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20 LONDON’S GREAT HOUSES. The Treasurers Accumulated in Great Houses of London and England. Town and County. The men who built the great man sions of London which endure to this day prepared them for the reception year after year of the most beautiful objects, so that now hardly anything remains to add to them. There are a hundred great houses in London of which the least important could be taken to any other town and proclaim ed as a wonderful museum. Dorchester house, the present home of the American ambassador; Bridge- • water house, Chesterfield house, built by the great author of polite let ter writing; Aspley house, the home of the Duke of Wellington; Devon shire house, Grosvenor house, the cus todian of a vast treasure in pictures, manuscrips and sculpture; Lansdowne house, with its great gallery of busts and statues; Stafford house, whose great straircase alone is worth a king’s ransom; Wimborne house—these are only a few of the number. There are many other houses of minor impor tance which would be starred in the first line if they were anywhere else. There, for instance, in Arlington street, a small, narrow thoroughfare close behind the Ritz hotel, where Wimborne house casts its great shad ow, are a dozen mansions which con tain treasures almost beyond belief. The Marquis of Salisbury lives there in a magnificent palace—magnificent as to interior, insignificant as to ex terior. Sir Alexander Henderson, a great railway magnate, hides the nobility of his possessions behind a modest street frontage. At No. 17, a house built 150 years ago by Lord Carteret and now owned by Lord Yarborough, lives H. Gordon Alfridge, late of Chicago. It is a simple looking London residence, but the vast interior, Bpreading out as you progress, is a perfect store house of beautiful objects of antiqui ty. Here are the most wonderful Van Dycks, Greuzes, Rembrandts, Reynold ses, Lelys and Gainsboroughs; gallery after gallery, room after room filled with them; books of great rarity, bind ings that would make the curators of most museums giddy with delight and furniture that one only finds usually surrounded by chains to keep off the curious public; and this is only one of the dozens upon dozens of old Lon don houses. As a matter of fact, this does not ap ply to London alone. All over the country, north, east, west and south, there are strewn country houses dat ing back to other centruies where great treasures are stored and jeal ously guarded. There is no other country in the world which contains so many. 19 The French chateaux suffered too much during the troublesome times of the revolution. They were burned and sacked and hacked and their treasures scattered to the four winds. Private Ambulance, Carriages, Flowers, Chapel, THE NEW TARIFF. Germany never had many. The Italian works of art were kept mostly in cities like Venice, Florence, Verona and Genoa and in its numerous mon asteries. But in England, where the country houses have hardly been dis turbed since the time of Cromwell, the work of collecting has gone on un molested generation after generation. There are still many undiscovered finds scattered about here and there in spite of the cry that nothing more is to be purchased. “THE GRAND.” Entire Week of April 10th. Miss Emma Bunting, in her fourth week. An elaborate production of Clyde Fitch’s famous production, enti tled “Girls.” If you want to laugh cheer and grow fat, you will miss a treat if you fail to go to the Grand this week. The show at the Grand is unques tionably the best production yet seen in this city at popular prices. , The Atlanta amusement patrons have displayed their appreciation of the Grand management’s efforts to present absolutely the best talent that money can procure for the smallest possible admission. The Grand is by far the largest and best equipped show house in the city, and it is the inten tion of the management to keep the highest standard of plays for the bene fit of her patrons. The prices the same all the time. 31 Years Experience to offer and the Best Facilities NEVER CLOSED 96 North Forsyth Street (Adjoining Carnegie Library) From the Philadelphia Ledger. They’ve fixed the tariff sure enough In Man’s own bungling way, They’ve raised the rate on women’s stuff, So let us to the fray! Furs, feathers, gloves, perfumery, ’Tis thus the list begins: They’ve also raised the tax on tea And ornamental pins. Who wants free hides and iron ore? Who called for croton oil? Whatever "basic slag” may be, I hope the stuff will spoil. The free list teems with terms like these, And to their other sins They add that awful tax on tea And ornamental pins. A "necessity” is coffee— Men drink it everywhere. But why is tea a luxury, Like manufactured hair? They lower the rate on butchers' knives, On timbers, drugs and tins; But what of fancy coats and tea And ornamental pins? O Sister Women, rise with me; I pledge my faith to you In steaming cups of fragrant tea— It matters not what brew. Fight till you see that tea is free; The valiant fighter wins; Then fight for free perfumery And ornamental pins. —Clarice W. Riley. H. M. PATTERSON FRED W. PATTERSON H. M. PATTERSON & SON Established 1880 FUNERAL DIRECTORS