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TO GIVE STREET URCHINS A CHANCE A $3,000,000 PLANT for TRANSFORMING RAW MATE RIAL OF THE SLI MS INTO GOOD CITIZENS. A Yew York Juvenile Asylum Which Has Sent Out Into the 'World 37,000 Boy* and Girls—Many ot Theui Are Sotv Men and Women Prominent in HiiMlne** and in the Profession* in Every State in the I'nion. Xc\v York, Dec. 17.—One of the larg est Christmas parties in this great city this year will be held in a stone build ing on Washington Hights, where over 1,000 little folks will gather around two great Christinas trees laden with toys and the good things appropriate to the season. To many of this regiment of children, the gathering will be the first Christmas party in which they have been included among the guests. They have come mostly from the crowded East Side to be made into good Ameri cans by the New York Juvenile Asy lum. an institution which in the fifty years of its existence has sent out into the worid 37,000 boys and girls. The party on Washington Hights has an especial significance this year because by the time another Christmas comes, the work of the institution will have been transferred to anew home which, when completed, will represent an expenditure of $3,000,000, capital invested in what may be described as the business of transforming the raw material of the slums into the finished product of good citizenship. Little Victims of Misfortune. The great majority of children re ceived into this New York asylum are the victims of misfortune to which they have not themselves contributed, and they do not enter the building on Washington Hight through the police courts. Among them are only a few who have been committed to the asy lum because of misdemeanors. They are mostly the orphans of the tene ments or the children of parents who have found the struggle of life too bit ter to enable them to keep their fam ilies together. These children of to day constitute the raw material from which are to be made the men and women of to-morrow. Left to them selves or to chance charity in the crowded streets they would be in con stant danger of falling into wrong-do ing. Under the care of the asylum they are brought under healthful and heipful mlluence both in the institu tion itself and in the homes which are found for them. It* Beneficiaries In Every State. In every state and territory in the union, including far-off Alaska, are men and women now prosperous and successful who recall similar Christmas parties in the asylum building on the Hights. One of the Christmas ser mons which will be preached in New toik this year will be delivered by a former pupil of the asylum, for he Is now the rector of a large church in hronklyn. Another graduate, who a short time ago added to the Christmas cheer of the directors by sending them a generous check, the proceeds to be aaded to the graduates’ building fund is a prominent lawyer in a Western city. In his case, it may be truthfully said that he got his start in life by stealing apples from a push-cart on the Bowery. He was only six years old, a street urchin growing up among evil int.uences from which he was removed because of his theft of the apples, a tact to which he jokingly alluded in the letter accompanying his check. He said that while it might be true that Eve s fail came through eating an ap li. it was certain that his own regen era; ion was directly traceable to the same cuse. Wails ot a Great City. Strange stories are sometimes brought to light in the history of these little waifs of a great city, but as a rule the tale would be a monotonous re cital of hardships and poverty. There is little that is romantic in the daily life of the garment worker, street ped jer, factory hand or dock laborer liv ing in the tenement districts of the American metropolis, but now and then there comes to light a bit of family history which serves as the exception to prove the rule. Four vears ago three small children, two boys and a girl, were sent to the asylum and, after the usual per iod of training, homes were found for them in the West. There these chil dren were heard speaking of a wealthy New York woman who had recently died. They said that she was their aunt. A lawyer was consulted and the officials of the asylum were ap pealed to for proofs of the alleged re lationship. These were obtained and with the identity of his clients thus established the lawyer filed a claim upon the projwrty and confidently ex pects that it will be sustained by m\mm CHRISTMAS PRESENTS |fOHll?|fn[R’ l\!