Evening Star Newspaper, June 19, 1897, Page 14

EARD open the entire day is not adopted. most entirely died out, for the success of orstrated that the thing is pr: that there shall be a trial. al Museum open on Sunday or not. Written Exclusively for Thé Evening Star. “I know fully as well as any one else What it Is taking big risks,” ventured a weather expert who has considerable ex- perience and luck in making predictions about the weather, “but I am willing to take the chances and express my opinion sbout the Fourth of July weather. In looking at the matter with the recerd of the last thirty years before me I observe that it has rained twenty-two times in the afternoon. In view of this record it woula not be much of a risk to say that it woula Mkely rain on the next Fourth of July. It happens, however, that the public ts interested more in the weather on the 5th of July, the day that will be celebrated this year, than on the 4th, which is Sun- day. Well, I think it is pretty safe to say that it will not rain on the 5th, Monday, though it will be by no means clear, and toward evening it may shower a little, but there will be no storm about it—that Is, none of the storms which have character- ized Fourth of July evenings in this sec- tion in some years. I am not as clear for the Sunday, though. My judgment is that there will be a lively hail storm Sunday afternoon, accompanied by a sever® blow. It will be yery warm and disagrceable on the afternoon of the 5th, and. will take much of the pleasure out of the day, and, as [ said before, may interfere considerably with the fireworks display in the evening. I predicted a rain for the last Fourth for "The Star, and though the weather bureau didn’t take any stock in my judgment, the rain came, though it did not do much harm, for it was over in less than an hour. But look out for my litile hail storm on Bunday afternoon preceding the celebra- tion. Unless all the most reliable sig:s fail it is pretty certain to come. It will be lively while it lasts.” ae * KR “The forgetfulness of people is past un- derstanding,” remarked an official of the avenue cable road to 2 Star reporter, “and it is peculiarly noticeable among those who ride on our cars, and, indeed, all lines ef strect cars. On the steam railroz people know they are to get out at a cer- tain place, and they gather their traps as they get out. But on street lines they are lable to jump out at a second’s warning, on remembering that they have forgotten something, or because they see persons on the street that they want to talk to. Only the other day, one of the bank messensers remembered that he had left a paper of some kind in a store, and off he jumped to go back for it. In his hurry he actually experiment.” * eK K “A woman cannot sell shces to other Star reporter. “Strange as it may appear, women will make their selections and pur- chases from male clerks every time, and it is for this reason that so few shoe dealers employ women clerks. While women will buy shoes from male clerks ‘hey would not think of buying stockings from them. It’s not only in this, but in all other cities in chis country, that this is true. Now, in Europe it is somewhat the other way, and in many of the larger shoe establishments there are more women clerks than men clerks, and women customers prefer the women clerks nearly every time, except in the case when the purchasers are American. They prefer to deal with the men clerks. In buying shoes women are much more confidential than men are. A man—that is, the great run of men—doesn’t care so much for looks as he does for comfort and fit. With women this is reversed. They make comfort and fit secondary to the matter of looks. Somehow women think that the man clerk has better judgment in the mat- ter of looks than any woman clerk has or could have. There is no use trying to a gue the question even if there was an: rcom for argument. Dealers have to rec- ognize the fact and be governed by it. I have never had a woman to ask me why I did not employ women clerks, while I have had hundreds of men ask that ques- tion. Now, while men will ask that and similar questions there is not one in one hundred who would buy their shoes from @ woman clerk, if we had them. I suppose it ig the laws of trade which regulate such matters. Certain it is that I don’t know anything of the causes, though I have been selling shoes for over thirty-five years. It is to be presumed that I would have learn- ed something in that time about it, but I confess I have not.” —__. SEVENTEEN-ELEVEN. The President's Secretary Signs His Name With Many a Pen Lift. A sipgular story is told of Mr. John Addi- son Porter, the President’s secretary. It relates to the signature he appends to all his mail, official and personal. There are seventeen letters in his name, and he em- Ploys them all in his signature. This is task enough in itself, when it is considered how often he has to write his name every day. But this is not the worst of ft. An ordinary penman could write the name in full with- 2 te satchel with him, | out lifting pen from paper more than five Se ee ee coe Ganik. izatacsal | thems taciuding: thal tiaisatimeerees pete aoe Ce ee ee GS é | the “i”" in the middle name and to cross the papers. Fortunately 2 passenger picked it |“ in the surname. Ard by a slizht change up and handed It to tie conductor, who | of style the “t” could be written withent turned It over to the office. In less