Evening Star Newspaper, July 14, 1894, Page 15

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1894—EIGHTEEN PAGES. y 4 ne AFTER CHATTING {ye WITH THE CONSUL. BROKE IN PARIS The Dodges to Which Impecunious Ame-icans Resort. MANY WHO ENGAGE IN “CADGING” Pledging Articles in the Municipal Pawn Shop. APPLYING TO THE CONSUL eLearn Correspcadence of The Evening Star. PARIS, September 4, 1894. UPPOSE THE CASE of an American dead broke in Paris. Sup- pose he has no friends, and that he has already paWned his valuables for love . of the gay capital. The pawning in itself is under differ- ent conditions from those holding in his own dear land, where all one has to 2o is to walk in and out ef haif a dozen private loan establishmerts and take the highest valuation offered by the one most liberal. In Paris you go to the government pawn shop, the Mont-de- Piete. It is a semi-private corporation, Paying from 2 to 3 per cent a year to its own stockholders, and turning all its other profits over to the city charities. It has no competition, thanks to its monopoly. One central building and ten branches are suf- ficient for the city. The bonded appraisers will give you on a watch, no matter what its works are worth, exactly four-fifths of the weight value of its case as bullion. So with other objects. To borrow any sum above 5 francs you must give proof of your identity. The interest charged is 7 per cent @ year. The ticket holds good for one year. Then, if the interest be not paid, the ar- ticle is sold at auction. What it brings in excess of the loan, plus costs and intere: is held at your disposal for three months. ‘Therefore a ticket of the Mont-de-Piete has an actual speculative value. With this in mind, the dead-broke Amer- ean, if he be not too scrupulous, may real- ize from the pink slip of paper ten times, a hundred times more money than the sum ‘Tell Him a Fanny Story First. originally loaned. He will not sell it to a ticket speculator. He will use it cadging. It is a mournful fact that most Amer- feans who go dead broke in Paris are oblig- ed to cadge or get home quick. Employ- meat is rext to impossible to find. Friends and acquaintances grow cold. must seek new acquaintances. To cadge is to hang around the American bars, like Henry's or Pulaski's or the Chatham, pick up Americans and treat them to a tale of Woe. The tourist's hami dives down fato his trcusers pocket. Two dollars, five or even ten may come out, with his blessing. ‘There are some fellow citizens ir the gay French capital who never borrow less than $20. Americans who vould not give a stranger 10 cents In New York wili—very properly—perceive a difference when it is in Paris. After all, the deat-broke beggar is a fellow countryman. He must have had some money to get over. Here is the jawn ticket, which he offers to dispose of. is tale of woe sounds true-in fact, it nearly always is a true one—mer2 imagina- tion is not in it with the facts when one is breke in Faris. It is sal to see a fellow eduntryn so far away from home, in the midst of all the gayety. vet lacking food, although he has clean linen. Perhaps he has been reckless, dissipatal. judge him. We are reckless and di too. Here, take $2! Keep the ticket! ‘This is cadging; very profitable for young men of education and zo0d breeding. Near- ly any American will lend you 5) cents at least to get a meal. Because: s the first thing that Americans discover—there is no free lunch in all Paris. Hard to Get Even Water. Try to imagine what this means, w added to the further obstacles of a forei: language in a city where a hungry iman, with no friends, or whose friends have grown fatigued, is bound to look for food where it exists—that is, among a foreign people. The Assistance Publique will give you rothing, although you may go into any hospital if you are sick. The Boulevard is like a great beer garden, burning bright with colored lights and loud with laughter and experse. Ten thousand easy-going, happy, well-dressed people sit in ensy chairs at little tables on the sidewalk front- To Cadge or Not te Cadge? m@g the cafes and brasseries, partaking of their coftee, ice cream, liqueurs, wines and beers. Yet if you have no money, it is even hard to get a glass of water. How will you get a glass of water on the Boulevard at night? I do not know. There are no Wal- lace fountains neeret than six blocks—one at the Theater Francais, one at the Place de la Concorde. Will you go into one of the cafes and ask for it? If you have nerve enough; you waste your nerve in doing it. It would be more profitably employed in cadging. It takes duplicity and confidence to step inside a big Parisian cafe, stroll back to the wash room and take a drink of water from the faucet and walk out slowly, being always ready to refuse to take the @eat a waiter cffers you, on the pretext that you are looking for a friend. Or you may go up a side street, step inside the portal of a big apartment house and ask the con- cierge, the doorkeeper (a woman regularly) for a glass of water and a piece of bread. Most likely she will take you for a robber or an anarchist disguised. A drink of water is not food. You may call a cafe waiter to one side. “My friend, I am hungry and I have no money. Pass me something out. I will wait at the cor- ner.” That always brings a result—always the same result—a piece of bread. Now, I know men who are prepared to swear upon the witness stands, as experts, that man does not live by bread alone. There must be meat or vegetables, and wine or milk, cr beer, or coffee. It is still the brilliant Boulevard. You munch your bread on a side street. What then? If vou have credit for your room, you ge to bed. The round begins again next morning. If you have been put out of your | At the Mont-de-Piecte. room you sit upon the wayside benches till you are told to move on. Walk the streets all night. There are some night asyiums— quite madequate. If you present yourself at a police poste and ask for lodging for the night, it ipso facto constitutes you a vagabond. You would be taken to the de- pot in the morning, there interrogated, and most likely sent to the frontier. course, a man does not get down to such extremiteis in one swift fall. Most people who have