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14 THE GOSSIP OF GOTHAM. Andrew D. White Sow the Center of a National Sensation. A Treaty That Will Not Down . Former Slave Who Is Winning lit erary Renown. (Copyright.) - Jfew York. Aug 4. —The return of An drew n. White from ius far away po3t a? American minister to the czar is awaited with eager interest by many prominent New Yorkers, for reasons, however, very different from those ascribed by such as have stated that Mr White is a repub- | liean gubernatorial possibility. For a ' long time there have been complications j between our government and that of St. Petersburg, but so carefully have they been concealed that most persons w ill learn with surprise that Andrew I). White narrowly escaped dismissal from the Russian capital as persona non grata. The trouble be gan as far back as the beginning of Josiah ijuiu cy's consular t decimation. The Russian govern ment notified out would shortly elevate its diplo matic establish ment in Wash ington to the Andrew and. white. rank of an em bassy. Such a step would, of course, be followed by the appointment of an Ameri can ambassador to Russia. All this was -designed to cement those friendly rela tions which our treaty with Russia had Served to accentuate Hut precisely here was the creux of the difficulty. Mr. White soon became obnox ious to the czar's cabinet by his attitude on the treaty question All that lie could consistently do to nullify it he did, yet so diplomatic was he, withal, that the Rus sian government could take no exception. The treaty itself Has been denounced by the warmest adherents of Mr. Cleveland, many of whom are in the association formed for its abrogation, and they are at a loss to understand bow ho could yield to Mr. Whitney and approve it. Mr. White, although a republican, is a warm personal friend of the President, and the latter would gladiy have retained him as min ister. Mr. White readily enough gave his aid to the association in this country and personally- interested himself in the cases of alleged outrage to Americana in Russia, whom the treaty appeared to oppress. He even went further, and spoke at Boveral ■gatherings in the Russian universities which had denounced the treaty. The 1 students and writers of the czar's domin ions have not hesitated, at the risk of im prisoument, to say that the treaty is a disgrace tp humanity, and when tyr. White accepted the courtesies of the scholars of Russia, he at once got into hot water with the court. Meanwhile the Russian government had been corresponding with the Wash ington department of state about details in the treaty, and seems to have triumphed over Mr. White in all things, thanks to Mr. Whitney, who, while in Euro|>e this year, has been looking after the interests of the Standard Oil Company. At last, however, Mr. White was discovered to he in active sympathy with the American writers who have been denouncing the treaty, and it is said, although this is not certain, that Mr. White even wrote- a letter declaring that the treaty is a de plorable mistake. Nevertheless, the Russian government did not dare give “walking papers’’ to Mr. White, because it 1 eared—to--arouse •• public opinion here, and thus endanger the continuance of the treaty. Hut mat ters were made so unpleasant for our rep resentative that it appears he had either to abandon his post or his self respect. In deference to Mr. Cleveland, however, the matter has been kept quiet, and va rious fictions concerning Mr. White and Cornell have served to hide the true con dition of things Thus it comes that the returning diplo mat's arrival is awaited witli anxious in terest by many New Yorkers. It is con fidently asserted that a crisis in the mat ter of the Russian treaty will soon be reached, and if Mr. White will only talk he can tell things. THE SIMMER COTTAGE. The fact that Millionaire ex-Senator Palmer should inhabit a barn near New York, appears to have astonished many persons, but such a -freak is by no means new to in habitants of the me tropolis.with plenty /i/7. va. -a of money, ux. In fUL, these warm days i?;-C the little cottages T. 1 - which abound in the <A'C'-'* —Se**’"” wastes just north of "X" gt* New York, and $ '^"'•s/ which can be rented . Tor about' *25 a month, are occupied ’‘‘if 1 by men whose in- mtm.kinaik>.'