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THE GOSSIP OF GOTHAM.
Sudan and Cnprectdented Outbreak
of Religious Fervor.
Authors and the “Archiver”—How
New York is Preparing to Observe
the Lenten Season.
(Copyright 1894.)
New York, Feb. 3.—This is Shrove
Sunday and next Wednesday Lent begins.
To New Yorkers such expressions ap
plied to particular days have never meant
much. But this year that inexplicable
religious revival in Gotham which has
puzzled so many persons has resulted in
an unusual amount of preparation for the
observance of these feasts. Some of the
clergy attribute the present state of af
fairs to the reflective influence of the
bard times. At any rate, it is not often
true, as it is this year that the churches
are full to overflowing and that there is a
positive embarrassment in providing
seating accommodations for the throngs
who come to the Sunday services. The
situation has a humorous side, if it be not
irreverent to allude to it. For to see
New Yorkers flocking to the places of
worship is occasioning some bewilder
ment to some of the clergy. For instance,
at the Roman Catholic churches in New
York it is customary to see women
largely in the majority at most of the
masses. Now, however, it is different.
Men are as numerous as women, to the
mild surprise of the clergy in some par
ishes.
Tho Episcopalians have been parttc
tlarly overwhelmed in the general in
crease of attendance at divine services.
At three different churches in widely sep
arated portions of New York the in
creased attendance in the last four Sun
days has been even embarrassing. The
clergy are at loss to entirely account for
it and its unexpected nature continues to
be a source of conjecture as to how long It
will last. The Mothodists, the Baptists,
the Presbyterians and the Jews have the
same reports to make. Now that the
somber season is at hand it is reasonable
to suppose that there will be no diminua
tion of this spirit of holiness, or whatever
it may be termed. But it has brought
out the fact that for the first time in the
city's history New York’s church accom
modations have shown a tendency to be
inadequate.
Closely related to this is the change of
sentiment, so to speak, in the matter of
church going. Old New Yorkers remem
ber when not to go to church at all did
not place a man under the ban particu
larly. It is different now. Any New
Yorker who to-day said that he never
went to church on Sundays, at least,
Would create a dubious impression. Even
the club men and the “boys” go to church
nowadays and go to the length of making
the fact known. It is good form to be re
ligiously inclined, in a word. The clergy
do not quite like this aspect of it, and in
some of the Episcopalian and Koman
Catholic pulpits there have been beard
utterances concerning people who come to
the house of God principally because it is
the fashion.
None the less the present rush to church
is one of the most curious signs of the
times and may explain the marked in
crease in the influence of the clergy of all
denominations in the affairs of New York.
ANOTHER LITERARY ROW.
As the recognized headquarters of the
literary profession in the United States,
New York is to be made the scene of an
agitation in favor of the overthrow of
what is termed the “archive ring.” This
ring, headed, it is alleged, by Henry
Cabot Lodge, has succeeded in so con
trolling access to the the public records
at Washington that only certain favored
writers have been able to gather material
for the lives of the more eminent states
men of the republic. Not long ago, for in
stance, the editor of one of the foremost
magazines in New York engaged a
celebrated writer on subjects historical
to prepare a paper on the colonial period.
Tha "literary gent" in question proceeded
to Washington to look up up the archives,
hut not being in this ring, his efforts to
get a sight of certain documents were not
successful. He was obliged to communi
cate with the editor who had given him
thejob, if such a way of putting it to be
unliterary, and sa.v that he could not pre
pare his article. According to the story,
the editor consulted a member of the
Aew fork city congressional delegation,
but the result was far from encouraging,
tt is stated that the more prominent mem
bers of the Authors’ Club will be asked
to see if this monopoly of historic mate
rnal cannot be broken up.
he row is but anew phase of an
old trouble with the literary men of New
Lug.and. The New Yorkers declare that
uie writers of Massachusetts have long
enjoyed special privileges in this matter of
consultation of government archives and
tnat outsiders have no chance of getting
Thus it has come about that
ne historical works of recent years con-
Wltb United States subjects have
r 6 ® n tbc work of Bostonians or those
_ bostonian influence. The New York
publishers recognize this fact so thor
‘r ly, it is alleged, that they hesitate to
• ngout American historical works now
bah are not the product of a Bostonian
it ere the letters that have been written
, crr icvance by New York literary
mi jb niake public, it is likely that there
Hmi • o a u sort of literary-official scandal.
