Evening Star Newspaper, November 26, 1898, Page 17

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1898-24 PAGES. 17 SECRETARY FE THE CABINET HOUSES Where the Pr Home Comforts. WELL ARRANGED sident’s Advisers Find | OR ENTERTAINING The Secretary of State Owns the Largest of Them. NEARLY ALL DOUBLE HOUSES ee group a and Presi McKinley's off 1 mily is well housed Five mem- es h yinet ¢ are housekeeping, | ‘ Navy and the Sceretary of the In- r, have the s of home without the Arlington. Ga Secretary Alger's Residence. Home of the Attorney General. ficial hospitality. Perhaps average visitor most, | to purposes of yeaa a4 the fact that it has few dark | corners, and the drawing rooms are espe- | clally sunshiny and cheerful. The drive- | way saches the fre ste; and the | nee is bread and spacious, in keeping | with the wide hall and stairway. The hall Givi e house fy quite the feature | of It § 4s spacious as the rooms. The dir ym, ¥: has a fine marb’e fire- place and wide hearth, {s on the north. A reception room and the drawing rooms are | on the south side of the house, and the win- | dows overlook Lafayette Square. The mp HA\'S HOME well-lined shelves, is one of the finest in the house. Secretary and Mrs. lay have two daughters, one, Miss Heien lay, whose debut was made just before the parture of the famiiy fer London, and © other, Miss Alice Hay, whose entrance to society will be marked by many hand- seme entertainments t winter. Secretary Gage's hom 715 Massachu- tts avenue, while a single house, affords ster ¢ The entrance hall has one a large ht wood- gar- are in hall about in the hous furnished almost s le fireplace and an mantel. from to the The hail has ners each ind dining first fur- The wo furniture wail cover- recm at the om which there The tint of the I paper has crimson p the hangings th rug, ete., are all in dark green. The sitting yoom are on the second ef the Secr-tary of War, cor- nd KK str is commodious rangement alr well comfortably > the window, always fi floor. The ed in with plants, makes ffect. The drawing room is deep vad and is h ly furnished. he paintings belong to S> colle Secretary Wilson's Hon odern artists, The music room ar of the drawing room has yellow ly low tints prevail in it gen- ng room and library are on t side of the house. ral Griggs has a fine home res ot Mrs. Smith, 1707 s avenu The house’ has something of the cflect of a double house, hall i window. The hall and r a very ornamental fe: jiure a hed by a fine stained gla: wintow a of first landing. The drawing r is ample and is richly fur- nished, lints prevailing. The dining room is at the rear of the parlor sulte, which, in size and elegance, affords splendid facilities for the comfortable moving about of a large gathering. Mrs. Griggs has a large househoid. The Attorney General has children by his first marriage, a soldier tnd a young lady daughter being among Mrs. Griggs is a young and pretty n and has two small children. master General and Mrs, Smith have I_the former residence of Mrs. Linds- y. 7 Massachusetts avenue. It is a modern mansion, perhaps the last to be built on that end of the street, and is well rran, and well furnished.’ The draw- ing rc and dir * room are on the first floor, and the substantial-looking oak stair- way is also an ornamental feature. The house is well furnished, and splendidly ar- ranged for entertaining. The retary of Agriculture and Miss Wilson have a co: sidence on 8 street hear Connecticut avenue, which is bright and cheerful in every part. The house was just finished when they leased it a year ago, r and its decoration w ter Miss Wilson's direction. It has an oddly shaped hall, on which the parlor, music room and dining room, Which are on opposite sides, open. ‘The cozy corner and Turkish corner in the hall are exceedingly tastefal. All the fur- niture came from the western home of the Secretary, and has the familiar look which recalls their old fireside. Secretary Wil- on’s hcusehold consists of his two sons and daughter, Miss Wilson, who presides for him. Then He Understood. From Tit Bi The cyc Fleet street autious st was a Phat manner way through the It was evening. proached him, Sir,” said k its functions. “Sir,” gasped the cyc “Your illumin unm’ in dent n he literary from the picked his thoroughfare, beuny-a-liner ap- whi half-empty The our beacon has ceased st. u tor, I say, is shrouded in igated oblivion.” but 1 don't quite. ‘The effulgence of your irradiator has evanesced.” “My dear fellow! I—* Dhe trans’ ether oscillations in your