Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 August 1896 — Page 7

1HE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, AUGUST 2, 1896.

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Safety Deposit Vaults

The vaults r this cotupany afford absolute protection from Fir.;; and r.unc.LAns. TWy am rfesdjrr.1 icr th afc kcplns of valuables ot all ktncj . v . CPECXA L . DEPARTMENT . FOR WOM EN. Under the riannsement of Mr. Mary McKenir reruns going away fir the summer will And the vzul;s of thl evntfany a sale an.l convenient Tlice for the Horace of thir SILVERWAHK, TUirC-A-BIiArr. I'AlN'TXNUrf. UOOKS, FURS. KTC. Inspection ImltM. IHDIA1IA TRUST COMPANY, AVnhlnelon St. anil Virginia Ave. THE L. A. KINSEY, CO. xyconronATtD. CAPITA Is. f23,000 FULL PAID. DAIXKS Chicago Grain and Provisions, lieu York Stocks. CBAKCt! 1 W.it Tenth St, Aodersos, It. Utf Disuse. TelepboM. u tl and 13'WEST PEARL STREET. WHEAT MARKET WEAK DT.lAs TRADING IX THE CHICAGO PIT AD TEDESCV DOWNWARD. Corn and Out Followed Closely After - Wheat nnil 8cor-l Decline rrovlsionii Firmer. ' CHICAGO. Aug. I. There was an uneasy wheat market to-day. It sold up early on rainy weather, then turned weak and closed at Z&2c for September, or He below Friday. Corn and oats each lost a trifle of thMr previous values and provisions gained a little. Rather a dull day was noted In wheat, the market exhibiting but little life, and fluctuations kept within c. The feeling manifested was rather easy and final figures showed a loss of c. The steadiness early was attributable-largely to the wet weather In most of the winter States. Kxports for the week from both coasts made a very fair shoeing. Country acceptances were again small and insignificant, and St. Louis strong and higher and Imparted some strength to the situation. Argentine shipments were larger than last Week, but still small. The small trade, and the absence of foreign advices, owing, to Ihe bank holidays in England, was rather against the price, and then local arrivals exceeded -the estimates. Northwestern receipts, too, showed a .moderate increase. Crop reports were very favorable from the Northwest. The local out Inspection was moderate and board ' 'clearings fair. Tho closing Paris market, wait unchanged for wheat, and flour ten centimes higher. Berlin was unchanged;. also Antwerp. Thre was not much of a trade in corn, the market keeping within c, with transactions principally between room operators. The opening was a little irregular, and after selling up broke Vjc, hanged some find closed with Vc decline. The late heavy lake engagements, small acceptances -from -the country and action, of wheat rere productive of rhe early .strength. Oats vrers stronger early, but weakened later. The close, however, was at about the same to a shade over yesterday. May heing the strongest. The best selling was J0f1.0.) bushels by a commission house, which was taken in scattered lots. There ras an advance of fiSc over yesterday's iios at the start, but it reacted 4"ic on predictions of receipts for Monday. 4C0 cars, gainst 2tt cars inspected to-day. Provisions were very firm, considering the weakness of the grain markets. Some outside orders to buy were met by sales from the packers. The whole of the day's advance was not maintained, but September closed with a gain of Tc. while lard and ribs each !?f t oif at an Improvement of .)je A moderate day's business was done In the pit. Intimated receipts for Monday: Wheat. 350 cars; corn. 1.600 cars: oats. 4C0 cars: hogs. Ut.000 head. This . Includes Sunday work on the Santa Fe. Leading futures ranged as follows: Ojx-n- IIi;rh- Low- ClosArtleles. ins. "t. est. ing. CWheat Aug S, 5, 5T Sept IV h M I'a Dec. 6m, 614 CO'a Com Aug 24i 234 2T.n Sept 2i 2V, 24 24 May T, 2 ST j 27, Dat Sept 1S is 1V Dec 1S 1S I", May 21 21 20S 2tt Pork Sept .2S 56.40 t.2.' J5.32 Oct i.ozi fi.or. ?.f24 Jan 7.00 7.0 6.973 6.S7Vi Lard-Sept 3.224 3.27' i 3.22a 3.174 Oct 3.324 3.324 330 3.324 Jan .'?4 3.60 3.57 4 3.60 Short rb-Sept. ... 2.274 3.224 3.274 3.324 Oct 3.3." 3.374 3.3.1 3.374 . J n. 3.474 3.224 3.474 3.S0 Cash quotations were as follows: Flour steady. No. 2 irlrc wheat. 