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LOVE’S HERITAGE.
ISend o’er me, blue as summer skies,
The nzure splendor of thine eyes,
And smile with lips whose murmur tolls,
Like lingering sound of*far-off liells
O’or shining seas, that thou for me
Art skies and sound and summer son!
Skies that contain the sun, the moon,
The stars, the birds, tbe winds of June;
And tones that, swelling far and near,
Bear more than music to mine ear;
And sen, alxive whoso changeless huo
The sun is bright, the sky is blue!
Art thou mine star'i Bweot love thou’lt more
Than all that over twilight bore.
Art thou my songV l>ear love, from thoo
The whole world takos its melody.
Art thou—nay! what con words impart
To tell one dream of what thou art/
Thou art my nil; I know that love
Bains from the deepening dome above
In silver dewdrops, that the earth
Beoeives with hushed and solemn mirth;
So thou—all seasons linked in one—
Art flower, and bird, and breeze, and sun!
—William M. Briggs,
A MISSING BUTTON,
(Aj & j rr\ £j 1 C south II E E n F with U L
/ \ room,
L %iJ a b a v window
- Vjj; l^\ 2 \ f' 1 " °* ldossoin
. ing plants; a
l,ri « ht firo K ,ow -
just struck nine at night—all these
things met Mrs.Chickerly’s eyo as
she laid down her book and yawned.
Hho was a plump and fair-fnecd
young matron of some font or five
and twenty, with bright auburn hair,
soft liluo eyes and a complexion whose
roses stood iu need of no artificial
rouge.
“Fanny,” said Mr. Chickerly, look¬
ing up from his newspaper, “did yon
cull on those Carters to-day?”
“No; I never thought of it.”
“And they leave town to-morrow
morning; and Carter is absurdly
sensitive to all slights, fancied or real.
Fanuy, I desired you to make a point
of calling,”
"Well, I did intend to, Frank,”
pouted Mrs. Chickerly, “but one can’t
think of everything.”
“You can not, it seems ."
“It appears to me that you are
making u mountain out of a mole¬
hill,” said Fanny, rather tartly.
“It mny affect my business very
seriously. Carter's house carries great
influence with it."
Mrs. Chickerly was silent, patting
the velvet carpet with her foot iu a
manner that indicated some annoy¬
ance.
“I shall havo to Jeavo here vory
early to-morrow morning,” raid her
husband, presently.
“To go to Heonersvillo, about Aunt
Elizabeth’s will?”
“Yes.”
“Oh, I wouldn't, Frank."
“Why not?”
“It’s such hitter odd weather to
travel in, and Aunt Elicnboth is such
a whimsical old woman, it's as likely ns
not that she’ll change her mind about
making a will when you get there. 1
wouhLwait IfniChickorly a little, if J were you."
smiled.
“That would be your systom of
doing things, Fanuy, but not mine."
"My ?” system, Frank ! What do you
mean
“1 mean that yon believe in putting
things ofl indefinitely, and not always
ju the wisest manner. I wish you'd
break yourself of that luibit, Fanny.
Believe me, it will some day bring you
to grief.”
Mrs. Chickerly contracted her
pretty eyebrows.
“1 don't believe iu being lectured,
Frank.”
“And I don’t very often lecture
you, my dear; pray give luo credit
for that.”
“You didn’t think you were marry¬
ing an angel when you took me, 1
hope?"
“No, my love. I thought I win
marrying a very pretty little girl,
whoso few faults might easily be cor
rooted,"
“Faults! ITave I any great faults,
Frank?”
"Little faults mny sometimes entail
groat consequences, Fanny.”
“If you scold any more I shall go
out of the room.”
“You need not, for I am going my¬
self to pack my valiso. By tho way,
there’s a button off the shirt I want
to wear to-morrow, 1 wish you
would come up stairs and sew it on
for me."
“I will, presently.”
“Why can’t you como now?”
“1 just want to finish this book ;
there’s duly ono more chapter. ”
And Fauny opened her her volume
resolutely that husband thought
it best not to contest tbe question.
Sitting all alone iu front cf the
bright tire, Mrs. Chickerly gradually
grew drowsy, and before she knew it
she had drifted off' into the shadowy
regions of dreamland.
She was roused bv tho clock strik¬
ing 11.
“Dear me! how late it is?" she
thought, with a little start. “I must
go'up stairs immediately. There, 1
forgot to tell cook about haviug break
fast at 5 to-uiorrow morning, and
course she’s abed and asleep by
time. I’ll l>e up early euough to
to it myself, that will be just
well.”
Aud laying this salvo to her eon
ecieuce, Mrs. Chickerly turned off
tlie gas, and crept drowsily up
stairs.
“Fanny, Fanny, it’s past 5,
cook hasn't come down stairs yet.
