The Pleasures off Ak-Sar-GSeim
Come ESuti Once EacSi Year
r
to
The Robust Health and Bodily Vigor
Which Result From Breakfasts of
F
reoiiura
am
Em
coo
the Whole Year Through
Cold, snappy days are coming you will need something substantial for breakfastsomething which wKl supply
heat and boundless energy. There is nothing better than Swift's Premium Ham and Bacon the perfect food products.
Swift's Premium Ham and Bacon are different from ordinary brands. Different because better.
More exactingly selected. More carefully and scientifically cured and smoked. More nutritious, tender and
appetizing. Remember "The Brand of Quality" Swift's Premium.
ORDER FROM YOUR DEALER TODAY
SWIFT a COMPANY, V. S. A
ok-
ft
oat
IERE POOREST PARIS SHOPS
An Astonishing Market in a Historic
Section.
PLACE OF QTJEEB SUEFBISES
Heterogeneous Collection of Old
Wares Offered for Sale Near Temple
Prison Price Calculated by
Flftka ot a Cent.
PARIS. Sept. 6. To ordinary tourists
there seems to be no slums In Paris. ' This
Impression Is not altogether correct, but
It Is certainly a fact that there la no place
In the world where een the most grind
ing poverty r faced with more Indifference
and covered up with more skill than la
the French metropolis.
Pleasure-loving; dispositions and a na
tional artistic sense help to conceal the
ugliness of the struggle for existence. In
a quarter to which the American visitor
almost never find, his way, although it
la but ten minutes' drive from the opera,
one may see the real, working-, struggling
Paris.
This is the quarter of the Temple. Here
one sees narrow, swarming streets and
. old houses, which formerly sheltered the
elite ot Louis XV's reign, but now are
hives teeming like an East Bide tene
ment It Is a historical and interesting bit of
Paris, too,, this old quarter. Here at one
time aristocracy lived In luxury, and now
under the ports cot here of some once
princely mansion will be established a
stand where one can buy fried sausages
and potatoes steaming hot. In the four
streets which surround the Temple, the
Rue Chariot, Rue de Bretagne, Rue Bauce
and Rue Corderie are many old houses
full of romance and association, for her
lived at . various times those foolishly
brave conspirators who were so willing
to give up their lives in trying to aid
the Ill-fated Marie Antoinette to escape
from her imprisonment in the . temple.
Here they stayed to be near hrr, and
there Is a dilapidated house in the Rue
Chariot which has. a subterranean passags
from the cellar, running through to the
strip of Ill-kept garden of ths temple,
where the queen and her children were
sometimes allowed to breathe the fresh
air.
Onee It Was n Prison.
The Temple Itself has seen many changes
In the whirligig of time. For centuries
it wss a dreary prison, where many Inno
cent and many guilty suffered all ths
. SROnles ot prolonged confinement In Its
dungeons. Under Louis Philippe It
flourished as an Immense market, with
four large pavilions.
Then, as now, It was the trading place
for the submerged tenth of Paris. A few
years ago a modern building was erected
after the style of the central market, and
here are held every morning until U
O'clock the most remarkable sales.
It Is surely true that the French throw
nothing away, for here are to be found
not second and third hand articles, but
articles which must have passed through
scores of hands, belonged to scores of peo
ple before they reached their present lowly
position on the 'pavement of the Temple
market. 8uch a heterogeneous collection
of things!
Pile of trousers, waistcoats, shirts, bed
coverlets, women's hats, cloaks, skeletons
of umbrellas on neighborly terms with old
lamps, bandages which have been used, and
traveling bsgs, shswls, colored, re-colored
and discolored, packages of fra'hsrs of all
hues, photographlo materials and trim
mings of Jet. One even finds la this aston
ishing square of the Temple all aorta of
trinkets and ornaments, some hair brace
lets, a lot of watch chains, three portraits
of Napoleon I., a compass, an enamelled
box decorated with a picture ot Louis XVI.
contemplating a pot of lilies, a bust of
Henri Rochefort, a ch'romo after Edward
Detal'.le and two pipes strongly colored and
ornamented with most Immodest nymphs.
Here, too, the wandering Parisian with
no settled home or laundry can exchange
his soiled shirt for a clean one, none too
new, on payment of 10 cents. An ex
change of socks costs two cents; white
waistcoats vary from I to 11 cents. Imag
ine the bargaining at the top of high
pitched French voices and Imagine the
stuffiness of the air In this place, where
struggling, screaming-, perspiring- Paris
does Its trading.
Queerest of Qaeer Shoos.
Lesving the Temple and walking down
the narrow little Rue de Bretagne one finds
an even more curious and Interesting mar
ket, that of the Red Children. Crushed In
between a modern butcher's shop and a
delicatessen shop Is the queer ramshackle
shed where the market has been held for a
century.
The black beams of its roof help to shut
out the pale light which comes filtering
In through the broken glass windows Just
above them. They sell everything here
the heada of sheep, freshly skinned, mus
lin by the yard, sponges, post cards, pigs
Xeet, pots of wall flowers and corset lacings.
Tills Is a particularly tumultuous mar.
ket, and here they deal In centimes, the
fifth of a cent. Articles are sold for three
or four centimes, which makes change
counting difficult and disputes many.
Just outside the shed a pedlar Is found
plying a peculiar trade. Surely nowhere
but In Paris would be be able to draw
such an admiring crowd around him.