7vc; No. 3 sprinsr wheat. fifiSV; No. 2 red. 614c: No. 2 corn. 244324c. No. 2 oat.. lS4c: No. 2 white. 22e; No. 3 white. :i422c. No. 2 rye. 204c. . No. 2 barley nominal; No. 3. f.o. b.. 2Sfi30c: No. 4. f. o. b.. 25c. No. 1 flaxseed. 72Htj7i'4C. Prime timothy seed. $3.10 2.1. Mph pork, per brl. $t.2.. Lard, per lb. 2.2c. Short-rib sides (loose). 3.2."33.30c. Drysalted shoulders J boxed). 3";??lc. Short -clear sides boxed). 34T?3V. Whisky, distillers' finished jroods. per gal. $1.22. Sugars unchanged. rterelpti Flour. 7. MX brl: wheat. 7J.00 bu; corn. 5K.V bu; eats.. l?2.n bu: rye. 7.OC0 hu; barley. ,0) bu. Shipments Flour. 5.CW brls: wheat. Sj.'WJ bu; oata. 37S.0OO' bu; rye, none; barley, 1.0x bu.LOCAL. GIIAIX AND PRODtCG. Wheat and Onta Show nn Advance, While Corn In Lower Again. The volume of trade in the week closing Saturday, while not satisfactory by any means, cannot be said to be altegether disappointing, from tre fact that wholesaler were not expecting n vch. Business averaged well with the preceding weeks of the month, and the entire month with that of the corresponding reriod of last year. The weather ha been against dealers, ar.fl tra.1? would have been limited under similar .rcumfctancea even In an active year. Durlnr the. week there have been no fluctuations in trices In any department of trade of any conr4uence. On 'Chanee it was dull usual, but there was Kmt stiff Tninc In the quotation for wheat, while ccrn declined '.-c on most grades. Oats aiaared 491e on all grades of old, with quotatkfts for new unchansred. The closing bids for track stuff were as follows: Wheat-No. 2 red. CSUc; No. 3 red. M41?44c; lie. 4 rd. 4i4So. uajtrtn wheat. i7c. Cr-v-N".. 1 white. 2m-; No. 2 white. No. 3 ?Mte. ,2tv; No. 2 white mixed. 2.V: No. 3 white nixed. Sc; N'. 2 yellow. 2-c: No. 2 yellow. 2 ; No. 2 tflxed. Zlc; No. Z mixed. 2Tc; ear corn. 24c. fiatf-No. J white. Tic; No. i white. :ic; No. 2 tiitx'!. 2'V. No. 3 mixd. 13c; new No. 2 white. 3-- t. 2 mlxe.l. iv. Ha -No. I timothy. IZ&12.:; No. 2 timothy, 11: iww timothy, J?: new rralrie. Ponltry nntl Other Produce. (Prices paid by shippers.) Poultry Hens. 74c; springs, over 2 lbs. Sc; prfnK. over 3 lb. &c; cocks. 3c; turkey hens. c: turns. 7c; oUl toms. 6c; ducks. Cc; peese, 4')c tC'i for full feathered. kv fc-r plucked. Jtu'ter t'ountrj'. Tk; choice. 7c. K?L9-rShlppers paying $4tr3c for fresh stock. Vm. Medium unwashed. 12'; f.ne merino, unwished. 10c: tub-washed. 20?3c; burry and unmrcnantaMe. ic Iresa. Feathers Irime geese. TOc per lb; prime duck. Se per D. . Ueeswax 3Ao for yellow; 23c for dark. HIDE. TALLOW. KTC. Green-flted Hides Nj. 1, c; No. 2, 5c; No. 1 calf. 7e: Nr. 2 calf, :4c ;reen Hides No. 1. 4r; No. 2. 3c. ;reae White, yellow. 24c; brown, ZMc Tallow-No. I. 24c; No. 2. 24c Bones- Dry, 1-13 per ton. 1 LIVH STOCK. L'attle Scarce mid (nle( Horm Active and lllKlier Nlteep Steady. INDIANA I'OLIF. Auk. l.-Otttle-Keceipts l:ght; shlp.nents Uffht. There were but few on ile. The market was quiet at unchanged price. Hxport grade fMiuir 4.2 M.iyprs. mrdlum to gcxnl 2.&fj 3.W bhlvper. common to fair 3.3tu 3..V) Mockers and feeders 2.7-r 2.V) Heifers, gool to choice 3.2iV 5.7. Heifers, cemmon to medium S.f.rr 3 2j Cows, good to choice 2.7.',4r 3.2r Cws. fair to medium.... 2.2-'.'f 2.0) i 'owi, old and thin........................ i.iji 2.o Veals, good to choice 4.Mi J. 0.1 Veals, common to mciluru 2.Vir 3.T.0 pulln. god to choice 2-IiM 3.fto liuil. cocusoa to median l.i 2.2S

Milker?, good to choice 2.ncftr,.7.oi) Milker, common tj medium li.OOfi 22.02 Iloss l'.ecclpts. l..V: shipments. 0. The supply was extremal Hsht and the njarket oienel active and .'c hizlwr, and in a few cases 10c higher. Packers and shippers tuught and the supply was soon eold at th advance.. The closins was steady. Light $3.r3.4S Mixd 3.i;6il.S. Packing and e5iilns 2.V)fi "lij PlRS Z.zvni.ZItoLghs 2.23.00 Sheep and Unit llecelpts llsb4; shipments liuht. Mor.t of the offerings wfre of common grades, held ovrr frora yc?terday. The market was dull on that kind; good grades ar in demand at stadv nrkes.

