Indianapolis Journal, Volume 48, Number 2, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 January 1898 — Page 7

WILLS The duty of making- a will is something that every one puts off to the last moment, there being a foolish feeling, in many cases, that to make a will is too much like preparation for death. It is not. It is preparation for the life ot loved ones who may come after you. THE INDIANA TRUST CO advises fully as to wills in all ways. Those consulting it need not fear of making bequests that will not stand in law, or in so disposing of xheir estates that they will be dissipated, instead of going as intended. This company gives this advice free. It also undertakes, at request, any function concerning wills. It may be consulted at any time. THE INDIANA TRUST COMPANY Offices —Wash. Sf. and Virgiaia Ave. Capital $1,000,000 THE L. A. KINSEY CO. INCORPORATED. CAPITAL,. —FULL, PAID. —BROKERS— Chicago Grain and Provisions New York Stocks. Lor tg Distance Telephone. 1275 and 1592. 11 and 1 8 West Pearl Street Cincinnati Office. Rooms 4 an<r o. Kankakee b'lr' - *. LIVE STUCK MARKETS. Cattle Scarce ami Steady—Hogs a Shade Higher—Sheep Steady. INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. l. Cattle Receipts, iiKhi; shipments, light. Nothing here of any convenience. There was no quotable change from yesterday. Export grades $4,750 5.50 Shipi>ers, medium to good 4.20® 4.50 wrappers, common to lair 3.50® 3.00 l-V.-dera, lair to good 3.75® 4.10 fail to good 3.75® 4.10 lleiiers, common to prime 2.50® 3.35 Heitors, good to choice 3.75® 4.25 < -,u s. good to choice 3.40® 3.75 Cows, fair to medium 2.75® 3.25 us. o minon and old 1.50® 2.50 5-:! is, good to choice 5.00® 6.00 Veals, common to medium 3.50® 4.50 Rolls, good to choice 3.25® 3.75 hulls, common to medium 2.25® 3.00 5 .ilo-rS, good to choice 35.00®45.00 Milkers, common to medium [email protected] Hogs— Receipts, 3,000; shipments, 1,000. The supply was light. The market opened active and strong to a shade higher, but late arrivals sold usually with the advance lost. The order trade and packers bought and all were sold. Light $3.45®3.G0 Mixed 3.45® 3.60 Heavy packing and shipping 3.5©<a3.02A4 Pigs 2.50®3.35 Roughs 2.75® 3.35 Sheep and Lambs—Receipts, light; shipments, light. Nothing litre. The indications favor steady prices. Sheep, good to choice [email protected] Sheep, common to medium 2.75®3.5v) Lambs, good to choice 5.00®5.50 Lambs, common to medium 4.00®>4.75 Ducks, per head [email protected]

Elsewhere. ST. LOUIS. Jan. h— Cattle—Receipts, 100. Market steady for natives, with Texans steady to strong. Fair to lancy shipping steers, *4.25®5.25; dressed beef and butchers steers, $3.75®4.85; steers under 1,000 lbs, $2.4C-®4.50; stockers and feeders, $2.30®4.25; cows and heifers, $2.25®4.20; Texas and Indaxi steers, $3.20@4; cows and heifers, $2.00® 3.05. Hogs—Receipts. 1.500. Market 10c higher. Light, $3.25® 3.50, mixed, $3.45® 5.55; heavy, $3.50®3.65. Sheep—Receipts. 100. Market steady. Native muttons, J3.50ft4.50; culls and bucks, [email protected]; stockers, ?2®2.75; lambs, ss@6. KANSAS CITY, Jan. 1. —Cattle—Receipts, 100. Market unchanged; only retail trade. Hogs—Receipts, 6,000. Market strong and 5c higher and closed weak. Bulk of sales, $3.47 l ,s@ 3.55; heavies, [email protected]; pac rs, $3.40®3.57&; lights, $3.35®5.57%. Sheep—Market strong. Muttons, [email protected]. LOUISVILLE. Jan. I.—Cattle—Receipts, 32. Market unchanged. Ho -s—Receipts, 1,773. Market 5c higher on fine, all other classes steady. Sheep and Lambs—No receipts. Market steady and unchanged. _ SOME CAUSES OP SUDDEN DEATH. One-Half of the Total Number Du© to Heart Disease. London Lancet. Roughly speaking, about one-half of the total number of cases of sudden death from natural causes in adults is, more or less, due to heart disease, which has existed for some time, and in ‘which no turther change Is in progress at the time of death—such as valvular disease, angina, fatty heart and sclerosis of the cardiac muscle from chronic myocarditis. In many cases concurrent lung or kidney disease complicates the statistics, such cases frequently being tabulated as deaths solely due to heart disease. Spontaneous rupture of the heart, mostly in men, may exceptionally occur; the left ventricle. often toward the front, is almost invariably the seat of the rupture. It is to be remembered that in traumic rupture of the heart the right side, usually the auricle, suffers more frequently than the left, in the proportion of about as seventy to fifty-four. Apoplexy and other cognate brain lesions rank second as natural causes of sudden death. It is to be noted that miliary aneurisms of the vessels of the brain, although most common in persons past middle lire, occasionally occur in young people, even in children, and by bursting cause death from apoplexy. Chronic alcoholism, a potent factor among the causes of sudden death, is frequently associated with rapidly terminating heart and brain disease. Asphyxia, a not unfrequent cause, may be due to oedema of the glottis, membranous deposits in the trachea, pressure of a neoplasm on the trachea, spasm of the vocal chords, pulmonary embolism, air embolism, rupture of a vessel or of an aneurism into the air passages, asthma, whooping cough, pneumonia and haemo thorax, pleuritic effusion and epilepsy. The rupture of a gastric or of an intestinal ulcer, of an aneurism, of a varicose vein, of thfe surroundings of an ectopic gestation, the formation of a peri-uterine haemotocele. may severally prove quickly fatal. Nephritis (uraemia and apoplexv), diabetes, exophthalmic goitre and Addison's disease may also terminate with unexpected rapidity. Hemorrhage into the pancreas occasionally causes sudden death, apparently from the impression produced on the contiguous nerve centers. It is most common in males over forty years of age. who may, up to the occurrence of the hemorrhage. to all appearances be in perfect health. Obesity, the habitual use of a'cohol and the presence of heart disease appear in manv of the causes to be predisposing causes. Ko -tsehau. however, observed hemorrhage into the pancreas in a woman—an alcoholic—in her twenty-fourth year. Occasionally it occurs in spare people who are free from obtious disease and who are abstemious as regards alcohol. The sufferer may die within half an hour after the occurrence of the b* morrhage or he may survive for twentyfour or even thirty-six hours. Draper records five cases between the ages of twentylive- and thirty-live years, of which three were men and two women. Fitz tabulated sixteen cases, of which eleven were males between thirty-one and seventy years of age. and five were females between twentysix and forty-seven years. Sudden death has in instances followed spontaneous rupture of an enlarged spleen, the result of tropical malarial influences, the individual, immediately berore rupture, being to all intents and purposes quite well. Pel.ereaux gives the history of thirteen eases of rupture of the enlarged spleen; in live the rupture was spontaneous, and in the remainder it was due to apparently inadequate causes, such as a simple fall in the street. It is to be borne In mind that when the spleen is thus enlarged a mere pat with the palm of the hand may determine rupture and consequent speedy death, which, in 'he absence of knowledge of the experience of others, might readily be assumed to be the result of criminal violence. It is to be remembered that some of the above-named diseases may exist without giving rise to any symptoms until the final moment arrives; this applies with special force to diseases which have a prolonged course, during which, as a rule, symptoms Indicative of disease declare themselves. Such a disease is gastric ulcer. 1 have seen more than one case In which, until the fatal rupture occurred, absolutely no symptoms were experienced, not even such as might have been attributed to simpr© dyspepsia: In one such instance a second ulcer was present In the walls of the stomach in addition to the one that ruptured and caused death, and yet, until perforation occurred, the patient never felt any abnormal sensation whatever. ■ 'The Sunday Journal- to any addrew. $2 per annum.

