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MENAGERIE FOOD.
IT COSTS CONSIDERABLE TO
FEED WILD ANIMALS.
Worn Out Old Horses Make Sumptu
ous Meals for Lions, Tigers and
Other Carnivorae—Elephants’
and Monkeys’ Diet.
“It cost £15,000 a year simply to feed
the animals in the Central Park Menag
erie,” said Dr. Conklin, the Superin
tendent, to a New York News reporter,
and he had the ligures to prove it. These
are a few of them •
Hay, 160,455 pounds, $1257; corn,
551 bushels, $353; oats, 390 bags, of 78
pounds each, $183; fish, 4950 pounds,
$247; milk, 2942 quarts, $208; bread,
27,676 pounds, $691; bird seed, 28
bushels, $54; apples, 84 barrels, $262;
carrots, 34 barrels, SB2; cabbage, 1500,
$lO5, and miscellaneous food, $282.
Besides this, $72 were paid for medi
cine; $l6O for 10 tons of peat moss for
betiding and $250 for 156 horses. This
last item of expense will probably seem
to the reader to be the strangest one of
the entire list. Horses that cost less than
$2 each cannot be very valuable. And
yet for such purposes ns Dr. Conklin
buys horses, they are as valuable as any
he could find. Of these 156 horses that
only cost $250, 144 were slaughtered,
carved into pieces of suitable size, and
eaten by the lions, tigers, panthers, leop
ards, hyenas and other carnivorous curi
osities in the big stone-floored lion house-
At 2:30 every week day afternoon—
for the meat-eatiug Central Park animals
reverse the human order of things and
fast on Sunday—a man rolls an iron
wheelbarrow into the lion house, loaded
down with raw meat. Long before he
reaches the building the inmates of the
cages scent his approach and as he crosses
the threshold, a scene of savage greed
and passion ensues that makes some
women grow white and some children
crv.
! The lazy lion, Jack, bounds from one
end of his cage to the other, coming
against the bars with a force that makes
the building almost tremble. The tigers
follow suit, and even the black leopards
leave their shelves in the back of their
cages and join in the general uproar.
Five minutes after the attendant's ap
pearance, five minutes after the great
pieces of meat are tossed into the cages,
the liou house would pass for a zoological
nursery.
The lions and tigers ore the slowest
eaters. They play with their food as a
cat does with a mouse. They lap the
meat with their rough, red tongues.
They nibble at; it and make faint efforts
to tear it. After they have satisfied
themselves with this sport they go about
their dinners in a business-like way, and
in a few minutes all the meat is gone
and even the hones. But the bones can
not be digested by the cat animals.
Ten or twelve hours after the bones are
swallowed the stomach rejects them.
Not so with the stomach of the hyena.
Like the goat, he can eat anything.
There is no false modesty cither about
the hyena. As soon as the meat reaches
his cage he begins to eat. lie fastens
his powerful jaws in one corner of his
portion and putting his paw on the other
corner he tears the meat into shreds. He
gulps it down as though he had never
eaten before, and then proceeds to grind
the bone into pulp.
Dr. Conklin estimates than the horse
meat costs the Park Department 1 cents
a pound. He gives each lion, tiger and
hyena fifteen pounds a day, which would
make the maintenance of these animals
reach the tremendous figure of twenty
five cents a day, not including water and
lodging. Before horse meat was substi
tuted for beef the expense was much
greater, and the quality of meat was
not so good as it is now.
The 2000 tons of hay are eaten by the
herbiferous animals iu the antelope house,
by the cattle in the paddocks,the camels,
buffalo and sheep. The elephants also
are fed upon it. There are now four
elephants in the park, only one of which
belongs to the department. Tip, the
bad elephant, is a gift to the city- from
Forepaug’n. The other three—Tom,
Lizzie and Jimmy—are owned by the
circus man and are kept in the park as an
additional attraction. The cost of feed
ing the elephants is $1.50 each per day.
They arc fed early in the morning and
they are still eating when the lights are
put out at night.
The corn is consumed by the deer,
antelope, cranes and swans. For the
latter it serves only as a summer diet and
it. put in boxes along the lake every day.
During the winter months the swans are
fed on cabbages. These are cut up and
scattered over such parts of the lake as
are not frozen. The bran and oats are
eaten by the deer, hippopotamus and
rhinoceros. The SSOOO baby “hippo,"
the late lamented “Mr. McGinty,” had
not reached the bran period at the time
of his death. The first day of his ex
istence he ate nothing. During the next
two days he drank ninety-six cents’
worth of milk and the sole expense of
the fourth day consisted of the charges
made by the taxedinmst who prepared
his lifeless body for exhibition.