Uabot Lodge is made the scape-
Orin business. But even Josiah
CJ 8 * nv °lved. According to a re
th-?u Irr S nt ' n New York, he said lately
rniJa* New York writers thought too
thern elveß anyhow, and if the
thic ~ . setl ® men got ahead of them in
wr iting history, it merely
ceni,, V?° superiority of New England
*< k° it looks now as if there would
* oon bo a pretty kettle of fish.
TV, MRS ' SAOE ’ 8 POPULARITY,
are h f v SOcial tri umphs of Mrs. Russell Sage
]us . ,® events of the New York season
mw Vv osed - Not that social triumphs are
the ber> * or she has long been
v ni un mera ber of tliat element or New
a „„,“ nown 88 lhe “plutocracy” who had
from Position in her own right aside
Thna i‘ n v y Pecuniary or other influence.
Wishe.i i S co , me about that this accotn-
Yoru r„ lad . y has had entree into New
Deo,,i„ 5 exclusive circles when such
wnoi.i o 8 lh .® Goulds and the Rockefellers
so i,t, Kn ? ck yainly at the portals of good
foave J■ addition to this has been Mrs.
th." i t-Y a work for the benefit of
never hno o 0! . k 80 Quietly done that it is
tion w ,n a " d of or accomplished in connoc
w t u‘V erOVVn nSBI ® Naturally, her
■ittentin laß . come 10 be unique, and the
result ° tl attracts is the inevitable
' , nui’',u I !, a 7 e -? loasure ot Mrs. Sage’s por
-11 not f„r artt ' V would not be hers were
to di.„,,r ? uatural Uet that seems never
beau H ‘ her, and that quality which has
Isa, at f u f‘-V termed personal rasgnet
-1 ui aly, the activities of this lady’s
ibe Jltenituj
husband have not been such as to associ
ate the name of Sage with the idea of
popularity, and the position she has al
ways retained is the more marked in con
sequence. Speaking of the years which
have paased over her head, Mrs. Sage
said recently:
“We are never old to those who love
ue.”
PREVALENCE OP MELANCHOLY.
Lent in New York finds, appropriately
enough, doubtless, most of the great men
of New York in the habiliments of mourn
ing. To begin with, there is Mr. William
C. \\ hitney, who has worn black a long
time now. Then there is Cornelius Van
derbilt, whose somberly clad figure on
Fifth avenue is the embodiment of what
correct attire in woe should be. John
Jacob Aator wears black, and very well
fitting black it is. This is due to deaths
in the family, as is the clothing of the
Hamilton Fishes. Altogether the epi
demic nf mourning, so to speak, has played
havoc with the social season by robbing
the big events of their brightest orna
ments, but during lent there will bo many
expirations of the period of mourning,
with the result that Easter will find New
York readier than ever to take up the
course of gayety.
Meanwhile the city’s tailors are evolv
ing creations in the way of mourning for
men that render woe a literal luxury. The
black suits are getting more and more ex
pensive, and the distinguished air that is
imparted by the wearing of them has led
to the accusation that some men deliber
ately extend their mourning for the sake
of looking well. The present state of
things is a tribute to the tailors, who can
admittedly rival the European houses In
style, quality and all the rest.
SWELL BIRLS AND POOH GIRLS.
In the feminine world of New York
Lent promises to witness a growth of that
tendency among fashionable girls, so
noted of late, to cultivate the “canaille.”
