Evening Star Newspaper, August 29, 1896, Page 14

14 THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1896-TWENTY PAGES. WHERE IRVING WROTE Ivy-Clad Home of the Creator of Rip Van Winkle. THE PROPERTY OF HIS DESCEND ee Interesting Mementos of America’s Great Author. HIS BELOVED BOOKS HE MORNING was clear and full of promise of an idea! August Sunday when our train steamed out of the Grand Central. Our destination was Sun- nyside, at Irvington- T “4. RE on-the-Hudson, but FFT we sot off the train 4 ete at Debbs Ferry, sy three miles or less \S below. One of the oe part: thinking It would be like old times when she took long walks around the vicinity of Wash ington suggested that we waik from Dobbs Ferry to our real destination. So we agreed—the distance looked small on the map, but how it did streteh before the long surve in the rovd was gone over anit lanes traversed! One sign at the corner of two roads at- tracied our at “Ashford avenue, or an Iedian trail’—and up this trail we to retrace our steps on being tnformed by a emall boy that we Were running away from the road to Irv- . and, with fresh country williug- ness. I down to Broadway and set us on the right track for Irvington. This Eroaiway was the old post read from New York to Albany, and a mare beauti- yu cannot be found in side {t is flanked by oking at least half a and the s 2 of the Amerten. magnifl On York + obbs Ferry until r Tarrytown does not change—it speaks ture and man can do for # we reach ewe i aint ¢ Vatories, farther ov of the larg green a ir + of which grows a pale s s3 the drive is a sig of the made honor save in @irection we Ked some or heeked vi-blown g ul, emp Sunnyside, wn wall, it had not th so we climbed t side of the road. that forbad= tresps to be deterred, for wer t these signs put bP because of the omnipresent bicycle who were wont to make a ground ont of hallowed Sunnyside, before it chang- el into more firm hands last winter? A coking man came off the veran- da to meet us, and then his wife came down and talked to us while we were tak- ing a picture. Then the tongue of the young woman was loosened and she plied them with questions. ‘They were kind, but reticer t first, but before the tram. left they found of Mz. and M wfitt, the caretakers. Shall we ever forget that golden summer afternoen at Sunnys.de? How we felt onr- selves growing right at home, even though orinvited guests, feeling familiar with the 1 Ivy covering one corner niche of this Dutch house, for we had long ago its history, brought trom Melr: shington Irving when he was x i, the guest of Sir i that old abbey arter of the e know that the house was Wolf pot In the hearts di minister S home from Spain sand lived 3 side until bis dat A Qua se. med to me to be m up le houses of mixed nationali- ether—its ep roofs und stable-lHk # pleasing variety. And a: little gables, cat- ones presenting various as the corners are the vines of all from the old Fuglish ivy to the on bower, with its purple bles- hat clamber over it. ath, in 1559, in this house, it he are of and who lived with him they were children, the Misses Cath- rah Irving. It was by his be- they occupted the place; In latter nly iz the summer, as the winters were too severe for them. ‘In his will Irv- ing requested that the house always be occupied by some one of his line, and last winter the two maiden ladies, feeling the years weight of eighty odd years, and finding they could no longer give the estate the care and management it deserved, sold it to Mr. Alexander Durer Irving of New York city, a grand-nephew of Irving. Mr. Irving i ied to put the place in good repair, remodel the back part of it, and ke it hi summer residence. Mr. Irv- ‘# family, consisting of wife and four children, are now summering at Marble- head, and it is not very likely they will lake possession this fall, After a moment's hesitation, supplement- ed by the remark that they did not usually show visitors the rooms in Sunnyside, Mrs. turfitt cpeced the blinds of the parior decor and we stepped into the bare parlor. All the furniture which belonged to Irving, except that in his study, hed heen packed uway in anticipation of the alterations, and we passed many an empty Ettle room (all the rooms are very small), whose faded walls showed dark spots where mirror and picture once hung, before we were shown to the sem room of the house—the writ- er's study. It is on the outside angle of this room that the Melrose ivy runs; whilc the walls in the interior are lned with shelves and shelves of bocks—his dear books—and where, In a corner, with a background of dark-covered books, his bust is enthroned. Irving's Desk and Pictures. In the center of the study is a large desk, which was presented to Irving by his pub- Ushers (as a silver-inseribed plate tells us) eon February 1858 This desk, though a guaranty of good feelings in the bosom of the publishers, Is not the most Interesting feature of the room. On top of it are tem- porarily piled framed pictures, sketches and personal knick-knacks of the writer. Everything in this Hitle study is “purely personal. With much amused interest we examine the