Evening Star Newspaper, March 18, 1893, Page 10

U. S, QUARANTINE STATION NEAR LEWES, DEL. KEEP OFF SCOURGE. The Quarantine Regulations to Pre- vent the Introduction of Cholera, A COMPLETE SYSTEM. ‘The Marine Hospital Service's Comprehen- sive Plan of Campaign—More Surgeons, More Stations, More Ships, More Money— Quarantine at Home and Abroad. ‘Written for The Evening Star. HE OFFICIALS OF the U. 8. Marine Hos- pital service fully real- ize what a big contract they have on band to keep out the cholera during the coming sea- son, and they are pre- paring accordingly to grapple with the prob- Jem in & way andona scale never before at- tempted in this or any other country. Congre ss has done its share of the na- tional duty in the present emergency by enact- ing @ general quarantine law of a most radical natureand by providing our quarantine organ- ization with an epidemic fund of one mill- ion dollare. Our officials. therefore, armed with the unt authority of the new law, and with the necessary sinews of war, have been enabled to map out a comprehensive | plan of campaign that gives every promise af | success against the foreign enemy. The per- sonnel of the marine hospital service has been extended and eu! new quarantine sta- | tions and hospitals been projected, the Sevt of vemels at the dieposnl of the service has augmented, extraordinary preparations bom been sory Ue par a cota of inland and coastwise precautions is being formulated at home. ‘THREE LINES OF AcTIVITY. This plan of campaign contemplates three distinct and separate lines of activity. First, = thorough quarantine on the other side of the from $350,000, as ap; ed by the House of Representatives, to 000. as passed by the Senate and to, with thie and other kindred objects tly in view. This great sum, together with $50,000 reguiarly given for the maintenance of the established quarantine stations, and 250,000 to cover a dei gregate of $1,000,000 granted by Congress this Feat for the prevention of cholera AT THE UNITED STATES Ponts. As to the local quarantizes at New York, Boston, Baltimore, Charleston, New Orleans and Galveston, there is every assurance that their respective officers will co-operate with the marine hospital service heartily and with- out friction. At New York Dr. Jenkins, the quarantine officer of the port, recently had a conference with Dr. Walter Wyman, supervis- ing of the marine hospital servic in which he outlined his plans and U. 8. TRAINING SHIP JAMESTOWN, FoR DETEN- ‘TION OF SUSPECTS OF CAPE CHARLES, VA. arrangements for the coming compaign. These ans consisted of the utilization of Swinburne jand, which is now devoted exclusively to hospital purposes, as s place for detention of suspected immigrants, and of the treatment of the sick on a hospital ship to be anchored be- tween Hoffman Island and Swinburne Inland, thas giving ample facilities, in conjunction those afforded by the national quaran- tine, for the treatment und detention of all suspected or affected immigrants. THE QUARANTINE FLEET. Besides its well-equipped quarantine stations and those to be built the marine hospital service will be provided with a fine fleet of thirteen vessels for use in the protection of our shores and ports. The strongest marine quarantine will be maintained at Cape Charles, where five vessels will be stationed as auxiliaries to the plant on Fisherman's Island. These are the steamer Dagmar and the steamer Woodworth, for boarding purposes; the steamer Robert Koch, for fumigating; ‘the old training ship | Jamestown, for the detention of suspects, and | water; second, » rigid quarantine on this side, QUARANTINE STATION, SAN the revenue cutter Ewing, fitted up as a float- ing hospital. ‘Three other vessels will be kept DIEGO. and third, « quarantine inland to prevent any | possible spread of the dreaded plagne between | our various states and territories. ‘The foreign | quarantine is an entirely new departure. It is | unique, having never been tried except in» | few isolated cases. At Havana, for instance, this government bas kent a special sanitary in number of years and his services g and reporting vessels bound for ports in our southern states have been invalu- | able. But no general system of foreign in- epection has ever before been undertaken by ‘any government and it is hoped by our quar- antine experts that much will be accomplished from this branch of the service. FOR FOREIGN DUTY. Nine eminent surgeons have been detailed from the marine hospital service for this foreign duty at the ontset, under the provisions of the law authorizing a quarantine abroad. Some of them hare already sailed for Europe and the remainder will leave in a few days. They are Surg. Purviance tothe M. ‘Antwerp; Passed Asst. . J. HL. and peop tee ward, now lo- assigned Asst. Sarg. B. W. | San ——. — Cong and | G. B. Young of Pitteburg. Pa., as- | to N Other medical officers will | be assigned to other ports from time to time, should cecasion warrant. HOW THE PLACES WILL BE FILLED. These officers have been taken mainly from the regular United States marine hospitals and quar- antine stations. Their places at home will be by younger officers of the service, wile the piaces of these younger officers will