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WAKEMAN’SWANDERINGS
ODD INCIDENTS OF FOREIGN
TRAVEL AND OBSERVATION—XI.
An Abbey Tomb le6 do tbe Songful
Tweed—Havana Cafes—Memories of
Valdemusa—Sodden Contentment of
European Peasantry—Lowly Galician
Shrines—Glimpses of Continental
Railroad Travel—Acr. Be the Island
of Cuba.
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London, Feb. 15. —If Melrose abbey, the
Mecca of all American tourists in Scotland,
furnishes examples of art nearly as be
witching as the most delicate expressions of
nature itself, Bryburgh abbey, but four
miles distant from the Tweed, holds and j
fascinates the wanderer with a far more '
tender and subtle charm. The founding of-
Dryburgh Is of remoter autiquitj - than even •
that of the original Culdee house of Old
Melrose.
Before the advent of Christian mis
sionaries the place was resorted to by the
Druids for the celebration of Iheir mystic
rites—as Darachbrauch or burgh, “the
bank cluster of sacred oaks,’’ Dry
burgh’s Celtic name, implies. Modan,
a Culdee presbyter, set up tbe
first Christian establishment in Dryburgb.
in 522. For 628 years thereafter its
history is insignificant. Tbe monies from
Alnwick, under toe patronage of Sir Hugh
de Morville, ooustable of Scotland under
King David L, founded here a Premonitra
tentian abbey of splendid dimensions.
This was burned along with Melrose abbey
by Edward Ii„ and restored by aid granted
by King Robert the Bruce.
Twice, In 1385, aod in 1554, it was pil
laged and devastated by the English. The
reformation of doughty John Knox, six
teen years later did the rest. The rums of
Dryburgb abbey show that the walls of the
Completed edifice stood on different levels,
and that the structure illustrated at least
four different styles of architect
ure. This is seen in tbe mas
sive Roman arch with its ample,
square sides; the deep-splayed and always
Impressive Naxon arch; and the early En
glish pointed aroh. Tne church was orig-
Inally in the form of a cross with short
transepts, and a small but exquisitely
decorated choir, while the interior was di
vided by light and graceful colonnades into
a central space and side aisles.
Of the transepts a portion of but one, tbe
north, called Bt. Mary's aisle, is still stand
ing; but there is a no more beautiful speci
men of the early Gothic to be found in
Scotland than is this, the solemn and
secluded burial-place of Beotia’s greatest
minstrel, the noble author of “Waver
ly." Thejohapter nouse, a tiny chapel of
Bt. Modau, and a Noraian arch whioh
formed the western doorway are yet stand
ing. A stately yew, over 800 years old,
casts its Bomber shade upon the lawn, oppo
site where once the abbots eat at their case
ments, to muck the huge pile of stone as it
crumbles into the earth.
You feel more than you can see at Dry
burgh. The w hole plaoe is instinct with re
pose. The horizon is close, nut a half mile
away in aiy direction. It is friugod with
tbe bougbs and verdure of sheltering trees,
save where, far to the south, the weird Eil
dou hills of wizard renown peer down from
above their cloud-mists into the sunny
copse. The Tweed, moving in silence for
miles above, circling her ewee, s wido and
grandly over gleaming shallows, and sings
its endless song just at the edge of the olden
abbey gr: unds.
You come to the place through a hushed
* silent avenue, ankle-deep in the spri.ig
with hawthorn blossoms white as
9 In the graying days their place is
filled by the browns aud puces of rustling
drift from the beach, elm and sycamore.
Only the lodge keeper’s habitation reminds
of earthly activities. Mature alone holds
sway. Bloom and birds, grasses and vines,
odor and song, russet walls and emerald
masses of moss, oriels of ivy, fillets of
vines, poluted arches of r se-, towers of
trees leaping from the old walls themselves,
reach the eye and =ei se tenderly, slumber
ously, pulsing with hush and balm.
Melrose exalts. Dry burgh soothes. The
entire spot is ruin merged into Elysium,
hallowed by one humble grave. And so
sweet aid hushed is uil that even your rev
erence for the ever-sileut disappears; for
you feel that your miguty friend lie- here
as on tbe bosom of the land be so loved and
Immortalized and that Scott only sleeps
while sweetly all nature-songs to him are
sung.
The cafes aid fondas (creating houses,
for tbe latter are equally resorted to,) are
the resting places of tne gay city of Havana.
Their number and patronage are remarka
ble. They are all wide open to the street
the year round. One fancies they are
almost a part of It. as frequently more than
onoibalf the cafe is underneath long, wide,
buge-piiiared porticos. Here chattering
crowds by day and brilliant crowds by
night, under the flars of lamps in great,
century-old metal frame*, never cease cig
arette-smoking, gio and wine drinking;
although all liquors, however frequently
ordered, are used in sparing quantities.
And between the shrill oriesof the dulceros
or confection peddlers, the hoarse impor
tunities of the lottery ticket mobs, the ever
minor music of the wandering street min
strels, and the numberless sounds of a
morvelousiy gay, but never brutal, and
more than half oriental city life, the “click,
click, click!” of the universal and never
silent dominoes upon the marble table, come
to you as an undertoned staooato of myriads
of unseen oastinets.