than | raising the pen. Nevertheless, it Is stated twenty minutes the messenger was at the | as a fact vy persdns who claim to know car office and got his satchel. To say that | that the President's secretary lifts his pen he was frightened is to put it mild. He Was! trom the paper exactly eleven times cvers aimply terrorized. Knowing that he was in| time he writes his signature of seventeen trouble we telephoned the bank that the / i¢tters. When Mr. Portar’s newspa satchel was safe, but the messenger did | training is considered, this apparent waste not know that until he got to our office. | of energy 1s almost incredible. Newspaper Anothe> case just as exciting and inex-| men arc proverblally economical in thelr Piicable happened only recently. A lady | chirography and usually run their words Who resides in East Washington started | ang sentences together, to say nothing of up town with her baby. As she neared ‘th | letters. “Is and “ts” are the only letters street she saw her mother on the street. | they ordinarily recognize by raising their and in the excitement of the moment she pens from paper. Bot off the car and actually forgot fo texe | New officials always write thetr names off her baby. The ba 8 - 2 out in fuil in their best style when they ested in the other passei.gers that I did not | frst get into office, but the conetent ne. notice the departure of the mother. BY | iotony of the work soon causes them to the time the car reached 15th street the} roy all superfluous letters and to write £8 conductor realized that he had a baby on | brteay and as swiftly as they can, without hand minus its mother. It went to the| e2orq to beauty, symmetry on artistic property room at the office. and was there. | wwoct. It is freely predicted that Mr. Porter as happy as could be. when the alarmed | yin) soon follow suit, if, indeed, he does mother returned for it on the next car. | Tt gna it necessary in the near’ future te Other. though not exactly similar, cases of | PO\2 his mossenser sign his name for nlm forgetfulness are happening every day. with a rubber stamp. ** eK * ate ee “Taking the number of colored people in = the city in comparison with the number of ele ie fl othe: remarked an official of the city | From the San Francisco Post. : pest office to a Siar reporter, “the. former here «re those golf shirts of mine?’ write and receive more letters in propor- | demanded Mr. Griggs. tion to the others than is generally sup-| “Why, dear, I forgot ty tell the laun- posed. It is wenderful how colored people | drrmen to biing them home today,” ex- enjoy writing and receiving letters, and | plained Mrs. Griggs. “But they'll be home many of them seldom allow a day to pass | tomorrow, sure.” without writing a letter. By this, of | “Humph! Tomorrow! I want one today. course, I mean those who are educated | Do you :hink I want to swelter in one of 2 ers z these starched straizht-Jackets? Where's Cee bebe Ti te Gr nummer suit? Did you have the girl read or write get and send many letters, the trousers and press out the and manage in various ways to have their letters written and read for them. In my own residence my cook, though she cannot read or write, always has more letters so- ing and coming than any member of my family. There is another thing about this class of correspondents, and that is they will not use a postal card under any cir- cumstances. They want a sealed letter or none, for they have an idea that the letter carriers read all postal cards that go through their hands. My experience in this connection is not unlike many others.” eee “There is no doubt that the seasons are changing in this section of the country,” remarked @n avenue merchant to a Star reporter. “Here it is the 15th of June and less than one-third of the people have yet put aside their winter underclothing. What was once known as the spring trade is a 3 z tep | t2,mail. Did vou forge: it?” back sumber, and) merchants find) the step |/t-mor Cursing tt on eepeee Coateera he is from winter to summer xoods with sel- ; Why don’t that water run?” dom any noticeable break. I am old enough | “Because you forgot to Pay the bill after to remember the time when the spring | th was due to open on the 15th of April. Then stoves were taken out and houses put in rea «ss for the summer.” As years passed alorg the 1h of May was the accepted © to make necessary changes, until now has run until the middle of June. I don’t ndle any straw goods, but those who do tell me that but few straw hats for men have yet been sold, while the number of straw hats for ladies was never so small as during the present spring.” ** 6 * “The success of the Sunday afternoon opening cf the Corcoran Art Gallery has done more,” said a member of the commit- tee on public buildings and grounds of the Senate to a Star rep@rter, “to hasten the Sunday opening movelnent along than the years that the questign has been agitated, and I am convinced that the next sundry no, I didn’t think of it, dear, but I'll have it done today.” “That's it. Forget that I'm alive. T sup- pose you want m2 to wear my winter su:t al: summer. e are my gloves unmend- ed yet. I suppose you forgot them, too. Did you darn any socks for me?” “No. I didn't know you had any that needed darnins.”* “And you forgot to find out. anything you can remember?’ “I waz busy cutting down a pair of my stockings for baby to wear today. Did you buy her any, as I asked?” “No. I didn't think of it.” “What kind of meat did you order for dinner?” “I haven't ordered it yet, but I will when I go down town.” “You know it ‘s ‘oo late, now. Here's that letter I save you yesterday morning Is there last notice, and it has been turned off.” Well, how am I to wash my face?” Deo as I had to. Go upstairs and beg a pitcher of water from the people on the next flat.” Mr. Griggs grabbed dis hat and Tushed away down town without a handkerchief | or the keys to his office. ee ‘The Cosy Flat Reception Room. From Puck. Mrs. Fiatleigh (ex: mining their new Piano regretfully)—“Oh, Reginald, the agent didn’t give us any piano stool!’ Mr. Flatleigh (@hilosophically)—“Never mind, dear. You can sit on the sofa on _ Opposite side of the room and play nice- y- Gs —se0e—___ “Want” ads. in The Star pay because they bring answers. PRIVATE LODGINGS. From Punch. Obliging Landlady rooms till their arrival in town for the di gentleman can ‘ave a couple of pillows and a guineas. The party as you met on the steps ‘as conservatory, or you might ‘ave ‘ad them.” (to Major and Birs. Totterly izmond FFE civil appropriation bill will have in it a clause providing for the opening of the National Museum on Sunday afternoons at least, even if the longer step of having It The opposition to the Sunday opening has al- the Corcoran Art Gallery has clearly dem- desirable, and sensible people are willing A year will Prove whether the public want the ge e movement has been necessarily slow, but it has been sure, and I think the National Museum will be the best place to make the women,” said a prominent shoe dealer to a THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 1897-24 PAGES. SUPPLY IS FALLING OFF “SK Y-SCRAPERS, = -~—— Laws in Cities Gestricting the Height of Buildings (i Populous Districts. ‘Press. of Director of Public. the height of build- ia is fm line with the taken on this subject e rage to erect high A PIONEER SHOEMAKER. WORKING AT HI8 TRADE ALTHOUGR EIGHTY-FIVE YEARS OLD. Not Enough Ivory in Sight to Most the Demaad. Many Uses te Which This Valuable Commodity is Pat—Killing 30,000 Elephants Annually. Mr. James McMillen of Champaige Mas Followed the Shoemaker's Trade All His Lif—Every Day at His Bench Working With Ap- parently the Same Vigor as @ Young Man—A Sketch of His Lite. From the Gezeite, Champaiga, M1. At the advarwed ge of eighty-five years, James McMillen of 112 West Waekington street is one of the most active men in Champaign, Ml. Mr. McMillen fs a pioneer citizen of the city, and bis form ts as familiar on the streets as that of any citizen of the town. All pis life Mr. McMillen has followed the trade of shocu eker, and even now in his declining years he saya (bat he would feel lost to give up his trade, and, contrary to the wishes of his children, every day finds him at his bench, bending over bis werk with apparently the same Vigor he commanded ven he was a young man. He tts a little shop on North Wright street, in the vicinity of the University of Hlinois, and he is the official shoemaker, as it were, for the stu- dents of that tnstitation. Atout a year ago Mr. McMillen was absent from his bench for several weeks, end his familiar form was n:lssed along the streets which he had trav- ‘ersed mnany years to emi from his work. The local Rewspapers announced that he was dangerously ill at his home, and that it was feared be wonld not recover. For months he was a sufferer, but finely he appeared egain at bis shop, and has lost but very few days since tten, and none, perhaps, ‘on account of sicknem. His friends were surprised to see him out egain, snd they were more surprised when be told them the cause of his recovery. There was no snall amount of local interest in his case, and a reporier visited him, to have him relate the story. He appeared to be delighted to action which ts in other cities. blished in this matter in the near futufe. The sooner action is taken the better, then a uniform policy can be carried o1 The city will not then be marred by the sight of a tall building, erected before @ limit was fixed, towering stove another butiding of half the height, and which was trected after a law forbid- ding high buil had been passed. Other states and cities are moving ener- getically in this matter. A bill now before the legislature of New York state proposes to proportion the height of buildings to the width of the streets on which they stand. The bili provides that the extreme legal height of a building shall be twice the width of the street on which it fronts plus 30 feet. ‘Broadway, for example, being 80 feet wide, the extreme height of build- ings on that street would be twice 80 feet plus 30 fect, or 190 feet. Allowing 12% feet to the story, this would permit buildings fifteen stories and a‘5-foot attic high on Broadway. But New York has many nar- row streets in its business neighborhood, with a width of only 25 or 30 feet, and-on such streets the limit of the building line would be 80 or 90 feet. This fact is creat- ing opposition, and it may be strong enough to defeat the bill. Chicago has been trying recently to adopt @ policy on this subject. A few weeks ago an ordinance was passed by the city coun- cil providing for an extreme height of 155 feet, or twelve stories, as the building This was soon repealed, and a limit of 130 feet, or ten stories, fixed, but in a “Few people,” said a New York ivory merchant to a writer for The Star, “have any idea what an enormous amount of