Newspaper Page Text
IIAYTI'S CHRISTMAS EVE.
BBBPaNT WOR3HIP IN THE MIDST
OF THH FOREST.
Wlerd Spectacle Witnessed by a
Yankee Sea Captain—Heathen Rites
on a Christian Holiday-A Goat Sac
rificed to the Serpent—lt Might Have
Baen a Human Sacrifice Double
Character of the Haytlans.
(Copyright, 1891, by the United Pratt.)
Many Americana have visited Port an
Prince; but fear kaow much about the south
ern coast aud dark interior of the negro re
public of Hayti. It was the fortune of
Capt. Jonathan Crowell of Maine, a veteran
yankee skipper, to be at Qaradalres bay, on
the south coast, last Christmas, getting a
cargo of logwood. Capt. Crowell’s schooner
was the only vessel in port, and as the na
tives would not work, or allow his crew to
work during their holidays, the cap
tain went ashore to while awav the
time During the day, whloh was Christ
mas eve, he saw nothing beyond what
might be expected in a town of the French
or Spanish West Indies. The church was
the best building in the plane, and the pre
parations for Christmas servioe were evi
dently on one elaborate scale. Capt. Crowell
notfoed this, but he also noticed that, toward
evening large numbers of people were going
in the direction of the neighboring woods.
His attention was especially attracted by
the (act that they were all dressed in a loose
white linen garment, whloh covered them
from head to foot. They made very little
noise, which was quite contrary to their
gayety during the day. Capt Crowell’s
curiosity was aroused, and he determined
to see where the people went. He called
his mate, Alfred Williams, who rhadily
agreed to join in the exploration. They
told the men to keep a careful watch on the
schooner, and then set out, following a well
marked path.
About a mile from the town of Barpa
daires, in a large oleariug the two sailors
came upon a throng of people. Here was
evidently the spot to which the crowd from
the village had fenced. The presence of
the strangers was not welcome. A murmur
followed their arrival, and angry glances
were flashed upon them. But Capt. Crow
ell und his oompamon held their
ground. It was getting dark, and
iney felt that there might be more
danger In retreating, and thereby showing
cowardice, tuku in maintaining their stand,
firmly and respectfully. Capt. Crowell
was rather a favorite with the Haytians,
who liked the frank, hearty way of the
yankee sailor, as they saw him and the
mate remove their hats, and bow profoundly
to everybody in general, the hostile signs
began to disappear. The captain and his
companions were permitted to remain, as if
by tacit agreement.
As their eyes became accustomed to the
scene, upon which the shades of a starry
tropical evening wore rapidly falling, the
two Americans caught a glimpse of a snake
of unusual Bize, lying coiled in apparent
lethargy in the oentre of the clearing. It
was of the boa species, and, they judged,
not less than twenty feet long. The serpent
seemed indifferent to its surrounding, al
though about 200 persons were gathered in
the clearing, in the center of whloh the ani
mal reposed.
Suddenly the sound of a wierd chant arose
from the throng. An elderly man, of full
negro blood, stepped out from the crowd,
within (t few feet of the serpent,and whirled
around in a slow, monotonous dance. The
serpent lazily lifted its bead and waved It
frurn side to side in unison with the motions
of tbs dancer, and the tune which the peo
ple were chanting, pie dancer whirled
more and more rapidly, the chant grew
faster, aud the snake seemed to catch the
excitement, as it swung its head more
swiftly and darted its tongue out viciously.
Then, quick as a flash, dancer and audi
ence dropped to their knees, and on their
fames, os if in silent worship before the
serpent.
The head of the snake ceased to move to
and fro, but remained uplifted, looking
down on the prostrate worshipers. Capt.
Crowell, hardy sailor as he is, and acous
toraed to Haytiaas and their waya, deolares
that he felt creepy and would fain have re
tired from the scene, if he could have been
sure of escaping notice.
The serpent worshipers were on their
feet, almost as quickly as they had sunk to
the earth, and the chant was resumed, but
In a louder tone, Thu old man who had
been dancing, disappeared in the orowd.
About three minutes later he reappeared,
followed by two young men, dragging;
a hornleis goat. As the young
men brought the goat within easy reach of
the serpent’s head, the four-footed victim
shook us If paralyzed with fright. Left to
itself it seemed magnetized to the spat. The
boa gave it no time to recover.
The jnwa of the serpent seized the goat la
an instant, and with a rapidity of motion
that the eye of the observer failed to fol
low, the colle wore around it. Iu a second
the goat was a lifeless, shapeless mass. Then
the serpent proceeded with the slow process
of dining.
Meantime the worshipers of the snake
grew more and more madly excited. The
evening was sultry, aud the air loaded
With the bajtn of the Hhytiait forest.
Their dancing became wilder; the single
garment that bad enveloped them was
thrown aside, and the Haytlzms threw
themselves into the occasion with the frenzy
of their barbaric ancestors. They danoed,
they leaped; they shouted, until the
forest rung with the wild eqhoes of their
fetich cries. The old man who acted us a
high priest in the savage rites was the wild
est and most furious of all. Capt. Crowell
and his mate were glad to shrink oat of
tight iu the shadows, and the mad worship
ers seemed to have no thought for thorn.
The two sailors found their way back by
the well beaten path to the town and their
vessel.
The following day, Christmas, Capt.
Crowell attended service at the oburoh. The
people were out in their holiday attire, aud
gauo no indication of the orgie of the
previous night. They worshiped as if they
were good Christians aud they had not
a few hours before been indulging in the
grossest rites of uuregeoerato Africa.
Such scenes are said to be frequent in the
remoter parts of Hayti, and a white mer
chant at Port au Prince, to whom Capt.
Crowell related the straoge experience, said
there was a little doubt that the presence of
the capiaiu had prevented a human sacri
fice, and that the goat was a substitute for
a child. These faots, the merchant said, were
well-known in Hayti, but were tabooed by a
common understanding in the conver
sation of the people. Even the aristooratio
Haytiaus occasionally, though perhaps not
frequently, cast off the veneer, and go to
serpent worship with tborest. By a strange
association of Christian and heathen cus
toms, Christmas eve had come to be re
garded as tbe day, or rather the night, for
the leading serpent orgie of the year, and
Capt. Crowell had witnessed a speolaole
which few white men had ever been per
mitted to see. Albert Jackson.
The Exchange Editor’s Jest.
From the Chicago Tribune.
