THE SCR ANTON TRIBUNE-WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1899. 5 . UNMAKING LOVE. mmmwmmmmmmmm?m My dear follow, suddenly I saw tli.it iho loved me. I saw It In her eyes, us the suylm; Is. Imagine my eon titcmutlon, I aim by no means Insen tdble of the great Rood Mick of a man who Is loved by a Kood sort of woman, though quite onpable of not protend Int? to envy him. Hut this wouldn't do at nil. She wn the prettiest gill there, and I had gravitated toward her beauty as a matter of course. I always pick out the prettiest face and go straight Tor it mechanically. Of course, I often don't arrive-; there may he obstacles and I am quite content to make n bow to the next Venus. It would be a real dhock to discover that there was a degree, a possibility between what I had achieved and what I had abandoned, that I was pay ing my homage to u star of less bril liancy than necessary. The fact let, I have quite enough of reason and Ideas and intellect generally when I am at work, and we are all of us eternally applying some principle, and that's philosophy. When I Join the ladies nil 1 care about Is to have my eyo and ear agreeably stimulated, not because they are capablo of making me think, though I don't say they are, but bo cause at those times I want amuse ment, not instruction. That's why I'm ho severely logical about feminine charms of person aud feel a personal loss when I worship at a shrine of fiO beauty power. Instead of 100. However, I am not often In this dilemma, as nature doesn't cut things so fine. Well, what was I to do? As I said, It wouldn't do; she had no ideas; there was nothing for me to cling to. AVe might have gone on like that for the rest of our lives, I admiring her beau ty and she existing beautifully. I don't think I was to blame; I faced the question fully and honorably ac quitted myself. I never sought her so ciety; but when we met I certainly did enjoy her musical small talk; she had a charming voice. I don't know what we talked about. I can't remember her saying anything worth remember ing, and I certainly didn't attempt to converse. There was a string of ques tions and answers, Just like a royal commission, and each as romantic. But the whole thing, her face, her voice, her easy chat, the frou frou, was a perfect holiday for me and I felt soma of the acquiescence of sleep without any of Its unconsciousness. I am a utilitarian person, but I never reckoned the time wasted. The sunshine warm ed my fallow mind and made It strong er to bear more drastic Impressions. It strikes me now that the disengage ment which I displayed may have looked like patience to her lngenlous ness and that there might have been n trace of gratitude for the Implied eompllmonr, though all the thanks were certainly on my side. However, it came about, It did come about. Of course, 1 might be wrong; In that case It wouldn't matter what I did, but I knew I was not wrontr. At any rate, 1 elected to assume that I wa right, and 1 had to do something. ciearb. t couldn't run away. In the first place, this was practically Incon venient. 1.11c- other people, I am teth ered In the shallown of circumstance. And, secondb. It smacked of the he roic, of which of course, I have a hor i'Ov. I was afraid, too, that she would take a feminine pleasure In feeding a tiPiitlmcnt for the absent, and my obvi ous policy was to discourage, not in llnme. her Imagination. Externally I hnd to maintain the old attitude, but It would have been a false pretense to do so with the old nonchalance, I took the first opportunity of denying myself. "Have you been to see the pictures?" fche said, "Not I." I replied. "What do you mean? Don't you like beautiful thlnus?" "Only when I am looking at them, and even then I am haunted by the fear that I am wasting time, and might be more profitably employed. "More prolltablyV" "es;' storing up sources that will last facts, thoughts, goods, money, anything but fancies." "You are coming out In a new light?" 6he said. "A new darkness, you mean," I re plied. 'I suppose you are what is called a dark horse," she rejoined. We both laughed, and she went away puzzled. N"ot time I managed to startle her. We were talking of the newest novel. "Itomance," I said, "is all very well, but It mustn't be contemporary. Put It Into bygone days-. In as large quanti ties us you like; but the tale of today, which deals with us and our friends, ought only to encourage sober business pilnelples." She ought to have retorted: "Such as answering a fuol according to his folly," or by referring to the fuct that most fiction was designed to stave olt bankruptcy, quite In accordance with my theory. Rut she only Fald: "Don't you think wo want a change from our every day life?" 