Sheep and yearlings, good to choice $3.00'?? 3. 60 Sheep an.l yearl:ns. common to medium 2S"n 2.75 3.75'fi I. T.'i Lambs, common to medium Old bucks; per head ............ 2. 3. vO ............ te.Ofj 3.0 Elsewhere. CHICAGO, Aur. ! A good share of the present receii.t of cattle consists of Texans nnd range cattle. The Western raneea are now shipping freely, and will continue to do to until cold weather sts tn. A few of these cattle are taken by tern farmer to fatten. Ftocker -attle are ery high, with sales largely at $3.60, and at these figures they are relatively higher than beef tattle. A larre run of tattle Is looked for Monday as a result of, the recent advances. Hogs were disposed of at steady prices, the bulk selling- at 2.i'fi2.2' Heavy sold at $2.fx,! 3.20. hogs weijrhlBK .under 3W) lbs selling the best. Medium weight sold at ti2ff 3-2i and light at S.IO C'3.4). Sheep sell anywhere from $1.2i1.7i for a few rwH la wa Kb, up to $293.25 for a;ood to choice native. Westerns felling at $2.40fi2.0O. Lambs sell fct $3.2ya5.9 for common to extra, the best being higher than a week ago. Receipts Cattle, 400; hogs. 6.000; sheep, 1.000. KANSAS CITY, Aug. l.-Cattle-Rect-ipts,' 100; rhlpments. l.-Oy Market nominally steady; only heal trade. Hogs f'.ecelpts. 1.800; shipments. 2,000. Market opened strong and closed weaker. Hulk of nkJ. i3.i3: heavieo, t2.6Tr2.: packers. Jp.UOHf 2. :i mixed. 2.503; lights, 2.9oQ3.05; Yorkers, S3fi2.:0; pigs. J2.tfkg3.0G. Sheep Receipts. tO; shipment!!. 100. Market steady. Lambs nominal at $4. 25 'a 5; muttons, $2 2.10. ST. LOUIS. Aug. 1. Cattle Receipt. K00; shipments, none. Market steady on sales maie, which were few. owinr to small supply. Tne dealing wa of a retail character at previous prices. Hogs Receipts. I.000; shipments, none. Market steady. Light, $3.1333.30; mixed. $2.003.20; heavy. ?2.M3.r.. Sheep Receipt. .Wi; shipments, none. Market steady. Natives. f2.2:f?3.2C; lambs. $31?4.rAt. EAST LIBERTY, Aug. 1. Cattle steady and unchanged. Hops active and hlrher. Irinie light, $3.V.?? 3. ; best medium, $3.jT3.fO; heavy. $33.1i; rcughs, I2'7i2.80. Sheep dull. iTlme. $3.63.C; fair. $2.M?3.25: ecmmrui. ?"-'f2.73; choice Iambs. $4.50trt.73. Veal Calves, yrfo.i0. CINCINNATI, Aug: l.-Hogs-Recelpts, 600; shipments. 3-0. N Cattle steady at $2.2.VQ4.13; receipts. i.'OO; shipments. 1.C00. , Sheep lower at $1. JO'S 3.3-7: receipts, 3.700: shipments. 2.K00. Limbs dull and lower at $2.003.05. LOUISVILLE. Aug. 1. Cattle Receipts light. Extra shipping. $3.753.?0; light shipping. $3.25 3.;-0. Hogs Receipts light. Market unchanged. Sheep Receipts light. Market unchanged. GEOIIGB III'NRY LEWES. The Mnn Who Won George Eliot ot Plewslnir to All "Women. Mrs. Lynn Linton, In the Bookman. But chief. of all the constant friends and visitors were George Henry Lewes and his pretty little wife Agnes. - Of the secret history wherein these two bore tbeir part I will say nothing. Let the dead past bury its dead. I have alread$ spoken out and done my best to rescue from obloQ-uy the name of the one who was made the scapegoat the one who "was by far the more steadfast, the more loval. the more logical of ihe two. In all that followed the world elected to crown the successful and to brand the comparatively obscure; but the world does not always Judge aright, and moral astigmatism is quite as general as Is the physical. Lewes was a singularly plain man. tleeply pitted with the smallpox, with narrow jaws and somewhat drawn-ln cheek. He had brinht, vivacious and well-shaped eves, a eiuantity of bright brown hair and a flexible mouth of singular molstness. He was the first of the audacious men of my acquaintance, and about the moit extreme. Hp bad neither shame nor reticence in his choice of subjects, but would discourse on the mo?t delicate matters of physiology with no more perception that he was transgressing the bounds of propriety than if he had ben a learned savage. I learned more startling things from Lewes, in full conclave of young and old. married ancl single, mon and women, than I had ever dreamt of or heard hinted at before. And I know that men complained of his afterdinner talk nnd anecdotes ;.s being beyond the license accorded to. or taken by. even the boldest talkers of th messtable and the club smoklnir room. He did not go so far as this In public, but he went vpry far; and to a vounp girl, fresh from the country life where the faint echoes of "plums, prunes and prisms' stil) lingered, it was all mbarrasslngr and "shocking" enough. His manners, too. were as fresh as his talk. It wan fa Id of another notable man In his dny that his way of shaking hands suetcested tho divorce court; and the same might be said of Lewes's manners to the women he liked and -was intimate with. I myself was at Mrs. Miiner Gibson's when he shouted across the room: "Arethu?a. come here!" and I saw him perch himself familiarly on the arm of the chair in which she was sitting. Yet he had no cause for such a breach of good taste and good manners. Mrs. Miiner Gibson was his good friend, as she was a good friend to so many whom her kindly social patronage could serve; for she wf. one of the most generous, most lrge-haried women of her day. Hut T know that Mr. Lewes's familiarity tried her temper, as It would have tried the temper of any woman. I remember, too, his offerlne- to kiss a pretty young- girl on hei taking leave of the family one Sunday night, and his offended and reproachful tone when she turned away her head and refused his kiss. It was the tone which shoulu have been used had she submitted to this or any other Hkt familiarity. That. too. was a startling experience to me. which upset my moral arithmetic for many days. Time has now swept away the whole of that group of early friends save one-rAg-nes Lewes. George Lewes's wife, that pretty, rosebud-like woman, whose "dono fatale ell bellezza" worked its usual tale of wofl to all concerned. Those who were children in arms at the time of which I write are now mature men and women; those who were strapping boys and girls. Just emerging fwm the nursery, are now gray-headed and gray-bearded. -The rest have played their part, and only denr memories and the loyalty of ancient love, remain a Imperishable wreaths on their graves. Samuel Laurence and his frler.rts, James Soeddlng. Fltzererald. the