The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 27, 1895, Page 11

A THE ‘SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1895. 11 T0' INCREASE THE FORCE, Members of the Police Com- mission Approve Crow- ley’s Request. lish a Police Station Near arising of some emerger ch the present force shouid prove v increase th though some doubt uld favor a large in- of policemen. The the uofiioe force should The Ch thinks 125 more . ve not talked the him, but I think he will ghty more. Even a great help. Well, in my op at lea or front. The men who dealt with are a hard- anded class of people, and s in that district would be on at the present a oo long to be succe: by individual patrolr d roughs who make that e of their criminal ope the policeman pass. ess know the extent o mber of office: the par hey could covera ) overhat up with o they emerger every ave had no AD sitors f the additic ar ends with the last of more policemen st include their salaries r the tax levy for the en- policemen are abso! ine that the employment of the full by Chief Crowley. “that the principal bu: reets of tk ity, such as Market, and Montgomery street: hounld n along both sidewa now o great that ong 10t properly attend to both horoughfares and their bea: are too n the outlying districts more officers are greatly needed. it is now, a police- man who starts w street or Van Ness avenue might as well lost in space as far as any practical effi- ciency is concerned. D “Mount the officers? Yes, I would ap-| " prove that. We should have ten mounted men Where now we have one. The Super- visors recognize the needs of this depart- ment, and I believe they will give Crowley all the men he asks for. “We should also have two more captains of police. captains, exclusive of tt captain of detectives, could be used to ad- vantage in th ‘We should also have more sergeants. Co ioner Tobin has frequently ex- pre opinion that large addi should be made to the police force. Tk Western Addition, accordi to his s too great a territory to be effec- - patrolied by the small number of ho can now e assigned to thatduty. e believes that the taxpayers would cheerfully agree to a small increase in their if they were assured that homes would be better oners expect that the police force will have been the new uniforms and tion day, on which oceasion the force will parade. expect on that occasion to have at ) officers in line, and the occasion h the public an opportunity 1z of the effect of the new uniforms. egulation requiring ail officers to iforms when on duty between the f midnight and 6 A. M. has already t. MINES OF ALABASTER. Italian OQuarries Which Have Been Worked for Ages. Thirty-two miles to the southeast of isa, in the province of that name, a very ble and a very ancient industry is carried on. We refer to the alabaster in- dustry, of which a full description, from actual observation, is given by Vice-Con- sul Carmichael of Leghorn, in a foreign consular report just issued. ' Victoria, where the alabaster is found, enjoys spe- f stinction among places in the world hich produce that commodi The ma- :rial which is of five main ‘vari rieties, is found in nodules, embedded in huge asses of limestone, says the London News. At the end of each cavern whence it is extracted two or three men are to be seen working away with small T-shaped picks MOUNT OUTLYING OFFICERS.i Commissioner Alvord Would Estab- | the Park. all t When Chief Crowley asks the Board of | &y sors to add 125 policemen to the t force he will have the unanimous port of the members of the Boara of I ( sioners. These gentlemen e lor ed the small number of 5 and have continually ‘ picking away all around it in order to ex- tricate the complete block. The larger the | specimen the more valuable it is in pro-. | | portion to its weight. In another, search 15 still being made_for the alabaster, and | the workman is vigorously beating down the wall of limestone until he lights upon the white nose of what looks like a block. He then picks away carefully, soas not to e the prize. When there seems a clihoo.t of a large quantity of limestone having to be removed blasting with gun- powder is resorted to. Th abaster industry dates back to classic times. Great changes have taken place in it, however, within living memory. In fc days there were three distinct classes of workmen engaged in the work of joning the raw material—the master . who owned a workshop and em- erous workers, selling his irectly to the alabaster shops or ; the journeymen and the trav- who took huge cases of the sold them as they went along in ountries of the world, civilized and Of these, two, the master v | worker and the traveler, are now extinct | species. Nows vs three men, usually rela- | tives, work together in informal partner- 1 turner, another a mod- ird a decorator, who carves e adjuncts on the finithed it and fowers. Their gains il and, indeed, travelers who » port of Leghorn and have s, statuary and the like, st absurdly low prices, re- », to believe that they can be f alabaster is made by a pro- which is still a trade secret, ent imitation of coral. Fora very large sale, but the is had a ¢ threatened with extinction. sted that the people of the East, gely, left off doing :re doubtful whether the % could properly be used