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JX A TIJIIK'S HA REM.
WOMEN OF DIFFERENT NATIONALI
TIES NOT ALWAYS HARMONIOUS.
ltii-ht 1: l'ai-;-.pli-rnuli3 f tlm Family
IVmlnim- 4'ix(i!-lry ami Mu.-M-uIiii? V an
lly "Liunlm f Aiu-ri-n" A N-nU'
IIoiimI Story.
Ill tlin li.irim of a well to do Turk thf-ro in !
n lt.TliiiK laily called (he buyult ha:uiiin.
Hhe is tin- pn'iK-ijxil of tho cstahlislimrnt the
oidy v. ifc, jH-i of tlso i.a:.lia. lh.r home
may Ixt full of f male rclativt-s, for the Turk
im nothing if M.t lio;iitalii'. Now und lln-u
it lii(rMii i.i on j;ool t nn:f with tho family,
ttnd nxptwiidly u i:h the children. One thing-,
however, it to I rcm-irhol: the very 3'ounij
children fofc wcur the yttribuiak or this
feridjio, hut otherwise their c-ontumo is al
most the same lis their mother's, nnl thnt of
tho loy is very ('ouiicul. Almost In-fore thy
am weaned they urq dressed up in tho full
uniform of n pitsha or militury oflli.-er
fnoril, lclt, fez und epnulot.H. Imagine such
u child, when tir-l of Li: uniform, rushing
to Ills milk mother for his natural refresh
ment. Oencrally a Imrciu is made up of women of
vnrious nationalities. Sometimes it isdifll
vull to harmoiiizc them. I should imagine
that in tho winter season, owing to tho ic
culiar structure of the houses and tho insuf
ficient calorie of tho jeopo, there would not
le very niueh visiting, mid proludily not as
much contentment, us in spring or summer.
There i somet hing iu:;Me t!ie harem which,
reminds one of the nomudie ancestors of
these joople. Tho very lcds lie nround as if
ftliout to Ijc picked up, packed and carried off.
( Jrcat wicker trunks and caniol"a hair sacks
uro liiindy, in which the rich stuff;, apparel
and lurniti're j.:ay le fdowed away in a
hurry, so t!:i at the .lu.rtet mtj o thf1 do
iiicstie paraphernalia, of a family may either
lie packed iu theso round wicker trunks,
ready for tho caique, or Uih hack of a doii
kty, or in the: camel hair sacks, which fug
j;. st the wandering Seljukiaiis of six centuries
igo. Jkfiiles, as lires are common, it is con
venient to p'i:;- e ujion the dresses luid furni
ture, put it i;i i:tal,io fehiipe and save it from
th' Humes. J'i ih larger houses tljr f a
vaU-h:uan, !:. ; I Roing her or his rou;:ds
ahout tho li;ii-::..g, bo as to prevent and ex
t iu'iiis'i cun'ice-; i ! ions.
tlio ilr.. -. a tca-:m this life of the
lunreni is m;!c!. "!oiii!e'.l. It is an error to
sur.puo th;d t':e .-oi;u:i are regard!, cither
in, the leaf 5i:T!;r; f the Koran or otherwise,
as soulless ri-rs-,:.
AVIien tlie-.xi ii!...atj;a U.; epportunity
of their treed-i:i ; movenrotmd tho"cit;- with
fheir peci-h':.-. U iiity half displayed, either
upon foot or in il.o slow progre:sof llieircar
riages i i i.t fXi-.-- I promenades, there may oo
L-huiicc-s for so!,;.- !iirtatio:i. A forward girl
may make mi . "..ief for" whole liatvta or
family. She m.iy not meau Jt hf may Ixj
childish and tmsilf inadvertently onstrafit I's.
5Ivr nigns and c ;;ietry really go for nothing:
Jjiit tin vai.iiy of iht; other sex is in flamed,
nnd IrouMe e. .-.'.s. Kxisu-iiX-V? iiwide the
liaiwii is tw vr:,-;d for some ooiis! itutio.is.
Home of tho hai-.-U al "jurat i,;lls about theso
lx:uties may h:ivt i piipiaiit fouudatioa.