Colerldges. Joshua Stansers. and others, have closed their eyes to the things of time, and the provocations of poor, harassed Anastasla are over for ever. Thornton Hunt, with all his vital nobleness, because of his absolute sincerity of nature, all his strength of purpose and gentleness of manner, all his fire and all his tenderness, he and his wife one of the sweetest and best women that ever lived they. too. have drained their wine cup to the lees and made their liberation to Death. And George Lewes, who sacrificed some part of his integrity for the gain that accrued, he and his gifts and intellectual graces, his mistakes and his lapses, his brilliancy and his want of absolute thoroughness, together with all that was lovable aid generous In his nature he. too. has learnt the great secret, and knows no more of life's perplexities. EVER-VICTOHIOIS ARMY." A Foreign Legion Orgnnlied ly nn American Sailor In China. Hon. John W. Foster, in the Century. With a spirit of liberality and 'quick discernment little characteristie of his countrymen. LI Hung Chang early recognized the fact that the methods and weapons of Chinese warfare were antiquated, and illsuited to the work In hand, and ho welcomed the opportunity afforded by his stay at Shanghai to introduce into the campaign modern military appliances. A foreign legion, enlisted- from the unemployed and adventurous Europeans who freqnented that port, was admitted Into the Chinesearmy under the command of an American sailor named Ward, and which, on account of his brilliant successes, and following the Chinese practice of adopting high-sounding titles, was called the "EverVictorious Army." Ward, after a thorough organization of his foreign contingent, nnd a series of triumphs over the rebels, was killed in an assult upon the enemy, and the command of the corps devolve! upon Colonel Gordon, who was detached from the British army for that purpose. This foreign contlncent vas the most trustworthy ally of the Chlm:-' general ;n the suppression of the gre.it r IHic n. and much fame has justly convo to Gordon for the part he bore in the contest. But then Is a gt-noml disposition on the part of British writers to belittle the services and smirch the reputation of the American. Ward, who is always styled by them an "adventurer." How he differed from Gordon in that respect is not apparent; but certain it is that he is entitled to the credit of having displayed marked military ability both In organizing his forces and in leading them in battle: and he demonHtrated the wisdom of the Chineso commander in enlisting th corps, and its utility a a means of putting down -the rebellion. No greater indorsement of his military genius could have been given than by Gordon himself- in ndoptlng his organization and following his methods to the smallest details.

THE CASTELLANE FETE

GRA.XD FOlItTII OF JULY FlCTIO rX PARIS THAT COST $120,000. Among; the .K)0 Guests Were All the Xnbobs of the French Capital In Royal Magnificence. Emma Bullet's Tails Letter in Brooklyn Eagle. The Count and Countess Castellane (nee Gould) have been the honored guests at such a great number of dinner and recept!6ns that they thought it incumbent upon themselves to return it in some magnificent way worthy of the title of the master and the fortune of the mistress. It is doubtless the Count de Castellane who has the revival of the magnificence displayed by Louis XIV in his royal festivities at heart. It is also he who must have a special taste for the architecture of that period, for the young couple Castellane is about to build a mansion in the Avenue de Bols de Boulogne which will be a copy of the Trianon of Versailles, and which will be furnished after the style of the same epoch. We hope, however, with all the added modera improvements, for still at that time, except for royalty, no room was set apart for baths nor. Indeed, for more summary washes, and the women of the court dressed in crowds in what we would call to-day pubHe dressing rooms and slept in dormitories. Let us also hope that in the dressing room of the young countess the mirrors will all be of one piece, for the walls of that of Marie Antoinette were, and arc still covered with small panes of looking glasses which are so arranged that when you look into one you have the horrible sight of having your head severed from your body, a horrible realization of the proverb, "Coming events cast their shadows before." No place In the world is more admirably fitted for the getting up of a grand fete than the Bols de Boulogne, and in the Avenue des Acacias there is an inclosure called Le tir aux pigeons belonging to a club. It is in this inclosure that the great Castellane fete took place, a fete that had not its equal in the day3 of the second empire's spendor. The programme consisted of the reconstitution of the fifth day of the festivals attending upon the marriage of Louis XIV and "Marie Therese of Austria, and that meant an expense of at least $20,000 for the changing of the grounds, for the construction of decorations painted by the best scenic artists, for the building of an immense amphitheater, for the erection of an Immense stage where the ancient plays and dancing were to take place, for the hundreds of yards of natural and artificial vines and flowers that were to encircle the whole place and the myriads of electric jets. In this feast tho hosts desired their guests to fe'el as if they were in the garden of Eden and at the same time as if walking in the milky way of the heavens. This great sum of money' was not only spent to feast the eyes of the blase and the rjch; it was also the desire of the count and countess to throw it Into the circulation, to enable a whole class of the Paris population, who depends upon the luxury of the rich, to save a few francs, to live throuKh the dull season when all their patrons are in their chateaux or at the sea shore. In this grand feast they also remembered the extreme poor, for in the morning they sent. $1,000 to the assistance publique and as much to the Archbishop of Parts. 