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.%S TO SAVING MONEY.
How Some Men Try to Do It and
Make n Failure.
From the New York Press.
If the average man of education and
brains were to save one-quarter of his
wage* and invest it judi io sly, he woud
have enough at 50 to feel easy the rest of
his days, lie ought to live to be 70, and
should retire at the half c:ntury to make
,rxm for th tlon. Start in
at 23, say, to earn your own living. Sup
pose- you nevtr make more than $3,000 a
year, which is a rather high average even
for brai. 6 of the highest university brand,
one-four h <f this amjutu saved annu
a ly for twenty-seven y ars would be a
fortune of over $20,000, if laid away in a
stocking, and if well invested should be
ha fas mu( h more. Thirty thousand do -
lais at 5 pt cent, would gve an income
ot $1,500 a year—quite enough for com
fort.
If I had my way there would be a law’
requiring men *o retire frern active bus
iness as soon as they gain a competen
cy. Our population is increasing so rap.d
ly that there is nothing for the newcom
ers to do. The aged en umber the ground.
We don’t want the dear old vete.ans to
die, but to retire to ease and comfort on
the interest of their investments. Wha a
hap; y. jolly, contented world this would
be if i he successful man should Step down
ad out at 50 and give the boys a chance.
Jfut. he wil. never do it. He works harder
at 60 than ai 40, harder at 70 than at 30.
It is a kind of insanity. The poor, starv
ed. friendkss creature is obliged to toil
c-n and die in his poverty, but the rich
man. the fortunate millionaire, tolls on
because his soul is filled with greed for
gold and dies in his riches poorer than
the o her.
1 know' men in this city whose struggle
to save a dollar for a rainy day is pathetic.
Theirs is a generous nature. They take
un occasional toddy, perhaps, and being
treated must treat back. With money in
pocket this is un easy accomplishment,
and money flies when four or five good
fellows get together in front of the bar.
There are close-fisted scalawags who will
be treated all day and never come back at
you, but they generally w’ear out their
welcome. They* have big voices end im
press strangers with their apparent good
fellowship. The man who stands his .treat
right along has old R. E. Morse fitting
on his pillow every morqing. after he has
slept off his drunk. When he looks at his
i rnpty pocket book, he makes vows, saying:
“Great Scott! If God will oniy forgive
me this time I’ll swear I’ll quit! I don’t
mean that I’ll quit drinking entirely, but
111 quit hanging out at barr<x>ms and
Heating fellows w'ho are of. no earthly
good to me. Damned if I don’t!’’
This man really means what he says—
means it until' the next three or four
drinks, w'hen he slips up again. Before
dinner, as before a drink, he is cool, calm,
stern and calculating; after the cockles
of his heart are warmed and the mucous
membrane tickles with a provocative
glow' his evil generosity, his affability and
his damphoolishness revive. He seeks the
same worthless old pals and “blows” them.
Finally he gets so low that he will tipple
with anybody. Sober, he is always peni
tent; in his cups he is thoughtless of the
future, rash, full of cheap talk and brag.
God pity him. Lord bless his family.
Nearly all the good fellows go to hell in
this sort of Pullman car At is easy riding,
with all the luxuries of modern travel.
One of these good* fellows—good for
nothing—will draw his salary on Satur
day and run to the bank with it before he
can be tempted, depositing all but barely
enough to maintain him through the day.
He imagines himself then safe from at
tack. Honor forbids him to drink at the?
expehse of others without returning the
favor, and. being denuded of change, how
can he return it? In this inevitable way—
by drinking a few rounds with his pals,
then, spurred on hv evil generosity and
false manliness, drawing a check for th**
proprietor of the bar to cash. The funds
thus acquired are speedily exhausted,
leaving our hero as before. On Monday
another check is drawn a* another bar,
on Tuesday a third at still another bar,
and- so on through the week. If 1 nad my
way no barkeeper should be permitted to
cash h check. It is this cashing of checks
that leads to perdition. But barkeepers
nre the best fellows in the world because
they do always cash checks for custom
ers, whether known to them personally
or not. They take chances of losing
money for the sake of helping the Pull
man car tourist on to hell.
The cowardly, utterly irresponsible,
weak-nrained. faint-hearted brother starts
down town in the morning with car far?'
and return, leaving the rest of his “wad”
with bis beloved wife—God bless her. And
Go-1 pity her. His intentions are the V>st
that, ever went into a pavement in hell.
He meets the boys in the afternoon and
takeg just one. “Say. fellows. I’ll take
just one—just one; I’ve got to qatch
a train.” One and one make two; one
rtnd . two make three, etc. The train
rocket .plays out; he borrows a quarter or
a half. “Just * happened to run out of
change; return it in the morning.” He
must borrow from the good wife to do
that, or let the indebtedness escape his
memory for a few days until he can hold
out on the angel of his household. AVe all
know this type of “gentleman.’’ He is
another good fellow riding in a Pullman
car.
There is another type of good fellow',
evilly generous, whose only salvation lies
in keeping in debt—nor borrowing a quar
ter here and there, or $5. or $lO, or $25 from
friends who cannot spare it. but buying
property on the instalment plan, so much
down each week or forfehure. This keeps
him “up to the scratch.” ns the phrase
goes. It keeps his nose to the grindstone,
whereas otherwise it would be in the mint.