The “canaille” are presumed to be the
persons whose portion is labor and pov
erty. Not to know at least one member
of that class is now to be almost unfash
ionable. This is partly the result of the
hard times, and partly due to a growth of
the romanticism imparted to the lower
classes as they say on Fifth avenue,. by
some emanations of the fashionable nov
elists. It is certainly odd to soe young
women in the pink of fashion visiting
girls who must toil for their daily bread.
Not infrequently such a pair are seen in
Central Park, and when lent has put a
stop to fashionable diversions there will
be a marked growth of the now cult.
It should not be thought, however, that
New York’s fashionable girls are actu
ated by whimsical motives in these
lenten tendencies. The Sloan girls and
two among the youthful misses of the
Vanderbilt family have long been noted
as symoathizers with their poverty
stricken sisters. But in any other large
city of the country one does not see the
aristocracy of the town on such intimate
terms with the conditions of poverty as
has oome to be witnessed In New York.
It is positively out of style not to have
one's friends among the “canaille.”
EPITHALAMIUM.
Mr. Frederick Gebhard, whose mar
riage so long trembled in the balance, is
now noted for two things; first, as the
proprietor of an empty seat in the Union
Club window, and second, as the cause of
the revival, In exclusive New York cir
cles, of the custom of addressing an epi
thalamlum to a pair about to wed. As
for the empty seat, it is attracting much
attention because Mr. Gebhard was long
its brightest ornament, and that, natur
ally. made his face familiar to many New
Yorkers who chanoed to pass that way.
It now stands vacant and forlorn for the
reason, it seems, that no member of the
Union Club is bold enough to invite com
parison by occupying it. It is proposed to
drape the chair and hang it on the wall
of the club’s smoking room.
As for the epithalamium, it is on the
Ups of every member of the jeunesse
doree since its first appearance in a pop
ular and widely circulated organ of the
aristocracy.
The stanzas have the affecting title,
“Empty Is the Window, Freddy’s Gone,”
and it is whispered that a rival of the
handsome Mr. Gebhard is responsible for
them. Here is one stanza:
At the Union window now there is a void—
Every one regards that empty chair.
Once with faultless trousers was the seat em
ployed,
Ouce a well-dressed derriere sat there.
Latterly but vichy rested by his side.
Cigars? He very seldom smoked but one:
Now that he will shortly take a winsome
bride,
Empty is the window, Freddy’s gone.
The pathos with which these lines were
sung in chorus at that swell organization,
the Union Club, recently, is declared by
those who have exceeded anything ever
accomplished among the old Romans in
the epithalamium line.
It is understood that Mr. and Mrs. Geb
hard will reside in New York when the
usual tour is over.
David Wschsler.
Odd Hiding Places for Money.
From the New York Tribune.
A prominent banker was quoted not
long ago as saying that more actual
money disappeared from the world’s cir
culation by being hidden by the owners
and never found than any one would im
agine ; and a curious illustration of the
truth of this remark was noted a few
weeks ago in New England. A gentle
man and his wife, who were passing last
summer at a small watering place, be
came delighted with the picturesque loca
tion of an old farmhouse, and purchased
the dwelling and adjaoent land, intend
ing to erect anew cottage on the original
site Finding, however, that the beams
were sound and the proportions fairly
good they concluded to keep the skeletou
of the house, adding what rooms were
necessary, and laying new floors. A care
ful builder was therefore employed to re
move the old wood with every precaution
so as not to disturb the part which was
sound. . ~ _ ,
Not long ago Mr, and Mrs. S., who
were spending a day’s holiday near their
new acquisition, were discussing with the
builder the enlargement of one of the
chimneys, on one side of which the bricks
seemed to be loose. As they were talk
ing Mr S. begun to pry open the places
where the mortar was crumbled, taking
off the surface brick as he did so.