spent some time in Paris have had money, clothes and valuables, and have made friends. To borrow from friends, however, with no reasonable chance of pay- img back, for the mere pleasure of remain- ing in Paris, is not so far removed from cadging as to guarantee that one will not become a cadger shortly. If one adds to this the habit of absinthe drinking and a taste for meditation on the terraces of the cafes, when all the pretty ladies walk past in their bravery, he soon becomes a species of ignoble lotus eater, content to have no future and forget his past, and willing only to exert himself three times a week in strik- ing tourists for a loan. Such men becone too lazy even to act as guides. When one is merely short of money, wait- ing for remittances, and must pay nearly all he has for :oom rent, the temptation to go borrowing is still great. As I have said, Parisians have not our institution of che tree lunch. The down-town clerk, Parisian and knowing, must spend twenty certs to get the meanest meal. Americans cannot live on a piece of cheese and sausage and a glass of red ink anda cigarette. At every turn you take you have to pay out money. You cannot get odd jobs todo. One might go round among the several hundreds of Americar importing houses. I have known peopl2 to go round the whole Hist and find not even envelopes to be addressed. Applyst to the Legation. For the American in temporary difficul- ties there are some resources, though but temporary, which do rot appeal so strongly to the nerve as bare-faced begging from the tourists. The first, most natural and proper course is to go to the consul, or ambassador, or both. When Mr. Reid was here he helped a number of Americans. In fact, he helped so many that he almost got a fixed idea that every stranger who approached him wanted money, or would want it soon. One day a widow lady with her son, a youth of twentY and a more than promising Violinist, called upon him. All they wanted was some information and advice as to how to get the boy-into the Conservatoire. While the lady was waiting in the ante-room she heard sobbing in the room beyond, but paid no great attention. She learned afterward that the minister had been all tired out with list2aing to a story of financial woe. When she arid her son went in to Mr. Reid, he said abruptly: “Now; madame, what do you “Has your scn been vaccinated?” She answered no. “He can't get into the Conservatoire un- Ul he has been vaccinated (a fact). Now, madame, I ask you at the start—have you enough money to justify your staying here?” She said she thought she had. “Why doesn’t your son work at his violin A Tale of Woe. at home? Why do you come here with him to double the expense? You women come abroad and spend your last ten dollars.” “Mr. Reid, if you've got any hankering to send me home in the steerage, you might as well get rid of it. I've got money. And I have called to see about getting my boy into the Conservatoire.” “Still, I think it unwise of you unless you are sure.” “Mr. Reid, you're bilious this morning. My advice to you is to take a pill. I have money and am keeping heuse.” It was then our minister to France said, smiling: “Well, you are a type. Drop in and see me every tim? you pass. I want to know how you are getting on. As to your son and the Conservatoire, I can’t do any- thing.” His last words were: “Where do yeu buy your coal?" She did rot get the boy the envied place in the state school of art. But she would drop in now and then to see the minister, only to show him that she was not broke yet. He always had a kind word for her, and always asked her where she bought her coal. At last she told him that she bought it by the bucket. “What extravagance!” He wrote upon a card. “Here, this is the address of my coal merchant. He will sell you coal in quanti- ty at very reasonable prices.” Another case of more recent date concerns the consul or vice consul. A lady studying sirging in the Marchesi school died in childbirth. Her husband in New York, sick in bed with pleurisy, cabled the Marchesis to “do everything.” And the new vice c sul let them do it. The M—=s themselv (kind-hearted foreigners) and the Rev, Mr. Masse.of the Alma Church attended to the business, frog: the engaging of the nour- rice to the ordering of the flowers. At the consulate by this time they had looked the matter up, discovered that the husband in New York was well-to-do, and that there was no risk to run in advancing money, so they advanced it. Soon a draft arrived and all was liquidated. It might. be thought from the foregoing cases that the calling on our consul or ambassadcr wher you are broke in Paris is but a mere formality, dry, fruitless, bar- ren. Yet I have-heard of Mr. Eustis help- ing people this very summer. Whatever he gives out ts from his pocket. At the consulate they say there are six appll- carts a day, “Mcst of them better dressed than I am,” adds the vice consul cynically. The American government makes no pro- vision for assisting or returning needy citizens abroad, no matter whut the hard- ship of the case may be. In this we are behind the English. They maintain a prov- ident relief fund at the embassy, which almost any applicant can draw from two to four francs daily for a week (in which he is supposed to look around), and then they will give him a ticket home trird-class, or find a means for him to work his home. Sometimes our vice corsul (who has all the work of this unpleasant refusing to do) sends the petitioners up to our own High-Class Cadges—English Type. American Charitable Fund Association, whose double object is to “check an abuse to which private benevolence is especially exposed in foreign cities,” and to assist, pecuniarily or otherwise, such indigent citizens of the United States as may be found in Paris requiring and deserving such relief. In its advertisements soliciting contributiors it is said to comprise among its founders “nearly all the leading mem- bers of the American colony resident in Paris since 1869." I have known one ex- an.ple of the workings of this charity. The widow of a Philadelphian, with her six small children, applied for passage back to New York free, yet private parties had to put their hands into their own pockets