was consid ered the most beau tiful woman in England. Accord ing to the best judges, she was re-; garded as " mor beautiful than the day." But beauty will not last for ever, and the time Lord Dudley. came when Lady Dudley's loveliness began to wane, and not ev en the dazzling diamonds of the family the most valuable jewels of the realm clasped about that creamy throat could counteract the attention shown the rising star, Frances Evelyn 3Iavnard, who is now better known as the famous Lady Brooke. Having been the successor of Lady Dudley in the lists of beautv, it is something of a coincidence that she'should also succeed in winning to her side as siinong her chief admirers the Earl of Dud ley, only son of her predecessor and one of the richest and gavest bloods in the kingdom. It is said on good authority that Lady Brooke's flirta tion with this young "man, who is really but a boy is the actual cause of her es trangement lrom her husband. For the time being we are told that "my lord" and "my lady arc on the best of terms, but we are also informed that sooner or later the divorce suit promised will manifest itself, and in case it does the vouthtul Dudley will play a prominent part This young man, who by the wny dropped iilL',000 without a wink on one of the recent Ascot races, does not confine his admiration of the fair sex to those of noble extraction. He is said to be badly smitten with the charms of Letty Lind, who is well known as one of the members of the clever gaiety company that visited these shores last season. A Great Waterfall in Labrador. A section of a summer exploring expedi tion sent out by one of the Eastern colleges, which has just taken its departure, will make a special effort to reach the great waterfall said to exist in the interior of Labrador. It is to be hoped that it will be more successful than were Handle F. Holme andH. Duff, the Englishmen who attempted to lind it but failed, because, as we are in formed, the directions given them were away wrong. But one white man Mc Clcan has ever seen the fall, and his de scriptions are so vague that many doubt its existence. JlcCleau, according to his own btory, reached it in 1639. Considerable difficulty was experienced in doing so on siccount of the objections of the natives to cither guide or give him directions how to do so, their traditions maintaining that the fall is haunted, and that lo look upon it means certain death. . McClean says it is on he Petchikapou liver, about 150 miles from its moui.li. 'Iho stream hows lrom a table land at an eleva tion of 2,1U0 feet, and right above the fall is "fully 1,500 feet wide, but the fall itself is but 150 feet across. It has a clear descent, without touching anything of over 2,000 hssSST" m vs v TAts Week's Koyal limlc. j ear: fourth child of 2 7se tmr;m. mjmm IW feet. It is important that the facts con cerning this wonder should be known, for if jtfcClcan's estimates hold good, it is the greatest cataract in the world. The great tall of the Tosemitc measures 2,550 feet, but is broken into three leaps, and ivonderfnl Kiagara is but 1C4. A Singer Flttstmrg Admired. Many persons in Pittsburg ought to re member this face. Two years and a month ago it Dobbeu ana smirked before the admiring plaudits of the multitudes at our first May festival, who were momentarily be w itched by his "highC." Every body thought it great at first, and Sign or Pcrotti Sinnir ParoUi. hugged himself with joy over his greeting here, but on the second trial for some reason or another the people did not take so kindly to the wonder ful note. They declared it very tricky, but with customary politeness looked over their opinions and gave the handsome tenor an other extra round of applause, to which he replied with numerous smiles, salutations and throwing of kisses at the audience, es pecially that part of it occupying a box not ar troni tne stage on tne ngnt. Since that time but little has been heard of him, and questions have been put as to his late. He is now heard from in London. His onlv public appearance there has not taken place under as favorable conditions as surrounded him in Pittsburg. Instead of being in a vast auditorium, he was in a police station, and instead of throwing kisses to an enthusiastic audience, he had been throwing beer bottles at the offending heads of unsatisfactory waiters at one of the hotels. He was given the alternative of adding to the Exchequer by contributing a stated number of pounds or undergoing im prisonment for a period. He accepted the first and then returned to his former ob scurity. Last of the Jlontezumas. The paragraph going the rounds, which states that the descendants of Montezuma 11 are still being paid pensions by the Mex ican government, sounds rather strange when it is remembered that according to general belief the last genuine descendant of the celebrated Aztec prince died at JJew Orleans in 1S3C, in the person of Don Mar silio de Teruel, Count of Monteruma, who had been banished from both Spain and Mexico on account of the extreme liberality of his opinions. The title, Count of Montezuma, by which the iamily was known after the downfall of their illustri ous progenitors, was conferred by the Span ish King, Charles V.. on the last Monte zuma's eldest son, when that individual em braced Christianity. A Great Financier. There was a time during the past winter when, as is well known, financial affairs on both sides of the Atlantic were in very bad shape. The great French banks trembled on the brink of ruin, being only preserv ed by the able poli cy of M. Eouvier. In the United States affaire were not much better, andinneithcr coun in Lidderdale. try was the situation improved any by the announcement that the famous Barings, of London, had gone to the wall "When such houses tail, and especially at snch a time of financial nervousness as the one prevailing then, the chances are always in favor of a crisis. The panics of war are never to be compared in effect to those of money, but neither will be disastrous if the right man takes hold at the right time. If Winchester had its