The Forest Republican. (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, November 16, 1892, Image 1

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VOL. XXV. NO. 30.
TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOV. 1G, 1892.
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Vessel owner on the great lake ta
thnt they rcpreseut $50,000,000.
Tt ia stole J by statisticians that 40,-'
000,000 of 0,uccn Victoria's subjects in
India nuver kno.v what it la to get
enough to eat.
Canning factories aro springing up in
various psrts of tho South. Tliis is, in
"the estimation of the American Farmer,
ft hopeful sign. The South, it declare),
should supply the world with canned
vegetables.
The total number of lunatics In Eng.
land and Wales increases by 1700 a year.
Fifteen hundred pooplo go mad everj
year, or five out of every 10,000 people
alivo in that country enter an asylum as
inmates every year.
Invention is stilt busy with providing
transportation over the billows. The
whaleback vessels were now, but the lat
est form of steamship propeilor is an
English invention. It is designed so
that when in motion there is no weight
of water on the blades on tlio rise and
fall of tlio propeilor, duo to the pitching
of the vessel.
It was the volcano of Awu that de.
stroyed hundreds of people in the island
of Great Sangir by one o( its terrific out
bursts recently. After the great erup
tion of Awu in 1711 a largo lake formed
in the crater, and uutivei of the official
class were permitted, once in three or
four months, to visit the crater for the
purposo of testing the water. If the
water were hot onough to cook rice, an
eruption was expected. In 1856 the
waters of the lake began to boil, burst
their bauks and null down the mountain.
Many of the people, taking warning from
the increasing temperature of the water,
escaped, but hundreds were killed. Ac
cording to dispatches which have retched
the Hague, about 3 )00 people fell vic
tims to tho latest eruptiou. Most of the
victims wore Malays, about 13,000 of
whom live on tho island.
A telegraph company is not excused
from using care because a message is tin
grammatical aud a Georgia beef dealer
has recovered a verdict because the West
ern Union Telegraph Company did not
deliver to a cattle dealer the message,
"How is cattle! Answer r.t oncef" The
sender of the message had about lifteen
head of cattle on hand when ho lent the
message and waited several days for an
answer. It coit him several dollars a
day to care for the cattle, and when be
told them the prices bad declined and
he lost thirty or forty dollars more.
These amounts and the penalty of $100
he recovered from toe telegraph com
pany. The Supreue Court of Georgia
bat also just sustained a verdict against
the telegraph company for failure to do
liver message from u traveling salesman
making an appointment with a customer.
The snltsmau had to make a longer trip
because the mcginge was not delivered
and be obtained $150 for hit expenses
besides the s'ntutory poualty of $100.
Pittsburg's llrst steel coal Iwge was
launched recently, nud tho o-.vu-.-r pre
dict! that in a few yeirs none of tho
larger carrying cralt on t'.ie Ohio will be
constructed of any other material. The
new largo is 135 feet long' and twenty,
four feet wide, aud auexict reproduc
tion of a wooden barge. The iattor
type of vessel cost 1100 and lasts ten
years, with repairs that come to as much
again. A steel barge, it is estimated,
will cost $1200 and last, porhaps, fifty
years, without needing much renovation.
Moreover, in a wreok, the wooden carrier
c-fi-in. goes to pieces and tho cirgo is
!t. Some of the "operators' have
fleets of between 3'JO and 400 barges, to
that the item of repairs alone is a for
midable one. As to this, too, there is
another and a weighty consideration
the ad vancing price of timber. Tho firm
that has built the nuw barge proposes to
replace their woodca with steel barges,
if tue experiment succeeds.
A conspicuous Lou Jon newspaper
jroshadows serious llunncial disaster ia
Fnglaad. It points to tho failure of the
"iring, two years ago, as the visible
-glueing of trouble, aud asserts that
ver since that failure "artificial efforts
have been made to postpone the inevit
able." Such a result would not be sur
prising, says tho New York News.
I English capitalists have within th lust
Jew years been luied into the wildest
hemes, involving enormous iuvest-
.i-nts. The English "syndicate'' busi--ess
has been worked by American and
i'lish' "promoters" to tho extent of
.wiing rnillious upon million of dol
s in investments that are more than
ii'lous. In South America we find
.; same English syndicate fever lauuch
g money in all sorts, of colossal specula
.,6. It was iu Argentiua that the
riugs sunk a lur e part of their
;uisal capital, and it ia known that
j other English bankers are flouu
ugiu the same mire, barely ablu to
their heads above the surface.
LOVE.