'I don't," I said, "because jny chief amusement conslfls In watching other people's." '1 didn't know you v,cre such a critic. I hope you haven't reckoned me up." "ThP critic," I said, "shuts one eyo In order to get a better view; the rynlc purposely puts on glares which fion't fit him; the philosopher eees one thing with one and the opposite with the other." "Have you got a better view?" ahe jsked. "I have no iev or vIcwb," I said. "I im the plain man who Is supposed not to exifit. Now, the plain woman " "I know lots," she said, "and very dce thfy are." "What a pity It Is " I said, "that only women can understand womn. That's why It Is that men never really make them good companions. We think too highly of them; for lnstancet wo think that they are all beautiful." "Dut you know better all the time?" "Of course wo do in practice, but tho theory Is a good one all the same. It Is an attempt to take their own view, to put ourselves in their place for a moment. Tho fact Is that very few men take any Interest In Individual wo men. It Is tho sex that they think about the whole lot at once; It's bo like a school book; I hato anything ar.v." "Tea?" I said. "With pleasure." suld she, smiling for the first time: and wo went oft togeth er. "Well, wo were getting on, but still I didn't see tho end. Chance came to v T sE Sfe 5? my rescue, as It does to everyone'w If they only wait long enough. There was a new play, the great situation In It was the heroine, who was universally supposed to bo a light and unsubstan tial woman, demonstrating quite with out design her love for her husband: everybody was talking about It. On this occasion conversation was general and some genius remarked that the only objection to the woman was that she was so hopeless-ly old, she was :il waya rclupslug into weaknesses or this sort: there was no strength In such a character, a. strong woman would have acted quite differently In the second scene, where she could have deserted with honor. A well-groomed youth, sitting m-xt to her, remurked pointedly that, if sh" did love her husband, vou know, that made nil the difference. She raid. If wives didn't love their bus-bauds It was their (the husbands') own fault. "Quite so," I said, "If they will per sist In being satellites instead of hav ing an orbit of their own, In playing Damon and Pythias Instead of Darbv and Joan, they can't expect that the wear and tear of their society can be made good, unless they allow tho prop er Intervale for the worn and torn to discover that other people cai.'t con tinuously please, either." "That's a nice view to take of mar ried life." &t said. "I know you don't mean It." "Unfortunately," I said, "the experi ment can't be made, or you'd sec." "What should I see?" "Well, something, I fancy, would as tonish you. The fact is, I don't think any one has understood matrimony be fore me, and I've had no experience of It. It has long been recognized as fatal to love, if It exists, and more or lefs apt to produce It, If It does not. Just as there are places which clve you neuralgia If you don't take it there and cure you If you do. Hut I don't think love has anything to do with the mat ter; that's detail Important enough In the early days of meeting, but not com parable to the bargain which Is the essence of tho business?" "The bargain " she almost gasped. "Yes" I said, "the bargain. The he says: I must have feminine society. I must have the female point of view al ways there whenever I want It; my own womankind won't do. In the first place, I can't rely on their punctuality; and then at any moment they may lapse into seriousness, think hard of me the very thing I want to avoid, and the mischief Is done. Beside, they know you; they never give you a chance. Now, matrimony at Its best must bo between people who don't know one another, and who never will. That's1 the great secret. It's the only chance of a revelation. It Is the only hope of getting anything read Into you, and then learning the lesson yourself, especially anything high, noble or not commonplace. There Is no room for love here. That discolors such a union such a contract, If you like with all the pageantry of the rainbow; It Is very natural, a pleasant sight, but It effects nothing. On the other hand, the she says: I am tired of this kind of life I want something new. What ever I like In my present existence I can practically keep; he will make a new woman of me. Really, what she wnnts, too, Is a trusty companion; It she has any qualified they must come out, because she Is in a new world. So what each demands Is to be developed and made the most of; really, I'm not at nil sure, when I come tothink of It, that an enlightened system of polyg amy may not, after all, be the greatest encouragement to man to advance to his highest ends. At any rate, It would