Sheridan, the crisis of the winter of '90-'91 had its Lidderdale. Without the services of the Governor of the Bank of England, there is no knowing at this time what might have supervened! William Lidderdale was the man for the emergency; at the proper moment his splen did leadership asserted itself and brought order out of chaos and led the financial world into safe quarters, even if the eflort did require the wrecking of the biggest of English banking institutions. And now when rumors of fresh monetary trouble come to us from European capitals it is a satisfaction to know that this able man is still in harness. Mr. Lidderdale was born In Russia of Scottish parents. During the war he was the representative in Xew York of Messrs. Bathbone, of London, to which place he re turned in 1861. Since that time his career has been eminently successful in his chosen field, and in 1889 he was appointed to his S resent position of Governor of the great auk of England. Populating Alaska From Iceland. "Who will colonize Alaska, queried many when the scheme of developing that conntry was talked of. Sow comes the answ er in the shape of a proposition of a certain Dr. Dolcke, to move the entire population of Icelaud to that country. It is hardly likely Denmark will look upon the idea with favor, but the "United States woultt certainly be tne trainer, as even the small number of 48,000 or 50,000 persons that constitute the present population of the little country on the borders of the Arctic circle would do much toward open ing up the resources of a country upon which nature has lavished her gifts, but which has few if any charms for the col onist from the States. And above all it would certainly be an improvement in the condition of the Icelanders themselves, as the barren island on which they now exist barely furnishes enough sustenance to keep them alive. The farmer can produce potatoes and turnips and nothing else of any account and these only in favored seasons. The sheep industry is fairly profitable, but not satistactory to the producer, who mav lose all in one night as the result of the fierce storms that sweep over the land. On the other hand, Alaska has its cold and valueless sections, but, thousands of square mues remain tnai are susceptiDle to tne in fluence of industry such as the Icelanders are noted for. It is said that f 1,000,000 will accomplish the work which Dr. Dolcke has set himself to do and it may be that within a- short time, the spectacle of the entire population of the country moving into another will be witnessed. The Sentimental Fart of It. A curious interest attends the possibility of wonderful little Iceland being depopu lated and restored to the condition in which Leif of the Sword and Ingolf of Norway found it a thousand years ago, for it will not be loner until the desert nlnees msilp tn bloom at the hands of these hardy Scandi navians will return to the bleak barrenness Characterizing them previous to human in vasion. Once more this wild seagirt island will wrap itself in silence, broken only by the "skirr" of the hissing winds around the bare, icy rocks, or the note of the loon as it disappears in the chill mists that sweep in from the sea. Apt place for the frozen Jotuns and snow-covered heroes of Icelandic mythology! It can well be asked, will these people in a new land forget their old picturesque traditions? Will they not continue to fos ter among the weird idols of Alaska the vague legends of wondrous deeds of old- timc sagas, jaris and vikings? "Will the J curious myths, the eerie romances and the peculiar but meritorious songs of the people he lost to them? Perhaps it is not gener ally known that the Icelanders have a literature peculiarly their own, and such a one as has given them a respected niche in the chronology ot that art. Will that be lost also? Wilkie. Ladles' White "Waists. Full line of small sizes now open. Ex amine at Bosenbaum & Co.'s. Thrsu A DIMER IN JAPAN. The Smiles of the Pretty Waiting Maids Is the Best Satice ESTHETICS FIGUBE LARGELY. Flavor of Food Spoiled to Foreign Taste byt the Universal Soj. "SEAWEED IS.YT TERY TALATABLE wmrTENroBTHE dispatch. It is possible to live iu Japan a whole year without ever tasting any of the dishes. peculiar to the country. In all the large cities, and especially in Yokohama, there are so-called foreign hotels in which you might dream and believe that you are still in San Francisco; for there is the same of fice, the same large bar and billiard room, the same carpeted parlor with a hotel piano, and the same spacious dining room with scores of small tables. The food, too, is cooked in "foreign" style, and much of it is imported. French wines (from California), English ale and German beer are on the bill of fare, and even if you ask for tea you do not get the yellow Japanese variety, but the black Chinese or Indian tea, served with milk and sugar. The only thing local about all this is the presence of Japanese waiters, who are always addressed as "boys" no matter what their age, and the habit of numbering the dishes and ordering by the number, because some of these "boys" are not experts in the use of the English lan guage. Everybody Tries Native Cooking. 