Strang are bis moods, and strangers he,
A ehild of divers ways;
lie leads you on through flowery paths.
Through bright and golden days
And guided by hli gentle hand,
And listening to his song,
And gasing In bis lovely eyes,
Yon walk for ever on.
And many pass you by, and they
Stretch out their hands In vain;
Borne go with Death and Botto-v some
Walk hand in hand with Pain;
And some with Bcorn go laughing by,
And tome who weep and moan,
Hut all of them young Love ignores,
And on they pass alone.
And through the pathways where they go
No ray of light appears;
No gleam of sunshine ever come,
The way is wet with tears.
Sad for a moment, too, you grow,
And beg Love take them, too;
He smiles and shakes his golden curls
"They cannot come with you."
F. M. lioveanx, in Chambers's Journal.
PAUL AND M'LfSS.
BT THOMAS P. MONTFORT.
'LISS, hain't I time
an' ergin ferbid
yer bavin' aught
ter do with Paul
Jennings?"
"Yes, pap, yer
hev'."
"Then I want
ter know bow it
comes yer don't
pay no 'tention ter
what I hev' so
often said."
M'liss Hopkins
hung her pretty
head and the
blushes suffused her lovely face and neck,
but instead of answering her father's
question she Blood idly fingering the
strings of her bonnet. Once or twice
she tried to speak, but though she did
not look up the knew that her father's
cold, sharp eyes were gasing steadily at
her, and the words were lost In a trem
bling whisper.
"Why don't yer speak out, M'liss, in
stid o' stand in there as if you'd lost your
tongue? Why is it I see you an' Paul
Jennings tergcthet last night!"
"Pap," and the toft, sweet voice is
scarcely audible, "I can't tee why you
hold anything agiost Paul. No matter
what others have done, I know he hain't
never harmed a hair of yer head, an' he
couldn't be hired to do anything agin'
yer fer the world."
"M'li9, I'm s'prised at yer. Jist ter
think that a child o' miue should stan'
up right in my face an' un'ertake ter hoi'
op fer one o' thern Jenningses, arter all
I've suffered at their han't. It's er hard
thing tor bear, M'liss, er hard thiug to
know that my own child is willin' ter
fergit er pap't wroogt an' take up fer
them as has alters been his enemies. It
was bid ernuff. fer 'em to beat me outen
ther claim arter I'd improved it, but now
fer my child, ther only being in ther
worl' as is likely to keer fer me, ter go
an bol' up fer one of em, is a hundred
timet worse. I never thought afore that
I'd ever live to see ther day when you'd
turn ergin me."
"Pap, you know I hain't turned ergin
you, an' that I wouldn't take up fer no
body, even to Paul hisself, who was er
enemy to you. But Paul hain't done
notliin' fer you to condemn him fer. It
wasn't him that took the claim."
'No, it wasn't him as took ther cluim,
but it wus hit father, an' the Jenningses
air all alike."
"Has Paul ever held up fer his fa'.her
in the matter!"
"I donno as he has an' I don't know
at he hain't, but I know lie's one of ther
family an' that's ernuff."
"Pap, you do Paul wrong. He ain't
nowise ter blame fer what was done years
ergo, an ef you'd set to know hiin you'd
tay he wasn't bad.'1
"I don't want ter know him, an' I
don't want you to hev nothln' more ter
do with im. I said year ergo that me
an' mine 'ud never mix er mingle in any
way with ole Joel Jennings's family; an'
for my ptrt I've ken' to that promise.
an
w jbi vwi uuuiuer wane sue
lived, au' I hoped you would."
"It ain't Christian, pap, ter hold er
grudge to long, nn' ergin ther innocent,
too." .J
"It may not be Christian, M'tiss-jswt
it ain't likely I'll fergit my wrougt while
the Jenningses live on my land an' hev
all ther comforts o' life, an' me an' mine
has ter git erlong ther best we kin on this
poor forty; an' it ain't likely so we'll hev
this long, fer Smith's goin to close ther
mortgage less'n I raise ther money ter
pay int'rust, an' I kaint do thet fer I've
tried high an low. No, it ain't likely
that I'm a goin' ter fergit an' fergive at
tich er time."
M'liss 's face blanched at hearing these
words, for they were the first intimation
she had received of the closing of the
mortgage on the little home. As she
looked at ber father's aged and bent form
and careworn features, and recalled all
the hardships and sufferings he had passed
through, and pictured out in her imagin
ation what tho future would be, she
could not find it in her heart to blame
him for the bitter grudge he held against
Joel Jennings. Hut Paul was so uulike
his father so kiud and geutle, and al
ways mindful of the welfare of others.
