Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 29, Number 7, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 13 August 1898 — Page 1

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VOL. 29—NO. 7.

ON THE QUI YIVE.

The Sullivan Union is making a grave mistake, in Q. V.'s opinion, in ascribing the defeat of John C. Chaney, Sullivan's candidate for Secretary of State, to the work of the Knights of Pythias, Union B. Hunt, the successful candidate for the position being grand chancellor of the order in this state. Mr. Chaney, who is one of the most popular and capable Republicans in the state and a hard worker for the party, has been recognized in a liberal way by the party on this account, and was defeated because of the fact that he has been out of the state for the greater part of the past ten years, and his competitor had the advantage of him in the way of a wide personal acquaintance throughout the state, an element of great importance before a convention. Mr. Chaney would have been a very strong head of the state ticket this fall, but so will Mr. Hunt, not because he is a grand officer of the Knights of Pythias, not because he is even a member of that order, but because he is a young man, a good campaigner, and a "hustler" in general, but above all a good man, well qualified for the duties of the position. All this could as truthfully have been said of Mr. Chaney, with perhaps the exception of the age, and the latter was beaten for the reasons named, and not because of Mr. Hunt's connection with the Knights of Pythias, or any other secret order. The Knights of Pythias have no more right to attempt to control political conventions as aside issue of the order than have the Masons or the Odd Fellows, or any other of the many secret orders whose members are found in every political assemblage, and who attend because of their political convictions and not because of their leanings toward, or their membership iu secret societies. Q. V. knows of a great many personal letters written by Mr. Hunt to delegates in this county asking for their support, and he has yet to hear of the first one in which he asked for support because of his connection with any secret order. Mr. Hunt was successful because of a wide acquaint^ ance with the younger men who were in control of the convention, and because oi! his active participation in recent political affairs while his leading opponent was compelled by the duties of his position to be absent from the state.

It will be news to a great many persons in this city that the Democrats made their campaign iu this city last spring on the sole issue of the employment of union labor OH cityeontract»»*Yetf" that -te w&at the Express says led to the Democratic victory in the council election in May. A majority of the people believe that the sole issue of the Democrats—and some Republicans—in last spring's campaign was Pat Walsh, and on that they lost. To the party leaders the capture of the council was as unexpected as it was undesired.

Superintendent Hyland is determined to regulate the social evil if possible. Some time ago he recommended that in the interests of the community all diseased women of the town should be confined to the poor farm uutil restored to health, but the plan fell through because there was no law justifying the county in maintaining them at the poor asylum. Now he proposes to require all women of the town to submit themselves to examination by the police surgeon at regular intervals, his approval being necessary before they are permitted to ply their calling. Why wouldn't it be just as reasonable aud fair for the miserable creatures who are to be put to this expense—for the police surgeon is not police surgeon for his own health, and such examinations will cost money—to require every one of their gentlemen friends to produce certificates from the police surgeon as to their physical condition. What is sauce for the ganders ought to be sauce for the goose, and there is just as much law for the one as for the other.

The bad reputation of the west end is maintained by the space given in the daily papers to occurrences in that neighborhood. A common street fight between two drunken men in that quarter is usually given from a half column to a column and a half, with the result that the majority of the people who are not familiar with the circumstances still retain the idea that the Gallatin district is about the worst locality west of the Bowery in New York. Business interests have suffered because of this continued prominence given to the occurrences there, when as a matter of fact there was never as good order in that part of thecity as the present strict police surveillance has brought about. The business men in that neighborhood complain of the unsavory reputation given it on account of these publications.

The people of Indianapolis have been rat her sore this week because the people of the country generally did not stop work, close their places of business, ami devote their entire time to attending the national bicycle meet at Indiana's capital. This is characteristic of Indianapolis. Any old time that Indianapolis stops any part of her business to patronl*e other cities in the state, she doesn't. Last year when the state meet of the Indiana branch of the I* A. W. WAS held here assurance® were given by the Indianapolis representatives of the state association that several hundred members from that city would be in attendance. reat hopes were builded on that representation, but when the figures were presented, It was found that actually forty-four members were la

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attendance from that city, and this included the riders entered in the races. Indianapolis has a great opinion of the rest of the state when money is poured into that city, but not otherwise. She is getting this time a little of the medicine she administers to other portions of the state twelve months in the year.