incandenser have been diseyntinned.” Just then an unsophisticaied little paper library, where family portraits hang above boy shouted across the stm “Hey, misier, yer lamp's out:’ from men who represent a wide range of opinion on the various problems of the day. It also aims to bring about a closer and more intimate acquaintance between its younger members and men who have ac- complished large and noble purposes in the world. And its dinners serve as the excuse to bring this aout. Composed of Sportsmen. The Camp Fire Club, another typical din- ing club, is made up of sportsmen. To be eligible for membership one must have camped in the wilderness and have either killed or painted big game. The club has no constitution or by-laws. Among those things prohibited by the common consent of its members are dress suits and long speech- es. While the promises are no membership fees to speak of, “‘a camp fire and feed once a month with something of general interest to each camp fire,” it ts also explicitly stat- ed that “every desirable lion who sets foot n the jungles of Manhattan will, if poss! ble, be caught and compelled to roar at the nearest camp fire.” This club was the idea of W. T. Hornaday and G. O. Shields, the former an eminent naturalist and explorer, and the latter one of the foremost big game hunters of America, a recognized expert in the use of the rifle and an author whose writings are counted the first authority on sporting matters. Some of the other famous men of_ the club are Dan Beard, the artist; Col. C. A. Woodruff of the quartermaster’s depar' CLUBS OF NEW YORK Organizations Where Kindred Spirits Can Get Together. EXERCISE A VERY WIDE INFLUENCE There is No Man but Can Find a Congenial Coterie. ALL SORTS OF OBJECTS - (Copyright, 1898, by John Brisben Walker.) Written for The Evening Star. In the matter of its clubs, New Yor holds the first place among American cit- ies. Almost every race and nationality has its own distinct social organizations and no man, whatever his race, creed or | ment. U- S.A par ae Gs ea i vere ts tees e remarkable e Bi le Ba profession, need look very far or very Ione | (f° ytontana, in which Gen, Gibbon assault- search for a congenial coterie. There , all told, some 400 recognized clubs on Manhattan Island a and they cover every concelyabl> object for which men may organize, from the purely social to the ed and conquered the Nez Percez Indians under Chief Joseph: “Yellowstone” Kelly, atone time Gen. Miles’ chief of scouts, and W. T. Aleming, the Indian painter, who has spent many years with the Indians of Ari- zona and New Mexico. one, club with a purpose. ‘There are even clubs |" Among the lions who have “roared” for c aters, for the New Yorker lacks | the club are famous. soldie Hlors and A ta aera eens hd cults, | Cxblcrers. Months before he sailed for the the capacity not to form clubs and Ss. Horthe “ited ORS WeePeary cutiinedi chk As an agnostic he bands himself with other } hiins ‘and purposes of the expedition to the agnostics, and then hires a hall or room. | ciub. Paul Du Chaillu has told the same That becomes a temple where Paine and | audience how he discovered and brought to Voltair: are worshiped. If he is a club s country the first gorilla, and Prof. Relea: i shan ? | Carl Lumholtz of his explorations in At hater, he seeks out others who share this | 1/"tia' “Since the wind-up of the war with animosity, and they see no contradiction in | Spain the club has entertained most of the naval heroes. Captains Sigsbee, Chadwick and “Fighting Bob” Evans have each 1 cd with becoming modesty for its benetit he Thirteen ( It was to fight the petty that we all cling to with vary forming an anti-club. Of these hundreds of clubs many are famous the world over. Membership the Union, Metropolitan. Uni confers distinct social standing. It is said of one of these clubs that the pressure for admission is so great that many of the in n League and almost a score of others ub. superstitions ng degrees of Members “put up” their sons while they | tenacity that the Thirteen Club was or- are still children that they may be some- | ganized. Its founder was Capt. Wiillam where near the head of the list of candi- | famed. Tis, Tonngre Mee ik mock of his didates when they reach the proper age. | friends to find twelve men who woul dine Beyond these social functiors certain of | \itn him he discovered that the thirteen the fashionable clubs have done much for | Sineratition was a deeply rooted one, The art. This is particularly true in the case | Quy fur