in turn be filled by acting assistant surgeons under the supervision of older officers until this season's crisis is over. Owing to this draft on the service the corps will be increased and «| board of i THREE NEW STATIONS on duty as adjuncts to the Delaware quarantine station—the steamer Charles Foster, for board- ing, and the steamer Pasteur and the steam | barge Zamora, for disinfecting. Two other | vessels will aid in the administration of the gulf | station at Chandeleur Island—ihe steamer | William Welsh, for fumigating, and a naphtha | launch for general utility. At Biackbeard | Island another steam launch will be used throughout the season, and at San Francisco the steamer George M. Sternberg will perform | eral service, and likewise the steamer juois at Port Townsend. Wash., donated by Navy Department for that purpose. SPECIFIC REGULATIONS covering the quarantine abroad and also at home were prepared a few daysago under the direction of Supervising Surgeon General Wy- man byaboard of physicians experienced in juarantine matters. consisting of Surgeons J. E Hamilton of Chicago. H.W: Austin of Wash- ington and W. H. Wheeler of Ellis Island, N. Y., and Passed Assistant Surgeons J. J.Kinyoun and H. D. Geddings of Washington. In pursu- | ance of these regulations oMiccra of the marine hospital service will be stationed. as above indi- | cated, at the most dangerous foreign ports and | t ports actually infected with cholera; and at | all other ports in Europe, Asia, Africa, Central | and South America, Mexico and the West) Indies, whether infected or not, consular offi- ers of the United States will be required under | the new law to perform the functions prescribed for the medical officers, namely, the inspection of all outgoing vessel: id the certification of their good sanitary condition by bills of health. Every vessel leaving = foreign port for the United States must have a clean bill of health, signed cither by the medical officer or by the consular officer of the United States, and before this bill can be given there must be thorough inspection of vessel, cargo, crew and passengers. DISINFECTION. If disinfection is found to be necessary in the case of any vessel it must be done under the direction of the consul or medical officer, and the vessel must be pronounced clean and free from contagion before taking on its cargo. ‘The character of the cargo also must be in- aired into before it is placed on board. shandise and personal effects coming from infected or suspected district must be dis- ir the The present federal quarantine stations will be augmented by the addition of at least three others, which will be established at once. The eight stations now in operation are the Deln- ware ter station, near Lewes, Del.; the Charles station. at Fisherman's Isla: Va; the South Atlantic station, at Blackbeard | any in! infected before shipment. Old rags, old jute and gunny cloth gathered in an infected or ing the prevalence of the epidemic and until | thirty days after the port has been declared | free from it. New merchandise, however, such | ‘as textile fabrics andthe like, which have been | from five to twenty days. where there is no national ‘Vessels will not be collectors of customs at those ports are satis- fied that the vessels may come in without | danger to the public health, and in case any vessels are found to have @ quarantinable die- ease on board ar to have such disease aboard during the ¥ the collectors must remand the vessels to the nearest quarantine station, the-e to P the new national regulat THE RULES FOR HOME PORTS. Asto more specific rules of administration at our home ports the officials of the marine hospital service are now actively engaged at the headquarters here in formulating » code which shail have's uniform application’and oxecttion st all the quarantine stations—state, local and federal. recent law requires the su Vising surgeon general to make an examination of all the quarantine laws of the various states, and municipalities. Dr. Wyman is now making this inguiry, and in order to bring the quaran- tine officers’ of the country into harmonious gnd agreeable personal relations and to avail himself of dest ex] e and = sug- yesterday con- local quarantine gestions to be had, of vened @ council officers and municipal health officers from all the principal cities along our Atlantic and gulf seaboards. The council met in the marine hospital headquarters, known as the “Butler building,”and included these practition- ers: Dr. Samuel V. Chapin, port physician of Boston; Dr. Charies V. Chapin. superintend- ent of health of Providence, R. i. Frank W. Wright, health officer of New Haven; Dr. Wm. T. Jenkins, quarantine officer of New York; Dr. Ezra M. Hunt, secretary of the New Jersey board of health of Trenton; Dr. Benjamin Lea, secretary of the Pennsylvania board of health, and Dr. Moses Veale, health officer, both of Philadelphia; Dr. James P. McShane, commis- sioner of health, Baltimore; Dr. Willard Springer,port physician of Wilmington, Del. ;Dr. ilham A. Thom, quarantine officer of Norfolk, Va; Dr. H. E. Horlbeck, health officer of Charleston, 8. C.; Dr. J. Y. Porter, secretary of the Florida board of health, Key West; Drv