2Tor if you leave the lartre cities and travel in the interior are you obliged to eat Japa nese food. For not only' in the large grocery stores in Yokohama, but in every town of a few thousand inhabitants, voucan buy Chicago canned meats and California canned fruits, besides bottled beer or ale, coudensed milk, jellies and crackers. It is well to take some of these things along, to provide against emergencies; but a sensible and cosmopolitan tourist would no more think of limiting his gastronomic experience to tnese canned goods than he would ot con fining his tours of observation to the 'for eign" streets in Yokohama. An educated palate delights in new varieties of local flavor just as much as an educated pair ot eyes does in Iresh local colors. Squeamish persons need not be afraid of ever being called upon to eat cat or rat stew or roast puppy, as they might be in China, where these animals are exposed for sale in the butcher shops. This is neverthe case in Japan, where none of the natives, not even the poorest, eat them, although there are very lew other things they do not eat. A Lunch With a Native. My first experience in the realm of Japan ese gastronomy was such a typical and de lightful affair that I can best describe the whole subject by giving the details of this feast. It was a lunch to which Mr. Robert Blum (wh6 was busy at that time in the Tokio Hotel making his delightful illustra tions for Sir Edwin Arnold's Japanese ar ticles for Scribntr't Magazine) and myself were invited by Mr. Shugio, the amiable and clever Japanese, who is as well-known in the Hew York clubs and society as he is in the aristocratic circles of Tokio, and who has for many years spent half of his time in America, so that he speaks English like a native. We rode in three jinrikishas (or man power carriages) to a. restaurant near the railway station in onimoasni, ana were re ceived'at the door by half a dozen pretty and smiling maidens. After taking off our shoes, so as not to soil the new white mats on the floor, we were escorted by two of the girli. upstairs, where a large room had been reserved for us, facing a garden with flow ers and trees on two sides. Here, at the outset, we had struck the keynote of Japan ese gastronomy, which is not merely an in dulgence of tne palate, but quite as much, or even more, a Matter of JEslhetic Enjoyment. Here were trees and flowers outside and trees and flowers and graceful birds and an imals painted on the screens inside. Still more of a feast to the eyes were the wait ing maids, who in these restaurants are al ways chosen from the prettiest girls in the city, village and country. The younger one, especially, whose name was O Haru, or "Springtime," was a perfect beauty, with regular features, refined lips, and large black eyes, with the merest suspi cion ot obliqueness; just enough to give them a piquant touch of Orientalism. Her smile was as sweet and enchanting as that of a Houri in the Mohammedan paradise, and it would have been difficult to avoid falling in love at first sight had it not been for her gait which, like that of all Japanese women, was extremely ungraceful, the knees being too far apart, the toes turned in, and the loose slippers dragged along the floor without leaving it. In Japan tea is the beginning and end of all things especially at meals so tea, which is the aesthetic beverage par excel lence, was served first, together with some tiny aesthetic wafers, round, of course, be cause our wafers are square, and in Japan everything is bound to be Antipodal or Topsy Turvy. The next course was again aesthetic the hibachi, or brazier, for lighting the cig arettes. The Japanese use matches as freely as we do, but not at meals, where they would be voted vulgar. The hibachi is a round vessel with live coals in the cen ter surrounded by ashes in the shape of a crater. This poc'tic arrangement enables the natives to iancy that they are lighting their pipes or cigarettes at the original fires of their beloved volcano, 3ft. Fuji, which is naturally worshiped by them as it lifts its snowy peak above the hills and dales of Nippon as a cathedral spire rises above the streets and houses of a city. The next course again was aesthetic most decidedly so, for it consisted of two singing girls and samisen players who had been hired to enliven the meal with music, and who made their appearance at this stage of the proceedings. These music girls, like the waiting maidens, are also chosen in their childhood for their beauty, and they' are especially educated in the arts of fascin- ation. j.ney are oi a somewnat more aristo- cratic type of beautv than the" teahtuse girls, and are apt to be a tew years older and less given to giggling. They are bright and saucy, however, as we soon found out. The waiting maids, who had left the mo ment the music girls entered, now returned with little lacquer tables, four or five inches high, which they placed before the guests, together with a dainty porcelain bottle con taining about Haifa Pint of Hot Sake, or rice -wine, and a tiny cup of thin por celain which looked as if it were meant to hold the cigarette ashes mind, I do not say cigar ashes, for one must not exaggerate in talking of things Japanese. The geishas, or music girls, filled these cups for us, and after drinking their health we touched the cups to the napkin, handed them to the geishas and filled them up. It is considered bad form to fill your own cup. Kice wine is hardly as strong as ordinary Bhine wine, but taken hot and before the meal it pro duces its effect much sooner than it would otherwise, especially on the Japanese, who are much more easily afiected than foreign ers and are therefore usually very moderate in their cups. While the sake was being annihilated the geishas tuned up their long-necked banjos and gave us some vocal and instrumental "music," which I will not attempt to de scribe in words, since it cannot even be ex actly reproduced in our musical notation. During the interludes we plied the girls with questions, and they kindly gave us their opinion of ourselves. They wanted to know if Mr. Blum and I were twins, as they could hardly tell us apart, although we do not in the least resemble each other except in being blond. The Japanese do not admire blondes. They are all dark, they worship brunettes, and always paint their devil with red hair. Some Old Jokes About Age. One of the girls asked mc how old I was. I replied: "San-jin-go."' "Thirty-five?" she echoed, with a mischievous smile, add ing something which went beyond my knowledge of the vernaoular, but whiohmy Japanese friend interpreted as "I thought you were at least 40." Mr. Shugio thought this was a "good one" on me, but he, too, was fated not to escape. The girls were trying to recall the words of a certain song, but did not succeed, and finally appealed to Mr. Shugio, who, by the way, is only 30. "Why do you ask me?" he inquired. "Oh'was the answer, "it is a very old song, and we thought you might