T have in mind a man who never earned
more than S3O a week in his life, but who
has bought no less than three large farms
in the last twenty years out of his sav
ings. These savings w*re like the aver
age cotton crop in the South—mortgaged
long before planted. He dared not
squander a cent! and the habit of paying a
certain sum each month to retain
sion of his estates made him so abstem
ious that his appetite was reduced to one
glass of beer a week and a piece of pie for
diner. But he can buy all his old pals to
day.
There is still another evilly generous
good fellow W’ho saves in a way.
When a friend is treating he invariably
orders whisky, or brandy, or an expensive
liquor, but on his own treat always takes
beer. The friend’s expenditure is 25 or
30 cents, while bis own is 2X This low
down practice is not uncommon, but the
good fellow manages to conceal it indefi
nitely by an expertness worthy of a bet
ter cause. A certain irregular chap in this
city has an arrangement with three bar
keepers on his> beat to set out a bottle of
water whenevr he calls for gin. Drinking
men are unsuspecting, and few know that
bis tipple is plain water on his own treat,
for which there is no charge. The |olite
bartender serves the check face dow’n.
The bottle is branded gin. “Beware of im
itations,” etc., and is retired beneath the
bar the moment the Kne.ik is served. If an
acquaintances should say, “I guess I’ll
take gin. loo,” another bottle is set out,
eume label, etc., but containing real gin.
WHEN Fill ST INIIEII FIRE.
Sensation* Incident to tlie Plnpr of
Ilullct and t rasli of Shell.
’Will Levington Comfort, In Indianapolis
Hr css.
“Soldiering is a bad drufe to give up.”
This is one of the few and significant re
marks which the late war chief, Lawton,
was heard to utter. On a transport com
ing’up from Porto Rico over tt year ago.
I heard a dozen discharged soldiers say
that they would commit suicide before en
ter.ng the service again. And yet I met
three of th same fellows iti the Philip
pine* six months ufterward, and there
were doubtless more Any chap who has
ever le n an atem of tlie g eat blue mass
which mak*s up llnclc Sam’s i.ght.ng bot
tom—w 11 he iM not a stranger to the
craving which calis him back to the ranks
again This is even so with a man who
has only soldiered in times of p ace. It’s
a worse drug for him who has smelled
the powder and heard the groan and seen
the bio and of war.
Thousands of ihe b:ya who are serv
ing enlistments in ihe Philippines to-day
will be so dier for all time.* They are n
a sen>e irreclaimable?, for they have
pi t. €*d at thr g me of all gim s, compar
ed to which ail other game are f r 1 tt e
children. The shooing of ja k-rabbhs is
no sport fer a l.on hunter. There is orly
‘ ne more thrilli. g same f r him. It is ihe
splendid hazard of holding your face to
ward a host le fire, nv anwhile replying
to it. It nuts new* thoughts in vour head,
new quivers in v ur limbs and a ge oral y
new far of Gcd in bjth places. And when
it is all over (if the thought does not bite
its way into your brain that you are a
craven born), you w ll fe l affectionately
inclined toward yourself as never before.
One can best teli how it feels ujder fire
•by ext Lining his own sensations. I pic
tured m s If dodging s fils ad b coming
generally absorb, and in w teh.ng fir w rks
as soon as the ship crawled into Manila
harbor As a matter of fact it was some
da>s before I heard the crack of a car
bine. 1 found that you have to “hike” for
a fight in Luzon—“hike ’ first, last and
most of the time.
t inally the great clay dawned. 1 felt
strong and was pining for trouble. It was
MacArthur’s arm of the general expedi
tion in the north, last November. The
General advised me to get in the rear,
but 1 explained that I would be unwept
and unsung at all events, and so my pony
Can Do” and I were allowed to slay in
advance with the scouts.
“Gan Do” didn’t seem to be tickled with
tile prospect, but I was heartlessly hoping
for the worst, and wondering what it
would mean when it tame. For an hour
the rains had ceased and the sun was
dragging up moisture from man, beast
and rice paddy. Eight hundred yards
ahead through the midday shimmer we
could see the low ruins of an ancient wall,
extending along this end of the town, and
behind the green palms and the brown
of nipa shacks. Slowly the column
crawled forward through the killing sun
shine. Skirmishers were wading through
the mud an water on each side of the
trail.
“Much boom-boom poco tiempo,” whis
pered the Macabebe to the General and
his staff. The little native traders squot
ted forward as they walked. They didn't
seem to like it and would have hung back
had it been possible. There was a queer,
hard look in the faces of the white sol
diers, and the eir was full of the gutter
ing of cartridges as they were slipped into
the Krag rhagazinee. Things liegan to
look serious—depressingly so. "Can Do”
had no sympatb* with me, and required
much prodding. I would not have insisted
further upon the pony to keep in the ex
treme advance, but I had fought with
MacArthur to let me ride with the setouts,
and I felt his black eyes on the back of
my neck. It occurred to me that I did
have a bunch of close acquaintances back
In the slates, and I felt for (he sake, of
“Can Do" that X should not be so far for
ward but ii really seemed as if the Gen-'
era) had lost track of the possibility of a
fight, taking so much interest in me. All
the time the sun sent down rays to show
me how pitiless perdition will be. A few
minutes before such a suggestion would
have seemed comfortably far off. but now
Something hit me. It wasn’t a Mauser
or a Remington— only the gfound. The
low stone wall ahead was obscured in
while smoke, and about 600 natives behind
it were actually shooting in my direc’tion.
