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A NOVELIST’S VIEWS How F. Masion Crawford Regards Turks and Armenians. TWO SIDES T0 THE STORY He Talks of His Literary Work and Characters. THE AMERICAN NOVEL ted, 1896, by Frank G. Carpenter.) MET MARION Crawford in Wash- ington recently anid had a most interest- ing chat with him about Turkish mat- ters. Mr. Crawford has spent™months in Constantinople. Dur- ing this time he was very close to many of the leading Turkish officials, and had a good chance to study their civilization. He 2d over most parts of Asia Minor, a number of times through the tween the Black and Caspian seas. During our chat the subject of the mas- Sacres came up. Mr. awford evidently » are two sides to the story, all of the truth has not yet been “i he: “I have no doubt but that nians are being badly treated, but ‘acres must, I think, exaggerated. This is not the they have been persecuted by Why. there are only 60,000 . all told, and these 690,000 hay: to me, been massacred ver during my pers yeu know. atters are reaily so bad as rould seen to me that I flee across the boufd- are glad to get them, among them. s during east, a they are the innocen ve Christians that ple believe them to be. th them fs that th shrewdest and of all rm people. They have many abl them, and I doubt not have to a certain tent fomented this trouble, hoping that th governments of Europe would interfere, and that Armenia would be entirely freed m Turkish rule."" How about the Kurds?" 1 Mohammedans, and their religious f-eling against the Armenians is set their business dealt with them. The as get the Kurds drunk ai then them out of their property. You must remember that the Armenians are the merchents of that part of the country. ney do all the business, 2nd they often et the bi ef the bargain with the un- sophisticated Kurds.” The Tarks and Their Reliczion. “How did you find the Turks?" “They are in many ways a very decent people.” replied Mr. Crawford. “I assure you TI would much rather trade with a ‘Turk In any part of the east than with a Christian. I have the highest respect for Christianity, but the Christians of the east are not like us. The business men among them are to a large extent a set of shurp- ers, ©o much so that the word oriental Christian in the minds of eastern travel- Imost synorymous with that of he Turks are, as a rule, very de- tly all of them read the and even the men of the better classi careful to conform to the details of every y Mohammedan worship. 1 know of one ry preminent Turk who is noted for his liberality, Who is, nevertheless, constant in his attendance on the mosques, and who prays five times a day. He has a costly rug upon which he always kneels when he turns his face toward Mecca and makes his pri ug is carefully watcher that nothing unclean may touch it. If a dog should happen to run over it the whole family wouli be excited and the house would be turned upside down until It was purif The Mohammedans, in fact, are more rigid in the practice of their religion than we are. They are not ashamed of their faith, and you see many merchants sitting and reading the Koran in bazaars uring the intervals of trade. They will y tkeir prayers when the time comes, no matters what is going on about them. ‘They keep all the fast days. In Ramazan, which is the Mohammedan Lent, it Is against + laws of the Koran to eat and smoke during the day time, and from sun- rise to sunset they will not ow a morsel ot food to pass their mouths. They will Tot smoke. and many of them will noteeven swallow their spittle. Many of the better class of Mohammedans contend that their religion is better than ours on account of its sanitary rules. It prescribes, you know, the details of man’s daily life. The Moham- medan has to take a certain number of baths. He has certain habits of eat- ing and drinking. He shaves his head with the exception of a lock on the crown, and he will not eat certain kinds of meat.’ “How about the sultan and the Turks of Constantinople, are they very religious?” You do not get a good idea of the Turks from the people of Constantinople, replied Mr. Crawford. “That city is made up of a mixture of races. The Turks out In the courtry often have long beards and fair faces. They are more lke the Persians than like the people of the other nations of the Levant. The Armenian Coachma: “As for the sultan,” continued Mr. Craw- ford, “he is not a Turk—at least he Is not one in the minds of many people through- t the Levant. He fs supposed by some to be of Armenian birth and he has been knamed the “Armenian Coachman” from ® story that his real father was not the sultan, but an Armenian, who drove one of the coaches in which the ladies of the harem took their outing. Of course this nickname {3 not uttered above a whisper in Constantinople. It would not be safe. Every one, however, has heard the story and the features of the sultan add some force to it. He locks more like an Ariaen- fan than c Turk.” “It may be that he wishes to give the Ue to the story by the persecution of the Ar- Menians,” said I. “f don’t know about that,” replied Mr. Crawford “He would probaly like to stand well with his subjects. He is sald to be much in fear of assassination, and he seldom goes out of his palace except on his way to the mosque near by, at which he prays every Friday. I have been told that he sometimes gets up at night and soes from one guard to