Are yon sure you spoke to her
night?”
Mrs. Chickerly rubbed her eyes
stared sleepily around.
“Oh, Frank, I forgot all
speaking to her last night," she crud,
with conscience-stricken face.
I'll ruu right up—she can have
breakfast ready iu n very few
Utes.
She sprang out of bed, thrust
feet into a pair of silk-lined slippers,
and threw a shawl over her
ders.
Mr. Chickerly bit his lip !i li
checked her.
“No need, Fauny,” he said, a liith
bitterly; “I must leave the houeein
teen minutes or mini the only
train. It’s of no use speaking to the
cook now.”
“I am so sorry, Frank.”
Mr. Chickerly did not answer; he
was apparently absorbed in turning
over tho various articles in his bureau
drawer, while Fanny sat shivering on
tho edge of tlio bed, cogitating liow
hard it was for her husband to start on
a long journey that bitter morning
without any breakfast.
“I can make a cup of coffee myself
over the furnace fire,” she exclaimed,
springing to her feet. But Mr. Chiok
erly again interposed.
“Sit down, Fanny, please. I wou’d
rather you would sew this button on
the neck of my shirt. I liavo packed
tho others—those that are fit to wear.
I have shirts enough, but not ono in
repair.”
Fanny crimsoned as she remembered
how often, iu tbe oonrso of tho last
month or two, she had solemnly prom¬
ised herself to devote a day to tho
much-needed renovation of the hus¬
band's shirts.
Hho looked round for her thimblo.
“I left it down stairs last night.
I’ll get it in a minute.”
The housemaid had just kindled a
fire iu the sitting-room grate; it was
blazing and crackling cheerfully
among tho fresh coals, and Fanny
could not resist tho temptation of
pausing a moment to warm her chilled
lingers and watch tho greenish-purple
spires of flame shoot merrily up the
chimney, until sho heard her hus¬
band’s voice calling her imperatively ;
“Fanny, Fanny, what aro you
doing?”
“Oh, dear,” thought the wife, as
sho ran up tlio stairs, “I wish Frank
wouldn’t bo so cross. Ilo’s always in
hurry.”
Little Mrs. Chickerly never stopped
to think that tho real reason was
that sho, his wife, was never “in a
hurry. ”
Tho needle threaded, tho thimble
fitted on, nu appropriate button was
next to bo selected.
“Oh, dear, Frank, I haven’t ono the
rigid size!”
“Sow on what you havo then, but
I JO quick 1”
Blit Fanny was quito certain there
was “just tho right button” some¬
where in her work-basket,uud stopped
to fciircli for if.
“There, 1 told you so!” sho cried,
triumphantly point her holding it tip on tho
of noedlo.
“Well, well, sow it on quick,” said
Mr. Chickerly, glancing ut his watch
nervously;
“Tlmt’s ju d your worrying way,
Frank, as it anybody could sow a but
ton on well in a hurry. There! My
noedlo has como unthreaded.”
“Oh, Fanny, Fanny,” sighed her
liusband, fairly out of patience at last,
“vvliy didn’t you do it Inst night, ns I
begged of you? 1 shall miss the train
and what little chnneo wo had of a
placo in Aunt Elizabeth’s will will bo
sacrificed to your miserable habit of
being always behindhand.”
Fanuy gave him the shirt and bo
gnn t.i whimpir a little, but Mr.
Chickerly had neither tho time nor
tho inclination to pause to sootho her
ilnished petulant manifestations of grief. He
his dressing, caught up his
■aliso with a hurriedly-spoken good
Uy, and ran down tlio stairs two stops
at a time into the street.
“.There lie pvoiAs-l'-rtHu-nHircri
‘aud lie's gone away cross with me,
and all for nothing but a miserable
button! I wish there wasn't such a
itiiug ns n button in tho world !’’ (A
wish which, we much misdoubt, many
another wife than Mrs. Fanny Ohiok
erly has echoed, with perhaps better
reason.)
Mrs. Chickerly was sitting down to
her lit tle dinner a la solitaire, with a
daintily browned chicken, a tumbler
of currant jelly, and a curly bunch of
celery ranged before her, when, to
her surprise, the door openod aud iu
walked her lord and husband.
“Why, Frank, where ny earth did
you come Iroui?” cried the astonished
wife.
"From the office,” coolly answered
Mr. Chickerly.
"But 1 thought you were off for
Scouersville iu such a hurry.”
“1 found myself just five minutes
too Into for tbi> traiu, after having run
all the way to the depot."
"Oh, thnt was too bad."
Chickerly smiled a little ns ho be¬
gun to curve tho chicken.
"Yes, I was a little annoyed at first ;
it did seem rath'r provoking to bo
kept at homo by only a button,"
"What are you going to do?”