“Wnat is that rag?” exclaimed his
wife whose quick feminine eye detected
a scrap of red flannel in the plaster. A
tug at the cloth pulled out another brick,
revealing a vacant bole wherein lay an
old red flannel bag, containing not a for
tune, but fifty dollars in five-doUar gold
pieces "Neow, who ever heard the like,
exclaimed the farmer’s wife, when the
little hoard was handed over to her It
that beant old Oraudfer Jones’ gold! He
was alters a-savin’ and a-scrapin and
a-hldin’ of his money, an’ for a year after
he died w* kep'a fludin’ little stores in
queer places, done up *“ . rw>
stockin’* or bags that he had mode him
self. This is the biggest haul we ve made
yet—nn’ who would a-thought of lookin
In the chimley 1”
SAVANNAH. GA„ SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 4, 1894.
A MILLIONAIRE’S HOME.
A View of a Vanderbilt's Domestic
Affairs.
Managing the Household—Mme. Bol
llet’s Remakable Duties—Arranging
the Table.
From the New York Press.
The most carefully ordered household
in New York is that of Mrs. Frederick
Vanderbilt, who lives in one of the Fifth
avenue palaces built by the late Commo
dore for his sons and daughters. Not a
home in the city, not even those presided
over by proverbially home bodies, nor
the best regulated of all the magnificent
hotels, can approach the household of
Mrs. Frederick Vanderbilt in the abso
lute regularity and neatness of the en
tire house from pit to dome.
Mrs. Vanderbilt is herself a fine house
keeper, but it is years since she has done
anything in the way of ordering new sup
plies or directing the management. Dur
ing the years since she has given up
the task of regulating her home affairs
all has been in the hands of a French la
dy, Mme, Bolliet by name, who is directly
responsible for everything in the house
and is intrusted with the entire manage
ment. Her title is that of directress,
and her salary is placed at the figure of
*3,000 a year. But it overlaps that sum
by many hundreds.
One of Mme. Bolliet’s duties Is the hir
ing of the servants in tbe Vanderbilt
household. Mrf. Vanderbilt does not
know them all even by sight. But Mme.
Bolliet knows them, hires them and is re
sponsible for them, and were anything to
be missing out of the house or any un
pleasantness to arise sho and she alone
would be held accountable. In paying off
the servants Mme. Bolliet is given power
of attorney, and can make out checks and
sign them, if Mrs. Vanderbilt is too busy
to do so. All wages are paid in actual
money, as most of the servants are for
eigners and could not handle checks, and
so at times tbe directress is in possession
of a considerable fortune in ready money.
In a household of the size and preten
sions of the Vanderbilt home there are
countless avenues Of work and many dif
ferent departments that must be daily in
spected. For the mistress to do this
would be impossible, and even the direc
tress can not assume tho task personally,
though responsible for all.
Every morning directly after breakfast
Mrs. Vanderbilt goes to her library and
is closeted for half an hour with her di
rectress, and all things are planned for
the day. If any servants are to be hired
the directress mentions it. Then follows
a little talk about the appointments of
the table at a coming dlnnor, and the
most Mrs. Vanderbilt does is to suggest
that such and such a caterer, or such and
such a florist will be able to find some
thing beautiful and new. The directress
makes a note of the preferences of Mrs.
Vanderbilt, and sees that the orders are
sent out for a certain number of “covers”
on a certain night, or a certain set of dec
orations.
When there is a ball planned the direct
ress consults the florist personally; and, if
necessary, arranges a meeting for him
with Mrs. Vanderbilt: and when there
are new robes needed for the carriages,
the head of the stable reports it to the
directress, who has a standing order to
buy more whenever more is needed. And
thus all is managed. Each department
has its own head, and the head is respon
sible for all the workings of that depart
ment, and must report to the directress,
who in turn attends to their wants, and
on rare occasions consults Mrs. Vander
bilt.