another examining — Bs to see if they are properly iodded.”” How Marion Crawford Writes Novels. Here the conversation turned to literary work, and I asked him a number of ques- tions as to how he wrote his novels, re- ferring to an interview which I had some time ago with Frark Stockton, in which Mr. Stockton said that he thought out a story in his mind from beginning to end, plot, conversa tiers! and au pers he pet hile to paper. . Crawford replied: PMS method of working is somewhat the same, though I do not go as far as the wording of the novel or the conversation. I know how the story is to end, however, before it begins, and the hardest work of the novel is generally done when I begin to write. I first study out the plot and out- line the chapters and situations, often sit- ting for a day at my desk with my pen in hand and accomplishing practically noth- ing. I make the outline as complete as pos- sible, writing out the heads of the chapters, erranging the climaxes and constructing, in short, a skeleton of the novel. I then begin to write and work along steadily as far as I can, accordirg to my schedule, until the beok is completed. Of course, I have some- times to change from the first outline, out much.”” “tiave you regular habits of work I asked. “Not particularly so,” replied Mr. Craw- ferd, “save that I work all the time. I rise | very early, have a cup of coffee, and write steadily along until lunch time. Then, af- ter a slight rest, I write on until dinner. I find that 1 do some of my best work when I write rapidly, and after outlining the novel, I wish to push my work as far as possible until it is completed.” His Characters Are Alive to Him. “How about the conversations in your ‘ories, Mr. Crawford; do you remember the 00d things you hear, or does the conversa- tion come to you in the natural develop- ment of your characters?” “The individuality of my characters is of the greatest importance to me in my writing,” replied Mr. Crawford. take no notes of anything, but I know my charac- ters. They are real persons to me when I am writing about them and I actually seem to hear them talking in my ears as I write. if they were not real to me I could not tell their story, nor make them talk naturally. It is a curious thing, however, that in writing these conversations sentences oc- cur to me that will aid me in the develop- ment of the latter part of the story. I re- serve these for the advance chapters and put them down where they naturally come in.” “I suppose you think of your characters often when you are not writing; do they live with you?” “Yes; this is especially so with the char- acters of my Italian stories, as, for in. stance, Saracinesca and Corona. I know just what they would say or do under cer- tain circumstances, and I often think of them and with them.” “You Lave written a great many novels, Mr. Crawford, I should think your work would grow easier fer you as you write?” “In some respects it does,” replied Mr. Crawford, “in other respects not. As far as the mere machinery of the work is con- cerned, it is much easier and I can write faster, but as far as my sense of propor- tion is concerned, it is harder. I find that I in danger of making my storics too sen- sational and I have to guard against being too effusive. You see, I have been writing fer a long time. I wrote ‘Mr. Isaacs’ en years ago and have written altc- gether twenty-eight novels.” “When did you first realize you could write stories?” I asked. “It was when I wrote ‘Mr. Isaacs,’ my first novel. I had then been writing for sev- en years and had done nearly every kind of literary work except fiction. I did not ink I could write fiction. I did not believe that I had enough imagination. It was my rnele Sam Werd, who urged me to try it.” “How did your success affect you?” “It was, of course, a great pleasure,” Was the reply. “I began at once to feel the change, and within three months my fe was modeled on a different basis. “A great many people, Crawford, notably college professors, think that there is some secret purpose contained in every book, some mission which the author is trying to further. What is your end in novel writing?” “Et t of most literary men,” was the reply. “It is to interest and to amuse in order that I may make money out of it. I write novels because it pays me to them, and because it is my mode of a living. I have no great lessons to teach, nor moral ends to further. Novels writ for such purposes seldom succeed. ight be able to write one such not many. It requires a peculiar nature to write a great novel of that lind, such, for instance, as that of Abraaam Lineoin. Had he been a novel writer lie could, from the outcome of his soul, have made a great moral novel Morality in Novels. “Speaking .of morality in novels, Mr. Crawford, why Is it there is such a differ- ence between the English school of novel- ists and those of the French and Italian?” “It is largely because of the difference in t people and in the standards after which tho stories are modeled. All Eng- lish and American stories are written as though they were to be read by but one person, and that is the young girl. Noth- ing that she should not know is put into them, and if anything of a differeat nature is admitted it must be so clothed that she will not understand its immoral tendencies, and that the married person can only see the truth by reading between the lines. The Italian and