ivory is used in the manufacture of such articles ss billiard balls, buttons, brush backs, knife, cane and umbrella handles, fars, piano and organ keys. Fhe annuai corsumption of ivory for all such purposes in Europe and America is roughly esti- mated to be 3,000,000 pounds. The demand for the material during the last twenty-five years has been largely in excess of the supply, and the wholesale price for the ar- ticle, which, at present, is from $2 to $5 ber pound, is just double what it used to be @ quarter of a century ago. “The principal cause assigned for the falling off in the supply is that of late years the demand for ivory has been so great that an extraordinary stimulus has been given to elephant hunting, and these enimals ere now almost extinct in regions where they formerly abounded. In Guinea, at one time known as the ivory country, elephants are now as scarce as they were formerly numerous, and the same is said to be the case in Cape Colony, Ceylon, Ben- gal and other ivory districts. “The sources from which nearly all the ivery that now comes into the market, is obtained are Zanzibar and Malta, the Cape Colony, and the east coast of Africa. The largest proportion of the supply is obtain- ed from the African elephant, the Indian JOHNSON? Written Excluetvely for The Rvening Star. The Auburn-Haired Girl’s Prophecy. The young man with an enthusiastic temperament was talking about modern progress. “Everything is being revolutionized,, he said. “Inventive genius is changing our methods of thought and is transforming the aspect of physical nature. There is no place that is now accessible which does not yicld its pristine silence tc the rattle of the cars and where the landscape is not = “I know it. But I had always meant to Seeeenenaie Soeoae sieht ace try until I sat down last night and read “What you say,” responded the smart ive — ocees of literary criticism by Serene (ne ed hain, “is true to a certain | Ve"Well, you shouldn't let that discourage “T fail to see where you are going to fix | YOu. ees aweten t writing about your SEES a ee “No; but I guess it would be well not “Habit ts a very Inexorablo thing.” to give them a chance. I can foresee what Eeacninckcomanetatetevisiarcn no amount | , “Don’t you think you can make the book cf opposition is sufficient to prevent it from | interesting? that has already happened, nor about any- thing that I feel sure is going to happen, for that matter. It’s about something thi may happen, if I’m not careful. There’ only one way to avoid it.” “What do you mean?” ‘ve got to give up my cherished am- bition. Lots of people have told me that I can write a novel.” was the sympathetic response; “they always say that to anybody who has never tried.” uf have an opportunity to tell the public the method few days this also was repealed, and the | assuming its place in industrial affairs. There's just the trouble. If I make it |) steptad, fic be act, the eg cad species yielding a comparatively small e| “Yea: interesting they'll say it isn't true to fry story he would have quentity. Zanzibar and: the cect mall | old limit of 155 feet restored. As if thes ‘Yes; but it doesn’t obliterate the things | 1 a to tell’ might be the changes had not created confusion enough, the city council voted later to repeal the 155-feet limit and establish a limit of 90 feet, or seven stories, and that now re- mains the legal height. As Chicago 1s known as the home of high buildings, some of them rising to thirty-five stories in height, it appears ridiculous at this late day to limit buildings to nine stories. 1f this regulation is adhered to the sky-line of the city will present a most uneven as- pect and be a striking proof of the need of adopting early some definite policy and carrying it out consistently. Boston has taken this matter in hand and limited the height of any building in that city to 125 feet, and provided also that no structure, except a church spire, can exceed two and a half times the width of the street on which it stands. As many of Boston’s business streets are narrow, this rule will compel: buildings of a moder- ate height. ‘This rule, however, applies only to the business neighborhood, eighty feet being the limit in residential meighbor- hoods. The St. Louts city council adopted a reso- lution making 150 feet the extreme limit of the height of buildings and providing further that no building shall be of a height exceeding two and a half times the width of the street on which it fronts. The erection of towers, domes and spires was also subjected to restrictions. As St. Louis has not shown much propensity for high buildings this early action of its council will preserve the symmetry of its sky line. - In most Européan cities the helght of buildings has been regulated by law for some years. Paris has doubtless the best digested and the best known laws on the subject. In _ thatticity no building, unless it be a public building, can be more than six stories in height and the cornice must not be more than sixty-four feet above the level of the street-1 Vienna and Berlin have building laws almost identical with those of Paris. A few months ago London made a regulation limiting the height of build- ings to eighty feet. ass meen of assisting some one “2 Who was ouffcring as he had suffered. ‘I feel,” said the spy old gentleman, “that I owe my iife to Dr. Wililams’ Pink Pills for Pale . Something like a year ago it ay to me ‘that I was almost