in the in coral plays a part. have true artistic their desire to turn will sell they neglect re to be found in hurches of Italy and eternal reproduc- r of classical fig- ancing- faultlessly spruce laz- | b= i | characte | out what the fine m HOW HEREDITY OPERATES | Lecture by Dr. Hirschfelder at the Cooper Medical College. | Physical, Mental and Moral Quali- ties Are Transmitted From Parents. g to Dr. Joseph O. Hirschfelder, requent listener, the proverb is *The fathers have eaten sour e children’s teeth are set on red at the Cooper Medical night on the subject of to a foud audience, and ted that, though the survival of v be due to natural selection, much to do with making us He said, in substance: the mode of development of the we will fid that during the on it passes through stages in not be differentiated from the als. In turn it representsa fish, i a quadruped. A study of that occur teaches us “that es through the forms that sci- the race to have passed geological periods in its the simple-celled organisms to velopment of the present. ary_transmission of morbid con- 1l-known fact. Itisobserved in f medicine, but in no class ore clearly seen than among e insane asylums show to yus extent mental disorders are It has been found that in from one- 1£ of all cases the influence of ¥ taint is manifes y 50, but & special 1 10 be handed down ration. Itis more Cambridge, ton has b in the { hereditary ach fam- re is more the nobler at- hes demon- al criminals of the lower limits the thief instinct—and Indian wc and vig ing of the k had the physi pe, whe ien the same women % The intermarriage of resu'ts in half- ian type prevails the half-breed. at with the half-breed and Hottentots the ned by the father, be If we cl @ c whereby heredity o them under several forr t inheritance, where we have on of both ghe paternal the al qualities to the offspring. deal cas: mean betwee never oceur of one or the otk 34 second grent Atayism or reve child resembl grandparent in the trai child would be an exact the two parents, but such cases ways & preponderance ty is that of ion, which operates when the e parents asa tant progenitor. < this tendency 1o s impediment, and in ient ocourrence that 0. Lat the offsprin the qualities of s the horse-fancier “they do not breed trie. Analogous observations © been made both with plantsand with animals. An English mare in 1815 was bred quagg, 2 birth to a mule covered 'u“»vf:.?:-.:.“ 51'.).'11 T 1818 and 1823 bred with three different Arabian staliions and gave birth to three brown colts w ith bands like the quagga. cculiar form of heredity desig- An instance may be of a i marriage, resembling th former Lusband who had heen long dead, and with n greater tal resemblance ev al. lon must be that the law of heredity sets 1 limit to our powers and capa- bilities, though we know that by properly di rected endeavors we can progress i - tion we choose. Sl sl The gymnast and the student both find, not~ withstanding the phenomenal suocess which attended their first efforts, they sooner or later reach the limit heredity has fixed. ———— No Escape. Mrs. Getthere (enthusiastic worker at church fair)—Now, Mr. Slimpurse, you really must lakfi a chance xJn this beautiful pipe; you really must. Just think, the ipe is worth $20 and the chances are 'only e S (edging off)—v Mr. Slimpursg (edging off)—Very so; madam, bu’t’ 1 x)n't smoke. S o Mrs. Getthere—Oh, but you can learn, you know. Mr. Slimpurse—Tobacco does not agree with me. I would have no earthly use for a pipe. gigs‘ Getthere (struck with a bright idea)—Well, there isn’t the slightest prob- ability of your drawing it, you know.—New York Weekly. by the dim light of unprotected oil lamps : : 3 of Etruscan pattern, which, by a singular | L every receipt calling for baking pow- tena of tradition, are still in use in the | der better results and more wholesome district. [n one case the block of alabaster | food will be obtained by the use of Royal will be already well projected from its bed af limestone. and the operator is carefully leavening strength and absolute purity. ALL HUNGRY FOR OFFICE, Democrats Waiting Eagerly for the Board of Health ' Patronage. MEN WHO HAVE INFLUENCE. Different ‘“Pulls” That Are Being Brought to Bear on Gov- ernor Budd. Democratic place-hunters are concen- trating their energies and thoughts on the Board of Health. The practical politicians of the party are much dissatisfied with the Governor's delay in appointing the new members, They claim that it is not right, Jjust or good politics to allow Republicans to draw salaries when so many Democrats are hungry for places. Governor Budd's friends explain that the delay is caused by the diverging in- terests and influences brought to bear on him. There are two active factions each assailing the other and trying to pull the Governor into its camp. One of these wants to see political doctors put in so-that they can manipulate the patronage. Theothers ask for men of high standing, without regard to political affili- ations. Both elements, however, are op- posed to having a Republican on the board. They hold that all the material needed, and more, too, can be found among the Democrats. Since the members of the board serve without pay the only attraction the place has for practical politicians is the patron- age connected with it. It is said that both factions are willing give this patronage to the Governor, retaining for themselves the right of ratification. 