W. H. Brunner.health officer of Savannah;Dr. R,W. Hargis, bealth officer of Pensacola. Fla. ;Dr. 8. R. Oliphant, president of the board of health of New Orleans, and Dr. R. M. Swearingen, state health officer of Austin, Tex. Officers from no interior states were invited inasmuch as the aim was merely to bring together the men who are responsible for coast quarantine. Asa result of this council and the views brought out by it, rules will be codified rej the inspection snd treatment of arriving versels, the examina- tion of manifests, ‘the time for eaten, methods of remot passengers, the care the sick, &o. CONCERNING INLAND QUABANTINE and administration a general conference of representatives of state boards of health will be held in New York city on April 5 next, to which Dr. Wyman, whose duty it is under the law to prepare an inland code, has bee: vited. Doubtless state into another, the detention and isolation of the sick and the construction of temporary hospitals wherever needed. e officials of the marine ital service feel all the more confident of success in the coming cam} by reason of their successful | experience with epidemics in the past, notably | in the visitation at Harris Neck, Ga., last year and those at Camp Perry, in Florids, and Brownsville, Tox., a few years ago. pads semen PROF. BOLTON'S LECTURE. Interesting Talk on the “Folly and Wisdom | ef Alchemy.” Prof. H. Carrington Bolton, non-resident lec- turer of Columbian University, delivered yes- terday afternoon the third of a series of nine lectures on the history of chemistry. The sub- ject of yesterday's discourse was “The Folly and the Wisdom of Alckomy.” A large audience welcomed the professor and at frequent inter- vals rewarded him with genuinely enthusiastic applause. ‘The audience was not composed alone of students of the university. Men and women of many lines of thought were Present Some of these were Dr. Robert Fletcher, the anthropologist; Prof. Cleve- land Abbe, the astronomer; Mrs. F. W. | suspected place or port cannot be shipped dur- | Clark, wife of Prof. Clark, and a number of others. Prof. Bolton was introduced by Presi- = F. A. King, M. D., ina few well-chosen wor packed and prepared for shipment with a spe- at Dry T Fla; the Gulf station, at Chandeleur Island, Miss; the San Diego sta- tion, off San », Cal; the San Francisco abi the Delaware Break here the treatment of the sick and the ips, in connec- water station tion of will be carried on. The sum of $34,000 will be devoted to the establish- ‘Ment of this new station. and Sit cana ot acres of ceded nited oon saul be aacneaet Deleware in Ists. Philadelphia belergely superseded, if not entirely, by the quarantine at this new station. The ‘Pennsylvania bas already taken station will be vat the meeth of Se established on Hogg Petaxent river, in Chesapeake . ey 7 Su veceet ecason, This Soon, Shen Damen, will be operated aean annex to the Cape Charles I ‘THE CAMP Low sTatiox, outside of New York city, established last sum- ¢ial view to protection from moisture, may be exempted from disinfection. But old rags and textile fabrics used in the manatacture of Paper, and feathers, hair, hides, &c., collected or packed in any foreign port or place must be subjected to disinfection either by boiling water, ‘exposure to steam. exposure to sulphurous acid gas, saturation with carbolic acid or exposure to sulphur bioxide PASSENGER REQUIREMENTS. ‘There must be likewise « similar examination | and disinfection of passengers before embark- | ing and the maintenance of rigid disinfection daily on the voyage. Passengers are to be di- Prof. Bolton is a pleasing 9 caker cola ints in each paragray i idea of “fastroction in view be saver loses sight of entertainment His discourse illustrated with stereopticon instrument was under the direc- tion of Mr. Palmer of the National Museum. ‘THE VISIONARY AIMS OF THE ALCHEMIST. determinations at that early date th: remarkable fren ven termine with grey of different waters. the model of a distilling apparatus eleventh century. yl : i He ie i i i i Ey § i i | &, ij & g i i i tr E F i | FE ‘RI z f I [ i E is fi Them. HIS POLITICAL INFLUENCE Is Gauged by the Number of Applications He Receives From His Constitueats—Some Experiences That Senators Have Been Obliged to Undergo, SS eae HEY ARE LIKE rats,” said the ex-Sena- tor to the writer for Tae Stan s few days ‘ago. “What are like rats?” “Why, the officeseek- ers, of course. They swarm over a well-pro- visioned ship, but they desert it the instant it springs s leak, A pub- lie man can gauge his influence in this way. If he is popular and high in favor his mail will contain innumerable letters ing for his in- fluence to get an office, but if ‘on the wane at home these letters wi ome few. He can tell when the bosses have de- cided to put him out by the fact that no man will think his influence worth asking for. it happens that the man of experience in pub- lic life, while he hates to be bothered with ap- plicante for office, dreads still more to have them leave him, for when the latter event oc- curs he realizes that his days of political exist- ence are numbered.” “Is this universaliy the case?” was asked. “Well, no,” replied the ex~ “but it