the dinner was fixed upon again of the Union League, and its monthly loan | $25 20" tne Sime Ne" postponed, and it exhibitions, that are almost entirely re-| was eighteen months before the fearless peeiC te atouche Wonk ORs merigan ast tairteen sat down to their first repast. Thi The Century, Aldine, Grolier and Play Se eee ee ce a Bae tha aso eat Meh have also led out in this direction. month, Thirteen courses were served. in- Typical of Gotham. deed, fate was tempted to the utmost. re ” 3 When the club was given Ss org Zar The dining clubs, which are typical of | to. “for it is not exactly a dining club, or New York, and which hav2 come into ex- | hernape tt is nearer the truth to say that istence there because of conditions that | it is that and something mcre—the du ran hardly bs said to exist in any other | Were fixed at thirteen cents a month. and American city, exert a wide influence on Bae i ee wae ies the intellectual life of the metropolis. Many | “4 feecent the club: has. 1.300, memb ot the dining clubs so called are in reality | and perhaps no more prosperous or well-to- merely luncheon clubs, that are largely fre- | do body of iren were ever gotten together. t ; s dinners, at wk eral hundreds Guented at noon tim: and deserted after | At tts dinners, at which several, hundreds business hours. The real dining club, how- | Of Dersons may be ea a oy always alt down every #/ quite a different institutions mhere | (ows ta/a table, and they alwaya sl down fe Dronably not 2 night im te Week Sur, | (th ol the month fall on (he same day, the diecarte : hol 5 club congratulates ftself—that’s just | the these clubs is not holding its month- | ¢ croc ratuiates | tic tose ase at lye fOrtiilghtly, weekly (or bi-weeldy dinner | 40tt of a combination It's lookine ere scmewhere in the city care ept statistics of the The Twilight one of the oldest ana | that eae ra ia eluate pee eens best-known organizations of this sort. AS ae : nee penn a eae cedenowocd Though the word organization is quit oF BUDS agesade Bo out of place in this connection, as the club | DUrpose that ne myaotne tates murs has no president, or regular place of meet- | ¢T ar uo longer sentenced to be Sanged ing. me Sepia uaa The orginal qualifications for member- | COM? ably on any other. ship in the Twilight were ‘to be a clubable Of a Different Character. fellow end have a dollar in your pocket POR eo CS with which to pay for the fortnightly din : : 3 5 acter fs the Congregatk Club, which has ner. Now the entrance fee is $2 i the | act r is the Congregational Clu which ha ARIAL anesiss for its purpose the encouragement of a ven ~s, more friendly and intimate acquaintance Ee Questions) of Interest: among the members of the Congregational fhe club is made up of professional and | churches and societies in and around Ns business men, who meet for the discussion | Yerk. It was founded in 1879 and in t of questions of current interest. It owes | (Wenty years covering its existence has ex- : : eh | etted a wide Influence on the affairs of the $s existence to Charles F. ' ¢ i puntene = Ouauediess VM with | church. ‘There is hardly a distinguished whom the idea origi ed. E h member | man in the country who has not apy ared pays for his own meal. It “Dutch | before this club at one time or anotier. treat,” and the place of meeting is usually | Thinkers ters, statesmen and soldi one of the down-town hotels. At eacn din- | BAve given it their best. These clubs the hundreds ct others ner some tople of gen erestais ‘ EE Sus HOR om PoEe eoticiiaee one aaneee them exist ause of the mercurial i = = : a ates ac vities p. iY e r oO! he etropolis: wide range of opinion ts ‘always! repre: | activities that Mil thejeir of the metropolis)| sented, the discussions are frequently lively. | #14 ‘Nake gregarfousness inevitable It was at a meeting of the Twilight Club | = +e+ = that the Cuban question was first serioasiy | A Slight Mistake. considered as a possible factor in national | From Puck. affairs, This wes when several prominent | Lord Littledough (who has got old Cold- pel peccnyae a Cuban | vach in a corner at the club)—"Mr. Cold- junta were entertained by ft, and explained | (22) Dot Gaughter is the idol of my life, SUS ee ne the (sland eraawereebtnes (Ori eae a ne hope and aim of my existence! and what their wrongs were. | and ¢ f : : ba z z t I dare hope that some day I may be The Twilight Club has its counterpart {Mizht I ae a i 3 Me ons lay I may be in the appropriately named Get Together | Permitted, to call Ber wie But, my dear Club, a body of men who are interested in | 42 q haveinavdacente: as the various sociological questions ef the |" faye noey “Oh! pardon me!