„ khpaß tomes are oouutod by tens of thousands. Occasionally, indeed, a millionaire will buy one of these huts outright and con vert it into a rustic bower, by means of vims and gardening. Here t-hey can spend the warm weather in absolute re pose, with no one to disturb them, since the neighbors are either distant or uu-. aware of the identity of the newcomer Gcoi-go Could followed this fashion not long pefore his lust trip to Europe*, uud no ope in the neighborhood knew who he was One night a wagon broke down before his door and the teamster came into Mr. ( ould's kitchen and was regaled ■with drink, and spoke to the master of the house. Mr. Gould went out and held one of the horses and critically watched the maneuvers of the teamster as he fixed up bis vehicle. Then lie drove away , all Unconscious of the fact that his courteous host was one of the most celebrated of American millionaires. THE PAGE FROM MEW YORK. Senator Gorman always lias the sup port of the pages in the upper house of congress, either because he has risen to his present proud eminence from their ranks or because he always takes a fa therly interest in their proceedings and f concerns. He has I f more influence in -f their ' appoint meut, too, than ■ 4 any other sena “l tor. This may be \ Ahe reason for the liood of ap ’”** Jr K "“*• plications from ofiice as pag in behalf of various —metropolitan CL KBBwK- youths. These V mtW applications are usually sent to a- B| Senator Hill, Mufl , und. in endeavor- HB ' ing to persuade C|9 , the ambitious —-W ¥ ’ll 7* New Yorkers J——-A ' that their hopes •sP are vain, he seems to have a senatorial institc- brought ufion himself eompari •on with Senator Gorman, whose constituents seem to have a monopoly of the pageships It appears, linaily, that these twi SA-na toisgot into a discussion over the reia five abilities of New Yorkers and Mary landers to fill the ottit eof fiagc and Mr Gorman came out ahead. Since then their relations have not been altogether cordial, aud when recently HUI was scores! by GfirfiiluTn oi>en session the pages looked decorous, but were inwardly jubilant. They took it as a vindicate nof j themselves by their champion Mean -1 while it seems useless for anybody from | New Yorn to aspire to a pageship in the ] Senate of the United States AN /EKO-AMERIi AN. ACTHORFsS. The latest literary incident in New ; York has reference to the ability dis l played by an. Afro American story writ, r. | a young woman, in looks at least, who was once a stavo languished author | Karle is her name. Jw J^nß j in Wil. and-hence, V /J /id I her parents being \ * W chattels, she was . aaKa begun to attract general attention, mhs kari.e although her pen lias been the source of her income for some years now. "When did I begin writing stories” she said lately, iu answer to a question “Oh. I can’t remember. When a very small girl 1 used to write stories of one sort and another, and the New York pa pers have lately oeeu very indulget to my productions '’ ' Mrs. Karle has a hoy who inherits mueh of his mother's ability. She herself will shortly issue a volume of short stories through a leading New York publishing house, in addition to which is the proba bility of t-be presentation of a drama by heron the stage of a metropolitan theater. Her home is typically literary, enriched by books and pictures Very few promi nent and wealthy Afro-Americans are un acquainted with hi r either jiersonally or . by-pvputation; ami should she win a last ing rcqiutation, our literature will have evolved a character altogether unique in the republic of letters. CADETS IN ARMS. Thi;re.was a movement recently to bring an inqiosing delegation of West Point cadets to New York for sort of outing. and it looked for f*- r a timeasif theme tropolis would be favored with a f|l sight of the poten tial Napoleons, but ibe Secretary of M ' - > -S | War ha? finally vo j toed the matter, #;[ j j| 1/1 and that ends it. I i y fi\ p The boys are terri v>. / I ffali F bly dtsappoined. In I llg, The reason for the 111 II refusal of Mr. Ka- I / \ 1 mont is ostensibly Ml I tffP (iff * n interests of 1/iV Pi discipline, but it is -HI ( " really to avoid a l S repetition of an in- I ,\ ” and nlge nce which W would subvert the v ends of the military academy's exist- WEST FOIST UNIFORM etlCO. Whenever an imposing celebration is planned in any part of‘the country its projectors^always endeavor to have a de tachment of the cadets as a feature of the inevitable parade. The general compli ance with these requests would always keep a large number of the cadets away from their books, and in the interest of discipline the department always de cline to sanction such excursions. To ac cept even one would lead to invidious dis criminations. An unusually distinguished list of can didates for the academy comes from New York this year, by the way. One of them will inherit millions of money if he lives, and two others are members of very old New York families. Military ambition seems to be newly awakened iu New ...York,. COT,. COCKERII.I.’S DOINGS. John A. Coekerill has been one of the most interesting figures iu national affairs, so far as journalism lius any influence iqion them, for a long time, and the Jiju. - recent report that . he contemplated establishing him- im IL self in fxmdou ijjfo .