is sufficiently the case to be accepted as a rule. ‘There are, however, instances of public men who come upon the stage with the announce- ment that they will recommend no man for of- fice, and these intrepid spirits receive lit | | their constituents, and again there are reckless or careless statesmen who don't care whether they are re-elected or not and who won't help the ambition of their constituents, and these menarasoon found out and let alone. But both of these men play a gume that is against them. They sometimes win and win glori- ously, but more often they are turned down after one term.” SENATOR EDMUNDS’ COXSERVATISM. An instance of » man who rarely recom- mended men for office was Senaior Edmunds of Vermont. He was a Senator for many years and always kept himself free from the dicte- tion of his constituents, but he had a very con- servative constituency, and they treated him well. Not expecting auything they were never disappointed, and the legislatare of the state was in such good order that it si re-electing year after year and trouble. In the same way the careless man who does not care whether he is re-elected or not often gets a re-clection simply because he does not try to procure what so many others are striving for. If any man ought to know about office seck- ing it isa Senator, and if any man ought to know what office seekers are like it isa resident of Washington. This magnificent city of ours has the finest parks and streets in the world and it may also boast of the most complete and varied assortment of office seekers on the face of the earth. Not evoy China with its million candidates for one small office oan compare ith Washington, for there all the office seekers of one nationality. while here they are of every nationality. There is always the Ger- man who must be appointed because he is a German and can catch the German vote; there is the Swede who demands recognition because he has never allowed himself to become any- thing but a Swede, has surrounded bimself with none but Swedes and has kept these Swedes, as Swedes, ina compact body so that they have voted together as a unit. The glory of the variety of our interests is beautifully illustrated by the office seekers. CLASSES AND RACES TO BE SATISFIED. Germans and Swedes must be appointed be- cause of the German and Swedish interests; bankers must be appointed because of the financial interests of the country; clergyme: must be recognized to satisfy the churche farmers must have office because of our agri- cultural interests; manufacturers must be taken care of because of the manufacturing interests. | All of these classes are subdivided and the sub- hare. Horse raisers akers will wilt not honored, 8 will not chat ve a favorite son; the co and fall if one of their nui and the tailors deciare th unless the govern number into its ranks. Lawyers back up law- ers, doctors back up doctors. Where are the udes {n this arrangement? Why, the man must be blind who has not seen ‘the most ificent dudes swoop down. like bright birds, upon our new. administration and’ demand consulates, mission» and secretaryships of legation, end they de- mand them because they are dudes. ‘There are strange coatradictions involved in this system of office seeking. A missionary wants a little Verth abroad because ho is a good Christian, and on the same day the President is roquested to appoint Mr. Solomons or Mr. Isaacs because he is a good Hebrew. Just think of the sym- pathy and many-sided phases of the President's character. He receives, say, twenty appli- cants for office in a day, and during that time he has been called upon to have all the feelings of a German, a Frenchman, a farmer, a mer- chant, a Christian anda Hebrew. He has also been expected to share the solid comfort of a millionaire who wants a foreign mission because he is a rich man, and the grinding care ofa wretched pauper, whose wife and family will starve unless ho’ has» place in one of the de- partments. THE DREADFULLY POOR MAX. “In your experience,” said the writer to the ex-Senator quoted at the beginning of this icle, “which class of office seekers is the most he. dreyafall he answered. jor man,” answere: “When the poor wretch writes to me unfolding his misery and misfortune it is bad enongh. Here Ican comfort myself with the reflection that be may not be speaking the truth, and, at any rate, poverty is much easier to look at by letter than it is when actually before my eyes. But when the man comes and eppears before me saying he might as well starve in Washing- ton as anywhere else, and has been able to bor- rowa little money on the strength of my encour- aging letters, and will wait here and do what- ever may be necessary to get the place he wante—then it is hard on the public man whom he depends upon. I have had one or two such men fasten upon me in the course of my career, and they haunt me yet. One was poor fellow ¢ & if Hit t FE ie f i : Hy HI eA iG | i i : fl uF i i : il i mi E & E ia popularity is | trouble from the hungry and thirsty among | roduce merchants | aE in i ? iff ¥ fl H i i it i i s 3 4 Bi H a i if iB l i L k f E : re ij lf Hf ee i L i ht t i ‘3 a A ea —_——>——_ FASHIONS FOR MEN. How Not to Wear the Long