3.000 GUESTS INVITED. The portico, through which the 150 gue3ts invited to dine and the 3.000 guests invited for the evening entertainment were to pass, had three immense entrances, at each of which, standing in lines, were' ten footmen, powdered and wearing the Castellane livery, white coat with gold alguilettcs, yellow waistcoat and black trousers and hose. This grand Louis XIV portico, upheld with columns and ornamented with red draperies, vines, flowers and plants, led to the hall of honor, in which stood the Count and Countess Castellane, the Marquis and Marquise de Castellane to receive their guests. This salon, as well as the dining room and an immense spectacular hall, were built for the purpose, and it is In this inclosure that the brilliant crowds stood for, untortunately. the sun. 1 ,c ""in 01 ine rot soien,. retused to assist at this resuscitation and the day's rain made the walking on the grass quite impractieable. But with a mine of gold at one s disposal one can iaugh at the heaven's displeasure; the host had 13 000 yards of carpet thrown upon the allevs and the lawns. J At 8 o'clock dinner was announced. The din ng room was entirely draped with white hangings looped. up with gold ornaments. In the pan were immense mirrors which reflected the myriads of tinted electric jets and tho long lines of garlands of ivy and smllax studded with 10.000 natural roses. On the sli!t of the wide lawn looking out on nr. irr.mnse horizon, the dining room was left open and the sight from there almost equaled that of the famous terrace of tlv; pavilion Henry IV at Saint Germain. The tables wre niarvtlously decorated: w iiuvers. vines anr ribbons. The countess herse'f :nust bave attended to this part of tiie ornamentations, for in trance the profusion of tne table flowers an.jIve,L Is r,ot !,s reat a3 in America. While the loO gi'.ests were being seated and during the? repast a band played, and during the Interval hunters' horns sounded and responded to each other hidden in flowery bowe.-s. Those who make collections of menus will, perhaps, be pleased to copy the one served in this grand garden party: Consomme princess. Truites saumonees shuco verte. .Selle de pre. tale flageo'ets bretonrre. Supreme de volai.le a la geleo estragannee. Salad Japonalse. Fraises a la royale. Desserts. Vins. Saint Marleaux. Saint Pierre, Saint Julien. The dinner was so admirablv rerved bv forty liveried waiters d'hotel that it lasted but an hour. After th dinner the guests repaired to the salle d'honneur. and there admired the admirable floral displays, the brilliant illuminations and listened to the music played by invisible bands. One of the royai houses of the world naturally had to figure and represent monarchy in all its gala splendor. The Japanese prince. Fushlml. with his suite, opportunely being In town, arrived at 10. rand during the evening sat in a salon made up of ivy and French roses, and through an open door looked upon the entertainment of the evening. f FESTIVITIES AT 11 P. M. ; ' j At 11 the festivities began, lmasine'3.000 persons seated in grounds lit' up with IO.000 Venetian lanterns: on one sldo a lake bordered with a garland of electric lights, and on which glided black and white swans; on the other side an immense lawn studded with marble statues, trees gleaming with lanterns that threw a soft, weird light over fountains and plots of flowers. In front stood the irmmense stage with the' reproduction of Lovis XIV arch of triumph, built of white columns, which. In the tilm light and into the darkness, seemed to reach the sky. Between the columns w-ere three arched porticoes whose perspective was ornamented with copies of the statues of the Versailles gardens, and below a graduated platform . com posed of Innumerable steps on which gradually appeared the dancers, figurants and performers. The entertainment bsgan with the appearance of the god Phoebus, holding the toich of clay with outstretched arm. As if by magic Phoebus and his surroundings bocarrr too duzzllngly bright for the eye to look upon. The muses then appeared. They were the symlols of art. and they in the form 0 a .tableau vivant took their places' above inside of the porticoes. Then came bevies of dancing girl3 dressed In Greek costumes, each holding an ancient' instrument, the lyre or Paris flute. Each as she descended took a plastic pose. After they were all In place the dazzling light held by Phoebus changed into a soft pink and threw an enchanting hue over these white clad maidens. Behind the hcepes. und Indeed as If coming from all hidden parts of the garden, soft music was heard playing a hymn dedicated to Apollo. The light suddenly became blue and new clusters of young girls came down the step from the porticoes dressed in pink, joined with garlands of flowers and car

rying baskets cf roes thtJ:hey placed at the feet of Phoebus. After this the light changed Into red. and from above descended the sons of Greece with lance and shield as if prepared for battle. After a series of graccini movements they put their wcapor.s at the feft of the god and the li.Tht becoming: white atraln a Greek tlance took place, performed by all the figures, while Greek songs of triumphs wede sung in low melodious notes by Invisible songsters. As the Count and Countess de Castellane knew tliat a still greater number of people would be around the grounds than in them they reserved the last for their admiration. Brilliant fireworks, consisting of all that can be made to mount the heavens in the way of rockets, mounted pieces and bouquets, illuminated the heavens for over an hour. The last piece was the palace of Versailles in all of its splendor, and the fete ended amid the thunder of applause

