Evening Star Newspaper, October 22, 1892, Page 11

: ‘THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY. PEASANTS AT DINNE RUSSIAN GASTRONOMY, All About the Queer Dishes and Drinks of the Land of the Czar. SSIAN HOTELS. ABOUT I Fish Ponds in Restaurants ai Soups Soups Served With Cream — Extravagant Dinners— How Lower Classes Live — Russian Girls an Their Cigarettes. pecial Correspondence of The Evantne Star. Moscow, September 30, 18! AM sSTOrrING I the Slavianski Bazer here in Moscow. It ix one of the biggest hotels in the world, and though this fs «land of famine I have never lived #0 well as I have in Russia, The Rus- sians eat as muchas any other people on the face of the globe. Their meals are big ones and they are always nib- bling between them. The hotels of this city and St, Petersburg are among the largest in the world. The Hotel de Europe of the latter city has many hundreds of rooms and youlose your- self again and again in wandering through them. This hotel at Moscow must cover five es, and you can feed a thousand people in ite restaurant at one fime. The restaurants of these Russian hotels have se; cashiers from the rooming parts of the hotel and You pay for your meals when you get them. You can ® very fair dinner here for 75 cents, and I bad for this amount today # soup, roast, some fish, some game and a desert. This meal was served under » dome and my table, was next to 0 marble fountain in whic! were swimming. ordered my flash I up to the fountain and pointed out the fish I wanted to the white-gowned waiter, and he took » net and dipped it out and sent it to the kitchen. It was a steriet, Which is one of the finest fishes of and within ten minutes after the waiter had caught it I found {t sizzling on plate before me. I take my dinners and my lunches in the restau- rant, aa is the Russian custom, and my break- fast is always served in my room. I have this A Moscow WAITER. when I get up, and it consists of tea or coffee » bread and butter and nothing more. order tes the waiter brings it instead of a cup, and Ihave adopted the Rus- sian methodof the plice of milk. Thix breakfast I and Iam expected to give my Watter from Scents to a dellar when for having served it to me. senvaxrs. ian hotel are generally -and the porters and ut with curiously shaped their pantaloons feathers in their the messengers g 1 ranks and they all | ! belted | fn at th hotel, who fs the i Ahead of the information bureau. * gorgeously as a drom major, « Iways sparkles with gold Ince. him about the door of a hate and th iw ing Fe makes you th hoon, “Th h in 5 this hotel ther « var . b f ? th ! wh I leave | nd vou get a gravy dish of cream for sauce at the first of every dinner. 1 soups are much liked by the and I ordered one today owing what it was. It Russians without ki had creamy color, but there was in the center of it a piece of ice as big as my fist and there were pieces of cucumber, herring and meat floating around in it. I tasted it and it mace me think of boiled beer served with ice,and the taste was enough. Some of the soups were very good and one order for soup is alway enough for two. ‘The fish that I find here are excellent and there is a dish called vianka made of fish and cabbage which is sot at all bad. Another is a sucking pig voiled and served cold, and another favorite lish is roast mutton’ stuffed with —buck- wheat. The Russians have excellent meats PRETZELS FOR SALE. and you will get as good beef and mutton here as anywhere in the world, The butter is in- variably good and some of that which I have had is so sweet that I can eat it like cheese. It is never salted and it is served in great loaves, the guest cut- ting off as much as he wishes. I have drunk ® great deal of the Russian wine and | jooking women and villainous men. I find that the wines of the Crimea and the | said that Caucasus are very good. The champagne of the Don is a little sweeter than “Mumm’s Extra Dry” and some of the wines of the Crimes taste like cider. I do not like the Russian beer known as kvas, but the tea is good everywhere, and the Russian takes a glass every hour or so and merchants do all their business over tea. ‘The peasants who bring things here to Moscow to Sell never make a bargain except at the Trak- tirs, and you find the samovar and the tea glass everywhere. EXTRAVAGANT LIVING, The better class of Russians live very extrav- agantly. They spare nothing on their tables and they are fond of giving big dinners. It is not uncommon for a whole sheep to be brought on the table at such dinners,and imported wines flow like water. They are very fond of flowers, and there was a dinner given at St. Petersburg not long ago at which rare orchids adorned the board and at which the flowers cost more than $10,000. At some dinners given by young men the host expecta to pay for all the damage that may be caused by the young fellows when they are drunk after the feast, and there have been dinners here in Moscow which have cost a small fortune. Still, at the better class resta rants you can get a very good meal at reason- able rates, and I got an excellent dinner last night at the Ermitage restaurant for a dollar and a half, or for two and a half, including my bottle of wine. It was served by a boy*ina white apron and white clothes, and while I ate it an immense organ played automaticall This organ was as large as that of a good-siz church and the cylinders which were put into around af a stovepipe. tunes and it was, f think. ran by steam. I went into the kitchens of this restaurant and I found them cleaner than any kitchens I have ever seen in America. the meats and vegeta- bles were kept upon ice and the soups we boil a sbeep. HOW THE LOWER CLASSES LIVE. The lower clases of Russia live on what righ — | would kill the American laborer. Their dict is in a tumbler | made up of sour bread and ge soup, and riukingit with a bit of lemon in | they are always eating green cucumbers. I see vay for ; cucumbers» i from the corner: of many of ‘ite I tables is just as they come from the vin without being pared or cut,and you are ex- pected to dress them to suit yourself, The of this kind that the | tatoes and