—some- dave Dikelthe Mwilight ieihas movovemn= | yan amin caeee cane ncatetie Mav eea ization, other than a committee of direc | WON pe as rie tion; no presi no regular meeting |UMMK es de place; and, unlike the Twilight. no duc ae ay As the name suggests, tt simply Kets 10> pe fixed Motives. gether whenever any question of interest | rom Puck. Mrs. Chatterton. club to study ‘Faust’ this winter.” Chatterton—‘‘Is she so intellectual?” Mrs. Chattert “No; but wants to comes up, or when some interesting or fa- | “Helen is getting mous man is in New York city. Tt is ¢1 of the youngost of the dining ciubs and of the most progressive. One its features is that ft alms to get expr up a she be sion she MONSTER SEA BASS. Many are the fish stories produced by the season which closes in the Potomac this month, when the voracious bass seeks the deep pools of the river and hugs the bottom to keep warm until spring sets in. The biggest fish story, however, with a bass as the subject comes from the Pacific coast, and Mark Smith, delegate in Con- gress from Arizona, is the hero of it. Every fisherman knows Mark Smith, who has whipped every pool on the upper Potomac where a bass would be likely to rise to a fly. On the Potomac he disdained bait fishing, but when he went west he used a five-pound fish for bait and caught a bass that was a whopper. The photograph of Mark Smith and his catch is reproduced herewith. To catch a 837-pound fish with a rod and reel may seem surprising, but there are the fish, the rod and the reel and Mark Smith. The affidavit which accompanied the photograph sent to Washington said: “Caught by Mark Smith and George Olney off the Three Peaks, west side Cata- lina Islands. Time in Janding, two hours and fourteen minutes, Bstimated distance covered by the fish, carrying the boat with him, ten to twelve miles. He was struck within five hundred yards of shore and landed fully four miles out at sea. Tackle, heavy tarpon rod with silver king reel, carrying one thousand feet of No. 21 Cuda. han line; balt, a large white fish weighing five pounds. Largest fish ever landed with rod and reel, save one of 374 pounds caught by Dr. Pease near same place one week thereafter. The fish is a sea bass, commonly called the Jew fish. tain the enormous weight of six hundred pounds, resemble the base. In Pacific waters they at- and in shape and marking closely AFRICA’S WILD CAMP Beira is One of the Toughest Towns in the World. GATEWAY 10 THE GOLD FIELDS Daring Adventurers From Many Lands Are Gathered There. THINGS ARE NEVER —— SLOW Written for The Evening Star by Allen Sangree. B IRA Is THE fourth stop on the left as you go up from Cape Town to Zanzibar. It grew yesterday. Today it is the wildest town in the world. Imagine, if you can, a squad of Bret Harte representa- tives from Poker Flat or Roaring Camp knocking elbows with reformed cannibals from Madagascar, Malays from Singapore, Parsees from India, Jews from Moscow, Yankees from Massachusetts, demireps from Hamburg, half a dozen r narics, crooks from Johannesburg, merchants from Paris and Berlin, five hundred Englishmen, less than that many Chinese coolies and 4 pinch of Japanese in the shape of eyed tea girls imported by slave dealer, Keep in mind then that all this figaro is ruled by a quick-tempered, dark-featur a almond an Arabian sensitive Portuguese from Lisbon, with the aid of a thousand little soldiers, who will accept a bribe or jab a sword into you with equal alac who hate a real whit man just a shade more than they detest the real blac nd purposely limit thei knowledge of English to the one word—“ar- rested.” at is Beira. Cecil R des found the place so Interesting last year that he pre- ferred staying in a shanty with an Ameri can cowboy watching people from all over the earth get into trouble, rat han jour- ney to Umtali, sixty m way, wh r fred Milner, the newly appoi ted British governor general, was wailing to meet him The great colonizer probably regarded events with other than feelings of mir fc if any one can be held res; i this little bunch of huma the edge of Africa in th. known, it is Cecil Rhodes Central South Africa. Glitter of Gold. The South Afri reason for in squatter has his own and moved about lightly on his feet, like a trained athlete. “I hear there's an American arrested here,” he said, walking up very close to the consular agent and taking no pains tc conceal