Double-Breasted Frock Coat. |-From the Clothier and Furnisher. As s matter of fact, the so-called leaders of fashion have gone daft. Fifth avenue is a sight to see with its coterie of swells trussei up in the tight-fitting—suspiciously suggestive of artificial aid—iong and double- | breasted tail coats. ‘The unfortunate part jof this attire is that it makes the wearer seem painfully aware of himeelf. Apparently it is impossible to conceal the sense of dressiness he feels. His self-consciousness, or his stays, or whatever it is that holds in his waistcoat, moreover, keeps him in a state of mind, betokening, that he believes that some- thing is about to break, and there appears, in addition, to be a suffocation in the ueighbor- hood of the waistband. There was never suchasininity in the fashions since Berry Wall wore his swallowtail below his covert coat—to show those that only cot a back view of him that he had it on. Wty do the well-built fellows pinch their waists in effemi- nate fashion? Do they do it to give themselves womaniah figures? I cannot believe it. It is the freak of some enthusiast who would seek to force through an innovation that will make all swelldom the laughing stock of the town. THE FROCK COAT OFEX, Where, moreover, messieurs, do you get the etiquette of wenring the frock coat open? Have you gone to the Bowery for your manners, where the cheap specler throws back the of his coat “to show everything he's got?” The double-breasted frock coat is only prop- erly worn buttoned, every button, although it has been deemed permissible to wear the in- formal cutaway open when the white or buff waistcoat and gaiters accompanied it But the unbuttoning of the double-breasted long coat hhas never been tolerated save when seated for luncheon. Indeed the wearing of it open is a mei subterfuge to show up the waist line tighter ing in the front perspective; get the “false waistcoat” on view and within the ill-advised U-shaped opening of the black double-breasted waistcoat display a scarf so carefully arranged in its place on the shirt frontas to suggest the use of macilage. The men of swagzordom in such an ensemble are no longer leaders of fashi ey are mannikins, They aro mere marionettes upon the pavement—food for scoffers. AS for those cheap imitations of the genus swell, the real cads, their appearance upon the {fashionable thoroughfare on promenado is | adding offensiveness to that which had already aroused regret. ‘These overdone personages are wearing trou- sers too long and going without top coats in this cold weather. "Others are wearing abnor- mal overcoats reaching almost to their ankles. Some of them are wearing russet shoes, giving rise to . the suspicion that they have escaped from —_ Boston. But all have a penchant for overlarge.illy-made boutonnieres and those dreadiul low-crowned, cone-shaped, extra-wide-brimmed derby hats that are a sight to behold. re n= They are the greatest set of guys ever let loose for the edification of an enlightened public. Where do they come from? They are like unto the English Jobnnies that came over with the Gaiety skirt dancers—the first of their windjand ed in years. ‘Nothing is funnier than the American who goes to London and becomes Englishfied. He ie wont then, despite himealf, to, decry very- ‘American and ‘extol everything that is Engi whom we happen to know, that tells of the English gentleman going into the hosiers and glovers, and lazily asking to be shown neck- wear. ‘To this the accommodating if i E g st | i g : g | | lh it iff From Good Words, about two weeks ago. You were making cake in the kitchen. Do you remember?” “T think I do.” “And Molly and Charles Hartley were on the lawn outside playing at tennis.” “Bat Annie and Tom were playing, too.” “I did not say they were not. That very day sce a great deal too much of Charles Hartley, unless you wanted her to marry » man who has not three hundred a year.” “Of course, it is = wretched marriage % Molly with her looks.” sa you. It is such a pity thet some ever listen to good advice tll ft ie too lave. ‘Oh, I hope it is not too iate, Anna: ““Humph! what do you intend to di “I don't know. Of course, I can't afford to take Molly anywhere, but if ‘she conld go away I think the change would put it ont of her head. He is wild about her. but I real think she cares very much for him yet.” “She of where her mid might be opened and her ideas elevated. Living in the poky way people do here the girl has no idea | what life is like in a really good house. She doesn't understand what sho is throwing away by making such s bad marriage; she should spend a fortnight with the Templetons.” “I wish she could,” cried Mrs. Marsham fervently, for of the splendor of the Temple- tons’ establishment she had heard very often from her sister. “i will arrange it,” eaid this excellent aunt. About ten daye later Molly was driving up the long road that led Zrom the lodge gates of Brennington Park to the house. her elation slightly chilled by the fact that she was seaicd posing equipages so often described by her sunt, Nothing, however, even in “-Sybilla's” novels, could surpass her reception at the hall docr by four powdered footmen, or the daz- zling vista presenied by