turnips. I hs a good many | peasant families at din: They use neithi plates nor knives nor forks, and a fair table furnity bow! for soup ai for a Rassian family is a wooden water as the different members of the © the common bowl of soup and, ing themselves, thus carry the ice-cold or mg-hot liquid to their mouths They ailk and egge, but little meat, and they not seem to care for much more than bread and cabbage. THE SMOKING HABIT. Every one who can afford it smokes m Rus- sia. Cigarettes are used more than cigars and I see very few pipes. ‘The cigarettes are shorter than ours, bat the tobacco 1# good and it is of- Turkey. All tobacco pa: high revenue and cigars are bought on sight aud mot onsmell. To get a cigar vou have to get a whole box, and the boxes are sold with ower the nce glass tops. through which you can see the cigara, Sout es 2 | But as these are pasted obut with a rerenus on th their toilet, | *tamp you cannot handle them. These boxes A half pint of water is thue eno ¢ are of all sizes, and in ring a cigar at din- Sickel tas sutiag nough for the | wor you will have ene. aigar’ broughi suese omen: to you in a little box and ~ _ | afairly geod cigar will you forty cents, A Russian dinner is rather a curious affair | You will fare better if you smoke cigarettes, ner lasts for hours. The first and you must not be surprised if are an appetizer.and this consists | Say ladies at the table to see them smoke, too. sian brandy, togetber with euch | Neatly all Russian women smoke cigarettes and ~ wd it is not thought out of place to see a woman relk as caviare.caw herring..moked salme nm raw smoked goose, radishes, butter and cheese. | here with cigarette in her mouth. There { area. | #0me snufting done in Russia, and though there it be- | rons tehaese chewers ae. fore taking your seat at the table for the regu- | Americans, nation of spitters. You Ler dinnes. The firat part of the dinner | td spittoons in every room, ‘erly oe fe soup, and a d of Ramian soup fo 0 dinner | sfarven ne brass or wooden filled fteeif. ‘The most popular, perhaps, is known as | “nd a a stchee, which i made of cabbage and beef, and | USSIAN MARKER: fm the midst of each plate of which « big chunk | I visited some of the Bussian markets here ef beef floats. Sour cream is often added to! the other day, and they have many features itin the changing of the music were as big | It played all sorts of | | which are almost worth their weight in gold. cooked in great caldrons, each big enough to \p | shops are connected with hey are used in all sorta of | y of serving them at the | eas | ants eat but few vegetables. They know nothing | | about raising vegetables and the only articles use to any extent are po- | @ dozen large wooden table | LEMONADE PEDDLERS which could be adopted with profit by us. Fish are sold alive, and the only dead ones are the dried ones. They are kept in stone vate of run- ning water, and the fishwife will stand with a dozen of these marble vats about her, cach | filled with different kinds of fish. Russia has some of the greatest fisheries of the world. Millions upon millions of dollars’ worth of fish are taken every year from the Volga, the Cas- pian and the Black seas and all the caviare of the world comes from here. You see this cavi- are sold in cans and tubs in the markets. It looks like bird shot sprinkled with salt water and it is made up of the of the sturgeon, which are killed for this purpose. It brings high prices even in Rusqy and is best when it is fresh. In fact, Russians say that caviare should not be more than a mont old to be good and that you cannot get good cavinre further away from the Volga than Mos- cow. The meat of thesturgeon, after thecaviare has been made from the eggs, is salted and sold, You can buy it here for about 10 cents a pound, and ali sorts of dried fish are eaten by the peo- ple. They are shippedsin great crates over the country and they form a large part of the diet of tho peasant. “The consumption of fish is in- creased by the aumerous Russian faste, during which the people cannoteat meat and must con fine themselves'to fish. FROZEN MEATS AND FISi The queerest markets of Russia are those of the winter, when all sorts of fish and meats are sold in a frozen state. The Russian winter is so cold that these fish are caught at the begin- ning of it, are placed in vate and are sold in blocks to suit the customers. The dealers buy them by the tons and store them away for their retail customers of the winter. Beef, mutton and poultry are frozen the same way and a butcher can lay in during October his full supply of meats for the next six months. The meats are frozen so hard that a knife cannot cut { them, and it is necessary to saw them up or chop them with an ax. Splinters of frozen meat fly about over the market and children and beggars collect these and take them home to their families, There are many curious things sold in the markets here, and you can buy eels and snakes and chicken legs. Lambs’ fect are sold as a great dainty and calves’ feet are bought for soup bones. Among the oils which are used by the peasants for salads and cooking is sunflower cil, and one of the great industries of this country is suntlower raising. The peas- ants eat sunflower seeds in large quantities and they nibble at them and chew upon them as wo do peanuts. You can hardly find a man who has not some sunflower seeds in his pocket and everywhere you go you see women with baskets of these black and’ gray seeds for sale. They taste very mach like pumpkin seeds and the peasants eat them at their gatherings just as the Chinese do watermelon scedsat the theaters. PEDDLING. A vast deal of business js done here in Russia by peddling. On mang of the business streets of Moscow there are long lines of open-air stands and bare-headed Russian men and frowzy-headed women sell fruit, vegetables and knick-knacks under the blaze’of the hot sun. ‘There is an immense business done in little booths and the so-called thieves’ market is a fixed institution of every Russian city This name has come largely from the guides and there is no donbt that many of the articles sold are stolen. The