STAGE AND STATESMEN ♦ JOHN REILLY’S UNIQUE COLLECTION OF RELICS IN BALTIMORE. — The Old Shnkspeurean Table Around Which Booth, Forrest, Owens, Clay and Webster Used to Sit. Baltimore American. The memory of the men and women w r no graced the American stage in the good old (lays will never fade from the minds of the local lovers of the drama, so long as a collection of curios now in the possession of Mr. John Reilly Is kept together. Mr. Reilly conducts a restaurant at the northeast comer of Holliday and Fayette streets, adjoining the historic old Holliday-street Theater, and he has In his possession one of the greatest collections of theatrical mementos, connecting the American stage of the present with that of the past. While Mr. Reilly enjoys the ownership of this collection, it was not through his efforts alone that it was gotten together. His father conducted, on South Street, where the Safe Deposit Company is now established, one of the most celebrated oyster houses during ante-bellum days. There were wont to gather the best people of the city, and a fair sprinkling of the visiting theatrical talent. Such men as the elder Booth and his sons, Edwin and John Wilkes, McCulloch, Forrest, Owens, Jefferson and VYallack were frequent visitors at the place, and among the other patrons of the elder Reilly were such statesmen as Clay, Calhoun and Webster. Naturally the elder Reilly became greatly Interested in the prominent men of his day, especially the stars of the dramatic profession, and, as the years passed, he gathered about him many mementos to cherish the memory of his illustrious friends. It is this collection, augmented by other curiosities, that the present Mr. Reilly has displayed in liis place. Perhaps the most interesting feature of the collection is what Mr. Reilly’s father christened the Shakspearean table. It is over eighty years old, and is just as substantial as it was when it was manufactured. It is oblong in shape, with rounded corners, and in the center near the top is an opening, once used to hold a small tintopped stove, in which w r ere heated the “mulling irons.” Fastened to the w r all near this table is a card, on which is painted a brief history of the table. The wording on the card is as follows:

* * * : “Vide! The old Shakspearean : : Table, it* use since 1830, Around : : this venerable and convivial : : board the great actors, Booth : : (Fere et Fils), Forrest, McCready, : : etc., and the statesmen, Web- : : ster, Clay and Calhoun, have : : often assembled and made the : : good old table re-echo their jo- : : vial wit and mirth.” : : “Requiescat in Paoe.”—Reilly. : : , “Auld Lang Syne.” : • * LINCOLN’S PRIVATE LETTER. One of the most valuable things in the whole collection is a private letter written by Abraham Lincoln, as President of the United States, to Hon. Michael Hahn, the first free-state Governor of Louisiana. This letter is not only valuable for the reason that It was penned by Lincoln, but the nature of the missive, especially that part suggesting that the colored race be given representation in the state convention that was to have been held in Louisiana, clearly indicated Lincoln’s policy in regard to the rights and privileges of the colored race. Lincoln, when he penned those lines, thirtythree years ago, never thought that eyes other than those of the Governor of Louisiana would ever gaze upon them. To-day the letter is exposed to public view in Mr. Reilly's restaurant, and, accompanying this description is an exact reproduction of the letter, just as Lincoln w’rote it. Just how Mr. Reilly got possession of the letter is a state secret with himself. It is generally understood that the letter, by some means, found its w f ay to Washington, and Mr. Reiily secured possession of it in that city. The wording of the letter is as follows: “Private. “Executive Mansion, Washington, D. C., March 13, 1864. “Hon. Michael Hahn—My Dear Sir: I congratulate you on having fixed your name in history as the first free-state Governor of Louisiana. Now, you are about to have a convention, w’blch, among other things, will probably define the elective franchise. I hereby suggest for your private consideration, whether some of the colored people may not be let in—as, for instance, the very intelligent, and especially those who have fought gallantly in our ranks. They would probably help in some trying time to come to keep the jewel of liberty within the family of freedom. But this is only a suggestion, not to the public, but to you alone. Y'ours truly, “A. LINCOLN,” The collection of curios in Mr. Reilly’s place Is so varied that it would take a keen observer fuly a day to examine all the relics contained there and at the same time, get a thorough conception and understanding of them. The walls are literally covered with them, consisting of pictures, playbills, letters, old newspapers, copies of famous addresses, political ballots used in the olden days, and many other relies that attracted the fancy of their owner. But in all the collection the things pertaining to the Booth family stand out most prominently. Foremost among those is the pewter cup from w’hich the elder Booth was wont to quench his thirst. It is hung in a prominent place in the restaurant, and near it hangs an old watchman’s rattle. Not far from the old cup is a large and excellent photograph of Edwin Booth. It is heavily draped in crepe, which was placed around the picture when the great actor died. At the bottom of the picture are some flowers taken from Booth’s grave, and the legend, “The Noblest Roman of Them All. Gone, but Not Forgotten.” THE OTHER BOOTHS. In a seeludfed corner hangs another picture. It is that of John Wilkes Booth, and under the glass is a lock of hair of that misguided genius. On another part of the wall hangs a foreign bill of exchange on Baring Bros., of London. England, made to the favor of Junius Brutus Booth, to the amount of $57.83. Then there is an old playbill. dated Sept. 14, 1549. showing the first public appearance of Edwin Booth as an actor. The cast was presented at the old Boston Museum, and in it Edwin Booth played Tressel to his father’s Richard. Another playbill shows where the elder Booth presented Richard 111 at the old Mud Theater in this city, which stood at the corner of North and Saratoga streets. Mr. Reilly says that the elder Booth, in those days, was wont to drive into town with a load of hay, and after selling it, would produce Richard 111 at the old Mud Theater. He would get about SSO or S6O for his efforts, and then drive back to his country home. There is another playbill hanging close by that mutely speaks a bit of sad history. It bears the printed casts of “The Marble Heart" and “Romeo and Juliet.” in w T hich John Wilkes Booth appeared as the star. The plays were given at the Holliday-street Theater, with Miss Alice Gray as the leading woman. When the curtain fell on those productions, on that night, John Wilkes Booth had been seen for the last time as a public actor. In addition to these things there are portraits of Junius Brutus Booth as Richard 111, and Sir Giles Overreach, and Edwin Booth as Rolla. Near these are pictures of Samuel Colville, as Tyke, in the comedy of the “Turnpike Gate.” and John E. Owens, as So’on Shingle, and the supper scene from “Cricket on the Hearth.” The other old-time stars of the stage have not been overlooked by Mr. Reilly in getting his collection together. On the walls in the restaurant are excellent pictures of Mr. Wallack of the Theater Royal, Drury Lane, London, as Leon Delmar; Charlotte Cushman. Charles Matthew’s, Henry Wallack. Joseph Jefferson James Wallack. jr., Julia Dean and C. Bishop, the comedian, who afterwards became a physician In San Francisco On another wall are pictures of Henry Clay. Lawrence Barrett. Tyron Powers as Paudreen O’Shaughnessy; Jefferson as Solus- George Christie, the first negro minstrel- Lester Wallack and daughter: J. M Gilbert. Maria Picolomini. BrignoU, the Italian tenor, and Adelina Patti. CHARLES BURKE AS “RIP.” A fine picture of Charles Burke, who played a most successful engagement as “Rip Van Winkle” at Front Street, in 1848, hangs near the engraving of the noted singing comedian. John Collins, who nlaved at the Holliday-street in 1857 in the Irish high comedy, “Colleen Bawn," One unfortunate

