Evening Star Newspaper, February 25, 1893, Page 12

12 ——, — rial THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. ©, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1898-SIXTEEN PAGES. SSIMO, AMUSEMENTS IN ITALY | How the People of Palermo Enjoy | Their Leisure. PEASANTS AND NOBLES. Massimo Still Uncompleted—Where Opera | Ye Heard—A Typical Scene im the Solitary | Cafe Chantant. 4 The Fvenine Star. Pareeao, February 5, 1898. ALERMO 18 THE tal of Sicily, with 000 inhabitants. It js the military, judicial 4 ecclesiastical head- of the island, and possesses one of the 2 principal Italian universities, All of these Italian lic in p! g men are evide the German c ortant exp The st: re are three, or at the Poli cessfal grand opera more or French of ial inter- nm reader than appear to be to the | which they are prepared. In mo’s places of amasement do the none of Pali common pe nothing is pr separate existence and ible to the stranger. In of the place, the chief we Mediterranean though ction with the great this the am: Feo of Europe than m aired. two classes in Palermo— the great bulk of the common people, who are Tike pexsants, and the petty nobles who, as it | are almost as numerous. ther with others hike snecessful of Italy is giving an upward teudencr toward what will some day bea powerful miidle class, ail look to Paris as the fire worshipers look io the sun. Jn one form of amusement only thes are free. This is POLITEMA GARIBALDI. the else has been on the q t native geniuses in new es at the Politeama (Garibaldi. where several brand-new operas bave been protuced om Milan. bi igment here to € are repre in person | 1 OF PALEExO | rough the city, cross- | right angles in its exact the Corso—ie called the and the other is the Via | er ther pose Daustling Life of c the beginning noon carriage ( da, to 10 1s after- burbs of La Bat ter will not | From the Chicago Ne | edge | From th ld much more rapidly than did Cavalleria. There was just enough naughti- ness to Ler couplets to give a reason for her manner, and the young men applauded with = shame-faced relish for which one would look in vain in Paris, In this respect the atmos- hare was quite American. For an, encore jowever, se gave the 01,” whic Marie Tempest as used with so great effect in The Tyrolean: After the silky nervousness of Bellona the over-generous charms of Mile. Daurin, Parisi- 3 - ts. Perha jenne, may have seemed a little stunning. | Several important amendment | Though shaped like a great heifer the indy was | STOUp was ben! betypehin ty a Palermo's Two Great Theaters—The Teatro no! lacking ina pretty face and she was a hu- | Coupler and wanted it adopted generally. re to morist. Her songs were of so advanced a gen that one young fellow cried out ‘Ravachol!” which a German clerk at my side responded “Panama!” These witticisms m win their to the reader. performers were a troupe of three eccentric Englishmen, playing on a multitude ows throughout the world. The German atmy side told me tocail to them in English, to encourage them.” He himself bad encour- aged the Hamburg beauty generously. Then there was a champion bicycle rider, man juggler,” a dramatic soprano tinguished herself the week before by attempt- cide with a revolver with, Bellona again French girl. The whole concluded with the Englishmen blacked up to reprerent three Kickapoos, whom we in our country have always believed to be red Indians. Travel en- larges the mind. The seance concluded at 10:30. The nobles jer audience roge home in cal 2 cents for two persons, Steeune Hee. which cost And Was Ancry Because the Deaf Old Man Misunderstood Her. ccor’. It was just 6 o'clock and the car was packed with people going home. She carried some bundles and in her efforts to handle them and save thea from crushing she dropped her mit- ten. She saw it go, but was powerless to stay its descent and it went down in successive stages in triangular space between hereelf, a man who looked over her bead and an in- dividual who was deaf. re goes my mitten! leaned over and said ¥ mitten—mitten—it fell down.” Well. ye can'tgit it, mum. Ye'll have to wait till the car gits to the end of the line, so the conductor kin puil up the floor.” “Til do nothing of the kind. Besides, I ain't fo have all these people walkin’ on it for laven't ye got another one?” said the deaf 7 ‘The deat ms Eh?" “"Conrse, I've got another one,” and she wiggled the hand encased in her other mitten. ‘The deaf man saw the movement, and, know- ing that women often carry car fare’ inside their hand covering, ‘over and pulled her mitten off for her. ‘Then whe sereamed. The conductor was the only man who could ‘is way to the scen What's the matter here: Lady dropped her nickel and can’t pick it said the deaf man, ‘Didn't drop my nickel—dropped my mitten,” said the lady with the packages. id she bad another one,” pursued the deaf man, “‘but she lied.” ou're an old door post,” gid the woman with one mitten. “Quee- how folks go travelin’ about town with only one nickel,” raid the deaf man. get along’ better'’n people with no said’ the woman who didn't drop her that all the money yer husband gi ked the deaf man in # tone of sympathy. | “He rust be a regul’r brute. “If he was here now he'd eat you up. I s'pose them’s collars and cuffs 2 is goin’ to deliver ‘em,” said the | deaf man to the passengera, Then the conductor said, “Fare, please,” and the womcn gave up a nickel that she had been carrying in her mouth. “Thought it was in yer mitten,” said the deaf man. | “You don't know howto think,” said the | wom nder why she didn't carry ‘em both in her mouth?” said the deaf man. id the woman. il swaller yer nickel that Way some time?” asked the deaf man. “If I do i reckon it won't injure my hearin’,” said the woman. T enductor got down on the floor and r @ Woman's mitten, and she got off att crossing, wondering why some people tearry ear trumpet The deaf man & y way of enlightening the other passengers, “I guess it was ber mit- teu instead of Ler nickel that she dropped.” ss old Kediscovered in Ecuador. London Times. Mr. Haggard, the British minister in Quito, in his last report says that bardl insues from the lower slopes of the Andes.either to the Amazon on the east or the Pacific on the west, the