remember it from your youthful days." Perhaps I should add that a person's age is a favorite topic of conversation in Japan ese society. On being introduced to a young lady it is" good form not to talk about the weather, but to ask her age; to which the girl usually replies that she is 10 or 17,, which is the fashionable age for marriage. But I must hasten on to the solid part of our lunch lest the reader should fancy that Japanese gastronomy is entirely a matter of aesthetics of trees and flowers, and tea and wafers, and miniature craters and wait ing maids and singing girls and banjo play in". On the contrary, it is a most sub stantial affair, consisting of several courses, each of which includes one ortwo kinds of soup, fish (raw or cooked), various kinds of sea weed, vegetables '(warm, cold or pickled), radishes, mushrooms, bamboo and lotus roots, potatoes, chicken or other meats, salads, and finally rice. They Drink Their Soup. The soup is generally served in small lacquer bowls, black or red, and usually has nn egg or slices of omelette or seaweed or fish or bits of meat floating on top. These solids are fished out with the chopsticks, aud the soup is then drunk out of the bowl, no spoons, knives or forks being provided unless a foreigner calls for them. The girls at first laughed at my attempts to use the chopsticks, and said that I ate like a baby; but they willingly instructed me in the use of them, and before the end of the meal I had made considerable progress, although I never acquired the skill of the natives, who use their sticks as deftly as storks do their bills in fishing solids out of the soup, oorral ling the coy rice, and picking a small fish clean to the bones, which is the most won derful feat of all The seeming difficulty of eating chicken or mutton without knite or fork is solved by the custom of having all meat cut up into small bits before it is sent to the table. The Japanese are decidedly of the opinion that all "carving" should be done byfhe servant's. Sea "Weed as a Food. Japanese soups are often excellent, es pecially when they contain fish or eggs, but I cannot say much foj the sea weed which often floats in them. It is apt to be tough and too marine in flavor. I was told that in these restaurants only the best kinds of sea weed were used, but I could only say to myself in reply, "If these are the best, what must the others be ?" An enormous amount of sea weed is consumed -by the poor in city and country, and in traveling along the Eeashore, one often sees the beach green for miles with this stuff where the fishermen have spread it in the sun to dry. The sea is indeed the hungry Jap's best friend, for it provides him not only with many varieties of sea weed, but with no fewer than 400 distinct species of fish, the ocean between Japan and China being re puted the richest in fish of all known waters. Of mackerel alone there are 40 varieties, and the salmon fisheries in Yezo rival those in Oregon and Alaska. Of the fish peculiar to the country some are delicious, and the natives know how to cook them in a savory manner. Among the best are those kinds which they eat raw, and which are served at almost every meal of any pretensions. They are cut into very thin slices and, dipped into a little cup of soy, tney arc louna very paiataDle by "lor eign" epicures. I soon got very tired, how ever, of the brown Bean Sauce Known as Soy, into which the natives dip not only their raw, but their cooked fish and every kind of meat, the consequence being that you never know what you are eating. The soy is often put on the meat before it is cooked, wherefore it is advisable, unless you wish all your dishes to taste alike, to give orders as soon as you arrive at an inn that the meat should be served plain. "Whether it is owing to the neutralizing effect of soy, or to climatio conditions, the fact is that the natives do not care much for meat. For' more than 1,000 years, during the reign of Buddhism, vegetarianism was a matter of religiorifish, however, being ex cepted, as in Catholic countries; and it is said that those who were willing to shut one eye could always get venison under the name of "mountain whale." But the de cline of Buddhist influence and the intro duction of foreign customs, has not yet had the effect of making meat eating more popu lar, at least among the mass ot the people. This is the more surprising as Japan has not much to boast of in the way of vegetables and fruits. Indeed, the fact that most vece- tables in -use have foreign names, indicates that they are recent importations. The Feg riant Eulos. The favorite vegetable is the eggplant, wiiiuu is useu ua luc stiuiuuru ui cum. parison, tomatoes, for instance, being called "red egg plants." Tomatoes are not liked, and are only slowly making their way to popular favor, which need not surprise us in view of the fact that even in America this delicious vegetable has been in general use only a few decades, and has not yet be come popular in EuroM. Of vegetables peculiar to Japan the most noteworthy are bamboo and lotus roots. They seemed to me rather insipid, but that uiuy uuve uccu uue tu me suy m wiucmuey were cooked. In truth, all vegetables, and still more, all imported fruits, soon lose their flavor on Japanese soil, and sometimes on taking an apple, pear or melon I felt like asking for AVorcestershire sauce or horse radish, to give them at least some flavor, even if incongruous. "Under these circum stances we can hardly wonder that rice and other cereals should play so great a role in Japanese gastronomy. To us rice also seems insipid without cream and sugar; but the natives prefer it to bread and require no other seasoning for it than a pickle or a cup of tea poured over it to warm it. "The Land of Bice" is one of the names adopted by the Japanese for their country. Bice a Luxury With the Paor. The word meshi which means rice, also means meal, "breakfast being "morning rice," and so on. A bowl or two of plain rice is eaten after the most sumptuous meal. But the general notion that rice is the staple food of the poorer