secure the requisite amount of ab senteeism." I could hardly refrain from smiling at my own paradox, but she was quite serious, gradually maturing to grave. "Don't you agree with my theory of a bargain now?" "Well," she said, "there must be give and take, of course, but I I think I prefer tho old fariilon." "It Is the old fashion I am pleading for." I said. "At least, It is what I be lieve and hope; of course, we never know, because those In the secret never tell us. But common sense tells us It must bo so. Marriage is an agreement for occasional companionship on terms, and very strict terms." "Oh, dear," she said, with a genuine sigh. "I dare say you are right, but how horrid!" "Anywny," I went on, "that's the type, and so It ought to be. Ideallzo It as much as you lllte, but remember that there Is nothing In this life which may not bo idealized crime, dress, fur niture, a fashionable 'at homo,' school boys, Impecunloslty, even bourgeolso comfort, so why not marriage?" I was Just going on, "If ever I have a wife " when I reflected that hucIi a parting shot would be too crude. Be sides, she had clearly lost her Interest. So I trailed off anaemlcally. "Talk ing of 'at homes, are you going to the Idyls?" I asked. She said she was. "Don't vou think that kind of hospl tullty Is a mistake?" "Well, of course, It isn't a dance, but what sort do you prefer?" "Where each sticks to his or her kind: he foregathers with his bachelors, and she, like Jcphthah's daughter, with the maids of her youth till they desert; the two tributaries ought never to mix at the matrimonial confluence like Dr. Domboy's party." "Then, how about seeing your friends?" "You ouslitn't to want to see them all at once; the frequent, thoush not unlimited meeting of husband und wife ought to bo enough for the purposes of compnnlonshlp; all other friends are superfluous. Indeed, society is to he recommended ns a means of avoiding them. Good cutting .acquaintances are enough." "What a queer idea! What a pros pee.t for the woman! Whut do you think Is to be her fate in this scheme?" ".Slnglenesi"," I said, "tempered by a husband." "Who may turn out " she went on. "Who may turn her out," I said. Sho laughed artiftcully and went off. ' In three weeks I heard she was en gaged to the well-groomed youth. rail Mall Gazette. Omdurman. From the National Review. Certainly tho first glance Elves an Im presflou of squalor, because no one dared show openly any ovldeuce of wealth or comfort; and those who built finet larg houses Invariably surround them with a cqualld mud wall ten to twenty feet hlRh, acalnxt which tho poorer people und slaves built lenn-to huts on thu outsldo. Hut walk In, and you perceive at onro that these Taalshn Humfiiru, whose childhood must have been paired In tend ing their flocks hi lh open, and In wet and dry weather, had u veiy good Idea of luxurious comfort and wide veraroUcd houses. Building went on Incessantly, each emir outbuilding the other. The crowning effort was the khalifa's own masonry wull, which he built to in close, as within a prNon. all his fighting emirs, his specl.il soldk-rv, armory and Rraln store. ThN U n solid wait fotir feet thick, fifteen feet high, over three miles In irnuth und with only live door ways In It. It Is magnificently built, und tho labor of Inliigltig the blocks of luiiil stone nnd mortnr from distance must have been ptoilhdoiiM. It took the wbolo population, working from sunrise to sun set, over lliret) years to build, and It Is not quite completed, as there Is a R.ip of 100 yards left between the khalifa's home and the Hilt el Ainiiua fiirsensl). Yet. liuvlnir built this wull, und know-big- full well that, after Klrket. we meant to come on. be did not put up a banquette Inside xn his men eould not shorn nt us from behind this veiltuble fortification. - NO ANTHRACITE A1TTER 20G3. Interesting Calculations by a Lacka wanna Valley Operator. Scrautiiu Letter Iti the Sun. "Of course," said a Lackawanna val ley coal operator, who has a turn for statistics, 'it won't make a great deal of difference to us what kind of fuel people then on earth will be using, but you may set It down for a fact that posterity won't broil Its chops nor toast Its shins by Hip heat of nnthraelte coal later than the year 2fl0". I have figured It all out and know what I am talking about. "Kverybody knows, or ought to know, that there Is no anthracite coal worth speaklmr about outside of Pennsylva nia, and only In this favored corner of Pennsylvania, at that. Now.the bound aries of the anthracite, coal area are defined with such mathematical cer tlnty that, basing my calculations on the known or estimated depth, dip, thickness, and extent of the coal de posits I am able to fljiutv out that be fore any anthracite coal was taken