The two tons and a half of fish were eaten
by the pelicans and the water-fowls and
the sea-lions. The milk was drank by the
civet cats and other small animals and by
the monkeys; the latter also ate the eighty
four barrels of apples used in the park last
year. The carrots went for the birds,
and the §283 worth of “miscellaneous
food” consisted of nuts and fruits for the
lessermonkeys and the great Miss Kitty,the
renowned chimpanzee. It costs seventy
five cents per day to feed Miss Kitty.
Her appetite is capricious. Sometimes it
is an orange that she wants. Again she
craves a banana or perhaps an apple.
Then her milk bill is prodigious, and she
varies that diink with an occasional
drink of whisky or a do'e of cod-liver
<>il or a cup offfiot beef-tca. Her feed
ing hour.; more nearly approach those of
a human being than tho-:e of auy other
animal in the menagerie. She has three
meals a day—at morning, noon and night.
The birds are fed once a day and that
is at six in the morning. TJie hippopo
tami, Caliph and Miss Murphy, get their
feed of bran crushed oats and a dozen
loaves of bread every afternoon at 3. Be
sides that they munch hay from morning
until night. The rhinoceros is fed an
almost similar meal at 9 in the morning.
At about the same hour the condors,
eagles and vultures are fed a pound oi
horse meat each.
The antelopes and deer get their
portions of hay and oats at 7 every morn
ing. At about the same time the camels,
native and South African buffalo, the
Kerry bull and sacred hump backed kine
of India receive their food.
The monkey house, irrespective of the
attendants' pay, the interest on the money
invested, wear and tear and accidents,
cost just $8 a week. These eight dollars
represent two barrels of apples, at $3 a
barrel, and $2 worth of bread. That is
what the monkeys cost the Park Depart
ment. They cost the public much more.
There is hardly a day that from $1 to $3
worth of cakes, candy and nuts, not tc
speak of fruits, are not contributed to
the monkey house by men and women,
children and nurses. These tid-bits are
gratefully accepted, fiercely fought over
and greedily devoured.
The sight of the day is the feeding oi
the bears. There are ten bears in the
big, iron-barred pit. There are two Po
lar bears, a grizzly or two, and several
brown and black bears. The Polars are
separated by a dividing iron fence from
their darker cousins, as a closer relation
ship would probably lead to a strife, ir
which the Arties would come out vic
torious. The Polar bears are frightfully
powerful, and have tempers that require
little to inflame. The bear food costs the
park $2.50 a day in addition to the odds
and ends furnished by the curious visitors
moved to generosity by the sign “Do not
fefed the animals.” The regulation diet
consists of forty' loves of bread, weighing
I ninety pounds. When this is tossed into
the pit there is a scramble, a wrestle and
a hustling, and the strongest bear gets
the largest share. This bread is stale and
consequently hard. The bear is clumsy
in body but agile in intellect. He does
not relish hard bread crust any more than
man does. Therefore when he gets a loaf
more than ordinarily hard he takes it to
the water basin in one corner of his cage
and dips it in the water until it is soft
enough not to do injury to his teeth.
Only a Beauty in Profile.
“I have walked about the public
buildings in this city for a good many
years, and I have learned iu that time
something about beauty,” said a well
known Washington correspondent to a
Washington Post reporter. “Did it ever
occur to you that a sitting posture is a
thousand times more attractive in some
people than when they stand, while a
beauty in profile is homeliness itself when
a front view is presented?
“I knew a young lady employed in the
Postofiioe Department by sight for several
years. I have seen her sitting at her
desk, bending over her work month in
and month out. Her profile was a study,
and with all my critical tendency I never
saw where an improvement could be
made. She was the quintessence of
beauty, and passing her door and seeing
her sitting there was one of the things
that made the journey pleasant. I met a
friend one day- and asked him if he knew
her. He answered that he did, but
when I hinted that she was one of the
most beautiful ladies I had ever seen, he
only wanted to know where I had been
keeping myself. I spoke to several peo
ple who had occasion to see my goddess
of beauty now and then in transacting
business with her office, but from not
one eould I get any sympathy iu my
admiration. Evary one said they could
not imagine whore I could find anything
beautiful to admire in that young lady.
“I began to think that I had been the
subject of an optical delusion, and when
I made my next pilgrimage by her office
door I glanced in, and there she sat,
that profile that defied criticism standing
out boldly, the ear perfect aud such a
tasteful arraugement of hair as would
have made Venus herself envious.