classes is an error. Bice is too expensive for them, and they have to put up with millet and seaweed. To the poorer classes rice is a holiday luxury like the Sunday chicken of the laboring classes in Europe. Mr. Chamber lain relates that ho once heard an old bel dame in a country village remark to an other, with a grave shake of the head; "What! Do you mean to say that it has come to naving to give her rice tne in terference being that the patient's case must be alarming, indeed, if the family had thought it necessary to resort to so ex pensive a dainty. After this bird's-eye view of Japanese gastronomy, few of my readers wiU wonder, 1 think, that the natives make so much of the a;sthetio side of their feasts. That iB their most attractive feature, and the indispens able sauce for Japanese lood is the sweet smiles of the attending maidens. Hjaritr T. Finck. A Traveling: Man Saves a Woman's Life. A traveling man, stopping at the Lee House, Campbellsburg, lnd., on learning that a lady in the village was suffering ter ribly with cramp colic, gave the landlady a bottle of medicine, which he had with him, and requested her to take it to the sick w oman. The medicine relieved her prompt ly and she believes saved her life; it was Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Kemedy, the promptest and most reliable medicine in use for bowel complaints. wsu A WONDERFUL STREET. Fifth Avenne in New; American and Un- York Is Both American. ITS PEOPLE TRY TO BE FOREIGN. The Young Folks Succeed, but the Old Can't Make the Change. IIOTELS AND ITS SHOPPING PLACES coanESPOxnEirCK or the dispatch. New Yoke, July 3. The foreigner who lands in this country and does New York for the first time invariably expresses sur prise at the appearance ot our most fashion able thoroughfare, Fifth avenue. Expect ing to see something distinctively Ameri can, he finds a magnificent boulevard, lined with brown-stone palaces, little Fnrisian shops, aristocratic clubhouses and hotels with foreign names. The visitor from the interior may wonder at this also; but then the usual visitor of this' latter class expects to see something widely different from the characteristic environment of his own city life. He is, ordinarily, a man who has never been abroad. To the foreigner the high stoop house is somewhat original. High stoops on Fifth avenue do not prevail, however, as they do on the side streets. (I write now of that section between Twenty-third street and Central Park.) Fifth avenue is American in that it is like no other street in foreign lands; it is not American in that it resem bles no other American thoroughfare. It stands alone. It is quite as distinctively foreign -as it is domestic. The Fifth Avenue Hotel. If you care to take a mental inventory of its characteristics, start out some lovely morning from the Fifth Avenue Hotel and stroll along the shady side to the plaza on the Central Park entrance of the street. "When you leave the Fifth Avenue hostelry you leave everything distinctively Ameri can behind you. That famous hotel has no restaurant or cafe, but is conducted on the "American plan" from basement to garret. It is the only hotel of any prominence in New York that is. Its name is purely loeak It is the only hotel you will find on your morning trip that is. Passing Delmonico's you first encounter the quiet but aristocratic Brunswick and the newer Holland opposite. The latter is just being finished and looms up tall and white and grandly horrible in its stone pro fusion of bay windows and ornamentation. Then come the Lenox, the Victoria, the Cambridge, the St. Marc, the "Windsor, the Belgravia, the Buckingham, etc. The latter is directly opposite St. Patrick's Cathedral and has above its entrance a golden bronze heroic statue of his nibs, the ancient Duke of Buckingham. Above the figure in another niche is the royal coat of arms emblazoned in gold upon a tablet. Do you see anything American about this? Foreign Inside and Out. The interiors and management of all these hotels are intensely foreign. The brass plate let into the foot of a pillar on the Fifth avenr.e front of the Buckingham con tains the rather superfluous intelligence that the hotel is administered "On the European Plan." That announcement is no longer necessary in New York. "On the American Plan ' is the exception that would seem to require the notice. The Windsor is quite as English or rather European, because these hotels embrace many purely Continental features as the establishment dedicated to His Grace, the Duke of Buckingham. Not one of the lot but is as widely differ ent from the Philadelphia or Chicago hotel as a hotel could very well be. The Plaza is the newest and largest hotel on the grand avenue and it fronts upon a broad, level sweep of ground that lies at the head of the street like a bulb at the end of a thermome ter. Two other hotels of the most expen sive kind are going up directly opposite and all. have, besides this parade ground, the whole of Central Park for a dooryard. They are to be the swellest of the swell, and, necessarily, un-American. An Invasion by the Plebeians. But the character of its hotels does not fully establish, though it indicates, the modern characteristics of Fifth avenue. Not many years ago a small panic was created among the aristocratic residents of that exclusive Btreet by the advent of a tailor shop in their midst. It was not a common, vulgar, every-day establishment, but one of aristocratic mold, whose pro prietor cut cloth to fit fat pocket-books, and with whom men of plebeian character and 'salary shekels had nothing in common. But the fact that he was quickly followed by millinery and crockery and robes and dressmakers and merchant tailors and drugs and banks and more millinery and tailors, finally paralyzed the parvenus, whose fathers and mothers, grandfathers and grandmothers had been milliners and tailors, eta, and who were greatly enraged to find themselves liable to be stared out of respectable countenance by these ghastly reminders of their lowly origin. It was at first designed to "have the law on them," to