his clenched fist, gnarled like a hickory knot. “Well, you know I'm an American, and I just want to see fair play Aro we going to see it, captain?” turnt to his companion. cS The latter stood about six feet three inches in height and was a superb mal. A loose flannel shirt open at the breast disclosed a pair of pectoral muscles that seemed ready to burst, and his shou! off a Gers s siderable slice of land- A tawny mustache drooped at either of his mouth, fair curly hair cov- d his head, and a pair of very blue eyes wed a nate mirth and sternness. He was one whom a man would envy ’ enemy fear and a woman love To the other's question ie simply fo! bis arms, drew himself vu ch x pnd looking around with a us smile said with unmistak ngtis! drawl: “I fancy that will not be a difficult job don’t know enough about law,” said the American, addressing me, “to under stand your case, but Captain Foraker wi just step across the way and get Senc Figueira to join this indaaba The senor was the only lawyer in Beir and after a short drill in calisthenics convinced the commissaire, the poli the audience that I had been illega ‘ rested, declared and insisted on bringing eS against some ore Hospitality in Beira. My newly made friends led the way back to the Beach Hotel, where ar roduced himself as “Billy the manager, formerly of Butte, at champion thrower of who wer he veranda answered » my J curred, but when the po%lce arrived they could find no one to arvest. Sneers and | Jeers at the expense of the soldiery were | inaulged in, too, and by the time al! tho | guests had arri d the little fellows wer bursting with and hankering Jtoose on an Englishman. When the |tunity came they lost no_ time m. luse of t Twenty polices had nf mod !in two lines acr: the sidewalk, forming la sort of gauntlet through white | guests walked into the building. T . maintained in a straggling fashior i to walk a nt st Scotchman, nam M eadia bs r in Belra, w . 1 Liv and, walk ‘ | 1 | the Resear, and “Help, - Englis a 1 awa, Mm 1 u r > BRITISH “SOUTH AFRICA Portugal is pra and, and we're ues when a here, with the « man cannot look sidew policemen without stuck lik The British consul says his hands a ad its a shame how we'r reate Beira a Necessary Doorway. Thi the secret of the friction twixt yopulace and soldiery in Beira. The towr f is not worth two common balls to Ex ut it is the key to South Ce u Africa, and England needs. it unice at the p of Se » that with Natal and the at Britain ow rmany av are on the east The so, for 1 eno bay amping in a dessert and flirt- ing with eternity in t hape of dead fever germs. The glitter of gold is his load- stone It is that which turned the tice of emigration northward; Johannes- burg and Kimberly no longer afford oppor- tunities to make easy money, and great con- fidence is put in ¢ Rhod promise of good times and qu fortunes in Rhodesia. These good times have thus n ne sign of materializing, bi Ast UESet- ed porticn of the populace, whom Kipling calls “The Gentlemen Kovers Abroad ne rtheles continues to mass on the outskirts of this country wh a grand rush may b. Ma nd or Maiabele i In view of t 1 €: ican engincer te over ihe whole territory geologien! formation nounced the country q r a mineral standpoint, it is alm to see this contiding’ population ac ay, but as const tiv reint in the end it is doc io. bit pointment, Mr. Rhode will h. muc upswer for, sinee not only are t ih and never-do wells ing nortsward mechanics, tradesmen, professi sual and laborers are coming, with their lies. Attracts Adventur Every publica n of Rho ae Cape Town Times, sets fort ments of Rhodesia and causes tunate beggar to draw from the Hitt Saving, pack ¥ erally to be Not mau cred ¢ vr gets any furthe ar , wi leave their bones to bleach on the quick- | ands there. The unemployed man cannot | stay there r one shil- | ling ¥ Moke and d place to stranded i [had the good fortune when arrested « a@ recent visit Ub of two dare blunt In company with R: fornian who had spent some yea Transveal, I went to the Beach Hot dinner, and afverward, in company Englishman named Harris, stro With Lup the main street to cast an eye about for some means of making a livelihood. While hold- ing a discussion on ways and means, for | the three of us possessed but a single Kru- ger sixpence, we were interrupted by two | gendarmes. Grabbing me by the arms, | they pointed up the street 1 jabbered that familiar word, rrested.”” Portuguese Police. “Don’t make a move, stranger.” called out a man who wore high cavalry boots, as he