"Since you think yourself so smart,” said
the exchange editor, glancing backward
over his shoulder, * ’perhaps vou can tell
why the letter *’ is like Lord Byron.”
"I don’t believe it Is,” retorted the finan
cial editor belligerently.
“The letter ’t’ is like Lord Byron,” said
t e exchange editor, raising bis voioe, “be
cause it gives to immorality immortality.”
Ahd the other man, with a hunted look in
his eye, raised the win low and stuck his
head out to get fresh air.
Kid Glovee,
Leather gloves and gauntlets, a variety of
nice glovee, at LaFar '•.—Ad.
Fisk, Clark & Flagg’s fine neckwear the
tew puffs and four in bauds, at LaFar’s.
Ad.
help FROM FAIR hands.
Order of Deaconeeees of the Methodist
Episcopal Church.
( Copyright .)
New York, I>o. lw.— Iu a pleasant part
of At est Fourteenth street, this city,
stands a handsome brown stone 4-story
house. It is one of many In the block, but
a tree spreads its umbrageous branches in
front of the house, giving it a -rural aspect
in the midst of the great city. This build
ing is the New York Deaconess Home and
Training School of the Methodist Episcopal
church. The names home and training
school are somewhat misleading. Home
suggests rest and quiet and training school
is invariably associated with a host of
youug people undergoing training to fit
them for the battle of life. The deaconess
home has but fifteen inmates, and the
ua , u re of the work does not permit the es
tablishment to accommodate many more. I
had a very pleasant interview with Miss
Isabella A. Beeves, the superintendent,
who gave me a most interesting account
of this new Order of Deaconess. Miss
Beeves !a the possessor of the quality known
as magnetism. She has ktndiy, be
nevolent eyes, and a gentle manner. She
was dressed in black, the uniform of the
deaconesses. Her voioe is low and svmpa
thetic. A passage from Luke gives the
key-note to the work of the deaconesses. “Go
out quickly into the streets aud lanes of the
city and briDg in hither the poor and
maimed, and blind and lame. Go out into
highways and hedgea and constrain them to
come iu. that my house may be filled.”
Mias Reeves said that the first of the
deaoouess homes was in Chicago, and the
movement for their establishment through
out the country originated in that city in
June, 1887. In the spring of 1888 at a
preachers’ masting at Chicago, a memorial
was sent to the general oonferenoe asking
for recognition and authorization for tne
work. Ihe general conference of the ohurch
thereupon authorized the institution of the
Order of Deaconesses. Progress has since
been continuous. There are now deaconess
homes in Boston, Cincinnati. Cleve
land, Colorado Bprizgs, Denver. Los
Angeles, Minneapolis, Omaha, Saginaw,
St. Louis, St. Paul, Buffalo, Detroit, Phila
delpha, Pittsburg Syracuse and Washing
ton, as well as in New York and in Chicago.
The Chicago home was practically founded
by Mrs. Lucy Rider Meyer, the New York
home completed its second year of existence
May 18, 1891. It was the Rev. Theo
dore Flildner, a Lutheran minister In
Germany, who first suggested the idea of
the organization of deaconesses for obarit
able work. In England it has been very
successfully carried out, and in the United
States there is every promise of its meeting
with equal favor. “For Jesus Sake" is the
motto of the deaoonesses. No vows are
exacted, and any one of their number is at
liberty to relinquish her office as
a deaoonesss at any time. The du
ties are to minister to the poor, visit the
sick, pray with the dying, comfort the
sorrowing, and relinguishing wholly all
other pursuits, to devote themselves to such
form of Cbristiau labor as may be suited to
their ability. When working singly eacb
deaconess is under the direction of the pas
tor of the ohurch with whioh she is con
nected. When associated together in a
borne they aro subordinate to and directsd
by the superintendent in charge. A dea
coness who was taking to a poor woman
some provisions entered by mistake the
wrong door of a tenement house and found
herself in a room where marks of poverty
were very apparent. On a bed lay a woman
whose appearance was repulsive; by her
side was whisky. The deaoouess spoke
words of comfort and began to read from
the Bible. The woman interrupted her,
saying, “I know how to read, so you
needn't bother.” dozing the book the dea
coness said; "I will pray for you,” and pro
ceeded to do so;on rising from her knees she
was surprised to see the woman crying who
said amidst her tears, "O, it seemed as
though I were a girl again in England going
to ohurch with my mother aud sisters.”
The object of the training school is to in
crease the offioieuoy ot women preparing
for deaconess or other Christian work
by practical and theoretical instruc
tion. The women band themselves together
of their own free will. The training school
furnishes courses of leotures on elementary
medicine and nursery, and affords an oppor
tunity of learning methods of work and to
familiarize the student with various forms
of missionary work. The sobool also gives
practical training in missionary work by
house to house visiting to aid churches and
pastors in city missionary work. Applicants
for the training school" are received on
one month's trial. Candidates must be 21
years of age iu good health, to prove which
a medical certificate must be furnished—
they must have the rudiments of a common
school education, must be members of an
evangelical church and be duly recom
menced. Eacb student has to give at least
one hour a day to the general housework.
No uniform is woru by those iu the train
ing school. Those wishing to become
deaconesses at the end of the school year
are supported by the home the second
year if they so desire. The practical work
consists iu house to house visiting two
afternoons of the week. The students work
under tbe supervision of pastors, but are
assigned their fields by the Committee on
Fields of Labor. Tbe students are expected
to teach the Sunday School on Sunday.
The course of study comprises
History of the English Bible, Epochs
in Bible History, Church History,
Christian Evidences, Cathechism, Dis
cipline, The Life of Christ, Practical Leot
ures for Religious Workers, Mission Fields,
Sunday School Lessons, General Medicine,
Hygiene, Surgical Emergencies, The
Eye, The Teeth, Diseases of Children,
Emergency Obstetrios, Nursing, The Nerv
ous System, Elocution, Physical Culture,
Kindergarten, Temperance and Organiza
tion of Missionary Societies. The medical
leoturer iu the New York Training School
are ladies, Ti era is some distinotion made
betweon nurse deaconesses and visiting
deaconesses. None are admitted to the home
over 40 years of age except by the unani
mous consent of the board of direction.