use a vulgar expression, but as no unity of action could be obtaiqed, and as property owners began to realize that they could get more money for a first, or even basement floor, from some enterpris ing shopkeeper, the evil could only be suc cessfully met by running away from it. That is what the horrified inhabitants began to do. Many of them Simply Moved Further Uptown on the same street, but this means of escap ing vulgar business encroachments was lim ited and so they either went along up both sides of the park or were squeezed into the side streets. Some of these side streets are hound between blocks with a real estate compact of the most sacred and legally bind ing description to the effect that no part of such property can be sold or let for business purposes. Even a doctor's small, lean sign is objected to unless he owns the dweUing, though no other exception is made. In the meantime the haberdashers and tailors and milliners and dressmakers stead ily encroached on the avenue from below. Their signs began to glare iu the sun oppo site the palace of the Stewarts before that edifice was finished. Now fully one-half of the old residences below Thirty-fourth street are occupied as business establish ments or are open to proposals of that char acter. Above that point they grow rapidly thinner, but are rapidly increasing. The signs "To Let" and "For Sale" among the remaining private residences show what the more aristocratic inhabitants think of it. "Within the next dozen years Fifth avenue as a swell residence street will have retired into the somber background of the past. The final blow will Come With the Surface Cars, convenience which business demands and which is now being annually agitated with increasing force. The horse cars will destroy it as a carriage thoroughfare, a position the grand avenue still enjoys to the practical exclusion of every other fashionable street. But it will make up in its palatial clubhouses, select hotels and showy shops what it lacks in residential beauty. It will probably gain nothing American. These little shops are but the counterparts of the little shops of Paris. The names are entirely foreign. You can pull out your notebook, as I did, and take them down as you go, systematically, and never find an American cognomen for a mile. There is a suspicion, here and there, of genteel business fraud in these names; but who will blame Mr. Peter Miller for be coming "M. Millard," when the change helps his business? Doesn't the onus of fraud really lie on those who patronize him as M. Millard and look upon plain Pete Miller with scom and contempt '1 At any rate, you will find no solid old American names along Fifth avenne. Nor will you see mrinv 4 . .. . v American iuccs uirougu me i rench slate. .Even tne youtn usually seen i at-the fashionable clubhouse windows along I the avenue have no distinctively American marks. The Fifth Avenue Young Man. They are even more foreign in appear ance than the Parisian shops and London tailoring establishments on every hand. If you should accost one of them and get a civil answer, it would be in a tongue you never heard anywhere else in America. These are the sons of those who made these shops and His-Grace-the-Duke-of-Buckine- ham hotels possible. Most of their daily t ussucmies are peupiu oi ioreign uinn anu foreign manners and foreign tastes. They affect contempt for everything and every body American. Hearing one of them "'talk United States" it would impress you a good deal as did your first encounter with the "ici-on-parleFrancaise" assistant behind a Parisian counter as a little off the ver nacular. In short, the Fifth avenue young man, as a rule, fits its shops, its hotels and its club houses and residences. He is neither Eng glish, nor French, nor American. He is a sort of cross mixture of all nationalities, just as is Fifth avenue itself. His "ma" rides down town by way of the avenue in a voiture, or victoria as you are French or English wears a Parisian costume and has an English driver. A French poodle lies at her feet. The horses are American. His "pa" has an English valet, wears London made clothes and carries a Swiss watch. Everything he has is imported except his shoes they can be made better here and Ms pronunciation. His Pa Is American Inside. He has never been to any other college but the counting house and riches came too late to change his English. He prefers whisky to champagne and often shows other vulgar tendencies. On the surface he is English, you know, but at the bottom "pa" is a thoroughbred American. Like the street the Fifth avenue family is sui generis. To say that Fifth avenue as a street and aggregation of people and homes represents the streets and the people of the United States is perhaps pretty wide of the facts. But Fifth avenue represents New York in its cosmopolitan character, its commercial wealth, its expensive ease5 its snobbery and caddishness, its cynical indifference to the rest of the country. All these miles of biown stone give one the feeling of an alien in a strange land. It would be diffi cult to see anything, from end to end, that appeals in any way to love of country, pride or patriotism. It is Simply Cold, Grim Wealth piled on end ostentatiously. That this wealth is the result largely of foreign trade widens the breach between our sentiment and sympathy. It is a mere fancy, perhaps, but the home of a French importer does not impress me the same as the American man ufacturer, cattle raiser or lumber dealer, though they may be equally costly and show equally good taste. But then I am an American, and, while I have no prejudice against foreigners a3 such, I detest those Americans who continually strive to ape foreign manners and customs, and who, from their studious efforts to con ceal their nationality, appear to be ashamed of the land of their birth. New York is full of them, and Fifth avenue is their pe culiar and characteristic abiding place. ClTAELES THEODOltE MUEBAY. A GKAVE ON INGALIS' FABM. Tradition Says It Contains the Bones of a "White Man and Indian Girl. A reporter who visited