to augment the sum which the association gave. The American Churches. From the Alma church down to the con- sulate and from the embassy up to the chapel of the Evangelical Alliance there is a profound distrust and a deep shrinking from dead-brcke Americat There are four American churches in Paris (1), St. Luke's American Episcopal Church for Latin quar- ter students, which depends on (2) the American Church of the Holy Trinity of the Avenue de l'Alma, where Dr. Morgan holds forth; @), Dr. Thurber’s American Church—the Evangelical Alliance—and (4), St. Joseph's Roman Catholic. Dr. Thurber is very anxious to raise $100,000, which is sadly needed for a church house. Inadequacy of resources has mate- rially crippled the church work. Its op- portunity of being a medium of communica- tion between Christians in America and the work of evangelizing France has been Tot a little blocked by lack of money. The Holy Trinity devotes itself to parish work. It has one of the best choirs in all Paris. St. Joseph's is the only church that gives a flat assurance that it will send home, in second class or steerage, according to one’s rank in life, each broke American who may present himseif. This is by favor of its St. Vincent de Paul Society. Sir Ed- ward Blount, its president or head, was for a long time president of the railway line to Havre. As such he could give transport free by rail and make extremely low terms with the French line to New York. Sir Edward is no longer president of the Ligne de rOuest, having succumbed to the recent French anti-English or know- nothing movement. But he is still one of its largest stockholders. It is to he hoped that he can still’ arrange to make good term: for dead. wise, I think, to be dead-broke in Paris means to cadge or work your way home cn @ vessel as a sailor. STERLING HEILIG. —— HOW BULLETS ARE CAUGHT. One of the Great Conj ae Tricks Neatly Explained. From the Boston Sunday Post. The adage that there is nothing new under the sun has only been questioned in the matter of tricks performed by ma- siciars, conjurers, prestidigitateurs and others who deal in that which is a mys- tery to the eye. The catching of bullets by Prof. Herrmann seemed to climax a series of mysteries for which that clever dealer in the mystic art was responsible. Spealirg of the bullet-catching trick in particular, Prof. F. D. Hewes, who is-also a dealer in, the art mystic, sald yesterday: “There are literally but few tricks in magic. The so-called new ones presented to the public from time to time by our leading magicians, conjurers or whatever they call themselves are simply the revival of some old experiments clothed in a new form. The catching of bullets is not by any n eans a new trick, for it is almost as old as magic itself. I remember seeing the old ‘Fakir of Ava’ perform the same trick, only in a different manner, when I was a small boy. The catching of the bullet is very easily explained. In the first place, to accomplish it the conjurer must procure an old-style cap-lock, smooth-bore musket, some powder, caps and a leaden bullet. All these must be perfectly free from any deception. Now we come to the ramrod. Therein lies the whole mystery of the trick. It is constructed with a small metallic tube, closed at one ‘end, and so ar- ran; as to become detached from the end of the ramrod at will. “Having explained the construction of all the appliances, we will now proceed to do the trick. The gun, bullet, powder and caps are freely given for examination. The performer requests some one to put the charge of powder into the gun. Next he inserts a small piece of paper, and rams it down, and by twist of the ramrod to the left, the small metal tube is dislodged from the point and remains within the gun barrel. Now the bullet is marked and placed in the gun by one of the audience; again the professor rams it down. Now, by a contrary twist, the metal tube become fast to the ramrod so that in withdrawing it the bullet is removed. “The performer now palms the marked bullet, and all that remains to do is to go through the motions of catching it when the gun is discharged, and the spectators are thoroughly mystified. You see, it is all very simple when you know how. Notwith- standing this, Herrmann is the cleverest man with his hands that ever donned a dress coat. Kellar is a great inventor and a wonderful mathematician, but not the conjurer and entertainer that Herrmann is. He has the credit of inventing many new tricks and delusions, when, in reality, he has only resurrected some ‘old experiment and brushed off the mould of time and re- christened it.” ——___ +e+_—____ OUR MEXICAN BOUNDARY. to Mark It Now Being Es- tablished by the Inter: jonal Com- mission. From the Philadelphia Press. ‘The United States internal boundary com- mission has arrived at San Diego and is con.pleting the work of establishing 258 mcnuments marking the line between Mexi- co and the United States from El Paso to the Pacific ocean, a distance of about 700 miles. The commissioners are Col. Barlow, U. S. A.; Lieut. Gaillard, U. 8. A., and Mr. Mossman of the United States coast and geodetic survey. Their staff of engincers, soldiers and labcrers numbers about eighty. For two years and a half this party has been in the field erecting the monuments and resurveying the boundary line, which was originally established by Commissioner Emery from 1849 to 1853. The fifty-two monuments then erected have been supplanted by 206 more, which are, fur the most part, plain iron shafts on rock and cement foundations. By agree- ment with Mexico, any errors discovered in the original survey by the present commis- sion shall not be ccrrected, so far as owner- ship of territory is concerned. Few errors have been found in theefirst survey. The largest was along the New Mexico boun- dary, whereby Urcle Sam gains nearly for- ty square miles of land which the new sur- vey shows to be in Mexico. Much of the trip of the commission was through Arizona deserts. At times it cost twenty-five cents a gallon for water needed at certain remote points by a small party of men and horses. —ser. Chicago Always Ahend. From ‘Truth. New Yorker—“I saw a man fall from a tenth-story window this morning. He was killed instantly.” Chicagoan—“That’s nothing. I once saw a man fall from a twentieth-story window in Chicago and the doctors said he was dead before he reached the ground.” FOR DYSPEPSIA Une Horsford’s Acid Phosphate. Dr. F. H. Welty, Hamilton, Va., says: “I have tried it frequently, and always with the most sat- isfactory results. othing Is equal to it for treat- ment of ——— and the various complications resulting from disorders originating in the stomach. I consider it invaluable.”