\UUol\Ui 11) Pitas Hall Mat Olliers Ist. l\lluUl)l\Uf 10 USEFUL and BEAUTIFUL. Fur Collars, Fur Muffs/ Children’s Sets, Lace Collars. Baby Caps. Dress Hats. Ready -to- Wear Hats. Ribbons, Beautiful Laces. Silks. Krouskoffs' Big Millinery Store. the courts, if this happens the chil dren will each be the possessor of a comfortable fortune. Antidote* for Crime. work of such institutions as this New York asylum is of particular interest at this time when papers and magazines are filled with accounts of the increase of crime in the cities. Not only are the asylums taking homeless and neglected children from the slums and turning them into good citizens, hut they are sending them cut into the country to take the places of the young people drawn from the farms by the glamor and glitter of city life. More than ever before it is becoming the pol icy of the managers of such establish ments to early implant in the minds of thetr young charges the love of coun ty and the New York Juvenile Asylum, in carrying out this idea, is now completing what will be perhaps the most complete establishment of its kind in the world. Christmas will be observed with a greater lavishness than usual at the asylum this vear in recognition of the fact that this is the last celebration of the hoiday to be “f’u * n the building which has been the home of the society for the last fif ty-three vears. The Asylum “Home.” Early in the spring the asylum will move from New York to Dobbs Ferry, where its new cottage colony is being built on a tract of 277 acres located on high land near the Hudson river. Arch itects have prepared plans which call for the erection of seventy-five cot tages, school buildings, club houses, a gymnasium and an electric, heating and power plant. Each of the cot tages is arranged to accommodate twenty boys to be under the care of a house mother” and a “house fath er.” HOYV TO ORDER A DINNER. Whether to Have It A I.n Carte or Table d’Hote a Matter of Choice. From Chambers’ Journal. Coventry Patmore wrote a poem which he called “The Angel in the House.” and if it be your good for tune to have an angel in your house who gives a little thought to the prep aration of your dinner you will never find any dinner so good as the one you eat at home. When we go into a library we do not all choose the same books; neither when we go into a restaurant do we choose the same dish es. I have never known any one who would not eat strawberries, but I once knew a man who disliked green peas. The most perfect way to dine is to dine ala carte, selecting the dishes yourself, the dinner being specially cooked for you and ready at a speci fied hour. If you dine at the table d’hote in the Grand Hotel in Paris (eight francs), and drink as much red wine as you like, it is the same as a specially prepared dinner ala carte. The table d’hote begins at 6:45 o'clock, and it is all over by 8. If you dine at the table d’hote in the Hotel Metro pole in London the system is different; the dinner is ready at 6 o'clock, and goes on until 8:30. and you may sit down at any time that is convenient to yourself. Under these circumstances many dishes have to be kept on the hot plate for a time, and you cannot expect your dinner to be so perfect as it would be if you dined ala carte. Pascal, the chef at Philippe’s restau rant in Paris, once observed that the most simple dishes begin to lose value every five minutes after they have left the kitchen. More delicately conceived entrees are yet more susceptible; some sauces sulk when they begin to feel cold. I can recollect the time when, from the poine of view of Mr. Casimir, of the Maison d’Or, in the Boulevard des Italians, there was only one restau rant in London where you could dine — Verrey's, in Regent street. How one's heart goes out in sympathy with Ver rey's, the little restaurant at the cor ner of the street that leads up to Hanover Square; the windows partly of stained glass, and above the glass the printed cards, ‘lces, dinners, ices!” It now belongs to M. Krehill. I have never known the time when I could not go to Verrey’s and be sure of a dinner ala carte nicely served and perfectly cooked. One night I dined at Vefours's, in Paris; the following evening I dined in the Cafe Royal in Regent street. In each case I ordered the same dinner. I thought the dinner in the Palais Royal the better cooked of the two; but that was in the days when Vefours's was one of the most popular restaurants in Paris. The Cafe Royal may be said to be the first of the great restaurants on the French system in London. Now we have the Carlton, Princes’ • and the Savoy, all following in the footsteps of M. Nicol, of the