Tbe deaconess uniform, which is sufficient
for protection aud recognition in the work
and which is in conformity with
that adopted by all deaconess homes, is
worn by the probationers the second year,
but is not worn during the first year except
by special permission. No salaries are paid,
the work of tbe deaconesses being on the
basis of sclf-eaoriflce. Candidates prepar
ing for work among foreign speaking peo
ple at home or abroad have to muke prepa
ration iu tho language of those among
whom they expect to labor. Licenses are
issued by the conference board of deacon
esses when a satisfactory written examina
tion has been passed in tho subjects of
study.
Mies Reeves, tho efficient superintendent
of the New York home, came from Chicago
to assume the direction of the work here.
She was one of the first women licensed by
the Methodist Episcopal church to the office
and work of a deaconess. Need has existed
for such an order in the Methodist Episcopal
ohurch, and the result of the institution of
deaconesses has seen very satisfactory. Tho
deaconess goes from door to door
to do good to members of any denomina
tion The work is looked upon as a kind
of divine service. As the yearly roDort says,
‘•to say that they have made 5,600 calls
giuoe last October, that they have given out
so many bunches of flowers, etc., is a very
oold way of stating what immeasurable
good has been done by them in theso visits
atnoug the poor and sick. They have
brought zeal to ohurches in need of work
ers- they have carried courage to discour
aged mothers; found imployment for the
unemployed; supplied the destitute, sick
with medicine and care; they have minis -
tered to little ones just born into the world
and have prepared
S. J. Chandler, Richmoua, \ a., writes:
•No one can afford to be without R B. B.
wuo wishes an appetite. I could scarcely
eat a single biscuit for breakfast, bu. since
taking B. B. B. I dean the whole table, so
to speak.”— Ad.
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1891—SIXTEEN PAGES.
CHRISTMAS YARNS.
(Copyright. !991. by the United Prett. )
New York, Dec. 19.—“ Here’s your
special Christmas number of the ”
The sentence was never finished. It was
cut off in the middle as suddenly as if the
train boy’s vocal chord bad snapped. The
man who rode with bis bock to the engine
was the cause.
“Stop that noise,” be yelled, “confound
you. Get out! Scat!! Go back and feed
your Christinas literature to the people in
the emigrant car. ”
“S’matter,” said the boy. “Don’t you
never read no Christmas tales f”
“No, sir, I don’t; aud what's more, if you
try to sell me oue of youi ossified old yule
tide gnost stories I'll slaui you on the ground
so bard that it'll jar the kangaroos off their
perches in Australia." <
‘ ‘Gee whiz!” said the boy, as he backed
toward the door.
“Why do tbe heathen rage!” inquired tbe
man with tbe dead turkey and five other
bundles on his knee.
“Rage! It’s enough to make any man
rage. Wby I’ve read ’em all; there hasn't
been anew one iu ten years. I've been
looking through tbe recent epidemic of
Christmas literature, aud they are all
there.”
“All !’’
“Yes. Certainly, all the shriveled old
chestnuts that we met years ago. They are
dressed up a little differently maybe, but
you’d recognize ’em in a minute.
“There’s tbe stern old father—son a little
wild, but a manly, Independent fellow
quarrel on Christmas eve, because son w ants
to marry Hunan Jones, the gardener's
dauguter—son runs away gardener’s
daughter disappears simultaneously— stern
father won’t forgive—swears he won’t as
quick our lam is rung down on chaptor I.
“Chapter IL —ten years later—Christinas
eve again- stern father, still rich, but very
lonely—remorse and a heavy dinner makes
him feel blue—determines to go out and do
something to brighten tbe Christinas eve of
some unfortunate one—chilly night—fast
falling snow—streets of big city—shiver
ing newsboy—stern father pumps story
out of boy—boy’s father siok, and noth
ing to obew in tbe house—stern old
man buys a #4 turkey and #7 worth of gro
ceries—goes home with shivering bov—
pours turkey and canned goods on floor* of
dismal attio room—tick man site up in bed
■iok mail’s wife strikes a light—stern parent
recognizes son and Susan Jones—reconcilia
tion—forgiveness—pluin pudding and certi
fied checks hatded around next day at old
man's house.”
“Yes, I know that old fellow,” said the
man standing in the aisle. "Have run
across him every year since I was a boy.
This year I find be is an uncle, but he acts
just the same as if be was a father. Then
don’t you know the other one where the
farmer’s son goes awav because his father
told him not to darken his door until he
pays for the bay mare that he accidentally
killed —sn goes west and keeps
steadily at work for eight years prying big
chunks of silver out of a Hole in Nevada -
old man and his wife become very poor—
Christmas ove again—mortgage on farm is
about to be foreclosed—knock at the door—
‘Ah there! That’s tbe sheriff,’ says the
old man—but it isn’t —it is the son, and he
pours u ton of silver on the floor and savs:
‘ Thero’s your money for the blamed old
ma r e.’ ”
“Yes, that's the orthodox thing,” said the
mau in ttie back seat, “and you know the
one about the rich mere,.ant bachelor who
had a romance in early life. A villain
came between him and his girl—letters in
tercepted insinuations estrangement
too proud to explain—Christmas eve tramp
calls at office—tramp acknowledges that he
was the villain and explains everything
tramp dies right there in his tracks— rieh
merchant orders him buried at his own ex
pense and takes the 5:30 o’olock train for
the village where his girl, an old girl now,
is teaching school—wedding bells, plum
pudding, mistletoe, eta”
“I know that one,” ssid the man next to
tho window, “but my favorite is the one
that begins with a description of an Eng
lish baronet's oountry house on Christmas
eve. House full of guesu—wide fireplace
in hall —great yuie log merrily burning
ghosts stories being tola by guests—Sir
Charles tells story of haunted Chamber in
which the ghost of Sir Charles’ grand
mother appears every Christdiaj night
Rupert dn Jenkins asks to be
assigned to haunted ohamber—
Rupert retires can’t sleep orders
up ice water —can’t sleep some more—mid
night—feels chi lljr—door opens—ghost of Sir
Charles’ grandmother glides in and' moses
around the room. Rupert’s hair stauds on
end, but he gives gbost a chair. Talks
with her and discovers that the ghest it not
a ghost, but tbe somnambulist grand
daughter of the ghost—shows her to her
room, aud marries her the next week ‘to
avoid talk,’and because he loves her any
how.”