the three resplendent wing rooms through which she was piloted by the butler. In the Inst, the smallest and the | most luxuriously furnished of the three, Mo! Was received by Mrs, Templeton. She was au elderly woman, still pretty, as well as elegant, but her careworn expression curiously re- minded Moily of her friend Mrs. Brown. whose lifework it was to bring up eight? children something like two hundred a year. Templeton’s manner. though plaintive, was kind and having offered Molly some tea she turned to a beautifully engraved tray covered with exquisite china and silver and poured it out in a rather haphazzard fashion, putting in the cream which Molly refused and leaving out the sugar which she had asked for. But that did not account for the quality of the beverage, which was unlike anything Molly bad ever tasted. It is only served, usually, in the houres of the great. but can’ be made in the humblest dwelling by pouring tepid water on fhe tea leaves and allowing them to soak for urs, ‘ The bread and butter which accompanied this was so thin as to be almost transparent, and, as such, failed to gratify Molly's _plebeian taste. She habitually ate more at this meal than at any other, and her journey had made her unusually hungry, so she thought rather wistfully of the brown cakes and steaming cups now being handed about at home. “Iam sosorry,” said Mrs, Templeton, “that I could not send the carriage to mest you, but I took mother « long drive yesterday, and Mr. ‘Tempieton thought the horses must rest today, as they are the only pair in the stable which are not laid up at present. Horses are = great anxiety; don’t you think Molly ined that it was one with which her family not been burdened. ou are most fortunate.” said Mrs. Tem- piston with real fooling. hire a great deal: wish we could do so more, only, of course, it seems rather extravagant when we have ten or | twelve horses of cur own. But I dislike taking | them out, for they are so often ili afterward, and Mr.’ Templeton ie very particular about them; and yet I never go farther than Giles, the coachman, wishes me to go, and Lalways let him choose the road. too, which is tiresome, for the hilliest drives are sometimes the prettiost, and, of course, he thinks the flat way best for the ‘horses. What I should really like above everything would be a little donkey that I might | drive myself, and go out with whenever I liked, but Mr. Templeton will not hear of it Will you bave some more tea? Perhaps you would | like to see your room.” ‘This room, which they reached by « palatial riaircawe and a long corridor lined with pic- tures, was so it rather overpowered Molly. As she stood in the center of a great plain of carpet and saw the yellow brocade cur- tains at one end faintly reflected in the cheval Glass at the other, she felt a little solitary and Wondered anxiously what it would be like at night. Largo as it was, however, Molis, who had an inconvenient passion for fresh air, must needs open, or, at least, try toopen, one of the lows. The effort exhausted much inally in ir abe ring the bell or, a leaet id to pall the this’ with some vehomence five or e1x times, the maid who at last brought in her hot water denied having heard a sound. However, she at once fetched a footman and, by their united they managed at last to lower the heavy All this helped to pass away the ta o'clock, when the gong sounded, and Molly, in white, went down to di only guest, and was thus dining room by Mr. Templeton, who and ruddier than his wife, but not much Pier looking. The dinner, serv Yante in what might have been queting ball, was a triumph of ‘The menu alone would have mouth water. Wasted on those besore heen ¥6 ous ‘Molly disliked eve: tie SEEe no one capable of sp} him, had been vineries!' "Yes, Js but we never have = “The | vines’ are ‘covered “with boschee of ; << — but they are not nearly fit to eat. “Well, I should think you could wait till are. I su; ou can live without grapes. heard of Zach extraraganoe in my “T haven't hoahonr ance,” | ap eg “The little bunch in it is; they keep pipet ms ‘oman comes in three times = week, oT ‘they al- ‘ways have such lovely flowers, and their grapes are s aistovtner the ties af tho ecaeibestion was pak ge drawing A} now brilliantly Simimoted, though oven there ti wes spend, ‘iz, Templaton ops behind hs paper, Pe ee Seer ta bere.’ Mrs. Oneais time I lke, ‘ . Iwarned you that you were allowing Molly to | “Tshould think it was. That is why I warned | will ly don’t | in the Village dy instead of in oue of those im- | Bi an Mrs. Tempieton “That is my son —our only child. He totn Auman Meet soldier. he 1s note . He Molly, seizing an opportunity her busy did not afford, was able to indulge in a long reverie, of which Mr. Charles Harley was the subject, Mr, Templeton’s irst complaint at breakfast was thet there was nothing to eat. Omelet, par- tridge, salmon, brawn, ham and perigord pie he peovishly rejected and decided at last to have is, however, Was not $0 easy. ‘Why is it, Emily.” he eried in excusable in- | dignation, “that with a man cook and half a | dozen kizchen maids I ean never get an eg¢ | Properly cooked? Yesterday it poured over the plate when I broke the shell; this