truth, however, is that these markets are second-hand markets and that many of the fine articles which these Hebrews and Russian second-hand dealers sell have come to tl mate way. This second- in St. Petersburg eov- ers nearly a wi The building which constitutes it is cut up into all sorts of angles by arcades, and you go through narrow nisles oit upon which look little cells packed full of second-hand goods and presided over by hard- It is one’s pocket book is not at all safe in this quarter and that n stranger ought not to go through it alone. [had a guide with mo, and though the crowd was rather noisy and somewhat impudent in their requests that 1 should buy of them, Isaw nothing very dangerous or terrible. In some of these shops you will find the finest of silver plate. There are bushels of watches and old rugs PEASANTS AT TEA. ‘The dealers, however, thoro the value of their goods, and real bargains are scarce. Much of the stuff is said to be brought to the market by servants. and now and then you can ik up a piece of bric-a-brac or pla n stolen from one of tite palace awnbro z, shly apprecii | money is loaned upon pledged articles ata fixed ate, and all pledges which aro not redeemed are sold at aucti8n. This takes aw: deal of the pawning from the i result is that you see few pa shops with the golden balla above them ere. The of money on to them on the part of the Russians is that shortly one settles in a peasant found to possess a mortgi: valuable property in the vil themselves live from hand nd nobles spend Ther 2 "The Hus month. and both money as fast eat borrowers and improvident. Tao result is thrifty Hebrew no trouble in getting away with them, and this is largely the reason that the ezar and his government are anxious to get rid of Lim.” There is « law in Russia that any Hebrew can be sent back to the place of his nativity if he moves thence without the permission of government, and this is what is being done with those who have emigrated from one part of Russia to the other. Many of the Hebrews, however, prefer in moving to leave the country. Frank G. CaRrEentea. a She Broke the Game. From the Sacramento Record-Union. An Elk Grove wife has hit upon a most effeet- ive plan for curing her husband of the staying- out-at-night-ond-card-playing habit. Her husband hada craving for gambling, and preferred sitting up all night ina saloon playing garda to keeping his wife company at home, The worst of it all was he couldn't win any- thing, and all the money that should have to his family went to his gambling friends. His wife, finding her entreaties unavailing, took a six-pound can of powder and 8 pistol and surprised her “hubby” in the back room of saloon at 4 o'clock in the morning. e THE DAY OF BADGES. The Fashion of Displaying Emblem- atio Pins and Buttons, WOMEN IN POLITICS. ‘What Badges Are For—Many Curious Em- blems—Young Women Banded Together for Both Protection and Free Silver—Thetr Political Ardor. HE CREATURE WHO cannot exhibit a badge these days is too poor to figure in the city di- rectory. Everybody and everything has a badge, and lots of peo- ple have half @ dozen. From theSpitz dog. with tag 20098, to the fellow who wears the circle of gold with an enamel K, everything is “badged.” You notice three tiny gold links on thelapel of Charley’s vest, and you may know that he isan Odd Fellow. If to this he adds a square and compass he isa Mason. On his watch chain a tiny lantern may mean that he is a railroad man, a little gold saw that he is a carpenter, a gold trotter that he isa jockey, or his scarf tick” or “rule,” showing that he is a ;" a small gold safe shows that he belongs to the order of the “Iron Hall.” Then there are the G A. R. buttons and locomotive engineer pins, Loyal Legion buttons, bicycle league buttons, base bail buttons, ¥. M. O. A. buttons and two or three bushels’of other buttons, all of which mean something to the wearer cnd hie cotorie of club friegls, but are Greek letters to the outside wor! ‘There was a time in the history of human fairs when badges were signs of serfdom and insignia of servitude, but the old order changes and the proper caper now is to proclaim by way of watch charms, scarf pins, badges and buttons one's allegiance to the A. O. 0. H., A. 0. U. W., L 0.0. F.,G. A. BR, G. 0. P., 8. RB. M. and the rest of tho alphabetical order of hyphenates. THE WOMEN DO IT Now. As long as this taste for decorative emblems was confined to men not much attention was paid to it, except to wonder what might be the name of the inventive genius who designed all the curious and ofttimes quaint insignia. But like suspenders and four-in-hands, the man has spread to women, and they have gone into the development of the fad with the energy which charactorizes ail of their proceedings. “What are they all for?’ asked a Stix re- porter the other day of a breezy young lady who wore abit of white ribbon in one button- hole, a dash of blue the color of her eyes in | another, a small silver cross on her watch- chain and a tiny tin star asa bangle on her bracelet. “Oh, they are for lots of things,” she re- plied witha cheery laugh. ‘The while ribbon is the emplem of our ‘Social Purity Club,” the blue ribbon is for temperance and the silver cross for the ‘King’s Daughters.’” “Are there any tender passages or love se- crets done up in that battered tin star?” per- sisted the reporter, as the b. y. 1. paused. “Indeed, no!” she returned energetical “That tin star would intimate to a mau wi average intelligence that the star of the tin plate industry is rising rapidly. In other words, that is the badge of my republicanism.” “So you are a female p ell, I like that,” the dignantly. y views on political questions dnbbeda politician? No: I am not a ‘female’ anything. [ a Woman who has looked into this question thor- oughly, and after thoughtful study has arrived at the conclusion that this glorious country, 80 prosperous under high protective tariff, sould not be given over to free trade, which would ultimately degrade our laboring classes by bringing them into competition with the pauper Inbor of other Inds, ‘THe Srak reporter gasped a little, but feebly | murmured that she