Sometimes the directress must act at
her own discretion unaided for several
days by Mrs. Vanderbilt's counsels, for it
must be remembered that in the height
of the season a society woman has all she
can do to attend her receptions and balls
and dinners, and to make her calls, with
out listening to a word about household
affairs. And at such times as the direct
ress is supreme.
THE LINEN ROOM.
As an example of absolute order which
prevails in the house, and which makes
the salary which the directress receives
no more than ordinary compensation for
a lady to pay with an abundance of
money, may be mentioned the planing of
the linen room. This room is a square,
light apartment, fourteen feet by sixteen,
bigger than most parlors and lighted by
two large windows. Opening oft this
room are several smaller rooms, each one
of them devoted to some special article.
One has tablecloths, another has towels
and a third sheets and pillow cases. The
latye room is solely for sorting and re
pairing and marking.
The tablecloth room is very pretty to
look at and would drive to envy the lovers
of nice napery. It is a small square room
lined with shelves which reach all the
wa.y from floor to ceiling. The shelves
are broad and have compartments, each
one of which is the width of a tablecloth
folded in about six folds. In these com
partments are dozens and dozens of boxes,
perhaps hundreds of them, and in each
box there is a tablecloth neatly folded
and elegantly laundered. There is a fine
French polish upon the surface, as though
lust from the shop, and the folds are put
in with machine -like precision. The
tablecloth boxes were all made to order
by the man who makes the cand.y boxes
for the household, and are of just the
right size.
The napkins are in boxes in another
room, and each box has a number corre
sponding to a number on the tablecloth
boxes, so that there may always be cor
responding sets upon the table.
A vague idea of the number of table
cloths may be had from a computation in
mental arithmetic. There are twenty
eight meals served In the house every
week to the family and no cloth appears
twice until it has had a laundering. Often
there is a cloth of state for a swell dinner
which may be in progress in the big din
ing room at the same time that the family
dinner is being served to the young people
of the household in another room. Be
sides these, there are many cloths for the
children’s table, and many for the table
of the upper servants, not counting those
for the lower servants.
The directress buys all these supplies.
The annual cost of the linen room is many
thousands per year, for the Newport
house is always supplied with linen from
the New York linen room; and so is the
yacht with its 200 crew and its accommo
dations for 100 guests.
CANDY BOXES, FAVORS AND FLOWERS.
Twice a month the directress has an
audience with the men who make pretty
things for the table. A candy box maker
consults her about new styles of candy
boxes and receives an order for several
hundred with an additional order to have
them supplied with the best candy.
These candy boxes are made of satin of
all shades and are often lined with the
same material. They are In new and
LEOPOLD ADLER,
Successor to A. R. ALTMAYER & CO.
WHY DO THE CROWDS THRONG OUR STORES?
Because no such Bargains can be found elsewhere. The following are but a few- specimens
TO SHOW THAT
ONE POLUR SPENT IN OUR STORES IS EQUAL TO TWO ELSEWHERE.
■liHI IK *ll,
49c a pair.
VALUE 75c.
Exceptional good value,
73c a pair.
VALUE 01 25.
Your choloe as long as they last.
; House Furnishing.
2c,
Preserve Glass Dishes.
I2c,
Opal Salt, Pepper Dishes.
10c,
Glass Sugar Bowls.
9c,
Glass Syrup Jugs, M-quart size.
55c per dozen,
Individual Carlsbad China Butters.
SHIRT BARGAINS.
69c,
VALUE It,
200 dozen Laundered Linen Bosom Patented
Reinforced Shirts.
29c,
VALUE 50c,
! 60 dozen Men’s Unlaundered Shirts.
49c,
VALUE 750,
100 dozen Linen Bosoms. Linen Collar and
Cull band, full reinforced.