sands of which are not auriferous,tuus inlicating the vast stores of gold lying in the irom which they spring. Shortly after theyconquest mining settle ments, such as Logfono and Sevilla de Oro, were formed, which rapidly became large an flourishing cities; but the raj ns of the conquerors excited the Indians to a desperate revolt, in which all the males of their oppressors were exterminated, the gov- ernor of Logrono’s thirst for gold being. as the legend relates, finally settled by « quantity of the mol Since that time no attempt bas been made to reconquer these rich districts, but the Spaniards appear to have worked mines in other parts of the country. Since the independence, however. Palermo and nearly all the others of tho | 's been | to stuff both of rour own mittens | ity and exac- | metal being poured down his throat, | prohibitive regulations und taxation have ‘aused their abandonment,and in many cases it s only by reference to ‘the archives of the ded fa- the street, d its audi as private | p be traced. In this way the rich | silver mines of Pillzthum, which are now keing | worked, lave been lately rediscovered. Several mines have also been opened in the ovince of Esmeraldas and in Oro by a British company. Some American companies have lately been formed to work the mines in Fameraldas, which are said to be extraordinarily rich. ‘The rivers running through the Piolon territory, the property of the Ecuadorian Land mpany.an English corporation, are said to nusuaily rick im gold, but it does not ap- that any attempts have as yet been made to open auy mines there. Ecuador produces almost every other metal, and also coal and petroleum. AT THE CAPE CHANTANT. After the theaters ef the futur the Foyer del New ¥ ure an ev kk Adu Ided arm chs with the nobles of you si here are generally quite aie and the ceil- | te of pale green, bright | favor in this | posed « other » grave. ben mustache, wa smile. He w drawing the bow i strings with sonor The cormopolit «weaning. character of the program fe noticeable. Fraulein Bellona was the first Singer and the star. She is a north German, from Hamburg, siender, pink and white, the best tyve of ber race. "She bas fine brown hair, scarlet lips and a willowy grace whose essence is of the parlor and whose only added ity is astounding vivacity. She sang in of military life, and afterward man- ged a Nespolitan song. Later on she sang in a Keggy look in his new evercoat?” iffecent provinces that their existence and | “TALKING SHOP.” Hard Railroad Problems for Man- agers to Solve This Summer. TAKING BIG CHANCES. Working Over Time and the Great Danger From Falling Asleep—Can the Railroads Carry All the Passengers Next Summer?— Stories Apropos of the Centenaial. HILE THE AUTO- matic car coupler bill was under considera- tion in the Senate there werenaturally drawn to Washington several railrond men whore keen insight and man- agement of railroad aifaira have made their names almost house- hold words the country over. While the brighter lights of the rail and tie circle were giving their testimony before the different committees having the bill in charge a dozen or so lesser lights were expounding to individual members the advantage and disad- | vantage of rushing the bill through without one | another group watched the intcrests of their roads and while desiring the coupler adopted, desired time in which to make the innovation. | Among a party of this nature it would be an | impossibility for them not to talk of the rail- | Toad and its happenings, and of course the ap- | proaching ‘worlds fair and their connection | of instruments in the style familiar to variety | therewith wore often under discussion. It seemed to be the general verdict that with e exception of one road the western man- gers did not know the full extent of the rail- road problem before them. A QUESTION OF WAGES. In the first place the railroad systems of the | entire country will have to settle with theirem- ployes before the fair is inaugurated. None of afford to enter into a prolonged fight over wages, and it is a case where labor is | going to squeeze capital and to accep? the best | terms possible will be the easioxt way out of the | difficulty. With the labor trouble out of the way and all the systems working together like well-oiled machinery the practical railroader will have to demonstrate his ability in his par- | ticular line or make room for the man that can. | This applies to the humblest employe as well as the hizhest. | A reporter of Tar Evextxa Stan inquired lof one of the railroad representatives what grounds he had for believing that a demand for {1 | He said: | “Ihave been making very carefal observa- tions for the iast three months and the men, one and all, are saving money. that never fails. Thev are preparing for a strug- | gle which. if it takes place, will find them well fixed tinancially.and if a compromise isarrivedat they will be just so much aly | roaders outside of the engineers save money as | «rule, and when they do there is something in | the wind.” ow “You were spenking of the western managers hands, referring to the worid’s fair,” said the | reporter. ‘Were you connected with any of the eastern roads during the centennial?” “I waa connected with only one,” he replied, “and that one was eufticient forme. If you | happen to come across a railroader in any ca- pacity that worked on the eastern roads in 1876 | ask him how many hours he generally put in on the road. If I secured five hours’ sleep out of the twenty-four onan average I considered my- self lucky. My position was one created for the oceasion and consisted of overseeing the | general workings of the railroad men, the car- | rying out of which took me over the road at all hours of the day and night and upon all train schedules. PATRONAGE WILL FALL FLAT AT FIRST. “My prediction is, in regard to the coming fair at Chicago, that the patronage will fall flat the first two or three months. ‘Then national pride will assert itself, nnd when it does we rail roaders will have to Lump ourselves to move the masses. That was tho situation during the centennial, and, in fact, the history of all big events of this sort. I have this from statistics, and if the Chicago fair proves _an exception