was possibly correct in her | | showing throagh one side and Budd Doble's on she echoed scornful There are six of us girls formed a club und adopted the tin star as a | badge. We did have ten member irls wrote a letter to M indy wrote back & dainty little not the hateful things went off and organized club and have the baby’s picture for a stick pin badge. It is so silly of them, don’t you now—and the idea of a baby fo “Of cours sporter still had strength to uiter, K—the Cleveland baby never had its pi ken, I thought. “Of course not, stupid, but that doesn’t make any difference. [tis only a year old all bubies look «like up to. th 1 found a preity face, had it pihotogra: and fixed in a pin and eailed it Rath. ‘It looks pretty, but [can't ielp but think it is sill Here's my car. I'm on my way to read a paper at our club on the ‘tin plate industr; ¥ to use extracts from it?” called the the car bore her ap the avenue out of sou the reporter's voic>, who wa. carneatly protest- ing that that was outside his assignment. WOMEN IN POLITIC It isan incontrovertible fuct that women are but one of the taking a quiet but effective hand in ‘They get around in euch asinuating, apo! getic manner that the; man pledge their views before he k and no matter how vigorously he kicks and avers that he didn’t understand the drift, she looks at him with big, earnest eyes that have a hurt expres- sion and he wilts aud promises the same thing over again ‘There are very few mugwumps among women. If they take enough interest in polities to form opinions at all they are decided ones, and there no halting between two opinions or roosting ona barbed wire fence, They get right down on one side or the other and immediately turn ail their batteries loose on the enemy. A woman never does do anything by halves. IN FAVOR OF FREE SILVER, The democratic women’s clubs are not as numerous as those on the republican side, be- cause the democratic party does not favor suf- frage or the entrance of women into the domain of politics. ‘here are a few of these clubs, however, and some brainy women belong to them. ‘The badge is a tin “reform” written across it. | dyed- stick pin with Mrs. Cleveland's picture on it, and still another is the counterfeit “Ruth” pin. ‘The girls who wear these pins talk tariff reform and free trade in a periectly appalling way. Mr. Springer is their god and Mr. Cleveland's speeches their bible. Mrs. Ch nd is a god- dess and Baby Rutha cherub. They mostly favor “free eilve tt know,” ex- plained a Ruth League girl the other day, “« ver is quite the thing now. What with bangles and bon-bon boxes, toilet. articles, gar— buckles and souvenir spoons, it does take a lot of money, and if we just had free silver, don’t you know, eve pretty silver things th all be so comfortable,” trancingly that ‘Tax Star man wondered how in the world anybody could be in favor of any- thing but “free silver.” The Harrison girl, as « rule, is much more enthusiastic than her brotheg. The republican badges are legion and she generally sports two or three of them, probably to show that she is a -the-wool republican, and no breastpin. inches across. Around the edge, in raised letters, is the inse: iption: “Harrison, Reid and Protection, 1892;” in the center is stamped: “*Protection’s banner guards our land And when { play Great Beaders bang ‘Please take me fora blooming jay.” ‘THE SIXTEEN CLUB. Aclub of young ladies, aged sixteen, bas just sixteen members and cails itself the “Six- teen Clab.” It meets'once a week and its chief study fs the literature sent out by the national republican committee. Its uniform is a navy biue blazer suit, white tennis cap, anda pretty silk fing four-in-hand is worn knotted under | ra. Cleveland and that | shicld button with | Another is a small | ‘body could have all the | wanted, and it would | id she smiled 80 en- | trath? ane Poe the oat particularly pretty fads 18 @ tin-plate | The tin plate measures about two 22, for people who never 2 Just pose the United States send a hip toed of nice candy or something to China and the horrid old emperor wouldn't return the com- ¢ by sending us pay more of those Fectiy lovely crepe shawis or datling iste Do you suppove Mr. Harrison ought to do him any more favors? Well, I just reckon not. I think it isso fanny that can't understand thexeciprocity question. Why, it isas clear tome as any Don’t you think, now, that I have put the case splendidly?” “You have, indeed. and how are you on pro- tection?” ‘WHY WOMEN NEED PROTECTION. “In harmony with the party, of course,” was the prompt rejoinder. “It is just perfectly lovely of the republican party to interest itself in the protection business, and that is why all the women are in for helping it out, because, you know, we really do need a fot of protection, Now, there is the protection to the wool in- dustry, which Mr. Springer is so determined to leave to take care of itself. Why, mamma has to take the best of care of our woolens and pack them away in camphor and horrid-smelling things, and even then the mothe get in them just awfully. I just can’t understand why the democrats want to make it harder for us; and then so many women have to work for living now, and need all the protection they can get. isn't it just too awfully good for Mr. Harrison” to have that kind of s plank made to stand on? Ob, I just love the republican because it made sugar cheaper—didn't it?” appealingly, ‘‘and,of course, we get our chocolates and caramels lots cheaper now, and then, of course, we want honest money. I do perfectly detest to get bad dimes and quarters, which I often do. and my allowance is small enough, anyhow; but if Mr. Harrison is elected he will see that there is no more counterfeit money. I think every woman ought to be a republican.” As Tux Star reporter turned from this lucid exposition of republican theories and principles he ran plump into the arms of a lady of certain age who for many years has fought the fight for universal suffrage. She good-naturedly ac- cepted his apologies and at the same time ex- tricated from his eyegiass hook a small red, white and blue silk rosette, which had been pulled from the left