69c,
VALUE *l,
100 dozen Linen Bosom. Linen Collar and
Cuff band, patented inserted sleeve, rein
forced.
beautiful shapes, and twice a month an
entirely new lot of samples are produced
and submitted. The directress is responsi
ble for the order which tells the maids to
place each day a fresh box of bon-bons
upon the dressing table of all grown mem
bers of the family and all family guests.
The favors for the dinner table are
made by a Frenchman who does nothing
but execute the orders for the ladies of
the Vanderbilt-Shepard - Sloane - Stokes
contingency.
He, too, takes his orders from the di
rectress, and is reproached if he cannot
offer new creations for each day in the
week. These favors are little trifles, but
they must be pretty. For every day din
ners they are plnin. of silk or satin, or
very rich paper tastefully made; but for
company dinners they must be grand.
They are usually filled with bonbons.
The directress is also empowered to
keep an artist busy supplying new de
signs for the diuner table. The .cost does
not matter at all so long as the results are
satisfactory. The directress has employed
for some time as table artist a struggling
young French woman who makes a living
thereby.
Madame Bolliet is a French woman,
with the typical French face and French
manner. She is rather short, quite slen
der, and rather demonstrative in manner.
If anything goes wrong she gets furious,
and acts as if she would like to stab the
wrong-doer. On one occasion there was
a bonbon favor short in an order for fine
bonbon boxes, and the mistake was not
discovered until a few minutes before
dinner, when the waiter reported it to
Madame Bolliet. Instantly there arose
such a commotion below stairs, and par
ticularly in the region of the department
where table decorations are kept, that
all fled in dismay. Madame Bolllot’s
maid was fortunately gifted with nimble
fingers, however, and no lives were lost,
for she quickly transformed an ordinary
box into one of the desired kind.
ALL SPEAK FRHNCB.
In hiring servants Madame Bolliet is
particularly generous. Her orders are to
get only the best and to pay them liber
ally. All the Vanderbilt servants are ob
tained from the congregation of a dear
little French church on Thirtieth street,
the pastor of which Is personally respon
sible to the directress for the honesty of
those he recommends.
Madame Bolliet hires them and turns
them over to the head of their separate
departments, and they are taken on a
month’s trial. If they do well they are
given pay for their month’s work, and are
promised twice as much in future as long
as they care to stay.
The wages range from |BO a month up
ward and the average is about *f><) a
month, which, of course, includes board
and a fine room, as well as good food and
a parlor in common with the other ser
vants.
Like the Rockefeller servants they have
a separate building to sleep in and come
onduty at certain hours, and have the
rest or the day to themselves.
The time tho Vanderbilt servants re
main In the employ of the family can
only be described as “indefinite.” None
ever lcavo of their own acoord, and very
many were born in the servants’ quarter,
and have grown up quietly hidden away
in the servants' apartments and are new
employed on a salary.
SPECIAL FOR
HOUSEKEEPERS. BEE El STEAMBOAT DEL
$1.98 a pair,
VALUE |3,
Ready-made Sheets, Fruit of Loom Cotton,
00x90, hemstitched.
$1.29 a pair,
VALUE *1.75,
Ready-made Sheets, 10-4, Pepp.rell Cotton,
Sc inch hem.
39c a pair,
VALUE 50c,
Ready-made Pillow rases. Fruit of Loom
Cotton, size 46x38' 214-inch hem.
$2.49,
VALUE 13.60,
Genuine Undressed Marseilles Quilts, 11-4.
25c,
VALUE 40c,
60 dozen Heavy Damask Towels, fancy bor
der, knotted fringe, size 45x3314,
Bc,
VALUE 15c,
50 dozen Unbleached Honeycomb Towels.
45x22'4.
SPECIAL sci MSI
Mrs. Vanderbilt allows her servants to
remain with her after marriage, and If
they have children, the children, too, can
remain, provided that they are quiet and
well behaved. There are usually two or
three little ones in various stages of child
hood in the servants’ quarters and they
become great pets.
HOW SERVANTS ARE TREATED.