—fßlfaf-Si caused much com- *jP y*J ment. There must Tf . v y-V A be some misappre hension about it, A as the colonel has W no such design. He will continue, as of old, to devote himself with eu- '73 1 ergy to the inter ests of his news- v '' paper. • There is a curi- j. A . cockehii,!.. ous misapprehension,’’ said he recently, “concerning the influence of capital on the press. .Many people soem to think tout a given sum of money will buy the support of any journal, but how many know that such is the easel But for that matter, this is an age which greatly overestimates the * power of money. Money is a power with us. certainly, but not nearly to the extent imagined.’’ Concerning Stead, the colonel re marked : “He will ruin anything he takes hold of by his methods. Astor will never be able to restore the Pall Mall Gazette to the position it hail before Stead had it. once that journal was the pride of the press, but Stead has settled it. It is the same yvith everything ho takes hold of. Stead can't hurt Chicago by anything he shys.-” David Wkchsler. ESCAPE BY IMPRISONMENT. Successful Use by a Culprit by the Qeaerosity of a Fellow Prisoner. * From the New York Post, An interesting, story of escape from Blackwell's Island was told to-day by one of the keepers in the Yorkville police court. March 20, lust, John Reilly, No. Third avenue, was sent to the island for ten days for disorderly conduct, and was placsi In a cell with Grant .1 Em mons, who hud been sent to the work house on March ti by Justice Simms for abandonment of his wife. The two men became intimate, and both noticed an ex traordinary resemblaee between them. When Reilly’s time was up, Emmons pro posed to him that he should impersonate Reilly on the “discharge trip” to East Twenty-sixth street, promising to send Reilly .420 in money and give him a ticket to Canada on his release from prison. Reilly, vvhoso plans for th*j summer wore not fully made, agreed to the proposition, aud Emmons was successful in getting away. -None of the workhouse officials sus pected Reillv till two wcekt ago when word was received by the prison authori ties that Emmons was living with friends near Albany Reilly was questioned closely as to his identity but managed to satisfy the keepers until yesterday, when certain papers belonging to Emmons were discovered about which Reilly was unable to give a satisfactory account On closer questioning, ho broke down, and con fessed to tho deception. He said that Emmons had not done as he agreed about Sending tho money, but he had no thought of confession before on that account lav rauifci lie was “very fund of Emmons. ” Justice McMahon held Reilly for special sessions. Darker Do you know thero is one fea ture in whioli Shakespeare’s “Romeo aud Juliet” is untrue to nature' Barkei: What is it? Darker lie introduces a nurse but no policcumu -ilurlcm Life. THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. AUGUST 5. I Sid. “HELP” PLENTY AND BAD. Division of Labor in a West Indian Household. The Gorgeous Laundress in High- Heeled Shoes-The Butler Keeps the Others Awake and Divides Hie Com missions With the Cook-After Mid day Sleep. From the New York Sun. If you know of any mistress of a house in this town who thinks her servants are not what they should be. perhaps it might smooth matters a little for her to let her know what they are in the West Indies. Yes. come to think of it. I am sure it would make her feel better to know how very muen worse they average the>-ethan they do here. If you feel inclined I’ll tell you some more about those West Indiau servants ■’ A Sun reporter was talking again with the New York banana dealer who re cently returned from the West Indies. It was the reporter" who always feels in clined to hoar a good story, and at this invitation he took out his mental tablets. "You must remember,” the sneaker continued, “what I've told you before that a household that would need one or two servants here at home must have at least six down there in the tropics. There’s the butler and the cook, the chambermaid and the laundress, the gardener uml the kitchen girl, that’s six accounted for already, and, besides, there must always be two boys; but boys don’t account for much, as they can Vie had in shoals for about par mouth. Then the laundress may want an assistant, and un less you are careful the gardener will soon have an assistant too. “How does a stranger find all these servants' perhaps you wonder. He doesn't have to find them; he only has to select them They come to him in regi ments. Just let them learn that an American family is about to begin house keeping on any- of the islands, and they apply by the hundred. They are all colored, of course, and they nearly all want work, provided the work is not hard. “The butler is supposed to be the head man, but it always seemed to me that the laundress is of most account; at least, she is the one who is always in evidence. ,VqU hear either her machines or her voice going from Monday morning till Satur day night. She is pretty sure to be the most stylish-looking of the lot, done up in starched white dresses and high-heeled shoes. You notice the shoes at ouoe, De cause she and the butler are the only ones who wear them : all the others go lii their bare feet. 1 call her the laundress be cause that is a familiar word : but she is never a laundress down there ; she is ‘de lady w'at does do de washin’.’ Forty times a day she sends into the bouse for -some article she requires, aud the rues senger never ventures to shorten her title and call her the laundress or the washer woman : it is always ‘de lady w'at does do de washin’, she want mo’ soap ma’am” “It is your wife, of course, who enga ges this important person, and 1 will tell you about how that is done. Twenty or thirty applicants for places are gathered about the kitchen door, aud the maid is directed to bring in someone who is able to wash the clothes. She returns in a moment with your future laundress, who says that she has washed for such and such great families of the island. She gives your wife a little surprise when she intimates that she washes for oue family at a time, and no more. “ ‘Why,’ says madame, ‘I should think you would wash for as many families as you cun got. to inuke more money.’ "This brings out the fact that a washin’ ’ in the West Indies is supposed to occupy the entire week. Her ladyship is not sure that she could do the work alone; she does most gon’lly have some one to help her do the heavy work, ma’am;’ but she is williug to try it fur £t a week, auil, as this seems reasonable, she Is engaged, for, of course, you do not know that the usual price is just half of that. “The new servant soon begins to make the premises lively. One of the row of outbuildings must be set aside for her use, and iu her own little building she is not to be interfered with. But what is she to wash with‘—there is nothing ready. You show her the new washing machine you have imported, aud the clothes wringer, aud some other laundry appliances, but she turns up her nose at them all. She knows nothing about such new-fangled notions. What she must have is a cask to pound the clothes in, and a big pounder with a handle six feet long, and a brazier to keep a wood fire in to heat her irons. These things must be jirocured before she can do a stroke of work. “Now look out for music. The pounder has a wooden head about the size of a spittoon, and when it strikes the cask you are reminded of a dull thud. The laun dress pours in some cold water and plenty of soap and soda, drops in an armful of clothes, and the pounding begins. Whang, thump, bang! She must pause sometimes, I Suppose, but you didn’t notice any let-up in the pounding for threes days. On Mon day, Tuesday and Wednesday she washes .your clothes with the pounder; on Thurs day, Friday and Saturday she irons them. On Saturday afternoon she marches into the house in triumph with a big basketof snowy linens on her head. “Yes, she does them beautifully; I must give her credit for that But it is at some sacrifice to your nerves aud your clothes. For the first three days she has been continually sending to the house for • things. She must have more soap, more soda, more starch, more bluing, more of everything. In the last three days, while she irons, she sings continually. But no matter; your clothes are washed, and there is not a single buttou left on any thing. “Of course thero isn’t. How could there be after three days of such pound iug? That’s the reason West Indians rarely usehuttons on their clothes, but usb studs wherever they can. Studs can be taken out beloro the washing, but but tons cannot. My first experience of this' was with some duck trousers 1 ordered down in town. There were three or four pairs of them, and when the tailor’s boy brought them home there was a buckfe at the back of one pair, but no buckles on the other pairs. 1 pointed this out and the boy said, ‘Dat’s all right: dat’s do way we does alwuys make ’em. You see when you puts one pair in de wash, you des put de buckle on de nex’ pair “He was right enough, too ; for if the buckle had gone through the wash it would have been pounded out of shape But m,v host had a funnier experience than that. He was going past the laun dry one day when the indy w’at does do de washin’ ’ called to him that she was out of bluing. He called one of the boys and sent him down to the store where he kept an account to ‘get a box of bluing in a hurry.’ 