'he political doctors specify only that their backers shall be rewarded. The others promise to leave the appointments entirely with the executive, knowing that an incompetent employe can be dis- charged. Another important and heretofore_over- looked factor in the appointments is the incumbents. They are moving heaven and earth to get one man in. If they succeed they will not be removed, as it takes the votes of all four members to remove the Health Officer, Quarantine Officer, Superin- tendent of the Almshouse and other officers. It is, however, stated definitely that the Governor will appoint four men, who will be programmed. In other words, they will' be unanimous when it comes to removals. Who these men are the knowing ones profess to have full knowledge. Each sets differs, however, and it seems probable that Mr. Budd’'s friends, who claim that the Governor him- self does not know yet whom he will appoint, are telling the truth. At any rate, the Governor is booked to hold open house in this city for two or three days previous to making the appointments, when the friends of the respective candi- dates will be received and their claims considered. Many of the physicians named for the place have not made application for it. These men, however, allow it to be known that they would accept the position if it were tendered them, even though it has no pay attached to it. Prominent among the medicos who are being urged as good ma- terial for the board are: Dr. W. E. Taylor, Dr. F. Morse, Dr. G. J. Fitzgib- bons, . Dr. H. 'H. Hart, Dr. "R. W. Murphy, Dr. McCarthy, Dr. R. Beverly Cole, Dr. D. D. McLean, Dr. D. F. Ragon, Dr. Marc Levingston, Dr.Nathan Rogers, Dr. Leo Rogers, Dr. Johin Gallway, Dr. Buckley, Dr. C. A. Clinton, Dr. Gavi- gan and Dr. C. G. Levison. Dr. Taylor is & prominent member of the faculty of the Toland Medical College. His recommendations are strong, but some op- position is manifested to Eim on account of his being the physician of Chris Buckley. Dr. Cole is also @ member of the faculty of the State University and has a strong backing. Dr. Morse is a_surgeon of wide reputation and is the chief surgeon at the German Hospital. He was for many years connected with the Toland College. Dr. Levingston is a Californian who has matriculated in many European colleges. He was at one time Coroner. Dr. Gavigan was for several years an attorney in this C He has been intimately connected with politics for a loug time and was at one time a Deputy Tax Collector. Dr. Ragon is now a member of the Dem- ocratic State Central' Committee and Dr. Clinton is a member of the present Board of Education. It is reported that an effort is being made to have a homeopathist put on the Board of Health. Other people are work- ing to secure the appointment of a woman. These are both Yuoked upon as forlorn hopes. Governor Budd's oft-repeated assertion that he was going to appoint one Repub- lican has caused considerabte interest among the workers in that party. There is as little unanimity among them as to who shall be chosen as there is among the Democrats. Among those named are: Dr. Jules Rosenstirn, who served on a former board; Dr. F. F. Lord, an officer of the medical alumni of the University of Cali- fornia; Dr. J. M. Williamson, a professor of the State University, and D. ¥. Shiels. Dr. Shiels is being urged by Major War- field of the California Hotel, who is a very close friend of Governor Budd. One factor in the matter of the appoint- ments is not receiving the attention it will later. This is the support of Mayor Sutro. It may cut quite a figure, as Mr. Sutro is ex-officio president of the Board of Health, and the Governor hasannounced his in- tention of consulting him before coming to a definite conclusion. The positions under the Board of Health are causing another scramble. Dr. Terrill is said to rely on the friendship of Harry Emeric for the Health Office, which Dr. Keeney would like to retain. Dr. Mizner has also strong friends at court who have him slated for the quaran- tine office.*Dr. A. K.Happersberger, whose brother Frank, the noted sculptor, is a close friend of the Governor, 1s said to have a splendid chance for the appoint- ment as physician to the Board of Health. Among those mentioned for minor offices requiring physicians are: Dr. G. Howard Thompson, who did good work in the con- vention that nominated Budd; Dr. Blake, wno was beaten last year for Coroner; and Dr. T. A. Rottanzi, whose influence in the Italian colony was all directed for Gov- ernor Budd. The_friends of most of the rentlemen named above look with dissatisfied eyes at the requests being made by Joseph J. Dwyer. They claim that he is getting more recognition than he is entitled to. He has already obtained the appoint- ment of Captain Mayo, a_director of the Hibernia Bank, of which Mr. Dwyer is at- torney, as Pilot Commissioner. "He has also got a friend in as Port Warden. Now he wants the secretaryship of the Board of Health for his brother, the ap- pointment of Dr. Ragan on the board, and asks that ex-Deputy Sheriff Fenton be made steward of the City and County