to | the rule I will be very much surprised and heartily glad at the prosperity. “The entire countre goes on the rule that | they will wait afew months and avoid the early | rush, and as a consequence a dearth of peopie at the fair grounds will be the result, All the railroads are trying to overcome this im- pression and are advising their agents to get the people to Chicago as early a4 possible. About the Ist of August the state davs will be- ‘gin, and then we can look for tremendous crowds from that time to the close, Each state will try to outdo the other in the matter of at- tendance and the old-time rivalry between New York and Pennsylvania will no doubt crop | out. | “What atime those ‘state days’ were in 1976 between the empire and keystone citizens, ‘The latter stato topped the former by some 9.000, I think, but, great Jerusalem, what a time we had getting those people to and from ds. the fair grou Up in Peunaylvania every one wanted t e by the first train, and no matter how much or kow emphatically we as- sured them we were going to put on extra eec- | tions only ten minutes apart they crowded onto the firet ‘sections until the care were packed to | sutfocation, and then the roofs were taken possession of. me that many people were not hurt on | day. | along the road the great crowds on the trains acemed to make the traveling fever infectious jon that day, and we were taking them into | Philadelphia up untilalate hour in theafternoou. | When [ think of those crowds and the great that wonder what the western roads will do on such j occasions. Our, road was double, gracked ita entire length and for miles out of Philadelphia | eight and four tracks were used. WORK DURING THE CENTENNIAL, for the railroad men themselves, it was a case of work as long as they could keep awaké | and, in fact, many went over the road at night dozing and sleeping as the opportunity pre- sonted itself, and the many hairbreadth escu; rom accidents and wrecks were arkable. “Lremember going out one night on a reight train to keep a watchful eye over the movements of the trainmen, as every one at headquarters knew of the ‘terrible chances almost all of them were taking, owing to the long hours of work. We left Lancaster that night, running as the first section, with the second train close behind us. ‘The entire crews of both trains were worn out and had only come out on the run to prevent a blockade, and my eyelids appeared to be weighed down with pound weights. The conductor aud I w and down the floor of the caboose to keep awake, but before we had gone ten miles | T found that I couldn't stand it any longer and resolved to stretch myself out in one of the bunks and take my chances. I knew as soon as I had turned in the conductor would follow, but it was a case of physical collapse. I said to the conductor: I'm played ont. Guess I'll take aiittle nap till we get to the foot of the gap,’ meaning a big | bill midway between Lancaster and Philadel- | phia. ‘so keepg good lookout and then I'll ict | you get a little sleep yourself.” “the conductor promised to keep a sharp lookout and I turned in for a balf hour's sles |T'woko up presently with a start to find tho train standing still, and xpringing to the renr door of the caboose was paralyzed to see the headlight of the engine of the second section, which was standing still not more than seventy- five feet away. I looked for the conduetor and flagman and found them fast asleep. Then I started toward the headlight of our train and found the engine gone. “Presently I saw it backing up to us and then I went back to see what was the matter with the engine of the second section. There sat the engineer fast asleep, With the fireman on the box on the other side of the cab, and he was fast asleep, too. 2 “The throttle was wide open and the engine had run out of steam. Going back over the train I found two brakemen stretched out on coal cars fast asleep and back in the caboose the conductor and were also snoozing away for dear life. “T turned and went to the engine of the first section, where the en; told me that he and his fireman hed both been-asleep and that the ‘engine had broken loose and run ahead to the foot of the hill at the gap. The jar of the engine striking the upgrade awoke them both and they returned cautiously to find out what had become of their train. EVERY MAN FAST ASLEEP. “Every man on both trains was fast asleep ‘and that the steam in the second section should have lasted long enough to carry it up to within | an increase in wages would be made this spring. | That isa sign | Very few rail- | not knowing how large a job they kad on their | It has always beer a wonder to | As we passed through the small towns | facilities we had for handling them I begin to | seventy-five fect of the first section and no further was to me the most remarkable experi- wae sideal ot dignity its the men. bu tons i men, but Tay sever beard of the socarrence trem hued quarters, as the conductor had the drop on me. as it were, and my own position depended upon silence being maintained in the matter.” “Where there any other remarkable escapes that came to your knowledge during that year?” inquired the my of them. but none to equal the one T have just told you of. Have you ever heard of the fireman that wns literally frozen to the seat in the cab of hisengine through fright? Most of my gray hairs came with that experience and the fireman's paralysis was the natural re- sult of a terrible situation as it appeared to us at the time. ‘Many queer things happen in the railroad business. I have seen an engineer lose a cat out of his train while running at full speed without knowing it, the cars being coupled | as if an ordinary break in the coupling pin ha occurred. I know of a truck being thrown off the rails from under a car without the train be- ig ditched, the coupling holding up the car until the next station was reached and the situa- tion discovered, but my experience on the en- gine with the paralyzed fireman beats them all for excitement. “Tt is not often that an engineer stays on his seat in the face of a collision if he hns a chance to jump. When he doesn't jump it is because n't the time. Iwas coming east on the Cincinnati express and occupied