cld engravings, about E2x14 inches, de- picting scenes from the life of old friend Rip. and we wonder whether Joseph Jef- f ) ever got any Inspiration from them, bey are so true to the story. I think there are six in all-Rip with his exasperated wife scola'ng him, Rip with the children clambering over his bent back as he sits me re-} on a bench; Rip, loafing at Nicholas Ved- dar’s; Rip coming back to a desolate home; Rir an object of curiosity among the vil- lagers; and, again, Rip relating his adven- tures to the wondering villagers. Rip. every bit old Rip, whose histery charmed us long ago; whose history shali always charm us and be one of the fairy tales of this new world, which has so very few fairy tales. And then we pick up odds and ends of sketches, some by Irving, who at one time, when sent abroad for his health, fell in with an artist, and out of the companion- ship grew the desire to be an artist—a de- sire that failed before a better thing, as did that of Thackeray, and, may I modestly assume, Du Maurier. Apropos of Du Maurter, we pick up a lit- Ue sketch and exclaim, vengali!” But it is not he, though worthy of him: only poor Ichabod Crane, whose gree’y green eyes, feasting on the goodles and on the davghter of Mynheer Van Tassel, cost him that awful ride with the headik horseman through Sleepy Hollow. And so it Is plain to be seen that the writer had the characters sketched on paper, as well as on the brain, before he gave them to us in stories. A large framed pictu plate order, catches our our mirth—that of old Governor Stuyve- sant’s army entering New Amsterdam. [t is frem a drawing by Heath of London, presented by him to the writer, Irving. And here is how the army divided “First came the Van Brummels, the first Inventors of suppawn, or mush and milk; second, the Van Klotens of Kaats- kill, horrible quafters of new clder; third, the Van Peits, nightly hunters of the mink and muskrats; fourth, the Van Nests of Kinderhook, valiant robbers of birds’ ne! 4 fitth, the Van Higginbottoms, armed with ferrules and rods, being a race of school- masters; sixth, the Van Grolles of An- ny’s nose; seventh, the Gardenlers, rob- e, of the old stcel yes and provokes eighth, the Van Hoesens of Sing Sing, at chorister players on the jew‘s-harps; Conenhovens, a jolly race of publicans; tenth, the Van Kortlands, the Vain, great killers of ducks, etc And after we elves with these quaint old Dutch sketches and taken in everything to he secn In the study, we train. Hut our hostess in- ng us a glass of milk and suine cake, so we accepted her kind hos- Pilaiity, and atter some more conversation, started for the station. We were given a d-off by the two dogs, one of which the name of * * named by one of Irving's grent-grand-nephews, after Rip’s dog. s is a big black and white animal, looking raggedy enough to have been somewhat a descendent of that Vagreut dog of Vagrant master. ————_ DRIVER WAS LITERAL. Nowed Instrvetions in Delivering 2 Barrel of Flour. go Fost ger of one of the Chic 8 tells a good ster: a big strong Irishman driving one of our teams. Yesterday he was sent a barrel of flour to the home of a sman on the South Side. Arrived there Iriver took the barrel on his back and arted up the stairs, his express hock in his coat pocket. From the The ma press We ! BO ex: | “Halt way up the second flight of stairs | the Irishman came upon a woman, scru | bing. “Will yo he afther tellin’ me where Mrs. McGowan Y he asked. MeGowaa,’ which the serub- irrelevan sai was barrel of four?” 8 far as yous? can, and re- - FH attend to teow went on | nO more sta about on an open it, und when there w to conquer he look ladder leading thro to the roof. Up the iad- der he climbed, out on the roof he then, finding he could ge no * pout a balloon, he deposited the barrel the stairway—though nearly at the | foot—he found the woman again, aud she | book. Then he went la but before he got to office Mrs. McGowan was there de- mending an explanation. ‘The driver was | called in as soon as he returned. “Where did you put that barrel of flour?’ demanded the official. “Where she tould me.’ “ ‘Where did you tell him to put ft, mad- am “I told him to take it up as far as he could, an’— “ An" Oi did," interrupted the honest ‘If she'll look on the roof she'll - +02 SN VICTORIA’S HEN HOUSE. QUE Beautiful Specimens of Feathered ribe Stock the Royal Aviary. m the New York World. There are plenty of proofs that the tastes of Queen Victoria are decidedly domestic, but none seems more convincing than that she ts an enthusiastic chicken raiser. The royal aviary, or, as the good New England housewife would call it, the queen's hen- coop, as described in the London Feathered Werid by Artist Ernest M. Jessop, is a very elaborate affair. ‘The quecn has her head “chicken man,” who is aided by a large corps of experienced “ur forty years the royal poul- pens were under female supervision, rs. DY Aibertanson, now in charge of the queen's room at the kennels, being super- visor. A man named liammond bas st cceded her. He knows ali about chickens, their value and their artful ways. Many breeds are kept in the royal