Hog- vital. Politicians look covetously at the stew- ard’s post, as its incumbent has many chances to ‘‘do politics.” The man who will give Mr. Dwyer’s nominee the strong- est rub is said to be Edmond Gofi- chaux, whose friends are making the fight for him on his record in the Legislature of 1893, when, as the only Democrat_ever elected from the Forty- first District, he introduced the Traffic As- sociation’s resolutions and fought South- ern Pacific measures. P Two men are mentioned as likely to rule at the Almshouse. One of these is Captain Foley, who was formerl, Bupeflntendeqt of the House of Correction. is Ed Reddy, a close friend of Gov. Budd The other is than any other, because of its greater [and a brother of Pat Reddy. Mr. Reddy it is said, stands the better chance, as the } Governor would like to apply a salve to ease the disappointment caused by Warden Hale's reappointment at San Quentin. The recent controversy over the dis- missals at the Mint will, it is said, have a bearing in the fight for the Board of Health. Max Popper claims that some of the candidates are being urged by the Rainey-Buckley faction. Backed by Sen- ators Biggy, Fay and others, he has four oplgosiuun ‘candidates. 3 ow it is said that Mr. Daggett is going to take a hand in the fight. He hasno candidates of his own. > He is_reported, though, as havm% an- nounced that he intends to see that the candidates of those who have annoyed him are not given the places. Streetcars Must Slow Down. The Health and Police Committee yesterday decided to report favorably the Hirsch ordi- nance, limiting the speed of streetcars to six miles an hour between 4 and 7 r. . on the following streets: California, from Kearny to Market; Clay, fromr East to Kearny; How- ard, from Seventh to East; Jackson, from East to Montgomery; Kearny street, from Market to its northerly termination; Market, from East toNinth; Montgomery avenue, from Union to Montgomery; Polk, from Post to California; Post, from Dupont to Market; Sucramento, from Kearny to Market; Sutter, from Dupont to Market;” Third, from Market to Folsom; Washington, from Montgomery to East, ————— ¥French Odd Fellows. The French-American Lodge Xo. 207, 1. 0. 0. F., celebrated the seventy-sixth anniversary of the organization of 0dd Fellowship, Friday evening, by a banquet at the Navata restau- rant, 417 Pine street. The principal officers of the lodge are Victor Reiter, past master, Felix Candan, noble grand; Alired Leibert, vice grand; J. B. Parra, secretary; Joseph Champion, recording sec- retary. The lodge was organized August 16, 1872 and has a membership of over 200, Itisin a prosperous condition finaneially, having about $25,000 in the treasury. The banquet-room was beautifully decorated, the tricolor of France predominating. Two Attachments. Sheriff Whelan yesterday levied upon the household goods of A. D. Splivalo, lawyer, 1120 Washington street, under a judgment ecured by Sam Newman in the sum of $2041 73. Williams & Co., Pacific Mail Steamship Com- any's wharf, were also levied upon under & ;‘ndgmem for $800 secured by the California Casket Company. OAPTURED BY VERMIN, Plight of the Ship Ameriea While Be- calmed in the Tropies. Drifting about on a tropical sea, under a boiling sun, in a vessel laden with a cargo of half-cleaned bones, isan experience not to be envied, and the crew of the Italian bark America, which arrived yesterday at pier 72, South wharves, will probably prefer a cooler climate and a cleaner cargo for their next cruise. Seventy days ago the | America left Buenos Ayres, the only ; freight then available being bones of the | cattle killed at the great slaughter-houses of the beef extract manufacturersin the Argentine republic. Cattle are cheap down there and the butchers are not over- careful in removing the meat from the bones. Consequently the bones which | filled the hold of the America when she | left the River Plate were half covered with | scraps of meat not yet in a condition of | decay. There was meat enough beneath the hatches to set a good-sized beef sausage factory up in business, says the Philadel- phia Review. Matters were measurably pleasant aboard the America until she entered the tropics on her northward voyage, but when the | hot sun began to beat down upon the deck it made a bad mess below, and soon the | hold was swarming with vermin as even | the much-traveled crew and the venerable Captain Ferrari had never seen before. | ery nook and corner of the ship above | decks and below as infested by the pests, who made no_distinction between fore- castle and cabin. So long as there was food for them on the bones in the hold | they concentrated their energies there, but | when they had cleaned and polished the bones the vermin advanced upon the crew, | and also attacked the ship’s stores of pro- | visions. ‘While the wind held fair and each day shortened the distance to port the suffer- ing crew had some relief to which they could look forward, but their discomfort became despair when the wind failed them completely on the equator and left them rolling upon a glassy sea for full two weeks without wind enough to break the column of smoke that rose from the cook’s galley. For a fortnight the crew fought the vermin | with every means they could devise. Every