Since the Rev. W. H. Hickman shook the dust of Terre Haute from his feet, and left to accept a position that pays him more money, the city has been without a real sensational preacher. If we had believed all that Mr. Hickman said of Terre Haute and the people with whom he associated, the fate of Sodom and Gomarrah was a pink tea compared to what the people of Terre Haute deserved for their wickedness. While( he did not say so in as many words, he gave the impression that in his opinion the girl that indulged in the pleasures of the waltz was immodest and on the road to perdition, while those who attended the theatres were imps of Satan, and could never be expected to realize salvation unless they reformed. Since he left—to accept a job that pays him more money— Terre Haute has practically been without a sensational preacher. But there's one in view. Rev. W. M. Tippy, of Cententary, has shied his castor in the ring—if this is a proper expression to use regarding a minister of the gospel—and will run the Rev. Hickman a merry chase for honors. The Rev. Tippy has just returned from a vacation of a month or so spent among the health giving pines of the north, and is full of ozone that is the result of a vacation spent there. He returns full of the vigor that is supposed to be furnished by the sojourn there, full of fight and by the tenets of his profession he is compelled to fight sin. Here is what he is quoted as saying in his last Sunday's sermon:

There are also times when the life of a city reaches such a deplorable condition that it becomes her citizens to put on sackcloth and ashes for her sins. Such a time has come to Terre Haute. The last year has been one of dangerous drifting. I would call your attention to the open saloons— open on Sunday and on holidays to the Casino, with often vulgar entertainments of Sunday evenings to Sunday baseball to tho immense picnic at the Fair Grounds a wook ago, with tho incidentals to a circus on hand to the proposal of the Agricultural Society to put a rival to the Casino at the Fair Orouuds, and to tho week of unbridled gambling during the races, which will soon bo upon us. There is need of a call to the city to repentance. I would not force my religious notions or observance upon anybody if I had the power, but there comes a time whon the welfare of the city, the social »#ood,lemand8 th®«bridgemenfcof t&ellbes--ties of Individual' wrong-doers. We are agreed on the principle, but differ as 'to when that tlmo has been reached. I am con vlnced that it has already arrived.

Of the forty or fifty thousand persons who live in Terre Haute, a very small proportion is able to take a summer vacation, and breathing the health-giving air of tho pines and lakes—but are compelled to swelter along in the heat and discomfort that is incidental to a city, even one as healthful as Terre Haute, during the summer months. The average man is glad of the opportunity to work ten hours a day at the present time, and after he has done that for six days a week he ought not to be classed as sinful because he takes a day off to attend a Sunday picnic among the beautiful trees that make the grounds of the agricultural society the most attractive in this part of. the country. And even, if it is perhaps wrong to indulge in a Sunday beer picnic at the fair grounds, which is not within the city limits, although under police supervision, is it not wrong to class Terre Haute as sinful on this account. Still, if a man is full of fight and ozone, and has to exercise the latter in order to get into the former, the sinful city is the easiest to attack, because as a city it cannot fight back. Terre Haute has been lambasted quite a good deal in the past few years by sensational preachers, but she seems to continue in business at the old stand.

THE CRAND OPERA HOUSE. The Season to Open August 33d With •'By the Sad Sen Waves."