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actor Is announced to appear every night In “three pieces” In March of 1858. He was Burton, the great comedian. Many playbills give casts of characters In the days when Lucille Western appeared In “Zingara” and as Camille. One dates back to the time when Miss Menken and Mr. Fannin “did” a terrific sword combat in the “French Spy,” at Kunkel’s Museum, at Calvert and Baltimore streets. A bill of July 11, IS3I, gives Cooper as Marc Anthony, Barton as Brutus, and Booth as Cassius: (ne of July 23, 1831, names the same actors, assisted by Mr. Hamblin and Mrs. Duff as performing the tragedy of “Jane Shore.” On these occasions admission to boxes was 50 cents, pit 25 cents, gallery 18% cents, “checks not transferable.” Aside from all this, there are a number of other interesting curios in Mr. Reilly's place that have no bearing on the stage. One of these is a rare steel engraving, showing the American eagle watching over the spirit of George Washington. A large picture represents the review of the Continental army.in the Bowery, in New York, after the Revolutionary war, while a colored print depicts a fancy rag balk which was held on the present site of Mr. Reilly’s restaurant, on Feb. 8, 1830. In a frame with a S3O note of Sept. 26, 1776. is a corporation note of Emmitsburg, Md., for 6% cents. There are also a number of other corporation notes. Then there is a copy of Andrew Jackson’s inaugural address, and the once famous “Dixon letter,” a supplement to the New York Polyanthus, of April 14, 1842. In that letter is detailed the explosion of the steamboat Medora In the harbor in this city. The boat was to make its first trip, and was crowded. A terrific explosion followed the second revolution of the wheels, and twenty-six persons were killed and thirty eight w-ounded. One of the most interesting pictures Is that of the railroad which was built on the ice across the Susquehanna river, and which w’as In use from Jan. 15 to Feb. 24, 1852. During that time over 1,800 cars, containing mails, baggage and merchandise, aggregating 10,COO tons, were handled on that novel railroad without loss of life or Injury to property. On the walls are pasted the lists of the membership of the Watchman, Vigilant, Friendship and Mechanical fire companies; a ball invitation, with the old dancing master, Charles L Spies, as floor master; cuts of the New- Market engine house and the old City Watch House, and a picture of Thomas Wildey, the founder of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in the attitude of making a speech. Altogether, the collection is one of the most unique of its kind in existence, and Mr. Reilly is very pround of his possessions. W HO STRUCK BILLY PATTERSON? Origin of tlie Oft-Repeated and Unanswered Interrogation. George M. Slaysman, in the Punxsutawney (Penn.) News. Durnig the halcyon days of the Democratic party in old York county. Pennsylvania, some time in the forties, when to get the nomination for the county office was the main thing to insure an election, the party leaders had much to do, many consultations among themselves and with prominent men in several tow-nships. Aspirants were many, ail of whom had their friends. Every effort was made to secure the delegates to the nomination convention by the several candidates. The county officers were a potent factor in making up the slate. To this. end they held meetings in several townships and in central localities to learn the views of the prominent men, and thus make up the delegations to the county convention and insure the nomination they had decided to have made. At this period the county commissioners visited the townships to hold appeals in the matter of assessments for tax. These appeals afforded opportunities for consultation and were used in preparing the way for the nominations at the county convention. At one of these appeals, held at the Blue Ball Tavern in Chanceford township, the incident occurred which led to the oft-re-peated question so frequently asked in political journals all over our State and Nation: “Who struck Billy Patterson?” At least tw-o of the county commissioners were present. Peter Ahl, a very active and influential Democrat, and the veritable Billy Patterson who w-as said to have been struck. Billy Patterson was also an active and influential Democrat. Peter Ahl was subsequently associate judge of the court. Besides these commissioners, there were others present, among whom was an Irishman nampd John Maffet. who was a warm friend of Patterson. Maffet having left the room for a short time, it w T as proposed to have a little sport with him when he returned. When he came in Patterson complained of having been struck a violent blow.. This aroused the Irishman, who determined to avenge the violent blow.’ his friend had received, crying out in his rage, “Who struck Billy Patterson?” When it was hinted that Peter Ahl was the mar, who had done the striking, flourishing hi shtdelab. W’hich he always carried with him, Maffet approached AH. savins-. “D°m you. did you strike Billy Patterson?” Mr. Ahl begged off, denying the charge; others, interfering. quieted the Irishman with the assurance that it was a joke, and all passed off without further demonstration. But that was not the end of it. Someone reported the matter and the opposing party began to use that question in a way annoying to the Democrats, intimating that the Democratic leaders had been in a terrible fight among themselves, to their great injury. and so in the progress of time when there was a loss in the Democratic vote, or a partial victory, and especially w’hen the cause of this change was not fully understood. the Irishman’s cry, “Who struck Billy Patterson?” became a sort of byword all over the State and Nation. The facts as given above T got from the Hon. Adam Ebaugh. late of Stew’artstown. York county. M. Ebaugh, who died last May at the age of ninety. ex-State senator, and ex-assoeiate judge of the court, informed me that he received the history from Billy P-atterson during his lifetime. I was well araualnted with both the commissioners and Mr. Patterson during his last illness and officiated at his funeral. T had several conversations with Mr. Ebargh about the matter, and a few’ months before his death, at my request, he wrote me the history of the incident as given above.