If your own wanderings ever lead you to
Gibraltar, to Barcelona or to Marseilles
upon the Mediterranean coast, do not fall to
engage passage in one of the pretty steam
ers which ply between these oities and the
slumberous port of Palma in the little
Spanish isle of Majorioa. It is quainter
than Spain, more Moorish than Algiers,
and its plsasant folk are the most hospitable
in all the world. A visit to its half ruined
ancient monastery of Valdemusa and the
wild and marvelous north coast scenery are
alone worth a trip to the island.
With as magnificent and far more classic
surroundings as those of Valiombrosa
in Italy, a mountain chasm is bridged
by the anoient tile in so extraor
dinary and picturesque a way as to seem at a
distance like a gay old cloud-kissed nest that
has for ages defied decay and the battling
of the aerial tempests there. But the gray
of real decay is upon all things at Valde
musa; in the gray old ohuron and endless
cloisters; in the gray old h uses that nestle
elong the mountain side beneath it: and in
the gray old folk that haunt the spot like
wraiths of those who once were there.
An indescribable sadness lingers about
this splendid Majorican relio of monkish
times and days. The rich of Palma come
here in summer and live a gay mock con
ventual life. George Hand half a
century ago passed the most dolorous
winter of her life within these w all*. With
her was t.h pin. Perhatwi within these verv
cloisters was born the wild and inexpress
ible melancholy of the melodic creations of
the master's later life. To me Valdemusa
will remain more a memory of these two
strange, sad souls than merely a crumbling,
deserted and majestic monastic relio upon
the island mountuins.
I have passed the greater portion of the
last seveu years among the peasantry of
Europe. Not only has this association been
with the lowly upon the roal beside their
shrines; a public fountains where the buck
breaking loads are drawn; among the
men and maid servants of great ho
tels and little mns: with the veriest clods in
fields aud vineyards; among the shepherds
of the mountains and plains; and with this
manner of folk from the cabins of Shetland
to the huts of Apulia, into which shines the
sun from across the lonian sea; and I think
that the honest thing to be said about these
people is that there is general content among
them.
It is difficult for Americans to understand
this, for it is inconceivable to us hew we
could lie thus contented. Wheu you get
•lose to the Europoau peasant you will find
it is equally as difficult for him to conceive
of any other condition than in which he
exists. To illustrate, in any half hour’s
ride by rail through Bavarian valleys
you are certain to whiz past sume pretty
! field lane and see a Bavarian peasant and dy
ing a cart to which are yoked a little heifer
and a coarse woman. As they stop rear
vour passing tram, you will notice that the
heifer is the only animal chafing under Its
yoke, for tbe woman looks up and smiles
and the male removes Lis pipe for a hearty
laugh.
I ey are simple childish folk ope and all,
content in their severe labor; satisfied with
their, to us, niggardly recompense; loving
the very earth they dig with unutterable
affection; happy in tbe few holidays tbe
year brings about- patient under the tith
ing of king and church, while proud that
the oi.e protects and the other shrives; and
quite radiant, at tbe end, to lay aside tbe
working clothes of the sodden days behind
for the promised finery of the eternal holi
day beyond.
Nowhere else in Europe can tie seen such
a variety and wealth of roadside shrines as
in Austrian Galicia. In the two or three
thousand miles of its great stone roads a
huge woodeu or stone crucifix, or a tiny
brick or stone shrine, may be found on tbe
average at the distance of every haif an
English mile. Most of the crucifixes aie of
wood hewn out of beech or oaken logs.
Whether of wood or stone, as if from some
great burden, every one leans, nnd this
very leaning lends a strangely suggestive
sadness and loneliness to the landscape.
They are most frequent in districts near
est tbe Carpathians which form the Hun
garian boundary. The RutherTan peasants
being of Russian stock are all Greek *
olics, and tbe Polish Galicians are without
exceptions Roman Cathodes, They are
equally pious, and you can never pass a
crucifix or shrine without witnessing a
group of both in rapt devotion, many cf
whom are groveling prostrate upon the
earth before the sacred reminders of Cal
vary. At Whitsuntide one will sea crowds
of these simple and pious devotees crawling
upon ull fours, while trailing huge wooden
crosses from their necks and shoulders,
around every roadside shrine in all Galicia.
After one gels over the first flush of re
belli us reseutment at the system, there is a
good deal of grim humor to be got out of
continental railway travel. You will find
the same little carriages as in England,
comprising from four’to six compart
ments, each bolding eight people in the first
and second, and ten persons in the third
class compartments, in Bavaria there are
even fourth-class cars, or carriages, princi
pally for use in time of war. They are all
marked: ”To contain ton horses and thirty
six men."
Except in France, Italy nnd Spain, the
service is about equal to that in England’
One has personally to see bis luggage in the
luggage vac, and not only give trinkgeld or
pourboir to have it labeled, but to have it
put on board. While the monarch or a
traiu, the guard, caunot take money foe a
fare, he would accept a bribe from any
body for any service; and even an officer of
the liue thinks it quite the proper thing to
pay tribute to the guard should he desire to
occupy an entire compartment.