Cafe Royal. It would be diffi cult to name a more successful res taurateur than M. Nicol. During the many years I knew him I cannot say I ever saw him do any work in his restaurant; he seldom, if ever, spoke to a customer. He was fortun'ate in his marriage; Mme. Nicol was indus trious to a degree. Then came M. Delacoste to help him. If you had a mission to visit the restaurants of Europe. M. Delacoste would be a charming companion. For m'any years he was the best judge of claret and Burgundy in London, and he did for M. Nicol what Bismarck did for the Emperor William I. It has been the custom to speak of the Cafe Royal as an expensive restau rant in which to dine. I never thought so. You are charged, say, two shillings K R O y s K O F F Fur Boas. Fur Ties, Children’s Hats. Baby Hats. Children’s Bonnets. Ribbon Sashes. Evening Flowers. Evening Materials School Hats. School Caps. Ostrich Plumes. SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. DECEMBER 18. 1004. Take Us At Our Word Det us demonstrate to you that you can save money and get surer satisfaction by trading at this store of solid values. No fictitious prices for Holiday Goods— straightforward meth ods that will retain you as our friend when the old year is dead and gone. A Good Thing A A favorite article for a Christmas present to a gentleman is one of these reliable, always- Ho? read "A. A.” Fountain HK Pens. We have them from K| $2 to $lO. | Some E Reminders: R Gold and Silver Thimbles. SStfsil Fancy and Signet Rings. Birtlistone Rings. £ Ladies’ Umbrellas. Ip.* | Solid Gold Beads. Stickpins and Hatpins. Gold Shirt Studs. . l ink Cuff Buttons. . Sterling Silver Novelties. j> ; Ornamental Clocks. JH£ Silver Handles Tooth and E6Si Nail Brushes. ; Watch Charms and Fobs. Gentlemen’s Canes. K\ Gold Tie Clamps. Military Brushes. Gem Safety Razors. K Shaving Brushes and Cups flsK' Silver Mounted Combs I and Brushes. Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s g Solid Gold Watches, the Egg jg lute designs in eases and line works, from $25 UP. There's value In every article vou buy here. .And here you’ll find a variety of things to make easy your choosing. Ingersolsl Watches. J. & c. N. Thomas Corner Whitaker and State and ninepence for a sole; but„ then, the sole is one of the largest and best the market can produce, and enough for two portions. In the less ambi tious restaurants you are charged one shilling and sixpence, and two portions will cost three shillings. Asa rule, in London or Paris you will find that small prices mean small portions. Tibbie Shiels once let me see a very large plate and a bell which she plac ed before Christopher North, when he dined at her little inn by St. Mary’s Loch. If Christopher North had been served w-ith the small portions com mon in the Latin Quarter, there would have been strong language in the "Noctes” and much ringing of the little bell. In 1862 my father took me to dine at Simpson's, in the Strand. We dined in the second box upon your right as you entered, and w r e had roast beef and green peas for dinner. I had only just left school, and I w-as much im pressed when I was told that I might have as many green peas as I liked. I went the year before last and dined in the same box, and I again had roast beef and green peas. I found the room in which we had dined unchanged, but forty years had proved too much for the entourage even of Simpson’s. There was no waiter left in the res taurant who had been there is 1862. An old friend of mine to whom I paid my bill did not join the staff until 1864. I have alw-ays enjoyed dining at Simpson's—the little oval shaped ta bles wheeled up to your side with half of a salmon, half of a large turbet, or a saddle of mutton. You were not limited to portions; it was hospital ity in a restaurant. I sometimes think what pleasant dinners we might have with people we have read about* in history or fiction. For example, you might give a Charles Dickens dinner, and ask Tom Pinch, Mr. Macawber and Mrs. Gamp to dine. 1 am as a loss to think where one could take her to Princes'. If 1 had to give a dinner to Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith and David Garrick I would not take them to the Savoy; I would take them to Simpson's. At times we hear a great deal about doing away with tips to waiters. Up to about 1872 there was no charge for attendance at Simpson's. We gave the waiters threepence. Then they introduced a charge of threepence for attendance, and I do not believe there was a regular customer w-ho did not continue to give the waiter threepence for himself as of old. The truth