1 suppose lie had lieeu used to seeing bluing in the shape of i> bail done up iu u little box, as it often comes. The boy started on a run, and in about an hour he came back on a dray, sitting on ■a tn>x of bluing.‘ The box was a little larger than a soap box, ami contained 144 bottles of liquid bluing. That was the only sort of i-ox of bluing known to that part of tin- world We laughed over that box of bluing all winter. “Your feed down there depends vorv much upon your butler and his knowing what to buy. You can’t tell him what to get, for you never know what will be iu the market. If you arc close to town ho will carry his purchase home on lushead but if you are far out you must send a doukey cart down to moot him, Tho but- ler and the cook generally make a combine and divide the profits, for whoever does the buying makes a little profit. You see some families have the cook buy tueir provisions, so he looks for a little extra. Some of the native lamiliex allow the cook or the butler so much a day to buy all the food, and whatever he ran save out of that he keeps. but that plan wouldn’t do for,an American. “It is one of the sights of the country to go down to market with the outler some morning. He doesn’t care much to have you go with him. because he is looking out for his little profits The. market peo ple will all sell to him cheaper than they would sell to you.; aud by the time he has added on his own account a few cents to the price of each article be has enough to divide with the cook No white woman ever goes to market down there: that is no native white woman So when your wife takes it into her head to go, as she is pretty sure to do, she makes a scusation "The market is right along the water front always, and divided into liirae sec tions. In-one section they sell meat, in another fish, arid in the third fruits and vegetables. The meat market is a queer place. Beef is generally imported from this country alive and butchered on the spot. But no West Indian butcher knows anything about cutting up a beef. They sliee the carcass into slabs without any reference to the different parts, and sell it all at the saine price .‘4 cents a |munU. No matter whether you get tenderloiu or soup bone, the price is the same. The odd bits that are sliced off are gathered up into little heaps about the size of your fist and sold to the colored folks -ii cents a heap. “In the vegetable market everything is sold in the same way. divided into little heaps Three cents they call a •check," or a big copper and a little one, and the price of each heap is either a check or a sixpence. You find a big tray filled with very small tomatoes and ask the woman how she sells them. “ ‘Check a heap sah,' she answers. “ Well, but how much for the. loti’ you ask; there are perhaps a peck of them in all. ---Can’t just say, sah,’she replies, 'till I measure’em,’and she. immediately be gins to pile them into heaps, to see how much they would bring that way. “You are surprised, of courso, to see how many of the vegetables are imported from America. All the white potatoes, ail the onions, all the cabbages, and many more garden products are imported into countries where they could easily be raised at any time of the year. But you don’t buy your potatoes by the peck or bushel. You buy them by the heap, a check a heap. And cabbages! Well, sir, it would make you weep to see how they sell the cabbages. A whole head would be too much fer a family to handle, so they cut them into four or six wedge sha|ied slices, just like a pie. and sell them for a check a slice 1 have even seen them sell large onions sliced in the same way. One good thing they have that I have never seen in New York markets. That is what they call a soup lot’—two or three small potatoes, a couple of tiny on ions, some sage and thyme, and perhaps a young turnip, done up in a bunch, for flavoring soups. “When you go to market you must not fail to take a basket, for they do not wrap your purchases up unless they are smull enough to be rolled iu a gree'n leaf. If you buy anything an t ask to have it done up they will send a boy out to the nearest store with a small copper to buy a sheet of paper There is never any paper in the market. I suppose you know what they mean by a small copper. A big cop per is an English penny, worth two cents in our money. A small copper is a half penny, worth one cent. There is no such coin, of course, as a check. They mako it up with a big copper and a little one. “This is the butler's chief work, going to market early in the morning, buying the day's provisions, arid getting them home. You may wonder thalt an American will stand this way of bu.viug things in such small quantities, and buying tiiem every day Well, to sum® extent be has to stand it. Things That will keep he soon buys by wholesale, but