This guard-bribery is universal. I re
cently saw a train of thirteen carriages
capable of accommodating 450 people move
out of Cologne with but thirty-seven page
sengers, who had in this manner purchased
almost exclusive comportment accommoda
tions, upward of 100 persons having been
left behind at the station. Tbe most serious
opposition to tho general introduction of
modern sleeping coaches for night service
comes from these bribers and bribed. A
5-mark or a 5-frauo piece, or less,
slipped into the hand of a night-tratn’s
guard will secure an entire compartment, or
an entire side of one, for your individual
use, and is far preferable to a berth iu the
vile little 4-compartment sleeping-coach
which has latterly orept into service, where
the guard, conductor and porter in one, in
sists at all hours of the night on your pur
chase of bad viands and worse wmes.
In Germany will be found the most gro
tesque officialism, but the best coaches, and
the prettiest railway stations in all the
world. Tbe government wholly conducts
all German railway lines. Every employe,
even tbe waiters at the station dining rooms
has been a ( rerißSu soldier, and the entire
regime is military. Each station has u cap
tain in a red cap and gorgeous uniform, The
station guards and porters are also uni
formed, with dark blue caps. When a train
halts the captain and his station guards will
be found drawn no in line in front of the
main entrance. The train guard alights and
salutes the station captain, who, with his
men, reiurn this salute, when the loading
and unloading of luggage is begun.
As far as convenience of arrangement,
cleanliness and comfort are concerned, the
German railway station is immeasurably
superior to the old hoard hovels called
depots along most American lines. They
are Invariable models of neatness, tidiness
and comfort. They nro net infrequently
the prettiest structures to be seeu during an
entire day's travel. They always have a
lovely bit of lawn about them, in which are
often fountains, flowers and tidy hedges.
Many are covered by ivy or creeping and
ttowerlrg vines. Flowers in windows and
in lawn-plats are always in view of the tired
passengers. And nearly all are supplied
with chimes of bells; not clanging, jingling,
wrangling bells, but Yoiceful, inetod ms
bells, whioh—wheu the train-guard has
taken a whistle from bis belt, blown upon it
thrice, and again saluted the i lutionmoster
and men—seem to say as you we away:
Well—good—by'
Then—good—liy
Friends—good - by 1
In the brief trip across Cuba by rail the
traveler is furnished abundant nmteiial for
observation and reflection. Whenever your
train may halt, in pours a dismal troop of
beggars, lottery ticket sellers, dulceros with
all mauner of sickeniug sweets of which the
Cuban ladies buy freely and eat voraciously,
and peddlers of glow worms aud beetles,
gauva, green oocoanuts and fresh country
cheese similar to the German schrneerkase.
If one alights for refreshments, another
horde of “eros” with all sorts of edibles and
refescas are to be battled with; and if a
meal at a cafe is taken, you ure uublush -
inglv charged from $1 to $2 in gold. But
all these auuoyauces are as naught, when
one considers tbe glorious tropical pano
rama provided in tbis trip across tbe island.
The loneliness of the northern coastwise
oountry disappears on leaving Matnnzas,
and of a sudden your train is whirling
through a veritable nature’s garden. Great
orange groves are as common as pine woods
in Maine. Vast pineapple plantations fill
the space between.
Here the view sweeps across the river,
valley and reaches of cane-grounds, the last
cutting being hurried to the massive and
groaning machinery with tho splendid villas
behind, the whole surrounded by stately
cocoa trees and tho lordly palm, 'f here, for
miles, stretches another vallev, a plain of
puce and yellow whero the “las: cut” of to
bacco is being piled by the operarios upon
tbe eujas or curing racks, or carried from
these before the dew falls at 3 o’clock, to
the great casas de tabaeas, where are other
noble houses, palms aud fruits and
flowers uutelloble. Hore and there,
are ranches aud herds like the shining
horned hosts of Camaguay, with mounted
vaqueros audj mouteros aud their wonder
ful dogs, in picturesque groups, with tbe
great palmetto pallisaded corrnllas for tho
“round-ups’’ aud again by these, portiooeil
houses and quintas, like palaces.
Upon every stream, at tho mouth of
flower-embedded cannons,or set like brown
gypsies upon mountain side, are tbe poor
guajiros’ palmtbatohed cabins. And every
where are such luxuriance iu soil and forest,
vino and flower, that wheu you reach the
splendid city of t ioi.fueg.>s as tho shadows
fall, and the moonbeams begin to dance
upon its matchless bay, one feels as though
the dnv had been a vision of some dream
land isle where the weird in men and the
glowing in nature have blended in magical
spell with indescribable bloom and song.
Edgar L. Wakkman.
“The pleasantest way to take ood-liver
oil,” says au old gourmand, "is to fatten
pigeons with it and thou uat the pigeons.”
Tit-Bits.
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, MARCH 12,1893—SIXTEEN PAGES.
AMONG THE VERY RICH.
THESE YOUNG GENTLEMEN WILL
YET BE MILLIONAIRES.