There could be no mistake. I said tc
myself that the people about the Post
office Department were chumps and
nothing else. One day as I walked
down F street at about 4 o'clock I no
ticed a young lady, snort of stature and
homely of face, fifteen feet from me,
coining in the opposite direction.
There was nothing about her that should
attract my attention except that she wore
rather a sour expression of countenance
aud walked in an ungraceful manner.
As she came alongside me I happened to
glance at her, and I tell you I was star
tled. There was that faultless profile
that had been the subject of my admira
tion for so many mouths. I looked
back, the profile had passed and my de
lusion was gone.
“I have had many similar experiences.
A homely profile has developed into a
baautiful face. A beauty when frisking
about with a tennis racket in her hand
sobers down in appearance when quietly
seated. A face lovely in animation
might become unattractive when in rest,
and vice versa. So, you see, that beauty
is not one of the exact sciences after all.”
Mileage of Locomotives.
Says a railroad man: “A passenge,
engine averages sixty pounds of coal to
the mile, and travels about 56,000 miles
per year, while a freight engine averages
ninety pounds of coal to the mile and
makes about 43,000 miles per year, while
yard engines burn less. Freight engines
travel much slower than passengers and
thei-efore burn more coal per mile. The
largest mileage made in 1888 by a pas
senger engine was 81,000 miles, and by a
freight engine 50,000 miles,"
Talking 1500 Miles Through a Wire.
The longest distance over which tele
phoning can be maintained is uncertain.
Seven hundred and fifty miles is a com
mon daily occurrence, but two gentlemen
are reported to have quite recently car
ried on a protracted conversation between
Charleston, S. C., and Omaha, Neb., a
distance of about 1500 miles.
“CITIZEN TRAIN.”
I*l IE CAREER OF AMERICA’S
MOST ECCENTRIC MAN.
What He Says About Himself—How
He Talks anti Acts —A Great
F end of Children—A.
Queer Character.
When George Francis Train was com
mitted to jail in Boston. September 24
last, the manner in which he filled out
the regular commitment blank at once
furnished some points of interest con
cerning himself and reflected a phase of
his curious mental character. When
Mr. Train handed the blank back to the
prison official it read as follows:
“Name, George Francis Train, more
commonly known as the champion
crank! Birthplace, 21 High street,
Boston. Residence, Continental Hotel,
New York city, now, but generally in
some jail! Color, octoroon. Age,
sixty. Sex, male. Height, 5 feet 11
inches. Birthplace of father, Boston.
He founded Boston Port Society and
Father Taylor’s Seamen's Bethel! Birth
place of mother, Waltham, Mass. My
room, bed, desk in homestead 200 years
old still shown to strangers 1 Married,
yes! Wife died 1879. Education,
three months winter school. Prop
erty, one-half of Omaha when I
choose to become sane! Ever in
reform school? Yes; three times
around the world, twenty-seven times
across Atlantic. Occupation, aristocratic
loafer. Offense charged, Helping poor
printer buy printing press sixteen yenrs
ago. Nuinbe,-of times committed, twice
for this one offense, In fourteen jails for
telling the truth. Sentence or otherwise,
so long as blackmailer pays my board !
Have not paid a ceut for anything, and
don’t intend to! Witness, Geo. Francis
Train, who has Boston, Bay State, Re
public, American justice’s generating
power in a steel trap! Signed, Geo. Fran
cis Train, Fifteenth Jail.”
Train is undoubtedly America’s chief
eccentric. He says it is a great honor to
be publicly known as a crank when one
is a talented crank. “I despise a chat
tering fool or a dull clod,” he once said
to the writer, “but a gifted lunatic, like
myself, shines like a diamond in an
Ethiopian’s ear.”
Train once made a speech iu Daven
port, lowa, which Austin Corbin de
scribed as “about one of the best
speeches I ever heard.” It was in 1873
that Judge Barrett, ou the testimony of
Surgeon-General Hammond, found that
he was non compos mentis. “Insane,
but harmless,” was the verdict. Train
talks in epigrams. His conversation
scintillates with little brilliants, and he
is seen at his best in entertaining a party
of friends with some of his personal
reminiscences. He has traveled all over
the world, first as a rich merchant,
broker and financier, and later as an
“aristocratic loafer,”as he describes him
self. His letters to the newspapers dur
ing oue of his round-the-world voyages
were collected in a volume in 1848, and
an interesting and brilliant book it is.
Only a limited number of copies were
printed and it is now very rare.