is. you will never do away with tips to waiters. I remember an old gentleman who used to dine every night In the Cafe de la Paix in Paris. He always gave the waiter a franc and any odd coppers left after paying his bill, but he hud a reward for his generosity. M. de Garcon was a friend of the chef, und when the old gentleman came in at night he used to tell him the best dishes on the carte de Jonr. speak to him about the weath er, comfort him if he had the gout, and was his best friend; and I am sure that when the duy came on which he ate his last dinner ala carte any gave his last pourhoire, no one would so sincerely regret him as the waiter In the crowded restaurant in the Boulevard des Capucines. If you have thoughts of visiting the theater, and you are in doubt a* to where to dine, try the Restaurant fa vour In Square; M Phillippe will give you an excellent table d'hote dinner at a moderate tost. If you In sist upon having a hors d’neuvre and drink no wine, you will he charged one shilling extra. Asa i-onceaalon to his English friends., M. Philippe has always roast beef or roust mutton on his bill of fare. Th'-re are many good restaurants in London that you would find difficulty In discovering for yourself. You may call them the restaur.nits of t|ie Ijrttn Quarter, sltrllur to those in Purls In tn max* of streets between the river and the Luxembourg, only a tew min utes’ walk from Piccadilly cirrus, go ing aaaiward, you find yourself in finui street On your right Is the Be* tiursis Koropeen, It originally le. luiigod !• M. Vliltnsifft, who made • little fortune and has returned home to France to enjoy it. The chef Louis has been ohef for sixteen years. You will have no difficulty in telling that ■the restaurant is popular: you may count eighty napkins in the boxes on the walls. To save you the trouble of consulting the menu, there is a slate with the names of the plats du Jour — potage au riz, twopence; rouget. sauce capres, flvepenee; boeuf au gratin, flvepence. Upon the same side of the street there is the Restaurant Albert. Albert was head waiter at the Europeen, and being frugal, he saved enough money to start a restaurant for himself, and he has been successful. You may lunch for a shilling; omelette aux fines herbes, fourpence; veau saute carotte, flvepence; cheese petit Suisse, twopence coffee, one penny. Albert gets a great deal of help from his wife: it is said she can cook as well as the chef. She is handsome, and might play the Marquise de Saint Maur in “Caste.” They have beautiful children, and the children sometimes oome to the restau rant to see them. In restaurants of this class it is usual to give the waiter a penny, and he does not expect more. They have no license, and send out for wine, get ting a rebate from the wine merchant upon each empty bottle. Having no license, they can remain open all day on Sunday. France has given us the language of diplomacy and of the cuisine. I shall only refer to one restaurant in Paris. If you have never dined at Voisin's. in the Rue St. Honor*, dine there the next time you are in Paris. You will have no difficulty in finding it. As vou come out of the Nouveau Cirque it is one minute's walk on your left: opposite to it is the Church of the Assumption. It is one of the last of the classic restaurants left in Parts. Philippe’s, Cafe Riche, Brebant's, Mai son d’Or, have all gone. When you enter from the street you pass at once into the restaurant. On the ground floor there are three modest little rooms in which you dine. In the first room there are two ladies who will make out your bill, and if you fail to salute them upon entering you need not be sur prised if you are charged two francs additional in your bill. You may sit down at one of the snow-white tables, and it by chance a Parisian is beside you who has enveloped himself in his napkin so that he resembles a ghost, do not let prejudice prevent you from doing the same. Very quiet and peace ful is Vlosin's. In my recollection they never kept a waiter who could speak English. If you order red wine, the Burgundies and Bordeaux have the reputation of being the oldest and most carefully selected in Europe. The dishes are dear, but you need not or der more than three. Order a sole cooked in the way mentioned in the bill of fare. The ways of cooking a sole invented by the chefs of France are innumerable. It must be the am bition of every good little sole finally to be taken to Parle and be cooked, say, ala Colbert or au vln rouge. Se lect one entree, and finish with a Chateaubriand aux pommes, and your bill, divided by two, will