BABOO TOBACCO SCIENCE. Valuable- Information on tlie Right • Mixtnre for Hindoos. Calcutta New Age. As we see it, it is a most ama-zing extent to which tobacco has spread all over the earth in these three hundred years, when it was brought into England from America by Sir Walter Raleigh in 1556 A. D. In Turkey it is perpetually in every mouth. In China it is so universally practiced that a female of six or seven has a pocket in her dress to hold her pipe and tobacco. In Burmah it is smoked by persons of all ranks, even a child of two or three. In India all classes and both sexes smoke, eat and smell. It grows in India so vigorously that we can scarcely find a town or village in Hindoostan where no plot of ground would be found covered by this perpetual plant. And in the same manner there would be very few of our readers who know the processes in which tobacco becomes suitable for our usual smoking. It w’ould be not, therefore, out of place to draw before the public an outline of its manufacture. When it is full grown and its leaves have begun to acquire a yellowish tint it is gathered and left on the ground to be withered one day or more in the sun. Although we can have smoking tobacco from many different ways, but it w’oud suffice here to mention some processes, for their suitableness, current in a most famous place for the purpose in India, known as Blswan, in Seetapore district. Being withered, it is brought to be cudgeled with wood so finely as to become a dust, which is called Ruddee and mixed with sirup and alkali or impure carbonate of soda, it is left in balls to be dissolved. Now, a leavened or Khamira tobacco Is prepared by the undergoing formula: 1. Cloves. 2. Cardamums. 3. Mace. 4. Nutmeg. 5. Allspice. 6. Cinnamon. 7. Dry rose flower. 8. Filling aloes wood. 9. Filling sandai wood. 10. X -kh. 11. Pandree. 12. White cardamums. 13. Benzoin. Os each quarter a seer. 14. Amillas. One seer. All these, except the last one, which is boiled, are cudgeled and made a powder. And a next preparation is now made: Camphor, tw’o Chatak—Karpur; salarus, quarter a seer; betel, quarter a seer. All these being cudgeled are boiled and now five punsaris of Ruddee mixed with sirup are mixed with both the preparations and stirred with the hand, and in this, essence of rose or keorah on tola, musk six mashas. and saffron three mashas, “being grinded,” are mixed, and tue process now ready is called khamira, a good one for the purpose, ever used in India for smoking. Diamond Earrings Are Out. New York Sun. Earrings aren’t fashionable any more, especially those set with diamonds. Bracelets are, though, and the jewelers say they are kept busy converting ear ornaments into arm ornaments. The new bracelets are a pleasing combination of simplicity and magnificence. If a woman is so fortunate as to possess a pair of handsome diamond earrings she has the two stones set diagonally across a plain gold wire which fastens around the arm, or she uses only one stone. More elaborate bracelets are set with a cabochon beryl, topaz, garnet, sapphire or turquoise, surrounded by diamonds. Not every one has handsome earrings to be rfiade Into bracelets, but that’s no excuse for a woman going with her arms unadorned, for almost every kind of bracelet that has ever been worn, except the broad gold ones embellished w ith leaves and flowfers traced in black enamel of twenty years ago, Is now on the market. There are silver and gold bangles and locked bracelets, extension bracelets set with semi-precious stones at close intervals and bracelets made of rare- gems. They vary in price from 25 cents to thousands of dollars.

SCHOOLBOYS IN FRANCE MAX O'RELL DECLARES THE ROUTINE IS WORSE THAN IN PRISON. # __ Discipline of the Great French Lycees Has a Tendency to Make Either Scholars or Blockheads. 0 Max O’Rell, in Youth's Companion. French parents are fond of telling their boys that there are no days so happy in life as school days, and little French boys swallow the statement until they go to school. Then they reflect. After I had tasted what school life really was, I can well remember that I formed a very poor idea of what awaited me beyond the school gates. Now that I have seen the English at school. It makes me shudder to remember what I had to go through as a French schoolboy. Things may have changed since I was a boy, but we in France are such routiniers that I don’t suspect that they have changed to a great extent. My opinion is that when French parents have decided on sending a boy ten years old to school till he is twenty, they have sentenced him to something very near, in severity, to ten years’ hard labor or penal servitude. This is how a French boy often spends a happy day, or how he did thirty-five years ago: In the summer tiie French schoolboy rises at 5 in the morning; in the winter at 6—or, rather, he is supposed to do so. The first bell rings at 5 o’clock, to tell him that he is to get up; a second one rings at 5:25 to inform him that in five minutes he must be down; and a third bell at 5:30 enjoins him to leave the dormitory and go to the classroom. Os course, he rises at 5:25, puts on his clothes with prodigious rapidity, gives himself a dry polish, ala Squeers, with a towel, or more often with his knuckles, and is quite ready at 5:30 to go down to the study room. A pint of water goes a long way in a dormitory of sixty French boys. In the study room, under the supervision of an usher, called pion, he prepares his lessors for the masters till 7:55, all the time his poor little stomach growling and shouting to him, “I say, boy, when will that breakfast be ready?” Breakfast is ready at 8. Considering that the menu consists of soup and bread, 1 have always wondered how it could take the cook so long to get it ready. During the few minutes that precede breakfast time, a few boys go and have a wash. They go by the name of aristos—swells, or “dudes,” if you like—and excite great scorn in the breasts of the majority of the school fellows.