“Why, I shall make a second start
to-morrow.”
“I’ll see to it that your breakfast
ready this time, to the second, aud all
your wardrobe iu trim," said Fanny,
rather relieved at tho prospeot of
chnneo of retrieving her character.
“You need not, I have engaged
room ut a hotel near the depot,
can’t run any more risks."
He did not speak unkindly, and yet
Fanny felt that he was deeply dis¬
pleased with her.
“But, Frank—”
“We will not discuss the matter any
furt her, my love, if you please. I have
resolved to say nothing more to you
about reforms. 1 see it is useless,
aud it only tends to foster an unpleas¬
ant state of feeling between us. Shall
I help you to some maeearoni?"
And fairly - deuced. Fanny ate her
dinner with what appetite was left to
her.
Three days afterward Mr. Chickerly
once more made his entrance, just at
dusk, e- irpet-bag in hand, as Fanny
sate njoyiug the ruddy shiuo of
coal-tire and tbe consciousness of
iug performed her duty in the
iug and general renovation of her
band's drawerful oi shirts—a
which alio had long been dreading
postponing.
“Well, how is Aunt
questioned Fanny, when her
duly welcomed and greeted, had
ed himself in the opposite easy-ohair.
“Dead, was tbe brief reply,
“Dead! Oh, t rank! Of her
enemy, apoplexy?”
“Yes.”
‘ ‘Was her wi
“It was. Yppareutiy she had
pected me, on is it* day she herself
pointed ; and < >n my non-arrival
the on dv train that stops, she sent
tii vi l.Twvur, tiifi to her will,
i left a pert v to the
as v ■>v with a
bitter* ml the
j loot of i via hew \ in
j dueed L moment,
to alter her original intention of leav¬
ing it to him. Bhe died the v-ery
next morning.” bowjnnehwas it?”
“Ob, Frank, You
“Ten thousand dollars. see,
Fanny, how much that missing but¬
ton has cost me!”
Fanny Chickerly sat like one con¬
demned, by the utterance of her con¬
science. Not alone tho one missing
button, but the scores—nay, hundreds
—of trifling omissions, forgetfulnesses,
and postponements which made her
lifo ono endless endeavor to “catch
up” with the transpiring present,
seemed to ’present themselves before
her mind's eye. What would this end
in? Was not the present .lesson suf¬
ficiently momentous to teach her to
train herself in a different school?
Hho rose, and came to her husband's
side, laying ono tremulous hand on
his shoulder.
“There shall bo no more missing
bnttous, my love,” she said earnestly.
—New York News.
Perpetual Motion.
Tho idea that perpetual motion may
bo realized, or that a machine may bo
made to run itself until worn out, is
ono of the most fascinating and per¬
sistent fallacies that has ever gamed o
hold upon the human mind. Most of
the machines of this kind have existed
only iu the imagination of tho inven¬
tory but some of the motors havo
been actually built, and a few of them
havo been shown in operation. An
interesting exumplo, recalled tho other
day by President Henry Morton, of
tho Htevens Institute of Technology,
is furnished by tho once famous Itoad
hofer perpetual motion machine.
Large sums of money wero sunk in
this, as in more roceut schemes like
tho “Keoly motor,” and for tho pur
poeo of exposing tho fraud involved, a
small motor was constructed about
eighty years ago by Isaiah Lukens, ut
the suggestion of Nathan Sellers.
This is preserved in tho collection of
tho Franklin Institute at Philadel¬
phia, Tho model consists of a hori¬
zontal circular table on a pivoted ver¬
tical shaft, with two inclined pianos
mounted on wheels cn the table and a
ear containing two removable weights
on each inclined plane. Levers at¬
tached to tho inclined planes and tho
cars aro supposed to transmit to tho
central shaft tlio tendencies of tho in
eliued planes to run from under tho
oars and of tho curs to run down tho
inclined planes, and theso tendencies
nro supposed to rotate tho central
shaft. Tho arrangement is admirably
simple iu more senses than one, but,
wonderful to relate, it scorns to work,
Tho machine stops whou tho woights
aro removed from the cur, but starts
when they arc replaced, aud under fa
vorablo circumstances may ruii iudef
mitely. This startling phenomenon
tends to shuko tho novice’s faith in tho
conservation of energy. Close inves
tigation, liowovor, reveals tho fact
that tho base of tho machino hidos a
train ot clockwork, whoso springs can
bo wound through ono of the orna
mental knobs of tho model’s glass
oaso. This clockwork drives tho plate
on which the central vertical shaft is
pivotod, and tho friotions aro so nd
justed that when tho cars nro loaded
tho turning plate will drivo tho shaft,
but with At tho woights in tho cars tho
friction is iusnffloient.. —T rento n (N.,
T.yAiucncnD.