poison that the ship’s medigine chest contained was tried, but the only ap- g:rent effect was an increase in’ the num- rs, ferocity and activity of’ the pests. Until the wind again filled the America’s sails and brought her to a cooler climate, there was no relief for the sufferers. Be- fore the vessel reached her moorings in | this port, the vermin had completely disap- | kel Mayie bkt for ot in the crevices and seams of the ship. | Never was a change of climate more Sl come to sailors than when the crew of the America left behind them the vermin- breeding heat of the tropics. Captain Ferrari is in his seventy-second year, and for half a century has been a master mariner. He has been in command of the bark America ever since she was | launched at Castellamare, Italy, in 1877, and the present crew has sailed with him for sixteen years. Captain Ferrari declares that if he ever sails with another cargo of fresh bones, he will turn a few South American ant-eaters loose in the hold, e Oiled the Elephants. To the general public the elephant-house in the Central Park menagerie was a closed house yesterday. The fact was the ele- phants, or at least two of them, were to be oiled down. This is necessary from the fact that the caged elephant cannot from day to day throw great sprays of water over his thick hide and o keep it from cracking, as he would do if in his native forest, and yesterday it was determined to anoint these great pachyderms with neats- foot oil, says the New York Tribune. Small Tom was the first to be experi- mented on, and obeyed orders to turn to this side or to the other more meekly than a fractious babe. He was anointed fore and aft, only trumpeting when his legs were being attended to. The reporter was in the pen, and helped to hold up the legs of the animal while ““Billy’’ Snyder rubbed in the oil, and it was a wonderful illustra- tion of man’s power over the lower brutes, Tom, or his bedroom partner, Jonas, could in a moment have killed the two men in the pen, but, as each was being operated on, except for twining the proboscis around the nearest leg, 1n a sort of grate- ful kiss, these great beasts seemed thor- oughly to understand that man, who had made him captive, was trying to do his best to ameliorate his condition. When all was over, the elephants stood up glossy and black, and if ever one elephant spoke to another in scornful tones, it coulg be gleaned from the eyes of those two ele- phants who looked at one another, | Ocean-Goling Canning Factory, An ocean-going canning factory sailed from this f;ort for the Florida Keys and the West Indies, says the New York corre- spondent of the Piftsburg Dispatch. She has aboard 50,000 cans of one and two vound caliber, in which it is proposed to put fish, fruit and meat. There are boilers and all the apparatus of a canning estab- lishment aboard, as well as a first-class chef and expert “‘canners.” The expedi- tion will make a specialty of that succulent fish, the pompano. Turtles will also be largely caught, and, under the benign in- flxence of the chef, will become canned tartle soup, When the fishing is bad the schooner will visit the West Indian ports and barter calico and Waterbury watche: with the natives for fruit, which will als go into cans. The expedition expects to come back loaded with guava jelly, among other things. Whether a cannery on the spot can compete with the blr ones ashore remains to be seen. At all events, the »served fish and fruit to be put up by the “wine trade. | turns from his squabs that rétail at 60cents | HE HAS A SPIDER FARM, Pierre Grantaire’s Queer In- dustry in a Philadelphia Suburb. COBWEBS FOR NEW CELLARS. They Add a Value to Wines Freshly Made but Bearing Old Labels. There is but one spider farm in the United States. As far as the writer can learn there are only two in the world. Entomologists have collected and raised spiders for purposes of scientific observa- tion and investigation, just as bacilli and other unpleasant animals are nurtured. | Here and there a spider bas been made a pet of by some lonely prisoner of Chillon or the Tombs, but spider farming as a money-making industry is yet in its in- fancy. What in the world is done with a crop of spiders? you ask. One has only to go four miles from Philadelphia on the old Lancaster pike and ask for the farm of Pierre Grantaire to see what can be found nowhere else in this country, and abroad only in a little French village in the De- partment of the Loire, says a writer in the Philadelphia Press. Pierre Grantaire furnishes spiders at so much per hundred for distribution in the wine vaults of the merchant and the non- veaux riche. His trade is chiefly with the wholesale merchant, who is able to stock a cellar with new, shining, freshly labeled bottles, and in three months see them veiled with filmy cobwebs, so that the ef- fect of twenty years of storage is secured at a small cost. The effect upon a customer can be imagined, and is hardly to be meas- ured in dollars and cents. It is a trifling matter to cover the bins with dust. That effect is easy to the veriest tyro in the But cobwebs—that isa differ- ent matter—cobwebs spun from cork to cork, cobwebs that drape the slender neck like delicate lace when the flask is brought to the light—the seal of