She knew that her father bad no right
to blame him. They were both a long
time tileut, then M'lias came aud put her
arms about her father's neck and kissed
him.
"I don't want you to think, pap, that
I'd ever take sides agin you, not even fer
Paul. I've tried fer be faithful to you
all my life, an' I intend to go on to."
"Yes, I know M'liss, what you've been
ter me, anil I know you mean well. But
lorin' Paul as you do, .it's hard to be to
ward me what you've alius been."
"Paul's so good an' kind, an' I do love
him, pap, an' it hurts me to thiuk o'
never hevln' uothin' ter do with 'im no
more."
"You needn't try to persuade me, fer
I've said I never fergive an' I won't. The
little farm'll be sold to pay the mortgage
an' we'll be set out in the world to live
where we kin, an' I reckon Paul won't
keer no more than his pap dots. Let 'em
enjoy what they got frum me by dishon
esty, if they kin, but they'll never h'.v
my friendship."
Daniel Hopkins got up and went out
and a few minutes later rode away to
town to make another effort to raise the
interest money and save bit home.
M'liss watched him as he rode off
down the long lane and ber eyes filled
with tears.
"Poor pap," she taid, "it's hard to
have to give up your home alter all
these years an' become a homeless wan
derer. I don't blame you fer feelin'
bitter an' unforgivin'. But I do wish
you'd be fair toward Paul."
Then laying her arms on the window
casomont she pillowed her bead on them
and gave way to her grief.
"M'liss," spoke a soft voice behind
her.
"Paul," she cried, ard in an instant
she was in his arms, and for one brief
minute all her troubles and torrowt dis
appeared. Then recollecting herself the
drew away from him, and holding up
ber hand to stop him from approaching,
she taid :
"Paul, we must forget the past, an'
never be to each other again what we
have been."
"Do you wish it to, M'liss?"
She looked down at the Boor but did
not reply.
"I know what you mean," Paul went
on, "for I heard what your father taid."
M'liss looked up quickly and a blush
of shnme spread over her face.
"I heard what you said, M'liss, and
it's nothin' to be ashamed of, I'm sure.
You don't know what joy it was to me
to hear you say you loved me."
"But we must net-ir think of such er
thing ergiu, Pai'.i. rap forbids it."
"I know he ierblds it, but ho has no
grounds fer it."
"No, he has nothin' justly ergin you,
it's true, but you know the ole trouble."
The young man frowned and paced
the floor for a minute. Stopping near
M'liss he taid; ,
"I thought enough trouble and sor
row hed come out o' that ole misunder
standing without our lives being weighed
down with it. I wish the whole farm
would be tunk out of tight an' all recol
lections of it be blotted out forever."
"So do I, Paul, but as it can't be to,
there's no use er within'. All we kin do
is ter submit an' bid good-bye to our
happiness,"
"I do not blame yer pap," Paul con
tinued, "ler he it in the right, an' ort
to have the land, as I've told pap many
a time. But he has his way o' lookin'
ut it nn' thinkt he's right, an' nothin' I
kin say or do is goin' ter change him.
I'd be a friend to yer pap of he'd let me,
an' though I couldn't make his wrongs
right, I could let 'im hev money ernuff
ter pay up on the mortgage, but I dasn't
offer it to him."
"No, he'd go out doors fer the bal
ance of hit days before he'd accept of
it."
Then a long silence followed, ia whioh
both appeared to be intently thinking.
Paul was the first to tpeak.
"M'liss, I'm goin' away," be taid.
"Wnere to?" and M'liss't trembling
voice betrayed her anxiety.
"I dunno, yit, but I'm goin' aomo
whe:e. I can't stan' to stay here an' see
you an' never hev the privilege of speak
in' one word no more then if you wus er
stranger. I am goin' away to git my
own start in life, an' tometime we'll be
ha; py yit. That ole trouble's got to die
out sooner or later, an' when it does we
kin bo happy. Wilt you wait fer me till
then, M'liss!"
"Paul, I'll never marry no other man. "
A little later Paul went away and
M'liss was left to live through the long
est and darkest day of her existence.
It wot late in the afternoon when
Daniel Hopkins returned from town, and
M'liss knew by the disappointed, worried
look in bit face, that hit mission had
been unsuccessful. She asked him no
questions, feeling .'that it would only
augment hit torrow.