the fireman's seat, keeping a sharp lookout and ringing the belt when crossings or small towns hove in ight. Little Phil Underwood, as good an engineer as ever pulled a throttle, was the engineer. The express is » fast train on her regular schedule, but trains were always late that year owing to the western travel and being heavily laden. That night we were late as usual pull- ing out of Altoona, and I tell yoa we were Ee peeiaped the wind. Getting tired of being alone on my side of the cab, and having so lit- tle to do, I climbed over to the engineer and asked Phil to let me run her awhile andhe pushed back on the seat to give me room. I might add that I had graduated from the ranks of the engineers to my present position. TRE SCARE OF A RED LIGHT. “Everything went along lovely as a May day of the Juniata valley about nine miles above running iike the wind and had about twelve crowded Pullmans behind us. “Suddenly a red light showed up ahead of us on the track. The awfulness of that moment I can never describe. ‘We ure gone, Phil,’ I yelled to the engi- neer bebind me. ’ ‘There's @ flat car abead of us. Seo that red light?” “Phil saw it and started to get down. I yelled to him not to do it, that we might escape death, but if we jumped from that engine, running at least eighty miles an hour, we would be killed sure. “Tuhut off ‘the steam and, throwing on the air, began plugging her. ‘The wheels reversed, but ehe rode over the sand as if there was none on the track. Phil clung to me with wide, staring and I honestly believe he was pray- ing. Ne:rer, ne: light and in a twinkle dashed b: crash came, bodi in gasps. fireman to go back with me to find out what was the cause of the danger signal, He could d when I puiled him from his seat he wusas stiffas 9 poker and it was sov minutes before he could utter a word. The nor fellow was paralyzed with fear and it w 4 long time before he recovered. “What was the red light doing there? A fool agent had come up the track to flag a train following us, and left the red light stand on the ties beside the rail. When I met him my hands itched to let go from the shoulder, and the fireman wanted to swipe him with the Jantern he was carrying. It was a narrow escape for all of us, because if we had been running, say about forty or fifty miles an hour instead of flying as we were doing, we would have taken the chancesof being killed by jump- ing. ‘Experiences something similar but not quite so thrilling were occurring at frequent in- tervals that year, and I look for the same sort ho coming summer ont near Chicago. ‘Traine will run thick and fast, and our road will depend exclusively on the block system to pull us through. A FUNNY BOT EXCITING INCIDENT. “TI might mention, in conclusion, that one of the funniest and at the same time exciting in- cidents that occurs in the life of a fiagman is | that in which a train will creep up on the one ahead on a sidetrack and flash Ts headlight through the glass door into the caboose. The poor tixgmen caught it heavy during the centen- nial, with the rest of us, andalthough he should not have given in to his physical weakness he was frequently found asleep. Almost every run into Philadelphia brought out stories of how the flagman had gone to sleep while waiting for the train following him to come up; how the en- gineer had steamed up close to the caboose with as little noise as possible and then blowing a blast from bis whistle that seemed to come from the dead. Out of the bunk would roll the flagman, his hair on end. One glance through the door and he thought the collision was only A question of seconds and then a dive through the little side window head first would follow. Sometimes they were hurt quite seriously, but generally sheht bruises wero the only result, nd they would willingly take these ax 2 pun- ishment for going to sleep. It was a good plan on the engineers’ part to give them this scare, as it generally cured them of ail desire to sleep while waiting for the train following to come up.” | | > OF INTEREST. Curious Bits of Information Concerning a Variety of subjects. There is a less percentage of blind people in the United States than in any other country in the world. At Sedalia, Mo.. there is raid to be a tele- graph operator who is deaf and dumb. He receives messages by placing his head against the instrument at which he is working, so a8 to | feel its motion. During 1892 England received from the United States over 10.000,000 letters, while Ger- | many received about 5,858,000 and France nearly 2,000,000. ‘he monomaniae who in 1839 accosted Queen ictoria while riding in Hyde Park and pro- | Pored marriage to her died recently at the Bed- iam Insane Asylum of London, Ho waseighty- four years old. ‘The hotel proprietors of Tokio of late were in the habit of advert ig their houses as earth- ODD ITE it injured business, and was the cause of frightening tourists away. The Mont Blanc Observatory is practically completed, and will be placed in soon as the parts can be carried to For the shelter of the workmen huts built about 900 feet from the top. In the grand duchy of Luxemburg persons desiring work or help have now only to senda [exer card to the director of the postal admin- ‘tration in order to have their wants advertised in every post office in the grand duchy. Mrs. Edward Lloyd, whu recently died in London at the age of ninety, when a girl, helped to entertain Blucher at his arrival in England after Waterloo, and was present at Westminster Abbey at the coronation of George IV, William IV and Queen Victoria. ‘An interesting discovery was lately made at Glastonbury, Somersetshire, England, of the remains of ‘an ancient lake village. From sixty to seventy low mounds, rising from one to two feet above the surrounding and from twenty to thirty feet across, were found on the level moor which stretches to the British chan- nel. Many curious objects were found. ‘The New York State Library has in its pos- session one of the smallest books in existence. It contains fourteen pages, each of which measnres one and one-half inches. On the fiy- leaf are the words: ‘Life and Service of General Pierce. Respectfull Lewis Cass, Conc Press, 1852." From its | text _— seem od the little book wasa vest-pocket