During the past summer Citizen Train
received a copy of this book by mail from
some unknown friend. As he tore the
wrapper from it in front of the Continen
tal Hotel he said: “There's a book that
contains more information than the Bible.
It is better written and some day will sell
for its weight iu gold when you can buy a
Bible anvwhere for fifteen cents.”
Citizen Train’s title of “champion
crank’’ has been pretty well earned. lie
is full of idiosyncracies that would retain
the belt for him, but being a “brilliant
lunatic” enables him to do occasionally
things which distance all competitors.
No one but Train could have for years
denied himself speech with all mankind
as absolutely as if he had been dumb.
During this long period of silence he
would communicate only through the
medium of the p n and pencil.
He carried a little paper pad in his
pocket, and if any caller in Madison
Square Park or at the Ashland House,
where he then lived, desired an inter
view with the “philosopher,” lie had to
content himself with digging it out of
Train's eccentric ehirography. He wrote
rapidly, but briefly, and always said a
great deal in small space. He has not
shaken hands with any one for many
years, because, he says,the contact would
weaken his vitality, distribute his geuius
through all the population and reduce
him iutellectuallv and physically to the
level of the common people. “I stand
on the summit of the mountain,” he says,
“and all the rest of the world grovel in
the valley below.” When a man in
Madison Square Paifc asked him if it
paid to keep his mouth shut, he wrote on
a card: “Yes; silence is golden, and 1
am the Comstock lode.
Train found his speech during the ex
citement growing out of the trial of the
Anarchists in Chicago. He thought these
people were not getting a fair show and
he wanted t take the stump in their be
half. He announced his intention to
speak in their interest. He did speak in
this city, but his reception was not very
kind. '‘lnspector Byrnes told me,” said
Mr. Train, speaking of this incident,
“that he would send a squad of police to
my meeting to protect me. I told him he
could send his police if he wished to, but
they would be required to pony up the
price at the door or they couldn’t get in.
The police came,” continued Mr. Train,
“and they had to pay, too.”
In May, 1888, Train left New York
with the avowed attention of never re
turning. On the eve of his departure he
said: “Mr. Jones, the manager of the
Grand Opera House at Omaha, has got
up a syndicate of bankers, and he has ar
ranged with me to give a 100 lectures in
a 100 cities. I will expose fraud. What
will be the consequence! Blaine, Cleve
land and Depew, will all refuse to run
Chicago will go down to the bottom of
Lake Michigan." His 100 lectures in a
100 cities did not pan out, and he went
into voluntary exile for awhile. Return
ing to New York and again taking up his
place in Madison Square Park, he receiv
ed a royal welcome from the thousands of
children whose friend he is and who re
gard him as a man only second to Santa
Claus. During the past summer he took
crowds of children every Saturday to
Cherry Hill, Central Park, where the
afternoon would be spent picnicking.
Train would engage a photographer, and
these joyous parties would be photo
graphed. Mr. Train being a prominent
figure ia the foreground. Train has over
a hundred of these pictures. —New York
World. _________
He Did Whip the Grizzly.
Colonel Thomas,F. Barr, Assistant Ad
vocate-General of the Army, arrived at
the Grand Pacific last evouing, says the
Chicago Tribune. He is going out with
General Crook to investigate tee Leaven
worth prison, but when he met the
General in the rotunda of the hotel the
trip was dismissed with a word and the
evening passed in discussion of bear huut
iug.
“I see,” said Colonel Barr, by way of
opening the conversation, “that you say
no man ever engaged in a hand-to-hand
fight with a grizzly bear and got away
alive.”
“Yes, sir, I said that,’ the General re
plied with emphasis. “And I will even
go further. I will state that I don’t be
lieve there would be enough left of a man
who would do that to build a tombstone
over.”
Colonel Barr smiled and said: “Gene
ral did you ever meet Tom Selkirk in the
Bad Lauds?”
“The Scotch Indian trapper?”
“Yes.”
“I did.”
“Strong man, eh?”
“Strong, indeed.”
“He whipped a bear single handed.’
“Don’t believe a word of it.”
“But he did.”
“Now, Colonel, I’ve been hunting bear
for twenty-five years, and you ought to
know better than to tell me that.”
“But it's a fact.”
“How did he do it?”
“Choked it to death.”
General Crook arose and frowned.
“Colonel Barr,” he said, “I have al
ways esteemed you a gentleman and an
officer,” and walked away. Colonel Barr
sat still and grinned. The General walked
around the iioiel for two or three laps,
then came back, and with his hands
buried deep in his pockets stood in fr*nt
of the Colonel.