After tupper be tat down before the
fire and tmoked hit pipe in tilence while
M'liss cleaned away the table, and
brought her work-box and took up her
sewing.
An hour probably passed and then
there came the sound of footsteps out
side, and a moment later the door
opened and Smith entered. Daniel's face
darkened and the tittle remaining cour
age he had brought back with him from
town disappeared.
Smith was very cordial and greeted
hit poor neighbors with an unwonted
friendliness, at which both Daniel and
M'liss were greatly surprised. Tbey
tuked of the weather, of the crops and
ol various items of local newt, and
fiually Daniel said :
"I'm sorry, Smith, but to far I've not
been able to raise that interest money.
I've put in the whole day in town, but
nobody don't seem willin' to let me hev
it."
"Then I've done better than you,"
Smith replied, as a smile ttole over hit
face, "fer I got it 'thout goin' auy where
to try fer it. There's the notes, all of
'em, paid up principal au' interns!. "
Daniel took the note into his hand
aud looked at them intently for a whole
minute. Then rubbing hit eyes he looked
at Smith, but the latter said nothing
"Whit does thit mean?'' Daniel asked
at lust.
"It timply means that the mortgage
is paid off. But at to who done it I
am not at liberty to say, any more than
thet it was a friend of youru."
M'liss bad an idea who that friend
was, but Daniel was far from suspecting
the right person.
Six months passed and though M'liss
never mentioned Paul's name ber father
knew that it was on his account that his
daughter looked forword so anxiously
for the coning of each weekly mail. Yet
! no letter ever came, and finally ditap-
pointment began to tell on the poor girl,
and the father could see that she was
growing thinner and paler every day.
He loved hit child and would have dona
almost anything to make her happy, but
he could not, even for her take, oontont
to become reconciled to any member of
the Jennings family. So be taw her
droop and fade, and while hit heart
ached for her, bit pride and hatred held
him back from doing that which he
knew would bring ber happiuost and
health.
It was late one evening when Joel
Jennings came riding by, and when just
opposite Daniel Hopkins's front gate bit
horse shied and threw him off. Daniel
and M'liss saw him fall, but supposing
he was not hurt they waited for him to
rise. They waited for some time, and as
he did not move they went to him. He
did not breathe, and M'liss brought water
and bathed bis face. All of the hatred
that had rankled in Daniel's heart for
twenty years died out in a second when
he saw the object of it lying helpless at
bis feet, and bis only thought was of
how he could relieve him.
Joel revived a little after a time, and
Daniel and M'liss carried him into the
house.
"Shall we send for a doctor?" Daniel
asked.
"No, it's no use. I'm hurt past any
doctor's help."
"But It 'ud be best to fetch 'im any
how," Daniel persisted, and so M'liss
started off to bring brm.
For some time after she had gone the
two men were silent. Then Joel reached
out hit hand, saying:
"Daniel, the eend't nigh, an' I can't
think o' goin' with that old trouble
'bout ther claim weighin' me down. I
may hev wronged you, an' I'm willin' to
acknowledge I did, enyhow. We've
been miserable fer twenty yean on ac
count of it, an' now we're ruakin' our
children miserable, too. I'm willin' to
mike up and let the children marry an'
have this lan' between 'em. They'll be
er comfort to you an' you'll be happy in
pcein' them happy. Air you willin' ter
fergit an' fergive?"
"Yes," Daniel said, clasping the out
stretched hand, "I am willin' to let ther
past go an' begin over agin. Whoever's
in the wrong, we no right to make the
children's lives as miserable as our own
has been."
When M'liss came back her quick eye
told her what had taken place, aud her
heart bounded with joy.
The doctor gravely shook his head
after making an examination, and said
Joel could not last long. Paul was sent
for at onoe, and arrived in time to seo
his father and become M'liss's husband
before death came to Joel.
The young couple went to live on the
troublesome old claim, and tbey made
of it one of the happiest homes in all the
settlement. Daniel lived long enough
to learn to love Paul as he did M'liss
but he never knew that it was Paul who
paid off the mortgage to Smith. Detroit
Free Press.
Ten Dollar J Llnyj Mai's Life.
At Monte Carlo a few days ago, writes
Henry Hague, I wai witness of the fol
lowing peculiar incident: I was tested
at a table in the cafe of the Parit hotel,
which adjoint the casino, with a group
of tourists, when a haggard and dis
heveled Frenchman entered hurriedly,
called for a glass of absinthe, and seat
ing himself proceeded to write vigorously
on a sheet of note paper in front of him.