DiMtijtles.s tiicre is raoro smoke tha:i lire in
t!ic:'io stories. When wo rend in an Amei ioau
pa;n r of th- fas; ii;ating and 111 sttrioiLS Leau
f Um )f t,'iii:sia!itinoilo, and their harem life,
I fail to ilm facts to lear out thcro
jiiancing. J hae !h;-:i told ly a geiitler.iivii, jso" a
leaiihig lawyer of Xev.- York, and formerly
teitf'her f mathematics in tho Amori
tan (RolKi-t) crjlege, upon the hills
' of lioum'!i-lIi.s.sajr, thnt when ho o:id
the nttident:. wtre aecij-stosnctj to
jromenade ulong tho stony qimys,
cvea is far down as Beekilai-h, in the
timo of Aldu! Aiz, tho palace was full
f the wives au odalisques cf this nmorou
Miltaiu They could be seoii only jn dim prc
file, by our professor and the &tude:its, Ik
Iiind the lattices. VVero they heard Thcy
kuew who the young men were and where
from. They were in the habit of haiiing
them without the fear of c-jiiuch, the timet;
being troublous and the-ebony people full of
intrigue. V.'luit do you think these houri
call our innocent jieriiwiteties of tho quayf
In swet-t notes they cry out:
Kuzu Amtrikaiieer' Lamb of America!
Sometimes they add:
'Khekcr." which is the Arab root of our
word sugar. Is must have been provoking
to bear their salutation:
'Shcrifiniz hair ola chok kuzu,' or, to
translate freely:
"Gorxl cvojiia, much eonfeclionated
lamb."
These students Kill live to make autonomy
la Bulgaria, preach the gospel in Armenia,
and practice law- in New York. They were
not made Uunb t-hoj by the headsman of
Aziz. The.se young men were a innocent as
the lamljs to which they were likened; and
the young women equally so. Still, they were
playful lamb ar-o playful.
Tho most beautiful of the women of the
capital are not very closely veiled. They havo
a way, ia tho presence of the sterner sex, of
revealing, in spite of the veil, the contour of
their face, and tiie exquisite complexion
which their iaccsi-ant bathing bestows. I havo
ia my mind nn a; i;rle in an American paper
punjerting to ha-. e been "riften last ilay
fro:n Consti!!iliiiox'le. It pretends to give a
sensational account of the conduct of theso
txia-.ities in their 1 ronieniidea by the "Sweet
.Viiters,
These sto: i s ! rv-lornof tho sensual pen.
Some vritcr 5 i. to get feis penny a lino,
cml to reptxTc:.'..- he hanoum, not as giving
her uu:ncivi-s I s the sack, in our homely
phrase, 1 ut as r -ally killing them for self
fufclv And t!r.: :v story goes that a beau
tiful" ).otiri of p pasha's harem iu Cairo
actually killed l-'J eautiful Greek g(ntlemo;r
TvJ-.oni she had i:v ucetl by her flirtations to
enter her siren l:-.::ne and all within three
Lricf years! Ai.-i thus, too, the old story
About thosacka 11 '.h! with such degenerate
beaut ies ?vnrj si;::'i in the river w hero it was
iieci-est. Thcse a:-: tho illusions of tho ro
maiicist. 1U--3 M -.-leni cares imno than i3
j-eprescnted :;lM:;t ' 'ie defection ia his harem.
JJut is he :vjt a 7i .sloai What is writ is
Vl'it, and ho rfi (..vcrce and wed again!
jhri 4Diversiou3 of a Diplomat
ia Turkey."
Tho Svii'.; nclipso In Cbino.
At the recent o !! so of the sun the Chinese
f.uthcritlc. in .-.lance with tho f.Facjo cf
thutwpiro, onion-. I the Buddhist and Tavist
priests to rooiUi t licir incantations to rcscua
ili- sun from behuj devoured. It wa:5 r.t tho
tirae of the festivities over tho cmi)c;or'
birthd:iy, when all olliciahs were required to
wear embroil lore 1 robes, but it is also tho
law thr.t dura:;: sin eclipse officials who par
tiei'te in U:-- o v::oay mu.-.t -ear ordinary
parmcnts u:-. u -''U:i is rcscu-Hi. .-ia txuii ,
had to be pot from the emperor tosc-ttlo it i
lie. onlored ti e oCcials to ignore his birth- j
iavf-:-'-l r.tlti-d t the sun, so they all woro
ortlinary rohcA I' --v.- York Sun. j
)Jplthci-l.- from Coiioj 3Iuld, '
7hc theory that tomo txiinmon nvold fun.i, .
growing vrAox tvrloin conditions, may prii
ato diphUiria cr transmit it, is corrobor- '
ted by reoent casca reportetL '
FAME OF DUTY.