aviary— id and silver spangled Hamburgs, gol i Iver penciled, and black ones be: Black, e und speckled Dorkings about in company with proud Ame Plymouth Rocks, black Minorcas, | Leghorns, Andalusians, white Rocks and | Houdans. American Piymouth F 3 are, | by the way, among the queen's favorite: ‘The bantams, as usual, are the pride of the roost. One named Topy {3 as tame as | a kitten. He is Hammond's toy. When | the keeper ciaps his hands the midget runs | to meet him, jumps upon his hand and chanticleers to his heart's delight. ‘The chi sirut white ens are let out daily in batches | of the same breed for an hour's run on the g For breakfast they get soft food, and | for the evening meal they get an abundance of wheat. There is no hospital at the royal aviary. As soon as one of the birds appears to be ailing it is put to death and afterward cremate The most formidable creatures in the lot are the wild turkeys imported from Canada, but now thoroughly naturalized. Two beau: tiful golden eagles are among the curiosities ot the collection. One was captured thirty years ago in Windsor forest. There are Aylesbury ducks, but not many. There are also golden pheasants and pigeons of vari- ous kinds. An average of fifty eggs a day are laid by the hens. They go to the castle, Bucking- ham Palace and Osborne ilouse only. The queen has an apartment at the aviary. It is a bright, sunny room, with nearly pure white walls. “A case of stuffed birds shot by the prince consort is the principal ornament. The aviary was once one of the popular re- sorts of the royal family, and a tea service of dark blue and white Dresden china is still in the house. —-e-__ An Experiment in Profit-Sharing. érom the New York Tribune. An Ohio manufacturing concern, which nas been experimenting with profit-sharing pians for eleven years,has finally evolved a Plan radically different from profit-sharing and more like a permanent wage increase, with a provision for withholding the in- crease from the more negligent workmen. At first the commonly talked of plan of dil- viding a certain portion of the profits among the workmen was tried, each em- ploye sharing according to his earnings. The first dividend to employes was declared at the end of six months, and was at the rate of 13.47 per cent on the wages paid. One workman received $275 dividend. But it was found the men did not take much interest in this plan, so tt was modified and the men were arbitrarily classified accord- ing to the interest they were understood to show in their work and their effiziency, the most active receiving a larger share than the others, and all dividends being withheld from those who were noticeably careless. The money so withheld did not go to the firm, but was added to the part allotted to the workmen and divided among them. Then the firm became a _corgora- tion, and the plan was changed. The aver- age amount paid had been a 12 per cent dividend, so it was decided to pay a uni- form rate of 12 per cent on wages, the right to withhold dividends for neglect being re- tained. Employes are helped to buy stock if they wish. Employers and employes are said to be satisfied with this arrangement. | himself becoming an ardent patriot, takin to the “puritan maiden of Plymouth.” Three years after the marriage cf the Rey. Francis Winter and Abigail Alden | they started to visit a sister of Mrs. Win- UNDERGROUND LONDON ROADS. Growing Popularity of Electric Trac- tion at the British Capit From the Electrical Engineer. Great activity is being shown in London at present in planning underground street railways, and all of the roads under con- sideration are to be provided with ele tricity by reason of the conspicuous suc- cess of the electric road already in opera- tion. The railway referred to is the City and South London, opened in 1890, Here for the first time was tried that Invention of Mr. Greathead’s, which, equally with electric traction, has helped to revolutionizo urban railway construction, This centrivance, familiarly known to engineers as the “Greathead shield,” is an airlock system of tunneling which enables work to be es ecuted expeditiously at any depth in_per- fect safety, and to be continued unhindered quite irrespective of whatever springs may be encountered while boring. The ral!ways now under construction will be tunneled in this manner at an average depth of sixty feet beneath the pavements of London, and no sign of their process will be visible to these who use the streets, excepting only on the sites of proposed ‘stations, where shops and houses are being demolished. There are no fewer than six lines author- ized, two being at the present moment act- ively pushed forward. The Waterloo and City railway is the shortest of all, and has but two stations, one at Waterloo and the other at the Mansion Hottse. This partic- vlar line is, perhaps, the most urgently needed of all, and it is now rapidly ap- proaching completion. But public attention is attracted just now principally to the Central London ‘railway, which will run from Shepherd's Bush to Liverpool street, a distance of six and a half miles. Authorized in the