“Barr,” he said, “as man to man. llow
old was that bear?”
“About two months, I reckon.”
The General took the Colonel's arm
without a word and executed a right face.
The pair marched due south twenty-five
feet, wheeled, and moved west until they
were lost behind the red cedar partition,
and shortly thereafter this conversation
floated over the partition:
“Well, General.”
“Colonel.”
And then there was deep silence.
The Black Bishop of the Niger.
The Right Rev. Samuel Adjai Crow
ther, D. I)., missionary bishop of the
Niger territory, is now staying at the
Church Missionary house in Salisbury
square, Fleet street, says the Pall Mali
Gazette. He has come over to England
from Africa upon a special mission, namely
to raise funds for the building of anew
church on the Niger. The bishop, who
is a venerable-booking old gentleman, now
iu his eighty-first year, very quiet in
manner and with all the impressive ac
tions which belong to the Africau race,
has had a life full of adventure, which
has been almost entirely devoted to the
propagation of the Christian religion
among his fellow natives. While yet a
child he was kidnapped from his tribe—
the Yorubas—and sold in Lagos in 1822.
He was however, rescued by a British
ship, taken to Sierra Leone and educated
there by the Church Missionary Society.
He was baptized in 1825, was afterward
employed as a teacher and in 1843, hav
ing been ordained he was sent to his own
country, Yoruba, to assist in the conver
sion of his own people. In. 1857 he was
appointed leader of the new Niger mis
sion and on St. Peter’s day, 1864, he was
consecrated at Canterbury Cathedral the
first Bishop of the Niger. Since that
date his whole time had been devoted to
the conversion of the heathen in those
two regions.
Clothes for Animals.
“It may sound very odd to most peo
ple when a suggestion is made that horses
and stock generally should wear clothes,”
said M. P. Kay, the agent of the Hu
mane Society, to a reporter of the Wash
ington Post, “but that is one of the inno
vations that is sure to be reached in time.
In Norway they now have their cattle
graze while covered with blankets, yet
we in the United States ignore such
methods of producing good results in the
treatment of stock. A cow that has
boon giving a liberal supply of milk dur
ing the summer will continue giving the
same quantity if, when the chill air of
January comes along, she is kept warm,
but if that is not done the supply will
fall off. There is a livery stable keeper
in this town who declared to me some
time ago that he believed that horses
should wear night shirts, and that they
would be just as beneficial to them as
they are to men.”
“What are the styles of clothing that
you would consider suitable?”
“They should be made warm enough
to keep them comfortable from the time
cold weather sets in until it has passed,
and should be made to fit the animals for
which they are intended.”
To Avoid Accidents in Factories.
Avery useful invention, tending to
lessen the possibility of accidents in fac
tories. is now being extensively adopted
in England. The breaking of a glass,
which is adjusted against the wall of
every room iu the mill, will at once stop
th* engine, an electric current being es
tablished between the room and tlia
throtle valve of the engine, shutting off
the steam in an instant. By this means
tire engine was stopped at one of the
mills recently in a few seconds, and a
yong girl, whose clothes had become
entangled in an upright shaft, was re
leased Uninjured.
WOMAN’S WORLD.
PLEASANT LITERATURE FOR
FEMININE READERS.
DRESSING TWO DAUGHTERS.
Two sisters of nearly the same age in
England are not arrayed now in the same
colors nor stuff, but in tints and mate
rials which complement and harmonize
with one another, and thus clothed they
send the young women forth to conquer.
The only bad feature of this plan is that
in order to show one another off the
girls must stay together.
THE WEAR OF WOMEN’S SHOES.
More leather is worn out by active
women in the house than on the street.
Climbing stairs, rubbing the feet against
chair legs and the fashion of sitting upon
the feet are among the causes for this.
The wear of uppers of women’s shoes by
the friction of the skirts is greater than
many people suppose. Men's trousers do
very little damage compared to the heavy
and constant rubbing of the skirts against
the back of the shoes.
There are no shoes made for women
that will compete with men’s calf shoes
in durability under hard knocks. Unfor
fortunatcly, women do not and will not
wear calfskin shoes; they are at a disad
vantage in this respect —New York Tele
gram.
ANOTHER FEMALE OCCUPATION.
Some of the uses men and women are
put to are very pecular. Now we hear
of a large wholesale eloak house down
town where a dozen girls are employed.
They are picked girls, representing the
grades between school misses of twelve
and queenly matrons of thirty-five.
They are hired to show off cloaks to mer
chants in town to stock for the winter.