What shall I do to b fon-ver knownf
Tliy duty ever.
This did full many who yet h'.cpt uuknowu
()!i, never, ii'ver!
ThhikcKt thou, i-rchanoc, that they remain un
known Whom thou know'st nott
Ev nn;vl trumps in heaven their praise Is Mown
liivine tlieir lot. Schiller.
AN ENCHANTED CAVERN.
Ki-iiiitira f tli rirotto of C'irl An
American llieyllt' AiWrnture.
Tradition hits it thut this "Grotta Azzurra"
was known in tho carlieHt Roman times ai?d
then lost again in tho Middle Agor,, although
the knowledge of its existence was preserved
at Capri, and that in the last century it was
rediscovered through chauce a shipwrecked
sailor was dashed through tho narrow open
ing in tho cliftT; recovered consciousnesa to
find himself in heaven, as he thought in
reality upon a little lodge in the grotto and
escaped by swimming. Can I not enter
swimming when it would l impossible for o
boat' Tho guide says, 'No," but will take
mo out there, and it is worth tho attempt; so
watch and valuables are left at the hotel and
wo arc ofT. On the way we meet a party re
turning, and upon reaching the cavo we find
that tho entrance, about three feet high and
four broad, is filhyl by every wave and tho
spray sent dashing up tho rocky sea wall. I
must enter as tho wave recedes.
Undressing and leaping into the sea, I was
tossed about a little by the waves, my mouth
filled with salt water and I almost decided to
give it up; but, after holding to tho boat for
a few moments and hearing tho guide exja
tiato upon the "Grtta IJcllissima," decided
that I could risk a bit of a knock for the pur
pose of seeing one of nature's most beautiful
creations. The boat was pushed as near as
was safe and I made a plunge for the cu
tranco, but just a little too late; I saw that
tho coming wave would catch mo, and fear
ing a blow 011 the head where even tho felt
hat I wore for that contingency would not
have bayed mo-r I dived on tho instant, and
tho wave, coming roaring in, pushed mo by
its weight into tho depths, instead of against
tho rocks. I think I must have gone down
fifteen feet and been under tho surface nearly
a minute, for I swallowed au immenso quan
tity of tho salty fluid before I came up dazed,
after a hard struggle, to find myself in
smooth y.ator siin-omided by a wonderful,
supernatural, blue light, wilU cuuiitk,ss stars
gleaming above me. The water is very clear
and seems to bo fathomless, while my limbs
are bright, xilished, sparkling silver. Ideas
of distance are lost; lean see for miles in
every direction, up and down as well, and it
is a surprise to mo when, after swimming for
ten minutes, I find myself at the other end of
the grotto.
There u na nreatiug place except a crevice
in tho rock for tho fingers of one huml, niid I
hung there swinging back and forth and
toasting on this wonderful sight a feast half
mingled with fear ns to my safe exit. The
entrance appeared hopelessly far av,-a3, en
tirely closed every few seconds by the innir.h
ing vv&vb, and then, upon its recession, ad
milting a ray from the outside world. The
impression and exjjerieuco is, under such cir
cumstances, altogether indescribable and un
earthly. After perhaps fifteen minutes I
launched out oneo more, and swam, in fear
and trembling, for the entrance; In-fore reach
ing it two or three big waves came 1 ushing
:n, tossing the salt spray into my eyes, and
accompanied b3' a cold wind. I approached
.is near the entrance a.s I could, waited until
a great wave dashed itself with full force into
my face, struck out quickly, and, behold, I
caiao uUt without the slightest trouble and
seized the boat before the nest wave came!
George P. Fiske, M. D., in Outing.
Thrift of the l'reuch l'eople.
Every sign still pxists in Franco of fertil
ity, industry, thrift, obedience to the laws
and honest financiering-. Notwithstanding
tho enormous size of their debt, the French
people do not shrink from every form of tax
ation required to ineet their interest. For
somo time after the war they paid oil largo
parcels of the principal, but havo not found
it prudent of late to do more than meet their
interest account. Taxation is excessive in
Hi'; country, but I think it is not equal either
to the taxation of the conscription which
France suffered at th close of thf career of
Napoleon I, when old ago and hoary hairs,
immature youth, the cradle and the grave,
were robbed for the harvest field of war.