“That reminds me of the Countess of
Desmond and her child that she leaves one
Christmas eve, dressed in a strawberry
mark and a blue ribbon around her wrist,
at the door of au houest mechanic's home,
twenty-five years later there is a wedding
ceremony. The child of the strawberry
mark is about to be matrimonially
glued to a strange young man, when
the oountess enters and says ‘me cheild I me
cheildl’ and incidentally proves that the
strunge young man is a duke in disguise.
Now it’s all right, but, for heaven’s sake,
why do they ali come back and straighten
thiugsout on Dec. 24* For a change, why
don’t they try Good Friday or the Fourth of
July!”
“That’s so. And you know,” said the
drummer, as the brakeman called out our
station, “the one about the tramp coming
home to die iu his father’s hall bedroom ou
Christmas eve, aad tbe one about tbe sailor
getting back just in time to prevent the rich
old grocer from marrying the girl for whom
his dear old ace of hearts has been beating
all these years f
“And don’t you forget,” said the con
ductor, “tbe pathetic story of the long
haired scout ’wav out at the foot of the
Sierras, who, on Christmas eve, rides thirty
unles in a blinding snow storm to buy a
Noah’s ark as a Christmas gift for the
dying sou of his old sweetheart.
T-a-r-r-y-t-o-w-n 8-t-a-t-i-o-n. Passen
gers out first.” J. Armoy Knox.
WELL PAID WOMEN.
They Draw Fat Salaries in New York
for What They Do.
From the Aeic York World.
New York city is thought to have a popu
lation of 375,000 working women. Many of
these brave little bread-winners have a hard
time making ends meet, and their whole
life is an Iliad of pain aod unrest. But it
would be very sail if there were no sunny
spots iu the great field of labor, if no Hues
were oast in pleasant places, and no smooth
roads oould be found that led to a happy
prosperity.
In Huyler’s candy factory several hun
dred girls are employed at the sweetest and
lightest kind of work, averaging six hours
a day, for which they are paid $7 and #lO
a weed. The firm provides a free lunch of
crokers and oatmeal, or soup and bread
and butter with a cuo of tea; aud there is
a sick room back of the lockers, w ith a
kindly disposed and very intelligent matron
in charge to look after the girls. This pro
vision is necessitated by the sweet tooth of
the sex.
Tne editor of the Metropolitan employs a
pretty little blonde woman as head book
keeper, and pays her #3O a week. She wont
into the office several years ago as nn as
sistant correspondent, and worked her way
to her present position. Her dealings are
almost wholly with men, but she hai pre
served her femininity through it all, and
her manners are gracious and charming.
Miss Cyntnia Weetover, Commissioner
Beetle's secretary, draws a salary of #29,
and does all tbe work tbat is done in that
fentleman’s office. Hhe speaks German and
talian, pays off ali the men in the service,
has a fair knowledge in stenography, and
can write a capital business letter, brief aad
courteous, that may dmi nothing or a
great deal, according to tne requirements of
the case.
Mine. Soule ot West Twenty eighth
street pays Mi*s Plant, her fitter, <65 a
week, but makes her responsible for the
style aud fit of every waist that leaves the
bouse. The designer of skirts gets <25; the
■leevemaker 822, and fift-eu finishers of
waists are paid <3O a week
Mme. Hartley, the Brajwayand Fifth
avenue modiste, pays a little French girl
<35 a week for getting np special designs
in mourning midluery. This quick-witted
bonnetinaker goes to tbe house where death
is with a box full of frame-, a paper of pins
and a pair of scissors.
Each of the ladies are fitted with a frame,
and her name chalked on it The next day
the bonnets are brought back with the veils
pinned in place, ana it is the exception
when alterations sre needed.
Two stately young ladies In White St
Howard’s who receive cust -mers ooannatnl
salaries of $lB a week. They are on duty
eight hours a day, but ail’that they are re
quired to do 1s to walk about tbe rooms and
corridors and ’ carry themselves superbly.”
An t they do It too.
Mlse Olga Newman the Madison avenue
dentist, would not fill tbe smallest cavity m
your tooth for less than $lO.
Fifteen years ago Miss Cornell went into
Macy's shoe department as a stock girl.
Now she is the manager, has au army of
girls under her, designs costume slippers
and fancy shoea for stage favorites and so
ciety women, and is worth $5,000 a year to
the firm.
She is a meat unassuming little creature
uot any taller than a 14-year-old girl, and
goes about the store like the rest of her as
sistants in a black pilgrim drses aad black
muslin apron.
Stern Bros, employ seventy-five clerks
iu tbs suit, millinery and dressmaking de
partment*. at salaries varying from $lO to
S4O a week, and Best Sc Cos. are very glad
to pay <2O a week to the young woman who
can sell gooda and make suggestions for
catchy liliputian suits.
Rlohards, tho glover, pays bis girls <lB a
wees, but aside from selling goods he looks
to them for Ideas in selecting salable stock
and getting up novelties.
Tbe young woman employed as stenog
rapher by tbe general freight agent of tbe
Grand Central depot gets <75 a mouth, and
la as gay as a lark,
Mrs. Hamilton MoK. Twombly has a
nursery governess that sue pays S4O a
month, and her housekeeper, a gentle
woman who met with reverses that com
pelled her to give up her position in ope of
the most exclusive circles of New York
society, draws a salary of <250 a month.
Mrs. John Rockefeller has a private school
for her children iu one of tbe Aster houses
in West Fifty-fifth street. The young
woman who is preparing the daughters for
colloge is engaged from October till J-un
at a salary of <2,000 a year for four hours'
instruction five nays in the week. Tins Is a
much larger salary than any woman
teacher in the public sohool servioe re
ceives.
In the New York custom bouse, tho col
lector employs sixteen women—nine as in
spectresses aud seven for oharwork. The
inspectresses reoeive <3l a week.
Mrs. Bremer, the factory mspeotor, draws
a salary of <B3 38 % par in .nih, but there
are days when she works fifteen hours at a
stretch.
At a rough guess there are 2,000 women
employed as cashiers among the New York
merchants, who reoeivo not less than sls a
week, and a stenographer who writes
ninety words a minute has no difficulty in
getting <2 a day. A dressmaker who goes
out to work commands $3 a day, and if she
brings her assistant she gets $5, and very
often beard and lodging.
Girls who have charge of the ladies' toilet
room iu first-class theaters gt <4O a month
for attendance during the evouiug and after
noon performances, and about tbe same
wages are paid in banks and restaurants for
similar service.