campaign document, issued durii the Bierce campaign. tes said to have attained » Mr. Gladstone | greater age than any other prime minister of England. He recently celebrated his eighty third year. Of the prime ministers Lord Pai- merston died on the eve of his eighty-second birthday, Chatham at seventy. Fox at fi seven. Canning at fifty-eight and Sir Robert Peel at sixty-two. Earl Russell was eighty-six at his death, but had not held office for twelve years, and Lord Beaconsficld was seventy-seven, Johannisburg, in the Transvaal, is = wonder- ful little town, It is but five years of age and the inhabitants number 40,000. It stands upon gold reef, and upon this reef fifty companies are at work giving employment to, 3,370 white men and over $2,000 uatives. The’ town has ans, water, tramways and handsome buildings, While for twenty miles east and west the fun— nels of mining works can be seen. Only a Fiance. From the Indianapolis Journal. “Susan,” said the housewife, “I think that once a weok is quite often enough for your sweetheart to be calling here.” “He ain't ” Susan gation teen tenets Res by maser int hiss?” ee Huntington on the middle division. We were | quake-proof, but have now ceased. ‘They found j that dedicated to General. | | ‘er we rushed to that fatal | of time biding we had studied the thermometer | , but no | and barometer as assiduously as if we had been and our breath came from our employed in the weather bureau and had con ‘Soon we were stopped and I called to the | probable outdome of the current rise in tem- | | i dance until we started down the bill just west | Put from the rushing the end of her IN OUR BLOCK. mens of the edition, just for show and nothing more. He was one solid mass of politeness. That was every identical thing there was to him.’ The Servant Question Discussed at a Gathering of Neighbors. WHEN THE WATER PIPES RAN ‘The Little Colony That Mutually Sympa- thized While Waiting for » Thaw—The Disconsolate Bride Who Was Left Servant- lese—The Man Servant, WhoWas Politeness Itself, but Nothing More. sa Written for The Evening Star. HE HART WHICH panted for the water brookconld not possibly have taken more plene- ure in the sound of the | water brook in questio when he at Inst came within hearing of it than did I one mem- orable morning not long since at @ tre- mendous roaring and spluttering noise, which | indicated that the long- frozen water pipes wero resuming activity. Under ordinary circumstances such a sudden outburst would have been frightful—would | have led one to believe, indeed, that the en-| tire domestic menage was about to be de- stroyed by spontaneous combustion or some sunilarly violent process of annihilation, but knowing what it was, with all its happy import, T ran forthwith into the elderly matron’s to carry the glad tidings. T couldn't got admitted for several minutes, of feet up and down and the enthusiastic though mufiled ejaculations which -reached me through the wall Tconcluded that alike joyful occurrence had taken place in my neighbor's house. “THE PIPES ARE RUNNING.” When at last the door did open she exclaimed before I could even wish her @ good morning: “The pipes are running! A form of expression that would lead one not versed in domestic idioms to believe that the Pipes were a specios of centipede. But it was notime to be hypercrit in the matter of Speech, so I responded: “And in my house, too! Aren't yon glad now that we didn’t pay $60 apiece toa plumber to have the street dug up?” For we all of us in our block after _interview- ing various plumbers, each one of whica left us ina more verplexed state of mind than the last, decided to wait for a thaw, during which period | | suited together on every warm day as to the perature, A VISIT To THE BRIDE. “Shall we go in to see the bride?” asked the elderly matron. For joy, you know, loves company as well as misery “Yes," I answered, “and Ido hope we may find her as happy as are we.” Well, when the door wax opened, and by the bride herself, it was quite evident that her hap- iness, if it existed, hadn't yet reached the sur- | face, for she presonted to us a most lugubrious countenance, which, moreover, bore the traces | of recent tears. A large apron enveloped er from head to foot, and a spot of coal dust on retty little nose spoke mutely but unmistakably of the woeful kitchen experi- ences of a novice. “Has the water—,” began the elderly matron and I in a breath. But the bride didn’t even give us time to finish our interroga- tion, but exclaimed in sad dexperatio: SUE WAS BERVANTLESS, “No, and what is much worse, Sarah has left!" Echind the bride like bad angel stood the pessimist, who, as her next neighbor, bad earlier learned of her misfortune and come in to mourn with her. “Well, what did I tell you!” said the elderly matron—who thongh a most excellent woman couldn't conceal a sort of unholy satisfaction in finding her unplea-ant prophecies fulfilled—“I warned you the other day not to show your de- pendence in her so much. In dealing with servants yon have to act as if you didn't care whether ‘they remained or not, in which case you are sure to keep them as long as vou like.” “And I was 60 good to Sarah,’ went on the bride in a sort of dreary soliloquy, “gave her things—and everything!” with which compre- hensive, though somewhat hazy climax, she dropyed despairingly into a kitchen chair. ~Ob.never mind,” said the optimist, who, with the inmate of the end house, bad hurried over when they saw the elderly matron and I go in. For during the time that the pipes were frozen up we all of us in our biock whenever we saw any unwonted activity in any of the ad- joining houses hud ba-tened in, sans ceremony, to nee i was occasioned by the filling of that long-felt want, the Potomac water. A FIRST SERVANT LIKE FINST Love. “No, really I wouldn't feel badly about it,” repeated the optimist, “for a first servant, if good, is exactly like a first love—you think that there can surely never be anything so delecta- ble again, but when for some reason or other you get a second love, and a second servant, why your youthful errors of judgment then become apparent and you learn that nothing is final, that possibilities are always unfolding, and that behind these exist