My attention was attracted by his ap
pearance and evident nervousness, and
my interest w&t deepened when I taw
him take from his pocket a gold-plated
revolver. He examined the weapon very
carefully, as though he contemplated
using it and wanted to see that it was in
proper order, then hastily put it back in
his pocket and resumed his writing.
By this time the attention of the whole
group had been attracted to the nit.
especially as they saw him remove the re
volver from his pocket and toy with it
nervously. A stout, florid Englishman
sat near me. He leaned over nnd whis
pered to me : "My deah fellah, the chap
means to do away with himself, I ta'.;e
it." Then, before I could reply, he
quickly turned to the Frenchman aud
said : "You wish to tell that weapon,
tir!"
The Frenchman drew back in aston
ishment. He gazed in amaziment at the
Englishman and hesitated as it he had
been insulted. Then there apparently
eusued a revulsion of feeling, for a tmile
overspread his haggard face as he ex
claimed, with a shrug of the shoulders:
"If you wish, sir."
He placed the revolver mechanically
upon tho table and picked up the gold
$10 piece laid down by the Englishman.
Theu he drank his absinthe with seem
ing satisfaction. He brightened up. Hit
entire manner underwent a change. A
few minutes later he walked leisurely out
of the cale and we saw him again enter
the casino. The Englishman and myself
concluded to follow him. We were sur
prised to find on entering that luck was,
evidently with him, for a small pile of
gold and silver lay before him on the
roulette table. We learned later from
one of the attendants that he had won
240.
Tripe Leather.
Leather is now made from tripe, and
a very superior quality of solo leather at
that, which has the additional recom
mendation of being cheap. The follow
ing story is told of its first introduction:
Some year or so ago a tanner employed
in a Cincinnati establishment, requested
to have hit wages raised from $1.50 to
$2 a day. He quit and went to another
tannery asking for employment. He
was told that there wag no vacancy, but
he persisted and said that he could teach
them how to make a new kind ot leathor
that would make their fortunes. They
laughed, but when he explained how
tripe could be turned into leather, they
stopped laughing and employed him at
$5 a day. Now tripe leather it quoted
in the trade journals and brings a good
price. Picay une.
The regular army of Brazil consists ol
only 12,000 soldiers, but the Govern
ment can raise a military force of 100,
000 men by conscription.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
Five volumes of aireontain one volume
f oxygen.
Onyx hat been found in Rockingham
County, Virginia.
An artesian well in Petalnma. Cal.,
pouts 30,000 gallons of water every
hour.
Life is shorter in the valleys and low
lands than among the hills and rooms
tains. On a clear night a rod light can bo
teen at a greater distance than a white
light; but on a dark night the reverse is
the case.
A medical authority states that the
voices of singers and actors can be much
better preserved if used in theatres
lighted with electricity rather than gas.
At the head of the Gulf of Bothnia
there it a mountain on the summit of
which the tun shines perpetually durin r
the five days of June IM, 20, 21, 21
and 23.
The trolley bears such an important
relation to the general operation of the
overhead railroad system that attempts
are constantly being made to increase its
efficiency.
A Frenchman has discovered by
means of a recently improved pyrometer
that the temperature of the average in
candescent electric lamp is about 3300
degrees Fahrenheit.
Banana juice makes a first-class in
delible ink. A spot on a white shirt
from a dead ripe banana is marked for
ever, and the juice from bananas
thoroughly decayed is a bright, clear
carmine.
The results of experiments oa hasten
ing the germination of seel show that
camphor and oxygenated water appe.tr
to be the most energetic excitants, uot
only as regards tho acceleration of germi
nations, but at affecting the vigor of the
plants.
Volcanic ashes often travel a long dis
tance. A remarkable shower of volcanic
ashes has occurred recently in several
parts of Finland. Tho ground in some
places has been coverel to the depth of
nearly an inch. The phenomenon is
attributed to volcanic eruptions in Ice
land. A teaspoonful of boiled water three or
four times a day should ba given to
babies, says an experienced and success
ful doctor. ' Milk is a food and does not
quench thirst, and a great deal of an iu
fant't uneasiness is due to it. Tiio
water should be boiled fifteen minutes
and prepared fresh daily.
It has always been generally believed,
by the way, that snow keeps the ground
warm, but no very accurate data on. the
subject has hitherto been fortlic ruing.
Accordingly, it it interesting to lean,
from observations recently made at
Katheriuburg, that at a depth of four
teen inches the soil, when orered witti
two feet of tnow, was ten degrees
warmer than at the turface.