Every railroad ticket sold in France adds b
penny to the cost to meet a government tax.
Two sous among a people habitually frugal
is in itself a tax every timo they ride from
tho city to the suburbs, or from the capital to
a province. But the French really taught
Europe financial honesty in dealing with a
public? creditor, and it has tecQnifl traditioual
with that country not to permit revolutions
iu the form of the government to' embarrass
the public credit. The huge sums of money
spent by Napoleon the Last to employ voters
and promote an vanscent industry ore all
being considered by the French of tho present
day when they pay Vaeir taxes. As to tho
French army, it seems to be sustained by the
populace even more than by the public men,
although the populace get few or hono of the
honors of the army and must go in tho ranks.
Georgo Alfred Townsend.
Education for the Indians.
It takes eight years to graduate an Eng
lish born pupil from the gutmuiur grade, giv
ing ten months-' continuous schooling "each
year. After this from three to fivo years are
required to make a competent mechanic of
such graduates, giving all the time to the
trade. Here are from eleven to thirteen
years given to the education and ii-aiuing of
tho ordinary American boy, who is to make
his way in life as a skilled mechanic. And
tho boy starts in usually with all the advan
tages of inherited civilization and with tho
Christian educating influence of a Ppnruyl
venia homo surrotulding him from his birth.
And yet the Indian child, taken from his sav
age heathen surroundings, with his inherited
tendencies all wrong, is expected to be trans
formed in from three to five years into a civ
ilized being, tbs equal in inu-lligence and
manual skill of tho white boy.
The education given the Indian youth is
not designed to enable them to livo again in
barbarism. And the pity of it has been that
for the great multitude there has leen nq es
cape. After their ft-vv years of schooling,
back they have hod to go into the companion
ship of savages, who look with contempt
upon their education, and with the old savage
surroundings a relapse into the old manner
of living, ia not surprising. The wonder is
that eo many hold out for civilization.
Hartford Courant.
Very Thin Vcneerlnjj.
A St. Louis cigar dealer says: 'I had R
pood laugh to myself one day when I saw a
tocond hand dealer strike an old bedstead
with his knuckles and say to the lady who
was bargaining for it: 'Madam, that bed- j
rtead is solid poplar.' But tho laugh is now
on mc. I bought a lot of cigar boxes, all
eolid cedar, I thought. By accident I broke
oiu a them the ofcher day, and I' found they
were mado of ash, with a cedar veneering at
thi i 03 paper on the surface, $nside and out.
This is getting busioera down pretty flne,r t
aid I to myself' !
SARDINE INDUSTRY.
HOW NIMBLE FINGERS FIX THE LIT
TLE FISH FOR MARKET.
A Secondary Induntry Which Orw Out
of LIt-rring I'Uliln j Seenen at the
Wc-irs The Factorlen Cutting, "Flak
Inc" "Frying" and Fucking.
Aside from the ploasuro 0110 finds in study
ing the incidents of herring fishing and the
lives and ways of herring lishers there is ex
traordinary interest attaching to the great
secondary industry growing out of herring
fishing itself. Years ago the millions of as
living away from this little reach of shore
but a speck upon the enormous distances of
American and Canadian coast line hud no
ljetter notiou of the herring's importance to
the atfairs of life than that gained from
glimpses into unsavory tivbs of pickled her
ring, or tho pungent aroma asserting tho
presoiM-e of the knotty pine box of smoked
herring, in the wonderfully miscellaneous
corner grocerieii of our yonthtide. What
ever and however large that trade formerly
was, it h.-w almost disappeared. In place of
it has come one of tremendous importance, of
which there is 110 general knowledge what
ever. At East port, Lewis Covo, Rolertsou, Lu
bec, Pembroke, Southwest Harbor, Jones
port, Mill Bridge and Cutler are located be
tween thirty and forty of these sardine fac
tories. They employ, or partially employ,
from 2,000 to 3,000 hands from the middle of
April to the middle of Pecemlier. Every fac
tory is located on the Maine coastwise shore,
in Maine on the shores of Cobscook, Fem
broko and Fussamaquoddy bays, or upon the
Muino shore of the Kt. Croix.