years of slow mel- lowing and fruition. The Lancaster pike is an old, old high- way that trembled to the tramp of march- | ing columns in the Revolution. In one of | the low, stone farmhouses, huge as to | chimney, lives Pierre Grantaire, a veteran of the French army, who was conscripted as a middle-aged man from his father’s farm in 70 to fight the Prussians. For ten years he has lived here, a rather unique | figure among the matter of fact farmers | around him. For the tricolor always flies from hisroof on the 14th of July, and the | colors are draped half-mast on the anni- versary of the day that the hated Prus-| sians marched into Paris a quarter ofa century ago. £ Oldlanmt:ire has a wonderful vegetable | farm, and sends in the choicest “green | stuff” that is displayed in the Philadel- | hia markets. His neighbors know that | e is a market eardener. and also raises | they begin to hatch. what they had brought without my pets had dressed the bottles in the robes of long ago. “The merchant takes the parvenu and the nouveau riche, who are easy to fool and play with. He leads them down into the dark cellar. By the light of the candle the customer sees the rows of bottles. Their necks are deep in dust. It is easy to blow over them dust. The cobwebs drape them; they stretch from cork to cork—it is plain that there is here great age. All my cobwebs, mon ami. The customer has what you call the pulling of theleg to him. He is proud. But it is good for him. Good wine is only meant for the man who knows it. ‘‘Perhaps a man has quickly made great wealth and keeps a grand establishment. He must have a fine wine cellar. Perhaps he buys himself old wines, dusty and cob- webby. But the cobwebs are broken and en deshabille when the bottles are moved to his cellar. They have not the tone, the look of the real old age, of thelong years of gentle rest in the undisturbed dark, n’est- cepas? Then he drives out to see old Pierre, or writes from New York or Chi- cago—I do a grand business in Chicago. for him. Soon he can take his rich friends into his cellar, and they say, ‘Mon Dieu, this is superb, it is magnificent. you congratulation, my boy.” This is what money cannot buy. My pets stop working, and they do what you call wink the other eye. They then resume their toil.” “Tell us how you raise them and feed them, Pierre,”” asked the visitor insinuat- ingl(y. 4 = “Corblen, it is a science, this raising of spiders. I have on hand at one time about 10,000 spiders, old and young. I brought some eggs from France, and_the choicest webmaiers to be found. Here the queen of them all. Her children are the superb spinners. Many hundreds of my ts are her descendants. Tt isthe kind red by my great-uncle in France.” The old man led the way to aglass dome in the corner, beneath which a filmy web of beautiful pattern stretched across nearly two feet. Pierre touched one of the meshes and a huge black spider danced nimbly out from her downy nest and ran up the vibrating thread to the old man’s finger. He gave her a fly and she tripped back within doors with ber booty. “This is Sara,”” said Pierre. ‘‘She has the grace, the chic, the slender beauty of the divine Bernhardt. She is the pride of all my pets. Ah! hereis Zola looking at you.” A hideous, hairy monster had erawled up the fine wire netting that ke?c him within bounds and stared sardonically nota foot away from the writer's nose. A start and an exclamation were natural, but Pierre looked grieved. “I do not blame yon much,’” said he. “Zola is good-natured and would not hurt you, but he has the horrible look. He has fits of bad temper sometimes. Then ventre- bleu, look you out. He is the bird spider of Surinam, His body 1s two inches long and he catches and eats small finches and sparrows when in his woods. His bite is bad poison. I doubt not it wonld kill you. But I tame him with kindness. Yet he is not pleasant to think of running around a room. He might have the bad temper. He would eat all my pets in one day. ut he is king of all spiders—Iie grand monarch. “Therefore I call him Zola, the most superb of writers. *When the mother spider wishes to lay her eggs she makes a little web in a broad crack. See, here is one weaving her nurs- ery. Then she lays fifty eggs, perhaps, like petite jelly dm‘)s. Then she covers them up in "a soft silk cocoon and leaves them. In two weeks, longer in winter, It is very difficult. mushrooms, and rather envy him the re- | a pair this time of year. But few of them | know of the spider-raising industry, which | makes a substantial part of Pierre’s busi- | ness. Itisnotto the old man’s interest | to have this advertised, and he seldom | takes a caller into the two rooms of his | dwelling where his multi-legged pets cover the walls and weave their gossamer pat- terns everywhere. It was a bit shuddering for the visitor, who hdd been brought up to smash a spider with a slipper or whatever came handiest, | to be brought into a room where there were spiders in front of him, spiders to the rear of him, myriads of spiders on every hand. The walls were covered by wire squares | from six inches to a foot across, like mag- | nified sections of the wire fence used to in- | close poultry-yards. Behind these wire | screens the walls had been covered with rongh