The directress, while fierce if anything
goes wrong, is very soft hearted and
knows all the troubles of the maids and
is taken fully into their confidence. If a
good worker who has been loug in the
employ or the house wishes to marry,
the directress allows the maid to brine
the man she loves to see her; and if there
is a vacancy in the butler's pantry or in
the stable, or in the gardens, the maid
has a promise of a position for her young
man. And so there are many happy
young married people within those Fifth
avenue walls. And all arc saving v little
money against the time when work may
not be so well paid, or when there may
be a change in management, for, of
course, things cannot go on forever in a
beatific state.
If any of tho servants are sick they are
placed in a part of the house quite se
cluded from noise, and all attendance is
given them. Their wages go on; and if,
upon recovery, they are weak and unable
to work as before, the directress suggests
that they be sent to the Newport house
to slay a few days with the care taker.
And Mrs. Vanderbilt invariably replies,
“Certainly,”
The language of the house Is French.
There are several Swedish servants, a
few Germans and a few Irish, but tho
majority are Mme. Bolliet’s country
women and do not speak English. All
are able to understand French, and tho
queer spectacle of an Irish helper assist
ing an assistant cook who speaks only
French is often seen. The cook issues bis
orders in French, and the Irish helper
obeys unerringly, never getting the vege
tables mixed and never making a mistake
In a dish, no matter how queer and
strange the name.
MADAME HAS HER CARRIAOK AND MAID.
Mme. Bolliet. who might be as elegant
as she pleases, dresses quietly and gives
much of her money to the poor.
A short time ago there was an urgent
appeal made to her to take charge of a
French mission for girls, and madame
actually wanted to accept it, thinking it
to be her duty A little talk with Mrs.
Vanderbilt showed her that it might be
for the good of the mission if she were to
remain in the Vanderbilt house; and, in
cidentally. Mrs. Frederick raised her
salary *>bo per year.
Madame’s maid, madame’s carriage,
inadame’s private table and madame's
suite of rooms are all institutions of the
household, and as well appointed as are
those of Mrs. Vanderbilt and only a little
less elegant. As for guests, Madame can
have a* many as she pleases, and the
mistress would know nothing of them did
shs not happen to pass them with inad
ame In the carriage on the way to do
shopping for household supplies.
Madame is a nice-looking woman, and
not so awfully in earnest and so
serious in expression she might be pietty.
She is shrewd and save* many times her
own wages for Mrs. Vanderbilt, for, al
though much is bought, nothing is aver
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used by the family and the household.
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Jenlously from knowing anything of the
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ilies.
A KANSAS HERMIT.
Gen. Hugh Cameron, Whose Whiskers
Reaoh His Knees.
From the St. Louis Republic.
When Gen. Hugh Camoron returned
from the army he built of logs a one-room
cabin on his forty-acre farm, three miles
northwest of Lawrence, Kan. The cabin
stands there to-day and Cameron has oc
cupied it alone all these years. He is
now nearly 70 years old and his hair and
whiskers are as white as snow. His
whiskers, when combed out loose, reach
his knees, while his hair, when hanging
down his hack, touches his hips. He was
never in a barber’s chair in his life, never
put a razor to his face and his hair has
not been trimmed since he was a babe 3
years old. He is a native of Pennsylvania,
and is related to the Cameron family of
that state.
To a correspondent Cameron said:
"People sa.y lam singing uway my day
of grace by getting married,” he said, “I
am nearly seventy years old, strong and
hearty, and work twenty hours aday. I
get up at 4 o’clock in the morning, got my
breakfast, which I cook myself, take care
of my cabin, by that time it is light
enough to go to work on the outside. I
work as late In the evening as I can see,
get my supper, do such washing or mend
ing as may bo needed, and then study and
read and write until 12 o'clock or later.
Yes, four hours In bed Is caouah for mo.”