inside and out of the precincts of the Acacias grounds, which for two weeks were occupied by hundreds of workmen in transforming it into a fairy spectacle which lasted but three hours, but which will remain long in the memory of the witnesses and perhaps longer in the memory of those to whom it gave emploj'ment, and put a goodly sum of francs in their pockets to weather the long coming month of idleness. THE ROYAL DRESSING. To complete the illusion, all the guests ought to have been asked to dress in the Louis XIV costume. The brilliant dress of the men wqyld have added to the grand spectacle. It is curious to note that during the reign of the rol solell, the men were more gorgeously dressed than the women. We all remember the superb habiliments covered with gold and silver embroideries, the fine linen, with frills of real lace, the broal velvet hats, covered with long white plumes, the powdered perukes, with which the king and his courtiers adorned themselves. But we must consult the fashion plates of the times when we wish to refer to the costumes of the women. Louis XIV was an egoist in all acceptations of theword, and although he loved women only too Well, he had it understood that he was to have the finest clothes and be supreme in looks, as he was supreme in deeds. It was a pity that the weather was inclement, for no doubt the women had prepared elaborate toilets to be admired in their exquisite frame. Still, there were some toilets that are worthy of being cited. The young Countess de Castellane, -even if she had been the only one, ought to have had a toilet which, in a limited way, would have recalled those of the times. But she wore silk etamlne of a beipe shade, thickly embroidered in bluish beads and spangles. This etamlne fell over a blue silk skirt. The collar she had thrown 011 her shoulders was an elegant medley of beaded and bespangled blue mousseline de soie. with ruffles of real dark ecru lace. In the back of this collar was a cascade of electric blue satin ribbon. She wore a large broad-brimmed hat of a beige shade, covered with electric blue plumes. The mother of the count, the Marquise de Castellane, looked superb In a white satin gown, made somewhat after the fashion of Louis XIV, that Is with flowing, gathered skirt, bodice much garnished about the shoulders, long flowing sleeves. ILt broad hat was also a copy of the hat of the times, broad brimmed, black velvet, literally covered with Immense black plumes. The Countess de Greffulhe looked exquis.ite in a white toilet of mousseline de sole, made in the empire style. The long chiffon skirt over an ivory satin was accordion pleated, and It ran almost up to under her arms. Short, round baby waist of accordion pleated chiffon, with light green side ribbon belt, tied in a bow and long ends In the back. A high necked chemisette, made of bands of white mousseline. with insertings, green ribbon drawn through the insertings, covered her wellpleated chiffon down to the elbow, then tight fitting of Insertings, lined with green to the waist. White lace hat, with very high crown, trimmed with a band. of green ribbon, with high bow ftnd tuft of green feathers on the side. A bow of ribbon under the brim, near the left ear, which raised and dented the brim. One of the grandes dames must have consulted the Watteau pictures, for her dress was that of one of his pretty shepherdesses that daintily pose in a dainty landscape. Over a silk mauve skirt, a gauze strewn with variegated bouquets was draped with slight paniers. trimmed with ribbons of all the ehades found in the . gauze. Pointed brocade bodice, trimmed with Chantilly lace and bows of ribbon. Gauze sleeves, in whieh nestled bows of ribbon shaped Into wings of butterflies. A fancy clear lace straw hat loaded with plumes, of all the colors of the rainbow. You, may Imagine what a picture she made as she stood near one of the flowery bowers and near the lake of that enchanted place. CXCLAIMEI) FOR YEARS. Inrce Dank Deposit Which AVn Apparently Forgotten. San Francisco Chronic!. Another strange discovery has come to light in the Hibernia Bank deposits that have been neglected for many years by their owners. It appears that Jeremiah Pendergast. long mourned as dead, is alive and prosperous in South Africa, where he has made a fortune. It Is learned that he has apparently forgotten that $12,000 await him in the Hibernia Bank of San Francisco. The history of Pendergast's deposit Is one of the most interesting of all the old estates that, have lain unclaimed for years in the vaults of San Francisco. In the first nlae. It now amounts to $12,000, being the largest sum of all the unclaimed deposits, and in the next place it has perhaps been more widely advertised and more generally claimed ..than any other sum In the list. Strangely, however, nearly all the Pendergasts. save the real owner, seem to have heard of the money and laid claim to It. while the original depositor has lived quitely in South Africa all these years, heedless of the fact that his gold lies In the bank awaiting its owner's orders. Attorney Oscar T. Shuck has Just 1 located the orirtnal Jeremiah Pendergast in tne congo r ree btate, where the old man lives in great luxurv. having amassed a large fortune since he went there as one of the pioneers of nearly twenty years ago. Pendergast went to South Africa in 1S78, being one of the leaders of a California colony. He left a good sum m the bank here, since which time no one has ever heard from him or of him until word came recently that he was well and rich. The nearest trace of him was that he was at the old Empire Hotel on Pacific street some time between 1858 ancl 1S70. Hundreds of alleged hairs have been after the estate, but it will, no doubt, soon, reach the original depositor. A strange fact about the case Is that the public administrator recently petitioned for letters of administration, alleging in a general way that Pendergast died some years ago In Nevada. Judge Slack went so far as to appoint attorney J. J. Dwyer to represent absent heirs, but attorney Shuck suggested that Pendergast still lived, whereupon the letters of administration were withheld. It is quite probable that the claimants were really induced to believe that their ancestor died In Nevada, where an old miner named Pendergast expired in a fire that destroyed his cabin and himself at midnight In a mountain fastness. They will soon learn, however, that the true Jeremiah Pendergast. who left a few thousand dollars In the Hibernian Bask in 1S6S, went to South Africa with only a little money, and is now grizzled with age. but guUded with gold. also. The real heirs of this strange pioneer live in Massachusetts. The bankers and attorneys, as well as the public administrator, are wondering: why the pioneer of '4'.) deserted his gold here, even to become a pioneer in the African gold fields. At any rate, the money is safe. The distribution of a living man's fund has been prevented, and $12,000 now awaits the owner's order. The 'Lmly of Quality. Bok's Letter. Curiosity impelled me to ask Mrs. Burnett a fortnight since while talking with her in her London