from our mines we hud the neat little stor age there of 13.000.000,000 tons to draw from. "The untbiucite coal tiade was born In ltfio, and. the market demnnd being then as niueli as one ton a day, the busy operators then in the field sent Mr, tons from Carbon county, down tho Lehigh and Delaware livers, to supply that demand. Then, in 1S22, Schuylkill county begun to deluge the country with anthracite, and threw something like 1,500 tons on the market that year. In 1S29 tho Delaware and Hudson Canal company began tearing up the coal veins on the northern boundary of the field In Luzerne county, and sent to New York all of 7,000 tons in twelve months. These three counties mark eted 330,000 tons in the ensuing ten years, but during the ten years follow ing that decade they sent out over 5, 000.000 tons. At the end of thirty years they had taken out of the mines and sold S.i.OOO.noo tons. At the beginning of the civil war there had been but 80,000,000 tons removed from the orig inal deposit, leaving a hole In the big pile under ground something like what a mouse hide In a cheese would be In comparison. But with the coming of the war anthracite begat: to boom, and In ten years 20.000,000 tono more were mined and sold than had been handled In all the forty preceding years of the trade. Since then the value of anthra cite coal has been so generally recog nized that at the close of business In 189S the deposit had been reduced by not less than 1,000,000,000 tons. "Just Imagine a diagram to repre sent the 13,000,000,000 tons that we start ed out with dovlded Into lots of GOO, 000,000 tons each, or one twenyt-slxth of the whole. Two of these lots or squares In the diagram would show the hole we have been seventy-eight years in digging in tho pile, so that you can Fee what there is left lor future re quirements. According to that, It looks as if posterity would bo pretty well fixed for anthracite, after all,, doesnt' it? There are twenty-four sections left which say at seventy-live years apleco, would carry anthracite fuel along for 1,700 years to come. But, unfortunate ly for posterity, we are using more than 30,000,00 million tons a year at present ourselves, a percentage of in crease which enables me, basing my calculations on the natural necessities of the future, to figure with ease that on the first day of January, 1!)10, an other section of the diagram would be marked off, showing the total of 1,500, 000,000 tons would have been removed from the original deposit of coal. That will leave still tho comforting pile of 11,500,000,000 tons. But Just see how posterity will got away with that tre mendous heap of coal I "I am willing to give posteiltv the benefit of any possible doubt on tho subject of tho future Increase in tho use of anthracite, and will stop at an average annual output of 7 j.000,000 tons from the year 1910 until tha last year of the anthracite age. Now see, when the year 1910 comes we will have been ninety years In reducing 1,500,000,000 tons of anthracite coal to ashes and cinders. Then posterity gets In Its work and in a great deul less than twice ninety years will have exhaust ed the pile. Eleven billion five hun dred million tons of coal, used at the rate of 75,000,000 tons a year, will last only 153 years and three months, and, taking all things Into consideration, posterity will therefoie carry Its coal scuttle to the bin for the last time, say, about April 1, f.003." BAMBOOZLING GRANDMA. "There never was a ,eruudma half ho good!" Ho whispered whllo beside her chair ho stood, And laid his rosy cheek, With manner very meek, AgulnBt her dear old fuce In loving mood. 'There never .wan a nicer grandma born; I know some little boys must be forlorn. Because they've noun like you, I wonderwhat I'd do Without a grandma's kisses night and noon nnd morn?" "There never was o dearer grandma, there!" He hissed her and he smoothed her tnow-whlte hair; Then fixed her ruffled cap, And nestled In hr lap. While grandma, smiling rocked her old arm chair. "When I'm a man what things to you lit bring; A horse and carriage aud a watch and ring. All grandmas nrn t-o nice (Jut-t hero he kissed her twloei, And grandrras give a good boy every thing." Before his dear old grandma could reply This boy looked up, and with rougUh eye, Then whispered In her ear That nobody might hear: "Say grnndmu, have, you any mote mmou pleV" .