* GIGANTIC. TORTOISES A Nearly Extinct Species, Survivals of the Tertiary Period. A TOOTHSOME ARTICLE OF FOOD A Few of Them: Still Remain on the Galapagos Islands. THEIR STRANGE HABITS Written for The Evening Star. R. BAUR, WHO Probably knows more about turtles than any other man liv- ing, has just return- ed from the Gala- pagos Islands. He brings news of the almost entire extinc- tion of the gigantic tortoises for which that little archipela- go long ago became celebrated. There are none of them left on any of the isles except Albemarle and Dun- can. About a dozen remain on Duncan, ard a very few survive on Albemarie, high up in the mountains. Science regards these islands as classical ground, because Darwin obtained there the first ideas which led to the investigations culminating in his work on the “Origin of Species.” He visited only a portion of the archipelago, but his explorations resulted in the discovery of an extraordinary fauna, many kinds of animals being found that were unknown elsewhere in the world. Prof. Baur has added largely by his recent expedition to the number of pecuHar spe- cies. He obtained specimens of twenty- one entirely new species of birds; also sev- eral new species of lizards, a new sort of bat and a mouse-like rodent hitherto un- famillar to science. In all about one hundred new species of birds, mammals and reptiles have been discovered on the islands. The latter are uninhabited and have been visited by few explorers. The famous expedition of the Challenger paused there for a short time and made some scientific observations. The isles are crowned by lofty mountains, and even their vegetation is remarkable, con- sisting of huge cacti and acacias. The most extraordinary of the animals peculiar to the archipelago were the huge black tand tortoises. From them is derived the rame Galapagos, given by the Spaniards in the sixteenth century. Some of these turtles attained a. weight of nearly 1,)00 pounds. Unfortunately for them, it was soon discovered that they were particularly gcod to eat, and whaling and other vessels acquired a habit of stepping at the islands for supplies of fresh meat in this shape. The creatures seryed ,admirably for the Purpose, inasmuch ,agfthey would live on shipboard for many;menths and could be killed when wanted for the table. In this way 6,000 turtles were,taken from Charles Island alone in year. It has been reckoned that no fewer than ten millions of the animals have be#n carried away by ships from the archipélago since its dis- covery. On the whole-it is rather surpris- ing that any of them are left. Dr. Baur explored Duncan Island thoroughly and found twenty tortdises. Of these he took eight, sparing the rest: Four of them he tent to Chicago, where. they are now alive at Lincoln Park; the others died. Duncan Island rises to a height of 1,200 feet above the sea. Albemarle Island reaches 4,00 feet above the sea level. At an elevation of 2,500 feet Dr. Baur got his biggest turtle, which was four feet long, three and a half feet high and weighed 6) pounds. It was strong enough to walk about with three mer riding on its back. They Are Vegetable Feeders. The archipelago consists of fifteen small islands. The line of the equator runs di- rectly through It. 1t lies due west from the coast of Ecuador, 650 miles. The supposi- tion ts that in an ancient epoch all of the islands formed part of a continuous land mass; but a subsidence of the latter be- neath the sea left above water only the highest peaks of the mountains by which it was crowned. These peaks are the islands of today. Originally, it is imagined. the tortoises were all of one species, but the isolation of colonies thus left to sur- vive in localities between which there could be no communication resulted in the de- velopment of different characters. So by the time of the discovery of the archipelago each of the islands bad its own peculiar kind of tortoise. One reason why the animals are so interesiing is that they are very ancient, being survivors of the tertiary period. They are vegetable feed- ers, browsing on the young shoots of cacti and grasses. In former times they visited the sea periodically, but the few survivors have abandoned the custom. Being very fond of fresh water, they have had the habit of making long pilgrimages to reach springs high up on the mountains. To get to them they would travel day and night at the rate of three or four miles an hour. Thus in the course of centuries regular roads were made by them to and from the watering places, and it was by following these well-traveled paths from the coast that the Spaniards first came across the springs. Capt. Porter's Account. Capt. David Porter visited the Galapagos Islands several times between 1812 and 1814, on the United States frigate Essex. He was the first one who noticed the differ- ence of the tortoises on the different islands. He likewise published the first picture of one of the land turtles. His ship took on board large numbers of them. The meat was called by the sailors “Galapagos mutton.” Four British vessels captured in that neighborhood by Porter were found stocked with quantities of the turtles. At one time the Esvex laid in a supply of four- teen tons’ weight of the animals. They were stowed away below like any other provisions, and used as occasion required. “The males,” Porter says, “are easily known by their gyeat size and from the length of their tails, which are much longer than those of the females. As the femal were found in low, sandy bottoms, and without exception’ were full of eggs, of which generally from ten to fourteen were hard, it is presumable that they came down from the mountains for the express pur- peses of laying. This opinion — seems strengthened by she