breast of her trim tailor- made suit in the collision, CHAMPION OF THE POPULISTS’ PARTY. “And what is your party?” he asked, a8 he saw her replace it. “I suppose that is a party badge.” “The party of the people, the great national | arty,” she replied, with a wide sweep of her and. he mounted her favorite hobby. “That's a new one to me,” he returned | meekly, feeling meanwhile his utter insignifi- -1892—SIXTEEN PAGES. UNCLE SAWS BOOKS. Volumes for Congressmen by Under- ground Railway. NEW LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. Mechanical Marvels—Handling Books by Machinery—Eleven Miles of Volumes— Room for Five Million Booke—Copyright Oddities. N_ UNDERGROUND cable road will connect the new library of Con- gress with the Capitol. It will be on a Lillipu- cars run upon it will carry only books as pas- sengers. So rapid and effective will ethis method of communica- tion be that Congress men will be able to pro- cure at the briefest notice volumes that are needed offhand for reference or for use in debate. From a station situated midway between House and Senate orders will be telegraphed or otherwise swiftly sent and the books on arrival distributed by messengers. This will be a very different affair from the famous “hole in the ground,” which was made seventeen years ago to con- nect the Capitol with the government printi office by a gigantic pneumatic tube, big enough | ‘he for a man to whisked through. It was in- tended for conveying public documents, but the $15,000 spent on it was wasted, inasmuch as it never worked, and it is now used merely as a conduit for telephone wires. A MODEL LIBRARY. There is no library building in the world that at all compares with the one now being erected by Uncle Sam. Novel mechanical de- vices will constitute one of ite most interesting features. Improvements of the kind have nev: been thought of abroad, where the great book collections are usually 60 managed that their cance in the presence of this very energetic | tTeasures are toa great extent unavailabie. In and well-informed sister. | the library of Congress the volumes will be “Your ignorance probably arises from the | bandled aimost entirely by machine. Orders crime of indifference rather than from willful | Will be sent to the bock stacks and booke misconception of the importance of the great | brought from them to the desk for distribution juestions that are agitating the nation today,” | by trays suspended from endless chains, the she replied in Her deepest tragedy tones. “Men are too much given to traveling in ruts, They accept the theories and beliefs of their fathers because too lazy to investigate these burning questions for themselves, but, thank heaven, the women are no longer sleeping. ‘They are thoroughly alive to the interests they have at stake in the great battle in progre: and find in the populiste’ party the guardians and guides they have so long sought. We owe allegiance tono man, We bave at heart the uplifting of the down-trodden, the eman tion of women and the salvation of the nation.’ “A good-si d contract,” was ThE Stam man’s comment in the pause for breath. “A righteous and just one, which we mean to champion to victory under’ this little rosette. Lam in something of a hurry this morning, 80 can't stop to talk, but you just take these and read them carefully,” and she handed Tae Stak man a package of populist literature. As he swung himself toa seat ina cable car two young ladies in front of him were busily en- gaged in descanting on the merits of campaign badges. THEY SETTLED IT. “It’s perfectly dreadful, Maud, that we can't decide on something. Now, I like those neat little Clevek: cuff buttons, but, unfortu- nately, we can't wear cuffs all the time, and it seems Very queer, don’t you know, not to show one’s political preference in some way.” “That's +0, Jess, but do you know I like those long pins in ‘silver that spell *Harrison’ better than eagle pin with Weaver and_Field’s picture be- hind that you can push up.” “I like’ those, too,” returned Jess, “but brother has something prettier and neater, He has a round crystallocket with Corbett’s picture the other. be nice? “It's a perfectly splendid idea, Whose pie- shall we put in them?” I don’t know, hardly. pretty ——"” 4 think Harrison is lots better looking, jd is really quite Spanish in appear- Why wouldn't something like that Cleveland isn't very “Weil, shall it be Harrison and Reid?” “T suppose so.” “Allright. I'm so glad it’s settled, I didn't right not to wear a badge of some kind, get off here and get the lockets.”” And they got off. Gr Green is the Color of Lovers Sealouxy. 1 Chamber's Journal. leron, Cervantes and other “young and green-eyed Gaditana.” Gr eted So much praise of green eyes is somewhat curious when one recoliects that. the color is so reen- @ part of the contradictoriness of the symbolism of this intimately associated with jealousy—the * eyed monster” of Iago. But this is on chameleon-like color. Green is the color of lovers, and at the same time the color of Jealousy and of fickleness,and, if we may bel of avarice thus describes this unlovely le and caytif was And also green as ony leek. ersonage: e eck But whatever may be the color of avarice, the belief in green as a symbol of fickleness is very general. Chaucer's ballad, “Against Women Unconstant,” has for its burden the line, In- tead of blue, thux may ye wear all green,” and “green, forsaken clean,” is a familiar saying, or, us it is often more elaborately put: “Green's forsaken: Yellow's foresw: the color That must be worn.” +o He Chosesthe Cheaper. From the Detroit Free Press. > In Montana it costs a man a dollar to make an affidavit and one day a rough fellow, not up onthe law, called on a magistrate for such a paper. He stated his business and asked the price. “One dollar,” replied the squire. “Has a man got to pay a dollar for the xclaimed the visitor. a “That's the law,” said the magistrate. “Well, durn such a law. It's cheaper lyin’. Good mornin’,” and he strode forth in the free air of the mountains. From Life, | latter being made to trav | gine in the basement. Hig Be ares or eerrrass ren) pe egal rad tayo Spanish