How Law* Aro Made in France.
The process of legislation iu the
French Chambers is very simple.
Each Chamber may initiato legislation
upon any subject except tho finances;
and a bill upon any subject whatso¬
ever must be passed in all its parts by
a majority voto in both Chambors iu
order to become a law. This is not
only necessary, but it is also suffi¬
cient: i. e., tlio President of the Re¬
public has no voto power upon tho
legislation of the Chambers. Tho
Constitution provides a period of
thirty days between the passage of tho
law l»y the Chambers and its necessary
promulgation by the President of tho
Republic, and reduces this period should to
threo daysiu case tho Chambers
voto that promulgation periods is urgent.. tho
Within those respective llepublio de¬
President of tho may
mand of the Chambers a reconsidera¬
tion of the measure, Constitution and they are accord re¬
quired by tho to
the request. If they repass tho meas¬
ure by majority vote, tho President
must yield and promulgate tho law.
The Chambers can also initiate the
call of tho National Assembly for tho
purposo of amending or revising the
Constitution. The chief question
which has arisen in tlio exercise of
this power is whother tho Chambers
can limit the action of tho National
Assembly by their agreement before¬
hand upon the subjects iu regard to
which tho Constitution mny be
amended or revised. The affirmative
view of this question would bo a secu¬
rity to tho i ights and powers of tho
smaller body, tho Senate, since tho
National Assembly is composed of the
members of the two Chambers in joint
assembly, but the more numerous
Deputies have espoused with audit great
unauimity the negative view;
must be recognized that they havo
the logic of the matter with them.
The National Assembly is the sover¬
eign power iu the Constitution aud
cannot be limited, therefore, by a
branch of the Government, or even by
the' whole Government, in its action.
The National Assembly may consider
any subject it will wbeu once it is or¬
ganized. The Chambers iu joint as¬
sembly also elect the President of the
Republic. —The Cbautauquan.
Where Wolves Abound.
The wolf question . has . . become
again
so serious to stockmen having herds
in the northwestern portion of bouth
Dakota that all sorts of measures are
being discussed for their extermina
tion. Tl-u Hamilton boys, who have
sillies: sjfz.r,
will l>e trat cbed vr it U interest by other
ftoekmen having herds in that section,
Last fall the HamiltoUs took fonr
! grevhoumls out to their ranch and
j have a! out to West Virginia for
i four trail hounds, which arc expected
I to arrive shortly. Those nro eros^
between the blood and fox hounds,
aud mak excellent truiier^
their arrh'a! a desperat attempt ill
be made t xtermi it.» the wolv.' —
New York Advertiser.
BUDGET OF FUN.
JUUMOROU* SKETCHES
VARIOUS SOURCES.
Secret of Su< ■ ess—The Kind It
The Fatal’ Month-A Title AVlth
a 5Ieai ing—At the Money
Changer’s, Etc.
! (piiet store,
' *
Drowsy clerks;
Advertising done
By jerks.
Busy store.
Trade is prime;
Advertising all
The time.
—Brin let's Ink.
TJ5CERTAIN, BUT EAOEB.
“What does the woman want?”
“Sho doesn’t know, but sho is
to get it.”—Judge.
HAD FOLLOWED THE TRIALS.
“Father,” asked the small boy,
“what is ’conflicting testimony?’ ”
“Expert testimony, my son.”—Nor¬
ristown Herald.
A TITLE WITH A MEANING.
Charley Cyimso—“Why aro girls
called misses?”
Freddy Faugle—“Did you ever
’em try to hit oDything?”— Judge.
THE 4 o?LV dbawhack drawback
"Then you have mi disturbing ele
merit Only in yonr^hprch? the u-mster s voice, andgen
orally bo keeps that pretty well under
control. Judge.
THjfclND IT WAS.
Jobnnio (with a book) — “Papa, what
does a ‘conspiracy of silence’ mean?”
I’apa—“Don’t know. Ono in which
womon are not concerned, I fancy.”—
Detroit Free Press.
THE FATAL MONTH.
Mr.—“Wliiit month is it in which it
fs unlucky to Uo married?”
Mrs.—“Great Scott! what a poor
memory you Lave, my dear. We were
married in June.”—Life.
EXPLAINING IT.
Feathorstone—“How is it, Willie, I
was shown into this room? Usually I
go into tho parlor.”
Willie—“Sister said tho clock in
this room was half au hour fast. ”—
Detroit Free I^ess.
THE NATURAL RESULT.
Maude—“Isn't it sad how Ethelinda
has gono off in lief looks? What has
sho Horriot—•‘Trying been doing?”
all tho ‘toilet
hints' in tho Young ^lousowife’s Daily
Companion. "—Judge.