cirgumstance of there being no male he among them, the few males we foun@' having been taken a considerable distance! wp the mountain.” Porter adds: “Hideous and disgusting as is their appearance, nimal can possibly affo more wholespme, luscious and delicate food than’’'they do. The finest .green turtle is no mdre to be compared to them in point ef-excellence than the coarsest beef is to theitinest veal. I have been assured that ithey have been piled away among the caskx' in the hold of a ship, where they have-lbeen kept eighteen months, and, when killed at the expiration of that time, were found to have suffered no diminution in fatness or excellence. They carry with them a constant supply of water in a bag at the root of the neck, which contains aboyt two gallons, and, on testing that found in'those killed on board, it proved perfectly fresh and sweet. They are very restless when exposed to the light and heat of the syn, but will lie in the dark from one year's end to another with- out moving. The eggs are far from being a delicacy when cooked, as they are dry and tasteless, and the yolk is little better than sawdust in the mouth.” Some Giant Specime: In 1829 the government of Ecuador es- tablished a penal colony on one of the islands, which relied principally upon the tortoises for fresh meat. Later a factory was set up for the purpose of obtaining their ofl, of which a big and fat specimen would yield five or six gallons. Dogs, too, introduced by the colonists and by ships have destroyed myriads of the young turtles. waiting for them to hatch and then devouring them. The animals are known to live to a great age, probably not less than 300 years. They are thought to be en- tirely deaf, taking no notice even of the Teport of a gun close by. Formerly there were tortoises as big as those of the Galapagos or the Aldabra I near . Pao em There used to be a giant species of turtle but in Mauritius. Van Neck, the discoverer of the Dodo, found some of these, which were so large that six men could be seated in a single shell. Another authority states that 2,000 or 3,000 of them were sometimes seen in one drove. The largest land turtles known to have existed at any time are dug up in fossil im the Sivalik hills of Asia, They attained a length of seven feet and a weight of about 1,000 pounds. Plenty of fossil turtles four feet long are discover- in Montana and Dakota. However, a is nee — one a oe tortoise te t_ surpasses size the Sivalik turtles. The loggerhead reaches a weight of 1,600 pounds and a length of nine feet, while the comparatively rare “‘leather- back” grows to even greater dimensions. ‘The loggerhead is a very fast and strong swimmer. He is often seen many miles from land floating on the waves. Unlike the other great sea turtles, which prefer a@ vegetable diet, the loggerhead is carniv- orous. He has very powerful jaws and with them easily cracks the shells of conchs, eating the meat. Sometimes the oil from the fat of this reptile is smeared on the sides of vessels to keep shipworms from eating the wood. Hunting for the great sea tortoises affords a good living to many thousands of fishermen. Most important of them, of course, is the tortoise-shell tur- tle. Though it is a vegetable feeder, it is much more fierce than the carnivorous log- gerhead. It bites very severely, sometimes inflicting painful wounds. The Tortoise Shell. The fincst tortoise shell comes from the Indian Archipelago, and is shipped from Singapore, but much of it is obtained on the Florida coast. There are three rows of plates on the back. In the central row are five plates, and in each of the other four plates, the latter containing the best material. Besides these there are twenty- five small plates around the edge of the shell. Formerly the under cheli was thrown away, beiag considered worthless, but st present it is very highly valued for its deli- cacy of coloring. Nowadays a beautiful imitation of tortoise shell is made out of cows’ horns. The big snapping turtle of Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas attains a length of three feet and is enormously strong. It will bite a stick an inch thick to pieces. On its tongue are two processes, which look like angle worms, and it is supposed that these are used to attract fish within reaching distance. The head of a snap- ping turtle will bite for hours after it has been cut off, and the heart will continue to beat for twenty-four hours after being re- moved from the body. Dr. Baur says that the most extraordinary tortoise in the world from one point of view exists in New Guinea. The strange thing about it is that only one specimen has ever been found, now preserved in the Australian Museum, and no species nearly resembling it is known to be alive, though it bears some likeress to an extinct form. —_——— BETWEEN THE ACTS. The Young Man Was A _ Please the Lady, From the Chicago Record. ‘They had two seats next the aisle. He had been interested during the first act, laughing immoderately at the low comedian and applauding after the manner of a busi- ness person who has spent $3 for two good seats and is determined to get $4 worth of entertainment in encores. As soon as the curtain fell, however, he began to show signs of uneasiness. The vsual procession of young and old men filed out until the parquet seemed empty in spots. He turned about in his seat and watched them. ‘Why do all those men go out?” she asked. “To get a breath of fresh air or smoke a cigarette, or—” ous to ippose. be they do.” “I think {t's a shame that a man can't go to the theater and sit through an even- ing without running out to get liquor.” "$s not liquor; it’s beer.” ‘What's the difference? Don't. you want a drink of water?” The boy with the tray of ice water served them and the young man sectled back with a sigh of resignation. After the second act he said nothing, but he refused the ice water. When the cur- tain had fallen on the third act he said,” with a sudden determinaticn: I'll step out for a moment.” “No, sir; you stay here. “I want a breath of air and—.” He bolt- ed away, leaving her red-faced and bub- bling with indignation. A rich, malty aroma permeated that part of the theater as he resumed his seat. “This is the last act, isn’t