LITTLE SIDE DISHES. Most boys keep chocolate or jam, or buy some of the doorkeeper, to,eat with their bread. At 8:30 they have to -be irt their respective classrooms with their masters. The class lasts two hours, after which they return to the study room to prepare, until 12, for the afternoon class. From 12 to 1 they dine and play. Both these words would convey to an American or an English mind a meaning that, unfortunately, they do not convey either to the mind or to the stomach of a French schoolboy. The dinner consists generally of one help of boiled beef and vegetables. Oh, how we loved Fridays, when the fare consisted of haricot beans or lentil, and we were allow’ed to “ask for more.” Not that the dish was dainty. It was sauce mainly, with some haricots or lentils swimming about, rari nantes in gurgite vasto; but we could have as much as we wanted, and the capacity of boys of fourteen is “unflllable.” Bread, in French lycees, is ad libitum. When a boy has finished his piece he holds up his hand as a sign that he is ready for another. A man, holding a basketful of cut loaves, is stationed in such a position as w’lll allow him to fill all these pairs of empty hands as fast as they are put up. He flings, the boys catch, It is quite a dexterous game. Ifahe boy misses the piece that was intended for him his neighbor frequently catches and pockets it. partly as a precaution against possible pangs of hunger before the next meal, partly for the love of disobeying the rules, one of which enacts that no food shall be pocketed. The drink is humorously called abondance, and is made up of a good tablespoonful of wine in a decanter of water. The way in which French schoolboys dine is not so strange as the way in which they play. Recreation has to take place in a more or less large yard, surrounded by high walls, very much like a prison w’alk. Not a tree, not a blade of grass to be seen—a mere graveled yard, bare and uninviting. There the boys walk. tw T o by two, or in larger groupes, the big ones talking politics, the clever and industrious ones discussing scientific problems or questions of literature and philosophy, the little ones indulging in a game of top or marbles in one of the corners of the ground. By and by the bell rings. At 1 o’clock thfy all have to be In their places in the study room until 2, when it is time to go to the afternoon class, which lasts until 4 o’clock. The timetable is regulated by the minister of public instruction. There is no deviating from it. On leaving the professors, to be immediately handed over to the ushers, they each receive a piece of bread, which they are allowed (o eat in the play yard with whatever relish they may possess or buy of the doorkeeper. They play till 5, when they return to the study room to prepare their lessons for the following day. SUPPER AT 8 O’CLOCK. At 8 o’clock supper is ready. To this, as to all other meals, they go two by two, after having previously all formed into ranks in the playground. The supper consists of stew, or more boiled beef, or two sorts of vegetables. • Sometimes an apple or a few 7 cherries, according to the season, brighten the not very festive board. In my time cherries were the most popular dessert; after refreshing the inner boy, they provided him with missiles, which w’ere turned to good account on the spot, whenever the usher had his back turned. For drink, I should add, we had the same mixture as before. After this frugal repast the boys repair again, and always two by ttvo, to their respective dormitories. Those who care to indulge in a little washing may do so before going to bed, so as to be clean the following day. I say “those who care;” for never will an usher make a remark to a French boy over 12—when he is no lenger under the supervision of a matron—because he is dirty, not even in the lefectory. Provided he has a cravat on, nobody will scold him for having a dirty neck. If cleanliness is next to godliness, the French schoolboy is most ungodly. The French schoolboy gets a holiday on Thursdays—that is to say, no class is held; but he has to be in the study room the w’hole morning and evening. In the afternoon he goes for a walk for an hour or two, when the ranks are formed again, and they are marched back to what 1 have no hesitation in calling their barrack*, not to say their prison. On Sundays the boy who has his parents or guardian in town is allowed to go heme for the day. if he is not kept in for one of those hundred and one petty offenses invented at pleasure by the ushers and their supporters. On leaving school on Sunday morning he receives an exeat, on which the hour of his leaving school is marked, and the parents are to write on It at what time he has reached home. He is obliged to be back at school at 10 o’clock in the evening to -the minute, and. as before, his parents are requested to write on the exeat at what time he left their house. He generally returns on Sunday night in a comatose state, and the home fare, two good square meals, tells sadly on the work he does on Mondays. This regime is followed not only at school, but in the colleges. COLLECTING BAD LEBTB IN INDIA.' Creditor Situ on the Debtor’s Step Till His Bill Is Paid. Boston Journal. Many queer stories are told of the persistence and clever devices of the collectors of bad debts, but even a professional humorist would find it hard to invent anything more absurd than the method actually In use among the Mahrattas—as least, if travelers’ tales are to be trusted. In that country—so they say—when a creditor cannot get his money and begins to regard the debt as desperate, he proceeds to sit “dhurna” upon his debtor, that is, he squats down at the door of his victim’s tent and thereby in some mysterious way becomes master of the situation. No one can go in or out except by his sanction. Ho neither eats himself nor allows his debtor to eat. and this extraordinary starvation contest 1b kept up until either the debt Is paid or the creditor gives up the siege, and in the latter case the debt is held to be canceled. However strange It may appear to Europeans, this method of enforcing a demand is an established and almost universal usage among the Mahrattas, and seems to

them a mere matter of course. Even their “scindiah,” or chieftain, is not exempt from it The laws by which the “dhurna” is regulated are as well defined as those of any other custom whatever. When it is meant to be very strict the claimant takes with him a number of his followers, who surround the tent, and sometimes even the bed of his adversary, to make sure that he obtains no morsel of food. The code, however, prescribes the same abstinence for the man who imposes the ordeal, and. of course, the strongest stomach wins the day. After all, we have little right to ridicule this absurdity, for our own laws still provide, nominally' at least, for starving a jury into a verdict. A similar custom was once so prevalent in the province and city of Benares that Brahmins wrere sometimes systematically put through a course of training to enable them to endure a long time without food. They were then sent to the door of some rich person, where they publicly made a vow to remain fasting until a certain sum of money w r as paidjPor until they perished from starvation. To cause the death of a Brahmin w;is considered so heinous an offense that the cash was generally forthcoming; but never without a resolute struggle to determine whether the man was likely to prove stanch, for the average Oriental will almost as soon give up his life as his money’. THE ART OF EATING. Americans Learning; and Assimilating; Its Best Elements. New York Tribune. It has been said that "the English devour. the Americans feed, but only’ the French know how to eat.” Whether this be true or not, it is certain that the saying is fast becoming out of date, so sari at least, as the Americans are concerned. The English may continue to “devour” and the French to “eat,” but the long-headed Yankee, as in all other things, knows a good thing when he sees it, even in the line of eating, and with his usual aptitude for adapting all good ideas he is rapidly reducing the art of satisfying the inner man to a science. There #may have been a time, and that not long since, when the American literally “fed,” and the reproach may have been merited, but Uncle Sam, long, lean and lank, as usually depicted in caricatures, has a good “eating nose,” that is, sensitive to the fascinations of the culinary art, and he is quickly mastering the little wrinkles that go to make the festive board attractive. The reproach cannot be made so sweepingly to-day as it was a decade ago, and it is within the limits of possibility that the caricaturists of the twentieth century will have to let out the belt In Uncle Sam’s picture several notches when they come to portray him as the ideal Yankee. One of the -well-known chefs in New’ York recently' said to a Tribune reporter; “I don’t know’ whether you have noticed it or not, hut it is certainly coming about that the Americans, from being the poorest eaters in the w’orld, are rapidly taking first place in that formality' of life. I do not mean by this that the great mass of the American people will all at once become adepts in the art of eating, for there is yet much for them to learn; but leading people are showing keen discrimination in the matter and are wonderfully shrewd in choosing between the good and bad ideas that are brought to their notice. “Take Mrs. Blank, for instance. She is a rich New' Yorker. She has plenty of time to devote to such a trivial matter, as some are pleased to call it, as eating. She has had a number of chefs in her house, some of them experts in German cooking, some French, some Hungarian, some English, and possibly a colored cook w'ho is cunning in the mysteries of savory plantation dinners. Now 7, Mrs. Blank, y’ou may be sure, started in life in a very plain way. She was brought up to the American breakfast of buckwheat cakes, sausages, beefsteak, pork and beans, etc., to the American dinner of soup, roast or chops and pie, and to the American ‘tea’ of dried beef, tea and cake, with preserves. Since she has married well off, as you people call it, she has come to New York to give her mind occupation in the ‘trifling affairs of life.’ She has heard the reproach that Americans ’feed’ instead of ’eat,’ and she has determined to do away with the reproach, at least so far as she is concerned. “She engaged chef after chef, and with her quick, brilliant American mind, she almost intuitively grasps the art as exhibited to her by her several chefs. Just see what an immense advantage she has over her own chef. If he he French, the chances are that he knows little besides French cooking; if he be Hungarian, all he knows is Hungarian cooking; if English, then it is English cooking, you may depend upon it. The chefs, as a rule, are not highly educated people. We are tradesmen, who. by force of circumstances, are brought up to know little outside of our immediate means of earning a living, and, as is usual with such characters, we are too apt to sneer at any other school of cooking. Os course, just as a matter of trade, we call a few dishes we get up by some foreign name just to fool our masters or mistresses; but who ever heard of a French cook getting up a national Hungarian dish that tasted like the dish a Hungarian chef will get up, or what English cook will get up a dish of macaroni like an Italian?