It never struck me. this way before—not
the ground—but the fact that a fellow
must get shot at. Never before did I
feel that I had so little to do with
my own finish. "Can Do” had shak
en me. I could hear hint thunder
ing back and toward the rear of the col
umn. forty miles an hour. I could also
hear a series of croons and drones and
snaps. These last are what worry. One
knows tlie bullets are high whtn they
sing in I assing. but when they come with
a venomous staccato snap—it isn’t en
tertain ng. 1 found myself in the midst
of a heroic and well-directed effort to
bite a cavity for myself in the black mud
f the rice paddy. Then a brii lant
thought came to me—if I should place my
head in i he mud sideways, Instead of teeth
down, less would be exposed, since it is
flatter that way. I did it.
Now the volleys were over. I looked
abent and saw teat all min save the Gen
eral and a few other officers were down.
This is the prop r thing during a volley,
the ugh the ragged fire which follows is
often better directed and more deadly.
Notv I herd the voice of the Gene al and
saw things At the sound of that voice the
skirmishers in the field, half of whom I
thought must be dead, or dying, rose
as one man. In truth, tt is hard to kill.
"Forward as skirmishers. Fire at will."
The command rumbled magnificently
for h and settled into every man’s under
standing 1 didn't have to get up. No one
was looking for me. In fact, I was
strangely comfortable, but the fear was
far stronger now' that someone might
see me down, and I went into the town
with -ha men.
"Young man." said MacArthur to me
that night after camp had been struck
in the new town, "was to-day your first
experience under fire?”
"Yes. sir," I answered, abjectly.
"You did pretty well."
If he had only known fhe thoughts
which had been mine while the hostile
fire was crashing in front!
One overcomes the maudlin sense of ter
ror apparent in Ihe first trial under fire,
but no after engagement with the enemy
clings so indelibly in memory. It has
been claimed that personal fear is to
some natures a pleasure exquisite ami
lasting. Stevenson’s "Suicide Club"
brought out well such a theory. There
is certainly something in this, hut I be
lieve that the satisfaction arising from a
perfect mastery of self in a trying mo
ment has much to do with the pleasure.
Where there is a perfect sanity there
is also a sense of fear. Courage is
that fine, clean quality which master
fully holds the dread in subjeetton and
epurs the other faculties to intelligent
effort. Courage is not given to all men.
This is sadly true. It is not given to all
soldiers.
"Soldiering is a bad drug to give up.”
It is a wild, hard, animal life. The
man who follows it denies himself ail the
soft things which make life beautiful, but
it gets into the blood and stays. A man
needs only to be apart from the life for
a Utile while to learn how dearly he loves
it. The old cavalry horse dies when he
is condemned and sent back to the haled
civilian.
And the soldier who has tried his man
hood and found it vibrant with virtue—
who has come out of a campaign of
harsh service—will crave and crave for
the rest of his days to feel again the sav
age Joy of the fight.
HI IXFIGHT HOH It Oft S.
Disgraceful Scenes tt lllch Disgusted
tlie Spectators and Aroused Their
Hisses mid Protests.
From the London Standard.
Paris, June 4 —Disorderly and disgrace
ful scenes marked the reopening this aft
ernoon of the bull ring at Depil, near Eng
hien, where, it will be remembered, a
panic took place last autumn when a bull
escaped from the arena and dashed among
the public. These successive attempts to
introduce bull fighting Into the French
capital have aroused a good deal of feel
ing among the public, and rfUmerous per
sons, anlmaipd with humane ideas, as
sembled along the road to Enghlen and
hissed at the well-dressed people who wete
making their way io the spectacle, wide
others obtained admission to the bull ring
and by whistling and shouting provok'd
Horsford's Acid Phosphate
A Great Tonic.
It invigorates and strengthens, re
lieves nervousness and headache, and
creates a good appetite.
Genuine bears name Honsro*D*s on wrapper.
THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY. JUNE 23. WOO,
Cigar Dealers Like
to have their regular customers smoke
Old V lrgima Cheroots
because they know that once a man
starts smoking them he is “fixed/*
and that he will have no more trouble
with him trying to satisfy him with
different kinds of Five Cent cigars.
Three hundred million Old Virginia Cheroots smoked this
year. Ask your own dealer. Price. 3 for 5 cents.
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demonstrations which the supporters of
the spectacle naturally responded to.
One person so far allowed his feelings *o
get the better of him that as a group of
gayly dressed toreadors were driving to
ihe arena he drew a revolver and. taking
aim at their chief, fired at him. The bul
let missed, but the man fired again, and
this time the projectile passed through
the clothing of one of the matadors, with
out. however, wounding him. The roan
was prevented from further using the
weapon by the bystanders, who at once
seized him and handed him over to the
gendarmes. The shots were heard in the
crowded arena, and the news of the inci
dent soon spread. When the group made
their entry to the strains of the well
known march from "Carmen," the publ c
cheered in the most enthusiastic manner,
several Spaniards, including a female who
is well known on the music, hall stage,
being particularly demonstrative. At the
juncture only a few discordant cries were
heard; but one gentleman who was in lire
boxes close to the president’s stand, and
who protested, was severely handled by
his neighbors. Several persons oriel that
he was an accomplice of the man who had
tired the revolver, and he was thrown
down the stairs of the arena, several per
sons striking at the unfortunate visitor as
he passed.