writers praise the eye of the emerald hue, in which they are imitated by Longfellow in his “Spanish Student,” where he speaks of the But per- haps the poets do not intend to be 0 precise in their definition of color as their words might en is of many shades, and poetical praise of emerald eyes may perhaps be best inter- by Swinburne’s beautiful lines in ve Chaucer, it is also the color In the “Romeunt of the Rose” he if LEA et F by means of ‘The mechanisin will be noiseless and invisible also, the carriers going beneath the floor of the great central reading room to and fro between the librarian’s desk and the book stack. Every arriving tray will dump itself automatically at the desk. Like- wise, in taking volumes back, each tray will | spill its contents of its own accord at a certain tier. For example. if a book belongs on tier 7 the desk attendant waits until the carrier marked No. 7 comes along and puts the volume on it as it passes, When it gets to tier 7 the book is spilled out by the action of a peg and catch,and the person in charge of that tier puts it away on its proper shelf. ELEVEN MILES OF BOOKS. When one learns that there are 650,000 bound volumes in the library of Congress the mind does not grasp the fact with very clear compre- hension. It is easier to absorb the idea when it is explained that this number of books, placed side by side as on a shelf. would stretch eleven miles. But the new building was not planned to accommodate only so many, the obvious ex- pectation being that the great collection will grow enormously through centuries to come. Adjoining the central rotunda are two struc- | tures which might be compared to gigantic honeycombs, made wholly of iron instead of | | wax, and designed to hold not nectar, but | | knowledge. ‘These are walled book stacks and each of the pair will contain $00,000 ¥ Each Of them is 65 feet high, 112 feet lon; et wide and has nine stories. On th iron be placed back to back, with just enought room between the book eases to afford narrow passage- ways, ‘Thus they will have plenty of fresh air, which is as necessary to books as it is to human beings. Books must have ventilation, else they will rot, and they have to be kept cool. Heat makes them decay, and bad air causes mold. | Books stored by this stack system, which is a comparatively new invention, cannot possibly be burned. If set afire, nothing else com- bustible being at hand, they merely smolder, THE BIGGEST IN THE WORLD. However, 1,600,000 volumes do not by any means represent the capacity of the building. It is anticipated that the library of Congress will be the biggest in the world some day, and provision has been made in the construction of the edifice for accommodating 5,000,000 books. All binding will be done on the premises, an item which coste $6,000 annually. ‘There will be plenty of room also for the copyright di- vision, which requires great space for the filing away of all publications, &c., on which copyrights are granted. Copyrights are issued for a good many things besides books, periodi- calsand pamphlets. They are givenéor new pieces of music, engravings, chromos and even puzzles and games, ‘The games and puzzles are not themselves subject to copyright, but the directions for them are so, beimg printed matter. Very commonly the manufacturers, | thongh there is no need that they ehould do so, send in the playthings together wi tions—building hicks, chopped-up animals, parlor billiard tables or what not—and they are duly stored. Uncle Sam has enough of such articles in the Capitol at present to stock several toy shops for next Christmas, LITERARY EXPERTS. Not a little of the printed matter submitted for copyrighting is immoral and so unfit for publication as to render it liable to seizure un- der the laws. But, oddly enough, the librarian of Congress has no discretion in’ this regard, and he is compelled,to grant the copyright in every instance, so long as the material is origi- nal.” A common fraud attempted is the request for agopyright oz an old book published under apew title. In order toguard against this the rants in charge of the copyright business must be familiar with everything that has been issued from the press. Obviously, this is not the direc: | wholly possible, but it is wonderful how near they come to it, so that it is very rare for such acheat to pass undiscovered. People offer many thing for copyrighting which do not come legally within the range of that institution. Recently dozens of applications have been made for copyrights on campaign tadges. ‘The most interesting was a miniature diaper with a gold safety pin stuck through it, inscribed w the words, “Vote for my papa—Baby Ruth.” The applicant was reicrred to the patent of- ce. THE LIBRARY SKELETON. Every great library has its skeleton—that is to say, acollection of books unfit for general perusal, which are hidden away in some corner. Unfortunately, there are many works of this deseription which are classical and to destroy them would be regarded by ail bibliophiles as atrocious act of vandalism. Such volumes are kept by Librarian Syofford in a little room by themselves and none of them can be ob- tainéd without his epecial permission. In this curious assemblage novels of a century bear a conspicuous part, Their contents afford a vivid conception of the improvement in morals and refinement of speech which has marked the last 100 years. It seems prising to find inthe Bon Ton Magazine, a society periodical of polite fiction, printed in 3 HF iy bd a9 ff } i : Fj | a fi { it i Hi | the- somnolent victim out of his chai tian scale, and the little | which were scattered around, not paring any j these literary celebrities have not How They Clear Trains From the Evening World. greatly annoy are negroes of over @ volume that he was and leani back in his chair be fell asleep. Ustortanatelt for him one of the assistant librarians had oc- casion to go toa shelf in the gallery, high up beneath the ceiling. Having difficulty i reaching the Volume he was after he it and it fell about thirty feet, striking the un- | conscious sieeper below square on the nose. It was quite heavy and the blow fairly