sessions of 1591 and 1893, {ts construction has just been und n by the Electric Traction Com- pany, who have let all the contracts ai:d have already begun puiling down t! houses that occupy the sites of the four- teen stations along the route. ‘Trains step- ping at each station will be run at inter- vals of two minutes and a half, and will perform the journey from end to end, in- cluding all stoppages, in thirty-five min- utes. The cost of construction and equip- ment, calculated at £500,000 per mile, brings the total cost to £3,500,000, The rail level will not be less than eighty- five feet beneath the surface at some points on this line, and five hydraulic itis will con ‘Ts to and from the trains, to cross from one side of the the other, The company expects try between fifty and sixty millions rngers in the year, but the actual capacity of the line is $5,060,000. The bor- ing of the two tunne which will be cir- culac, lined with iron, and but eleven feet Six inches diameter, will be proceeded with from each station simultaneously, By De- CA ISM, this work will have been com- it will serve to give some magnitude of these com) rpuses when it is cor hew stations H reach a total of for a of the d railway en- ed that the will involve ints the wil NORWAYWS STRANGE BANK. It is the Most Indepen Institution in ¢ v From the New York Journal. The most independent : bank in the or Na- tional Bank of Norway. Socially, the bank is of considerable importance. The direct- ors meet twiee a week, and these friendly gatherings are said to be most s Loans and discounts form tt subjeets of conversation. No lean or nt Finnncial je World. Gl world is the No! aristocratic count can be made without the approval of the directors. ‘The directors are a mecting one ¢ and you want ‘ow $1,000 on Mor You apply to i Norges Bank and are told that the matter | will be under consideration at th if ctors’ me nz on Wedne 3 nd you | look for an answer to your application ‘Thursday. [t does net matter in least that You wani the $1,000 Monday and not Thursday; you simply have to wait. The origin of this institution is as_pe- culiar as its management is unusual. Soon after the nominal union of Norway aud Sweden, in 1814, the latter country began to feel the need of greater money facilities meet the demands of the rapidly the | commerce. The problem of securing the necessary capita! for a great national! in- stitution was a very simple one for the Norwegian government. It raised stock- holders for the bank just as it raised sol- diers for its armies. Every well-to-do citi- zen was compelled to take so much stock. He was always at liberty to take more if he chose, but always in amounts divisible by five. ‘This national bank is also a national pawn-shop. It is authorized by law to lend money on any non-perishable goods, pro- vided they can be deposited in the bauk and kept under lock and key. For this service it charges rather less than the usual pawnbroker's interest, which may, perhaps, account for the rarity of private pawn-shops in Norway. or IAGE IN MA FIRST CARR! Owned by a Minister, Who Sold It to Please His Parishioners, From the Lewiston Journal. The Rev. Francis Winter was a native of Boston and a graduate ot Harvard Col lege. He came to Bath carly in 1767, and, after preaching on probation for thodox church, was invited to get‘le, invitation he accepted. He was crda in the autumn of the same year. He cam to Bath on horseback, in company w: Lemuel Standish. Mr. Winter ca from Boston, where he associated with such em- inent men as Adams, Otis 2nd Warr the or- hich | | measu | the lead in the revolutionary opted at Bath during that memorable | pericd. Mr, Winter married Miss Abigail Alde in 176S, and it is through her that th Winters of today trace their ancestry bac ter, living in Connecticut, and intended to ride all the way on horseback, but Mr: Winter became so fatigued that Mr. W ter sold one of the hurses for a c: and harness. It was the first carriage that ever came into Maine, and was called a chaise. Traveling was so difficult that two negroes were employed to accompany them with shovels and axes to clear the read, Several times the chaise had to be taken apart and lifted over fallen trees. The minister's parishioners thought that it was putting on too much style for their pastor to ride in a carriage, and In conse- quence Mr. Winter sold it. This was in iil. It was a two-wheeled chaise, the body resting on leather thorough-braces, which were attached to wooden springs. — Why He Bought His Own Cigars, From the Chicago News. “Thanks, but I never accept cigars from any one,” said the man with the yaller whiskers, as he waved away the case. “It's an {idiom of mine and I hope you won't be offended. “Afraid of poison?” queried the other. “Oh, no, no. I had a little adventure with a cigar once upon a time and I don't mind relating it. Our firm in Chicago was after a big contract down the state and I was sent down to Springfield to work a cer- tain man who would throw the job our way. As luck would have it I met him on the train, and as we were smokers we talked over our cigars. I accepted one