By this time the audience had become
somewhat excited, and it was generally
noted with satisfaction by those who had
attended the gathering last year and were
forced by circumstances to be present this
afternoon, that considerable Improvements
had been made in the ring, and that it
was, at ell events, considerably safer. The
promenade into which the hull dashed had
been done away with, and the ring and
the stands had been strengthened. The
general aspect of the ring, however, had
not Iteen changed, and, when compared
with a Spanish or Portuguese arena, it
seemed a very puny affair. The weather
was extremely hot. and it is difficult to
imagine what pleasure this closely packed
crowd of for the most part well-dressed
people could find in the disgusting spec
tacle which followed.
The parade was marked by the escape
of the mules, which, frightened by the
blast of the band, bolted and careered
wildly around the ring. This function over,
amid the plaudits of the assembly, the
first bull was driven in. It was a fine
black animal, bred in the Seville district,
and, afar a f w paus s. fated the picadors,
whose horses, it should be said, were
sheathed in iron. The first picador made
a clean wound; but the second, striking
the animal in almost the same place, made
a cruel gash, from which the blood stream
ed in profusion, until the animal’s left
side became a deep red. At the protests
which a small mlnortty of the audience
had thq courage to raise the greaten pro
portion'commenced to cheer vociferously,
while the torture of the wounded animal
was proceeded with.
The bunderilleros then attacked the
beast, each seeming io lake a spe:ial de
light in planting his sharp-pointed stream
ers in the already gaping wound. Mad
with pain and bleeding and groaning, the
bull dashed here and there until some if
the spectators took up the cry "A mor’l ’
The killing of the beast had bet
especially forbidden by the Prefect, and it
had even been asserted that any attempt
to do so would be followed by an inter
vention of the gendarmerie. Ignoring that
decision, the matadors then produced
their swords. Felix Robert, a Frenchman
by birth, undertook to complete ihe butch
ering of the first bull. Having thrown h.is
hat to the gallery, he appeared (o demand
the President's permission to dispatch the
animal. The President, however, did not
respond, and Robert finally lock the re
sponsibility in his own hands. With Ihe
red handkerchief in one hand and the
glistening steel in the other, he faced the
wounded and. it should be said, weaken-,
ed animal. Suddenly, with a mad rush,
the bull was upon Robert, who fell to Ihe
ground.
For a few seconds the greatest excite
ment prevailed. 'Women shr eked, ard
some, already sickened at the sight, faint
ed. But the matador’s comrades quickly
drew the animal’s attention away, and, to
the relief and astonishment of every one,
who had expected to see a mangled tody,
Robert rose and coolly put on one of his
silk slippers which he had lost in the fray.
The people cheered, while, the small mi
nority made themselves conspicuous with
their shouts ot ’Bravo, Toro!’’ Whether
the fall unnerved the matador cr not I
cannot say. but he was unable to dispatch
Ihe beast with his sword. The tvea on
seemed also to enter the wound already
made, and there it remained, half the
glistening blade with Us ornamental
handle swaying about.
The spectacle had now become most re
volting, and cries of "Assez!” could be
heard on all sides. While another ma a
dor was preparing his sword to attack the
bull. Robert was making frantic efforts to
obtain the recovery of his. The loss of
blood, however, told, and finally the but.
sank on Its knees near the edge of he
ring. Even the fatal wound with a short
dagger was only given after four at
tempts. the gallant beast meanwhile mak
ing frantic efforts to struggle to Its feet
and get at its torturers. This scene last
ed fully twenty minutes. It made many
people ill, and they at once left the are
na while the applause which greettd the
death of the bull was counter-balanced by
a good deal of hissing and whlslUng,
coupled with other cries of disapproval.
THe killing of the second bull was much
more speedily accomplished, the matador
Montes this time wielding the sword. The
third animal to be butchered gave the au
dience a bad fright, and there was nearly
a repetition of the panic which ensued last
year Wounded and mad with pain, the
beast endeavored to escape from Its tor
mentors, and jumped the fence of the ring.
The audience at once rose, but the animal
was unable to clear the second fence,
which encircled the arena, and to which
he had to return to be tortured and finally
put fo death. The spectators cheered the
dispatch of each unfortuate animal in the
most vociferous manner. . Robert. the
matador who was shot at, and who, it
appears, was slightly injured In his en
counter with the first bull, was given
quite an ovation when he reappeared in
the ring to face the fifth bull, which he
only put to death after what may be term
ed atrocious butchering.
In all six bulls were killed, (he perform
ance in each case being similar to that
which I have described for the first bull.
The death in some cases was more speedy
than In others, but the scene throughout
was one of horror. While Ihe men cheered
and stemrd lo revel In the proofedlngs.
many women fainted as the hulls wete
put io death. It Is certain that this dis
play will decide numbers of people to
bring pressure to bear on deputies to sup
port the bill now before Parliament for
bidding bull-fighting on French territory.