a piysical wreck, Twas gradually gving dewn, and I appreciated the con- G'ion into which I was sinking, but the medicine 1 Vas teking a to be of no benefit to Lie. I was evffering @ discase of the kidneys, and they were very sore. A thick scurf had formed on the bottoms of my feet, and my ankles were ter- ribly wollen and inflamed. In fact, they reached ccndition that I could not’ walk, and it though my days were numbered. i in the newspaper testimonials from ple who claimed to have been cured of touble by the use of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills Pale People, and thought that it would Jo me no herm to give them a trial. I that came before. “To all practical purpceses it does. Look at the horse. Se2 how rapid systems of transportation have driven him out of the field in which he was formerly supreme.” “I was about to cite the horse in support of my opinion,” she remarked, with quiet assurance. “Of course there are horses to be seen in great numbers. But wait until the in- ventions for propelling vehicles by storage power are perfected and cheapened. Then you'll see what becomes of the horse!” “To all interts and purposes he is very hikely to go out of existence.” “Exactly.” ‘But these vehicles will be painted all rs.’* 'Unquestionably.” “And that is where human nature’s im- mutability will assert itself. I haven’t the slightest doubt that at such a time when- ever I go out shopping I will see people who think they are clever looking up and dow! the street for a white horseless carriage. * ivory are the varieties most highly valued in commerce, and the African variety at all times constitutes the bulk of the im- portaticns. “Nearly 60 per cent of all the ivory im- perted from the producing countries goes to the greatest of all ivory markets, Lon- don, where quarterly sales are held of the material. It 1s estimated that 30,000 ele- phants have to be killed annuclly to fur- aisle the demands ef the English market alore. “In addition to the supply sent to London there are also the exports to the minor markets of Europe ari this country, and the quantities consumed in the producing countries themselves, Where some of the finest and heaviest teeth are retained by the chiefs aa troptiles of the chase or orna- ments to their temples, houses or tombs. The anaual inryortation of ivory into this country is about 10,000 tusks, whose aver- age weight will not exceed fifty pounds. Difference in Quality. “Does ivory differ much in quality?” “It differs from something like 3250 for an Eest African tusk to the value of so many cents, and often nothing, for an In- dian elepnant's tusk. East African ivory 's easily distinguished from the Indian cr West African article. The East’ African material 1s known in the trade as soft or white ivory, and is the product pf Mast Africa from Egypt down to the cape. This ivory 1s particularly well adapted for use in the manufacture of pianoforte keys, billiard balls and combs. Hard or trans parent ivory is nearly all imported from the west coast of Africa, the Gaboop and Ambriz districts yielding the b2st quality, while shipments from Lagos and Angola how a coarser texture. The clear va- ietles of ivory which come from these regions are chiefly used for knife, cane ard umbrella handles, while the finer por- ions are used for prayer book covers, the backs of brushes and fans. Carvings and statuettes are usually formed from West African ivory, its rosy transparency ren- dering it especially adapted to the réepre- “I don't dare. If I make {t true to nature they'll say it isn’t interesting.’ * * * A State Secret. Great successes often depend upon small considerations, and the wife of a member of Congress, a statesman to whom his con- stituents are wont to point as a man of the people whom flattery cannot divert from his old custom and associations, fully realizes this fact. A school friend who had not seen her since girlhood surprised and delighted her with a visit not long since. “How industrious you are!” exclaimed the visitor. “In what way?” “I don’t know. I suppose it is fancy work. I know that you used to have a great aversion to plain sewing. But you must be very diligent indeed to have your work basket in this room.” “Would you like to know what I'am work on? “Certainly.” “You shall see for yourself. Here it is.’ And she held up to view a half-knit sock of old fashioned blue yarn. “You—you don’t mean to say that your husband wears things like tha’ “Oh, no. He wouldn’t think of wearing them. I have a whole lot that I will give away to anybody who will use them.” “Do you do this for pleasure?” “No. It isn’t at all for pleasure. business, and I never occupy myself in tha way except when it is absoiutely necessary. But I always keep the work handy and Ir. Me whenever one of the old-fashioned, rural| he has .o backwarduess in talking of the merits voters of my husband's district comes to | of Dr. Williams’ Piak Pills, and many people have make nim a call—and you have no idea how | 3rd hls story of what they did for him. ontatn, many honor us with that attention—I get it <¥ . all the out and knit away for dear life. It is a good deal of bother, but it’s worth it, for you really can’t imagine how it pleases in: for as I began to take them. After I had taken a few pilis my urinal discharges became almost as black as tar, ard I noticed at the same time that the pain and soreness were Icaving my kidneys, This aticfled me that the Little