-, ' 'l.JfohratUa Slate Journal. i V r i. FAR-OFF TAHITI IS A REGULAR UTOPIA LIFE THERE IS LIKE A CON TINUOUS DREAM. South Sea Hospitality Is Boundless, and Tahiti Would Be a Perfect Paradise for tho American Tramp If He Could Ever Got There - Flow ers, Fruits, Lovoly Girls and Ac complished Cooks Among tho De lights of Tahiti. I-'rom the New Yolk Times. Tho earth Is (tod's footstool so wise men wrote. If It Is, then the little Island of Tahiti Is the golden tassel on the footstool. On this favored paradise In the far Pacific landscape and life merge Into a delicious dream, and both oie Impressionist. Neither will submit to photography or the pen. Years of study cannot Itemize the plrture. To those who huve visited this coral reefed spot there lingers forever In the memory a soft, sweet haze of nhlfting light and shade a wilderness of huppy snonce una everlasting ease. Think of a generous reef-bound ex panse of clear, tianspurent water, In wnose limp depths swim myriads of II tiny dwarfs dazzling tho changing morn or tne uying uoipnin. Below them a gat den of coral the roses1 of the sea blossoming In a thousand tints, A long, low stretch of beach, bordered by tall coeoanut trees, palms and ever-blooming bushes. Long rows of cheerful cottages, almost hidden by tho spreading branches of the bread fruit trees. Tall mountain peaks, ris ing until they are lust In a lacework of cloud:'. Binwny men darting here and there In fruit-laden canoes, and bevies of dark-eyed gliir, strolling Idly along the sward. That Is Tahiti as seen from the side of the incoming ship the most exquisite, fascinating and gorgeousi spot on the face of the earth. No one ever went to Tahiti without leaving with a pang of regret, and I can Join In the score of writers from Charles Warren Stoddard to Robert Louis Stevenson, who have visited Its shores, and say that a few months spent in its sunshine and In the hos pitality of Its people can never, never be forgotten. LOCATION. Tahiti lie somewhere In that mys terious part of the South Pacific whore two days are rolled Into one In order to set aright the conventional calen dar; where tomorrow becomes today with a subtle charm that Is almost overwhelming. You go there by u little white brig from San Francisco, which skims over the waters of the west, tak ing up the best part of a month before hmdins you in this world of idleness und peace. Life In Tahiti Is the nearest ap proach to the Ideai of all the world. Outstd of Its principal city, Papeete, which is the commercial center of all the Islands in the Society group, of which Tahiti is one, the natives pass their days in a listless dreaminess, at peace with themselves and all the world. Fancy being in a land where money Is spurned. I once had tho au dacity to offer a Tahltiun n dozen dol lars for staying at his home, eating his food and talking him nearly to death, revealing to his untutored mind the wonders of the United States, and to my surprise lie threw It to the ground, having been greatly Insulted. If those wo board with over here would only get Insulted as easily as that! The only payment that a Tahltlan wants for his hospitality Is for the person to whom It Is offered to accept It. THK TAHITI (!IRL. Much more than has been written has been heard about the lovely Tahiti girl. Tall, languourous, with the modesty of a Castilian; walking like a queen In her Mother Hubbard gown and her flower-wreathed hat (with the.se two articles the attire of the Tahiti girl ends), with her long black hulr, glis tening with coeoanut oil, hanging to her waist, she Is one of the most at tractive of her sex. Besides many per sonal charms that might turn the head of an anchorite-, she possesses the most attractive gifts. Her yn are black, her countenance is expressive, and though the warm sun has tinged her cheeks with a hue of brown, her com plexion Is as clear as the sky above her. Best of all, she owns her own little home, where roses always bloom and tho bread-fruit tree and tnro plant grow In profusion. A certain acreage of land surrounding It Is hers also, and she is absolutely Independent and can do exactly as she likes and she does. Every night In Papeete scores of girls and men come down the bywajs lead ing to the market place, where they congregate to sell their strings of flow ers nnd shells, and to Join in the daily festivities. Finished with their evening meal, they come to gossip, dance and make merry. Around the great foun tain, throwing its silver bubbles to the big red stars, they chant their soulful music to the walling strains of an ao cordlun. Bursts of bibulous hilarity come from the Spanish-like edifices that surround the market place. Shy damsels promenade with the visiting Europeans, the oflicers of the French men-of-war, the array of municipal officials and their own brawny lovers, exchanging the same old secrets that have been handed down through the mystery of ages. PASSES IN MELODY. So the evening passes in melody.drlnk and love. Then the curfew on the little white Catholic church tells that the hour of ten has come, and the great mass of merrymakers maidenly stop their buzzing pleasures and silently file down the