The girls have all the different styles of
cloaks ready in a little room, and as they
put on the different kinds, one at a time,
they parade down a long room before the
merchants. They can display 100 cloaks
in a few minutes, making the most rapid
changes as they pass through the little
room where the goods are piled. —New
York Sun.
WHY HE MARRIED HER.
“How did I come to fancy my wife?”
repeated an old gentlemau, one of the
successful men of this age, whose wife
was noted rather for her domestice virtues
than social qualities. “Why I saw her
Bewing, busy mending and repairing the
clothes of her little brother. I had been
meeting society girls, who sat idle and
listless, or who stared hard at me, but I
never felt drawn to them. When I saw
Lucy bending gracefully over a bit of
plain sewing and repairing rents and
sewing on buttons I thought of whut *h*
would be in her own home. It made mo
wish to have her in mine. I knew she
would make a good wife, and she has.”
Now, girls, remember this. NVho
knows but you may weave a young
man’s heart m with your needle. Men
like domestic girls, and sewing is the
best accomplishment a woman can have.
Remember, too, that domesticity is not
incompatible with social qualities, for
some of the best housekeepers and most
devoted wives and mothers are queens in
tociety.
WHAT A PRETTY WOMAN IS TIRED OF.
lam tired of the woman who culti
vates her brains at the expense of her
heart.
Tired of meu who don’t take care of
womeu.
Of clothes made by a machine that np
when you pull the string.
Of meu who climb over you between
the acts, tear your gown, make you cross,
aud knock over the bonnet of the woman
in front of you.
Of children who arc dressed in silk
and lace rather than in flannel, and who
wear more jewelry than they do good
manners.
Of mothers who think children a nuis
ance.
Of hearing Providence blamed for
one’s own mistake.
Of the continued claim that women
are not paid ns well as men when they do
as good work.
Of sewing on shoe buttons and sharp
ening lead pencils.
I am tired of almost everything except
the American girl, good looking men,
chocolate, hot bread for breakfast, broad
nibbed quills, and a big sheet ot paper
to write on, fox terriers, and babies.
Given a nice, sweet, plainly dressed baby,
from the cannibal to an angel in heaven,
there is a keen appreciation of it. —New
York Sun.
AN ECONOMICAL WOMAN.
“Hannah's husband's sister sent her a
barrel of old clothes while I was there,”
said an old lady after a visit to her daugh
ter iu the country. “She had the barrel
opened in the shed chamber. It was
filled with old dresses, underclothes and
stockings.
“You would be surprised to see the
useful things she got out of that barrel.
She ripped up, washed and pressed two
old dresses and made herself a morning
dress out of them; she found a flannel
shirt all good but the edging, so she
ravelled out some superannuated stock
ings and made some trimming from the
yarn and put on the skirt; she ripped off
some Hamburg from the underclothing
and used it again; she got quite a supply
of stockings for herself and the children
by mending and cutting down; out of
some of the large pieces she made petti
coats for the children, and out of the
small pieces she made a slumher quilt to
throw on the bed cool nights. Wtat was
left didn’t amount to much for rugs or
carpets.” “It is nice to have rich rela
tions,” we ventured to remark. “They
are not rich,” replied grandma. “They
are not as comfortable as Hannah, for
Hannah's husband owns a good farm,
while they are obliged to hire rent I
shouldn’t be surprised if a very comfort
able house had gone into their rag bag or
iu some such wav, but I ought not to
complain for Hannah gets some of it, and
she’s handy and knows how to use it. I
always told your grandfather a man must
ask his wife to thrive. Hannah was al
ways like me, knew how to save.”—
Lewuton (Me.) Journal.
WHY WOMEN ARE FASCINATING.
The power of fascination inherent in
women may, moreover, be divided into
two kinds. All of us have seen the old
lady, generally whitehaired, with kindly,
pleasant features, on whieh time has
set no unfriendly mnrk, who still retains
all her attractiveness. Note how the boys
and girls adore her. They will go to hei
and confide their sorrows, their hopes',
their ambitions, even when they would
not breathe a word to their mothers. The
kindly, loving interest evinced iu a lad’s
affairs by such a one has time and again
first implanted the impulses in his heart
which eventually id him on to an hon
orable career.
Quickly, almost by stealth, the r ood
is done by such, aud the good seed sown
whieh will ripen in after time into a rich
aud abundant crop. On the other hand,
we have most of us seen, perhaps in real
life, certainly on the stage, the fasci
nating adventuress who, by her thralling
beaute de diablo, enslaves men’s souls
and leads them (on the stage) to dare all
for her sake. Such is directly opposed to
(he sweet old lady in her old-fashioned
chair, and these two form the opposite
poles between which the women who
fascinate vary.