"Neither Christ nor any of His discip
les was married, and Paul, tne greatest
philosopher among them, did uot find mar
riage a necessitty. Besides this, many
very many unions of to-day are founded
on sensual passion that destroys tho puri
ty of the heart, taints the soul and wrecks
the body of men and women too. No, I
have no remedies to propose. I am simply
trying to live the life I believe Christ and
and the apostles lived, and I preserve in
this mode of life the freedom and inde
pendence I most prize.
“1 eat bread and butter, cheese and
milk, tish, fruit and nuts. Ido not use
moat of any kind, nor drink intoxicants in
any form, no use tobacco. I sco nothing
unusual in this. It seems to me to be the
natural food of man, und undoubtedly
prevents diseases consequent upon the
consumption of rich animal foods. Now,
as to my hair and whiskers. I believe
there is strength and health in permit
ting the hair and whiskers to grow to
their natural length You will see that
m.v whiskers are platted and tied around
my nock, and my hair is dressed in the
same way, the electricity in the hair and
whiskers thus furnishing me a natural
battery for the use of the body.”
PAGES 9 TO 10.
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A RATTLESNAKE CHARMER.
He Tells Interesting Incidents of His
Strange and Dangerous Business.
From the Now York Times.
Kingston, N. Y., Jan. 27.—1n a wild
valley at the foot of a rocky and precipi
tious mountain, near the little hamlet of
Long Eddy, in Sullivan county, is the
home of John C. Geer, whose business is
the charming of rattlesnakes. This ec
centric individual who lives in this isola
ted spot Is known throughout that part
of the country as "tho rattlesnake man.’*
Though over *VO years of age, he is as ao
tive almost as he was twenty years ago,
and for a mountaineer, homed and roared
in that untutored country, where people
of any kind arc scarce, he possesses a
rare intelligence.
A better insight into his strange and
dangerous business cannot be given than
by the following story, told by himself:
"I have been engaged in catching rattlera
at the foot of this mountain for many
years. Some seasons I get from 200 to
:X) of them, many of which I tame and
ship alive to museums in Now York and
other cities. I kill a goou many and ex
tract the oil, for which I And a ready sale
at from (2 to $5 an ounce. The skins ara
worth from |1 to ff> each, according to
their size and condition.
"This mountain back of my house is
fairly alive with rattlesnakes; thousands
of them live thero in their lairs in tha
crevasses of the rocks. One day last year
I started below my house, und in two
hours and a half caught twenty-two rat
tlers and a black snake. I catcii tho
snakes with a hook or snare, and put
them into a back, in which 1 bring them
home Do they ever bite me! Weil,
sometimes, but very seldom, as I know
what a rattlesnake’s bite Is. and am
always very careful how I handle them.
Six or seven times they have been too
smart for me and have sunk their fangs
into m.y hands, but lam alive yet, for I
have un infallible cure for the poison. Tho
bites always leave a scar, though, as you
will see by the back of my hand.”
This hand has a number of small, deep
scars, which look like a very pronounced
pockmark, and these, the “rattlesnake
man” declared are the results of the bites
ho has received. The “Infallible” cure
which Mr. Greer used Is compounded by
himself. Certain it is, he has been called
upon many times to save people who
have been struck by the poison-laden
fangs of rattlesnakes, and his remedy
has never failed to cure.
No less weird and interesting than the
man is his rude loghouse, which is al
ways the home of from a dozen to thirty
or more of the venomous reptiles. These
are kept in boxes, and many of them are
very tame, actually seeming to be fond of
their master. It does not take the old
man long to subdue thero wild creatures,
and he often has them crawling about the
floor while he smokes his pipe and medi
tates. He is fond of having visitors come
to see his pets, though few persons can
ho persuaded to enter his den of rattlers
und black snakes. This amuses the old
man. as long association has taken away
every vestige of fear of having them
harm him, and he thinks no inorcof hand
ling the reptiles than if they wore play
ful kittens.