Taking Altman & Cos. as au example, it
will be seen that tbe life ot a dry go' ds
clerk is far from oppressive. In this firm
there are 1,500 employes, porhaps, half of
whom belong to Che gentle sex. Little girls
in their teens who sell goods are paid from
<5 to <7 a week. Those of a few years’ ex
perience get <lO, aud more reliable sales
women are paid <2 a day.
Head saleswomen, who iiave charge of
their respective departments, get between
<lB and <2O a week. Managers of depart
ments receive <BO, and five youug women
between the ages of 26 and 30, who buy
foods, earn between <SO and <BO a week.
he foreign buyers go abroad twlos a year
for suits, cloaks, rall'lnery, underwear and
infants’ and children's clothing, aud are
absent two or three months.
They travel first olass, live at the best
hotels and obarge all expenses to the firm.
There is not one case po record of these
women buyers falling among thieves, nor
are there any mysterious sundries on their
expense accounts to bother tbe auditor and
cashier.
The woman In the dressmaking dspart
ment who gets up special designs draws *SO
a week, reliable fitters get #4O, expart
drapers <25 aud <3O, and good all-round
operators on skirts aud basques <2O aad #22.
There is a demaud at all times for trained
nurse girls at wages varying from #3O to
#SO a mouth, which, in consideration of the
excellent homes they enjoy, is equivalent to
#OO. La lies’ maids who can sew, dress hair,
read, shop and do flue needlework if re
quired, can ges all tbe employment they
want in New York at #35 a month, and se
lect their employers.
Any expert typewriter who knows bow
to Bpell correctly and then can take a dicta
tion on the instrument Is able to command a
salary of $73 a month. In the Casino The
ater Cooqieny a dozen girls earn all the way
from *l2 to #2O a week sewing on costumes,
and forty oostufae menders, who repair
gloves, lace, silk hosiery and embroider,
patch dresses and cloaks, put fresh “sweep
ers” in trains and fresh rutiles in coats and
basques, get between #lO ahd <lB a week
for a few hours’ a day.
Mme. Loe, who has charge ot the Casino
wardrobe, draws #I,BOO year, bat she is an
artiste and worth every penny of It.
Miss Isabel Parcell, principal of the Nor
mal College Training School, gets #1,750 a
which is the bighost salary paid any woman
in the publle school system.
Alms. Cottrelly, a3 stage directress in
Palmer's theater, drew #2OO a week, or
#10,400 a year, by all odds tbe best pay for
a workingwoman in the city, if not in
Amoriea.
Good proof readers in newspaper com
posing rooms make #3l a week, But pub
lishers par considerable loss. Miss (friggs,
who is employed by a Fifth avenue publish
ing house, sells books on commission and
clears #1,200 a year.
Miss Abrahams, in the employ of Bren
tano; Miss Lynch, in Dsnnlng’s, and Miss
Kinnear, in Macy's, hold responsible posi
tions in the hook departments of the above
houses, and each receives the oomfortablo
sum of #1,040 a year.
CONSOLIDATED THE FAMILIES
The Jonsons Married All the Writes
aud Blotted out Their Name.
From the .Vew Vo-fc World.
Birmingham, Ala., Dec. 17.—For the
past ten years two families, one named
Write and the other Joason, have lived
near each other in Blount county, Alabama,
about ten miles from Blountsville. Mr.
and Mrs. Write had five daughters about
grown and Mr. ami Mrs. Jonson had five
sons who had attained their majority. The
families were neighborly and intimate.
Two years ago the two eldest Jonson boys
married two of the Write girls.
Shortly afterward Mrs. Jonson and Mr.
Write died at about the same time, postpon
ing temporarily the marriage of another of
tho Jonson boys to another daughter of the
Writes.
A short while ago Mr. Jonson, Br., was
married to Mrs. Write, and one of the two
remaining boys married theyouugest Write
girl. The marriage was a double one.
A few weeks ago the remaining Jonson
boy was mar: led to the last Write girl.
Sia John Gorst, the new British postmaster
general, once edited a newspaper in New Zea-
IN WOMAN’S WORLD.
SOME OF THE THINGS OF INTEREST
TO THE FAIR SEX.
American Girla and Their Beauty.
McAllister's Dicta—Busy Woman of
Wealth —Mrs. Kane the Queen of
Society.
(Copyright, I*9l, ftp the United Prett.)
New York, Dec. I*.*. —New York women
to-day have a crizs similar to taat of the
anoient dames of Buckingham who had
each a pet falcon, who perched upon their
fingers and ate from the same dish. In the
metropolitan revival, h iwaver, it is a
canary, and the pet bird is taught to sing
at its mistress' oommand and to carry let
ters in its bill from one room iu the house
to another.
To watch two women promenading the
avenues of New York to oav n certainly a
treat. I oonstantly hear that women of to
day are not as graceful, not as sensible and
not near me I eautiful as their mothers and
grandmothers were, aud at the same time
this statement appears untrue if fashion
magazines, photographs and portraits ot
tha post portray truthfully. Why tbe
dashing, chic, piquant Atnerioan woman of
to-dav combines all tfiat is interesting and
fascinating in all the women of tbe world.
Hhe Is clever, sbe is onquettisb, she is affec
tionate, ahe is intellectual aud she is beauti
ful.
“ I have great faith in New York women,”
said Mrs, rotter l’alnier, tbs woman presi
dent of tbe world's fair to the writer, "they
have a certain amount of push which is
most desirable. A wealthy New York lady
does not lie back on her cushions aud dream
the time away, she wakes up sud cultivates
herself to tbe exigencies of tbe oentury aud
keeps iu tousb with public affairs. 1 have
extended a wish that the women of New
York make all effort possible to further the
cause of women at the world's fair, and I
shall expect from them great results.”
It is simply ridiculous the t ime that
W ard McAllister, Mrs. Astnr, Mrs. Uaren
Stevens aud a fow others of the same olique
spend talking and arguing about their
menus. Not loug ago at Newport Mrs.
Astor found grievous fault with Mr. Mc-
Allister's ways of serving entries, and now
Mr. McAllister is discoursing volubly to
the Four Hundred as to how they must
adorn and fill t heir tables during the com
ing dinner aud reoeptioa season. Ha says
soups and snails should never be used at the
same time, also that fish and frog’s legs are
very impolite, aud that Homan pudding
and French pastry for desert is way out
side the pale of decency.
“Did you ever see a woman who wanted
some hing for nothing*?” asked one woman
of another at Many’s Fourteenth street
store yesterday.