The simple announcement that Manager Barhydt will shortly present those real funny boys, Mathews & Bulger, in their rag time opera, "By the Sad Sea Waves," means, much to the average theater-goer and a great deal to the inveterate one, as the annual appearance of this mirth-pro-ducing pair is always hailed with more than passing interest, as their coming means an evening of jollity seldom equaled on the local stage. In describing their new piece they call it a rag time opera. Whatever this may be, it is certainly a new one, and will no doubt keep many guessing. They have an immense supporting company, not only in numbers, but in material, the more prominent including Nellie Hawthorn, Josie DeWitt, Eva Leslie, Ethelia Levy, Marie Twohey, Delete Walker, and Messrs. Will West, Robert Vernon, Gus Mortimer, W. K. Mac-art and Herman Pelt*. With such an array of theatrical celebrities, including the real funny boys, and with considerable picturesque and elaborate scenery, dainty costumes and a female chorus of nearly sixteen voices, Messrs. Dunne & Rylejr continue to feel that with their season's •venture they have hit such a popular chord that the tour can only prove most successful and add to the reputation of their ever gay, funny stars. This opening attraction will appear Tuesday evening, August 23d-

Last year there were only IS deaths from smallpox in the 33 great cities of England, aa compared with T8S, 450, ISO and 25, respectively, in the four proceeding years.

A MODERN ANANIAS.

Ananias had decided to quit farming and engage in the real estate business^ and sort of work a little politics on thi side. So, one morning after harvest^ while he was out doing the morning milk? ing and finishing up the chores, a mail came along and tackled him for a deal^ He gave him his price, but agreed to taka^ a few dollars less providing the purchase)! wouldn't give it up to the tax collector,

The stranger replied haughtily, "Wha^ do you take me for I am onto my job| I have been a member of the Jerusalencjlegislature for some time, and I can seer point, quite often through a six-foot atom wall." Ananias felt much chagrined thafc he had even insinuated that possibly the, honorable member of the legislature might not be up to snuff.

They made a bargain right then and there, A. giving a warranty deed, and Sapphira signed it, and as she did so she winked her other eye at her husband, toi. they had sold out at a good price besides,^ she was anxious to leave the farm. Shc^ had so much to do on the farm that hadn't time for anything else. She had to. churn and do her own washing, and take care of the little chicks, and make garden, and cook for threshers, until she had noi a minute left to join the Silver Rule SeW| ing Circle nor the Euphrates Readini Club, nor, indeed, could she attend any the social doings, because she had to much to do. So she wanted to sell ou and move to town.

Sap. was a great society woman, ofte: feeding her family on cold biscuits ancf_ warmed-over coffee, in order that sh might attend some party. She was very active in all charitable affairs, and took! great interest in missionary work. Manyl a time her children would remain in bedj all day while their clothes were in the wash, so that their mother might attend the sewing circle and make garments foft the natives of Googlooland. She Was af very superior woman.

She was very popular in society. Fre| quently her husband and the childrenf would go without a decent meal for a, week, while she was away looking after the heathen. O, Ananias was proud of his wife.

They were, therefore, very glad when they sold their farm, and as he was a keen, trader and could scent a bargain as far as Falstaff could smell a bottle of sack, he expected to make a great success and finally get money enough ahead to runfo a county office. .-But he tripped and ambitious, too greedy, and he bit off than he could chew. In making out thg papers he neglected to put on revenue stamps, and he was tabooed or hoodooed thenceforward. Everybody kent an eye on him, so that when he went out to work the primaries for a county office they fought shy of him, and he stood no more show in the convention than a missionary among an island of cannibals. From that time on he was down on his luck, and even Sapphira couldn't save him. The women of the clubs snubbed her, and when the meetings were at her house nobody went. When she went out calling nobody was at home, and at Sundayschool all the children got prizes for punctuality except hers. Things were going down the toboggan slide at a great rate, so to speak.

To settle the job, Ananias gave in his property wrong to the assessor, and Sapphira swore to it. After that they never did a thing, and all the summer resorts in creation couldn't have made it cool for them. It is different now. All who give in their property wrong to the assessor do not die immediately, nowadays. If they did, what a lonesome place this world would be!

It may have been just as well for Ananias that he never got into office, because he was a little inclined to handle the truth carelessly, and sometimes even got so reckless that you could scarcely believe what he said. Now, anybody knows that that kind of a man would never succeed in politics. But I do feel sorry for Sapphira, because she never got to be president of the sewing club, and possibly a lot of the children of Googooland are without much to wear to this day, because of it. ALEX. MILLER.

STAGE PEOPLE.

Stuart Robson has a new play, by Augustus Thomas, author of "Alabama",* called "The Only Mr. Eli."