BLOT ON THE SCUTCHEON.
Miss Pruyn—“Where did you got
tho dosigu of your servants’ livery ?”
Sash—“Oh, my ancestors used it!”
Miss Pruyn—“Indeed! By whom
wero they employed?”—Puck.
at Tiuf money changer's.
fifteen LientonanUifj&What! per mw. 'interest You for demand three
month*!’ 1 , ' ygq. blush to own the
h Banker—^T
gnj ^al Aoige money; color—
never!"—M d’Amiens.
k. OPTIMIST.
“My husband,” said Mrs. Sharp,
“is one of the most cheerful of op¬
timists—”
“Indeed?"
“Oh, yes; he never doubts his own
judgment.’’—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
VERY MEAN.
Winkers—“Talking about moan
men, do you know Blinkers?”
Miukers—“Is ho moan?”
Winkers—“Mean! Mean is no name
for it. Why, that fellow is moan
enough to put his name on an um¬
brella.”—New York Weekly.
SUBTLE BUT COSTLY VENGEANCE.
Mrs. Nayborly—“What on earth
are you going to invite that odious
Mrs. Smithlius to your swell dinner
for? I thought you hated her.”
Mrs. Swoething—“Do you suppose
I’m fcoing to give a 820 a plate dinner
and not make her seo mo act as hostess
at it?”—Chicago Record.
STILL USEFUL.
Once’upon a time a Bicycle accosted
a Horse.
“Get off the earth!” said tbe Bi
cyolo; “Iaiu going to supplant you
entirely.”
The Horse smiled.
“Nay, nay," it rejoined, gently;
“they can't- make canned corned-beef
out of you.”—Pack.
PRECAUTIONARY.
Amateur Sportsman—“lour beaters
are uncommonly stout-; I have noticed
the fact before; how is it?”
Head Gamekeeper—“At ordinary
times they are lean enough, sir, but
when we have the gentlemen from
town they always pad their clothes to
prevent the shot going through.”—
Fliegendo Blaettec.
A CONSOLiNO THOUGHT.
Bramble—“Yes, I’m ngly, I know
I’m ugly, but there is one great con
eolation.”
Friend—“What is that?”
Bramble—“If aver I should become
great and the Americau people should
resolve to erect a statue to my
memory, they won’t be able to make
Y^Wlly 6 New
Aork y.
_
BOLD -
Lady-“My father-this is between
ourselves—called on your landlady to
make inquiries about you."
Lady—“Indeed? I thank you for
the^ information. The fact is,
praised yon up to the skies.
cade BUetter.
-
THE CASTE OF VEKE DE VERE.
“Here,” said the nurse, kindlv,
“take this hot drink; it will
von Will sweat, and in the morning '
be all right ••
. Weak as CiiolWy
repulsed the proffered draught.
“Sweat? nevah!” he gasped; “that
is a distinctive perquisite of the work
ing clawses.” It was only a simple
cold, but he let it run into pneumonia
rather than abate,one jot or tittle of
his prejudices.—Puck.
A SENSIBLE OLD LADY.
A recently published book on rail
way systems contains this new version
of the old story of an aged lady’s first
journey by rail. As the train was
pitched down an embankment, anil she
crawled from beneath the wreckage,
she asked a passenger, “Is this Stam¬
ford?”
“No, madam,” replied the maD,
who was pinned doWu by a piece of
timber, “this is not Stamford; it's a
catastrophe!” hadn’t
“Oh!” cried the lady. “TheuI
oughter got off here.”—The Amusing
Journal.
NO SION OF KEG RET.
A drill sergeant of a volunteer regi
pent m drilling a squad whom he was
ms ructiug in the funeral exercise,
slid, Now, lads, I want to see how
well you can do it. I m going to wak
through the ranks, amM wish you to
suppose 1 m the corpse.
He ordered the squad to rest on
their arms reversed, and stand at
ease. Then he walked through the
ranks, and addressed them as follows.
Your arms are all right and your
f?*: 1 UT ° ‘ ngbt ’ V'\ fc thf ' rs f
thing wanting, my lads; you hadn
that look of regret on your face that
you ought to have when a corpse
walks past. f lit-Bits.
—
-
stranger than fiction-.
A certain member of the Michigan
Legislature has a word that is not
nearly as good as his bond, albeit, his
word goes to the miraculous rather
than to the malicious, so that he
really does more good by talking than
if he didn’t talk. The other day a
fellow member who didn’t know his
peculiarities heard him tell some
thing, and shortly after he met an
other member who knew him from a
long time back.
“liy the way,” said the imaginative
member’s new friend, “Mr. Blank told
me a strange thing awhile ago.”
“Ah,” was the immediate response,
“what was it, tho truth?”—Detroit
Free Press.