SCENES AT THE WEIRS.
Here, then, is the herring fisher's home,
and his market at home. While the latter
gives an ever changing reward, it is never
changing itself, and the fisher, after all, regu
lates his own compensation. If the catches
aro bountiful he will sell cheaply, but never
for loo than profit. If thoy are light he
often secures exorbitant compensation, for
the competition is always brisk, and the fac
tories must bo kept running. In the year all
this, as to fisher and factory, adjusts itself
fairly enough. Each factory has its "boat
men." Theso men, who principally livo at
Eastjjort and LuIjcc, are graduate quoddy
iishers, Ihey have their quoddy boats, and
crews, and their dffties are to scui ry aiiout
among tho weirs and keep their factories sup
plied with herring at the lowest passible price,
but always supplied.
Wherever factories aro located old nud
young arc employed without distinction in
thv various processes of the work. Regular
employment "by the day'' is furnished to but
fpv. , iioa-Iy all tho labor lieing don "by the
piece." The arrival of the. herring cloips at
all hours of tho day and night for the
"catches" and consequent buyiug of the her
ring are dependent 011 the ever changing tide
is announced by the shrill whistle of the
factory. Then the hamlet, which is at every
other hour an apparently deserted village,
skvms suddenly repopul.itul. From every
quarter, and almost from miles away, sud
denly apjiear erst invisible hosts. Tho place
seems bewitched and as though all its folk,
wore mad; Half ilres.sed, frowsy women, bold,
bad boys and tho sauciest, handsomest bare
legged girls you ever lieheld, all join in a wild
endeavor for prwedenco. Aa if by magic
the old shed of a factory swarms with pant
ing racers and resound:; with the hum of
voices and the merry chatter and clamor or"
welcome toil, From the sloops the herrings
r.rc unloaded by rope and tackle uj.Ka the
wharves, one basket at a time, "tally"' InsinJ
kept by both the boatman and tho "boss" of
the cutting shed.
FILLING THE BOXES.
Under the cutting shed are a largo number
of cutting tabloSj around which are gather :d
old and young of all sorts, though smart
lads are in tho majority. The herrings are
dumped upon theso tables promiscuously, aud
the cutters spring to their work with wonder
ful celerity, their knives flashing savagely,
and every "click"' upon the raised edge of the
tho table completing its work upon one fish.
To the right of each is a box holding about
one-third of a bushel, and to the left a bar
rei. Every time tho knife descend the tail
end of a herring flies into tho box and tho
head and entrails into the barrel. Cutters
are paid about fivo cents per box for this
work. The speed attained by some is re
markable, and there is no ces'iatfon. of envi't
until tho hut herring id disposed of. As fast
as the cutters' boxes are filled the fish aro
ported. There are two sizes, "oils"' aud
"mustards." The former are tho smaller,
delicato fish, packed in oil, 100 boxes to the
CO.S2. and the latter comprise th largo her
rinsr. Dreserved in nreparatious of French V
and Gorman mustard, fifty boxes to the case.
The fish are now transferred to the "pick
ling room"' and placed in half hogsheads of
brine, whore they remain nearly & half hour.,
and are then "flaked." "Flaking" consists pi
partially drying the fish. This is dona by
placing the herring in single layers upon
"flakes," abuut four feet square, made of tri
angular white beech slats held together by
light wooden rims. This is dono either in
the sun or in gigantic ovens. After the flak
ing comes tho "f rylng" process. Tho fish aro
piled upon perforated iron or wire scre.n
like pons two or three tiers deep, when about
a half aozon csf thse are lowered into great
caldrons of boiling- oiL Ilero they remain
for perhaps half an hour. They are then
'drained," thoroughly cooled and then con
veyed to the packing tables. Besido each
packer are great piles of shining- l.-cxus
with iMOSentsd lids. ttmall boj-s. con
stantly pass from table to table saucily
squirting a portion of oil from great cans
into each of the open boxes. Pans of fish aro
continually being set lefirs thcsj vvomeu
and girls, whq handle the delicate morsels
with marvelous dexterity end care, filling ft
bos and adinoi g te jid im augenblick! or
tho wink of an eye, as the Germans would
say, for which the average price paid is ten
cents per case of 100 boxes. From this room
of chatter, laughter and toil they are passed
to tho sealing room; 5,000 to 10,000 boxes at
a timo aro then subjected to a steam, or boil
ing water "bath"' of about three hcura' dura
tion; they are again cooled, then "tested,"
then shoveled back and forth in great banks
ef clean sawdust until the boxes shine liko
polished silver and are then cosed and ready
for the market, good enough for anybody for
what they really are, but under- the inoro
palatable, guise of superlatively superior and
superfine "French" sardines. Edgar L.