home how she happened to write .a story which was so far removed from her work which jut preceded it. "Why." said Mrs. Burnett, "the story was first suggested to me by the fact that I found a curious remote cellar in the basement of this house" (Mrs. Burnett's own home on Portland place, in London.) "This house was, I am told, built about a hundred years ago. and its cellarage is enormous, and extends apparently almost into the next street. The place must have been planned for a man whose chief interests in life were his dinners and his stock of wines. The cellar I refer to is the most remote of all, and Is a black, small vault at the end of an arched passage. One reaches it finally by passing through the doors of three other cellars. It Is merely a remote wine cellar, but it looked so black and Kruesome when I first opened the. last door and peered into the darkness that it suggested possibilities. I said to the friends who were with me: 'How convenient If one casually destroyed an evening calltr in the heat of argument. One could bear him down the back staircase, if ono were muscular erough. stow him away here, and live a peaceful, domestic life over his remains without bring found out. It was a mere obvious joke at first. I did not think of it as a s;ory or. at l?ast. as a story I could write. It was too far out of my line to attract me. At first it only suggested Plot, and It is not plot I care for so much ais chaxtax "

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AMAZIXG STORIES OF THE HEAT IX AUSTRALIA LAST WINTER. The Mercury nnnpeil from 1-0 to 17S Degrees, rnunlng Men and Animals to Fall Dead In Their Trncks. New York Journal. The terrible heat in Australia, regarding which some brief cablegrams have already been published, is shewn by fuller reports to have been one of the. most amazing of recorded calamities. Some of the Incidents of the visitation are m weirdly prodigious that they would seem to form part of the story of an earthquake rather than of a silent and insidious agent of devastation, such as a period of excessive heat. The recent "burning out of the atmosphere" on the Darling watershed in Australia (it Is in these terms that the phenomenon may best be described) has provoked so much controversy among scientists and has been so minutely investigated by the government . of New South Wales that the testimony regarding the catastrophe is now as complete as it ever will be. The physicists who have conducted the investigation, and whose reports have arrived by the last Australian mail, find that the mortality was not due to the mere insolation of the air! No heat above 172 degrees Fahrenheit (observed at Adelaide) was registered, and it is well known that 230 degrees is a temperature to which the air of Hammam baths Is often heated. At one point on the Darling river, where the heat wa-s only 120 degrees in the shade, death came more suddenly and decomposition more quickly followed death than at Adelaide. The presence of light carbureted hydrogen, the gas which forms the basis of fire damp, was repeatedly detected. It is a common laboratory experiment to burn out from air its life-giving properties, just as by calcination the cementing component of a lump of metal is exhausted until the mass becomes a mere pinch of powder. But the heat, considered merely as heat, was not sufficient in Australia ro l ave produced this rarefaction. When men standing on hilltops, with the v parched fronds of giant fern rustling in the wind, fell stifled and died for the want of air to breathe, there was present some such strange principle of evil as that which slew the Pompellans before the ashes fell upon them. Research shows the existence of an unknown factor in the heat, some force which eludes the measurement of the thermometer, which fails to dilate the mercury, just as the cathode ray falls to impress the retina of the eye, although it pierces opaque substances and leaves its mark upon a photographic plate. OPERATOR DEAD AT -HIS KEY. Some of the cases of prostration are prodigiously amazing. The telegraph operator at Nyngan died with his hand on the key, arid his last message, "The mosquRoes here are being killed by the heat," was thought to be a symptom of delirium, until the man sent to replace him reported that he had counted six strtaked gnats lying dead upon the pad of yellow paper at the dead man's elbow. At Broken Hill a clinical thermometer showed a man's temperature to be 109?i degrees at an interval of an hour and a half after death. The heat of the air at the time wes not so great that the cadaver ought (the thermal conductivity of inanimate flesh being low) to have shown more than about 90 degrees; yet two physiciaus checked the reading. In the animal kingdom there was tp be seen the same vague terror which Darwin dwells upon in connection with eclipses and earthquakes. The Australian mairpies. which are among the most shy of the timid II M At 1 1 I . crow lauuiy 01 uirus, iiuckvu 11110 iouiiry yards and a bevy of wry-bill plovers settled on the shoulders and on the wagon of a man who was driving into Yarlalla as confidingly . aa if they had been domestic pigeons. Rabbits huddled into a sheep herder's tent near Tholabool and piled ut) until they looked like a snow drift, covering his dead body. Sheep took to water, and in shallow streams, where they could keep their footing as long as their strensth remained. Then one after another was seen to roll over and drift away with the stream, killed by the vitiated air. When it was first reported that all the fish in Lake Copige had been kille-d by the heat, and that tons of them rising to the surface and accumulating at the western outlet of the lake lay decomposing, the Incident was considered incredible. Now that the story has been fully corroborated, there would seem to be an indication of some seismic activity. If the bed of the lake had been heated, as has sometimes happened in the case of other bodies of water during periods of volcanic disturbances. It would have been easy to hav understood the disaster, but unless the subterranean fires were showing power in some way which altogether eluded the perception of the seismometer and other instruments intended for their observation, this theory is untenable. The hot springs which bubble up from the