the French novels are written for the married woman, and rot for the girl. It might be better for our fiction if we had two classes of rovels—one for the girl and the other for the married people. I have often thought of it, but there is no way in which it could be done. Were this country Russia the books might all pass through the hands of a censor who could stamp the great red letter ‘A’ like that on the breast of Hester Prynne, In the Seariet Letter,” upon their backs and vide that such books should not be sold ‘ls nor be read by them. But, no! it would, even then, be impossible to prevent their falling into the girls’ hands. The more they were forbidden, ihe more they would be anxious to get them, and you know enough about American girls to know that they would get them, too.” America a Good Field for the Novelist ‘Speaking of America,” Mr. Crawford, “4s this a good field for novel writing? Is not life too slow here?” ‘I think not,” replied Mr. Crawford. “American life is as full of exciting situa- tions and Interesting characters as any on the globe. We are, next to the English, the most sentimental people of the world. We far surpass the Latin races, such as the Spanish, French and Italian, in this regard.” snd yet, Mr. Crawford, these are the races In which the flame of love is sup- posed to burn the brightest?” “The flame among them 1s oftener that of passion than of love. Love in its high- est form Is, I believe, found among us and English.’ ‘You have spent the great part ofeyour life abioad, Mr. Crawford,is it a good thing for an American to Ive lpng away from his country?’ don’t think it has hurt my American- ism {f that what you mean,” replied Mr. Crawford. “You have to get away from America now and then to see what big things and great things our country and our people are. I am proud of my Ameri- canism, and though I was born in Italy I am an American in every sense of the word.” “Do you think that the great American novel has yet been written?’ “No, I do not,” replied Mr., Crawford. “You cannot name One, I venture, which you would cell by that title. When guch a novel appears it will stand out above all others. It will, I suppose, come in time. It will hardly be produced in New York or New England. These are not the cen- ters of Americanism. It will probably be written by a man from the middle west.” FRANK G. CARPENTER. ——+e-. In Stevenson's Novels. From the Bookman. It may not be generally known that cer- tain of Stevenson's friends stood as orig- inals for some of his characters in The Wrecker. For example, ‘Jim Pinkerton”. is believed to be no other than Mr. 8. 8. McClure, who syndicated the South sea letters, and also placed several of his shorter novels, “Loudon Dodd,” in the same novel, is a free portrait of Mr. Will H. Low, the painter, one of Stevenson's dearest friends, with whom he had lived much of the life treated in the chapters describing the old student days in Paris. In one of the Stevenson family scrap books there is a photograph of Tin Jack, a rather pleasant-looking young man, seated under a flowing palm tree, who was a welcome visitor at Vailima, and who, we under- stand, was the original of “Tom Haddon.” There is also in the same scrap book a photograph of Tom Day, a fine, stalwart seaman—the very ideal of Nares—of whom Stevenson wrote: “The part that fs gener- ally good is Nares, the American sailor. That is a genuine figure. Had there been Postage it would have been a better mak BLACK CAT FARMING AScheme Suggested by a Visit to a Furrier’s Place. GREAT DEMAND FOR BLACK FELINE PETS Profits on Paper as Figured Out by - a Washington Promoter. A PROPOSED COMPANY A company has been formed among a number of young clerks in the Interior De- partment, chiefly in the patent office, to carry out a rovel scheme. One of their number, a few weeks ago, happening to be in New York, went to see an acquaintance employed in one of the old and well-estab- lished leather and hide concerns in the “Swamp.” While Icoking around tie place and getting a good deal of information about the various lines of business, his friend told him that there was a splendid chance nowadays for any one who would undertake to produce in large quantities such ordinary and apparently cheap furs a3 those of the skunk, muskrat, and even the ordinary house cat. “Strange as it may seem,” said this gen- tleman, “there are probably more cat skins employed in the fur trade than of any kind of skin known to the business. They are worked igto every line of goods in the trade. Not only cloaks and caps, but boas, muffs, gloves, slippers, leggings, vests, mufflers, lap robes, rugs, and an almost endless variety of manufactured skin goods are made from cat skins. You can find the quotations every day in the market _re- ports. Common cat skins run from 15 to 25 cents. Solid black winter skins, close and fine, stretch up to 40, 50 and even 60 cents. “There are a number of people in New England and New York who have gone into the business of cat farming, and, while beginnings are small so far, they have done quite well. The chief difficulty they have is providing subsistence. In these times, when horses are a drug on the market, most of these cat farmers have been feeding horse meat. As a rule, this produced a fair skin, yet it is not at the top of the market. The Al top skin is produced by feeding fish. I know one man en Long Island who has about four acres inclosed