planking. There wete cracks be- tween the boards, apparently left with de- sign, and their weather-beaten surfaces | were dotted with knotholes and splintered crevices Long tables running the length | of the room were covered with small wire frames, wooden boxes and glass jars. All of these wires in the room were cov- ered over by patterns of lace tracery, in the geometrical outlines fashioned "by the | spider artists, inspired by the mysterions instinct which has made them weaye their fllmy stares in the same fashion since the world began. The sunlight streamed through the open door and the room seemed hung with_curtains of elfin-woven lacework. The king of this fairy palace | rapped his stubby pipe against the door, | and the webs were dotted with black spots | as the spiders scampered from their re- | treats in the wall cracks and a score of vil- | lainous-looking pets as big as half-doliars emerged from their crannies on the table and clustered against their glassroofing. “They think I feed them now,” said Pierre, “but I fool them for you. They have brains, these little creatures. Ah, they are cunning! After you see them and Itell you of them you will never crush them more. You will say, ‘The spider can teach me something. I will watch him. He is a diplomat, an architect, a mathema- tician. is knowledge is worth having.’ | Ah, there is a fine fellow running on your neck. Don’t knock him off. He will not bite you. They are harmless. He wishes to give you bon jour and make your ac- quaintance. : “You wish to know of the business first? That is like you people—money first, then the sentiment. There are 2000 spiders in this room, all raising families and minding their own business. Is not that a teaching torthe world and a lesson already? You see, in these frames Ibreed my pets, and when the enfants are big enough to. run about I take them in the next room, where they can set up for themselves, as you say, It is from there I sell most. They are great cannibals, my pets; they eat their children and the children eat each other. So I must get a good price for those that survive their Ehndhood. 5 5 “It is not all kinds of spiders that make webs. There are those that live in holes in the ground, and make for themselves trap doors, and some make soft nests in cracks, while others spin small homes in the grass or in the room corner. No, in- dee(f; I have sought out kinds that weave themselves fine large webs of lines and circles. They only look artistic in the wine-cellar or on” the ‘bouteille. They are the selected ones. They are three families, the names of them, the Spira Vulgaris, the Zilla and the Nephila Plumipes, which the entomologists will tell you are the grand web-spinners, the artists of the spider world. b 3 “But what money is there in it, you ask. Mon Dieu, money, money—-n‘wuys mone?n I who love my pets to be always thinking of what they sell for! T will tell you, now, and then you will talk no more of money, and I can show you something. A customer comes to me. Heisa wine merchant from New York or Philadelphie, or perhaps he writes. He says that he has just stocked a cellar with five - year - old port, or Burgundy, or something else. The bottles have been brushed clean in Shipplp?. They look new and common. They will not sell for old wine. He has attached to them labels of twenty, thirty or forty yearsago, some year of a grand vintage. e tells me so many hundred bottles. I know how many of my pets will soon cover_his cellar in cobwebs of the finest old kind. I putthem in little small paper boxes, in a box. Tship them in a crate, with many holes for air. Maybe I send two, three, four hundred spiders. For them I ask balf a franc each, $10 for every hundred. In two months you e ankee genius who heads the enterprise [ would think his cellar was not disturbed will have freshness in its favor, which | for the last fifty years. It has cost him $40 should command an extracent or two over | or $50 maybe, but he may sell the wine It takes one or two days. The egg shell or skin cracks off in rags. Mon Dieu, but there is a great struggle for the enfants. Then they grow and in a week look like spiders. They molt often and shed their skins like the snake. I mustseparate the brood at a tender age. It is hard to break up the family, but, Sapristi, they devour each other until only the one isleft, like your droll tale of the cats of Kilkenny.” ¢ THE ROYAL FLUSH. An 0Old Poker Player Says It Never Wins Any Amount. “These stories about men making big winnings by accidentally catching a straight flush when luck seemed down on them make me very weary,” said an ama- teur poker player, who has been ‘“poking” off and on for about eighteen years, play- ing nothing more imposing than ‘penny ante.” “I always class such stories with snake stories and fishing tales,”” the player went on. “There may be some truthin in them, but I have never had any such luck, and I have held my own very well at ‘penny ante,’ too. 1have had just two ‘royal flushes’ in my experience. So far as the accidental and surprising part of them was con- cerned, that was all right, but for the big winnings, I never saw them. On the con- trary, on bath occasions, my opponent—I was playing two-handed games each time —‘lay down’ on me unceremoniously. A_nld 1 