Wukeman in Sew York Mail and Express.
Dock Thuga of Kew Torfe.
A trick of tho dock thugs, which is liable to
succeed with the shrewdest of travelers is
practiced in broad day. As he passes the not
attractive approaches to most ocean steamer
wharves, a ragged and vicious looking young
ster runs up behind him, whips off his ha,t
and is away with it in a jiffy, The most nat
ural thing in the world M to turn and run
after him. He leads bis victim a 6mart chaso
into a wood yard or rough corner, from
whoGo recesses in an instant the gang is out
o knock tho stranger down, rob him and,
jjeruxiM, toss him over the edge of the wfaart
r-New York WjrR
LOVERS IN NEW YORK.
A Strict Kchool for th lutriiuonially
Incliiu l Jcwlh Mx li l y.
I doubt whether thoro is any stricter
school for lovers in America than that iu our
middle class life in New York. Tho city is
so large and it is ho nearly imKMbo for
uny but tho wi-staud moslcuutioiMtomuko
sure of the character of even one's i:ei;:h-l.-ors
that, among the eop!o of luodmito
means, Wednesday and Sunday ni;;lt calle rs
are obliged to see a greut deal nion of the
parents of their beloved than u tho rulo in
other American cities. Far from Ix-ing tho
rule, it is the exception when they spend v.u
evening alone with the maidens, t;4e coils
being mado in the presence of t hatcver dm m
Ikts of tho family aro at homo and Lave u:;
bcmblcd in the parlor.
Unlike Indo:i ami Paris customs it is tho
liahit here to permit a young woman to ut
teud tho theatre, parties, lclls and evening
entertainments generally solely hi the com
pany of her beau, and no parents that I
know of object to her going riding with no
other couijKinion than him. Put ho must do
most of his courting at her home and must
not object to the presence of iirents or
brothers if they choose to occupy tho same
room with the fair one. And when ho and
she go out she must bo at homo again by a
certain prescribed hour, und must not invite
him in unless his status as a nam with serious
intentions is pretty thoroughly understood.
Tho very rich and fuishionablo girls enjoy
much greater freedom, aud ko do tho jioorebt
ones.
Undoubtedly, the strictest of our citizens in
auto matrimonial matters are tho Jews. As
a rulo they demand at least that thc-irsons
and daughters shall not murry outside their
religion, even in tho minority of eu:;es where
tho father does not insist that his child tholl
make a good match from a financial ioint of
view. A learned Jew, who criticised Kidney
Luska's novel, "The Yoke of the Thora," tho
plot of which is loused on the reiuralof a
rabbi to j!rmit his nephew to break tho law
of .God by marrying a gentile, said to mej
"Tho btoryhas one great fault j it should
have been dated thirty years ago." That
criticism may apply to Amcriounitd Jewish
society, and, indeed, it was only tho other
duy that a Jewish matron told invcf n happy
marriage of a Jewess to a Christian, adding,
"Bah! What is tho diilerenif? Tho old
fashioned notions nlout tiut.f things aro
played out." Wo it is evident liiat in this, as
in many ro:jects, the American liobrow is
becoming libcr&L "'-ur..i" iu Vow V01L
Wtm-. - .
Trials of a Fine IVnmriu.
"Yes, that is certainly very fine penman
ship." A reporter was examining a hand
somely written letter v.hi. h a young man
was exhibiting as as;x.-c-iiiu :i of hi;; skin.
"You ought to l)o able to yet a good situa
tion as a Jtyukkeepcrr'
'So I thought when 1 first e.-tmo to this
city; hut I haven't succeeded yet "
"Why notr
"There is a good many reason;;. In tho
fi;-st place, law a graduata of a business col
lee. Thai !:; regarded as a bar bv a large
number of business men. In the next place,
I am n strainer in Now York, und hustlv, I
write t.iv well."