with wire netting, at a point whire he can get any quantity of fish, and his skins invariably bring from 40 to 50 cents, especially when sent in during the winter.” Impressed by the Idea. This view of the outlook in cat farming so impressed the Washington man that he cam? home and narrated his experience to some of his friends. The result Is that they have joined in the scheme to lease an island containing about 200 acres near the mouth of the Potomac, where they intend to erect low, cheap houses to shelter their stock, and without any expense for fencing or runs, they will buy up a herd of cats and go into the business. They intend to employ a man and a boy the year round, who will live on the island in a small cabin and look after the animals. They will be provided with boats and seines, and feed the herd entirely on Ash. By selecting the largest specimens of solid black felines, they expect to secure an unusually large pelt, which, if properly harvested in midwinter, will have a thick and fine fur, and bring the best price. Espe- cial care will be taken with regard to the purity of the stock, with a view to breeding out all tendency to variegation in color, and only solid blacks will be retained in the herd. It is not Intended that the cats shall run wild, as this has a tendency to reduce size and injure the breeding qualities, the fur at the same time being very much injured. ‘As far as possible it is expected that the stock will be treated kindly and familiarly, and kept gentle and tame. Tt is hot expected from the start that the scheme will meet with full success in the effort to produce only black pelts, but it is regarded as possible to produce about one- third of the entire output of skins as first- class black pelts bringing the top price. Profits Figured Out. The manager of the Potomac Cat Com- pany has forecast but two years’ business for the concern. He estimates the cost of the original plant, including breeding stock, cabin, cat houses, boats, seines and one year’s supplies, as follows: ‘To 100 cats. Cabin for mea. Cat sheds... Boats and seines. Supplies for men for one year. Wages for men Lease of island Total The statement of returns for the first year shows no profit. On the other hand, there will be a very Jarge outgo over and above reveipts. It is expected that the ‘@ne hundred brood cats will, after the man- ner of their kind, produce at least six kit- tens at a litter and four litters a year. This will represent 2,400 head of young stock on hand at the end of the first year. Of these not over 0 will be large enough to market, and of these it is expected that one-Falf will be kept for breeding pur- peses, leaving 300 head to market. Of these not over one-fourth, or seventy-five, will be solid black, large pelts commanding the top price of fifty cents each. The re- maining 225 will bring an average of twenty cents each, of $45, making the totul receipts for the first year $82.50. ‘The company wiil enter the second year with 400 head of brood stock, whose output for the year will be at the usual rate of in- crease, 9,600 head. During the year the 1,800 head left over from the preceding year will attain a marketable size and can be turned off the secand winter: About 400 of them, it is expected, will be solld black, Al pelts, bringing $200. Fourteen hundred of them can be chanced in the market to bring twenty cents each, or $280. There will also be available for the market one-fourth of the second year's out- put, or 2,400 head, of which 600 will bring the top price and ret $300. Of the remain- ing 1,800 about 400 will be saved for breed- ing purposes and the other 1,400 will be turned loose for $280. Thus the proceeds of the second sesson will amount to $1,060. The Scheme Widens Out. The company will carry over into the third season 800 head of brood stock, and 7,206 head of young stock due to mature in the third winter. The 800 head will produce in the third season 19,200 head of young stock. Of the 7,200 head carried over from the previous season, 1,300 will bring $900, saving out 600 head for brood stock the re- maining 4,800 head will bring $960, making the total income for the third season of $1,860. ‘The company goes into the fourth year with 1,400 head of brood stock. The out- put of young stock that year will be 33,600 head, of which it is expected that one-half by this time will be solid black pelts, a rigorous and scientific process of selecting having been followed in the retention of brood stock. The company will have for sale this year the 19,200 head brought over from the preceding year, of which it is ex- pected ‘one-half will be solid black pelts, bringing $4,800 net. The refuse stock will bring $1,920, making the total receipts for that year $6,720. In the fifth year the company will have on hand to sell the 33,600 head brought over from the fourth year, of which one-half will be first-class black pelts, worth $8,400, and the refuse will bring the total receipts that year up to $11,760. After the fourth year the company will not increase its brood stock, simply renew- ing, so as to maintain the number of brood cats at from 1,200 to 1,500. It is expected that In the third, fourth and fifth years there will be necessary a gradual increase of labor, but it will be very slight compared with the tremendous increase in receipts from the output. While. the whole enter- prise 1s,of course,more or less figurative, the stockholders in the company believe that they are conservative in their expectations, and they put in their money with very streng confidence in results. ae Not What He Meant. From the Indianapolis Journal. “Order in the court!” shouted the judge. “This is the worst disgrace this court has oe since I was elected to the judge- $100 QUHENS LETTER TO THE KAISER, Signed, but Only Suggested by Her ) Majesty. From London Pufich/ Jannary 18. We publish with all reserve the following letter, which has, we understand, been dis- patched fromtiOsberne Castle to Berlin. From interral! evidence we should judge that it was not written but suggested by the exalted lady by whom it. purports to be signed. There is a nautical breeziness about it that inclines us to attribute the actual authorship to the Duke of Y-rk.