In Cuba, it is stated, the public are permitted to attend rehearsals free of charge, and the law does not allow a negro to appear on the stage.

It is said that Anthony Hope has dramatized "Rupert of Hentcau."and that Frohman will produce the play with James K. Hackett in the leading role

Theatrical companies that do not present the attraction they have billed are subject to flue in Mexico. A fine is also placed on bull-fighters who give a poor performance, or who do not begin on time.

The stock companies are going back to the old plays. Among those booked for presentation are "The New Magdalen," "My Sweetheart,'" some of Minnie Palmer's old successes, and other well-known favorites.

Charles Hoyt's London trip with "A Stranger in New York" proved the most melancholy experience which has befallen him since his early attempts to float melodrama in Boston. Such a vigorous and unanimous condemnation as the critics visited upon him has seldom been given in London. Talented acton who carried the

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skit suffered a harrowing fortnight, for struggle as they would to arouse the English to laughter, Hoyt's American humor seemed to inspire only solemnity and amazement.

De Wolf Hopper will produce his new opera, "ThVcharlatan," at the Knickerbocker Theatre. New York, September 5. The score of the opera is by John Philip Sousa, the libretto by Charles Klein. ..The star part is that of a fake magician.

Miss Delia Fox, it now seems, is to appear in a two-act operatic comedy, still unchristened, by Edgar Smith. The music will be provided by several prominent composers, and one of the novelties of the production, will be the absence of a male chorus.

Richard Mansfield isfar prouder these days than if he had just made a hit in a new play. He is glorying in the possesion of a son and heir, which the stork brought to his home near Rye, N. Y., last week. Mrs. Mansfield is Beatrice Cameron, the actress.

Great hopes are builded upon William Gillette's impersonation of Sherlock Holmes, the detective, for the character seems exactly suited to Gillette's imperturbability and he and Dr. A. Conan Doyle are now engaged upon the dramatization, which will be produced first in America this falL

The long-standing alliance of Mrs. James Brown Potter and Kyrle Bellew is to be broken, at least temporarily. Mrs. Potter has been eDgaged by Beerbohm Tree as leading lady to play Miladi in his version of "The Three Musketeers" this fall. Mr. Bellew becomes leading man with Charles Wynctham for a new play by Louis N. Parker and Murray Carson, the authors of "Rosemary."

The divine Lillian Russell, with ten bas4kets of hats and some trunkfuls of Amer jean made gowns, sailed for Europe this week. The singer's first appearance abroad will be made in Berlin, where

Manager Gustave Amberg is said to have arranged the weekly salary of 18,000, Later engagements have already been made for St. Petersburg and Moscow. Beyond the Russian frontier, however, the remuneration will be greater.

^.V, DON'T WAIT.

If you've anything good to say of a man, I Don't wait till he's laid to rest, For the eulogy spoken when hearts are ok

Is an empty thing at best. $*e blighted flower ndjrJjvooping lonely

If ybu've any alms to give to the poor, Doh't wait till you hear the cry f: Of wan distress in the wilderness,

Lest the one forsook may die. Oh, hearken to poverty's sad lament! Be swift her wants to allay! Don't spurn God's poor from the favored door, ^As you hope for mercy one day.

Don't wait for another to bear the burden Of sorrow's irksome load Let your hand extend to a stricken friend

As he totters adown life's road. And i' you've anything good to say of a man Don't wait till he's laid to rest For the eulogy spoken when hearts are broken

Is an empty thing at best.

FACTS, ABOUT PORTO RICO. The soil of almost the entire island is remarkably fertile. The climate is mild and the island in nearly every respect is one of the most favored in the West Indies.

Toward the end of the seventeenth century the island was captured by the Brit ish, but it had to be abandoned soon after on account of the great mortality among the troops.

Of the total area of over 3,600 square miles, about 8,171 square miles are under cultivation, including the area devoted to pasturage, which makes up an average of about 1,708 square miles.

The island of Porto Rico is the fourth of the West Indian islands in size. While much smaller than Cuba and not possessed of as varied natural resources, it is,, nevertheless, one of the richest colonial possessions in the world.