A Test d Hypnotism,
Some experiments in hypnotism
which Dr. Luys, tho French phy
sician, was recently permitted to try
before tho Socioto <le IJiologio in
Paris, have raised a doubt as to the
genuineness of the new science. Dr.
Tinv« ia „ cnnfirmn,l experiment hvnnntist and
h« made many
When the time for tho public ex
periments before the French society
came Dr. Luys had a subject who hud
lost the little finger of his left hand.
Tho man was put iu ft trance and then
this baud was spread out on a table,
Dr. Luys took a pin and stuck it in
khe taDle at the place where the miss
ing finger would have been. He re
peated the experiment several times,
using pins, needles and knives, and
C(voh time the patient pulled away his
hand and groaned as though in pain,
Just so long as Dr. Luys had the man
in hand the experiments wore highly
successful. ^ Sonre-fu tire oritur
eicians present objected to liis an
uouncing just what he was going to
do before each experiment. Dr. Luys
turned the patient over to them.
They laid his hand under the table,
held a newspaper in front of his face
so that ho could not see what was
being done, and then made several
jabs with a steel pen at the spot where
the little finger should be. Each time
the patient groaned and pulled his
hand away. Then ono of tho phy
siciuns ftrgned that if the patient was
shamming it would bo easy enough
for him to know just when the pen
was stuck in the table, as tho scratch
ing noise it mode was distinctly aud
ible.
8o it was quietly agreed to simply
put the pen within a fraction of an
inch of tho table. This was done, tho
newspaper still being held before the
man’s eyes, nnd ho never made a move.
Not a groan nor an attempt to pull
tho hand away followed the experi¬
ment. Dr. Luys was amazed, but at¬
tempted no explanation.—San Fran¬
cisco Chronicle.
International Stamps.
Postmaster-General Bissell has re¬
ceived from the French Government s
request to enter into an agreement
with that country whereby they could
send a letter from there with a pre
paid reply. They would, of course,
agree to accept a similar plan on the
part of the United btates. M ith the
request of France is submitted a “let
ter sheet with a paid reply,” recently
issued by the postal administration of
that country for circulation in its do
mestic service. The “paid reply” let
ter is somewhat similar to the “reply
paid” international postal card. In
the international service the letter
would cost ten cents for the original
and reply, and in the domestic whole service
it costs six cents for tbe letter.
The United States is not asked to use
the letter in its domestic service, but
simply to receive And recognize the
prepaid reply eo it could be sent back
to France. -
Mr. Bissell is in favor of an interna
tional stamp, and it is expecteu that in
a short time he will decide as to the
merits of the plan.—\\ ashington Fost.
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\ Japanese Trick.
-^ m . t* oit nlaved « nr-vtv ofVhe
tr to dml the condition
Chinese fleet that was so knocked
around by the Japs at the naval bat
tie of the lain Liver The Chinese
fleet was anchored at Wei-Hat-Wei.
The Japanese warship Yoshino-Kshn
repainted and then hoisted the Chi
uese colors aud started for Wei-Hai
wSicr
reived by the strategy, signaled the
dying steamer to enter the port. She
availed herself of the invitation long
enough to ascertain that the Chen
Yuen, Fing-Yuen, Tsing-Yuen, Chi
Yuen Kwang-Pin-r Chen-Tuu* Ciien
Pin. Chen-Nan and Chen-Pop were
lying at anchor within and then she
fled. ’The ruse was discovered as she
was leaving th harbor an i several
^hots were »eat after her, hut not one
sUuck her.—St. Louie Star-Sayings.
IN THE BIG HOTELS.
THE GREAT NUMBER OF
PROVES FOUND IN THEM,
-
An Army of Twenty-five
Persons Required in the New
York Caravansaries Alone—
Housekeepers’ Duties.
P -ID you ever think of that
army of mortals whose
in so many different
ties, keeps the machinery
our big hotels in operation?
There are to-day 136 large
hotels in New York City. New
besides has over 200 so-called
hotels with facilities for taking
ed nearly 75,000 persons. It takes
numerous servants to look after
great a multitude,and there are
of them in the large transient
here than there are soldiers and
Htriker , in Brooklyn.
The hotel directory only gives the
priucipal hotels. There are
t h €se hundreds of places, in each
w hicli from forty to fifty servants and
wa it era arc employed that have to
added to the list. It is safe to
tbttt the great army of employes in
, Ue New York hotels is 25,000 strong.
Over 15,000 of these work in the
trans j en t hotels, which employ from
100 to 450 persons each at
83 a month up,
boari h and in maBy cases lodging in
cluded .