long lanes along the beach and through the coeoanut groves to the rows of thatched cottages. Red and radiant, the mellow moon fills tho nlr with a magic light. The dead silence filled with the heavy perfume Is broken only by the unceasing pound ing of old ocean against the barrier of coral, sending a hollow, rolling boom over the pallid sea. One by one the lamps go out. the mosquito nets are spread around the bedsteads, and Tah iti is asleep. The American who visits Tahiti for the first time will find himself In a j land entirely unlike any oilier pmee in the world. The conventionality of in troduction there Is barred. In Papeete, of course, where the seat of government Is situated, and where the foreign con suls reside, a certain form of nocloty and dress Is kept up which somewhat resembles our New York forms. Hut out in tho districts, out In tho deep valleys by tho rivers, where the cocoa nuts grow and the vanilla and coffeo plantations thrive In the sun, there Is where tho vleltor banishes his foreign customs and beepmes a native. It Is not customary to wait for an Invita tion before visiting a Tahltiun. Just 1 JONAS LONG'S SONS. Wednesday and Thursday We Shall Offer Our Entire Stock of Silver Tableware, Less Than Wholesale Cost. The opportunity of a gams, nun neeci oniy mention to Dring you nere to Duy. Rogers and Hamilton highest grade of Silver Tableware a dependable tiuality that has no peer in the whole world. And to make you better satisiied our guaran tee goes with every piece. Childrens' Sets, in pretty patterns.con sisting of knife, fork and spoon, A fir worth $i.oo. Now fOt Children's Cups, of very heavy quad ruple plate, worth 1.50 each. QQr To go at OVC Butter Knife and Sugar Shell, in fancy boxes, worth $i.oo set. Togo A fir 1847 Rogers Bros.' Knives, set of six, that are worth $3.00 To go i -2 Q -piece Carving Sets, with genuine stag handles, worth $j.oo set. A CT Baking Dishes, of very heavy quadru ple plate, well worth $6.50. O Oft Togo at .VO You need have no fear of being displeased with anything you njav purchase during this sale. Our policy of "satisfaction or money bock" covers every doubt. To give this sale the attention that its importance demands goods will hold the place of honor in the store Main Aisle, through from Wyoming avenue. Come in and Hear the Music. Our new department for the sale of Sheet Music moves to the second floor to dayfor convenience sake and for your enjoyment. To assist you in making selec tions for your own use, we have placed a piano in the department and an accomplished pianist is at your service for the rendition of any piece you may desire to hear. You don't have to buy. We simply wish to aid you in making your repertoire the better. If you're a pianist the gates are open to you as you know. But whether you finger the keys or not, you are welcome to come and enjoy at all times. Store is as free as the air. Jonas Long's Sons go. Walk into his plantation, and up to his door You will find It open, and you will not be greeted by a dog that loves to show his teeth or a servant with a salver. You will be greeted by the host himself brawny, muscular and smiling with outstretched hands. He will call all his family and all his neighbors to see how he has been hon ored. He will give you the best chair and tell his boy to stand by and fan away the robust mosquito. He will get you young cocoanuts to drink and grapes that would pale those of Ham burg hothouse fame, and when you have been refreshed he will show you to your room, and tell you to lay your American clothes aside, and to dress in Tahiti fashion. This consists of u sugar-cane hat. a white shirt and a pareu a. piece of colored print about four feet square, which Is wound around the waist. Once In Tahiti garb the charm of Tahiti begins to dawn. Once In this garb, lying under a leafy mango tree, listening to the brook murmuring soft ly as it winds Its way through the underbrush to the sunlit sea, watching the deep red flowers drop from the branches of the faruna, and hearing the plaintive song of a Tahiti maiden born to waste her time away and you don't care if the expansion treaty reaches to the stars or if Huffalo Bill Is elected piesldent The subtleness of tho warm fresh air and the odor of the ever-blopmlng flowers seem to drive 'all thoughts of worldly affairs away. It Is a glory of absolute contentment un less you are bitten by a centipede. FOOD AND 13ATINO. Various are the menus which the na tive host will prepare. He has no stove, but does his cooking In an oven made hot by stones. A layer of these stones Is placed on the ground, and the ed ibles placed on them, generally a suck ing pig, several chickens, bread-fruit and taro plant. These are covered with stones and a fire Is built around them. When