Types differ, and any one you may
select has some position between these
two opposites. Take, for instance, a
pretty and maybe witty woman who,
hardly of her own free will, makes every
man fall in love with her to a greater or
less degree. She may be innocent of all
evil intention, but her position on the
scale is not vastly removed from that of
the melodramatic sorceress. Or, again,
take the instance of the pretty young
matron who, while devoted to home,
husband and children, yet hits several in
timate friends of the male persuasion.
But her influence is all for good. Her
fascination is exerted in a worthy cause
and she has found out a great truth—that
there is no friendship so lasting, so true
and so pleasant as one between persons
of opposite sexes, where a true feeling
exists and there is no pretense to love
making. Such a woman, if she lives
long enough, bids fair to develop into a
snowy-haired old lady on whose friend
ship the children will rely .—Brooklyn
Eagle.
FASntON NOTES.
Stiff collarettes, girdles and epaulets
of jet are very stylish.
Moorish jackets cannot be worn to ad
vantage by plump girls.
Flat muffs are confined almost ex
clusively to carriage and evening wear.
Short cloaks for evening wear are pop
ular made of satin brocade or mateiasse
silk.
Flouncs have appeared upon dressy
winter toilets, dinner costumes and tea
gowns.
The simplicity of fashionable coiffures
is one of the distinctive charms of the
season.
A charming adjunct for the chatelaine
is a tiny mail pouch iu oxidized silver,
for stamps.
In furs fr>r mourning wear black
Persian lamb, black astrakhau and black
fox are preferred.
A pretty new fur collar is wired to flare
out from the face and has a fur plastron
shaped to a point at the waist.
The real Tam O'Bhanter cap is made
of black and brown cloth, and is trimmed
at one side with the historical quill.
The rancy for a fur robe on the bed
has lately come into prominence and is
now regularly considered by the fur
rier.
The woman who wishes to appear well
dressed will not use ribbons on her gowns
unless she cun be lavish of handsome
ones.
Amid the variety of new styles seal
skin wraps have not lost a shade of pop
ularity aud are made up in all sorts of
shapes.
Feather trimming is much used as a
bordering to the silk G'onncmaras lined
with plush, intended as wraps for even
ing wear.
Round muffs are rather larger than in
past seasons, the slightest increase in size
causing those made of fluffy furs to ap
pear quite large.
The very long, wavy white furs are
most delicate aud beautiful and also very
becoming, especially when employed to
border opera cloaks and mantles.
Long cloaks and coats have made
friends with short wraps and jackets,
and are no longer rivals, each forming an
important part of a stylish wardrobe.
For the making of dancing toilets and
for debutantes’ gowns a variety of lovely
gold-meshed tulles, stripesl and flowered
gauzes and nets in exquisite evening tints
are imported.
In long wraps the choice lies between
a tight-fitting, single-breasted ulster, a
princess coat, a Russian coat and the new
Russian circular, which fits closely at the
back and falls loosely at the front.
The fashionable contrasts in colors and
materials for house wear are not unlike
those seen in street gowns. Velvet may
be united with any material from tulle
to serge, but is most frequently combined
with wooljgoods.
The great distinctive tendency of the
times Is to silk. The typical fashionable
woman is silk robed from the skin out,
even though the last garment, the one for
the public eye, be of Irish frieze or al
leged homespun.
The shoulder cape is growing more pop
ular daily with those sufficiently slender
to wear them becomingly. A novelty
destined to find great favor, fits the
figure closely in front like a basque,
while the back is a round cape.
A charming Scottish toque is in black
i velvet, with a soft crovrn laid in plaits
like the regulation article. Around the
edge is a double row of jet, and in front
a dark blue butterfly is held in place
with gold pins and an aigrette. The
[ chic is in the twist of the velvet.
WHAT A FORTUNE
Is a good hoalthy,pearly skin, Few are
aware of the short time It takes for a
disordered liver to cause blotches on the
face, and adark greasy skin. One bottle
of Beggs’ Blood Purifier and Blood Ma
ker will restore the organ to its natural
and healthy state, mulcleanse the blood
of all impurities. It Is meeting with
wonderful success. We guarantee every
bottle. M. F. Word, druggist. meh7-ly
BUCKI.ENS ARNICA ITaIVE.
The best salve in the world for cuts,
bruises, sores, uloers, salt rheum, fsTor
sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains,
corns, and all skin eruptions, and posi
tively cures piles, or no pay required.