"Write too well:"
"es. I have answered every ad vert isc-r.io?-.t
lulling for a bookkeeper that has ap
peared in tho daily p.ip;-i-s for a month past,
end have only heard iu reply to three. Each
cf tho men who wrote to me said that my
penmanship wes too fuie. I ii-d that lmsineta
men don't like ilourihe ; :i 1 cir looks. They
don't vant copjK-rpiale penmrov.hii, Uii-i
mr.n said to :oe that ho u anted a bookkeeper
v.-ho-s-.' ohirovTsphj' showed more individual
ity more character than mine. And so I
lost the f itimtio;.. It is my cxi-rience that
a plain, flowing, rapid hand is tho very best
that an applicant for clerical work can,
have." ' '' c ''
" What ,li.t you pvoposfl do do"
"I liave iiot decided. I may secure work
as a card writer or teacher of penmanshi;.
If I can do that I should like it, hut if f fai!
in that direction I shnjl rry and unlearn all
tho fancy peiirt;it.i;hip I ncrqsiiml I shall
adopt 4 p,am Uit graceful stylo of writing,
and I shall conceal my bi'.sii;c:-s cclic:t fds
catioa from a merchant r..s tl-ib It wt-m p.
disgrace. 1 don't kin.w & U-lhtr my rip.n l
euce thpi .iiost applicant for fu-aj
work Ui thi city, b.;t I cu &-tLucd that I am
rig.'t. nud CiiAd -,.t.rii myself accordingly."
I".C-".v ork JJail and Kxres-s.
1- "11 u. ie- years Tr.G c
source of wcalih was tattle and s;ircn.
I . ..!.:.. - r
In
V-A tliero were 41,000,fj.vj slu-ep ia the
United Ktatot;, 72,000,000 in Australia and
100,000,000 in the Argentine republic, W;
hav6 i-xi.-thtrds of a fcheep to every in
habitant. In the Argentine republic there
aro twenty-five sheep and ia Uruguav forty
bneep 10 every man, woman and. child. Wo
have 40,000.000 of horned cattle to a popula
tion of 60,000,000; the Argentine republic and
Uruguay have 38,000,000 catttle to a popula
tion of 4,500,000. In Uruguay, with a popu
lation of 500,000 souls, there are 8,000.000 cat
tle, 20,000,000 sheep, 2,000,000 horses, or sixty
head of stock for each man, woman and child.
Fifteen million dollars has been invested in
wire fences in Uruguay alone, and more thar
twice as much in tho ArgeritinH Itepublie. In
either of tho countries u'covr. can bo bought
for a, a steer, fattened for the market for 10
or $12,' a pair of oxen for $25, a sheep for CO or
CO centa, an ordinary working horse for "8 or
$10, and a roadster for 25, a mulo for $15,
and a mare for whatever her hide will brinsr
Hares are never broken to saddle or haiiie4.
but are allowed tq nan wild in ihe pasture I
from the time they. art foaled till they
to be pi value ror oreemng, whe n tr.cy nro
driven to the salederos, or slaughter botis;3
and killed for their- hides, A man who
would use a maro under the saddle or befora
a wagon would be considered of unsound
mind. Thero is a superstition age, jt
William Eleroy Curtis in Harper's Magazine.
V'llol-o forming AThilo Asleep.
We had occasion iu a recent mimber of
Science to refer to tho possibility of chloro
forming persons while asleep without awak
ing them. In confirmation of tho statement
which was then made, that under favorablo
circumstances this could be accomplished, we
quote a case which occurred in tho New Or
leans Charity hospital and is reported in Tht
New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal.
A child 6 years of age was suJTering from
pleurisyk and it became necessary to draw 01T
the fluid effusion which had accumulated in
his chest. lie was very much afraid of the
operation, and it was determined to attempt
it while ho was asleop. On the following day,
while sound asleep, chloroform was adminis
tered without awaking the child, and twenty
four ounces of fluid were withdrawn. Tha
child continued to sleep tlu-oughout tho night.
and when it awoke the following morning i
knew nothing of the operation. science.
A Bira of 111 Cmeu,
Among the superstitious people cf England
'is a widespread belief that a white pigeon is
the herald of death. Thus, a white pigeon
alighting upon the chimney betokens the ap
proach of death to soma occupant of t'aa
house. Owing to this, pigeon feathers rarely
enter into tho composition of their beds.
ChJcagOUflrald.
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