most things won't keep, and have to be bought every day. Even flour, rice and hominy, three great staples down there, aro not safe to keep long. If the weather is damp you are soon likely to find the barrels full of mag gots. Another drawback to keeping too much on hand is the bother of keeping everything locked up. There must be a storeroom, audit must be kept looked, and the mistress of the house must not let the kov go out of her own hands. If she does her provisions will'walk off. When one of the servants has to go to the storeroom she must go with him. “Of course the butler has other things to do besides the marketing. He sets the table, aud waits on it, if there is no other waiter But about the house his princi pal duty is to keep the <*thor servants at work. If you set ongof them at amb he will do it, if it doesn't take too long, aud then go off iu the shade and go to sleep. They have no idea of doing a thing with out being told. Every morning after breakfast the butler gathers up all the silver, hands it to one of the boys, and tells him to take it out and clean it. He goes out under a tree with it and begins to scour, and a few minutes later he is fast asleep, and the butler has to go out aud wake him up. The boys are great sleepers. When you want one you must generally call often and loud enough to wake him, for he will be under the dining table, under a sofa, out under the trees, or wherever he can hide himself in the shade. George! George! you eall, and presently George comes in rubbing his eyes. ‘"What are you doing, George!’ you ask. “‘I was just atrwirro to fetch some watah, sah,’ he answers. “ .‘I didn’t ask what you were just going to do. What were you doing when I called vou<’ “ ‘Nothin, sah,’ ’Sleep sah.’ “They always tell you what they were •just agwtne to do,’ and that is sure evi dence that they were doing nothing. By the middle of the afternoon they are af) in a state of repose; the cook is asleep on the kitchen tabic, the kitchen girl (who may be anywhere from 15 to 75) is smok ing her pipe on the bench outside the kitchen door, the butler is asleep under a tree in the orchard, the gardener is be hind a wall somewhere, the chamber maid lias disappeared, and you can hear snores of the two boys. The laundress is tlie only oue left on duty; her pound, pound, pound goes on unceasingly, and the monotony of it puts you to sleep too. “The chambermaid is sure to drive your wife to distraction at first She complains, lo begin with, that she lias to take care of the parlor as well as the sleeping rooms, and suggests that she has always been used to living with families who kept a parlor maid also. Evidently she doe* not consider eight or nine serv ants enough for a small famHy. But she is drawing largo wages, fft or sll a month, so she consents to keep the parlor in order, and that involves a good deal of labor in a country where everything stands open and the dust flies. “You see. in all those islands there is either dark mud or white limestone dust, and the parlor floor is generally polished, so it has to lie swept and cleaned a dozen times a day. And it is a sight when the maid is done with it, until the mistress gets her trained. None of those natives has the slightest idea of a straight line. The maid will take up the rug and shake it, and lay it down at an acute angle, or perhaps wrong side up. The sofas are crooked the chairs in every imaginable position, and if there is a table standing against the wall it is sure to be put back with tile drawer handles toward the wall. Tlie table covers will all bo awry, every ornament misplaced, and all the window shades lopsided. When your wife points these things out to her she cannot seo that anything Is wrong. “You are thinking, I know, that it must bankrupt a family to feed all these servants: but that part is not quite as bad as it looks. If you were to feed them on New Yoru beef and celery they would complain. They are used to living on fish and grits, and must have them. Every day you send out to the cook a slab of salt pork and, perhaps, a jieck of grits, which is what we call hominy, and he cooks them for the servants. A sixpence or two a day will buv enough fine fresh fish for them ail, and they have the run of the orchard ion the sly). They con tinue to eat oranges from morning till night, and, of course, they aro your or anges, either from your own treesorfrom the barrel of oranges that Is kept con stantly on the pia za. But oranges are plenty, and the best of them sell for about n0 cents a hundred. "It is curious to see the cook preparing the pot of urils. It is an immense iron pot and he fills it with grits and water and pork, and stands it over the tire. When it is dune and he ladles it out there is a crust of black burnt stuff an inch thick sticking to the pot. " ‘Pat de pot cake, boss,' he explains. ‘We does always do him so.’ “You might like to see him preparing the coffee for breakfast He takes the green berries (for roasted coffee is never kept on hand in the West Indies) and shakes them in a shallow pan over the fire till they are burned pretty black. Then he pours the coffee Into a big iron mortar, such as tne druggists use, aud the kitchen girl carries it out under a tree and sits down with the mortar be tween her knees. She pounds away with the pestle till the coffee is reduced to a powder as fine as flour, and the cook mixes this with cold water and boils it till it is done. But he makes good coffee, which you drink with condeused milk. If you want fresh milk you can buy it for 25 cents a quart; but don’t expect to see any cream on it. “All these strange habits of the ser vants would be enough to make an Amer ican in the West Indies uncomfortable if it were not that the servants are so good natured. They are always singing aud laughing, and ready to please you in any way they can. They* make such a show of sorrow for any thing they do wrong that it is hard to scold them; but they will do the same thing next day. You’ve read, no doubt, of how the Hindoo ser vants in the East Indies glide about iike ghosts in their bare feet. It’s the same thing down in the West Indies. You think you’re alone, and pretty soon you find there are two or three of them in the room with you. “Steal? Well, now, that's a matter of opinion I don’t believe that they think they'd steal. They’ll take any eatables they can lay their hands on, as a matter of course : they seem to think they have a right to anything to eat that belongs to their boss. But in larger matters 1 al ways found them entirely honest. You can leave your watch and your purse and all your little treasures lving about aud they- will not be disturbed. I didn't make a practice of doing this, but it happened sometimes without any bad results. • If you want to see a scared household, you should see the servants when there’s a hurricane coming on. 1 suppose it's natural they should he afraid, because they have seen so much damage done by hurricanes. They can tell as well by the cloudsa aso you tell by the barom eter. Up here we look to the west for our weather, but on an island in the sea look to windward. When there are hurri cane indications you begin to watch the glass, of course. Every West Indian house has its barometer, and thermom eter hanging on the piazza. The serv ants often begin ta make preparations before you tell them to. They’ll fasten all the shutters, make everything tight, tie down any thing that may get away, in cluding sometimes gates and fences, and get a gook stock of pork and grits into the kitchen. “Why do they look out for the pork and grits? Because whoever is in the kitchciv when the hurricane comes may not be able to get into the house for sev eral days. No, sir: no man alive could walk across that yard while a hurricane Is blowing; he'd be swept across the isl and. The hurricanes sometimes last four or five days, and all that time the sky is so black that you can’t see to read at midday without a lamp. Then there's no way to get anything from the kitchen, and your cooking lias to be done in the house. You may have an oil stove or a brazier iu the pantry; if you haven’t, you’ll have to eat eold food till the storm is over. The thing is to keep all the doors and windows tight. If one should blow open, so as to let in the wind, you’d soon see your roof sailing off through the air. “I think our New York housekeepers would find it a trifle harder to get along down there than they do at home, don’t you?” SOCIETY SPONGES. Among the 400 Are People Who Make Others Pay Their Bills. From Vogue. It was settled long ago that a young un married woman can accept only flowers, bonbons or a book from a young man. In the south there, is much more latitude, but then society there has always been charming, but slightly unconventional. Has the code—that unwritten law of ptiqutte—ever decided the extent of what men should receive from women? There is a certain set of young men in New York who are spoiled. They seem to consider that they can receive any and everything from the fair sex simply as tokens of the homage they deserve. They are in demand and women must pay for the privilege. To pay a dinner or a dance call is out of the question. To send oven a flimsy bit of pasteboard by mail is too much of an effort. New York is so large, they argue, and it is such a boro. They allow women to pay for them, to settle hotel and dinner bills, to pay for supper or for luucheons. They accept everything offered them—jewelry, hand some appointments for their room and toilet table, and, mure to thoir shame, even