It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfac
tion, or money refunded, Prioe 25 cents
per box. For sale by J. It. WlkleA Cos.,
druggists. mchl7-ly
English Spavin Liniment removes all
hard, soft or calloused lumps and blem
ishes from hor>es. Blood spavin, curbs,
splints, sweeny, ring-bone, stifles,
sprains, all swollen throats, coughs, eto.
Save sf>o by uso of one bottle. Warran*
ted. Sold by M. F. Word, druggist,
Cartersville. novl-ly
ADVICE TO MOTHERS.
Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syruf,
for children teething, is the prescription
of one of tiie best female nurses and
physicians in the United States, and
has been used for forty years with never
failing success by millions of mothers
for their children. During the process
of teething, its value is incalculable. It
relieves the child from pain, oures dys
entery and dyarrhoea, griping in the
bowels, and wind colie. By giving
health to the child it rests the mother.
Price 25c. a bottle. augl9-ly
WHY IS IT
That people linger along always com
plaining about that continued tired feel
ing? One bottle of Boggs' Blood Puri
fter and Blood Maker will entirely re
move this feeling, give them a good ap
petite and regulate digestion. For sale
byM. F. Word. may7-ly
A GOOD GOUGH STRUT.
There ie nothing parents should be so
careful about as selecting a oough syrup.
Beggs’ Chery Cough syrup costs no
more than the cheap and Inferior nos
trums thrown on the market. The bee*
la none too good, be sure and get Beggs'
Cherry Cough syrup. We keep It on
hand at all times. M. F. Word, Drug
gist. mar7-ly
CHILDBIRTH MADE EASY
By a wonderful medicine offered by us.
This remedy, after thirty years’ trial,
proves to bo the panacea for woman’s
sufferings.
After an active practice of thirty years
Madam Chavel'e began the use of this
remedy, which she calls Legacy to suf
fering woman. It gives tone and vigor
to the muscles enfeebled by long con
tinued distention, and relieves the gnaw
ing, grinding pains always experienced
by preguaut WOiiiCiJ, anu when the hour
of oonflnement arrives, the parts having
been previously put In good condition
by the uso of this Legacy, the labor ie of
•hort durations, the pains neither so se
vere nor so prostrating as usual, the
womb is held in its proper position,
whieh could not have existed without
its use. Price SI.OO. feb2s-ly
BEGGS' CHERRY COUGH SYRUP
Is giving splendid satisfaction to ths
trade and the sales are positively mar
velous, which can be accounted for In no
other way except that it ie without doubt
the best on the market. Ask for and be
sUre you get the genuine. We keep ft.
M. F. Word, druggist. m&y7-ly
My motner nas naa a ooutfh ror twen
ty years, pneumonia leaving her with a
bronchial trouble. Two years ago, her
lungs becoming involved, she became
very much emaciated and lost all
strength, being under regular treatment
of a physician and taking medicine all
the hours of the day. This continued
until a year ago when I saw yonr adver
tisement of Acker’s English Remedy for
consumption and procured a bottle, as
the tickling In her throat was unremit
ting and so Irritating as to make talking
impracticable. Sho was so much re
lieved that another bottlo was procured
and wo now buy by the case, she never
being without It. She has no physician
and takes no other medicines. She re
marked lately that if she had not pro
cured It when sho did sho would be dead.
We have recommended it to others, who
always receive benefit from it. If any
ono desiring further particulars will ad
dress me with a stamp I will answer
with pleasure, as I deem it the best
medicine made. A trial only Is neces
sary to convince any one of its merits.
Very respectfully,
D. W. Simmons, P. M.,
jan3l-ly Cave Spring, r,j.
For sale by J. R. Wikle <fe Cos.
I desire to state voluntarily and for the
benefit of the public, that having been
troubled with a severe bronchial d*m
culty and a terrible cough for th# past
two years, so that at times I felt almost
discouraged and even despaired of get
ting better, I have, through the use oi
Dr. Acker’s English Remedy for con
sumption, been entirely cured, and can
not say too much in its favor. Judging
from its effects upon me,l consider it the
greatest remedy in the world for all
throat, bronchial and lung troubles.
jan3l-ly G - G - Leake,
Ceda r town, Ga.
For sale by J. R. Wikle A Cos.
CHEAP MONEY.
The Atlanta Trust and Banking Com
pany is prepared to negotiate loans on
Bartow county farm lands, at 6 and 8 per
cent., with reasonable commission.
Apply to DOUGLAR t\ IKLE,
ff Attorney at Law.
Prof- Loisette’s
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