ex-Senator In galls' farm at South Atchison not long ago was escorted by the statesman to a little mound surrounded by tall, well-trimmed oak and hickory trees and covered with bluegrass, and shown a grave of which a good deal has been said and written. A rough cross made of fence boards marks the head and an ordinary stake marks the foot. It is supposed the grave contains the re mains of an Indian girl and a white man her lover. The story, which is of a tradi tional character, is as follows: Away back in the early part of the nine teenth century, while what is now known as Kansas belonged to the Territory of I Louisiana, there lived in a lonely hut on I the bank of the Missouri river an old In dian and his daughter. They had wandered away from some Southern tribe, and, find ing a picturesque spot near this point which they thought would make them a pleasant home, they settled down, and for several years saw no human beings other than an occasional band of Kickapoos who inhab ited the northern part of the Territory. One day a white hunter came along and stopped at the hut and asked for food and a place to rest. His home was in the South, but he had been hunting buffalo in the Ter ritory with a nartv of friends and hnd crot lost. In searching for the trail he had taken sick, and his sickness proved to be of a serious character, for it was many weeks before he was able to travel. Curing his illness the Indian girl was ever at his side, caring for him as though he were a brother, and by the time he had recovered she had fallen desperately in love with him. He explained to her that he had a wife and family in the South who were longing for his return home and that while he loved her dearly for what she had done for him, yet they would have to part. The thought of giving up the pale-faced stranger turned the girl's head, and one night she crept noiselessly to his couch and shot an arrow through his heart and then killed herself. The father found them clasped in each others arms dead, and they were buried to gether. Mr. Ingalls says he will have the grave opened some time and ascertain if possible what it really does contain. THE GIBLS USED A HATPIN. How Two Belles in a Sleeper Punished a Fat Man "Who Had a Bad Jag. Chicago Times. "There were a couple of pretty girls on the car who had upper and lower six. After the manner of women, who hate to climb, they only occupied the lower berth, having the porter leave the upper one pushed up for the benefit of ventilation. There was also on the train a fat man who came down to the depot escorted by some hilarious friends. They had been at some convivial gathering and the obese gentlemen was possessed of the foundation of a large and putrefactive jag and had the materials for its completion in a quart bottle in his grip, which bottle he carefully stowed away with a big lump of ice taken from the cooler in a convenint station wash basin. He had lower five. opposite the girls, my fat friend, carrying his grip, coat, vest, "collar and shoes, emerged lrom the smoking room and forged his way slowly and precariously along the aisle. He got opposite his own berth, de posited his clothing in it, and in an at tempt to put his shoes and grip under the bunk sat down on the rail of the Derth occu pied by the young ladies rather heavily. He sat there for a couple of minutes firing his things, and then rising up seated him self more firmly and began to loosen his shirt collar. As I have said he was fat, and he pushed the curtains auite a distance back into the ladies' berth, as he sat there swaying with the motion of the train en deavoring to unfasten a refractory button. I heard whispers and a supprcssad giggle from the berth, and the next moment my fat friend jumped about four feet into the air with a yell like a Comanche Indian. "I'm stabbed! I'm stabbed!" he howled, prancing around. "Somebody stuck a knife into me through the curtain." I heard her suppressed giggle from lower six, a jingle of the electric bell, the porter came hustling in, and from the closed cur tains came in.vcry decided feminine tones: "If there are any more big beasts in this car who attempt to sit on me, they'll get jabbed with something worse than a hat pin. You tell them so, porter." The fat man said nothing, but went to bed, and.he didn't arise in the morning till the ladies had left the car, either. Ladies' White Waists. Full line of small sizes now open, Ex- amine at Bosenbaum & Co. 'a. xhFSu electeicitt and bubglabs. A Popular Error About Using the Current for Lighting Banks. A statement has been going the rounds of the papers to the effect that bankers, should be on their guard against the electric light, by using which they place at the disposal of the first burglar that came along a means of opening the strongest of safes in the space or thirty minutes. The elecrlc current sup plied to the lights is described as so tar amenable to the operations of the burclar as to be capable of concentration in the form of n "iof ni flnma" nr. 4t.a mntnl n? t.a .nf. which thus becomes in a few minutes soft and manageable. The alarmist to whom the public is indebted for this warning adds: 'Those banks provided with the electric light furnish the safe breakers with all the implements they reqnire on the spot." This information is of ratner a startling nature, in view of the fact that a great many banks depend upon the incandescent light as a pre caution against the "light fingered gentry." If any bankers have been disturbed in their sense of security by the statement referred to, they may now be reassured. There is positively no danger from any practical ap plication of electricity by burglars for such purposes. A WAY TO PBESEBVE FL0WEBS. Fine, Dry Sand Will Give Better Itesultj Than Anything Known. To preserve delicate flowers, says the New York Tribune, take very fine sanS, wash it perfectly clean, and when drysjft it through a fine sieve into a pan. WSen the sand is deep enough to hold the flowers in an npright position, take some more sifted sand and carefully cover them. A spoon is a good thing to take for this