On a large sheet of white paper be has
scattered a number of insects, In plain
English, bedbugs, and over these he shakes
a yellow powder. Instantaneously accom
plishing ths death of the luckless vermin.
But this Is not the worst Amid most flat
tering murmurs he produces more victims
from the various pockets of his clothes and
renews the experiment, talking volubly
all the time.
"Paint your beds with this," be cries Im
periously, "and you will kill all that infest
It, even the most active. Hold on mon
sieur, you will try it?. Very good; for you
It is only i cents a bottle."
Street of Sarnrtees.
It Is full of surprises, this part ot Paris,
One walks through ths Lane of Birds,
which connects the market with Rue Bauce,
and here In the first house, only a few
yards from the seething crowd, are resting
comfortably on litters of straw some fifteen
sleek red cows enveloped In a strong stable
atmosphere and quite as placid as If la
their natural environment ot green fields.
This Is the dairy ot the Market of ths Red
Children.
In the Rue Dupetlt-Thouars, ,the other
side of the msrket, some years ago one
used to be able to And beautiful relics of
the past. Here tapeetrles of Gobelins,
Audran and Beauvaia could be bought for
absurdly low prices and little stuffy shops
would produce rare blta of old Baxon
Sevres for ths artist or lover of antiques
who showed knowledge and Interest.
But not any more. Gone are the days
when one could pick up bits of rosewood
furniture or Renaissance chests from these
dealers, alio were as Interesting as the
goods they dealt In.
Now this street Is a sort of morgue of
the army. They sell uniforms, battered
helmets and torn and tarnished epaulettes.
One even sees garlands of the Legion of
Honor with discolored ribbons throwing
the light of their glory over this medley
of swords, scabbards and other para
phernalia of war.
In fact, all these little streets are filled
with second-hand clothes shops and one
really wonders as one turns back to mod
ern Paris if the people In this quarter ever
wear new things, or whether old clothes,
like old associations, are an indispensable
part of the neighborhood and Just keep
changing owners, never really -wearing out
CUNNING EAST INDIAN SHARPS
parlous Goods Worked Off aa Skill
(ally on Occidentals Do
the Job.
,
Consul General William H. Michael fur
nishes a report from Calcutta explaining
the skillful methods of some of the native
dealers In substituting, by means of spuri
ous brands and packages, counterfeits for
Imported articles. He writes:
"The cunning Indian has demonstrated
that putting up liquors In labeled and
capsuled bottles, with special stamps on the
corks. Is no protection at all to the high
grade goods thus treated. In fact, these
precautions simply maks the way of the
swindler easy and profitable. Hotels and
Individuals who Import their own goods
derive more or less comfortable assurance
of the purity of the goods from tbs elab
orate capsules and marks, but those who
buy goods from tha bazars can have no
such assurance. These bazar dealers make
a great show ot carrying only supsrlor
Imported goods, .and exhibit the capsuled
and gaudily labeled bottles as proof of thslr
claim. They always offer their goods, the
same brands, at a lower price that can be
had at reputable European establishments,
and explain that their expenses of doing
business are much lower than their com
petitors, and hence they can sell at lower
prices. But ths fact Is they are selling
spurious and really vile goods In bottles
that are genuine.
"The method of procedure by representa
tives of concerns dealing In counterfeit ar
ticles Is to form the acquaintance ot head
waiters of hotels and the "khansamas" of
private establishments where first-class
wines and liquors are used, and by a satis
factory bribe secure capsules undamaged
or slightly damaged. A good price is paid
for bottles with labels intact and for corks
with the brand on the side or bottom that
can be used. But the corks are not easn-
t.al. Ths faker can use now corks and m rk
them with his own metal die. With a sup
ply of capsules, bottles and labels and
corks, the counterfeiter, with a supply of
German spirits, brandy and whisky esai-nce.
etc.. Is ready for business. Skillful blend
ing follows, the filling of the bottles al
ready labeled and corked, a fine brand from
some other country Is ready for the seeker
after high-grade wine or liquor which he
believes Is the same article that he would
have to pay a quarter or third more for at
a reliable dealer's. It the buying ot wln
and liquors Is left to the khaasama, he will
Invariably buy of these native dealers, be
came he can get a larger "rake off." He
will show bis master ths bill and expatiate
on how much he had saved for his master
by buying at ths basar or from a native
firm of wealth who can undersoil the
European merchants.
Hat a Savage.
"Now," aald Tommy s mother, MI hope
you'll profit by that spanking and not be
such a little savags hereafter."
"Boo-hoo!" blubbered Tommy. "I wlsht
I wus a little savage. Little savages' mam
mas don't wear slipper"
I "iMMm-
mm1 fern m t? t: sl
WyMw fe fife k
""-VIA ,v. tWSM.iV
nsmv rsrvt
Where
Do You
Get Your Cuts?
mm
'JK i 1 .V
mm
This is an important question that means much
to you in illustrating your caialogue or advert
Using. Our employes take an interest in every
engraving that goes through our house. They
are anxious to give you the quality that will
bring this firm more business. X X 'X
We solicit your orders both large and small.
Our Specialties Commercial designing, me"
chanxcai drawings, general illustrations, half"
tones, zinc etchings and wood engravings. X
BAKER. BROS. ENGRAVING COMPANY
OMAHA
M