Gossip p bout Some Heirs to the Great
est of American Fortunes, Chiefly In
the East—Prizes Worth the Atten
tion of Match-making Mammas.
from the JVew York Recorder.
The names of Astor and Vanderbilt are
apt to be rung in first when the talk is of
the rich men of the future. There are some
always ready to wager that fifteen or
twenty years later there will be others in
the field with fabulous fortunes, and that
representatives of these families may be
placed lower in the iist. For all that, if
Baby Astor lives to grow up, and he is at
present the healthiest of mortals, he will be
financially well placed, beyond peradvent
ure. . oho Jacob Astor’a Infant is now 15
months old, and Is named f r his father,
William Astor, with the objectionable B.
eliminated. The Astors are not
tbe clannish united family they were in a
former generation, when the two repre
sentative brothers of the family each had a
boh and John Jacob Astor named his for
bis brother William and William had his
christened John Jacob Astor. Waldorf
Astor %vill probably be the first of tbe
grandsons of their own name of these two
utfectiouate brothers to come into a colossal
fortune, as he is now 15 years old. He will
be thoroughly English, no doubt, as bis
parents. Mr. and Mrs. William Waldorf
Astor, have lived In England since the death
of the former’s father, John Jacob Astor.
Though a few millions will, no doubt, fall
to the portion of the second son aud the one
little daughter of the family, Waldorf will
come in for the bulk of the fortune. It is
now nearly two years since Mrs. William
Waldorf Astor’s mother, Mrs. James W.
Paul of Philadelphia died, and this seems to
hove weaned the oouple entirely from any
wish to resume a residence In America.
William Waldorf Astor received a
fortune of JiiO,ooo,ooo from his father,
and lived somewhat simply for a multi
millionaire for years, and in consequeuce is
probably a much richer mail to-day than
then, The two Astors of the future, Wal
dorf and William, will have had a very
different bringing up. The former will be
educated like an English scion of nobility,
and tho lat ter in a plain American faihinn,
ns John Jacob Astor is democratic and
American in his methods to a degree.
The Vanderbilts, though newcomers in
comparison, have combined their interests,
which would have been the really effectual
method for tbe Astors to adopt to keep well
to the front. Only one year ago young
William H. Vanderbilt was regarded as the
wealthiest New York man of the future.
Cornelius Vanderbilt, his father, calculated
that by the time his son was 40 years old
the fortune to come to him would, by nat
ural and unavoidable increase, have reached
tho $500,000,000 figure. Just now Mr. and
Mrs, Cornelius Vanderbilt have arranged
to present anew dormitory to Yale College
in memory of their son William, who was
a student there when he died.
Cornelius is evidently the iuoky Vander
bilt uame, and so is the present beir to ell
this filthy lucre called. He is 15 years old,
and last summer he passed his time cruising
about on bis own yacht, not far away from
where his parents were lcoated for the sea
son, at Magnolia, Miss. Cornslius Vander
bilt has a farm some four miles from New
port, and from tbis went a constant supply
of fresh vegetables, butter, cream and other
country comforts to the yacht. Though the
butter, all churned from the milk of tbe
finest imported cows, was sent in plain
bricks to the chefs of tho Vanderbilt
cuisine, that forwarded to the youthful
heir was arranged in the most ornameutal
little pats. Like the other children of the
family, youug Cornelius Vanderbilt has a
flue voice and great musioal taste.
it is a mooted question with some if
William K. Vanderbilt’s eldest son nnd
heir, now 12 years old, will have as large a
fortune as his cousin Cornelius. Wiliiam
K. Vanderbilt is credited with being more
speculative than his slightly older
brother, nnd lees conservative. His
sou's education will be lees thoroughly
American than chat of young Cornelius, as
he hot already been quite n time abroad
with his parents. Frederick W. Vander
bilt, the younger brother of Cornelius aud
W illiam K. Vanderbilt, bas more than one
little lad of his own,aud they will each have
their millions; though, as their father came
into but a tenth of his elders’ fortunes, there
are a number of other boys in town with
greater expectations.
A young American who will be one of
the future multimillionaires, and of whom
next to nothing is ever heard here, is the
eldest son of Jameß J. Van Alen, now nearly
20 years. Mr. Van Alen himself is now at
Washington, and talked of in connection
with a diplomatic appointment. It is also
rumored that his seooud marriage with Miss
Hope Goddard, the haudsome blonde RboJe
Island bell ess, is not atall an unlikely event
of the near future. Mr. Van Alen
went through Oxford college, and
is an anglomaniac of (he first
wa’er. His wife, who lived but a few
years after the marriage, was the eldest
daughter of the late William Astor, who
never took kindly to his son-in-law. Young
\an Alen, whou he is 21, will come into a
lot of money from the estate of his ma
ternal grandfather. Mr. Van Alen himself
inherited an immense fortune from his own
father, which he is said to have increased
greatly of late years. If young Mr. Van
Alen marries au American girl she
may be considered to have made an in
ternational alliance, what with his long
residende iu England aud Eton and Oxford
oourse. The Van Alen family home on the
other side is at Leamington, from which
Mr. Van Alen can drivo the friends who are
staying with him each day for quite a time
to some different interesting historical 10.
oality. His English servants come over
with him every summer to Wakehursl, his
Tudor establishment atS.N’ewport, and re
turn again in the autumn.