of his on the go off and when we had finished "em I handed out my case. There were just two cigars In it. One was the last of the box—the other had been given me by some acquaintance to try. By the time we light- ed up a second time I had my little scheme working all right and was patting myself on the back, but wreck and desolation were on my trail.” “Train run off the track?” “No; not that. The man had smoked about one-third of the cigar when there was a s-w-i-s-h! bang! and she exploded on him. It was a torpedo cigar which some miserable cuss had put off on me for @ joke and it worked my ruin. My man had his mustache and eyebrows singed, the end of his nose blistered and his eyes filled with ashes, and he arose in his wrath and fell upon me.” “Couldn't you explain?” “When he had me by the hair and was blasting my blooming eyes? Not much! Explanations were not in order. He punched thunder out of me in about a minute and of course we lost the contract and I lost a good sit, and that’s why I buy my own cigars and don't want to mix in any extras.” n- triage | j it occurred to him that th INTO A SHIP CANAL! Work in Progress: on the Dismal Swamp Waterway. FEATURES OF THR ENTERPRISE eg Prospect of the Reclamation of a Large Area‘ of Land. AVOIDING TILE OCEAN _ Special Correspandence of The Evening Star. NORFOLK, Va., August 26, 1896. HE OLD DISMAL Swamp canal con- necting Chesapeake bay with the sounds of North Carolina, which has been prac- tically closed for five or six years, is now being — reconsiructed into a ship canal, When completed, it will be one of the} most important links | in the chain of inland | waterways which ex- tend along the Atlantic coast from New York to Florida. The tre: Hatteras, so dreaded py sailors, may be avoided; ships and stcamers of ten feet | draft may take this inside route and pass | in safety this dangerous point regardless of | the weather. This work is an important one also for the reason that the improvements, as con- templated, will solve the problem of drain- ing the great Dismal Swamp. The sum- cherous Cape [ swamp when drained may bloom into fields of corn and rice. ‘Early in the present year the new organ- ization, which is composed of Baltimore capitalists, known as the Lake Drummond Canal and Water Company,of which Walter B. Brooks, jr., is president, let the contract fer reconstructing this canal. The con- tract covers the construction of a complet- ed canal ready for business, with locks, dams, approaches, waste weirs, all neces- sary excavation, clearing, ditching, bridg- ing, drains, wooden culverts and condults. This work will extend over the whole route of the canal from a place on the Elizabeth, four miles from Norfolk, Va., to a place where the canal meets the Pas- quotank river, near South Mills, N.C. A feeder about three miles long is to be con- structed to Lake Drummond. ‘The total length of the canal is ebout twenty-eight miles, the average width is to be sixty feet and the depth ten feet. The Original Canal. The Dismal Swamp canal was begun in 1787, under a joint charter from the legis- lative assemblies of Virginia and North Carolina, and was built by the assistance of the national government and the state of Virginia at a cost of $1,151,000. It was opened to navigation in 1:22, but not fin- ished until 1828. ‘The canal as originally built by slave labor was 32 feet wide, with three feet depth of water, and with wooden locks. It was afterward enlarged to 40 feet, with six feet depth, and the wooden locks replaced with stone. The Albemar! and Chesapeake pal, more clreuitous route to the sound, but with a deeper chan- nel, was finished soon after the war, and from that time the trade through the Dis- mal Swamp canal gradually fell off, and for the last two or three years it has been bractically closed, admitting none but a few boats of light draft to keep up the local traffic. The distance from Norfoik to Albemarle sound by the Albemarle and peake canal is 76 miles: by the Dis- wamp canal it is only 62 miles—con- Ss canal, 28 miles; river route, For the year 1895 the » mber of v ot all ng throngh th Swamp s only 695. ‘The t locks—size, show to be replaced with two Along the easiern side of the canal is the old stage road, so much traveled during ante-bellum days. It is still us wexon road, and over it is carr LAKE OF THE mit level of the canal will be lowered some six or seven feet, and this will effectually | Grain a large portion ef the swamp and make it possible to brin ultivation the whole of its immense area, now sat- | urated like a sponge with watcr for which there has becn no sufficient et { Your corr onder recently made a trip on a steam launch through the canal from Lake Drumiagud to the Elizabeth | river at Norfolk, and was foreibly re-j minded of the importance to Norfolk and ! ern North Caroling of this great work | j and the advantages to the cities of the; Allantic coast that must follow its com- pletion, Aside from its usefulness to there are two other objects of no less beuc- fit to this section that will be attained—a supply of wholesome water to the ad cities aud the reclamaticn of the s