“No; why, what do you mean?"
"O, just this, that every dry goods store
has a nice little waiting room, where en
velopes, paper, pen aud ink are deposited
for the customers’ use, and where the daily
papers are on file. Now I know a woman
who never thiuks of buying a sheet of paper
or a bottle ot ink. When she wants to
write a letter she always gust round to some
of these stores, and she never buys a cent’s
worth iu the store.”
The very latest shades in evening gloves
is the Neapolitan. It it a variegated kid
with a oomposits of green, terracotta ami
cream oolors blended carefully in. These
gloves oan be Vorn with any kind of a gown
and they give and eiiohanting look to the
hand and arm, the oolors ebaugiug With
every new gesture.
It is becoming quite the fashion for
wealthy society women to knit, not hosiery
or mittens or underwear such as our grand
mothers knitted, but dainty silken purses,
fascinators and toilet covers
To be swell you must wear a high rolling
collar. If you have a lopg necz Tl will be
very becoming and add grace to your oos
tume, but if you have a short fat neck it
will exaggerate the gaueberies of your
dumpy appearance aud look anvtbing but
genteel. All short women should beware of
high ornameats around tbe neck.
"Servants are so care less. You know that
lovely Dresden Vase of in In el Wall, Mr?
pushed It over Wklle she was dusting, and it
fell into a dozen pieces. I felt so bad I just
cried royislf eie#,”
“1 Should thought you would have. What
did you do with it?"
“A friend of mine oarne round in ths
afternoon. It was my calling day and told
me of a bric-a-brac mender on Madison
avenue. I took the vase to him and be
flxdd it as good as new. He used lit! is
gloss rivets aud painted them tho color ot
tbe china and he cleverly tinted new pieces
which were inserted so that I actually
Oouldn’t tell that it bad been broken. The
brlo-a-brac mender is certainly the wonder
of the nineteenth century, I think.
Tbe winter season ser ves to be chronioled
as ths flower season. Tho society women
continue their preference for flower
wreaths in corsage garniture, while their
cavaliers content themselves with one
modest Uttic hud, hut from early morn till
late evening, flowers mpe necessary4o com
plete tho cohtuthe of both.
There is a pretty little sooloty woman in
town who gets up the daintiest dinners and
the happiest dinner parties in all New
YorK. I had often beard of her, and tbe
otbsr day 1 called upon her aod she gave
me many pretty little notes about these
things.
“There are three kindi of dinners," said
she- “Solitary dinners, every day social
dinners, and set dinners. I have made a
study ot them all, aud come to the conclu
sion that in order to entertain one must
actually study ths appetite* and dispositions
of their friends, and, if posibie, invite those
of their friends with the same kind of appe
tites and dispositions to the same dinner.
Then there will be no cross-grained dis
appoint mants going on.
“You have heard of the woman who lived
upon the strength of a hobby or a fad
continued the intelligent little woman.
“Yes,” was the answer.
“Well, the subject of dinners Is mine. I
investigate ail kindi and forms of dinners,
and think lam quite an adept. The main
point of a good dinner is hospi ality, a spirit
of geaialitv which il universal with all your
guests ana well-cooked food.”
One of the latest fads among New York
women is the constant eailng and chewing
of Castilliaa nuts. Candins are nowhere,
they have taken a back soat. Every fash
ionable woman carries a little leather bag
and a miniature sliver nut oracker, and
she munches tbe white meat as playfully
aud as gracefully as she ever did tbe choco
late cream or ths erstwhile caramel. Hove
of the most expensive nuts are sugared with
almond cream and colored in any color
which may pleaso the belles. One well
known society woman has all her sugared
nuts tnada up in pistachio to matoh anew
fall pistachio broadcloth suit.
“How do wealthy women spend their idle
hours,” was a question propoudad to me by
a young friend a few days ago.
"Do you think they really have any idle
time?" I said in reply.
“O, yes," my questioner replied. "I am
sure they have.”
I remembered the query some days after,
and haviug occasion to call upon some
wealthy women of the exclusive set, I iu-
Suired as to their idle hour indulgences.
me woman informed me that she made all
her owu uuderwear, which upon seeing, I
found showed evidence of an accomplished
needle; another lady said she painted; an
other was interested iu school matters, and
dabbled in literature, and before I got
through I came to the conclusion that
wealthy women were as industrious, con
sidering the many social calls upon them, as
the working women.
One of the most eccentric women in tbe
metropolis is Mrs. I-sLanoev Kane. She is
called the queen of American society, and
no doubt the is. Time has left but few
traoasou her t>eautifal aristocratic oounte
nanoe, and the bright blue eye which
sparkled so gay iy at tbe white house balls
in Lincoln's tun-, are as bright and kindly
now. Mrs. Kane lives in a superb mans! ,n
on Madison avenue. She has a bobby for
collecting fln paintings, a fancy for
aquariums aud a craze for cats. It is said
that sbe has the handsomest collection of
cats in the world. Her beautiful mal
tose, “Fluff,” took the prize at the cat
show.
She is chief executive officer of the new
society formed ’ ’For the Housing and Feed
ing of Homeless Animals," and there is no
charily before the public which hsr name
does not appear in connection with.
She seems like a breath from au old ro
mance as sbe steps into her grand coupe
these winter mornings for her dally ride la
the park. She wears her silver hair in
puffs, as did the fashionable of twenty
years ago, and boopskirts of no meager
size flout out her quaint but picturesque cos
tume, Margaret Hamm.
QUESR INDIVIDUALS IN THE PARK.
They Oat Various Degrees of Delight
by Watching the animals.
Early ritors who go for a stroll in Central
park, says the New York Nun, see tome
persons who either are not in the park at
later hours or are lost in the throngs of
sightseers. The menagerie offers opportu
nities for artists who are ambitious iu ani
mal paiuttng, and the lion houso just behlud
the old arsenal is a favorite plaos for them
early in the morning. Nix artists were there
at 7 o’olock recently. Oue w as makings pre
liminary sketch of the lion, who was asleep
on the floor of his cage, while hit mate was
trotting restlessly behind the bars, antici
pating by an hour or two the breakfast of
horss meat. Another had placod bis easel
before the cage of the black leopards and
was painting Charley, the male. Charley
has a habit at tbat hour, whioh, Keeper
Downey says, he never varies, of lying on
tbe branch ot the old tree in bis cage, and
the artist was painting him in that p isitlon.