Of all the rioh men’s heirs who have
grown to man’s estate John XV. Mackay,
Jr., is the matrimonial catch par excellence.
It Is surmised by many that young Mac
key’s fortune will be sufficiently large to
make that of tho sons of the houses of Van
derbilt and Astor appear quite trifling in
comparis n. One very pleasant character
istic of young Mackay, now iu his 23d year,
is that he is American to the
bsokbone. though educated os the con
tinent. After passing a year or more iu
this oily be rejoined his mother iu England
early last summer. He is such an accom
plished violinist that ho could easily make a
oomfortable fortune by playing on the in
strument in public. Apparently be care*
little for fashionable sooioty, and tbe enter
tainments he gave at his luxuriously fitted
bachelor apartments on Fifth avenue last
year were mainly musioales, and his guests
of tbe Hobeiniau oircle. comprising promi
nent painters and musicians.
OTIIKR GREAT MATRIMONIAL CATCHES.
Young Maokay’s particular chum on this
Bide of the e ater is Thomas Hugh Kelly’,
who is one of the prospective millionaires of
the town himself. There are three brothers
in the Kelly family who all look a deal
alike, though “Tom” Kelly is tho most
widely known. He Is considered very good
looking, aud as a skirt dancer in amateur
theatricals unexcelled. Like his friend Mao
kav, with whom he passed tbe last London
season, Tom Kelly has great musical taste.
Borne people go bo far as to Bay that John
D. Rockefeller could buy out, if so incliued,
Cornelius Vanderbilt and have os much left
and to spare. In face of this fact, John D.
Rockefeller, Jr., who is now 22 years old,
may be considered as a most interesting
youth from a matrimonial point of view. It
is scarcely fair that he should also be, as be
is, decidedly fine locking. _ He is of good
bight aud ha* dark hair and eyes. He is
rauob of u swell also iu bis attire, and par
cels and boxes directed to him from tbe
smart Loudon tailors are ooutiuually block
ing the gangway of tbe steamers.
Among the interesting youtna who will
figure in society before very long as au
eligible of the lint water is Henry Clews,
MM
Indigestion is not such a
simple matter a., it. sounds. That
sensation of fulness, if disregard
ed, soon grows into positive pain;
and then farewell to all the plea
sures of life. I got into such a
state that I became at last a
chronic invalid, and could do no
thing. Business, hobbies, work
of all kinds, social intercourse,
home tics, and everything became
a bore. All I could do was to sit
in my cosiest chair and read.
And it is rather remarkable that
when you have no definite object
in life you can always read a
paper. When the news of the
day is exhausted a good advertise
ment is quite a treat. My eye
fell upon Johann Hoff’s Malt Ex
tract. I tried it, and now I am
on the high road to health and
strength. All is changed for the
better. My spirits are good, and
I wouldn’t be without Johann
Hoff’s Extract for the world. The
genuine has his signature on
every bottle. Eisner & Mendel
son Cos., sole agents, New York.
Jr., son of Henry Clsws, the banker. Henry
Clews, Jr., is 17 years oM now. Ho looks
very much like his mother, who has an es
tablished reputation as one of the hand
somest matrons of the smart set. His feat
ures are clearly cut, bis hair brown and his
eyes dark. There is no telling just how tall
he will be, as he is now 6 feet. He will
probably go through Yale college I efore
entering his father’s banking house.
In New York it is not always the people
who make the most show who have the
biggest fortunes. Mr. and Mrs. Janies W.
Gerard live in the same houße on Gramercy
t ark arid much iu tbe same fashion as Mr.
Gerard's father, a noted lawyer, and his
mother did before them. Young Jamos
W. Gerard, Jr., has recently been admitted
to the bur. He Is only moderately fon lof
dancing, but prefers riding and shooting.
He obtained tne degrees of A. B. and A. M.
from Columbia College.
Some of the knowing ones say that youug
Jack Livermoro will have one of the big
gest fortunes in New York. He is a tall,
slight youth in bis 15th year and a son of
the late Charles Livermore and the present
Baroness de Seilliere.
WINDSOR CASTLE.
Vast Fortunes Lavished Upon Sevres
Ware, Tapestrlee and Brocades.
from the. Chicago Tribune.
The state dining room at Windsor castle
is a fine apartment In the Prince of Wales’
tower. It was redecorated shortly before
the jubilee in gold and white after a very
tasteful desigu aboseu Uy.Frtnoess Beatrice.
Tbe furn Lure is of gott'ib'pattoru and said
to have been designed by VYelbv Pugin.
The doors are ornamented with exquisite
Chippendale work, says an exchange.
In the contsr of the north window, which
looks out ou tbe north terrace, the home
park and Eton College, is displayed a mas
sive gold punch bowl, which was designed
by Klaxman for tho prinoo regent. Tne
ladle, which is a very fine piece of work, is
made in the form of a troohus shell. The
whole ooA $65,000.
This room was destroyed by fire in 1853
and again by water in 1891. It is only used
on grand occasions when the queen’s party
is over sixteen. When it is under that
number the queen prefers to dine in the oak
room.