it?” he asked. No reply. “I want to tell you right now the only Way you can reform me is by kindness. No? No more conversation? Very well.” They did not exchange another word. At the close of the performance she followed him out. She had her lips tight pursed and deliberately looked in an opposite dirsc- tion every time he glanced at her. At the corner he hailed a car, but when he attempted to assist her she would not allow him. She sat down and he sat be- side her. Then she arose and moved to the other side of the car. “Chilly evening,” he observed. She look- ed_out of the window. “I believe her: “Fare, . She nodded in the direction of the young man, who handed the conductor a nickel. “How about this young lady?” don't know her; never saw her before. ‘The conductor turned to her and said. “I must ask you for your fare.” For a moment she hesitated and then said: “Stop the car, I'll walk home.” The conductor reached for the rope, and at that moment the young man weakened. “Here's your money,” said he. Then he went over and sat beside her. “What's the use?” said he. “You'll never take another drink!” “Never!” Peace was at once declared. Mrs. Brown—“Since they have become en- gaged they just sit in the parlor and not a word passes between them.” “Perhaps there is no room for it DRAMATIC DREAMS. Example of Ligh: ae-Like jay of the Imagination During Slec Andrew Lang in Ilustrated London News. A curious example of the dramatic and mythopoeic quality in dreams, and of the power of compressing time, was once re- lated to me by a lady. She, in her dream, was sitting in her room looking out on a beautiful, clear autumn twilight. She heard a knock, heralding visitors, and, going down stairs, found two strangers in her parlor. One she recognized—a _ relative who had died in her childhood. He was a little old gentleman, in a brown dress of the early part of the century. With hin was a handsome lady in a Spanish man- tila. They had on the table before them a small, ancient iron-bound chest. At this moment (still in the dream) a servant en- tered w.th tea or some such refreshment, and, lo! the visitors vanished. The ser- vant went out, and there were the visitors again, They had opened the coffer, ani dis- played two sets of yellow old documents, One was a hist of securities, one a list of names. The lady in the mantilla explained, while the old gentleman nodded assent, that he and she had been betrothed, and that she had died before their marriage. The old gentieman had gone abroal at the peace of Amiens, had been caught and de- tained on the outbreak of war, and this had led to some accident in his affairs by which the coffer and its contents had been neglected, and the securities were still ly- ing unclaimed. = “They are,” sald the lady of the man- tilla, ‘now in the keeping of Messrs. —. A knock at the door. Enter the maid with tea, the maid in flesh and blood; disappear- ance of the dream. The solicitors’ names were never communicated. Now, the dream-mind clearly started from the maid's first tap at the door. This was the knock announcing the arrival of the visitors in the dream. All the rest of the scenes were a myth, invented by the dream- mind to account for the first half-heard tap. The dream-mind created the person of the old forgotten relative, and invented, without any assistance from conscious memory, the lady of the mantilla, and her love story, and her death. The box, the eecurities, all the dresses and properties, were improvised by the dream-mind and placed on the stage of vision. All this was done, all this drama per- formed, merely as a myth accounting for the first tap; and everything was invented, 8 and acted in the moment between the first tap at the door and the second. large di 1 ty been been A HYPHOTIC EXPERIMENT ——_.>--—_—_ Frederic Ernest Holman in Romance. “Yes,” said the doctor, leaning back in his chair, and looking at me intently, “yes, as you say, I believe that there is in ex- istence today a marvelous power which is as yet but partially understood, but of which we have had glimpses by peculiar cases of hypnotic and mesmeric influences, Premonitions, and many other inexplicable and mysterious phenomena.” “And you base your opinion upon what course of reasoning?” “My reasoning is this,” he replied. “If you Will notice, there has always been, as far back as we have any definite knowl- edge, a bordering of the natural with the supernatural, a mingling of the earthly with the unearthly, which, though always scoffed at by the greater part of humanity, yet is believed in and experimented on by some few. Those who have dared to ven- ture into this reaim of occult science have iscovered what? Comparatively nothing as to the origin or identity of the power which is manifested, but a great deal in regard to what can be done by its appli- cation. Here, then, is a grand field for re- search, and I firmly believe that, in the ccurse of time, this power will be sought out, handled and controlled, with as great accuracy as the electric current on the tele- graph wire. Of course, as our knowledge today is limited, our power is also limited. if a man is able to hypnotize another, it is generally conceded that he has the stronger mind of the two. But does his marvelous control over the other consist wholly in that? I, for my part, think not, and I know that you will agree with me when I say that this occult power will at no dis- tant day be more fully comprehended, and its fuller comprehension will mark an era.” “Doctor,” 1 exclaimed, “you have had something more than reasoning to give you these views; you have had experience.” “You are right in your surmise,” said he. “I have had experience, and as it is too late to give you the history of that ex- perience tonight, if you have no engage- ment for tomorrow evening, and desire me to do so, I will relate it to you then.” “I am more than anxious to hear it,” I replied, “and I will be here about 8.” i left the house with a feeling that at last I had found some one who thought as I did on this great subject, and whg evi- dently understood the problems with which was endeavoring to wrestle. was a bachelor, and, having an income capable of supporting me handsomely, had devoted my time to trying to