knocked tretch- ing him senseless on the floor, Did the assistant librarian rush thereupon to pick him up and restore him? Not a bit of it. He descended as quickly as possible and proceeded with great anxiety to pick up the fragments of the book attention to the eufferer un‘il he had collected all of the pieces. , but a classical work with rare illus immortal and must be preserved at auy price. IN THLE OF ErIDEMIC. Should cholera become epidemic in this coun- try the libraries, little and big, would be obliged to withdraw their books temporarily from general circulation. They afford an ex- cellent medium for conveying infection from house to houre. When people are sick they can only amuse themselves with reading, and no sooner does the average educated person fall ill than he or she draws upon the nearest library for volumes of entertaining fiction. During their perusal germs ret afloat by the patient's breath or otherwise are apt to lodge between the leaves, to be taken ia by eubsoquent rend Bacteria will live for an indefinite length of time in books, the dryness and unvarying temperature affording conditions most favor- able for their survival. Thus one can never feel sure when taking out a library volume that he is not making a bid for a variety of ailines from trphoid fever to mumps The Boston rary gives out books by cs ach of h bears the holder's name, Recently it adopted the systent of stamrang the card of every individual living in a house where gious or infectious disease was reported, not allowing any books to be taken out on that piece of pasteboard until the trouble was ¢ cully declared over by the police. This de- parture was taken in the belief that it would reduce the deaths from diphtheria and other complaints by an appreciable percentage an nually. THE PLAN OF THE NEW LIDRARY OF CONGRESS is copied after that of the British Museum, in respect to having the reading room in the mid- die, with the book stacks around it. Mr. Spof- ford will sit at an elevated desk in the center of the big rotunda, so a8 to overlook everything and keep an eve on the readers. ‘There will be space for 300 people, seated at desks arranged in concentric circles. From behind a ring shaped counter surrounding the librarian bi assistants will give out and receive books, the endless chains of traveling trays dumping and taking on their loads inside of this ring. The four interior courts, open to the #ky, are already completed as to their walls, which are faced in- side with dazzling white tiles for the purpose of reflecting the greatest possible amount of light through the windows. The book stac have been completed ard the sections of “the building containing them have been roofed over. ON TIME AND WITHIN THE APPROPRIATION. The masonry of the rotunda is all up, and the construction of the dome will be begun this fall. A new kind of giass is Likely to be adopted for the skvlights, Being formed on a sort of wire net, it cannot tumble and do damage if broken. One of the most remarkal = about this building is thet it will be fir at the ap- pointed time, four years hence, and the cost of it will come ‘within the appropriation, which was 26,000,000. Nine busts of famous writers will occupy niches in the windoweaps on the west from, looking toward the Capitol, but yet been selected. ‘ihe keystones of the window arches on the four faces of the stracture bear sculp tured heads representing the thirty-three types of races of mankind recognized by ethnologists. They were made from models and pictures at the National Museum, under the direction of Prof. Otis Mason, THE BRITISH 30 though architecturally only an uncouth as semblage of buildings, has the finest library i the world. With one exception it is the largest. In cosmopolitan interest it is without a rival, best Hi collection Out of h library out of Holland, and in short the best library in Enropean language outside of the territory in which the language is vernacular. It contuins works by over 2,400 authors named Smith. The Chinese books number gest libra i Nati volume modern libraries, it has bad the aid of several kings and othe powerful personages since ite formation. Th: ginning of it was the collection of King John, the Black Prince’ captive, who bequeathed ft to his successor, Charies V.’ There is no general catalogue for use of readers, THE VATICAN LIBRARY at Rome was founded in the fifteenth contury by Pope Nicholas V. However, it was based on collections far more ancient, and there is evi- dence that a pontifical library existed from th fifth century. The present ing Was erecte: by Sixtus Vin 1588, It contains 220,000 printed volumes and 26,000 manuscripts, It is opened to th n November and June and ix always cloged on Sundays and feast days There is no proper catalogue, and the librarians rely on imperfect written lists. The third largest library in the world is the Imperial Public Library at St. Petersburg, which claims 1,000,000 volumes. THE MOST ANCIENT LiDRARIES known of were those of Assyria, Only forty years ago discovery was made of the ros Nineveh. Digging brought to light the cham- bers that contained it, the floors of which were covered a foot deep with clay tablets bearing cuneiform characters, many of which were so small ax to require a inngnifying glaes for read- ing them. There were the books of that strange and warlike people of antiquity, the tablete be- ing inscribed with a stylus while soft and after. ward baked. The Ii belonged to the luxu- ious monorch Serdanapalus, who, was w great patron of literature. It included 10,000 dis- tinet works, some extending over many tablets, methedically arranged and catalogued. The institution was open to the public. Most of the tablets which were found whole are now in the British Museum. In ancient Egypt were many libraries, such collections being usually de- posited in temples and at the tombs of kings. books were written on papyrus scrolls, Under the Ptolemies the biggest of the libraries at Alexandria had 40,000 volumes or rolls. It was destroyed accidentally by the spreading of the flames when Cwsar set fire to the fleet in the harbor. —_— SHAKING THE Orr. of Tramps on Southern Reads, The conductors on southern railroads are with tramps, most of whom indolent type of that race. was becoming nervous, asked the general what ‘was the occasion. This was his answer: “Niggah tramps infest the trains down here very badly. They don't wait for the train to stop. They are used to jumpin’ on trains when the trains are runnit at In truth a man most die | | mighty peals that accompanied the blind: 5 Es E Hee ut iF A NIGHT IN camr. The Deer Hunting In the Adirondacks Net What It Was. SITTING AROUND THE CAMPFIRE AN OLD GUIDE TELLS OF THE OLD TIMES AND RELATES HUNT INO EXPERIENCES MIXED WITR NATURAL musToRT. Penate's, Oct. 5, 1692. 