were doing me ood, iste I them with more regularity than few days Inter the swelling began to go out of my nukes, nd iat the aul of Gre wea it tad entirely disappeared, taking with it that terril scurt which had formed oa "the bottoms ‘of feet and caused me so much trouble. I contim to gather my lost strergth, and, if my memory serves me right, at the end of six weeks I felt en- thely re overed, end resumed my work at the shop. I think I took from four to five boxes of the pills, and have taken none since. Mr. MeMilen finished his interview with the re- porter by saying that he thonght he felt as weil at present is the average man of his advanced age. and his daily life shows it. His residence om West Weshington street is more than a mile dis- tant from his shop, but nearly every day in the werk he walke the entire distance, morning and gyening, cartying with him is, dinner pall, ‘and it’s | he could not do this if that swelling still existed. Of course, on bad and rainy days he takes a car, but he does not make a practice of riding, saying better when he w: fea is naturally a reserved man, but * * A Musical Protest. Dis settin’ grief ter music's mighty common, but ‘tain’ right; Hit allus struck mer mind as sumpin’ pow’- ful impolite Foh ter hol’ a pusson down By de sweetness ob de soun’ An’ make 'im listen ter de tales ob trou- ble gwine around. When yoh stahts ter lif’ yoh voice, yoh orter let de notes be gay, "Case de wocl' will like yer better for a-singin’ dat-a-way. Dat melancholy song Am mos’ scandalously wrong, An’ it nebber was invented till de white man come along. Dar ee any reason in de melody dat’s elenw sad; De hones’, nachurl way is foh ter let de stcre shattered nerves. They are chune be glad. fo- troubles peculiar to females, su & Y . = them!" sicns, irregularities and all forms of weakness, In CE THE DEEDS OF THE TURK. De bull ros, an do bec, e tet they ifect a radival cae tu ll cas arising ae Per ea ee make | He Governs in the Spirit of the Tar-| Ain’ nebber learnt no music in @ mo‘nful ae Ee Ne be oe eC ie loss of 1e A = an ler Money’s o1 * milk teeth, are hollow at the base, the | ‘®Fr® the Spirit of Destruction. —— <4 w hollow tapering to a point, from which to the extremity of the tooth extends a mass of solid ivory. The usual length of a full- grown tusk is from six to seven feet, and their average weight is from fifty to one hundred pounds. In exceptional cases, however, they have been known to weigh from one hundred and fifty to one hundred and seventy pounds, and to measure from eight to nine feet in length. ‘onomy in Cutting. “Owing to the scarcity ef ivory, and the consequent high price of the article, the greatest economy is nowadays exercised in ivory factories in cutting up the tusks. The hollow at the base of the tusks is first cut off, and is used for cylinders and rings. The balance of the-tusk is carefully cut into blocks with a fine saw. The dust and scraps which result from the sawing are saved, the latter being converted into buttons, tips, &c., while the former is used in making the ivory block for copper- plate printing. When sold, ivory scraps and dust realize from 10 cents to $100 per pound. “The ivory used in the manufacture of billiard balls is taken from the solid part of the tusks of suitable size. It is only, however, from certain kinds of tusks that billiard-ball ivory can be obtained, and these tusks rank high in point of commer- cial value. In order to be suitable for this purpose, it is necessary that the tusks have sufficient circumference to afford the two required diameters of the ball. When the elephant tusks arrive at the factory they are first cut up into blocks of the requisite dimensions and turned roughly in a lathe. “After the balls have been partially turn- ed by the cutters, and before the final cut- ting and polishing, it is indispensable, ow- ing to the tendency of ivory to shrink, that the balls should undergo careful seasoning, without which they are liable to lose superiority. Conseqvently they are placed in a canvas Lag and hung up to become thcrougLly seasoned. Then when an order comes for one or a dczen sets of balls they are taken from the bags, reground and -polished for the table. g “The use to which ivory is most largely put in the United States is in the manu- facture of plano and organ keys. Over 50,- 000 pianos ard as many more harmoni- ums and organs are annually manufac- tured in this country, and a large amount of ivory of the best quality is consumed in waking keys for these instruments. Re- peatec. efforts have been made to supplant ivory for use in pianoforte and organ keys by employing alabaster and porcelain. From the Londog Spectator. Now, whatrhaye; the Turks done? They left their deserts on jthe frontiers of China ard invaded Hurope: for purposes of plun- der. They reached the end of their re- seurces and would’ probably have been driven back, when, as Dean Church in his werderful paper on the subject has de- scribed, their leader hit upon the infernal device of demanding a tribute of children instead of certain imposts. Out of those children, none of them Turks by blood, he formed the “New Soldiers," the Janis- saries, perhaps the most formidable stan ing army which ever existed, and with them his successors conquered Constanti- nople and the whcle of the eastern emplre walk to change the of Rome, and nearly conquered Hungary, contented expression but were beaten back by the Polish