don’t think I gave my hand away, either. “T'll tell you my actual experiences and maybe it will be a warning to those n- clined to boast about their luck at poker. The first royal flush I ever had the fortune to hold in my hand was about six years ago, when I was having a quiet little game with an old friend. It wasa modest ‘jack pot.” My opponent opened it for a nickel —the limit. I skinned my hand, butcould not find a pair. A king and queen of hearts looked pretty, and I chipped in my nickel and drew tothem. {magine my sur- rise when an ace,a ten and a jack of earts came to me. I kept mighty quiet, hoping to make a “killing.”” My oppo- nent threw in a_ nickel chig and I saw it and raised it the nickel limit. He lay down. He had not bettered a measley pair of jacks. % “The other time I had a royal flush was about a year and a half ago. My opponent asked me if I had ever had one and said that he had not. The second hand after his remark I had the ‘age’ and he stayed in. I had a queen, jack and ten of clubs and thought 1 woald try for a straight or aflush. The king and then the ace of clubs came to me. My opponent looked at his hand and then said ‘I'll give it to you.’ He had onl{an ace high with king next. I showed him my hand and he volubly congratulated himself that he had not ‘bettered’ in his draw, while I—well, I never swear in compnu& but I felt mighty like it.”—Kansas City e Effect of Altitude. Mountain sickness has always formed a topic of interest to scientists, says a writer in the London Illustrated News. Recent researches show that the altitude which produces this condition varies for different ersons. Itis said that persons in good ealth can withstand a height of 4000 meters in passive transport, but it is not regarded as advisable that they should prolong their stay at this altitude. A curious fact is that the sickness also varies with the nature of the mountains, and it is said to be less marked on solitary or isolated peaks. A height above 3000 meters affects all subjects whenever the; exert themselves. The researches to whic I allude were made by M. Kronecher in his survey of the proposed Jungfrau Railway. | GAIL BORDEN | {EAGLE Brand; ..CONDENSED MILK.. Has No Equal NEW WESTERN HOTEL. EARNY AND WASHINGTON STS.—RE- modeled and renovated. KING, WARD & CO. European plan. Rooms 50c to $1 50 per day, $3 ?up:r week, $8 to $30 per month; free baths: 0L AN the other sort. for §1000—yes, more than that—above cold water every room; fire grates in every room; elevator runs all nighte Sapristi, [ send him my pets. They work, We give | THE GUNMAKER OF ILION. JEFFERSON M. CLOUGH REFUSES A TEMPTING OFFER FROM THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT. His Health Was Too Poor to Permit At tention to Business—A Great Suf- ferer for Many Years, But Has Now Recovered. From the Springfield (Mass.) Union. There isn’t a gun manufacturer in the United States who does not know Jefferson M. Clough, and why? Because he has been intimately associated all his life with the development of the two best American rifles, the Remington and Winchester. For vears he was superin- tendent of the E. Remington & Sons’ great fac- tory at Ilion, After leaving there he re- fused a tempting offer of the Chinese Govern- ment to go to China to superintend their Gov- ernment factories and ncct:st(ed. instead, the superintendency of the Winchester Arms Com- pany at New Haven at a salary of $7500 a year. It 'was after this long term of active labor as & business man that he found himself incapaci- tated for further service by the embargo which rheumatism had 1aid upon him, and re- signed his position more than two years ago and returned to Belchertown, Mess., where he now lives and owns the Phelps farm, a Tetired spot, where he has 500 acres of land. e Being a man of means he did not spare the cost, and was treated by leading physicians and by baths at celebrated springs without re- ceiving any benefit worth notice. During the summer of 1893 and the winter of 1894 Clough was confined to his house in Belche town, being unable to arise from his bed with- out assistance, and suffering continually with acute pains, and with no taste nor desire for food, nor was he able to obtain sufficient sleep. Early in the year 1894 Mr. Clough heard of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People. He began taking these pills about the 1st of March, 1894, and continued to doso until the first part of September following. The first effect no- ticed was & better appetite, and _he began to note more ability to help himself off the bed and to be better generally. Last August(1894) he was able to go alone to his summer resi- dence and farm of 163 acres on Grenadier Island, among the Thousand Islands, in the riverof 8 wrence, where, from the highest land of his farm, he commands a view for thirteen miles down tie river, and sixty of the Thousand Islands can be seen. Instead of being confined to his bed Mr, Clough is now and has been for some time able to be about the farm to direct the men em- ploved there, and he is thankful for what Dr. William$’ Pink Pills have done for him. These pills are manufactured by the Dr. Williams Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. 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