Tne three drawing rooms are connected
with tho dining room, with the corridor
and with each other by folding doors, and
all the doors are decorated with the same
unique Chippendale work. The three
drawing rooms face tbe east and look down
on the splendid east terrace and gardens
over the broad expanse of the home park
toward Datohet, Old Windsor.
The crimson drawing room is next to the
dining room. It is decorated and uphol
stered in crimson satin brocado, which, to
gether with the richness of the embellish
ments and the wealth of gilding with whioh
it is adorned, gives the room a very gor
geous appeal a o).
Superb carving*, tne finojt ormolu work
and the most exquisitely inlaid cabinets line
the walls, and, conspicuously placed in one
of the windows, is a largo malachite vase,
which, like the one in the grand reoeption
room, was given to the queen by Czar Nich
olas of Russia.
The crimson drawing room opens into the
green, similarly decorated aud furnished in
riobest satin brocade, but tbe prevailing
color is green.
Tbe principal feature of this room is the
magnificent collection of Fevrts china,
which is said to be the finest in the world.
This 1s another produot of the extravagant
tastes of George IV., and the sight of the
innumerable lovely pieces, delicately molded
and colored, Is enough to make a collector
mad with envy.
Thu white drawing room Is furnished in
orims >n and gold damask, with white walls
decorated in an essentially French style.
Tbs walls of this room are hung with num
erous portraits of the royal family, while a
number of exquisitely worked cabinets and
a fable beautifully inlaid with Florentine
mosaic in the form of flowers and fruit are
among the principal ornaments. It is in
the white drawing room that the queen
holds private investitures of the knightly
orders, when a few ministers are summoned
from town iu order to form a council for
the ocoasion. Luncheon is held first in the
dining room.
A HUMAN CHRONOMETER
When Be Kept Cool Smith Could Beat
a Stop Watch Timing Races.
From the Mew York Herald.
To measure time to the seoond iu periods
of a minute, that iB with an accuracy of at
least 98.3 per cent, would be regarded by
most persons a a remarkable, though not,
perhaps, a particularly valuable accom
plishment. 1 have a friend, however, who
beats this. He is a veritable human chro
nometer. He can time a sprint race more
accurately than a majority of tbe stop
watches used for that purpose, aud is a
great deal more reliable than a majority cf
the men who officiate as timers at foot
races, even when they hold good watches.
Smith, which by the way isn’t his name,
can “call the turn” of tbe watch to the
fifth pan of a second.
Smith own* an elaborately oonstruoted
split seoond watch of Swiss manufacture
whioh was presented to him by tbe athletic
club to which he belongs for winning more
prizes in a year than any other athlete in
the olub. To test the watch l-'mith used to
time all sons of things until timing became
a habit with liim. In his leisure moments
he would tiok off the seconds mentally as he
watched the long timing hand move over
the fifth second divisions on the dial of hU
watch. After awhile he found he could
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Our good clothes are offered at the
opening of the season at prices that com
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fact that we arc offering new spring clothes
at extraordinarily low prices.
Note our window display of new spring styles.
We have suits for the little ones as well as the
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Our New Spring Eats Are Birds —Birds ia Oar Bands. Which Ire
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.A.gents for the sale of the T)r. Jaeger’s Sani
tary Underwear. Spring and Summer weights
now ready.
count the seconds without the help of the
watch.
WAS OF U3K TO SMITH.
When Smith competed in a raoe he could
tell the official timers just how fast he had
run. Of course Smith's accomplishment
was of great service to him both in training
and in racing in enabling him to judge bis
paoe.
It is a well known fact that the time re
corded by tbe watchers at a foot race as
well as the more careful observations of
astronomers vary usually a fraction of a
second. Sometimes this is duo to the con
st! uotion of the watoh, but often to the per
sonal equation of tbe timer or observer—
that is, tbe difference between the observed
reeult and the true depending on the per
sonal qualities or peculiarities. Thus the
personal equations of well known astrono
mers are matters of record, and timekeepers,
too. are “fast” and “slow.” Smith often
said that if he were to run for a record he
would select the “fast” timekeeper.
IIAD NO PERSONAL EQUATION.
When Smith timed a race without a
watoh, however, this personal equation was
eliminated. Timekeepers see the flash of
the pistol that starts the raoe and the
breaking of the tape that ends it instan
taneously. It is in transferring these im
pressions from the mind to the watch
through the comparatively slow medium of
nerve and muscle that mistakes creep in.
Smith didn’t have to make this transfer
from the mind to the watoh. He was the
watch. The mental timing hand in his
brain moved simultaneously with the flash
of the pistol and stopped as the runners
dashed through the tape. It was only neces
sary for him to keep cool. Of course if he
got excited over a big race the whole mech
anism was thereby disturbed and he was no
more trustworthy than the timekeepers.
Smith would start his watch, and hold
ing it in such a position that ha was unable
to see the face, could eay exactly where the
hand was. If another started the watch on
a signal from Smith, uuless Smith heard the
snap of tbe spring that set the mechanism
working, he could not tell exactly how
much time had elapsed when the watoh was
•topped. The variation between the time
be announced, however, and tbe real time
indicated by the watch would be the per
sonal equation of the timer.