latent Possibilities buried yet deeper. “I really don’t understand it,” almost sobbed the bride. rah was alwa: 80 She ‘was 80 nice that though of course I knew she was black [ sometimes almost forgot her color.” “That,” explained the optimist, “is because mora! qualities in whatsoever guise are indeed white, and their whiteness will gleam through the darkest wrappings, and it is the secret, too, of our inability to see physical flaws in those of whom we are ford and the personal beauty that enfolds an unlovely character.” “Well, I call leaving withont notice and with- out even temporarily supplying a substitute,” said the pessimist, “anything but a moral quality. “But I, personally, can quite understand how the bride feels,” put in the occupant of the end house, “for I had some such experience when I began housekeeping in losing a servant | whose virtues I was then sure it was impossible to duplicate in flosh and blood. HIS NAME WAS ANDREW. “A man!” interrupted the elderly matron, “Yes, a young colored man,” replied the in- mate of the end house, <And the only servant in your establish- ment?” queried “The only one. | ex-empio | pricks your neck aud keeps your head in a con- | uttered the exclamation that that experien “I wish my Martha had a little of it,” inter- the pessimist, “the most uncouth crea- jure. Sometimes I'am actually afraid she will scare caliers away with her lamentable lack of manners. But she really does work so well—" COULDN'T WORK WITH ONLY MANNER! “What poseessed Andrew in the first place,” went on the narrator, evidently bent on pur-| suing her theme despite interruptions, “to at- tempt general housework I eaanot conceive, but notwithstanding the fact that he knew next to nothing about cooking, and so little about washing the table linen—which was one of his duties—that after a few encounters with him my damask napkins and table cloths looked as if they were made of unbleached muslin— in spite of these derelictions, I say, why he, would have been working for us yet if he had not voluntarily left. “And he left,too,did he?” inquired the bride, recognizing a common point of sympathy. “Vil get to that presently,” eaid Andrew “For bis manners were so fine,” she went on, ‘that they somehow east « balo round bis underdone beef and soggy pie crust till we ac- ually thought they were Kod, while we drauk his muddy coffee and deemed it a sort of nec- | tar. “He even hoodwinked our guetts with his manners, for he had so finished a fashion of | ushering them into the parlor, and so polished | & mode of later serving them with his culinary | failures,that they gould invariably say: ‘What delightful servan® you have. We never saw such manners—so refined and respectful. Where in the world did you get hun?’ “Now and then, to be sure, I would have vague consciousness that Andrew was couduc- ing more to my pride than to my comfort—just | as does a very stiff but ornamental raff which strained position, but which notwithstanding you know to be becoming. But this feeling would only last for a few seconds, for it would be almost immediately overlaid by some fresh exhibition of Andrew's polish. And so I went on and on felicitating mvseif in the possession of such a treasure until one day, as I said be- fore, Andrew left. HOW HE LEFT. “That, though, is too crude a description of Andrew's departure,” corrected his historian, just as to say that he was colored is inexpres- sive of his exact shade. He didn’t leave, he oozed away or evolved away. He told me that his grandmother was ill and that for a few daya, if I were willing, he would put a substitute in his place while be ministered to this aged rela- tive. T tried to put up with the substitute, who was a friend of his and whose name was James, as well ax I might till Andrew's hoped-for re turn. For James, though # professional cook who:e pies were poems, whose angels’ food pabuium really worthy’ of consumption by Celestial beings and whose entire dinners in- ded dreamy, was nevertheless distasteful to me, for he smelled of onions and tobacco and had absolutely no manners. “Well, time weat by without a rign of An- drew’s reappearance, and one day the suspicion which had been growing on me that Andrew had taken this method of breaking the Llow of his final departure developed into positive knowledge by hearing of his already being in a position where politeness waa the chief thing demanded of him—that he had got a place ax butler up on Connecticut avenue and was thus in his true sphere. him from my thoughts, James from my service, my hus- band’s theories as to men servants as maids of all work and got asensible old colored woman who has been a comfort to me this many a year and I trust will be for as mans “And yet,” she added, “Andrew remains a SeSeS==qurvwx—mWDOoOoOoO0nmnmQunuQuuQuQqQqQoQumuu AN OAKVILLE MIRACLE. ‘The Remarkable Case of Mr. John W. Condor. A HELPLESS CRIPPLE FOR YEARS—TREATED BY THE STAFF OF THE TORONTO GENERAL HOS PITAL AND DISCHARGED ASINCURABLE—THE STORY OF HIS MIRACULOUS RECOVERY AS IN- VESTIGATED BY AN EMPIRE REPORTER. (Toronto, Ont., Empire.) For more than a year past the readers of the Empire bave been given the particulars of some of the most remarkable cures of the 29th cen- tury, all, or nearly all of them, im cases hitherto held by the most advanced medical scientists to be incurable. The particulars of these cases were vouched for by such leading newspapers as The Hamilton Specte‘or and Times, The Holt fax Hierald, Toronto Globe, Le Monde, Montreal Express and others, whose reputation placed be- Yond question the statements made. Recently rumors have been afloat of a remark- ble case in the pretty little town of Oakville, f 8 young man recovering after years of help- lessness and agony. The Empire devermined to subject the case to the most tion, and accordingly detailed one of our best Teporters to make a thorough an‘ impartial in- Yestigation into the case. Acting upon these instructions our reporter went to Oak ville, and called upon Mr. John W. Condor (who it was had s0 miraculously recovered) and had not jong been in conversation with him when he Was convinced that the statements made were not only true, but that “ the half bad not been told.” “The reporter found Mr. Condor at work in