The attendance at the arenas was said to
b close upon eight thousand people. At
th* close of the spectacle there was much
cheering and counter-cheering, though the
supporters of the movement were evident
ly in a large majority.
PETS OF THE FAMO l S.
Creatnres That Hate Been Loved by
Men and A\ omen of Note.
From the San Francisco Cali.
A volume might be w-ritten of famous
people and their pets, and It would be in
teresting reading. Many books of biogra
phy nave scattered along their pages ten
der* reminiscences of an attachment to
some dumb animal from Boswell’s "John
son” and Cowper’s ’’Letters” down to one
of the latest works of ihe kind. "The
Life and Correspondence of Charles
Kingsley,” Johnson's cat "Hodge," tor
which he used to go out to buy oysters
"les’. ihe servants, having ihat trouble,
should take a dislike to the poor creature ’
and Cowper’s hares, which used to amuse
him in his dull, weary hours at Olney. are
os well known as the two men themselves.
Charles Kingsley seems to have loved
every living creature around him, and he
taught his children to respect even toe
most loathsome inscets. Mrs. Kingsley
tells how a family of runaway toad* made
their home iu a hole of the green hank at
Eversley, and the. scythe was never allow
ed to approach their retreat. He had two
little friends In a pair of sand was; a
which lived in a crack of the window In
his drawing room, one of which he had
saved lrorn drowning in a basin of water,
and every spring he would look out eager
ly for them or their young, which came
out of. or returned to. (he same crack. He
petted the white stable oat and the black
house cot, and sat up w ith a sick dog dur
ing the last two nights of its suffering life.
Wherever he went he was followed about
the parish by his faithful lltle Dandy Rln
mont, whose intelligent face tvas always
to be seen at the lectures and school les
sons, and was known to every cottager
in the place, being almost as much es
teemed by thfm as by the Kingsley chil
dren, whose reached friend he watt ioi
ten years.
Dogs, perhaps, have been pets with a
greater number of famous persons than
any other animal. Every one will remem
ber Sir Walter Scott’s canine pets, of
which he had more than a score. The
most prized was the old Scotch hound
Maida, his companion for many years,
whose giave is near the gate at Abbots
ford, with the. monument and inscription
that he designed for her. Then there
were the two pet greyhounds, Douglas
and I’ercy, which attended him every
where. They had a privileged place In
his library, one of the windows being left
open iu all weathers so that they might
pass in and out when they pleased.
Lord Byron had a famous dog. Boats
wain, whose picture is still to be seen at
Newstead Abbey; and Hood’s dog. Dash,
will be remembered as Ihe one that Barry
Cornwall said should have been named
Rover. He accompanied Charles Lamb in
many of his walks, nearly worrying tlie
life out of the gentle essayist, who could
hardly manage to keep in sight of hi>
restless four-footed companion, and was
in constant terror lest he, should lose him
Walter Savage Landor was another
lover of dogs. He had a number of them
j —Parig, which followed him in all his
(ramps; Gallio, give,n to him by (he seuio
lor S(ory. whose place was to lie at bis
feet; and, most celebrated of ail, Pcmero.
the little while Pomeranian deg ihat was
sent to him from Fiesole to Bath, where
he was then living. For twelve years
Landor and his dogs were always toge ti
er, noiiceable figures wherever they w-nt,
and Pomero was written about and ta k
ed about nearly as much as his master.
Mary Russel Mitford was surrounded by
doss from her childhood. To relate her
history would be to tell theirs likewise,
for they were inseparable. Their quali
-1 ties, troubles and general doings have an
important place in her letters, and they
have tender mention that might lead one
to suppose them to be human members of
the household. "All our pets are well,” Is
her usual message In closing, and many
of them come In for special mention, ilk*
"Marmion, and Modoc, and Moss Troop
er,‘the hounds;” "Marls, with her black
and glossy puppies;” "Miranda, from
Stratford-on-Avon," "Mayflower, and
Mid, and Lufla, from the northcountry
and Dash, who "sends his respect to Mrs.
Browning’s doves," and was so well be
loved by his mistress that when she was
in London homesick she wrote to her par
ents, "I am dying for my Dash and my
flowers."
Wordsworth's companion on his morning
rambles was a dog for whose death he
sincerely mourned, and to whose memory
he paid an fxquisite tribute in verse.
There have b en ether famous lovers of
and gs. Sir Edwin Landseer was especially
fond of them, and many of his pets he has
made to live again on the immortal can
' Mrs. Browning was greatly attached to
a silken haired, hazel eye spaniel that
Miss Mitford gave to her. Fiushie lives in
literature as the subject of one of his
mistresses’s tenderest poets
Goethe hated dogs His pet was a live
snake, which he kept In a chimney corner
—a repulsive companion one would think
The pet of Tiberius, the Roman Emperor
was also a snake. Yet the. two men were
whollv unlike In every particular.
Jean Paul Richter s pet* were a mouse,
a squirrel and a white spider. Hogan h,
the palmer, was fond of cats, and at his
home at Chi wick, he had a garden wh're
ie bit led his fivoites, placing little tab
le’s to mark the spot and distinguish their
1, dividual sepulchres.