not be a heavy one. If you ordered as many dishes as you find on the menu of the table d’hote in the Hotel Continental, madame would make out a bill which would be appalling. Dining one night at a restaurant not far from the Faubourg St. Honore, I ordered a sole au vin blanc. When it was served I carefully removed the white sauce, and I found it was a sole to be greeted unbenignly. Some day I hope we mav have a restaurant in London where you may select your food before it is cooked, choose your fish as you would choose them at Grove’s, in Bond street, select your fruit and flowers to decorate the table as you would select them at Solomon’s in Piccadilly. SOME EVERY-DAY TYPES OF NEW YORK CLERKS And Thetr Kind Are to tie Fonnd In Other CHten n* Well. From the New York Commercial. “ ‘There is plenty of room at the top.’ Nothing was ever said that was truer of the business world to-day,” said a man whose every-day occupa tion means direct personal contact with a wide circle of business men and their employes in various lines. “We have a habit of thinking that our grandfathers, because they suc ceeded in life, had better opportuni ties than we have now. It is human nature to unload our shortcomings onto other shoulders. It is like the habit of cursing inanimate objects be cause we do not get results out of them. Your amateur chauffeur, who blames the 'gosh-dingod' thing when it gives out, whereas accurate knowl edge of that bit of machinery would enable him to move along smoothly, well illustrates the point. "I lay down the rule that there would be an end to al! complaint about insufficient wages if there were manifested by the employes a suffi cient attention to business and a stronger disposition to learn, a greater willingness to furnish the ‘quid’ for the ’quo,’ a keener ambition—if you will call it that—less disposition to stick at trifles in the every-day em ployment; and, beyond all, a single ness of purpose governing all. I refer to young men—and to the class that is working for others. “To illustrate: For several months past I have bought a- daily supply of cigars at a shop near my home. The same clerk has waited on me every day. It is evident that he has accom plished one of his main objects in liv ing—he has 'held his Job’ during that period. Recently I went Into the store, as was my regular custom. “Give me half a dozen this time,’ I said. " 'Half a dozen what?' he asked. "Now. there was a young man who hadn’t studied his business. No doubt he knew a lot about the relative mer its of the players in the National League. Indeed. I have often heard him descant learnedly—and as if with authority—upon them. Yet this em ployers had a placard conspicuously displayed In all their stores saving, in effect, that suggestions for the im provement of their business were worth money to them and would be gratefully received; and some day. no doubt, this young man will wonder why he hasn’t had a raise of salary. I hope my remarks will reach his ear in time to Have him from becoming a Populist. "Sometimes I drop Into a Park Row restaurant with a friend. X have been doing this, oft and on. for a year or more. We have gone in and out. to gether and have In a sort of way come to know the intelligent face of the kfen-eyed money-taker, who —we have learned from scraps of conversation, with other*, that have floated from his lips—ls keen on horses and their Jock ey* and knows whether or not they ought to run well or 111 under varying condition*. One day I dropped In ahead of time. •’ ’Has my friend come In?’ I In quired. “He looked blank and then he said; ’Now. you don't expert me to remem ber who you are, do you?* "He had me there. 1 oughn't to have expected It. And If It hadn't been for the cases that rontraat with hie, I should long ago have ceased to ’expect’ anything. "fine day I went out to The Bronx Zno. A young man not an exhibit in th Zoo 'preaided,' aa they call |t m the backwoods church social, at the coffee counter. Now, The Bronx coffee counter la one of those plane# where you are expected to p my tor your re fieehmente b*fore yon have any maana of knowing Law much money you mag be called upon to spend. There was a sign to that effect somewhere up above the head of the young man. 1 overlooked the guide-post and. in my ignorance of the young man’s ways, I made bold to make my wants known. ’Read the sign!’ was his answer, sharp, quick and peremptory. It would have been a splendid manner In the heat of battle—hardly the thing, though, in an ’emporium’ that caters to people who have mgney and will spend it or not, as they are attracted to