The hyenas, which are comparatively new
animals in the menagerie, were re
ceiving attention, two artists, ono of
them a young woman, being stationed be
fore their oage. Tho baby hippopotamus
was lying contentedly, witti her nose rest
ing on her mother's back, dozing and wink
ing. A yonug man with a sketch book was
trying to tempt her into tbe water by
throwing bits of bread into it. Ho said
tbat be bad been there three times recently,
aud had not had one ohauce of seeing
Fatima iu the water. Keeper Downey
coaxed tbs baby away from her mother
and into the tank, and tha young uiau made
a rapid sKetob to be filled out later.
“A great masy artiste come here to
sketch the animals,” Hupt. Conk
lin said, “aud wo always do all for them
we can. But, pshaw! it’s nothing to see tiie
artists. Come out for a walk and I'll show
you some more Interesting persons.
“There’s a man,” he said near the deer
lncloeure, “whom we have been trying for
a long time to keep away. But he (teems to
stick, uo matter what we do or say.”
The man, who was about Ot) years of age,
stood in front of the lnolosure and thre v
pieces of bread and bunches ot grass to the
deer. He wore an old derby hat, muoh
battered and worn, and au overcoat that
had seen better day*—many of them. Oue
outelde pocket was filled with stale bresd
and tbe other witu grass.
“There now,” the superintendent said,
“you must stop that. I can’t have you
feeding the animals. Can't you read the
signs?”
“The poor things are hungry,” tho roan
replied. “They haven’t had anything to
eat for a week. I can talk to them, aad
this one just told me so. Why don't you
take better care of your animalG Poor
things! You fasten them up there and they
can’t get out to eat God's greeu grass, al
though they oan see it ail around them. I
won't have them abused so, 1 tell you. I'll
just feed them a little now, so that tboy
won’t siarve to death, aud than I’ll briug
tome of my men aud break down the feuoo,
so tbat they can get out. God’s pretty
creatures! aud you use them eo!”
The old man had begun to weep, and tha
superintendent nailed a policeman, who led
bilu away.
“He oomea hare every day,” Mr. Conklin
said, “and every day says tbe same thing.
Of course we cannot do anything with him
—nor do we waut to. But he may feed tho
deer something some day whioh will injure
them, so we have to him. The
strango thing about it is that he never cures
about any of the other animals, and doesu’t
go near them. And he always comes some
time between 7 and 8 o'olook in the morn
ing. When be is spoken to he gets angry
and then ories, just as you saw him just
fow. The policeman leads him over to the
'ifth avenue entrance aud he walks away.
I’ve aeap him about ht-s for ten years, and
whenever I accost him he acts the same
way. Corue up hear to the grizzly bear’s
oage aud I’ll show you another oraiik, a
woman this time.”
H ire enough she was tbwe—a poor, faded
creature of about 60 years, with a neat
straw hot on bar head. Him hair had been
brushsd carefully, and she wore a well made
gray cloth (Iron and gray kid gloves. She
paced with rapid steps in (rout of the cages.
Hhe nodded familiarly to the superintend
ent. but did not oease her walk.
“She has come here three time a week
regularly for over two years now,” tbe eu
uerlntendent continued. “.She comes on
Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays. A
woman, perhaps her daughter, for sbe Is
not more that 35 years old, always brings
her here at about 7:30 o’olook aud leaves
her. She returns at 9 o’clock end takes her
awav again. Rain or shine, oolil or warm,
sho comes on those days and walks the whole
time up and down bofore the cages. She
nover sits down. I had a bench brought in
here several times, and placed it immedi
ately iu front of the cages, but sbe never
used it, and so I hail it taken away again.
The strange tiling about it is that sne never
looks at the bears. She seems to be satisfied
to be near them. In wet weather she wears
a rubber cloak. On tbe other days, no
matter how cold it may be, she wears
neither a shawl nor a coat.
“Did you aver notice the hunchback near
the don keys P’ he asked. "This is pretty
early for him, but he always beats tho don
keys in getting on the grounds.”
The hunchback had not arrived, however.
He stays the greater part of tbe day near
the place from whioa the donkeys start.
He (snot more than 4 feet in bight, and he
hat worn a suit of brown olotbes for years.
He it a German. His shoes are always but
ton gaiters, aud ho wears shorn with tbs
buttons on the Inside—the right shoe on tbe
left foot and tho left ou tho right. He walks
about or sits ou a bench where ho oan watoh
tho den keys. He see ins to ha vo an affeo
tionforthe little fellows, and sometimes
when a driver strikes one he will enter a
voluble objection in German,
Another individual takes delight in
watching the elepnants. Another, an old
man, who walks with a military oarriage
and wears a Prince Albert coat and an old
high hat, has wandered in the park for
twenty years, but he does not go there
early. He never troubles tbe animals, but
■peaks frequently to the keepers about their
condition. His manner is that of a man on
whom rests tbe responsibility for their good
treatment, bis demeanor being that of
authority.
The Sunday Morning News
Will be found regularly on sals at the fol
lowing places:
Estiii’s News Depot.
Conner’s News Stand.
The Marshall, Broughton street.
E. J. Kieffer’s Drug Store, corner West
Broad and Stewart streets.
T. A. Mullryne & Co.’e Drug Store, West
Broad and Waldburg streets.
St J. K. Yonge's Drug Store, corner
Whitaker and Duffy street*.
W. A. Bishop’s Drug Store, corner Hall
and Price streets.—-Ida.
FOUND AMONG FOSSILS.
DISCOVERIB3 MADE INM \SB4CHU*
fcESTTa’ BE J SANDSTONE.
Supposed to be the Tracks of Beings
Emerging From the Genua Reptile
Into the Genus Bird, and They Had
Big Taetb and Averaged Fourteen to
Fifteen Feet High.
From the Spring/leld Republican.
Reveral footprints of reptiles of varnui
dimensions have lately been discovered
aboat three miles from Holyoke, upon tbs
rock in G. L. Bos worth’s quarry near the
shore of the Connecticut river, which have
caused considerable excitement end elicited
many inquiries.
These discoveries occur not infrequently,
more than 12,000 such footmarks having ai
roady been brought to light, and, in fact, it
is well known throughout the scientific
world that tbs new red sandstone of ths
Connecticut valley, which extends about 110
miles from north to south and average about
twenty miles in width from east to west, .(
one of the muet prolific depositories of fossil
print* Slabs of this stone, having upoi
them tbe wonderful indentations, oan ba
found in almost oil the museums of thii
country and Europe.