The new system of electric street
lighting which it to be Introduced on
Fifth Avenue, New York City, will em
ploy two instead of one aro lamp ou
each post. In thit way more effective
light and better diffusion are expected,
to that shadows will not be as notice
abU. Tbe wires are to be concealed
from view and connected underground
to the low voltage mains of the Edison
Company. Etch lamp will take about
fifty volts and tbe pain will be con
nected up in teriet and the tystem it
multiple, so that no wire will entry over
110 volts electric pressure.
The Kins of Locomotive.
A new monster locomotive belougiug
to the New York Central Itiiilroad is
considered by the officials of that road
the most powerful locomotive engine in
tho world. The engine is two-fifths
larger than the ordinary locomotive, its
mighty driving wheels being a full
seven feet in diameter; the largest ever
used in regular railway service.
Tire newcomer is called "No. 903,"
and surpasses in every particular its
rival, "No. 870," which has hitherto
drawn the "Empire State Express," tho
fastest train in the world. It weighs,
when ready for work, 100 tons, or forty
tons more than the ordinary locomotive;
measures fourteen feet, 10 inches from
track to top of smoke stack, and has
11,000 horse power, white the ordinary
locomotives has between six and soven
thousand.
The engine was built two years ago,
and was origiually title J with five foot
eight inch wheels, but this last change
has been made in an endeavor to lower
by a half hour the time of the express
in the trip from New York to Albany.
It is now made in two hours aud lorty
flve minutes, and if the change is suc
cessful "No. 903" will run the 143
miles in 135 minutes, and in her "spurts"
will be able to break her predecessor's
record of seventy-eight miles an hour.
New York Commercial Advertiser.
A Jealous Home.
While Miss Mabel Valeutine was exer
cising on a bicycle on the Columbus
pike a short distance north of Circle
ville, Ohio, she met a stray hone. Tim
horse's indignati u was arouse l by the
bicycle and he gave chase. Miss Valeu
tine was thoroughly frighteued by tho
animal's actions, and did her best to get
away from tbe brute, but to no purpose.
He stuck to the task with Bulldog de
termination, aud wueu she increased her
speed he also let out a link.
Ilealizing the chase was becoming
more desperate, and that she was suc
cumbing to the severe efforts to koep
away from her tormentor, the abandoned
the machine and attempted te climb a
fence. She succeeded, but fell over and
injured herself quite severely. The
horse made an onslaught on the machine
with his fore foet, and doubtless would
have broken it all to pieces bad not tome
farm hands appeared and driven him off.
This is the third time horses have tried
to destroy bicycles iu this county, seem
ingly regarding tbeni a au invasion on
their rights, which they propose to de
tend. Cincinnati Enquirer.
GORGEOUS DINING-iiOOM?.
SOME OF THOSE IN NEW YORK
SWELL HOTELS.
Small Fortunes Invetrl In Their Or
namentation Alone MnR Apart
ments lor ICallnK Purposes.
THE money lavished on the dec
orations of the dining-rooms
of New York's new swell ho
tels is something remarkable.
Fortunes are expended on some of these
apartments.
The most conspicuous features of the
American dining-room in the Plaza Ho.
tel, on which tho sum of $30,000 was
spent in decorations alone, are the ela
borate panel paintings of an allegorical
character and representing- the "Five
Senses." These paintings, which are
tbe work of George W. M ivnard.of this
city, are exceedingly graceful and beau
tiful in character. The electric lighting
fixtures with two immense chandeliers
cost Proprietor Hammond 1(12,000.
The cut glass used on tho tables was
purchased at a cost of 10,000, the
china $15,000 and the silver ware in use
is valued at 35.0t)J. On either side of
tbe entrance to the dining-room arc
waving palms on bronze standards, lit
at their bases by electric lights. Near
one of the big columns, ornamented
with figured leaves, is tbe painting of a
lovely female figure, over whose low
forehead her brown hair falls in a tou
sled bang and whose lap is filled with
red roses.
The dining room of the Hotel Savoy
was designed by Duncan, the architect
of the Grant Monument; the artist was
Tojetti, and the modelling was done by
Carl Bitter, the prize-winner of the Co
lumbian Exposition. The marble is
jasper aud sienna marble, inlaid with
Irish and Galway marble. The wood
work is of paneled satin wood, inlaid
with mother-of-pearl. There nre at least
450 electric lights concealed in the ceil
ing, and their clear, mild radiance gives
to the room a most charming effect.