The cat has be n a favorite with a num
ber of well known ,-c pie. Pope made com
panlons of several, and he showed the
best side of his character to them Dry
den had aLo a stately favorite cat, with
a t.mmr as bitter as his own pen
Gray author of thi hat ful "Elegy
In a Country Churchyard,” wrote an “Ode
on the Death of a Favorite Cat, Drowned
In a Tub of Gold Fish s." In this llttie
poem he bewails the fate of the demure
and almost his crlc B'Una. Dante made a
pet of a large black cat. Theophile Gau
tier had a white rat of gr a’ beauty
nam'd D n Pie rot de Navarre, of which
he was extravagantly fond.-This anlma.
died of consump’lon. Ho had a regular
rhysl ian, and was fed on as es milk,
but be finally succumbed and the pcet de
scribes his death in m >vltig terms.
—The*Esquimaux tf Alaska make shirts
and boots of tanned salmon hide and
Jackets from codfish skins Frok skins
are now used in the bookbinders' art,
and the skins of many other fishes and
reptiles are put to practical uses.
KHARTOUM TO-DAY.
An English City Growing on the
Hanks of the Nile.
From the Manufacturer.
Soon after the fall of Omdurman It was
decided that the seat of government In the
Soudan should be moved back across the
Nile to its old location at Khartoum. This
decision was based chiefly on two consid
erations. The first was the fact that Brit
ish authority in the Soudan is largely de
pendent on prestige, and it was considered
that the moral effect of re-establishing Ihe
oid capital and the consequent decay of
the Dervish city would be salutary, and,
moreover, the attempt to work over Om
durman into a civilized seat of government
would bring about condition* which might
lessen the respect of the Inhabitants for
the energy and power of their conquerors.
The second roast n was the *a?e with wntch
the old city could be made proof against
attack. Omdurman, on the other hand, is
higher, dryer and less unhealthful than
the old city, and much stress was laid
upon the public and private expense in
volved in the change.
Military considerations prevailed, how
ever. and the new Briii6h eapiial was
planned accordingly. A correspondent of
the London Times gives an Interesting ac
count on the remarkable progress made in
the construction of (he. new city, since
the plana were adopted, as follows;
The Modern filjr.
"The whole city has been laid out on a
metropolitan scale. Tlie river front along
the banks of the Blue Nile Is more than
three miles long; the depth Inland Is near
ly s mile and a half. The public building?
li along th® river bank At the extreme
southeast the Gordon Memorial College, a
large red brick structure with shady gal
leries and porticos, covering three side® of
a square, has far outstripped its scholars
and In a few months it will be ready for
work In the center of the lines, on the
exact side of Gordon's palace, rises th®
palace f the governor general, now prac
tically completed. It Is a handsome Vcne
ilan-looking red brick edifice, with white
ston® ardadlngs and ogives; the facade
overlooks the river; the open court, flank
ed by two wings, look out over the city
across a spacious garden In which there
still flourish a few of the old palms and
1 lemon trees of Gordon's day. Further
northwest ar® other large buildings which
j will soon ha finished, the government of
fices and the supply and ordnance stores
The road in front of them will be flanked
throughout by a ston® river wall.
Lp-to-Date Im pros entente.
"Parallel with this imposing river front
| run along several avenues—Sirdar's ave
! nue, Victoria avenue, Shasta Cromer
These are regularly crossed by main
streets not less than ninety feet wide. The
I blocks thus formed are fuither intersected
1 by diagonals, the crossroads forming the
! keypolnts of the city for purposes of de
tense in such a way that four Maxim guns
| could control the whole Interior of the
; city. Near the northeast corner of the
river front there Is being rapidly built by
British capital the hotel which, at the end
of their long desert Journey, will receive
the weary visitors to the capital of the
Soudan. Nearer the center of the town
are the shops, restricted to the quarter
round the ’sock’ or bazaar, and close at
hand a covered market on Indian models
is about to be built In 'Abbas square.’ A
mosque and an English church arc also
to be erected at government expense, and
the Christian cemetery of the Austrian
mission, whldh has been utterly wrecked
by the fury of the Dervishes, has been re
stored and the gravestones replaced by Col.
Drage’s cere. Outside of all these bunld
ings, on the desert front, a line of de
fensible barracks with redoubts will be
drawn along the narrow arc from .Nile to
Nile.
Work of n Year.
"Such is the rity of Khartoum, as It lies
behind the fringe of palm and orange
groves which rise, a true mirage among
the false, to greet the traveler approach
ing across the barren deserts of the north;
a city of brood streets and nandsonie
buildings, of tramways and electric lights,
planted In the heart of Africa by the au
tocratic will of a single man, designed in
Its entirety and equipped with all its pub
lic buildings within a year by the group
of brilliant young officers of the Royal
Engineers, on whose devoted shoulders
the burden of this work hos lain."
A question has now arisen which prom
ises some interesting development*. The
military headquarters are In Khartoum
and tlie people are in Omdurman. In a
ptogresslve Western country the chances
are the people would philosophically
"come to Ihe mountain." but in the Sou
dan things are different. The provincial
government of Khartoum counted on a
general movement as soon as work took
definite shape, but this has not come. The
poor p ople cannot afford to move, and
the merchants cannot afford to leave the
great mass of iheir customers. Further
more, the shipping facilities at Omdur
n an are better than they are on the other
side of the river.