ran up tous. “You'll make the mistake of your life. Take my word it, there's y one law here, and that’s for the Portu- guese. An Englishman or American has no protection. f you Ww just going to knock these fellows down. If you do they'll cut you up. You want to go along to the tronk with them, for they say there's a Warrant out for the man with the white Al- pine straw.” There was no alternative, and cursing the day I bought si picuous hat, I marched to jail, accompanied by my two friends, all wondering for what I could be apprehended in this far-away corner of the garth. An important little man in gold trimmings finally appeared and showed me a@ document containing my name. The war- rant, he explained, was, however, of such @ peculiar nature that he could not under- stand it. Another commissaire who shortly arrived was equally puzzled. The two seemed on the point of coming to blows over the warrant, when the one wearing the most tinse) grabbed the parchment and tore it in small pieces Thinking that I might throw some light on the matter, I ventured to rise and walk forward, whereupon both officials gazed at me with pity, which immediately turned to frenzy, and, shaking their fists, screamed some orders. Three policemen rushed me to a corner, looked at me very fiercely and then stood by with drawn swords until an- other order brought out a platoon of gen- darmes. By them I was conducted oncé more down through the main street of Beira. We brought up at a big square corrugat- ed iron building bearing on it the legend, “Armagem Alfandagado,” which I took to be the proprietor’s name. It turned out to mean “government bonded warehouse,” and inside of it presided a short, fat Portu- guese-German who represents the United States of America as consular agent in Beira. Above his desk in bas relief on the consular coat of arms lurched forward a much battered American eagle, which seem- ed to extend a friendly claw. Rescued by Two Giants. “Doan ged so fresh at vonce, young man,” said this individual, when I made a some- what hostile demonstration, “or I vill haf miles so’ 1 umer mak ISS LO in ww Foxe wh a by the m Southam») to Cay n Durban by way of Maderia and S&S Helena, has been swiich of to some cxtent new, and the far } Bt is by way of the Germ: line. This takes iterranean sea, the the east coast, tou i laam, Chinde lagea bay and Durb: goes over nearly the same Madagascar and Mauritius In addition to these ships t steamers of the British India f put in there every week, bringing from the orient every species of humanity; and there ar several coast steamers Ww h good trade with Madagascar in meats voze- tables Beira has been selected for this proba- tionary gathering, because it is cheaper t reach than the inland towns of Bul and Salisbury. Mozambique is only miles wide at this point, so that £ territe ean be reached i a few trip by way of a Mttle railroad which i process of construction & City of Torri 3eira itself ig a comb! rid, enervating heat, and corrug shan’ ‘or water front bay into which flows the river; the grand plaza Js a huge swamp where de- ceying vegetable matter nourishes deadly niasma. The country for a long distance inland is simply reclaimed and 1s so low and flat that th: tide up the river fifty-five miles and if you dig one foot in the sand anywhere water bubbles up In addition to the fron shanties there are ght weatherboard houses, shipped pieces from Norway and Sweden; and on the I where life is more enduraole, th itizens have erected decent li lif> of the town is centered in at either end, and every cn takes a personal i t in the rivalry be- tween them. he ch is situated near the boat landing on the bay and is owned Roland Creech, ex-sheriff of Butis, ont. The other rejoices in the name of Royal, and has for its proprietor a ferret zced Frenchman, who knows the game of nded American with good inten- tions, Mr. Reeder, who is a brother-in-law of the ex-sheriff, insisted on my accepting the hospitality of the Beach Hot?! until the next German steamer arrived, although there was no outlook for remuneration, and I was a total stranger to him. “You're a from the Bowery,” he said, “and ‘ou want to get back. But look out littl policemen.” A Ball and a Fight. I had an cpportunity the first night of witnessing a little fray that well Mlustrat- ed the doings of the police. The governor held a grand reception in the Royal Hotel to which all the prominent Portuguese, the French, English and the German merchants had been invited. Ins the mercury drifting about high in the