There are also opalescent globes of seventy-five
candle power distributed in
domes around the room, ami which arc
mounted on bronze figures representing
Atlas holding up the world. In the rear
a fountain of jasper and Mexican onyx
plays. The orchestra is situated on the
mezzanine floor. There also four female
figures are conspicuous, and between
them are flower pots filled with natural
flowers. Frescoes represent delightful
landscapes, and nn the north tide is an
exceedingly beautiful painting of the
"Four Seasons." The total cost of the
decorations iu the dining room are
placed nt $75,000. The chairs are of
white mahogany, hand -carved, and
French plush, and cost f CO apiece. The
tables are also of nn elaborately hand
carved order, and the floor are fashioned
of mosaic tiles in color. Ou all the cut
glass ware is etched the crest of the
House of Savoy. The crest in burn
ished gold also appears on the Miuton
china ware. In the restaurant is a tine
painting, representing the twelve months
of tho year. The paneled side walls are
of pink satin, band-painted. On each
table is a canJelbr.i of Parisian design,
with silk shades. The cafe it of antique
oak, hand-carved, with panels of leather
on tbe walls. A high leather-cushioned
sofa invites the lounger to his case. Up
stairs is an old English breakfast room
in green oak. Tho chairs in this room
cost $50 apiece. The buffet aud the
pineling of the coiling are all of carved
oak, nnd the windows are of stained
glass.
In the new dining-room of tho Hotel
Imperial, which has just beeu finished,
the side walls, nine feet high, are ol
Vienna marble, aud the ceiling is linislio.l
in cream and gold. The style of design
throughout tho room is that ot the
Italian renaissance. The novel electric
features are each f.tshioued of three
Cupids holding a laurel wreath, from
which the lights rotno out. The total
cost of the decorations was $3ft,0UO.
Tbe main dining-room of the Holland
Houso is palatial enough to suit the
taste of the most fastidious prince. It is
composed of relief work in taliuou, pink
and gold, mostly in rococo, and the rest
in the style of Louis XV. it is 1 IS feet
long, forty-four feet wide, nnd will seat
325 guests. The floor is mosaic and is
covered in winter with Axministi-r
carpet. Tbe chairs are mide of natural
mahogany. The draperies are in rich
damask aud the curtains real Brussels.
Proprietor Bauinanu estimates the cost
of decorating the inaiu dining-room at
$51,000; the coat of the silverware,
$15,000; the china 20,000, and tho
linen, $19,000. New York News.
(Jjiiri'r f o iil.
The hedgehog figures frequently in
sylvan repasts, though be is hardly big
enough to be sent to table as a piece de
resistance. Tbe primitive manner of
cooking it supersedes tbe most costly re
finements of elaborate batteries de cuis
iue. Tke elephant's foot, or rather the
slice below the pasturn, which is a famous
dainty in eastern huntiug camps, is treated
ou precisely similar principles, which
'hows that the simplest cookery of nil
Nations has much in common, like the'i
folk-lore. Shakespeare's British hedge
uig, like its cousin the porcupine, is
shrouded in a plastic tenement of rlav.
1'tieu ho is laid to teuipoiary rest in a be-1
of smouldering cinders. When supposed
to be done to a turn, the dwarf pig is
dug up, and then the prickly skin is de
tached with the splitting of the rase ot
clay. All the generous juicef, with their
bouquet, have beeu eouliued aud traus
fused. Saturday Review.
Famous Siiidrres.
One famous sap.ihiie was found In
Bengal by a poor man who sold wooden
spoons, says tbe Jewell is' Revien. ll
was taken to Europe ami was bought by
the house of Itaspoll, at Home. Later it
became the property of a (ieruian prim e,
who sold it to I'eriet, a Parisian jeweler,
for $31,620, It was absolutely without
a blemish, aud weigbed l?ti carats.
THE JjURNEY OF LIFE.
We are wan !ering hither and thither.
Along through the journey of life,
And we pause in the valley of pleasure
And cllinb the steep mountain of strife;
We are basking betimes in the sunlight.
With hearts and with fares aglow;
But the day become' mute with tli een.
And rtreams have a musical flow, ,
There are lessous to learn while we Journey
De sunny or cloudy the way;
And 'tis oft what we gain in the morning
We lose ere the close of the day ;
Ro the days come and go, and the shadows
Ptill wear the same mantles of gloom;
Yet the joys are as bright tlio' life's dial
Re pointing beyond the fair noon.
O' the days and the years change so little;
The scenes so unvarid iu hue;
Though we question the why and the where
fore. We change not our standpoint of view:
If we'll look from thi mount ot forbearance
Across the fair valley of love,
We will see just before us a pathway.