An order has teen Issued that each
holder of land in Khartoum must erect
a building, complying wi h the regulations
within two years. But this order cannot
be well carried out, as the buildings mils'
be of brick, and there are not enough
skilled masons in the region to accom
plish the w-ork necessary within the time
limit set.
A prominent sheikh Is of the opinion
that it will require at least forty-five
year* for the people of Omdurman to huild
themselves houses In Khattoum, if It ft to
their own resource*.
ERRORS IV Q,IOTING.
I nwlae nnd I nanfe Io Rely on Hie
Memory.
From the Rochester Pcmocr*t.
The longer one follows the business of
writing the more entirely he becomes con
vinced, by withering experiences, of the
unwisdom and unsafely of quoting from
memory. The man who quotes, without
refreshing his memory or correcting hie
distinct Impression of the passage quoted
by reference to the text, will, in nine cases
out of ten. bungle his quotation, even If it
be of a passage so familiar that to inclose
It in quotation marks seem* almost an
in*ult to hi* readers. Indeed, the more fa
miliar the passage—the more entire y cer
tain you are that you recollect it perfect
ly—the surer you are to get it wrong. For
the words that are so familiar to you nre,
most often, not the words of the author,
but merely the popular colloqu.a) version
practically certain to be incorrect, of the
author’s words. By trusting to your
memory of such passages you not merely
risk mangling them—which fault, if you
cling to the popular version, is likely lo
pass unrebuked—but you also risk m*-
crediting them, ascribing them to some
author who didn't write them, which fault
Is most unlikely to escape unrebukel by
some guperfluous busybody.
A Frightful Example.
Here Is Raul Leicester Ford, in his "Ja
nice Meredith,” furnishing a frightful ex
ample of the danger of quoting fr m
memory. A man of wide reading, who
ought to know better—a "literary feller."
who ought to set a good example of cor
rectness in quotation lo common folks—he
falls Into one of the commonest and most
frequently corrected of familiar m squo a
tions. He had occasion to quote these
lines:
"Immodest words admit of no defense.
For want of decency is want of sense.”
Being "entirely familiar” with them. ■
everybody Is, the advisability of verifyl g
his Impression of them did not suggest It
self to him. He confidently quoted Tom
memory, and so, of course, m squo ed
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them, writing "want of modesty" for
"want ot decency,” nnd eironeously as
cribing their nuthorlshp lo l’oi e To <lo
him Justice, he doesn't mention Eoi:e by
name, but refers the author,-hip to "the
reigning poet of the eighteenth century.’'
The Chronicler thinks it f.iir io assume
that by "the reigning poet of the teigh
teenth century" Mr. Ford meant Fop -.
At any rale, he certainly couldn’t have
meant the real author of tlie lines, the
Earl of Roscommon. For the Karl of Ros
common was never "the reigning itoet" of
any century, nor any sort of poet of the
eighteenth century, because he had been
dead and buried eighteen years when
the eighteenth century began. Mr. Ford
had probably never read Ihe author's own
words. That Is no reproach to him. Prob
ably nobody now alive has ever read the
Earl of Roscommon's "Essay in Trans
lated Verse," So Mr. Ford thought the
lines were Pope’s. He followed the multi
tude with unquestioning faith, and be
cause. to quote another line of the Earl
of Roscommon'*, "The multitude Is always
In the wrong’’—ln regard lo quotations—he
caused his little reminder that every au
thor receives sooner or later of the wis
dom ot verifying one’s quotations before
letting them into print,
••Familiar Misquotation*.”
Someone with lime enough for Ihe nec
essary research could write a very en
tertaining essay on "Familiar Misquota
tions.” There are a host of them. Th*
Chronicler probably has a great many of
♦ hem stowed away in this mind, ready at
the first opportunity to force themselves
into a chronicling tn the guise of quota
tion* and get him into trouble, but he
knows only a very few of them for what
they are. There is the remark that "If
a man were permitted to make all the bal
lads' he need not care who should make
the laws of a nation” publicly misquoted
a dozen tlmett every day In the year, and
as often erroneously ascribed to Fletcher
of Snltoun, always, for some unknown rea
son, called "Old” Fletcher of Saltoun in
this connection. Then there Is—
" The mind is in Its own place and itself
Can make a heaven of he’d, a hell of
heaven."
Most persons are now aware that the
haunting idqa that these lines are Shuke
speare’s is a delusion and a snare, but
they are still almost Invariably quoted
thus:
"The mind is Its own place, and of itself
Can make a hell of heaven, a heaven of
hall."
Then there are "God tempers the wind
to the shorn lamb," as to which it is most
difficult to rid yourself of the impression
that it must be "somewhere In the Bible,"
although you know better; nnd on the
other hand, "Evil communications corrupt
good manners," which appeals to most
persons as a proverbial saying of unknown
origin, although It occurs in a chapter of
the Bible than which no other is more,
frequently read in public. These, with
the Earl of Roscommon's lines, already re
ferred to, about complete the Chronicler’s
list of quotation traps from which he Is
comparatively safe. As you see. the list
is short. It could easily be extended For
any one can procure plenty of material
for n long and entertaining essay on "Fa
miliar Misquotations" by writing down,
from memory, all the familiar quotations
he can think of. and then verifying them
with the aid of the authoritative "Dic
tionary of Quotations.”