lands. The new canal companys @am_ across Deep creek five 1 Norfolk, and the reservoir thus be used to supply water to three citic Norfolk, Portsmouth and Berkicy, and th is building Le a from made may Sonshine and Health, From the Heme Queen, A merehant noticed, in the progress of years, that each successive bookkeeper gradually lost his health and finally dicd of consumption, however vigorous and robust he was on entering his service. At length 2 little rear room where the books were kept opencd in a back yard so surrounded by high walls that no ‘sunshine came into it from one year’s end to another An upper room well lighted was immediately prepared, and his clerks had uniform good health ever | after. { A familar case to general readers ia de- | rived from medical works, where an entire | family became iil, and all remedies seemed | to fail of their msual results, when acci- | Gentally a window of the family | room wag broken in cokl weather. It was | not repaired, and forthwith there was a marked improvement in the healih of the irmates. The physician at cnce traced the | cennection, disc inucd his medicines, and | ordered that the windew pane should not | be replaced. | ‘The lungs of a dog become tubereulated | (consumptive) in a few weeks if he is kept Confined in a dark cellar. The most cem- mon plant grows spindly, pale and sc | gling if no sunlight falls unon it. i greatest medical naines of France of the | last century regarded hine and pure | air as equal agents in restoring and main- i taining health. From these facts the most common mind should conclude that apartments into which the sun does not i } should never be occupied as family rooms | or chambet or as libraries or studies. | Every intelligent and husaane parent 2 ately shine arrange that the living room and tho bed rooms shall be the most commodious, light- est and brightest apartments in his dwell- ing. An extract from a newspaper note—“‘As DISMAL swamp, the United vuth ates mail A oe son from Portsmouth and four interme- the canal, Mills, oft Giate Pan inters 4 Duel spot on this road marking the line An monumer stonc two sia nh is about hi tween the of Deep Cre and South Ct w: Ir duciling blooded Vir + Gretna for ern Not of old tavern as the “Line House,” how rema a few stvacgl wil- lows on Uh of the canal dreop thei: branch: spot where so many couples have plight Lei vows. The northern us thern terminus of the canal is historic ground. Not far from the north is Great bridge, noted in th revolu- fon as the place where Ci «ford’s minute men defeated Capt. F S gren- adiers, after which Lord Dunmore, frantic with rage, repaired to Norfoik and reduced defenseless town to ashes i ills, the southern terminus, juring the late civil war the South Mills or Sawyer’s Lane. The Devil's Own Language. om the Boston Globe John Wesley described the Chinese lan- guage as an invention of the devil to keep the mis. aries out of China. It has not altogether succeeded in keeping chem out; but ft has made their work very difficult and often jous. Dr. J. FP. Masiers, one of the few for- eigners who have acquired the language, tells of a missionary who was explain- ne the goodness of the Heavenly Father. The word for heaven with an aspirate on the vowe ission- ary left out the aspira the re- sult that the word meant “eraz: After Dr. Masters had studied a few months he endeavored to 7 sermon. He wrote It out made so many blunders in quantities an Chines larguag. ntenese each a carefully, but tones, Yower at some of the much the Engli r Chines: pesed he had been preaching On another occasion he ineant to order a roast chicken, and told his cook to go out and set fire to the The Chinese Langu 700 char- eters in the star ry. There are, increover, 70 d nds, to each of which fs attached a of metrical seale, ranging from an o and a halt, cuy amu imperts aye to an octave ety of tones which ctect. The tone is Por ins und “ising” may mean Clephant, mechanic or tone. Put an as- f the word and it may mean examine, good luck, wall, spear or gen and a variety of other meaning Geperding on the tone given. Aman is am: the tone and the tone is given. Chan man becomes a nightingale, a carrot and ings. en the correct many other ridiculous Uni soon as Prof. Knodle took the floor, his remarks showed that not a single point escaped him.”—Life. DAN, THE BARKEEPER! He Has a Large Number of Eager but Un- profitable Visitors. At the Same Time He Grows Acquaint- ed With a Very Striking Fenture of the Bicycle Busine: E VERY DAY THIS week the regulars whe frequent the Oft and Early, as wel! as the drop-ins who occasionally lquefy their thirstiness at this popular font, have been on the qui vive with exciteme over Proprictor Me- Cann and his bi Dan, the barkeeper, has been overwheim- ed with questions to such an extent that his usually equaie temper has been occasionally distorted into veritable ugliness, and his consequent curt- hess has had a deterrent effect upon th: current of harmony being made at such periods on the register bell. “It all cums,” he said yesterday evening to the genial coterie he chooses to reeard as initiates in his intimacy, 2il cums from tawkin’ wiles wun er dese noos er dubs is eroun’, Dey inks it’s funny pull ev'ryting ev man sez in de paper, an’ it’s "bout ez funny ez er foo'n'l Dat Star paper hadn’ bin on de street er last Sat’dy wien de mob begin bi in de screen do's. I never sce so menny ew'rous suckers in me life, an’ dat’s struight. Dey comes at me in wuns an’ twes, an’ dey cums ai me in crowds. ‘Hez Mae got ‘is w'eei?’ sez one. ‘Dye w “Mergency 'Ospital waggin ter front er de place?’ sez ernuthe: de way it go, tell I got de sclzer reddy an’ used up de erble supply dous- in’ de dubs dat cum e Dan lifted up a bundle of cards of = and 'd make er peenuckle de et dey wi he r dey's all er Da ay dey’s all de sam straight, er [hope Fil los night Uirst. Whose is dey? | our'n. Yer means w’are’d I Dey wuz brought in by de men deir names on em. Whut | Ef I hadder bed down here ('d take er r make me so dern tired.” ¥, the tailor, looked helplessly at fur he ejaculated, “T'd ike t” know | do wid Mac's sucker,” retorte wun er de fle yere is in de lern dub eo man er cud fine er; uv dem guys wa sheen. D'ye Uink er in yer head ter pu remarked Ra ot ciation, niss cyards uv with a deep | means de | bike deat- | t er hit it hard: der ham- Vit ring twict an’ Bo ahead. Now, » twuz all de fawlt De ek'l feilers read in “ann’s goin’ ter git er bisck’l, y all made er plunge fer de place at Wunst, pitty near. Say, de ice hadn’ cum yit on Mundy mawnt fore er dub shot in yere lik en er gun, yer grips on er wad ou ‘ann, I b'lieve,” he sez, an’ tell ‘im me name was Dan | Shugru he fired loose at me, ‘I repersent sez he, ‘de greatest bisck'l in de wozl',’ sez | he; ‘de werry fines’ w'eel dat was ever set up. It's rid,’ he sez, ‘by de crown'd he'ds in Yurrup, an’ de aleet an’ intllec’ in dis kentry"ll hev no udder,’ he sez. “De coated price,” he sez, ‘is wun hunnerd dollars,” he sez, an’ den he drapt his woice an’ sez, sez he, ‘but Mr. MeCann, in strie’ conferdence, an’ havin’ er full *nolidge uy yer in- teg'ity an’ “ bizni: standin’, he sez, ‘I'm goin’ ter sell yer de bes’ mashcen in de! worl’ fur sickty-fi’ plunks, “Say, dat’s straight Be Gneares jist ez he sed it, an’ Seo w'en he drawed breat’ I sed to ‘im.dat Me- Cann was in bed yit uniess luck was runnin’ to his side er de ble an’ he hadn’ lose his stake “Den pray give Mr. MeCann ime card," Ss sez ne, ‘an’ tell “im I'll call ergin, “I ain’ givin’ yer no st de adwance skunmis! rmen’ uy de same k Mm yere "fore all hed de e erbout de weed | all tucl e fur MeConn, Dern hev w'eels in me head, an’ w' man cum, I hope 1 m: ter ax ‘im ter him er bran’ a whin’, an’ teer wor!’ ft ‘der, bud I wuz daff. We'll take sum O'Hare, with an auth stories make me Uirsty. s that would result from fered Dan to any slur on | ‘vs that they mig tain, and when the dynamite was distrib- uted and each man had put in his shot he continued his narrativ: I wen’ ter breakf mn came on, W'en L cum back he wuz smilin’ like | er now aldymin. ‘Bedad,’ he ov ait tative tone, “I ‘bud jairnalusm be wan ‘grate Ith’ Star-r-r towld lasht Vi ter boi me er b dam fairteen min ay'n’ rawnin’ t sell me wan lukin’ yoong rayporth: ‘im up wid rickeys an’ dthem new fun- gid dhrinks till he tawt he wuz edither in chafe av Noonoited Oirland itself. Luk at dthim, Dan,’ he sez, an’ he heit up er bunch er little books like dese silver an’ gole dubs carries roun’ wid’ em. 1 Dissikle it- he sez, ‘an rade ev'ry dam wun av dihim afore O1 bol me wan.’ “Dat wuz Mundy, an’ it kep’ up dat Way Chewsdy an’ Wensdy, an’ wud a kep’ up Tursdy, too, ef I hadn’ er rigged d. selser siphun an’ turn it on every dub whut | cum in wid knee pants an er sweat’r on. Dat stopt de run, bud nuttin’ kin stop Me- | Cann, “Whut's de matter of Mac?” queried Raf- ferty. wer gwan v dthis Av What foine y wor here I'd fill “Icoroe SELTZER SipHuN” uthin’, ‘eopt he’ faster dan’ enny goin’ ter de ‘sylum Disek’l ever went down er He's dun stopt standin’ ‘is watch: he ain’ takin’ ro ‘count er de bills, an’ dern | ef he’s tuk er drink in Uree da He's | jist makin’ de roun’ er bisek'l dives tawkin’ | “bout noomatic ti'es an’ ‘ell knows whut, an evry now <n’ den he sticks ‘is head in yere long ernuff ter say dat he's goin’ down ter see ernuther make er bisek"] dat he Uinks "ll be de werry t'ing he's lukin’ fur. Say, dat’s straight. An’ yer know I'll do? I'l bet sick doll'rs ter two'n MeCann'll go up ergin wunner dese aweshun games an’ git ‘im cr w'eel dat'll put his wife in black an’ hev ‘er fi'tin’ wid dese yere life insur’nce dubs before de cri temum shows beght ie No Use Talking. From Troth. “There's no use talking,” began Mrs. Go- bang. “I know it,” interrupted Gobang, “and the fact that you persist in talking after making that declaration simply proves what I have often asserted regarding the lack of logic in the female sex. Now pro- eced with your lecture.” BABY DEATHS MULTIPLY Tiny Stomachs Give Out, Diarrhoea Follows. Utmost Strength Needed to With- stand Heat of August. Lactated Food Keeps Them Sturdy, Well Fed and Steadily Growing. These feverish days and nights 1 tion of bh with the t ake it a ans It carnot be impressed too often yon