2D SUE MOANED IN HER SLEEP ON the floor behind the stove, for ber feet were sore and her bones ached after the hard chase she had bad in the day'shumt. Biliy, whore Pride she was, and who was prouder than ver of her that night for #he had driven two deer into the lake that day—hed carefully rubbed her toes with vaseline before he went to bed, but ill old Sue was stiff and sore and lection that two nice, fat catonses of venison bung out under the trees where the cool breeses from the lake could at them was enoagh of iteelf to expel all feeling of fatigue and make us «to tai tt all over agmin and agein before we could entertain a thonght of going to bed. Sowesatin the dingy but Sony little camp sitting room, which was lit by a single ofl lamp, iapel the darkness were almost by the clouds of smoke that fadozen pipes. But there wase rattling thunder storm going on outside, late as itisin the vear.and old Bald mountain wae hurling back terrific reverberations of the flashes of lightuing. Through the cloudy the w The roar of the wind was drowned in the cradh of the thunder, bat the flashes of lightning showed it was beating the lake into whitecaps a foam. Within when the flashes came "e was no need of a lam © the lightning p the rud in clearer than daylight, ing the stack of rifles and uns in w ner, the three young dogs bosude them, the other guns hanging on the smoky rafters, the antlers fixed to the and the long, feathery deers’ tatle nailed to the beam over the stove, where Robert had put them to cure, so that he could make trout flies out of them on the long winter days that were coming. Ax OLD mn at jong time, pul at his pipe. Uncle J guides in this part of # the woods, and fringing the beach with masses of wh Uncle nilen om watched the storm in ng wethmatically @: hn isone of the oldest Adirondack-eor “in as every one «ays here. He came in as a boy away back in the early forties, when the w nds were woods, before any wretched ourists began to come in with ther ks and when deer by the dozen could ny day, feeding like atte in the Il the way from Old Forge to the head Those were the days when it was worth w ing tuto the woods. There ere deer enough for all in those times ef d memory and no hunting parties them ever got inton wrangle over the game, and mo ne ever thought of inquiring whose di in with the buck. in fa of runt in those swamp of Third Lake. day were daylight ¢ bad in plenty in Raccoon bay of tm arch. Je Joba's memory was busy witl ne of those dave that would come 1 t the second year I id his pipe asté © cut off a piece of plug. “we And it soon became apparent recol- that U lect big J ; camped on this very spot —right over there by the spring hole where the bark shanty weed to be. ‘The rest of the party went up te Fourth to fish, and sent me down to Ed. Arnold's for sup- plies. i took an old flat-bottomed boat to row down to the toot of the pond —the Forge hadn't been built then—and on the way I remember ng along the shores of . right in the middie of the day, too, didn’t pay no attention to me and I did't disturb them, for I hadn't aay gun with me and we didn ¢ want meat, any way. SOME NATURAL mISTORY. >John paused to finally close the And Uj he continued after e rd meanwhile on the antler of a buck that aa nail against the wall, “about the ay deer grow and shed their horns. Did ye w that the bucks go four months of the year without horns, then the horns begin to grow and it's four are ripe ai then the more? Wall, that's the fac rious thing. They shed their hornsalong Christmas or early in January and go without them until about May, Then they begin to again, all covered over with the short mall velvet. Along in time they begin to change their he bine and when they get fat and their necks begin te ewell, the velvet pecle off and the bony horn is exposed. I suppose the Ths get itchy when the velvet begins to peel, for in the woods you can find places where the bucks rub them against trees and rocks to get the ekin off. Here some one made a suggestion which seemed to meet with general approval, and in carrying it out there wase sound of glasses and the comforting glon-glou of lig flowing through a narrow aperture—and even in the dim light it could be seen the liquid wax of « far richer color than that which bubbled up in the spring at the back door. After Uncle John had wiped his mouth and carved another generous hunk off the big «lab of he car Tied he crossed his right leg over his left aud there wax a glow of most promising import on his good. id tace. sup he continued, “I can say what no other man in thore woods can say, and thet is that I've seen « buck shed bis horns, Od, it t ha’ been nigh twenty years ago, and I was working outat White Lake Corners. Wall, é was Christmas day. and there was four foot snow on the ground, I cal late, 1t was blisteria’ cold, but I made up my mind I'd take my gum 1 go out and see if Lcouldn't kill » deer. the signs in a little valley and ‘they led up the side of a hill where there was purty steqp climbin’. [went along easy like almost up % the top of the ridge, lookin’ out all the mighty sharp. Tcome toa place where there was a lot of big rocks, and I lid down on knees in tryin’ to get up over movin’ mighty caution kno! doze on my knees Lqmebbed back sapling, and just then, right bey: cies ae ben ee Bee there in a little sort of hollor tion. Quick asa flash he to get n better vi tumbled one of his borne into the hadn't catched si Thad to it up jump and off went the that rock, I But the bucl i i i