morning it 1s $0 bard you could play at foot ball with it. | Miss Marsham, are you going to eat nothing bat bread?” | , And, indeed, upon bread and marmalade she | Dreaktasted with an appecite which roused the wonder and envy of her bosta How nice to be able to eat bread!” cried rs. Templeton. have very little appetite. | fal thing to be hungry.” “You should take more xercue, | husband. * | walk.” Hi I do. j is suitable. ii +o take a walk with me this morning Molly accepted this proposal with de walk in the countrr—real around Brenuington Pari | trancing privilege. Hopi: said her “Driving is no good; ‘you saould | walk every dav when ‘he we: I | fields and down, she donned her ch and thickes: but wien she | ‘Templeton sii she found her attir a tur-lined paleco? reacaing to the heels heels of her delicate kid eb ed in —the 088. parasol morning and the p.easure grounds, be- ight and the park road is gloves. you can only walk } cause it rained las quite damp.” Accordingly, to these ornate regions was their waik confined. Nothing in its own way | cov'd have been more admirable, for the head gerdener. chough indifferent to grapes or vio- leasure grounds nd work upon them. astray leaf disfigured the lawns, smooth almost as polished stone were the gravel waiks and the blossom of the flower beds was as neat and compact as if it had been clipped like the tall box hedges. But all this seemed flat and tedious to Molly. pining for wild woods and stubbie fields. ‘They t what seemed to her a funeral pace, and even then the exertion Was more thau Mrs. Templeton could well sup- port, and ehe was fain to pause and rest every ten minutes upon the rustic seats provided for that purpose, as, indeed, an athlete might have done if cloaked and shod in the same way. Molly, too, was very much exhausted at the end of the expedition, which, on the whole, did thom both more barm than good. “The doctors tell me to walk,” said Mrs. Tem- pleton, much discouraged, “but it never suits me. I'cannot do it.” At 8 o'clock there appeared before the door a brougham of the latest and most approved con- struction, and two roans that had cost Mr. Tem- pleton several hundred pounds to begin with. ‘That gentieman cgme out to sve the ladies start and to display a flattering interest in the direc- tion of their drive, not altogether on their ac- ain however. “Its all very well to talk of pretty country, but the road to. Steaton is not Epeod one, and Tracey is too far. That horse, you will please remember, has just got over his jameness and I don’t want to have another vet's bill to pay. You can't do better than drive along the high road to Vencburch. Take the horses along gently, Giles.” Giles carried out this order so conscientionsly that Mrs. Templeton soon feli asleepand Molly was left to meditate on the mysterions nature of pleasure. For what she had hitherto looked ron ‘with envy, a drive in s fashionable car- F roved to be not half so exhilarating as one she had taken at the seaside s few woeks ago in a peculiarly shabby fy, inelogantly filled overflowing. ‘Trae, her companions, no less than six in number, so far from’ being the higheet spirit 00 that Wey" Tat end est spirits, £0 that d laughed nearly all the way at nothing. Charles Hartly had been one of the party, but, indeed, had re- turned less cheerfully than he went, for Molly had snubbed him on the sea where took their luncheon. Thie treatment had been utterly undeserved, but only now, for the first time. did she recognize this. “What a brute I was!” she thought. “Poor ley! How I wish he werehere now!” ‘We had a nice drive,” sai as the ly fortunate, as a woful reception awaited ber. Her husbend himself came to mect her with a faceso gloomy thatehe “Tt ia long time since they were aa T know,” enid Mrs, Templeton, candidly, “ I don’t think { have read them all yet. I mever | have any time for reading | In the afternoon the sky brightened and the rain feli les heavily. Mra Templeton was tempted to ake « turn in the gronada, bat this Project was at once crushed by Simpkine, whe Tepresented that by going oat in snch weather her mistress would inevitably ruin her clothes, if not her health. Molly for one ioment Was tempted to offer the loan of some of her own less vatanble garments to Mrs. Templeton, but remembering how that Indy had walked under the most favorable circumstances, felt doubt fal whether in wind and wet she msko any progress at all. She ventured forth herseif, however, which no weather could wandering for two to fade when, drvehod once mo less skirts, she entered the to: Dut cheerices drawing roo ther #0 depressing end and contem sequence, | they too tidy? now she altao A few cheir backs, Rewspapers scactered here and there and musie showered wildly on or the pi 4, an enlivening homexickness came her while waiting for tea. ‘bry would have round the fire. Ab! th : was partly what she mined loss afternoon. At M fire when it was coi lit it from th May, and neve . Templeton, epirik had found the assing the time in he bad devoted A swing door Liv ther 2 im Temple uppose there are other con.sand out Jers to be bad.” "I don’t know, Tam sure,” eric’ Mrs, Tem- in the voice o! who is not to be “AN Tkmow is that when the but footmen