A few days ago, accompanied by ml
friend. Prof. Woodman, who is, os tbe woril
knows, ous of ths most profound scholar!
iu the natural sciences, I visited Mr. Bad
worth’s quarry. The soil over the rocks,
which is uot very thick at that locality, had
been removed and left exposed en extensive
area, upon whloh a large number of traoki
are apparent. Prof. Woodman said that in
all his rambling* throughout tbe world h
had not seeu such a large number clustered
together In so circumscribed a place. Sev
eral of the tracks can be traoed from om
end of the quarry to tbe other.
There is not only a large number of them,
but they aro of various sizes, and were
made by animals of different speoles,though
tbe coufurmation of tbe foot indicates that
tuey belong to the same genu* Soma ol
the tracks measure 18 inches in length and
10 in width; others are 10 inches long, and
there are others that do not measure more
than 8 or 4 inches, aud are of proportional
width. A slab taken out sear the edge of
the pnbllo road which forms tbe northern
boundary of the quarry has two large,
well delineated tracks upon its surface 4
feet 0 Inches apart, whioh indicate tbe stride
in the step of the animal.
All the tracks (war tbe same conforma
tion of the foot—that is, ail have only thres
toes, and the steps bear tbe same charac
teristics—they are single, tbat is, made by
bipeds. There is no doubt they are much
smaller now than when first made. The
mud iu drying up must have contracted
considerably to become, as tbe rook is to
day. of a crystalline nature. Many of these
fossil prints bear a close resemblance
to tbe tracks of birds, so much so
that for years many of them were
believed to have been made by some
of the feathered tribes; but since ths
dlsoovery of the dinosaurs in ths triassic
strata tbe question has been definitely set
tled. There is no doubt now that these
trucks were made by several ipsclee of rep
tiles which have already bosn found in ths
trlaseio beds of Nevada and California and
on tiie wostern slope of the Rocky
mountains. The numerous traoks found
show that those animals formed a large
gonus, with very mauy specie* One speoles
had three toes, another had four, and an
other five. The 3-toed was the most
numerous aud produoed species of enormous
size* The broutozouin giganteum, tha
otozoutn inoodii belong totbs3-tosd variety,
and were from 14 to 15 feet in
hight. Tbe 4-toed and 3-toed species were
uot quits so numerous, but they produced
individuals of still greater dim-ins lons.
Specimens have been found that measured
18 feet in hight and their tracks 24 inches in
length.
The fossils of all these animals show tbat
all tbs speoles had large beads, s iurlati-llke,
with enormous teeth. They ail had foul
logs, but made little use of their forelegs,
which were very small aud atrophied tot
want of use. These character is hos indicate
that they were in form as well as in habits
closely allied to tbs bird family.
The fact that they walked on their hind
legs, that their bones were hollow like
those of birds, that they had the same con
formation of the foot and were biped in
their habits, points to ths oonoiuslon that
they were the primitive sketches of a net*
design which was Just in the stage of its
evolution, au iatermedia(e form or connect
ing link emorgiug from the reptilian genui
to the geDus bird. They are surely nearer
the type bird than that of any ocher, and II
it were not for ihelr forelegs they might be
classed at once as the primitive genus ot
the feathered tribe.
The fact that they had teeth dost not pre
clude the possibility of their being interme
diate between reptiles and birds, because
toeth were a very common appendage to
the primitive birds, and are still found witb
some of our living biros. The parrot and
tbe penguin have rudiments of Ueth and
alveolar processes. That conformation in
fossil birds was tbe law. and its absence was
tbe exception. Hoveral species had jaws
like sauriaus, and were taurian-like iu their
dUpOiition and appearance. Tho ai chajp
teryx, tbs gas;oruie, the beiperorniz, tha
iuhtbyoniis, and mahy others were of that
sort. Some of these bird had teeth thres
Inches in length, sharp and Dointed.
Bat the dinosaurs were not the only
animals which had the privilege to rove
over the muddy plain of this valley. A large
number of other footprints beve been fouud
which must have been made by other
animals belonging to different order* Tbe
tracks of the labyrlnthixloats, the emalio
■aurs, tbe belodonus Upturns, the droma
tberium, and many other* are often met
with. In 1842 tbe late Prof. Hitchcock had'
already examined 2,000 which had been
made by thirty-two species of bipeds end
fourteen species of quadrupeds.
In regard to footprints the question upon
which ceuters tiie greatest interest is not
about their number or nature, nor of tha
character or disposition of the euimals that
made tbern, but in their immense antiquity.
If they dated only a few years back they
would not be noticed, but their age is so
immense that we can nover form an ade
quate conception of its duration, and it is
so with all the geological periods.
The number of centuries required tn
bring the state of the earth from a
vaporous mass into its concrete form,
and than through the series of trans
formations which have marked tbe evolu
tions of the radiates into tbe articulates, and
these into tbe mollusks, aud the moilusks
into the fiibes, and tbe fishes into the rep
tiles. and tbe reptiles into tbe birds, and tha
birds into tho mammalians, aud the mam
malians into the genus homo, baffls our
imagination. The only means wo have to
unravel the past is tbe division of tim*
adopted for geology—that is, the azoic, or
time previous to the appearance of the or
ganic life; theeozoifl, or the time when life
first appeared; the palozoic, or age of fishes;
the masozoio, or age of reptiios; the ceuo
zio, or the age of tbe mammalians. Tbe
evolution of a class of animals into other
classes and species is called an rge; the
group of rocks laid duriug an age is an era,
and each rock of an era is called a period;
thus we say, ths paleozoic is tbe age of
fishes, and comprises the Devonian era,
whioh is composed of the “Portage,’’ Hamil
ton, corniferous and the Oriskauy periods.
The chronology of a rock is determined by
its fossils if it is sedimentary, and by its
chemical or physical composition and ar
rangement if it is plutoulo. These minor
points are indispensable for the intelligent
study of the science and to enable one to
grasp its Intricate problems.
Sick-Hsadacbe yields to Beeciiam’3
Pills.—Ad.
Men's Neckwear
And silk handkerchiefs—fine variety—at
LaFar’s.—Ad.
Old newspapers—9oo for 35 cents—at
business uffice. Morning News.—Ad.
15