parents that August ts month for ebildron, especially and for bubies going through Us r and that now Is the time wh dren need the most whe . oS that can be procured Lactated foot ized all over the 7 as the nest nouris 2. strenethening, easily te @ and palatable food that can be given ‘he baby, Hot weather must uot be allowed to weaken the ehHd’s digestion nor povent ity eating heartiiy, Many parents, knowlug the vital imjo ot M CHOLERA INFANTUM. wndantly nourished in hot weather, foree the child to take more food han it cam _ or i that is i adapted to hot feeding. aperuti b such fnysroper Mae cholera inte » diarrhesa and convule rs who ford Iron on lactated fool have the cupferting feeliag of having done sthing poss uring anby"s bextth, growth ss. Lactated food te the a long desired rubstitute for mother’s milk. Jt iy known ty jably make firm ffsh, a clear skin, bright eyes, and to sirengthen the child's bedy #0 that’ diurrhoca, ehelera infantum sting suminer xicknews do not gain a footi tated food baties ane rosy specituens of nolsy chile dren, that develop strung physiques, with decge Vones and muscles, The only essured safety for pale, weak, sickly vies in summer ix for mothers to slick close to ® diet of pure lactated food, ‘The danger of overs ch, and the consequent of dealing with indiges Lactated food Is the loading the ting stom diarshoea—uature’s way is the a. Perfect substitute for healthy moi eunare noni, Spe im a In disorders telligent & it adapted to infant summe: their plu Wright eyes. Mrs. H. A. Vreeland of Windsor, Comn., has the ted food that thousands She writes to the pro s prescrtve Mt recommend It, and Low perfectly it ie fecding, by their healthy faccs and thelr erywhere vies living ow show ition, happy fame reason to Less lac of ot privtors of Inctated food: r mothers Lave. “I send you herewith picture of my baby, View merta Veeclund, who has been rutsed om your lactated fool, It was recommended by the doctor and druggists, and It saved her life. She was very sick with cholera infantum, end this was the only dourishinent she took. When eight monthe old d 26% pomds. Tecan gladly recommend lactated food te any mother. JAMAICA'S BANANA KING, He Was a Yankee Skipper and First Brought the Fruit to Cape Cod. From Harper's Weekly. Something over twenty years ago a New England skipper used to make several trips a year from Boston to the northern ports of Jamaica, and would return to Cape C bay, his fleet oner laden with bananas, for which he found a ready and remanera- tive sale. Other vessels were added to the business, which grew and prospered, and soon became too important jeonger to 4 pend upon the uncerta st am= replaced the schooner nas we offered in quantities greaier than our Yan- kee marine with his limited mea could handle, and a compa formed im INT7, with a capi “) and two steam nd the business of systematicale ly growing the to the United States comme such em. spra American com pany, pra controls the frit expert trade of Jam Its present capital is $00.00, and it a surplus of and employs twel steamers, It ships t United States every year about 4.00,000 bunches of b: besides np a ad quantities a and ” omy arly 40 mules are daily in harness € in drawing to ports of shipment it Tt owns and controls moi estates, com= prising nearly 34,000 Frees are provided for the children of its « ploye ft has brought great prosperity to a languishing country’ and practically created an industry; and its president, ihe man whose foresight began all this great work and whose ¢ y is now pushing it onward, is commonly known among the Jamaicans as the Banana — This Witness Had Been in Prison. From the Pltshucg The evidence the witness had given had been very strongly against the lawyer’ de of the case, and, lawyer like, he was trying his best to break the testimony or to throw discredit on the witness, He had tried browbeating, but the man ignored his efforts, apd in an easy, self-contained way stuck to his story. He tried cross- questioning him, but with no better suc- cess, and he wes on the point of giving up, when a chance rem: ught his ear and riveted his courage “I gather from w at you have just said that you have been in prison, Is that e heen in prison.” The ey napped, and a con- tented smile sp his reatures, as he drew a sigh of relief! He proceeded to make the most of his triumph, though he nfident that his cause was won. “The jury will notice that the witness es Paving by ‘on in prison digtteen months. “You do not pretend that you were not tly confined?” Under the circumstances, I pre- sume it was all right.” “Of course, the gentlemen of the jury will undersiand, without my calling atten- tion to it, how much value to place on the evidence ‘of a man of this kind. Will you please state the name of the prison?” “Ceitainiy, sir. Andersonville.” That made a difference. nin prison. How long Fools Both. Prem the Chicago Post. “Why do you wear that sult? ride a bicycle, do you?” “No; but the bicyclists naturally think that I play gol “Why, you don’t know a golf lnk from a vacant lot.” “Of course not: but the golf players all think I ride a wheel.” You don't