Porto Rico was discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1493, and was supposed at that time to contain about 600,000 inhabitants. It was invaded in 1509 by Spaniards from Haiti, and the natives were soon practically exterminated by them.

The sugar industry is the most important one. The mills, however, throughout the country are as a rule, poorly equipped with obsolete machinery, although a few establishments were reequipped in the year 1896 with British outfits of a thoroughly modern type.

Next to sugar, the staple product of the island is coffee. The coffee of Porto Rico commands a high price. On account of the quality and ease with which it can be raised, the cultivation of coffee promises to become the most important industry in the island within a few years.

The wealth of Porto Rican forests is very great but owing to inadequate means of transportation, this part of the natural wealth of the island has, as yet scarcely been touched. In the dense forests in the interior there has already been found a large variety of fine grained woods, suitable for manufacture into furniture and for cabinet work. All Umber for ordinary building purposes is, however, imported from the United States and Canada.'

One hundred aud nine thousand locomotives are at present running in various countries. Europe has 03,000, America 40,000, Asia3,300, Australia2,030and Africa

MODERN PHILOSOPHY

Some people's only virtue is economy.'. A man is judged a good deal by his laugh.

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There is no end to the bogus dictionaries on the market. Very few people know a good dictionary when they see it.

We notice that the swiftest ^workmen are also usually the best. It is usually the same crowd that gathers around a street fakir.

Some very low-lived men in this world make their living selling bibles. A good mpny people fail in business because they are too lazy to work.

It may be very wrong, but, nevertheless, everybody admires a real slick swindler. Some people are so busy criticising what others do that they get nothing else done.

A man can never dress up slick enough so that his wife won't find something to brush.

Half the people put in most of their time wondering how the other half make a living* "v.

You can't tell anything about the kind of business a man is in by the kind of grip he carries.

A good many women are reconciled to their grief readily if they look real well in mourning.

Frequently the man who asks how much he owes you knows in advance that he is paid ahead.

Every man must depend on his real merits. Praise or censure won't make or unmake any man.

Lots of people are so everlastingly particular about what they want that they never have anything.

Whenever a man gets up in meeting and says^e doesn't intend to make a speech, we begin to look for the door.

The meanest man on earth is the one who won't fight except when he can get his adversary at a disadvantage.

Lots of people spend their summers at the lakes who haven't their doctor bill paid for when their children were born.

Folks area good deal more apt to make their friends tired by visiting them too long than by sot staying long enough .v A politician who keeps it u|J long enough Requires a convention Voice just as naturae a preacher acquiretajforayer voice.1

the one who cooks by rule. Lots of theory and no flowers. People who go away leaving debts un paid, and then come back wearing better clothes than their creditors, may think folks do not notice it, but they are mistaken. ALEX. MILLER

HARRISON PARK CASINO.

The greatest featpre ever introduced at the Casino will make a return date next week, beginning to-morrow night. Dixon, Bowers & Dixon, the three Rubes, who made their great hit here with Sam Young's continuous show several seasons ago, will be a card at the Casino the coming week. Their act is one of the greatest on the vaudeville stage and wherever they go they area popular card. It is one of the most expensive on the vaudeville stage, and Manager Monk shows that he is determined to give our theater-goers the best when he engages them for the Casino. The bill for the coming week will be unusually strong, other striking features being Fieldiug, the world's greatest comedy juggler, Mamie Harnish, the little handicap girl, and Gus. George in illustrated songs. Altogether the bill will be an un usually strong one, and deserves a liberal patronage. The prices will remain the same. I

Richard Hebb Heard From. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. H. Hebb have finally received a letter from their son Richard, who is a member of the 1st Illinois volun teers, at Santiago, but it did not relieve their anxiety concerning him. The letter was postmarked Santiago, and the envelope has every appearance of having passed through a foity days' flood. The letter enclosed was written at Tampa the latter part of June, and had evidently been carried to Cuba and mailed from there. Through other sources, however, they have learned that he is all right, although the yellow fever has caused several deaths in his regimemt and company.