“Now see what an advantage Mrs. Blank has. In the first piece, she is not prejudiced In favor of any cook. She is stung with the reproach that Americans don’t know how to eat. and she is all eagerness to seize upon the good paints of any kind of cooking, no matter whether it comes from the English, Germans, French or Italians. The result is what you can easily imagine. Mrs. Blank was brought up in a kitchen, and was considered a pretty smart cook before she married rich. That may have been the reason Mr. Blank married her. Sudden riches have not tended to make her indolent. She has an ambition to have the best served dinner in New York. and. between you and me, I will confess that, taking it the year in and the year out, no better meals can be found in the world than at Mrs. Blank’s. She seizes on any idea that appeals to her good sense and quick perception, no matter whether presented by a French or Japanese cook—for. mind you, she once had a Japanese as an assistant cook—and at once appropriates it to her board. Mrs. Blank’s great advantage, as I have said, is in her being entirely without prejudice. She has recognized that an English cook will not make a national Hungarian dish as well as a Hungarian, simply because the former will not take the pains to get the pure ingredients from Hungary, but. will substitute some manufactured stuff ‘equally as good,’ but which, as a matter of fact, is a sickly imitation, lacking entirely the genuine flavor so necessary to the national dish. Mrs. Blank discovered this early in the beginning of her career as a housewife, and she took pains to ascertain from her Hungarian chef just where to get the. genuine ingredients for that particular dish. “From her Italian cook Mrs. Blank soon discovered that it was almost impossible to get the pure olive oil for salads, notwithstanding the fact that there were dozens of firms advertising the ‘genuine imported’ article. She found that this cook made it a point to board Italian sailing vessels coming direct from Italy and purchase a supply from people in the ship. In this way he got the genuine article, instead of some vile ,cotton-seed concoction that represents nine-tenths of the commodity sold as olive oil. “You ask if Mrs, Blank is an exceptional case in America? I say no. True, there are not so many among our extremely wealthy American housewives who go to the trouble of mastering the arts of their successive chefs. I am sorry to say that too many leave the matter entirely in the cook's hands, and as a result they are easily imposed upon, so long as the same dishes, with scarcely perceptible alterations. are produced under various highsour.dlng names. Mrs. Blank could not be imposed upon in this way. She knows more about the culinary art than the majority of the chefs, though she seldom visits the kitchen. “But Mrs. Blank does not stop with learning for herself alone. She is one of those generous women who never forget that they were in moderate circumstances themselves at one time. Being the mistress of the art of cooking, sne has a very commendable pride in exhibiting her management on proper occasions. Her friends from the country cal! to see her, and. with true country frankness, she gives them a recipe for some dainty dish that has aroused their admiration. These friends go back to their homes and tell other friends of some new dainty they have got, and before you know* it this foreign dish has become Jhe regular thing in the village of Wayback, where you would least expect to find it. “[ have had a great many American housewives ask me for recipes for this and that dish that happened to take their fancy. When l was chef in a well-known place up town it was a common thing to have a waiter come to me with a message from Mrs. So-and-So. requesting that the exact recipe fer this dish might be made out for her, and as these requests were usually accompanied by a substantial fee, they, of course, were readily granted. “Now. you can just mark my words, it will not be many years before the Americans will be so far from being the poorest feeders in the world as to be the best and most refined. You can see it in New York every day, and it is spreading to the smaller cities and towns, and from there to the villages and country. When the American woman gets stirred up on any national subject. that's all that seed be done; she will do the rest.”

LENDS MONEY TO KINGS ♦ . SAM LEWIS, THE ISIRF.R AND GREATEST SI!VLOCK IN LONDON. Him nt Least a Hundred of England's Proudest Peeragn iy Ala Clutches as Securl's for Loans. * : 3] New York Journal. The money lender is just now the most conspicuous feature of the highest and most aristocratic society of England. That society, professing a contempt for honest trade, is hopelessly involved in sordid and dishonorable financial transactions, such as no decent business man would touch. The w’onderful Sam Lewis alone has at least a hundred of the most dazzling members of the peerage In his clutches. He has had in his possession a score of the most historic family mansions in England pledged as security for suns of money which their ow’ners had borrowed. It is with a deep and peculiar significance that Mr. Lewis murmurs to himself the familiar lines ot Mrs. Hemans: “The stately homes of England— How beautiful they stand Amid their tall ancestral trees O’er all this pleasant land.” The sight of those stately homes often gives more pleasure to Mr. Lewis and his colleagues than to their ostensible owners. In addition to many famous houses, Sam Lewis has also held as security for loans the royal crown of Portugal pawned by the King, and the coronets cf a vast number of noblemen and their wives. Mr. Lewis has a fine system. Among his partners, or “hand-shakers,” are the Marqqis of Clanricarde, the head of a very ancient Norman-Irish family, and Sir Frederick Johnstone, one of the most intimate friends of the Prince of Wales. The members of the British aristocracy are like hideous beasts of prey feeding upon one another. Whenever one of them Is getting into difficulties there are a dozen ready to keep him there by leading him into ruinous entanglements with money-leaders. It is the business of Sam Lewis’s hand-shakers to look out for young men with prospects and extravagant tastes, entering society. When the young men get into debt the hand-shakers remark that they know an accommodating fellow (Mr. Lewis) who will advance large sums of money on post obits, title deeds and other valuable documents. Thus they become involved in difficulties which often last them till death. The handshaker, of course, gets a handsome share of the money-lender’s profits. A case vividly illustrating the rottenness of aristocratic society caine before the courts two weeks ago. Sam Lewis sued a young man named Spender Clay to recover $55,655 due on promissory notes which Lewis had cashed for Lord William Nevill. Nevill is the third son of the Marquis of Abergavenny, who claims descent from Warwick, the king maker, whose family name was also Nevill.