MAGUIRE'S HEAD SWELLED.
Stuck Between Jail Bara and Only
Relieved After Being Anointed.
Tom Maguire Is a young man occupying a
cell in the county jail, San Francisco, for
haviDg committed a petty theft recently.
He is a youth of Ideas and resources and
hardly had tbe cell door closed behind him
before he was thinking out means of reliev
ing his sojourn of monotony. Each of tbe
doors of the several cells at the jail has a
rectangular hole in it a few inches across
and ten or twelve iaches in high!. These
holes were intended to admit air, and also to
afford the jailers an opportunity of
keeping their eyes on the prisoner*. But Ma
guire devised another use for the hole in his
door. He found the air in the coll alto
gether too oppressive, nud the scenery alto
gether too tame, and knowing full wall that
his head was narrow he oonoluded that he
would poke it through the opening. He got
it through all right and the experience
proved decidedly agreeable. Maguire was
the hero of the hour. The whole corridor
euvied him and everybody laughed. After
that Maguire’s head bobbed in and out
with remarkable ease and frequency and if
anybody sa tv a shock of hair disappearing
through the wicket no alarm wus felt. Ho
know it was Maguire’s head.
But the other day something happened.
The head got out all right, but it couldn’t
get in. It seemed to vlßibly swell once its
owner lidd poked it through the wicket.
Maguire pulled and Maguire hauled, but the
head was obdurate. It preferred the corri
dor and declined tbe cell. Then Maguire
tried to coax it back, but it obstinately re
fused to be coaxed. It struck out for the
corridor despite bis most diplomatic yanks.
It swelled and swelled, and then it swelled
some mote. After awhile the jailers took a
band in the conflict. They pushed and
pressed and pressed and pushed, until Ma
guire was nearly wild, but tbe head still
stuck to the oorridor. Finally some
body suggested that tbe battle might
be won by shaving the head of
its mass of hair. It was done, and done
thoroughly at that. But even that was not
effectual. Maguire’s poll still refused to re
turn to captivity. A more heroic move was
next proposed. Someone thought a little
axle grease might be the thing. It was
tried, but in vain. Then castor oil was
poured over the obstinate member and after
that a flood of linseed oil was turned loose
and finally a pint of sperm oil was rubbed
in. The oil did the business. Tbe swelling
commenced to subside, and by the time the
lost of a can of bear's grease had been spread
upon Maguire’s shining pate theoonfliot had
been won. The bead sneaked back into the
cell. It was a great day for Maguire and
tbe oil trade.
EGG3 IN TUB NAVY.
You Have Them Balled for a While,
But They Look Better Scrambled.
From the .Veto York Sun.
Those delicate commercial distinctions of
eggs, fresh eggs, and strictly fresh eggs are un
known in the United States navy. It is true
that many an officer in the ward room eats two
eggs a day the year round for the term of his
natural life, and that eggs in some form make
part of the early morning breakfast of almost
every man in the ward room at least three times
a week, and that eggs are eaten by the hundred
dozen In the forecastle, but nobody pretends
that any eggs served aboard a ship
at sea deserves to rank osstrictly fresh or even
os fresh. The paymaster and the mess caterer
lay in upon the eve of a cruise as many hun
dred dosen plain 6imple eggs as will keep the
ward room mess find the forecastle going until
a fresh supply, or more accurately a new sup
ply can be obtained. These eggs are packed in
salt, placed where they will suffer least harm,
and served out as long as their society can be
endured at close quarters.
Nobody ever sees a poached egg aboard ship
save when the vessel Is in port, because the Boa
faring egg does not take kindly to the poaching
process. Boiled eggs are ob.ainable on short
cruises, but when a ship has been three or four
months at sea the boiled egg is esteemed a ques
tionable luxury. It frequently happens that
the breakfast of boiled eggs and coffee is
served up with the announcement that
eight eggs were opened before one was found
worthy to be set before the officer destined to
eat that particular breakfast, and the recipient
of the feast often feels that the process of se
lection might have been extended considerably
further with advantage.
When boiled eggs are no longer practicable
the question arises whether such eggs as still
remain in the ship look better In a dry omelette
or scrambled. There nre earnest advocates of
each style. A dry omelette is a handeome
looking viand when carefully prepared, but it
is damaged for the palate by the presence of
even a single egg too long dissociated from the
parent hen. Many believe that the scrambling
process may be made to cover a multitude of
sins, and there are skilled persons in the cook's
galley who can deftly mingle salt baoon with
scrambled eggs in a manner warranted to al
lay the mi just suspicions of overaqueamish
stomachs.
It happens, luckily, that eggs are obtainable
in most lands visited by the slops of the United
States The effete monarchies of Europe, the
semi-civilized peoples of Asia, the barbarians
of the South Sea, and the savages of Africa ail
keep fowls, and although they do not intelli
gently distinguish between eggs, fresh eggs,
and striotiy fresh eggs, they do sell plain and
simple eggs to the mariners of the United
State* navy. This fact enables most ships of
the navy to renew their supply of eggs at
least once in six months, and, as a rule, ol toner.