earth in various parts of the country were not hotter than usual. PHENOMENON UNEXPLAINED. Reasoning in a circle, one comes back to the fact thajt the solar heat, terrible as it was, does not fully explain the phenomena, and yet nd other explanation exists. J. Meridlth Crawford, a large fand owner &nd wool grower on the Darling river, left one of his most northerly sheep stations at the beginning of the terible twenty-si v days to viit England on business. He is now spending a few days at Newport, and sails for Southampton by the New York on Wednesday. A correspondent of the Journal saw him day before yesterdiy. and his account of the drought with which the hot spell began gives some idea of the extraordinary climatic conditions by which the calamity was heralded. "I had cone down to Sydney before the worst came," he said, "but the foreman on my No. 2, station, on the border, wrote me a full account of what he saw. He U a cool-headed Scotchman, and has been with me for twenty years, ant". I rely on what he says. The reports of mortality about which you ask me are In no way exaggerated, and the fact about the magpies coming into the poultry yard is no more extraordinary than what Maclellan, the foreman, saw. It was just beginning when I left. Four years ago I built a shearing shed and huts for three shepherds about thirty miles north of this No. 2 station. The only water within ten miles of this new place was in a water hole about thirty feet in diameter, but what I saw of the tracks running down to it and what some of the old natives told me about it decided me to go ahead in the belief that it was a permanent supply. When this drought came, however, I began to be uneasy about it. and I rode over to have a look for myself. There were at that time very few places where wild animals could find water.1 Our supply at the home station was all right', but I hare got a ring fence twentythree' miles long around it. made of closemcshed wire netting, to keep out the rabbits, so I know that nothing but my own sheen can eet any of that water. The water hole I went to is not. however, closed in. and as I saw that th smaller holes on my way over to it. of which three or four usually have a small supply except in very bad times, were all dry. 1 knew that the brumbies, kangaroos, dingoes and such fash must come from the cc entry fouth as far a3 seventy or eighty miles to find water. " "When I got over there at sunset two of the shepherds were still out in the bush, but I had a talk with the other one, and he told me that the hole was lasting well, but that there was no other water for at leas U0 miles to the north and ninety miles to the east, so that every living thing from a tract of country nearly as large, say. as the whole of Ireland, hnd to come to that water hole to drink, and, therefor', had to fee-d within twenty miles of it. Ho told me that the noise down at the hole at night was beyond anything that could be imagined, and that though he and hu mate had all been in the bilsh for years, they were made uneasy by the sens? of there being sueh a tremendous collection of wild creatures in one place. AROUND THE WATER HOLE. "After I had satisfied myself about the state of the surply, I had supper and then went down to the edge of tho hole, taking a colonial gun one barrel for shot and the other rilled. Two big salmon-barked gumtrees had been felled side by rld. about a reel down the wintl from one side of tho water hole, and a clump of Fhoots had come up over the two slumps. 1 lay down on a big strip of bark in mere, and after about half an hoir the whole place was olive. Of course I am familiar with all the sights and sounds of the bush, but I never

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a c saw anything like that before. As a rule, the finest specimens of what we call the old man kangaroo' stay away from the large water holes, and elo their drinking at secret places, where-, by pawing in the ciay, they can get a pailful of water at a time. I remember once killing a kangaroo that, when the dogs drove, him into a pool, stood up In eight feet cf water and fought off the hounds as they swam out to him. and he was not as large a one cr two I saw that night. You know that, when the male kangaroo is drinking and playing around the edge of the water, ho makes a laughing sound, and this noise was so strong that I could easily understand how it had affected the shepherds. The rockwallaby were there in quantities, and when the moon would come out from behind a. cloud I could see the dingoes they are a kind of wild dog. something like the wolf, you know coming1 down, one afte-r the other. The other animal did not seem to mind them at all. "With the Iguanas, the big land lizards, it Is just the same as with the kangaroos. The oldest ones are the shyest, and it Is not often that you will see one more than six feet long. They take to the tree.s when they hear any one coming, and you know a man always rides In the bush with a light hatchet in his right hand, blazing trees as ho goes. The iguana will run a little way up a tree, and then stop to see what is going to happen. As you ride up you can stand up in your stirrups pnd chop off tin nd of his tail with your hatchet, so you c;in see how common they are. Hut that night it was really terrible to see them. Many of them were certainly eight feet long, and they looked as wicked as alligators. They are, however, quite harmless, as a rule, although In times of tlrouprht they have be-en known to tear open the throat of a sleeping man in order to riake their thirst. I only saw one nake. it cariet snake that Is, the Australian boa about fifteen cr sixteen feet long. The kangaroo and wallabies and the brumbies did not seem to mind him any more than they minded the dingoes, but they were all scattered when the duck mole came out of the water. These duck moles are the things that, when the first specimens were taken to England, were said by the zoologists to be nothing but frauds manufactured out of half a dozen different animals. They have a hcrny beak, nnd thick, glossy fur and webbed feet, and a scratch with the bill will fester and rot the flesh so badly that all other animals are afraid of them. "There .were a good many native bear

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