— Ed. Punch. Mein Lieber’ Berge. Was Villy.—Dies is aber uber alle jeutet eigentlich deine De- Pesche an dem_alten Kruger der fur Dich y% doesn’t care twopence. Solch eine con- founded Impertinenz habe ich nie gesehon. ‘he fact of the matter is that Dueein furehtbarer Schwaggerer bist. Warum kannst Du rie ruhig bleiben, why can't you hold your blessed row? Musst Da deinen Firger in jeder Torte haben? Was it for this that I made you an Admiral meiner Fiotte and allowed you to rig your- self out in eincr wunderschonen Uniform mit einen gekockten Hut? If you meant mir any of your blooming cheek zu geben why did you make your Grandmamma Colonel eines Deutschen Cavalierie Regi- ments? Du auch bist Colonel of a British Cavallerle Regiment, desto mehr die Schade, the more’s the pity. Als Du ein ganz kleiner Bube warst habe ich Dich oft tuchtig gespankt, and now that you are grown up you ought to be sparked, too. Wenn Du Deine Panzershiffe nach Delagoa Bay schicks! werde ich sie aus dem Was- ser blasen, I'l! blow your ironclads out of the water ehe Du dich umkehren kannst, before you can turn round. And, look hero, if you'll come over to this country werde ich Dich atnehmen, I'll take you on, und ich wette dref gegen eins dasz ich Dich in drei Runden ausklopfen werde, Queensber- ry rules, three minutes to a round. Also ich schnappe meine Finger in your face. Du weist nicht wo Du bist, you dunno wher you are, and somebody must teach you. Is Pismarck quite well? Das ist ein kolossaler Kert, nicht wkar? So lange! Don’t be foolish any more. Diene Dich lieber.de GRANDMAMMA. oo , William is Now England's Ogre. From the Saturday Review. The most striking thing about the little Jingo outbreak of last week was the evi- dence it gave of the reality and depth of tne anti-German feeling among the English populace. We have had little war scares with Russia, with France, and with the United States, but while they excited diplo- mats and newspaper writers, they left the people utterly ammoved. The display of French or Amerjcan colors or uniforms in a music hall Wallet, for instance, has al- ways fetched a round of applause, while the German flag has been hissed. But the German emperor's gaucherie Was as a spark in a powder magazine, and Mr. Chamberlain's amazing popularity with the crowd dates from the moment when he snubbed the kaiser. Since the time when wwas popularly depicted as a hide- ous, blood-drinking ogre there has been no such general outbreak of dislike against a foreign sovereign. os A Town of Celebrities. From the Lewiston Journal. o Ex-Goverzor Perham, one of Maine's best Preserved and ‘happiest “ex's,” enjoys tell- ing a story of a‘stranger’s visit to a little Maine hill town of fragrant memories, where one of the naiives took pleasure in politely pointing out the local objects of in- terest. “There,” said the villager, point- ing to a handsome old-style house, “lived a former member of Congress; yonder cn that street you sce that big square house, where one of Maine's most distinguished sons was born, who was successively mem- ber of the legislature, House of Represent- atives in Congress, United States Senato- for a generation and Vice President; right down there is tne modest printing office where one of our boys used to work,whence he graduated to become a leading political editor, and afterward Postmaster General.” As the promenade continued around the village, the mative directed the attention of the visitor to other old residences. “There,” sald he, “is the former home of another member of Congress, governor of the state, ete., and over across there is where another M. C. once resided. Right down the street there fs the old home of Judge C—, and over thers is where Judge E— used to live years ago. We've got a good lot of pretty famous lawyers, editors and colonels be- sides, that I haven't mentioned,” remarked the escort. By this time the stranger was beginning to get decidedly interested, and burat forth with the enthusiastic inquiry: “But, good heavens! Haven't you ever had any common people in your town?’ —__+e+____ Waist Proportion. From the Gentlewoman. What js a well-proportioned waist? Lady Haberton says: “The true proportion is a difference of ten inches between the cir- qumference of the bust and that of the waist. Thus a@ woman whose bust meas- ures thirty-six inches should have a waist measuring twenty-six inches. Bust forty inches, waist thirty inches, and so on. Very few corsets are made in this propor- tion, and if they were, still fewer people would buy them, as fashion decrees that the waist should measure from twelve to fifteen inches less than the bust.” In the course of time women may come to realize -that true artistic’ effect is only attained by a proper respect for proportion and sym- metry. Plenty ackuowledge this truism in most things but dress, where they cannot avoid fiying to extremes. ————_+e+______ A Queen and Mother, From the Gentlewoman. To the English people who know and un- derstand how the daughters and grand- daughters of the queen have been brought up and trained it will not be surprising news that the czarina has determined to nurse her little, baby herself. Her own mother, Princess Alice, like all her sisters, washed and dressed and nursed her babies; the Duchess of ;Fife has done the same, and the czarina-is only obeying her En- glish as well as her natural mother in- stincts in decWping to have e wet nurse for her infant. Nothing, perhaps, that she could have dotie will so endear her to the Russian peopis as this act, which seems perfectly natural to-us. No preyious em- press has ever nursed her children, and the Russians will regard what they take to be an exceptional evidence of devotion to the tiny grand duchess as a proof of the czari- na's wish to cherish for them their possible future empress. —___—+e-______ An Important Witness. From the Texas Sifter. Dallas Lawyer—“You say you made an examination of the premises; what did you find?” Witness—“Oh, nothing of consequence; only ‘a beggarly array of empty boxes,’ as Shakespeare says.” Lawyer—“Never mind what Shakespeare says. He will be summoned later and will speak for himself, if he knows anything about the case.” —_—_—_«. Impossible. From the Detroit Tribune, “Hear me,” implored the doomed hero. “No,” thundered the tyrant, “I cannot hear you. I haven't time, ard, besides, there is a fashionable theater patry in tne front row. Of course there was no way to restore sl- lence and the play proceeded as best it might. HE HELPED MAKE CHICAGO. L. A. Gilbert, the Great Land Man, Cured of Rheumatism by-Paine’s Celery Compound, ‘The most striking personality in Chicago, and the oldest real cstate dealer, Is Mc. L. A. Gilbert. Mr. Gilbert 1s now over 60 years of age; in the fifties he was in the Kockies gold hunting. Since 1868 he has handled more property in Chicago end {s known to more Lome owners than any other man in the busines. ‘Mr. Gilbert at cne time suffered from rheums- tism ard sleeplessners. He msde trips to Hot Springs, and tried other methods of treatment Without avail. To satisfy a fricnd who had taken Vaine's celery compound for ‘similar troubles, and knew what it could do, Mr. Gilbert tried it, and but a very short time elapsed before he was en- tirely freed from both these troubles. Mr. Gilbert himself says: Gentlemen—I have suffered with rheumatism and sleeplessness for years, caused by exposure while prespecting in the mountains years ago. For years I had to inke electric bath massage and take trips to Hot Springs in order to get a Mttle sleep and relief from pain. To cap the climax, I have been suffering from indigestion and pains in the heart region. Paine’s colery compound was recom- ninded to me by friends who knew what they were avy in Neglected and the Vessels Allowed to Rot. Frem the London Standard. Why does the sultan allow what was once a respectable fleet to rot to pieces anchored off Stambul? Simply because he corsiders an ironclad a dangerous instru- ment in the hands of any minister cr reso- lute commander. It is true that there are no ships to guard his coasts, but also there are none to steam up the Bosphorus and throw a shell into his palace, and that is the first object to be thought of. The in- cident whjch led to the order for the ex- tinction of the Turkish navy was as fol- lews: A transport was bringing a number of time-expired men home, when they re- spectfully mutinied, and begged their offi- cers to go below, as they wished to do something which might not be approved of. Some non-commissioned officers then took ecmmand, and anchored off Doima Bagi- cheh, and, after firing a small salute, be- gan shouting, “Long live the sultan!” This demonstration caused ‘mmediate confusion at the palace, and various high officials were dispatched to parley with the mutineers; but they insisted on seeing the minister, and when he at last appeared they said that they knew the sultan had given the money to pay them, but that they had not received it, and they would not budge until they did. No arguments were of any avail, and the money had to be sent for and distributed, after ich the men weighed anchor with a cheer, and gave up the ship again. The sultan, how- ever, reflected that what a transport had ‘done peaceably a heavily armed man-of- war might do with evil intent, and, calling Hassan Pasha to him, he declared that be wanted no more navy. In this light-nearted tanner a branch of national defense, which had been the pride of its officers, was sac- rificed to the royal fears for personal safety, and Hassan Pasha, who has stead- ily carried out his master’s program, has ever since been fn high favor, and ts, to al! intents and purposes, minister for life, ———-+e« ANTISEPTICS IN FOOD. Their Too Free Use Induces a Larger Exhibit of Poisons Than is Wise. From the British Medical Journal. The recent prosecution for selling orange wine containing a little over three grains to the pint of salicyclic acid suggests the propriety of discussing shortly the general question of preserving