Among the female employes of a
hotel are some women of rare natural
intelligence, executive ability and
knowledge of human nature, and
their services are considered worth
much as £1500 a year and meals and
rooms free. These are the house
keepers. hotels
Most large have also furni
turn repairers whose duty it is to see
that casters are kept upon chairs,
dressing-cases and bedsteads, and to
take badly broken articles of the kind
to the “hospital” in the basement or
elsewhere. The chambermaids are
divided into watches, short and long,
or regular and dog-watches, as on an
old-fashioned sailing ship. In the
larger houses their work is so
that it is not very laborious.
In tho linen room the housekeeper
has under her seamstresses whose duty
it is to keep the linen and bed cloth
ing in order. Then there aro the
window-cleaners, tho scrub-women,
*be curtain menders and hangers and
“ score of others which, summed up,
would ta*ie a small directory to dc
scribe them and their various duties,
.4^®“ stairs is the laundry,
which is also under the charge of the
housekeeper. Here are more men
un Ger her command. Tho chief, or
boss, as he is called, has one or two
assistants, threo machine operators
anc * laundresses who are mang
\ era an,a band washers, as no flannels or
delicate fabrics are allowed to
through the machines.
The handling of the food takes
°iner auxiliary force, which is under
supervision of that very import
personage, the steward. It
been said that this individual
break the most prosperous hotel in the
country, and many a genial
' V1 ‘ fbat the saying is a true
Qm ‘ P TO P rl t' toT j be
monarch of all he surveys, and
domain is vast, for he controls nearly
a dozen different departments. He
^as on P^sonal staff one lieuten
a J lt a , bookkeeper, two receiving
»
clerks, one checking clerk, from three
^ ve storekeepers, who on order
ou ^ stores, and a time
keeper.
^ is not generally known to the lay
^ftt the kitchen, and consequent
^ aro nn der the immediate
controf of , the steward. The two de
cu * e ul obt ft s to the menu for the
next day, but in case of a difference
opinion, w luit the steward
^ loast oe8, hall 1 .i* 10 a dozen lieutenants, h fl3 under him each at of
whom is generally an artist in his own
particular line of cooking. Then, bo
sides these, there are scullery boys,
pot washers aud scourers, who are
generally termal omnibuses as they
can generally turn their hand to sev
eral kinds of work. In the best
there are very few women under the
direction of the chef. Nearly all the
work is done hymen and the so-called
“boys' may be fifty years old. Be
sides these there are tue pastry cooks,
who aro quite independent tellows,
and the ice-cream makers, etc., whose
creations can be seen every year at
botb tbe j.’ re n C h and the German
Cooks’ balls, and winch excite bo much
adm iration.
There are also three or four shell
g sb ru e n, who prepare lobsters, crabs,
ovs ters and clams for the table, and
’
w ho arc experts in this rather difficult
arb
Many hotels also employ one or two
gardeners to attend to the lawn or
terrace about the hotel, and also to
the landing baskets and potted
plants and ferns. He has nnder
control the sidewalk sweepers, whose
du ty is to keep the walks about the
hotel free from rubbish,
j n i at ge houses the whole dining
room {orce is uuder tbe supervision of
the bead y alt er, or “captain,” as he
i s called by his subordinates, and he,
; n t uln , has a number of assistants,
wb.i are called ushers, and who seat
the guests when they enter the dining
room. There are seldom less than
thirty or forty waiters in the grand
saloon, and several omnibuses to re
move dishes and perform any work
they are told to do.
The retinues sf employes in the of
fice *’ ne of tbils « tensive “bodes is
‘ twoor^h’reeb^EMrs. r ^ ree
a ca-nier siKi an army orcierKs, wnose
business is to be suave and never get
^ nthclb are divided into three
****** waLnes aud two short night
messenger & and half a dozen por
or carriers, who in turn are
"truer this .ast t_e control yidual of is quite a head big porter. fel
m a
low about a hrge hotel. He grows to
know all th; important personages
wh “ fre ’F’ en ’ the He
recognition with politicos k-om and the expects l resident a bow of the
United Mat-, if ne has ever met the
latter before.
Then then are the carriage . ___ callers, „__
the door porters, and even the cab and
hacktr.en all under the control of those
behind the desk. At the Waldorf the
bell boys. are merely messengers.
Telegrams, message letters, callers’
cards, etc., are sent to each room by
a perfect pneumatic tube system,
■which it takes about a dozen men to
operate, including the engineer of the
air-compressor in the sub-basement,
and the hall man on each floor, whose
duty is to see that each thing of the
kind gets to its proper destination.—
New York News.