the place. “This young man may be working for $T a week, ten years from now and wondering why Fortune hasn’t fav ored him. The trouble thus far has been that he hasn't given Fortunt* half a chance. ”1 don't want to be Irreverent, but I do sincerely believe that this class of fellows, young and middle-age, ought to have anew gospel preached to them —the gospel of get-up-and-do, of pay attention-to-your-business, of single ness of purpose and of courtesy and good-intent. It would be a practical preachment, and it would be money in the pockets of the young men. "Not all of them are of this sort, by any means. I know a clerk in a fur nishing-goods store who anticipated so many of my long-felt desires one day, when T went in to look at a 68-cent soft shirt, that he had my $lO bill be fore I knew it; and I wasn't angry about it. either. I honestly felt that I got my money’s worth. I have in mind-another young man. He is the general superintendent of a beanery and. though it is a little room with an extremely limited bill of fare, he makes me like the place and the food taste better. Some day a live man will discover this chnp, and then the beanery will know him no longer—and a lot of his fellow-workers in the vine yard will be wondering why they weren’t born ’lucky.’ 1 am here to tell you that a whole lot of luck is what you turn up yourself. It may be trite, but Its true, nevertheless. “I don’t know a merchant in town who would quarrel about wages if he could get whole-hearted service. The employe who is determined to perfect himself will find his level—and he will be working for himself eventually; not for somebody else. ‘You can’t keep a good man down,’ as the cannibal said after the missionary whom he had eat en disagreed with his stomach. And its a good thing for the rising genera tion to know. The man who works as If in fear that his employer will gain too much from his work swindles himself. He forms habits that unfit him for anything bet ter than being the hewer of wood and the drawer of water. Tell him to move along and never mind if he does do $2.50 worth of work some day for $2. Its good practice, and there are other employers in the field, looking for that kind of help. The man is doomed who does his worst for fear someone may get the best of him. and until the country votes that mediocrity ought to be the national standard he will trail on behind. Effort to do well costs al most nothing. It doesn’t even require an exceptional amount of brains. Any youth can give attention to his business and be polite and watchful of oppor tunities to render service. You don’t hear the men who started out that way and kept It up complaining now because they can't get a living.” theTnrikisha. Hansom Cab of the East a Possible American Invention. From the London Globe. The most general impression of the Jinrikisha, the hansom cab of the East generally, and of Japan in par ticular, is that it is a vehicle with a venerable antiquity behind it, or, in other words, a survival of some kind; therefore, when one learns that It Is merely an infant of some forty sum mers, there is perhaps cause for sur prise. The honor of inventing the con veyance cannot be ascribed to any par ticular individual if one has any re gard for accuracy, for there are half a dozen claimants, among them be ing—it seems almost inevitable—an American whose hustling propensity, so it would seem, was Father abnormal ly developed. But the Japanese them selves. who ought to know something about the matter, ignore the preten sions of this restless Yankee, and most' frequently mention the names of their own countrymen, Tokoyama, Kosuke, Izume, Osuki, and Sozuk Toklyara, as the inspired genuises who first recog nized the necessity for some improve ments upon the Kago, a kind of palan quin which was anything but expe ditious. and the cumbersome four wheeled ox cart, which, though per haps truly Oriental, was altogether too dreadful when the roadways were not constructed with mathematic precision as to the uniformity of the stones. One of these individuals fashioned a vehicle out of a box. four props, und a pair of wheels, a very crude and primitive arrangement, it must be al lowed, but the idea itself caught on immediately, and fortunately enough did not clash with any of the conven tions in vogue, by which the ten, an aristocratic two-wheeler, and the koski, a kind of sedan-chair with an awning, were strictly relegated for the use of royalty and the nobles, and could not be utilized by the mere plebeian, native or otherwise, because of the penalties prescribed for such transgressions