HOW LEWIS LOST $55,655. Spender Clay is a rich young officer in the Guards. In answer to Lewis’s action he declared that his indorsement of the notes was obtained by Lord William Nevill under false pretenses. He w r as invited to a house party at Ascot, where Nevill was also a guest. The latter asked him to sign as a witness certain papers, which Nevill did not wish him to read because they referred to the matrimonial troubles of Lord William’s sister w’ith her husband, Earl Cowley. Clay signed the papers, and they afterward turned out to be promissory notes. When Clay gave this evidence, Lord William fled to the continent, and is in hiding there. The jury decided that Clay’s signature was obtained by fraud and that Lewis could not recover. Os course, little mishaps of this kind will occur, and the usurer makes due allowance for them in charging interest. Sam Lewis, the greatest of modern Shylocks, is a self-possessed, genially cynical little man. He Is of middle height, with a plump, trim figure. He wears a pointed, well-kept beard, dresses well and quietly, and altogether presents an appearance fit for polite society. His office is in Cork street, in the heart of the West End. It is at a corner and has two doors on different streets, so that a client leaving the house need not meet one following. This precaution is eminently desirable when the client is a woman of rank and fashion whose features are known throughout the United Kingdom. On the ground floor is a wine merchant’s shop, and Lewis’s office is on the second floor. It is furnished like an English solicitor’s office of the most respectable kind. In the outer room are two neat clerks with gray side whiskers. Mr. Lewis sits at an old-fashioned mahogany desk. A safe of moderate size is at his right hand. There are piles of black tin boxes in the room, but they do not bear names, as similar boxes do in English lawyers’ offices. The interest Lewis charges is more or less a mystery. One man may pay 40 per cent, and another 1,000 per cent. Lord Rosslyn, who is the brother of the Duchess of Sutherland and of the Countess of Warwick, borrowed $1,500. in return for which lie gave one note for $2,000, due in three months, and another for $3,000, due at the same time. The second note was nominally in payment for a perfumery store, which was nothing but a basement with a few empty bottles in it. The earl refused to pay the second note, but the court decided that he must do so. Ho became a bankrupt. Lewis does not give very much time to his business. A little work yields him a large profit. He enjoys the good things of life and is very fond of society. Urged on by his wife, an ambitious and handsome woman, he is steadily forcing himself to the front in the world of fashion. The poor wretches whose property he has gobbled up and the aristocratic touts, whom he subsidizes, are forced to present him to their friends and relatives and answer for him to society in general. COUNTESS COWLEY’S VILLA. Lewis has recently occupied the beautiful riverside villa formerly the property of the Dowager Countess Cowley, who was forced to give it up in consequence of her indebtedness to the money-lender. It is near Maidenhead, on the Thames, and Mr. Lewis is thus a neighbor of Mr. William Waldorf Astor. In London and at the fashionable continental resorts Lewis has hobnobbed with the Prince.of Wales and other mem; bers of the royal family and the highest aristocracy of Britain. Sir Frederick Johnstone, the intimate friend of Turn-Turn, has a charming villa at Cannes, presided over by a handsome lady, with whom he eloped while she was legally another’s. There last winter they entertained at the same time Sam Lewis, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Cambridge and other distinguished persons. The prince, whose catholicity of taste is well known, says that Sam Lewis is “a remarkably nice fellow.” His Royal Highness some vears ago also declared Lord William Nevil. to be “my ideal young man.” When he goes to Monte Carlo, and that is at least once a year, Sam Lewis takes with him sl,fcou,ooo with which to gamble himself and accommodate his clients who may he there. He is very liberal in his personal expenditure. Among the noblemen who have been reduced to penury by their extravagance and their subsequent dealings with Sam Lewis are the Marquis of Donegall the Marquis of Huntley, the Marquis Townsend, the Earl of Roeslyn. Earl Poulett the Earl of Buchan, the Earl of Perth and’ Melfort, the Earl of Stamford, Earl Granville, the Earl of Munster, the Earl of Hardwlcke. Lords Athlumncy, Headley. Hill Thurlow, Haklen and Churchill. Some of them have been reduced to ridiculous straits for such high and mighty personages. The Marquis of Donegall, who has passed through the bankruptcy court, is now clerk of a court of inferior jurisdiction in Ireland. His wife has been repeatedly arrested for drunkenness on the streets. Earl Poulett has spent all his money and got $200,000 in debt in order that his cast-off organ-grinding son. Viscount Hinton, mayget no income with the entailed estates. The late Duke of Manchester gave a mortgage for s2w,oou on his historic seat. Kimbolton Castle, to Sam Lewis, but by the exertions of his wife it was paid off. Lord Churchill, the head of a branch of the Marlborough family, gave the deeds of his magnificent estate, Cornbury Park, in Oxfordshire, to Sam Lewis as security for a loan. The house was finally sold to Ernest Terah Hooley, the bicycle tire millionaire, to satisfy Lewis and other creditors. Cornbury is said have the finest gardens farm buildings and other appurtenances of any estate in England. Hawkstono Hall, near Shrewsbury, is a maginnct-ui bethan mansion and is the seat of the Viscount Hill. Young Lord Hill was brought into the bankruptcy court recently, where he explained that his father had mortgaged Hawkstone for $1,175,000, and that when he Inherited it he further mortgaged It for $450,000 to Sam Lewis. These are but a few