A Strictly Mahometan Railway,
Berlin Correspondence of the London
Times.
The Kolnische Zletung learns frem Con
stantinople that the prepari'lcn* . onuect
ed with the projected construction o;’ a
line of railway from Da mas in to Muci
are being pushed forward with os enta
tlous zeal According (o many <f the
Turkish newspapers, rails and locomotives
have already been ordered In Europe Cn
the other hand, Ii Is also given out hat a
supply of rails has been produced l om the
raw Iron in the Turkish wo. kshops, t 1 t
Mahometan engineers have heen summon
ed from the provinces to Constar tlnop e
to receive instructions concerning the con
struction of the railway, and, last, t a<
the authorities intend, so fur as p-wtilrle,
to exclude Christians from the upd rt ik
ing. However, notwithstanding all these
reports nnd plans, negotiations ar ■ cow
on feet between the Porte and Herr Na
gelmaker, the director of the sleeping a’
company, as the latter has expr axed his,
readiness to build the Una of railway f om
Damascus to Mecca provided that he re
celvcs the monoply for laying: the eleetria
light in Turkey. The negotiation* with
regard to the extension of the Damascus
nnd Beyrout line of railway are approach
ing completion. The project ha* haen
worked out, and ll has now to be ap
proved. of by the Turkish mlnlsir y of
Works.
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EVERY-DAY BIKE IX CHIXA.
A Ken Facts About the Cnstom* of
the Celestial*.
From the Philadelphia Record.
China Is In the world's eye at present
writing, so here are a few facts about
manners and customs of the Celestials.
According to Chinese customs, the bri
dal procession Is formed at the brlde’a
house. First, there are a number of
boys who are hired to walk ahead, carry
ing red banners fastened to long poles;
then come the musicians, some playing
wind instruments much resembling in
sound Scotch bagpipes, others scraping
elongated riddles, others thumping gonge
of varied sizes and discordant tone, while
pome are boating ho.low pines of bam
boo, which give forlh a dull sound. After
lhe hand come more boys carrying largo
parasols, with long red and gold fringe
(these parasols are on sticks ten feet
long, then more boys with red banners,
which bear Chinese characters In gold
on either side expressing all sorts of
complimentary things to the bride.
The superstitious treatment of dlseaaa
Is an extraordinary feature of Chinese
social life. Death, they account for by
saying It Is In accordance with the "reck
oning of heaven,” and It would appear
that in this at least they are not far
out of theirs. Recovery Is by grace of
some particular god or goddess. They
Imagine that this evil god works by mys
terious influences of a family, and result
ing In Illness. Hence great bribes are of
fered to this pleasant familiar, and Urge
profits to the Taonlst priests.
It may be said that the Chinaman Is
born fishing—he has for ages past culti
vated a system of artificial breeding
nnd rearing of live fish for the market.
In the shops may be seen displayed llvo
and dead fish, fish fresh and salted,
smoked and preserved. One variety are
like whitebait In basket, graded from
tiny things not half an Inch long to whet
appears to be the same fish grown to
eight or nine inches In length. These are
sold fresh, salted and smoked. Shark
fins are a delicacy. These are fish mot
tled and barred, bright and dull, fish of
quaint and, to us. unknown shapes, but.
foremost above all and everywhere t*
be seen are the artificially grown live flsh.
Chinamen boll their rice In flat vessel*
shaped like deep saucers. From 20 to .30
inches across and fiom t to 9 Inches deep
is rhe. usual size of th so utensils, which
are cast wonderfully thin, the metal rare
lv exceeding an eighth of an Inch In thick
ness. The blast furnaces are shaped Ilko
large, sequat lamp chimneys, and fuel
ad m tal are fed through the narrowed
ipenlng a' the top. The very frugal Chin
aman wi l e he works also uses his fur
nace fir' to cook his evening meal.
Jade Is the article mot highly prised
f r jewelry by the Chinese. A Jade ban
gle in Canton would bring a higher price
than one of diamonds and gold. The J*da
Is cut by t o s work and with a reciprocat
ing motion driven by rocking foot traa
d!e.
Owing to the general, maladministration
of the conn ry, China offers a thorough
ly congenial soil for the growth of all
sor s of Illegal combinations. Under op
pression and tyranny secret societies
si rli g Int., life- The Kolao Hul Is said
to be numerically the most powe ful se
ct: et society in china. Its members num
ber upwards of a million, and Its organ
ization Is in theory ss n arly perfect aa
the 1 ose Ideas possessed by Chinamen.
It Is a direct rpseendent of the Hung
L’gu-\ the universality of whl'h ts x
-pr< sed by the symbol, sign fylng "*
mighty bbod," which Is employed to write
the word Hong T Is society was govern
e , by the eh efs who were known as tha
"Ko" or Elder Bio hers. It was consid
ered ad lssble to ch nge the name of tha
"Hul,” and It e "Kolao," der v and from
the epithet of the chiefs, was adopted In
I's place.
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