foods by antiseptics. Wines are sulphured and doctored with salicylic acid, fluoborates and fiuosilica to milk in hot weather all sorts of antisep- tics are added, the chief being boracic acid, varied of late by the addition of formalin. Boracic acid or borax is also the favorite antiseptic for butters. It may, indeed, be stated generally that all decomposable arti- cles not sterilized by boiling, or preserved from change by cold, are liable to be treat- ed with small quantities of antiseptics. There may not be in any one article a per- centage sufficient to cause, when given in a single d appreciable effect, but a person taking boraxed milk and butter for break- fast and tea and a salicylated wine for din- ner will be consuming day by day a suffi- cient amount of active drugs to produce some effect on his health. SSS Lates: Use of the Make-Up. New York Letter in Pittsburg Dispatch. A thinly clad woman with a babe in her arms stood on a conspicuous Sth avenue corner this afternoon. The thick line of fashionable promenaders dropped coins into her outstretched hand with characteristic freedom as both she and the babe looked hungry aad cold, especially the latter, whose _cheeeks were blue and pinched look- ing. Suddenly a well-dressed man stopped and rubbed his gloved fingers on the baby’s cheek. He then looked at his gloves, on which appeared a bluish powder. He was an agent of the*Charity Scciety and ar- rested the woman. The baby's face had been powdersd to excite sympathy. The make-up box is not used exclusively be- hind the scenes here. e+ A Better Arrangement. From Life. Huggins—‘‘Hello, Kissam, had your hair cut?” Kissam—‘Yes, dear boy. I found a place where they cut your hair while you wait.” Huggins—“That's good. A barber shop is usually a place where they cut some other man’s hair while you wait.” She's Mad Then. From the Gloucester Breeze. Neighbor—“Bertle, your mother is calling you.” Bertie—Yes’m, I know it; but I fancy she don’t want me very bad.’ Welghbor—"She has called you seven times already.” Bertle—‘Yes, I know; but she hasn't call- ed me ‘Albert’ yet.” talking about, aud I took it. From the start I noticed improvement, and I am now in the best of health, and able to get around as lively as any youngster I know. Yecrs truly, L. A. GILBERT. The mest rational way of getting rid of rheu- natism, veuralgin and insomuia aud getting back sound health is to husband evers mite of strength and to set about a radical all-round restoring ef the Ured system with Paine’s celery compound. It Is secur business to furnish the bedy with nervous energy, as fest and sbundantiy as you can, and to get a richer, pmrer blood suppl. ‘There is no way in which this restorative process cnn be 60 swiftiy brought compound. ‘There is nothiag known to physicians extensive practice equal to Paine’ for purifying the blood and m: nerves. Unremitting work at lest bh Vitality of the strongest men and women. me has felt that 2n bitiouless, listless f There are many persons who mauagi ikcir business becau tes by using Paine’s cole f the most An Interesting Text of the Man- Tracking Qualities of Bloodhounds. From the Cincinnati Enquirer. An Interesting test of the skill of biood- hounds fn man-tracking through the streets of a populous city, over ice and snow, was given in Indianzpolis in connection with the pet stock show. Four dogs were entered in the test, Brandy and Countess, belonging to S. M. Miller of Darlington; Prince, own- ed by Bowers & Harris of lesville, and Bright, who is owned by W. S. Fields of Wheaton. Early in the morning Dr. Bell of Koko- mo left Tomlinson Hall and passed out, and after walking through alleys and Strects, he put on a pair of arctic over- shoes and continued his walk through the parks and on the streets frequented by pe- destrians. On the line of march the doctor saw © runaway team, and in connection horses. He then returned to the hall where thi show was in progress. An hour later the dogs were placed on the trail and followed it with comparative ease, except at the point where the runaway was halted and at one or two other places over which there had been considerable travel, and around which the crowd following the dogs surged until it was almost impossible to break through. With unerring insti however, the dogs again found the trail, foliowed it steadily over the entire line) which Dr. Bell had walked and back to Tomlinson Hall, where they picked him crowd ef several hundred people. going up - him and indicating his identity by bark- pe. with tae crowd assisted in catching ie e 2e+—__ A Use of Typewriters. New York Letter to Rochester Post. az A_typewriter—the machine, I mean—is sold in New York every five minutes. At the present writing there are 30,000 type- writers In New York, of all makes, and the number is constantly increasing. The amount of capital represented by these ma- chines is $2,700,000. The municipal depart- | ments of the city government of New York require 154 typewriters to properly transact their business. But the largest number of typewriters under one roof in the worid is in a certain New York office, a building where there are 402 machines, which are required to do the work of the different tenants of the building. Hundreds of ma- chines are sent abroad every year. Gne made for the Czarina of Russia has keys of white with gold typebars, and the frame is beautifully inlaid with pearl. ——_—__+e+__ Sentimen: From the Atlanta Constitution. Two gentlemen were standing on a street corner when they were approached by a man offering for sale two dressed geese. They decided to purchase, but the dealer insisted on selling the two fowis to one man. Accordingly. one of them bought the two and soli again to his friend. After the transaction was completed the goose vender wes asked why he wouldn't sell the fowls separately. Said he: “That o!d goose and gander have been to- gether thirty years, and I wouldn't separate them for ayy consideration.” ———_+ e+ —___ How to Tell Them Apar From Truth. Mr. Knowall (laughingly)—“Can you tell me, Miss DeWitte, what is the difference between a wise man and a fool?” Miss DeWitte—“A wise man knows he is a fool, and is miserable; the foo! thinks he is wise and is happy. out of aj i { are nevertheless sadly “out of health.” Paine's celery compound exectly fits the cases of those uneasy, sleepless, sallow-faced men and women. ‘They are om the perilous edge of some ongaule ease. Paine's celery compound will drag them back and plont thelr feet squarely on firm ground. By regulating the nervons system cnd compelling the vitiated blood to gain a lnrger propertion of red prpusctes, al the organs of the body whose busi- fuss it fs to repair gpd rebuild the tissues are an Paine’s celery compound does not fail to inc the appetite, to augment the powers of aAssiwilation, to increase the weight of the body, to purify the blood and to stop the progress of Stroctural changes, when Hver and kiduey diseases have frstened themselves upon the system, ‘There is not 2 single city without some perfectly attested cure of liver or kidney di ation, salt rheum, plaguing ecm €ral poor health, by the use of Paine’s cel rond. Impaired strength and unstrung known by numbmeas of the Ibs, n: da dissatistied state of the mind—all thes ses become things of the past after taking best of bealih givers—Paine’ HE IS HATED. The Views of Thackeray on Enel Unpbpularity. So long ago as 184 Thackeray discussed the question recently raised again, wh English are hated by othtr races. “How they hate us,” he writes, “these foreigners in Belgium as much as in What Nes they tell of us; how sladiy they would see us humiMated! Hon- est folks at home over their port wine say, “Ay, ay, and very good reason they have, too. National vanity, sir, wounded—wo have beaten them so often.’ My dear sir, there is not a greater error in the world than this. They hate you because you are stupid, hard to please, and intolerabiy in- solent and_air-givin, “I walked with an slishman yesterday, who asked the way to a strect of which he pronounced the name very badly to a it- tle Flemish boy; the Flemish boy did not answer; an@ there was my Englishman quite in a rage, shrieking in the child's ear as if he must answer. He seemed to think it was the duty of ‘the snob,” as he called him, to obey the gentleman. ‘This is why we are hated—for pride. In our free country a tradesman, a lack or a waiter, will submit to almost any given insult from a gentleman; in these be- nighte] lands one man is as good as an- other; and pray God it may soon be so with u: af all European people, which is the nation that has the most haughtiness, the strongest prejudices, the ereatest re- ; Serve, the greatest duliness? ¥ say at En- Slishman of the genteel cla: An honest groom jokes and hobs-and-nobs and makes his way with the kitchenmatds, for there is good soviai nature in the man; his m: ter dare not unbend. Look at him, how he cow's at rou on your entering an inn-room: think how you scowl yourself to meet his scowl. “Today. as we were walking and sts about the place, a worthy old gent im a carriage, sesing a pair of strange teok off his hat and bowel ve prmegeind with his old powdered head out of the w: dow; I am sorry to say that our first im- pulse was to burst out laughing—it seemed So supremely ridiculous that a stranger should notice and welcome another.” SEINE les Electric Light Paris Letter. Special attention Is being given by the French military authorities to the ques- tions of succoring the wounded on baitle- fields when night comes on after a creat battle. Experiments have been made with powerful electric are lights, but the ap- paratus has conditions. At length ft has been practically determined that the am- bulance corps men shall wear little incan- descent glow-lamps in their hats, just like ladies of the ballet in a spectacular ex- travaganza. Each man is to carry a little primary battery in his pocket for the pro- duction of the current. The wounded in need of succor will look out for the litue moving lights, and {f possible drag them- Selves toward them. A Fin de Siecle Parent. From Life. “No, papa, I tell you I won't have him! I want a title.” “But you must, Ethel. He's rich, and I can give you nothing at this crisis—wait till next time for the title. ——_-+e-+—____ The Difference. From Harper's Bazar. “I can't see why it is,” sald Bobby, “that when little boys are cross folks say they are naughty; and when papas and mammas are cross folks say they are nervous.” Battichelds, “TOUT EST PERDU, From Punch. FORS L‘RONNEUR?” Hovsekeeper (who has been describing the firc in the country house, and the destruc- tion of all the books and family pictures, &c., &c.)—‘Yes, my lady, every single picture burnt to-ashes! But I've one thing to tell ycu that will please you—I managed to save all last year’s jam!