Eggs of various shapes, sizes and quali
ties are obtained almost from one
Arctic circle to the other, and If the ships of the
navy could ascend the Congo they could obtain
eggs even from the man-eating tribes of Cen
tral Africa. In spite of all this, however, the
man who shall ffivent an egg that will boil with
credit alter a set voyage of six months will not
only earn the gratitude of all sailors, but make
a handsome fortune. A confident Inventor
could well afford to supply the navy with eggs
free of charge for a sufficient length of time to
prove the efficacy of any method designed to
keep eggs for six months at the boiling point,
so to speak
Mrs. Darloy—Qoorge, dear, why is love
said to be blind. Mr. Darley—Because ha
has had the wool pulled over his eyes so
often.— Detroit Free Free*.
The only danger of hurt in i M
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running over each other to get ATljj | fi|
them. Our choice line of $lO and ‘
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nrsir. In fact, if you could have seen us
the last few days serving our numerous
friends and patrons you would have thought
that we were the only clothing house in the
city, and as far as good, well-made clothes
at popular prices are concerned, whv, we
are th,e only noi'SE.
BUNCOBD BY A WOMAN.
Tries Several Games and. Beats a
Farmer for S7OO.
From the Philadelphia Record.
Bristol, Pa., March B,—A genuine woman
bunco steerer has been operating in this
county and yesterday crossed the Dela
ware river and beat a farmer at Hopewell
out of S7OO by a<wist of the wrist, About
two weeks a ago one night a well-d r e99<i
woman knooked at the door of Eli Milner,
former at Yardley. She told the
farmer’s family that her sleigh had upset
and the horse had run away. She re
mained with the Milner family all night,
and the next morning offered to pay for
her lodging, but had nothing smaller In the
money line than a SIOO bill. This the
farmer could not change. The stranger
said when she got to New York, where she
olaimed to reside, she would *sen<l him a
suit of clothes. In the morning she went to
the Yardley station, asked for a ticket to
New York and placed a SI,OOO bill before tl e
astonished ticket agent. He would not take
it, and the lady olimbed into a car.
This same woman, neatly attired, stopped
at the village of Hopewell, N.J., yesterday.
Rbe visited a well-known farmer and said
she was looking for a oountry seat. His
farm suited herexaotly, and she Cold him to
name his figure, as sbo would not quibble
about the price. So eager was she to
clinch the bargain that she insisted upon
planking down S3OO as a guarantee of good
faith. The zealous laidy pulled out a SI,OOO
bill, which dazzled the farmer’s eyes. He
had heard of bunco men, and wisely took
the note to the batik to have it examined.
The oaahiir said it was good as gold.
He returned to his house, and handed
the note to the woman while he counted
out S7OO change to give her.
She, unnoticed by him, slipped the good
SI,OOO in her pocket and got out a counter
feit note for the same denomination. The
farmer then took it, gave her the S7OO
change and she departed. When he took
the bill to the bank to deposit it he was in
formed by the cashier that it was not good
and was not the SI,OOO note he tad examined
the day previous.
Secretary Noble’s Farewell Story.
The day before Secretary Noble left Waiii
ington to return to his home in New York and
to private life, he told a Washington Rost re
porter that in many respects his official life in
Washington had beeu extremely pleasant. It
had involved a vast amount of hard work, but
on the whole it had been work that was agree
ahletobim. Nevertheless he felt much as did
the runaway darky before tbe war. He was ou
his way to Canada, and was mot by a country
man, who questioned him as to the treatment
he had received at the hands of his master.
“Didn’t you have enough to eat!” the country
man asked. "Yes." "And enough to
"Yes.” "And a warm pluce to sleep?” "Yes.
"Then what did you run away for?"
hoss," the darky replied, “if you think you u
like the place, it’s open to ye.”
Wanted to See the Baby.
Twice during the day, says tbe New York
Sun’s Washington correspondent, the President
went down into the east room to shake the
hands o£ several hundred pooplc who ha 1 as*
sembled there. The majority of the callers
were ladies and many of them thought it was
necessary for them to stop and enter into con
versation with him. One old lady, wearing gold
rimmed eyeglasses, asked him if it would h®
possible for her to see Mrs. Cleveland aud the
baby The President replied that his wife and
baby were at that moment upstairs and could
not be seen. The old lady, who was appare nt 'z
very deaf, put her hand up to her ear and said
with a New England twang, “How?" Tft e
l’restdeut was obliged to repeat his answer so
loud tiiat it could be heard in every part of the
oig room. The crowd laughed and the
requested the old lady to move on. Even the
President smiled as she passed along.
A CLxvEHLY constructed Utto machine has
beeu designed for the purpose of affixing
stamps to letters and circulars, and by **•
means the process can be carried out with ex
traordinary rapidity. The motions of detach
ing, dampening and flxing are unperformed uy
one revolution of a small wheel attatebed to
the machine. From 4.000 to 5,(j00 letters sn
hour cau be stamped, and one of the most tin
portant advantages of the machine is tbas n>
will register the number of lettsra thus treated.