cav-| / of his face, before alry. @ saluting the woman From that day to this they have gov- who was getting erred that magnificent empire in the spirit breakfast. of Tartars, which is the spirit of destruc- “It strikes me you tion. They have founded nothing, improv- seem pretty chipper ed nothing, built nothing, have produced no | for a man who is out of work,” she com- literature, advanced no art, sent out no | mented. new idea among miankind. They have e can’t allus jedge by appearances,” shown no conception of governmet.. was the reply. “I ain’t nigh so chipper as despotism, supported, whenever resistance | I look.” was made, by massacres which included both sexes, and destruction which extend- ed even to the animals and the trees. Of their endless subject-races they have not corcillated one. Greek and Slav alike, by almost unheard of sacrifices, have at last cast off their yoke. There is no people in the world so submissive as the Armenian, who obeyed the Roman cheerfully for cen- turies, but even he cannot tolerate the Turk. The Greek loathes him, and even in @ little island like Crete fights him hand to hand. The Arab, who is of his own fatth, holds him to be the worst of bar- barians and rises against him in armed insurrection at least once in every five years. The detestation of him is, in fact, not European but universal, and is kept down in every province only by sheer ter- ror of the Ottoman, the boldest and most merciless of all Asiatic fighting men. Nor is there the slightest hope of 11 provement. On the contrary, in Turkey everything, including public virtue, is rap- idly decaying. There never was a sultan so bad as the present, or one so secure; the pashas are universally corrupf, and are given up even by the admirers of the Turk: and as for the soldiery, let Batuk and Ar. menia. answer for their character. Nothing survives in the Ottoman except his mag- t nificent courage, his habit of obedience to . Any one who had not seen ‘he woman with an angry eye wobble just before she dismounted from her wheel would have taken her for an experienced rider; a heroine of century runs. She strode with majestic confidence through the store, and so impressed another woman that she for- got herself and let the newcomer be wait- ed on first. “I suppose,” she said to the clerk, “that I looked rather new at bicycling, and you thought that there wasn’t very much use of bothering about me, because I wouldn't know the difference anyhow.” The clerk assured her to the contrary, and said he was sure there was some mis- understanding. “There was a misunderstanding,” she answered. “I understood that when I bought this repair kit I was getting all that a repair kit ought to contain.” Beet he answered. “Isn't it all 2” « * A Pang of Regret. A large hollyhock, which he had plucked from across some fence, adorned Meander- ing Mike’s coat lapel. The spirit of June had sunk into his soul. The weeds which had burst into bloom by the roadside as well as the trellised roses all proclaimed that nature’s pre-eminent object is to be beau- tiful, and Mike was doing his best to con- tribute his share. He paused on the garden with irritation, “didn’t Ol! call yer attin- tion only th’ other day till the fact thot Ginerai Moiles wor out iv the counthry. How cu’d we hov onythin’ ‘lar in the way av war, wid him away “What's he doing’ “He's gatherin’ about foightin’.” “Do yex mane ty say he's gone clane ty Europe ty git learnin’ an the subject av foightin “Havin’ at_me command only the two languages, English an’ the brogue, OL can’t put it no plainer than Oi did the first toime. He's gatherin’ information in Europe about foightin’. Is there onythin’ unraysonable in thot?” “Ivry mon till ‘is thrade, ferty. “Misther Moiies nivver : ty offer me ony hints about brick-layin Orll not set up ty give him insthructions : about generalin’. But I do say ty you, in “Didn't you expressly state that it con-| private, Dolan, thot he’s made a long thrip tained everything that would be required | an’ missed some foine opporchunities close for repairs in an ordinary accident?” by. Onless Oi've been desayved, the “Yes.” Injins out wesht hov been doin’ some shit “And I dought it with that implied guar-| dyin’ thot would be worth observation. antee, didn’t 1?" Moind yez, Oi don’t pretind ty say it's @ ‘Undeniably, you did. ginuine article av war, wid the thrade- “And if things didn’t turn out just as you | mark an it. But Ol've lived amongst ‘em, represented them: It’s your business to} an’ Oi kin give it ye fur a fact thot an make good the deficiency Injin will show more novelty an’ invintion “I suppose so.” in a foight than the hull tv Europe kin “All right. There's your repair kit. You | perjuce in a cinchery. An’ thin, agin, it do can either put in a paper of pins and some | be related thot Gineral Woller hoy ora “Lady, you've opened me eyes. I see | *ticking plaster, or else give me back my|a lot o’ new thricks om Dow why it is dat so many peopl acks | Money.’ spree fee Neer = ti — Miistdayetacwsude Teslaierenent aoe *"s lessons. An’ shtill closer ty home, what's mea pa ee Gd eae oe Rafferty Resents Importation. the matther wid watchin’ some iv the rip- is wrote dere, you would understand, lady, Mr. Rafferty sat down in respectful si- secoger nineties moreno the ——* aa dat dis gay exterior is mos'ly a bluff. I | lence, to wait until Mr. Dolan had finished | they wits thelr backs up? There sint ne Eatieta oevarsbicconcian srilcction at's | the Paper. With studied oblivion to his | sthratesy, Olm foindin’ no fault, Dolan; nated past.” And having looked ‘in par friend’s presence, Mr. Dolan kept his spec- | but Oi can’t help falin’ hurt ty notice how for a handkerchief, he pulled a leat off | tacles focused on the current news, and | people puts little value an anythin’ — the grapevine and wiped his eyes. “Excuse | now and then moved his lips, as he inaud- | tObaccy pipes =e mil cael emerges cere cere went ye tate fbly strove with the pronunciation of a| Unless I's brought on ad a ocr man!” she exclaimed, as she pro- word from a foreign language. In a little while he folded the paper carefully, put it in his breast pocket, removed his spec- ceeded to carve a thick slice of bread. “You were happier, then, in days gone by? “I should say I was! I only wisht I tacles, and settled himself like a placid reservoir of information, waiting to be tapped. could begin me life over agin. “Remorse is indeed a bitter thing,” she “Are yez t'rough readin’?” queried Mr. Rafferty. information in Europe “Well, if you're not, I see no reason why you shouldn’t be. You haven’t a care in the world; you don’t have to get up at 6 ‘o'clock in the morning to work—’ “Ain't I up early dis mornin’? “Yes, but in your case it simply shows that you don’t do enough to make you need rest.’ “2 A Gami: Consolation. Perhaps you never thought of it, in all de slare an’ heat, But it’s summer in de alley, jes’ de same as in de street. An’ when de warmness finds a lot of people commented, as she finished spreading the butter and reached for the preserve jar. “It is, lady, it is. I does me best ter bear he added as he received I can’t help cryin’ ° * ‘Ol don’t say there’s no more left in the henever I t'ink of de way I didn't appre- ape2 oe , gone away, “ these an: his officers, and his readiness to die rather | paper,” was the reply. “But O'lm not so , . scheituten which have7teer tried Gene, | than surrender the aacentgery oct caste, | Grit mottin’ for do DUC He tera Oeey, | wrapped up in it as not to be able ty take | It Jis' turns in an’ takes tt out on dem as however, utterly failed to satisfactorily re- | 2n ascendancy which with him means the | Wit nottin’ sleep!” ae @ little toime fur sociability.” has ter stay. 5 place ivory, and no really good substitute | Tight to kill all Christians who will not “Ol didn’t want ty shtop yez, fur fear it | But don’t suppose dere ain’t no luxury fur has as yet been discovered. Most of the | ®ubmit. The treasury is bankrupt; the moight be just at a toime whin ye were folks like me; planoforte manufacturers buy the raw ma- | Frovinces are ruined, the capital rises and comin’ till the answer ty the question |p. couldn't take it all off ter de moun- terial from the importing firms, and turn | retires trembling, while all reformers are thot’s botherin’ me.” acaie, their own keys. The importing business in | hented down,. end even the religious stu-| There is a literary young man of this city ‘A tains an’ de - this country is in the hands of ahout a | dents who appeal to the Koran as con- | who has a strong practical element in his Talk of urliversa} fav'rights—he's de pet of dezen firms. There are several large ivory- | demning the present regime are ordered nature. This is shown by the fact that he every ‘clan— turning establiskments in New York city | back to their homes to starve there in is lites n't git widout de hokey- and Connecticut, and the trade gives em- | quiet, Atter.400,yoars of unbroken rule | ee ze Seed se usual Desaoe He San te t along ployment to several thousand skilled work- | this is the qgndition of Turkey, and then | 20UFS. entions: 6 pol ! men. becsvse the ‘Levantines of the ports are | muses to the time which most People are a Heard a Baby Cry Three Hundred Miles. From the Chicago Record. “About the funniest thing I’ve scen,” said Mr. Brooks, the local manager, “occurred here one evening last summer. A big, port- ly, smiling but excited man rushed in and asked if he could reach Evansville, Ind., by "phone. He was assured that he and*in about two minutes he disa) applying to diversion. He looked down- De pa alerted ticy or repens eet fb Ee other morning. ejection was so ap- | ving thot asked as many fool questions as parent that a close friend made bold to you do, an’ thot wor a book iv riddles.” inquire whether he. was feeling well. “But the nivver any tellin’ whin “My health is all right,” he answered, | evints is goin’ ty make it necessary fur the “but I must confess that mentally I am | most peaceable-minded man ty take down h disturbed. ‘is blackthorn an’ go lookin’ fur a fr’ind tevin’ Alaa od ty give ‘ima rap. An’ Ol take it, it's (‘Something happened to annoy yout’ —_| much the same bechune nations.” “No. I'm not worried about anything “Listen ty me now,” said Mr. Dolan, Ww ipeople, w tol Ss Rw ORES e are He = around, no matter if it’s cloudy or He's better dan ol’ Santy Claus, who comes One Point of Similarity. From Odds and‘Eeds,” The visitor (viétring the new baby)—“Do you think -he {going to resemble his "E! shoukin't be surprised. ‘every night.” S ‘Finally he bounced out of the box, slap- From Life. Ping his thigh. ‘Thi on me, gent Thon’ No seid’ “rit be right bask? = He darted out, and in two minutes was back with a box of as good cigars as “Itka Y he exclaim: ‘and he’s fas good Mouse ab Teves heed ee i BICYCLING BAD WOR THE HEART? in gree ental f anigle a ”~