Illumined by smilts from above.
L. S. Webster, in Atlanta Constitution.
HUMOR OF THE DAT.
Hot wether A lamb stew. Puck.
A ward healer The hospital doctor.
Puck.
The deer never goes faster tlmu when
served as venison. Puck.
In the race or life, it isn't the fast men
who come out ahead. Texas Siftings.
The ferry companies seem to believe in
"small sails and large profits." Truth.
Derdita "Did you kiss him?" Pene
lope (ambiguously) "Not much." Life.
Tbe lazy laundress, as well as the
fiauncl-shirt, shrinks from wash'.ug.
Puck.
Marriage isn't so much a failure as it
is a sort of compromise on both sides.
Puck.
Some people's idea of being religious
is to cat cold dinners on Sunday. At
chison Globe.
JuJge "What is your uaiiie!" Tramp
"Allow me to exchauge cards with
your honor." Texas Siftiugs.
"So you have a new servant girl," taid
one housewife to another. "Yes." "How
does she like you?" Washington Star.
That was a pretty hard story to swal
low, said the cellar when the upper part
of the housu fell into it. Texas Sittings.
The local thermometers have had but
little rest lately, as they have been rising
early nnd staying up late. Philadelphia
Record.
You no longer "take the wind out of a
roan's sail." If you are au fait you take
it out of his pneuiuntic tires. Washing
ton Star.
The man who is always yielding to
temptation seldom finds any difticulty In
finding temptations to bo yielded to.-
Somerville Journal.
"Always use small words, my son,"
said Mr. Wijeinan. "Then if you lnve
to swallow them you will bo loss likely to
choke" Black and White.
Jack ."Many a happy marriage, hoi
been spoiled by money." Tom "Yet;
it spoiled mine. She refined me because
I didn't have enough.'' Puck.
"Just see how that stake yields to the
pile driver." "No wonder," replied the
Western man. "Tho pile driver has tho
drop on it." Washington Star.
Kiveet "Patience on a Momiin .nV
Sounds very pretty, we'll auuiit,
Bur unsuccessful doctors see
M ire oft their patieats under it.
huclc.
"Inm often qt'itc self-satisfied, " said
Willio Wishington. "Ah," replied Mist
Peppertou, "you deserve commendation
for your modest tastes." Washington
Star.
Choosiug a wife is very iiiueli like or
dering a meal in a Paris restaurant when
you don't understand French. You may
not get what you want, but you will get
tomcthing. Colorado Sun.
Fnnnie "I wonder why Miss O'dgirl
went into a telephone otlicc to work."
Will "She probab.y thought It wis her
only rhvice to get a ring and becomo en
gaged." Chicago Iuter-Oceau.
Hbe sat on the s'r- at. the evening-tide
K-ijoyiiu tlis lai n v air.
He came nut asked: ".May I sit by your
side'
And she gave hirn a vacant sHre.
' ape Co I Itn.
"They say the child looks like me,"
paid Gargoyle, displaying bis first born.
"He lines a good dial," replied Glau
deis. "Still, I don't think I would
tlrown him on that account." Harper's
llizir.
"Papa," asked little Ethel, after u
season of deep though, "didt you havo
any idea that I would go right along liv
ing with you aud being your d uigliter
the first time we were introduced r" In
dianapolis Journal.
Editor's Bon "I asked papa n lien tho
millennium was coiuiu', an' if Mara was
inhabited, an' it it was goin; to rain next
Fourth of July; an' lie said ho didn't
know. I don't see how he ever got to
be an editor." Good News.
Mrs. Struckile "Aro these the very
best diauioud rings you have?" Jeweler
"Yes, madam, they are diamonds of
tho very first water." .Mrs. Struckile
"I will take them if you are sure the
water was boiled first. " Chicago Inter-
Icean.
A live (iroivlnif Around u Knlle.
Ashley White, ol Salem, Oregon, has
a relic that is a rare curiosity. It con
sists ot au oi l Hudson IJ ly Company
knife, around which uu iak tree has
grown. The tree was felled and iu hu
lug chopped up the woodman's ax came
in contact with the knife. The tree has
frown entirely around the knife, which
was hidden from sight until discovered
by the blade of ll:o ax. The kuile,
which is luidly iiiste.l, wus a very long
oue. Its blades -ire closed and one end
of the handle is seen from either side of
tbe stump. This knife must have been
brought to Oregon an I laid iu the forks
of an osk tree iu Polk Jjuuty as early
as 162.