against the dignity of blood. Gradually the idea evolved into the comfortable, expeditious, and almost indispensable equipage of the present day, and at the same time the kumo suke (coolies employed In the drag ging of the old vehicles), advancing with the times, blossomed out into Jinriklshamcn. Of these Individuals there are nowadays three distinct classes, divided into kakae-gurunta, private coachmen attached to a house hold; the yado-guruma, plying for public hire at the instigation of an owner of a number of rikishas, and, last of all, the tsuji-guruma, who work for the benefit of their own health and wealth. The kakae-guru ma is a private servant in every sense of the word, and, being so, enjoys spe cial privileges, one of the most im portant of which is that he need not conform to the police regulations in the matter of dress. The kado-guru ma, however, must array himself in the prescribed costume, and, as a rule, he generally lives in the Jinrikisha house, and to the public he is noth ing more than an employe of the oyo kata, or boss, to whom the monthly accounts are, payable, and who is re sponsible for any misconduct on the part of the workmen. The latter's re muneration is not a fat one, for, though he receives board and lodging, and obtains the use of the vehicle, he must pay the "boss” six yen per month, in addition to at least 10 per cent, of the fares; and, after sundry necessary expenditures, there re mains but a paltry profit left. But. nevertheless, he never goes short, be ing able to obtain accommodation by borrowing from hi* employer; and al though in the past it was consider al most a point of honor with the frit ternity to tuke French leave whei* In debt, the formation of the Jinrikisha guild has rendered this pluyfulneMS quite Impossible. If he were lo at tempt to get a fresh license he would probably find his name on the black list as a result of the thought fulness of his late employer, and permission to play for hire would not he grunted. The third class, or tsujl-guruma, who are stationed at street corners, are the freest of all aa regsrds their dally Ilf.-, but are probably the poorest. The majority rent their vehicle from some jinrikisha house and pay 4 to I sen per diem for the hire. The street J|n. rtktshsmen's earning* are on an aver age atiout lit to 10 sen, equivalent to a Itttle more than la He has a street stand, where he must wait for hla We Undersell The Others Prices are nothing to us now. We do not care to remain longer than the first of the year. Any thing will buy our Cut Glass, Silver, China, etc. We can stand the loss. Our copper stock is doubling in the West, and we must go. Allen Bros. Mail orders filled promptly. fares; but though these are free to all, like our own cabstands, every new comer find* he must ingratiate himself with those x-fore him by a. small pres ent to commemorate his entrance Into their company. At busy stands the numbers are always full, and strang ers are not accepted on any terms ex cept by purchasing the “good-will” of a stand vacated by a retiring mem ber. When the stands are located in the station Inclosure, or on the ground belonging to the railway, the men are even more exclusive. Outside the rail way Inclosure at some places are to be seen men who solicit passengers, and when their fare is-made undersell it to the men at a stand in the vicin ity, pocketing the difference. They are commonly known as gogai, and not Infrequently make more money than the bona-fide riklshamen. Gentleness la not a characteristic of the Jlnriklshaman, nor Is he given to honest practices. On the contrary, he will harangue for half an hour In en deavoring to swindle a likely fare out of a paltry copper, more especially If the Inquirer happens to be a newly-ar rived European, scorning reference to the official regulations. These regu lations, it may be mentioned, not'only govern the conduct of the men them selves, hut give directions for the con struction and color of the Jinrikisha, together with Its appurtenances, and stipulate what dress the men shall gen erally wear, in addition to style and color of the waterproof donned in wet weather. The rule of the road is also given minutely. Keep to the left holds good In Japan, though there is an ex ception when troops, commissariat, etc., are In sight, for the right side must then be taken. An unoccupied convey ance must yield to the occupied, and when it is desired to overtake another riklsha traveling In the same direction, that Intention must be expressed loud ly, so that the one in front may swerve to the right. Mall carts and fire en