the stones are removed the din ner Is cooked to a turn. A chicken Is always roasted without Its head und claws being lemoved. The head Is laid on the breast and the claws are drawn over so us to clasp it down, and when the fowl Is nerved up Juicy and hot it looks as If It had died a peaceable death. Fish Is generally eaten raw, with n tauce made of grated cocoanuts and limes. The Idea may seem barbarous, but the dish is very palatable: still, It must be remembered that the fish caught nround Tahiti, where the sea is transparent for many fathoms1, are dif ferent from the fish of the dull, green waters of the Atlantic. Tables there are unknown, and the feast is spread on the ground on a doth of fresh green leaves. The diners sit on mats (tailor fushlon, If possible), surrounding the feast. The head of tho family thanks God In fervent words' for the bounty a custom never forgotten in this far-away isle and then a black eyed girl passes around with an arm ful of wreaths of red and yellow flow ers, and crowns each one before the meal Is served. Knives and forks are ptactically unknown. With a lib of the succulent porker in one hand and a small raw fish in the other, some curried prawns spread out on a leaf, with a chicken wing, u. slice of taro und a collection of tropical fruits await ing their turn, and tho untlecked tables of Delmonlco's become a feasting pluce for tho unfavored. JONAS LONG'S SONS. life time to replenish your table THE lOOulC POWDER CO. Rooms 1 ami 2, Coiu'Itli B'l'rt'g. SCRANTON, PA, Mining and Blasting POWDER iladout Mooslc and Uuihdata Work. I.APLIN & RAND POWDER CO'S ORANGE GUN POWDER Electric UatteriM, ISIectrla Exploders, lor exploding bluka, Safety I'ase und Repauno Chemical Go's ex"lS"ivbs IVIcMUNN'S ELIXIR OF .s a preparation of the Drug by which Its injurious effects are removed, while tho valuable medicinal properties aro re tained. It posscrscs all the sedative, anodyne und antl-spasmodle powers of Opium, but produces no sickness of tho stomach, no vomiting, no costlveness. no headache. In acuto nervous disorders ft is an Invaluable remedy, and Is recom mended by the best physicians. FERRETT, Agont, ,17J Hearl St., New York. Tho Query Brought Forth a Query. From tho Jlllwauk" e Jotirn.il. Soniutolnus ambition men within the partj tried to measure their strength with th.it of the 'bos-H." as he was culled for a long series of years. One of tluse cases 1 ipmember rlsh well, Captain l'llhu Knos. of Waukesha wanted to be fulled States mnrshul for the eastern dlslllet of the slate. As f recollect this slmy. "Hoi's" Keves promptly lold him that he could not have the appointment. The doughty captam swore that he would have It "In spite of tho boxs and his HMe one-horse Madison regency," thus dl clo.dng his band. The boss told him 10 go ahead and sec how he wouldn't gel It. und tne captain went as fur at. he c mid Of course he failed, and the boss then used the failure as an Illustration of the folly of trying to get along without Hie uld or the machine. Along about that lime u fellow mum d Alex Hotklu cam" ui from Siory's Chi cago Times and took u position on Hi' Mllwaukeo Sentinel, then the leading U publican paper of the state. Keyes .i alleged by Hotkln to have taken oecasl.ei to prod Captain Ihios wlih a phrai-e thai was greatly In vogue at that time. send, ing him a message which read: "To Captain Kllhu linos, Waukesn i Wis.: Are you a peer or a vassal".'" Knos sent this response to Keycs: To Colonel i:ilsha V. Keyes, Mudlso i Wis : Yi'H, l-'. what the h arc you?'' CASTOR! A For Infants find Children, The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of JONAS LONG'S SONS. needs. Extraordinary bar- V Soup Tureens, of very heavy quadru ple plate, well worth $8.00." 5 in Togo at 0Uy Fern Dishes, worth $5.50. J AO Togo at wt"0 Water Pitchers, worth $10. A AQ Togo at T-.frO Gravy Ladles, worth $1.50. CQn Togo at ;... oy Oyster Ladles, worth $1.25. "i C To go at '. I. IO Coffee Spoons (set of sixl, AZn worth $ 1. 00. To go at "OV, Sugar Shells, handsome, "XQc worth 60c. Now :..) Butter Knives, worth yc. ALn To go at rJl FOR IK EMI FEB. 20 We will sell at greatly reduced prices, best quality Plated Silver-ware INCLUDING T?a Sets, Wafer Pitchers, Cake Baskets, Btiff?r dishes, Trays. And number of odd and end pieces. MERCEREAU & CONNELL 130 WyomlMg Avenue. Fire Plugs Frozen $100,000 VVo.th ot property destroyed by fire in Scranton within a week. DEFENDER FIRE EXTINGUISHERS Arc Simple, Cheap, Effective Have your building equipped with them and be protected against fire G. W. S. FULLER, General Agent Kj Lackawanna Avenue. Lager Beer Brewery Manufacturers of OLD STOCK PILSNER 435M45& 111 81, Sfflfc Pi t Telephone Call, 3333. II SO
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