as it fills in every chink and cranny without breaking or bending the leaves. When the pan is filled solidly leave the flowers to dry for several days. It is a goo d plan tfl warm the sand in the oven before using it, as the flowers will then dry more thoroughly. In taking the sand off great care muJbe taken not to break the leaves, as they are now dry and brittle. Pansies preserved in this way-will keep their shape and brilliancy of color-all winter, and many other flowers can be equally suc cessfully treated anything, iii-fiint. wlierc the full pressure of the sand comes on both smes oi me ieai; omerwiso tney will shrivel. Ferns when preserved in this way have a more natural look than when pressed, and the Maidenhair fern looks al most as well as when it is freshly gathered. A Crow That Call Cows. Sardis J. Bacon, who lives near Scranton, has a'p-t crow. The other day, in the pres ence of some friends, he told it tn go and call the cows. The crow flew to the fence and sang out, "Co, bos!" several times in a low tone. On the instant all the cows pointed for the bars, and the crow, as soon as he saw them moving all right, stopped his noise and sailed along the lane to meet them. One of the boys let down the "bars and the crow rode to the barnyard on the back of his favorite cow. Blaine. TIEUIGBftii LEADING MILLINERYHOUSE II MEM FEIHL If you wish to get First-Class, Stylish MILLINERY At Half Price Come this Week , We're not Overloaded; quite the reverse. However, a good many Manufacturers have more goods than is necessary this time of year. We bought big lots; they got the cash and are happy. So you see ifs clean, fresh goods not old, shop-worn articles reduced on that account. We're able to sell you at one-half, and less in many cases than prices of a week ago. 500 Stylish $2 50 "Wrappers for 98c each.. 240 dozen Ladies' $1 Silk Vests for 50 Ribbed 69c each. 100 dozen uents' 75c, $1, ti 35, dozen Gents 75c, i 65 and $2 Outing Shirts on Sale Monday morning at59c, 74c, 98c, $1 24 and $l 49 each. 1,200 boxes 6-yard Tourist Ruching" at 12, 19, 25 and 28c a box. Every Lady should see the pretty Chiffon Ruching at ' 24c a yard. A lot 14c White Barred Nainsook to sell at 9c a yard. And the 18c, 25c and 35c Black Barred goods now . I4c, 19c and 24c a yard. 100 pieces 15c, 20c and 25c fine White Lawns for 9c, 12c and 15c a yard. 3 bales elegant heavy Russian Crash for 12 l-2cayard. The biggest 45c Linen Damask Tow els in the "wide, wide world," knotted fringes, only 25c each. Store closes durinjr July Saturdays ALWAYS THE CHEAPEST, DANZ(SER'! I have used your Burdoci Blood Bitters in my family for the past two years, and I think it Is the best medicine I erer used. I had erysipelas very bad, and it has cured me ; also cured my son of scrofula after all the doctors failed to cure him. B. B. B. has no equal in my estimation. LOUIE S. WOODWARD, Laurel Hill, Fayette Co., Fa. I was seriously troubled with some seventeen boils, and one bottle of Burdock Blood Bitters nircd mc FRANK A. McPHERSON, LeRoy.N.Y. LOOSm Sf ilipiP I have taken the second bottle of Burdock's Blood Bitten, and it has cured me of dyspepsia with which I suffered for six years. W. W. HAMILTON. Lock Haven, Fa. I have had a bad humor in my blood, which broke out in my skin, and the doctors did me no good. I tried everything for it, but pt no relief. At last tried your Burdock Blood Bitters. I have taken but two bottles, and I must say that I am cured. I am feelinz like a new man. ,eeuaS " STEPHEN E. JODREY, I Je25-33-ssuwk . V i NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. FOR THE TOILET There is no more useful or elegant ar ticle than Ayer'3 Hair Vigor the most popular and. economical hair-dressing in the market. It causes the hair to grow abundantly and retain the beauty and te'xture ot youth; prevents bald ness, heals troublesome humors of the scalp and keep3 it clean, cool, and hcaUhy. Both ladies anil gentlemen everywhere prefer Ayer's Hair Vigor to any other dressing for the hair. Mrs. Lydia O. mooay , ton, Me., have used E. Pitts- writes:"! Ayer's Hair Vig- or for some time, and it has worked wonders for me. I was troubled with, dandruff and falling hair, so that I wa3 rapidly becoming bald; but since using the Vigor, my head is perfectly clear of dandruff, the hair has ceased coming out, and I now have a good growth, of the samo color as when I was a young; woman . I can heartily recommend the use ot Ayer's Hair Vigor to any one suf fering from dandruff or loss of hair." Ayer's Hair Vigor Prepared by Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Has. Sold by Drugs1"13 "" PerftinMrs. Wolff's Blacking 'WArtKrKyyr. ShowiMn A HANDSOME PULI&H. 1 hawhfld :.' un ttoiicuimn DcrwilDcn. I . Used by men, women and rfiQdrea. Look.at mj old ehlp basket, isn't it a beauty? I hare just finished painting it with A 10c. VV BOTTLE will do halt a dozon burets. WOLFF & RANDOLPH, PhUadelphla. PIK-RON beactiSes other things besides baskets. It makes a white elass Tase an j color yon de sire to match. It changes a pine table te walnut, a cane rocker to mahogany. It stains, paints, lacquers, japans. Je4-10O-TT3S As Stylish and Pretty as Any this Season The MILLINERY To be Put Out At Half Price. Wash-saving, fit-all Pillow Sham Holders to be sold at 24c each. Warranted unleakable 75c Fruit Cans for 44c a dozen. The ioc Great Big Boxes of Best Sealing Wax for 4c a box. We've cleared big lots of Ham mocks, Water Coolers, Freezers Fly Traps, etc., etc., at away down prices. Come soon. It'll pay you well. 1,000 dozen Gents' 30c pure Linen Unlaundered Handkerchiefs for I5c each. Ladies' 15c pure Unlaundered Hand kerchiefs, 10c, or 3 for 25c. Children's 15c, 20c, 25c and 45c fine White Caps for 9c, 12c, 15c and 24c each. About 500 Children's Silk Hats, all colors, for 49c apiece. A lot of Nurses' and Waitress' 40c Caps for 24c each. S'se our Infants' 75c Flannel Sacques for 49c each. mid August at 5 P. 31., 'rvcepted. SIXTH ST. AND PENN AVE. Je547 launton, Mass. 1 A I &V B 0k ffhMr, u R 0 J K mix le B R r '
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