nineties, every one came in immaculate evening dress, for the English customs have taken hold there, and the women wore their most elaborate toilets. Half of Beira, from 9 o'clock until 10, blocked the street watching the arrival of for these 2 of you sent pack to jail, vere you vill stay some time, yes!” He then explained that my arrest had been procured as a courtesy to the consul general, with whom I had had some dif- culty. { was a total stranger in Belra, and it was beginning to look ominous for me, when a movement at the door caused a dozen clerks, who had been called in from the counting house, to tumble over one an- other in frightened haste, and in walked two of the most powerfully built men I have ever sen. One-was tall and smooth-faced, with keen gray eyes, rather angular in finish, but hardy looking. He wore a white duck suit guests, for cnly at night is it possible t remain out of dcors long on account of the extreme hect. The ball was well worth seeing, for it looked like a pageant in the time of Nero, such was the contrast between the beanti- ful women in very decollete gowns, spar! ling with jewels, and the stalwart black: clad only in a jack strap, who trundied up the little palenquin cars. decorated for the occasion in garish bunting: As each car unloaded its burden a captain of police would hurry it off to make room for another, facilitating the movements of the rear guard with the flat of his swo In-the crowd there were constant }!-h erings and half a dozen knock-downs o barra y i, and wi ixed 4 | ‘This availed nothing, for Muirhe 1 | the night in jail without having his ¥ $ | tiressed and’ was carried home y | m in a very t - g three or four ¢ | A Car for Every Resident. | e streets of Beira are ten feet deep is Impossible for . Int s town and only one has it brought of a shed « nd osteatatiously washed by his k boys wh the b 1 The ¢ i ! keep them from ¢ ery | family that uilt } n a | encourage thetr efforts th ft the j car off the track and ex eat | pride, “N fly- are topped with little you from the sun, and for the ladies to travel ins down the side. By squeezing four persons can sit on the 1 rs a big green umbrella 8 Universal English Piano. There was a@ piano at the Beach Hotel Isn ita rp a fact wha r | part of the earth you find Englishmen there | you wi e sure to see some es of | piano? = part of the colon stock n trade, In the remotest sections of Na- tal, where a few English settlers were dled together, in the heart of black i ver failed to find a piano. tain Foraker struck a few this one, and in a few 2 was thronged with a roaring the chorus of the Queen” 1 Bloom! In one was b wen ch crowd, all Soldiers of ock There lls a loud © & was suddenly and Rogers are & sereamed a little French Jew hted in ng other persons get “Let's see it bar room a ring had been formed, wo smooth-faced, boyish-lovking, who into thick-set chaps, who had been quietly shak- ing dice with each other all evening, were moving true pugilistic style. Pres- ently the xed it up and for six rounds boxed very roughly, but with some science. The fight was interrupted by a black boy, who announced that the guard was coming on the midnight rounds. The two fellows were hastily pushed out into the court and there resumed fighting after the guard had passed. “What are they fighting about?” I asked Captain Foraker. Fighting for the Joy of It. ‘Oh, nothing in particular,” he laughed. “Just fight because they like it. They're the best of pals, and have Hved together from boyhood. I fancy they see so much of each other that they get tired and vary the monotony in this way. There’s not a month goes by that they do not have a serap.”” The hotel is built In the shape of a quad- rangle, two stories high, with verandas on all sides, and the women guests crowded on the upper verandas demanding to have the cruel fight stopped. Six more rounds were fought, however, before it was finally broken up. Both men were then so bruised and bleeding that they could hardly see, and they were put to bed in a cot three feet wide, where they fell asleep, clasped in each other’s arms. “Ten't this the greatest town on earth?* chuckled Captain Foraker to me, as he emerged, wringing a bloody handkerchief. “Nowhere else could you have so much fun in one night? These people here are so that they don’t appreciate It But I had had all the fun I wanted for one day, and was anxious to get some rest. 3 vent to sleep hearing the deep bay of © sh India steamer from Rangoon calle * ing for a pilot to take her in the harbor,