one of the heaviest departments of the Oak- ville Basket Factory, and was surprised, in the face of what he knew of this case, to be con- fronted by a strapping young fellow of good physique, ruddy countenance and buoyant bear- ing. This now rugged young man was he who had spent a great part of hia days upon a sick- bed, suffering almost untold agony. When the Empire representative announced the purpose of his visit, Mr. Condor cheerfully volunteered astatement of his case for the benefit of other sufferers, “I am,” said Mr. Condor, “an Eng- lishman by birth, and came two this country with my parents when nine years of age, and at that time was as rugged and healthy as any bor years of age. and it was when about 14 years old that the first twinges of imfammatory rbeumatism came upc me, and during the fifteen years that intervened vetween that time and my recovery @ few months ago, toncue can hardly tell how much I suffered. My trouble was brought on, Ithink, equent bathing in cold lake ints of my body bezan to swell, legs to tighten, and the m contract. I became a je, confined to bed, and for three months The doctor who was ered preparations of iodide of other remedies without any ficial effect. After some months 1 became strong enough to leave the bed but my limbs were stiffaned and I was unfitted for any active ve hampered more or less fi vears, when I was again forced to take to my | bed, “This attack was in 186, and was a great deal more severe than the first. My feet, ankle kneos, legs, arms, shoulders, and in fact { following nine pleasant memory to me, though I have never seen him since, for be is aseociated with my | happiness aud my furniture when they were both new.” THE ELDERLY MATRON'’S EXPERIENCE. “Well!” commented the elderly matron. , myself, was at one time imbued with the man-rervant theory and procured a small col- ored boy with the view of bringing bim up quite, to my mind and then always Keepige in “Well, you must have been trasting!” inter- pored the pessimist, “His name was Markham—Markham Greg- ory—though he looked as if some native Hot- tentot appellation would have been more fitting, such « veritable African was be. “I goon saw, though, that Markham was | going to dieappoiut me, because he wax too deliberate. If I set him to picking a chicken ho would examine each feather and inspect ite plucked body from all points of view as it it Were some raro orni hological specimen in which he took a «cientific interest, and when he spread the tea towels out todrvon the grass in the back yard Newton himself when he saw that memorable apple fall that revealed to him the workings of the law of gravitation couldn't have gazed more profoundly at the earth than | did Markham as he studied the towel already on the grass before laying another by the side of it. ihe only time that he ever exhibited any animation was when he sometimes gave a solo dance in the alley after having finished one or other of these duties. These dances were very diverting toothers as well as himself, as his shoes were twice the length of his feet and he wore acoat with tails fashioned something after the style of George Wathiagton’s dress suitover in the National Museum. I had in- tended toarray him in something suitable to his age and to this age if he proved worthy of training. But, no, I really conld not kee; Markham. He did not possess the material was looking for.”” ‘THE BRIDE'S ONLY ALTERNATIVE. “How does all thie settle what 1am. to do?” inquired the bride, “for just please tell me how Iam to get along without Sarah. I didn’t | have todo thing. She did itall, end did it, —: il tell you,” said the elderly matron, | “You'll get another servant who probably will not be as good—" | ‘Of course,” echoed the bride bitterly. | -for servants ns good as Sarah are rare, | but the change, though seemingly for the worse, | will in the end be better for vou.” | “I fail to see how," moaned the bride. | “Because you will be obliged to take more | responsibility,” said the elderly matron. | “and we shirk responsibility at our peril, put in the optimist, “for though we may avoid drudging work without harm, we must not forego, responsibility of some sort if we would , ow."” oreThat is very true,” said the elderly matron, “for if we never bad any responsibi would be possessed of no more moral and tal stamina than a lot of grown-up children. “Oh, dear!!” sighed the bride despairingly. And'she really did sound eo foriorn as she ce hardened person, the elderly matron, and that cold philosopher, the optimist, relapsed with the rest of us into sympathetic silence. + TWO FAST RIDES, | ‘The Headiong Gallops of Dick Turpin aad Squire Osbaldestone. From Chambers’ Journal, Foremost among English feats of horseman- “That was a queer arrangement,” commented the pessimist. “Yes, rather. Itwas my husband's idea, for he, besides being s firm believer in the capa- bilities of his own sex on all occasions and a doubter of the capacities of women——” “Excuse me for saying it,” interrupted the pessimist, “‘but I think he must be a very nar. ToT At the tine of our marriage, T “At the time of our , I would have added had you given meachance, Since then I have trained him differently.” “That is well,” said the elderly matron. “He was also something of theorist,” she went on, “thonght that the vexed servant problem ‘could be solved by substituting men servants for women, for the reason that the in- nate reverence existing in the masculine nature toward the fominine would lead men as serv- ants to spontaneously perform any service re- quired of them, while a maid would do it only Decause it waa doen in a program except for he ful performance of which she might not be “That isn't such a bad theory,” remarked the optimist reflectively. y ‘& TINTED CHESTERFIELD. “I said Andrew was colored, didn't I?” went on the inmate of the end house. “Well, that is too broad a characterization of him, for he wasn't colored, he was only tinted, he being about likes meerschaum when it first begins to shade—so light, indeed, that he really might be said to possess a complexion. And polite! My! he was a regular Chesterfield done in pale terra cota. Why, he was so exceedingly well man- ered and bad so perfect'a eeuse of the eternal fitness of