search out and under- stand the power which showed itself, or a Portion of itself, in various mesmeric and Aypnotic revelations. I had never been able to find 4 person who agreed with me in my owe at ie meatier until a short time be- » An cle a le mi ine on this subject expressed hap eoeee on exacuy. The authur was a doctor of repute in an- other portion of the city, and in my desire to find a friend and helpmate in my inves- tigations, I ventured to call upon him. Eight o'clock the next evening found me at the doctor's residence, and soon we were smoking fragrant Havanas with our chairs drawn near the great open fire. Atter a few minutes of silence, the doctor said; ‘The story of experience which i am about to relate to you, Jyde, I have never told a ving soul before, for two reasons. The first is that I have never found a man who sympathized with me in my views of these matters, and to others than believers in these things it would appear incredible. The second is, that were this story known, it would hurt me a good deal. You musi promise me that you will never repeat this to another until after I am dead, for I am forced to depend upon my practice for a livelihood, and were it known that I had through such an experience, I fancy I should lose some of my patients.” ae Fe yon — ak he asked, and then me story, the strangest to whis! I ever listened: — The Doctor's Story. “It was ten years ago,” said the doctor, “that the facts occurred of which I am about to tell you. I was then a young fel- lew of eight and twenty, and had an office and growing practice in London. My pa- tuents were all of the wealthier class, and as @ rule very finely educated. By my con- stant intercourse with this class of people I obtained an insight into, and informatioa about, subjects to which I had formerly never given any attention. I also made many acquaintances, who were valuable helps to me, both in an intellectual and pro- fersional way. One of these acquaintances was a young lawyer, who had a fair prac- tice, notwithstanding the fact that he had in London for iess than a year. Per- Laps, as my story concerns him, a brief description of him will not go amiss. was rather tall, of a commanding figure, and was what you would call a handsome young fellow. But the most striking thing about him, and that which invariably atteactea -- stranger's attention, was his eyes. were piercingly biack, large and brilliant, and when he looked at you he seemed to read your very thoughts. He was finely educated, and a good conversa- tionalist. His one hobby, however, was hypnotism, aad, as I was much interested in the matter myself, we made our in- vestigations and experiments together. One evening he entered my office, where I was busy at my desk, and said rather excitedly, ‘I have just made a discovery; I possess the hypnotic power!” “I at once became greatly interested, and asked him to give me an example of his newly-acquired power. He agreed to do it, and calling my attention to my office cat, which was asleep by the fire, he bade me watch his experiment. Fixing his eyes up- on the cat, he willed her to get up. In a moment she stirred uneasily, then she rose and her eyes met his. The effect was start- ling. ‘Die,’ he said in a monotonous tone of voice, ‘die, die, die.’ The cat staggered like a drunken thing, walked a step or two, and then fell on her side. I went over and picked her up. She was dead. ‘Are you satisfied? he asked, turning to me with a smile on his face. ‘Perfectly.’ I replied. There was nothing very marvelous in it to me, as I had seen others make people and animals do their every wish, but I had never seen any one sap the entire life out of a creature as he had done, and I knew that he possessed the hypnotic power to a degree that was startling. Long into the right we discussed his power, so lately dis- covered, and I proposed a plan by which he might do some experimenting and aid tme in my practice at the same time. I knew that he was about to take a vacation for two months, and I suggested that he give up going away, and enter my employ as en ald. I would then give him a chance to operate upon my patients, in the cases of amputaticn and painful operations, when I should otherwise be obliged to use chloro- form or ether. He fell in with the idea eagerly, and the next week entered my employ as an assistant. Whenever there was a painful operation to perform Keg- erly iirst hypnotized the patient, and then I would perform it. The knowledge that he possessed such a power was, of course, a secret, for it would never have done to have had it known that I was employing such a power in my practice. We had wonderful success in working together. In every case he controlled the patient beautifully while in the hypnotic trance. At that time com- paratively little was known of hypnotism, and we made some important discoveries in regard to it. We found that the hypnotic trance resembled sieep to a great extent, the only radical difference being that, whereas any one can awaken a sleeping person, only the operator who puts the person in a trance can awaken him; also that some- times breathing was imperceptible. “One night we were both seated in my office, when there came a summons for me to go at once to the house of a rich M. P. named Elkserge. The messenger simply knew that his master had met with a bad accident. * knowing how serious might be, I told Kegerly to get ready and accompany me. We drove to the house, and then I found that Elkserge had fallen from his horse while riding and sustained a compound fracture of his right leg. The operation of setiing the broken limb would be one of extreme pain; therefore, when we three were alone in the room, I told Keg- erly to hypnotize him. Elkserge succumbed in an instant, much to our surprise, as it usually teok from one to three minutes to put a patient in a trance. ‘Your power must be unusvally strong tonight,’ I re- marked to Kegerly. ‘I never feit it half as strong before,’ he replied. I immediately went to work on our patient, and in an hour I had the leg nicely set and in . Then I told my assistant to awaken Elk- serge, and I siarted to put up a window. Just as I turned to come back, I heard Kegerly cry out like a tortured soul, ‘My God! I cannot awaken him! I jumped to Elkserge’s side, a horrible fear besetting me, and placed my hand over his heart. My worst fears were realized. The man was stone dead. “Kegerly and I stood there and stared at each other for a few dreadful moments, during which neither spoke. The look on his face was horrible. His eyes hung out covered, tell the whole absolve you. As for me, I am the brand of Cain; I will never be taken.’ that agony: “When this is dis- th; will with operation, which, though not have proved fatal to any one, had I been content to employ natural methods. I realized then for the first in all its intensity, the wrong I had doing in allowing such a power to upon my patients. I did not could not, face the wife and the dead m, and tell I had allowed their husband and father to be murdered. Vor the first time in my I was a coward. Seizing my hat and I lowered myself from the window, passed int the street. Hailing a cab, I drove to police headquarters a: made a clean breast of the whole and implored the sergeant to send some friend of the family to break the fearful Udings. I was promptly locked up, accused of being an accessory to the crime, and spent that night in prison. What a night that was! I knew that, if I escaped sen- tence, my practice in Londan or even any- meh ps was ruined. I never coul anything again. At fi I thought I could bear it, the shame, disk ng gee of my brother en I thought of poor Kegerly, and real- ized that his lot was worse than mine. I paced my cell all night. Morning brought a piece of startling intelligence. A messen- ger hurriedly entered my cell and told that Elkserge was not dead, but in notic trance so nearly resembling to fool even myself. This was a lief to me, and threw a terrible burden my mind. Then came the thought, I find or communicate with Kegerly? he was seeking to hide consequences of his supposed he pot go where he might Elkserge was not dead, or might in his terror and despair have suicide? I was set free and my office, to await events. covered two things—that I friends and no practice; but I object in life to find Kegerly. vertisements in all the papers, that, if he should chance to would come back to London. week passed, and Elkserge death-like trance. an Ey i fa ze 8s ee i 4 iF gE. i i iE i gE z 7 i tS tall, dark-compiexioned man a full ie eh behind him. I sprang to my feet, that some trick was about to be upon me, when he tore the fi sane, donned the that he now wore and shipped in a vessel for America. that Elkserge still lived until in America two weeks. He at once for England, and London had come direct to know why I have come ‘Since I was the one who put bring him ‘out of it snl perhaps im out it, and but I mean to make the attempt. well, let the law take its course.’ “I thought that, as he was very he had better get some rest before he his supreme effort, for it would require immense mental power, but he said that he felt as thovgh he could do it that night, it ever. He donned his disguise, in: order that his appearance might not cause com- ment, and possibly some interference with our plans, and we both proceeded to the house of Elkserge. When we arrived there, 1 asked to see the oldest son. To him I ex- plained the matter, and requested him not to tell any other member of the family, as I did not wish to arouse any which might possibly be vain. He ‘ted us to the room where his father then left us alone. The supreme had arrived. Kegerly stepped over to bed- side, and, fixing his eyes on those closed lids of Elkserge, said, in a tone, which showed that all the will power of the man was thrown into bis command, ‘Awake, wake! at the same time him sharply on the breast. The unclosad, "s breath came faster and faster; he moved; he awoke to con- sciousness; then Kegerly, with a cry of joy, fell in a@ faint.” from the “There is not m got well, and when ed if we were through setting his leg,think- 5 most well.” “What became of K: oe: “He was sick two mon’ prostration, and vpon his to Rome, where he still bear from him , and he me that never from that time has able to exercise any sign of whatever. As for myscif, I closed business ih London, and after for two years, came here, set! an assumed name, and have large practice. My investigations notism have been carried on, but yet have found a man who hypnotic power in such a remarkable d@ gree as did Kegerly.” ——+e-+-____ Diverced the Wrong Woman. From the Louisvile Post. A good story is now being told at the ex- Fa i il ne ie Fd yer on the same day. One wanted to be made a femme sole, the other wanted a di- vorce. By some hocus-pocus sort of a change, the names of the women were mix- e1, and the woman who wanted to be em- powered to act as a single woman was granted a divorce, and vice versa. It happened that the husband of the wo- hile he was in Texas, he saw where his wife had been granted a di- vorce. She knew nothing of the matter un- til her husband wrote home and wanted to know what was the matter, and what he had done that she had gotten a divorce. He said n> had transferred all his property to her and did not know how to account for her strange acticns, Then she consulted her lawyer, and the apparent mystery was made plain. She only wanted to be made @ femme sole, whereas she had been divorced. Rumoz: has it that the husband has re- turned from Texas and fully understands the circumstences in the case, but is afraid to visit his own house until he and his wife | are remarried or the judgment of the cours is set aside. : mannan gp Her “Forrta.” From the Indianapolis Journal. She declared, ir accents most torrid, That he simply was stupid and horrid; The reason was this: He'd been granted a kiss, And instead of her lips took her forchea@, coe . The Chaos of Good Order, From the New York Weekly. Wife—“Dear me, you can never find @ thing without asking me where it is. How aid you get along before you were mar ried?” “Husband—“Things stayed where they were put then.” Clear Complexions, Youthful Faces Free from Wrinkles, Pimples, Blackheads, Liver pots, are easily obtained by’ the use of the Ne Phos Citra Pace Beautiger and Plest Poot. "Tt te helther troublesome nor expensive hi to a child's akin, because It le prepared tn dif