gines, of course, together with water drays and funeral processions, have precedence over other vehicles, which must move out of the way with alac rity. The regulations of the police are seconded to a great extent by the ef forts of the guilds, one of which exists In each district or ward, of the large cities, to which every tsjudl-guruma must belong. In Toklo there are about 60,000 Jinrikisha*. which are divided Into fifteen guilds, according to the number of urban districts, so that every guild manager, who Is chosen by the members, has charge of over 3,500 wheelers, a task which Is by no means light, and compares with the secretaryship of a trades union In this country, though it must be admitted that the duties are decidedly more on erous. Frenzied Finance. The chapter* that have gone before of "Frenzied Finance,” hy Thomas W. Lawson, have been printed In a pam phlet form, and will be sent, post paid, ori receipt of price (30 cents.) For sale at Estlll’s News Depot. No. 18 Bull street, corner of Bryan, No. 2 east. Savannah, Oa.—ad. Hi aboard Air Line Railway. Rest Line to Jneknonvllle, Florida, ■ ■id Month. The Seaboard Air Line Is the short line, operates Pullman service on all trains to Jacksonville and Tampa, a.nd makes the quickest time. Only four hours, Savannah, to Jacksonville. Tick et office. No,'} Bull street; ‘phone 28. —ad. BEIL PHONE 2173 BOAJUMRADE BLOG. AX OLD DOCTOR'S l,Yl'l;nii:Y<lvS. From the Washington Star. An told doctor, from one of the Southern Mutes, a gentleman now well advanced in the scale of years, dur ing a visit to friends in Washington a week or so ago, entertaining a small party of friends with various reminis cences in his career as a medical man and otherwise, spoke of the days when duello had wide champion ship In parts of the country where he lived and practiced his profession. Doctor,” said one of the party, "we all know that In your early days, when you were young and handsome, so to spoak, you were recognized as a strong advocate of duelling. Did you ever engage as a principal In one yourself?” “No,” said the old gentleman, some what mournfully, “I did on one or two occasions invite persons to the field, but the requests were not com piled with, and. though I have been present at a few hostile meetings. X was there in my humble capacity as a surgeon, and, of course, to heal rather than to hurt any one." Another member of the small com pany Inquired of the doctor concern ing his presence at any fatal encount er. "Did you ever see a man killed in a regular old-fashioned duel?” was the question. "I am very happy to answer that In the negative,” was the reply. "I'll tell you of one Incident that I am personally cognizant of," said the doc tor, “and that Is seasoned both with pathos and soma little amusement. This was before the war, when two young men, both lawyers and both married to beautiful women, became involved in a dispute In court, and one of them accused the other of pre varication. He used no stronger lan guage, but that was enough. The dis pute occurred in the forenoon, and before the afternoon was on the de cline a challenge had been sent and accepted. The meii were to fight at twenty paces with muskets loaded with duckshot at daylight on the next morning. I was surgeon for the chal lenger and everything was arranged all right. The offended man had a friend who was to remain with him all night, and his leading second, with myself, were to call for him at 3 o'clock on the morning of the meeting and go with him and others to the ground. "Well, we did call, but couldn't get our man. The report of a duel got out and the young fellow's young wife heard of it and captured him. She cried and threatened and fainted, and went into hysterics about a dozen times. The result of It was that, so far as he was concerned, the affair was off. He couldn’t get away. The sec ond, however, went to the field to take his place and I went along, of course. "We got there in full time, but to our amazement there was no enemy. The other man's wife had also scream ing kicking and fainting and he, like the other, couldn't get awny. His sec ond came In the course of a few mo ments, but after conferring with my man’s second (they were good friends, too) the two agreed that It was not their funeral and there was no duel. "loiter on an arbitration committee decided that there was no call for ex treme measures anyhow, and, with honors easy, the quarrel was settled. These two fellows became good friends afterward, as they were before the dis pute In court. Both of them were killed In the Southwest during the CIvU War." 17