wearing apparel. Thero is an instance of a certain young man, well known in New York, who al lowed a generous-hearted woman, a strati ger here, not only to pay for all his meals during her stay at a certain hotel, but also to settle for visits to the theater, a box at the opera, to which he had invited a num ber of mutual friends. He even hinted so sadly about financial depression, the state of the street, and the hard-heartedness of a certain haber dasher, that, as a parting tribute, he was presented with a dozen shirts and any number or handsome ties. Widows and women who are unprotected are the keen est sufferers in this regard. Two summers ago, at Newport, a wealthy young bachelor had a cottage in which he entertained large house parties. A number of those society sponges were on his visiting list. They ran up bills at the different shops where he dealt, rang and called for cabs at all luiurs of the day and night and charged them to him, absented themselves from meals and never intimated to their host whether they would bo at homo or not, changed the hours for luncheon and ditiuur to suit their convenience and ordered what they chose from his steward. These were not only men, but women also, all equally well-known in society. They repeated the same offenses at another house at Lenox as soon as they were, through with Newport. A soldier, being asked if he met with much hospitality In Ireland, replied that he as in the hospital nearly all the time he was there.—Titbits. American titrl—Oh. yes. Mv home was in California, but I went to school In lioston. Int-reslod Foreigner—Ach so! Uid you go home at Bight*?—CMe. FURNITUKt AND CARPETS. It Is Not Surprising^ That people appreciate goods that are right in every respect. Our stock is noted for its quality, style and beauty of finish. Therefore our goods are always in demand. We are showing the largest and most com plete assortment of FURNITURE and CAR PETS ever displayed in this state, at prices to suit every one. We solicit a share of your patronage. Accommodating terms to re sponsible parties. EMILfI.SCHBffIRZ Broughton Street, Next to Corner Bull Street. * LL NEH.f. KROI SkOI-T S ' Prospectus for Summer. We will continue our excellent line of Ribbons, Flowers, Straw Hats of all styles. Specialty: Sail ors in every grade, all new and fresh, at our usual low summer prices. MILLINERY CO: ■ —' — -- - - - - - . a SCHOOL BOOKS. GOOD NEWS FOR PARENTS!® AND TO EVERY FAMILY. All who patronize uo for the next sixty days, commencing Aar. 1, may ob tain from us Qf&ymm onni/o At 20 per cent, off duiiyUL DUUHu of new york prices, Or About 50 Per Cent. Less Than Book Store Prices. I flfreat saving; In this liberal offer. The Best tiroceries cheap and School! i Hooks for a great deal less than heretofore. ESTATE S. W. BRANCH, BROUGHTON AND WHITAKER STREETS. -tfli • ittk rtdft • rrr> U—> ■ n <i> • - m. - * - • .a. LADIES’ FURNISHINGS and art goods. MEYER & WALSH ~ ARE NOW HAVINC A SUMMER SALE OF ART LINENS. Centers, Buffet Covers, Tray Cloths, Tinted Covers. At! selling at a s'.crifice. Linen Fringes 5 cents a yard. Ladies’ 25c Vest this week going at 15c A superior quality of Gants’ Hose at 19c. MEYER X WALSH. _ CARRIAGES^ BETTER BE SURE THAW SORRY, Why will you use that old BUGGY, YVAGON or HARNESS? For you can exchange the old for anew one at the extensive repository of H. H. COHEN, Bay and Montgomery Streets. I*. S.--Special Harness Sale this week. —*— - u y 3 —— SUMMER RESORTS. "WAY DOWN UPON DE S’WANEE RIBBER." . xt5Y?. epe . wi , ll you B P? nd that vacation? Why not ko to the White Sulphur Springs Hotel, at Wlnte spring, on the •eorgia Southern aml FlorWa railroad? It is the coolest resort in the state, immediately upon the banka of tho Suwunee river. This popular hotel has beeu thoroughly renovated, painted and refurnished, and is run in connection with the wonderful Sulphur spring which discharges 2.0Xu:00 gallons per hour. The rtnest bathing pool in tho ima ?-° k n S um hv j n J ln * ; pretty drives; no mosquitoes; no malaria. The water is a specific for rheumatism and dyspepsia in all forms: nervous exhaustion; ail kidney and stomuih troubles; all diseases or the skin. Reduced rates upon all railroads. Kates $2 to $2.&0 pet day. Special rates by the week or month. For particulars, addrees WSVi, H. Manager y f ’ P F--'lo?id£. FEED. FAWCETT BROS,, Wholesale Grocers, Produce Merchants, Importers and Jobbers. Self - Raising Flour I'avknU fresh dally from the choicest trunds of flour, (irain, Hay and Feed. HAY AND JKKFEKSOK STS. Telephone 3D4. Mineral water. Harris Lithia Water This water has now be come a £reat favorite with consumers of mineral wat ers. Try it for a week. If taken as directed and you are not benefited we wiL refund money. Harris Lithia Water Go.. GUARDS’ ARMORY,