Coal Burned on a Big Atlantic Liner,
Not a little guesswork has been probable gone
through by many as to the
quantities of coal which are daily
shoveled into the furnace-mouths of
such big Atlantic liners as the steam¬
ers Paris, New York, Campania, and
Lucania, Ten years ago 100 tons a
da y waa considered a most prodigious
consumption, little likely to be ex
ceeded in the to come, and wondering
comment there was in plenty that so
vast a quantity 4 should find a legiti
matc 0 uUet Sinoe theu> however ,
the public mind has been educated up
to higher figures, and statements of
200 and even 303 tons a day have
ceased to attract more than passing
notice. Three hundred and fifty tons,
in {act , are said to be burned on the
p aris ftnd the New York in every
twenty-four hours, but of the Lucania
and Campania no particulars have ever
i )een given, so that au approximation
based on what is known of the power
equipment of these ships is all that
ca n be offered. Twenty-eight thou
sand horse-power has been assumed to
be the amount that each of these ves
se i 3 requires to propel them at the
great speeds which they maintain.
Added to .this power of tho main
engines must be the appreciable figure
represented by the host of auxiliary
engines and pumps which aro neces-
8aT y adjuncts, and which, with the
steam-heating systems, and hot water
apparatus, help to swell the steam
consumption to such a degree pounds that a
total allowanco'of, say, sixteen
0 f B team per hour for eaoh of tho
28,000 horse power may be takon as
quite within the mark. Allowing,
then, to a boiler performance, of eight
pounds of steam per pound of coal,
which cannot be far wrong, we have
a coal consumption of two pounds per
honr for each horse-power, or 56,000
pounds, equivalent to 600 figuring, tons per
da y. This is pretty plain
though of course, partly speculative,
and wb ile tho outcome may seem ex
aggeratedly high, it, no doubt, quite tlio
truthfully represents the facts iu
caso.—CasBier’s Magazine,
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Tea and Coffee Culture m Hawaii.
It is not generally known that the
cultivation of tea and coffee in Hawaii
j s rap i d iy becoming a matter of im
por t ance to our American markets,
pj ne qualities of tea and coffee are
be j n g g ro wn successfully, and it may
be eX pected in the near future that
these islunds will become an irnpor
tant source of supply. Both tea and
co (f ee grow luxuriantly and both, it is
note worthy,are being prepared almost
entirely by machinery, instead of by
hand. This it is thought will corn
pensate for the low wages paid to the
p j c kers an d other tea workers in
china and euable Hawaii to ri val the
Qhinese market
example, is fdeked by machine, which
gftthera on i v tho young and tender
i eavea an( j never makes the mistake of
pi c ] t i n g the tough leaves, however
thick they may be. Next the leaves
are withered, rolled and then packed
without being touched by any hand,
j u preparing the coffee berry for
market there are also a number of in
genious and efficient machines which
the work much more cheaply and
j n a m0 re uniform manner than it
done by hand. The disk
p U jp er an( | the Gordon pulper are
p r i uc ipally used. Several of the Ha
wa ii an coffee planters have erected ex
tensive drying houses, aud a large
this year ma bo readil
red for raark et, The coffee plant
g rowg luxuriantly on the island in
fJmost evcry Wild coffee has
eve n been planted among the high
laads and in the forests> in some caaes
at nu elevatlon of over 2000 feet, and
iye3 an ahuu.iant crop. It is re
ported tUflt tbis yoar a nurnber of
peo ple are applying for land with the
intention of rai ; in g teaand coffee and
8CTetal large p!a ntations are being
equipped.-Scientific American,
An Odd-Looklug Peer.
The Duke of Norfolk is so rich that
he actually does not kuow what to do
with his money, and it is supposed
that to this must be attributed his ex¬
travagance in connection with the
great staircase which he has just built
at Arundel Castle. It has beer, in
course of construction for over two
years, and is estimated to have cost
him 8325,000. Arundel is a superb
old place of much historical interest,
but it possesses many sad associations
even of modem times.
It was only a few years ago that it
sheltered under its roof two persons
mentally afflicted, one the cousin of
the Duke, Cardinal Howard, who was
kept under restraint in a distant wing
of the edifice; while the other was the
only sou aud heir of the Duke, a mis¬
erable little imbecile bereft of
speech, hearing, sight and reason, for
whose utterly impossible recovery the
Duke made yearly pilgrimages to
Lourdes and other similar sacred
8 P°fs
The Duke is the premier peer and
premier duke of the realm, and takes
precedence oyer the rest of the nobil
jV. If falt°th heredftiry
the at he is
Earl-Marshall of the Kingdom and
President of the College o of Heralds
C '7'I „
it' e L dill
”}«“* m)eir’ence this and is nJ
odd look
Big Incomes From a Fence.
There is a little patch of land abut
ting on one of the magnificent build¬
ings that flank Victoria street, West
minster, London, which has remained
waste for more than twenty years. It
is sarronndea by a high boarding
covered with advertisements. The in
.ame derived from these is soch that
^
substitute a building, —Chicago Tisaea.