brief extracts from the long and miserable story of the degraded British aristocracy and Its bondage to that insatiable usurer, Sam Lewis. STORY OF A HANDKERCHIEF. Valuable Souvenir Contains Celebrated tYoinen's Autographs. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. This is the plain story of a silk handkerchief—the most valuable handkerchief, from a financial point of view, to be found in any country. It is the property of Hugh Cleveland Quarles, a man of cosmopolitan tastes, who is at present living in Hariem. What makes Mr. Quarles’s handkerchief valuable is the fact that it Is almost covered with the autographs of famous actors. Mr. Quarles's object in securing the signatures that crow*! his novel autograph album and the methods he employed in obtaining them make an interesting story. Half a dozen years ago he lived in a Western mining town and knew little or nothing of the stage. Having made his “stake” in the mines, he followed the fashion set by lucky miners and came East. His first evening in New York was spent in a Broadway theater. The players made a profound impression on Quaries, and he.became a confirmed theater-goer. One night he saw Henry Irving, and after the performance met the famous Englishman. A mutual friend told Irving of Quarles’s enthusiasm, and the tragedian began to chaff the Westerner about It. "You will lie wanting our autographs next. I fancy.” said Irving. “A good idea.” replied Quarles, “and I'm going to act on It at once. Mr. Irving, you must be the first to sign your name.” “Cheerfully, my friend.” answered Irving, “but as you don’t happen to have any album handy, the thing is impossible. I am willing to give you the autograph, but ” “Excuses don’t go,” retorted Quarles; “write your name In pencil on this." Then he drew a large w'hite silk handkerchief from hia pocket and handed it to "Sir Henry,” who laughed, and, picking up a pencil, affixed his signature in one corner. On the following day Quarles induced Irving to present him to Ellen Terry. Quarles lost no time in expressing himself to Miss Terry. "You are a very great actress," he said, “and I not only want your autograph, but I wan? you to embroider both your own name and Mr. Irving’s in any color you fancy.” Then he handed tho handkerchief to the statuesque Terry, who spent an even hour in embroidering her own and Irving's autographs on the handkerchief. Mr. Quarles then settled down to the task of collecting the autographs of all the best-know’n celebrities. It has taken time, money and a deal of persuasion, but be has been rewarded. for the handkerchief is nowr a thing of beauty as well* as most valuable. Mr. Quarles made two trips to Europe during the years he spent in making his collection of names, and on each occasion he socured the autographs of foreign stars of the first magnitude. Os course, in se•curing these names Mr. Quarles went to an almost incredible amount of expense and trouble, not to mention the time, for since he took the Idea he has given his life to it. Olga Nethersole gave Quarles trouble before she added her name to the famous group on the handkerchief. He made his first attempt in 1595. Misa Nethersole absolutely refused to sign her name. This tvas the first refusal Quarles had had, and it nettled him. A few months* later he made a second attempt. This time the fair Olga relented somewhat, saying that if he would buy a new' handkerchief, so that her name would lie the only one on it, she w'ould sign. This Quarles declined to do, and avoided Miss Nethersole for more than a year. One night, in St. Louis, he met her after a performance and again asked her to sign. This time she capitulated, working out her name in purple silk, her favorite color. The signatures of many American actors and actresses adorn tho handkerchief. Among the famous names are Ada Rehan, Kathryn Kidder, Lillian Ru a sell. Margaret Mather, May Irwin, Amy Leslie, Fanny Davenport. Della Fox. Joseph Jefferson, Roland Reed, Sol Smith, Russell, Louis James, Stuart Robson and! Melbourne McDowell. Mr Quarles inducedl every actress to embroider her name in her favorite color after first tracing it in pencil, and, as a result, the big handkerchief contains about all .the colors of the rainbow. Five hundred dollars has been offered, to Quarles for bis unique "album.” He not only refused the offer, but announced that money co'uld riot buy it. Among the foreign notables whose names adorn the handkerchief are Sarah Bernhardt, Emma Calve, Pol Plancon, Henry Irving, Ellen Terry, Edouard De Reszke, E. Duquem, Paderewski, Bram Stoker, John Hare, Chevalier, Rejane and Olga Nethersole. Quaries had a funny experience when ha called on Bernhardt in Paris. He knew" that she could speak but little English and he no French, but he sent her his card and w ? as ushered into her reception room. Sarah happened to be at peace with herself and the world that morning. Furthermore, Quarles’s letters of introduction were signed by people she knew'. So she greeted him with a smile of welcome. Imagine her surprise when she saw him pull out his handkerchief, which then had about forty names on it, and with gesture and broken Enggiish try to explain that he wanted her to write her name. The divine Sarah, however, misunderstood Quarles’s gestures, while his “dialect” was Greek to her. She decided that he wanted her to buy the handkerchief and started to hand the confused collector a "rouleau,’’ at the same time reaching, for . the handkerchief. Fortunately, an interpreter was called at that stage of the proceedings and matters were quickly explained. When she understood what was w'anled Sarah laughed, and. after scribbling her name in pencil, she embroidered the lines In letters of flaming red. As persons with diligence necessary to collect another such souvenir are few, Mr. Quarles’s treasure will be unique.

SPELLING BOOK APPLE STORY. - * Did Sonfi Webster Steal It. or Did thf Irish Steal It from Koithf Utica Observer. Said the old man whose recent eulogies of Dr. Noah Webster were exploited in these columns this morning, “Was Noah Webster a plagiarist or did the English steal from him? I was led to ask these questions by being shown yesterday the Universal Spelling Book, published in Dublin in 1839 by T. Tegg & Cos., which contains the story of the boy that stole apples, with an exact reproduction of the Websterian illustration. It runs as follows: ‘An old man found a rude boy upon one of his trees stealing apples, and desired him to come down, but the young snuce-box told him plainly he would not. “Won't you?” says the old man. “Then I will fetch you down.” So ho pulled, up some tufts of grass and threw at him, but this only made the youngster laugh, to think the old man should pretend to beat him out of the tree witli grass only. "Well, well.” says the old man, "if neither words nor grass will do. I must try what virtue there is in stones.” So the old man pelted him heartllv with stones, which soon made the young chap hasten down from the tree and beg the old man’s pardon.' Now. when I first read that story, something more than fifty years ago, no doubt entered my mind that it was made in Connecticut. And the picture accompanying -it. Was not that little house Jerry Griswold’s, and the ‘old man’ Priest Pruden? And the boy, did he not'bear a striking resemblance to me in my best white trousers? All these impressions remained until yesterday, when I saw the picture in the Universal Spelling Book, where it looked wonderfully Irish to me. t wish some of you fellows would find out whether Noah Webster was a plagiarist or the victim of British publishers. "In the Universal ST>elling Book, under the headline, ‘Words of Seven Syllables, accented on the Fifth Syllable.* I find eir-cum-na-vi-ga-ti-on, and under the line, ‘Words of Five Syllables, accented on tha First Syllable,’ fa-shi-on-a-ble; and. having got so far. 1 didn’t wonder any more that some of my Irish brethren find it difficult to catch on to the pronunciation of English words. But that is only a small part of what the Universal Soelling Book contains. It has a treatise on English grammar, followed by the principles of politeness, by Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, and a number of fables, stories, etc., besides the Boy and the Apple Tree,’ ” concluded the old man. Why She Wept. New York Evening Sun. pne of the big shops one day last week, at an hour when the fray was fiercest a woman was discovered to be in tears. For a whole minute there was a general suspension of business in that neighborhood. The floorwalker tried to And out what was the matter, but it was hard work. The woman was almost beside herself. No, she wasn’t ill. nor had she had her pockets picked, and nobody had accused her of shoplifting. Neither was it a case of a lost, strayed or stolen child. "Perhaps, madam,” suggested the floorwalker, well versed as to the vicissitudes of the shopper, “you have lost your memorandum. Is that it?” "No—no,” wailed the woman, “I haven’t lost it. It’s here safe and sound. Tho trouble is that I wrote it off in such a hurry that I can t make out a single word.” Pensions for 1 etemns. Certificates have bf'en Issued to the fol-lowing-narned Indianians: Original Samuel U. Waldo, South Betid, <B. Increase —Alexander Gorman. I rankton, to IS; Cary D. Chapman. Winona. $lO ta sl2; Isaac Settles, Urmeyville, $lO to sl2; Henry T. Jewel. Worthington, $6 to sl4; liHUUf Ervin, Indianapolis, $8 to sl4: Henry Stropes, North, sl2 to sl4; John Stambaugh, Huntington. sl4 to $1; John H. Scott, Bluelick, $lO to sl7. Reissue—Thomas Pefley, Dora, sl4. Original Widows, etc.—Mary J. Morgan, Seilersburg, >8; Lucinda Lewis, Utica, sls; Elizabeth Evans. Richmond, $8; Mary Smith (mother), Bentley, sll3.

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