generally gc too, and as know where we shall get one nc. He may have been expen- but he was always so obliging, and never once got the least tipsy.” “Yoa can't say the same of your butler.” “No; of course he did take a little too much sometimes, but he always kept sober when we ad to dinner. I'am not going to have things de * way. Lefranc, by his misman- egement, has utterly rained that hot-water apparacus I put up in the spring.” “ile never liked it.” | “He never liked it? Tang his impertinence? | Am I not to be master ia my own house? Aba do you think it right that when I have gone to | the expense of having special travs and fittings | Made for the silver the men servants will not | Use them? The fact is the servants are allowed to do precisely what they like in this house, and. | everything goes to rack and ruin in conse- | quence. So saying Mr. Templeton angrily withdrew. is always the end of | \™ ir in ® corner inted siikks and surmounted by mirrors and Cupids of antique Dresden. “He | offends the servants and then they give warn. jing, and then he says it is my fault. Mrs | Davis, the housekeeper, says «he is tired of | finding servants, and so am I, for, of course, I |have to read their characters and see them | when they come, or Mr. Temp ys Lam. | neglecting my duty. And what is the good of my seeing them? If they like us they stay, and if they don't they go a: There are plenty of better places, they » d they call this very dull. And those new stoves and cupboards and chests which Mr. Templeton is fond of patting up, they don't like them—they always reak them. Of course, it is a great waste of money, but what is the good of saving anything to them? They oniy go away, and then I have all the trouble of belping Mrs. Davis to get new ones, who do just the same. I feel so tired and worried and ‘sick of life I don't know what do. I never seem to get any peace—enjoyment I don't expect—but I think at my time of life I might be allowed a little and reet, but I never have any. Tam always so worried and bot about the house and the servants. How cold it is! I wish they would bring us some tea, but they are all x0 put out I don't know when we shail get any.” It was so dark now that color and glitter bad vanished from the gold, the silver, the marble, the porcelain, the rich’ draperies and tie em- broidered stuffs, and Moliy could only dimly discern the outlines of this splendor and of the desolate figure that sat in the midet of all com- plaining. “I often think,” went on this victim of for- tune, wiping the tears from her eyes, “how nice it would be if one might choose one's own. place in this world. If I could live in alittle | parti draped with ti uttered @ cry of alarm, and Molly's thoughts turned instant to the son in Australia I not listen to me, and now your servants hai broken it.” m badly, James?” to atoms.” “Oh!—not = irs. Tem sank uj one of the carved oak = in the ball and subsided into tears, When she had recovered sutfii- ciently to speak she lifted up a voice broken with emotion to that though she had been rash enough to leave this exquisite orna- ment where it might seen she had given strict orders that no member of her household — os even with the corner of a ‘Then akind of court of inquiry was held in which everybody from Mra. Davis, the house- keeper, downward was exammed and cross- examined. As to the actual culprit there was no doubt; it was the odd boy; but # more pus- question—considering he was hired to do the dirty work of the establishment—was how it came into his bands atall. The answer was still undiscovered atdinner time. Of tea nobody had time to think except Molly, who, having longed for it in vain, was now hungry enough for once to eat a table, dinner. | She was re. Bike i F & z, fe i ul Ff sf i hE te pel A HEE ig less re Sosterene sais then turned to ‘There was a, col. f : pers eels als ‘the trai: Iago soncioes Cho /W station st 470 in the Siecle View eae ee he re gd hea RR 2 beet ; Seal since Tame here, and T fad Teen tos bins moore that Lamm not fitted tobe avichsmane wile With love ites FSeasdsoopeegtomegure tron ee to all, your effectionate daughter, ‘MOLLY. A Miserly Old Woman ts Taken From Wretehed Hut to the Poor House. From the Brooklyn Eagle. years old and very weak, was lifted, expostulat- ing vehemently, from her dirty bed in the shanty in the rear of No. 113 Hudson avenue yesterday afternoon and carried bodily out to the ambulance which was to take her to the hospital at Flatbush. The burden of the old woman's plea was that she was wealthy and did not need to go to the alms house. The neigh- bors had guessed long before that she was @ miser and tried to persuade ber to secure some of the comforts of life with her money, but sue bad positively declined to spend any of it. She occupied two apartments on the floor of the two-tory shasty where, che was landlady described ‘them today as “fine, rooms,” but Mrs. Carroll had not cleaned during the ten months of her ‘occu and the place was almost knee deep in filth. ‘There was no furniture to speak of s I & = = ae a F i i ; Hi tek bl i yf fl i il li i #, f t | f Hy | i H é & i E i [ i | { & i iH ili i ? it Te tt é il ibe f i § H i | j ij | ! if : fi 7 ti f I |