all thin, ship we have one which for generations has been represented in the circus ring. Dick ‘Turpin’s famous ride from London to York has taken its place among nursery legends; never- | theless it was actually performed and stands as arecord of itskind, The highwayman, riding with the very best reason in the world—the, safety of his neck—covered the distance of over 200 miles ina little undér twelve hours. ‘This performance stands alone as the longest and fastest journey ever made on the -same horse. Most of the long rides of which records exist have been made for wagers. Such records are, therefore, reliable, Squire Osbaldestone’s to ride 200 miles in ten hours, which he accomplished #0 successfully, is one of the most remarkable feats of endurance in the saddle, and has the merit of freedom from cruelty. The squire rode his race on the Newmarket race course, changing his horse quent reduction in the number of most suitable for the purpose. Mr. Oe stone used rixteen horses for his task, and rode balde- Se aerate seers mount at from. finish of its four-mile heat, havi: “set-to” with his ns, ———_-e+—___. The 8. P. C.C. Wants Fair Play. From Life. parts of my frame were affected. My i ints and muscles became badly swollen, and the disease | even reached my My face swelled to | ize. Iwai to open my mouth, ws being fixed together, I, of course, tt nothing. My teeth were pried apart iauid food red down my throat. I 20st my Vere, and could speak only in husky whispers, Realiy, [am unable to describe the during those long weary months, With my swollen limbs drawn by thet i cords up to my emaciated body, and m frame twis ed and contorted into indescribable shapes, I was nothing more than a deformed skeleton. For three long weary months I was confined to bed, after which Iwas able to get up, but was @ complete physical wreck, hob- bling around on crutches a helpless cripple. My enfferings were continually intense, and fre- neoey f when I would be hobbling along the street [ would be seized with a paroxyem of. is and would fall unconscious to the ground. Dur- ing all this time [ had the constant attendance of medical men, but their remedies were un- availing. All they could do was to try to build up my system by the use of toniea, In the fall of 1889 and sp:ing of 1890 T again guffered in- tensely severe attacks, and at last my medical attendant, as a last resort, ordered me to the ‘Toronto General Hospital. I entered the Hos- | Pital on June 20th, 1890, and remained there until September 20th of the same year. But, | notwithstanding all the care and attention be- stowed upon me while in this institution, no improvement was noticeable in my condition, After using almost every available remedy the | hospital doctors—of whom there was about a dozen came to the conclusion that my case was incurable, and T was sent a he under- standing that [ mizht remain an outside patient. | Accordingly from September 1590 to the end of January 1801, I went to the hospital onee a week | tor examination and treatment. At this stage I | became suddenly worse, and once more gained admission to the hospital, where I lay in a mi erable suffering condition for two months o more, In the «pring of 1891 I returned to Oak- ville, and made an attempt to do something toward my own support. I was given light in the basket factory, bat had to be con- veyed to and from my place of labor in a bus \d carried from the rig to a table in the wor on which [ sat and performed my work. August, 18 remained in an utterly helpless conditi January, 1892, At this time Mr. local druggist, strongly urged me to try D. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People. “I wes rejudiced against proprietary medicines as LS peony sed on numerous highly recommended so-called remedies. 1 had taken into my system la ent family medicines. I of liniments, but all in vain, and I there- fore reluctant to take Mr. James’ advice. however, saw strong. testimo: value of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills | | | could only get my blood in better condition my general state of health might be improved 1 resolved to give Pink Pills atrial. With the courage born of despair I bought a box, but there was no noticeable improvement, and I thought this was like the other remedies I had used. But urged on by friends I continued taking Pink Pills, and after using seven boxes, I was rewarded by noticing a decided change for the better. ay ee returned, my spirits began to rise, and I had a little freer use of my muscles and limbs, the old trouble- ings _subsidin; few size, : g i H 4 H i i £ beede Hates Hi 7 EERE ES Detroit News, Albany, N. Y., Journal, Albany | wire rigid investica | I was then | nantities of differ- | exhausted the list ‘Matiam, Neuralgia, pavria’ paraiveia, loomrotor fraxa. St Vitus’ dance, nervons headache, Rervous non and the tired feeling result- therefrom, diseases depending upon humore ta the blond, sach as ectefala, chrome. erysipe- fas, ete. Pink Pills retore pale and sallow complexions to the glow of health, and are® specific for all the troubles peculiar to the female eex, while in the case of men they effect a radical cure in ail eases arising from mental Worry, overwork or excesses of whatever nature. The Empire reporter also called upon Mr, J.C. Ford, proprietor of the Oskvi'le Basket Factory, in which Mr. Condor is employed; Mr. Ford said he knew of the pitiabie condition Conder bad been in for year, and he had thought he would never rece cure wae ct for Conder worked y vy labor in the mills and appar- ently stood it ae well as the rest of the em- plovees, deal of the young man a | wondrous delivera» Mr. Ford said he thought a great J was pleased at his ¢ from the grave and hi restoration to vigorous health In order to still further verify the statements made by Mr. Condor in the sbowe interview, the reporter on bis return route examined | the General Hospital Rec 1 found there- | im the entries fly bearing ont all Mr. Conaor had said, thus leaving mo doubt that his case is | one of the most remarkable on record, and the more remarkable because it had baffled the skill of the best physicians ia Te i These pills are menu Williams’ Med N. 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