Don'ts.

Don't bore others just because others bore you. Don't be above apologizing to your children, if necessary.

Don't think a man takes every fool's ad vice because he asks yours. Don't think men and pins are of much use after losing their heads.

Don't spend all your money in trying to get something for nothing. Don't think because a man has a band on his hat that he is musical.

Don't expose your ignorance by talking about things you don't understand.

The Races.

The directors of the Terre Haute Trotting Association have done what The Mail believes is the proper thing, in reducing the price of admission to the fall races, making it fifty cents instead of one dollar, as heretofore. The attendance may not be doubled, bntitwiil be so materially increased that the privileges will be more valuable than heretofore when the crowds were small in proportion to the great

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attractions always offered here. The list of purses this year is as large and attractive as ever, and the indications are that there will be an unusually large list of entries of the finest horses now on the grand circuit. The wonderful Star Pointer has been secured to go against his record of 1:59^, and Mr. Murphy, his owner, believes tjiat the great horse can break the record, which he equalled at Columbus last Saturday, but could not excel. The horse if) in great condition and will be urged on our great four-cornered track for a new world's record. Other special attractions are being arranged for, and the programme will be one of the most interesting ever offered the patrons of the association.

ADDITIONAL PERSONAL.

Mrs. M. E. Lewis, of south Center street, is visiting in Indianapolis. Mrs. Gus Lindeman and daughter Loy are visiting in Indianapolis.

Dr. W. E. Bell left yesterday for a three weeks' visit in Hessel, Mich. Miss Rose Gainor, of Greencastle, is the guest of Miss Lizzie McBride.

Prof. John Donaldson and wife are visiting their daughter, at Valparaiso, Ind. C. C. Smith, and A. N. Smith and wife left this week for a ten days' stay at Old Point Comfort.

Miss Harriet E. Fuller of Anderson, Ind., is visiting her sister, Mrs. Henry Bugh of north Eighth street.

Miss Pressinger, of Missouri, is the guest of her cousin, Miss Virginia Foster, on north Thirteenth street.

S. C. Dunseth, of the telephone exchange, will spend Sunday with his wife and daughter, who are visiting relatives at Homer, 111.

Mrs. Kate Gilbert and sister, Mrs. Armstrong, and Mrs. S. L. Fenner and family went up to Lake Maxinkuckee this morning, where they have taken a cottage at Long Point for two weeks.

B. G. Cox, who was considered in a serious condition last week, is steadily improving, and is now out of all danger although his physician has ordered him to remain in bed for the present.

Miss Isabelle Oakey who has been in New York for some time connected with a new type writer cqpapany* recently .4| accepted-# position in the office of Recrefttion, a monthly magazine, where she will no doubt have opportunities offered for literary work.

The bicycle craze has decreased the consumption of cigars in America by about 1,000,000 a day. The decrease since the erase set in has actually been 700,000,000 a year, -YV?,

A Kansas volunteer wrote home the other day that Uncle Sam is feeding his soldiers "a lot better than the farmers of Kansas feed their hands," and that the fellows who do the kicking probably want to make it appear that they "are plutocrats at home and had pie all the time."

On General Fitzhugh Lee's staff at Camp Cuba Libre are Algernon Sartoris, grandson of U. S. Grant Major Hobart, nephew of the present Vice. President Russell Harrison, son of ex-President Harrison Fitzhugh Lee's own son, and Lieutenant Carbonel, husband of Evangelina Cisneros.

It is related at Chickamauga that when the news of the destruction of Cervera's fleet reached camp one of the nurses commenced to read it aloud in the hospital. He had got as far as the statement that the Brooklyn had been hit 45 times when a fever patient, a little out of his head, shouted: "Good Lord! who pitched for Brooklyn?"

The streets of Manila are so modern as to be quite out of keeping with the general appearance of the town. They are perfectly straight, macadamized, and provided with ample granite walks. In these are excellent shops, kept principally by Chinese merchants, most of whom come from Amoy. Tin-roofed houses line each side of business thoroughfares.

The golden rose which the Pope gives every year to a royal lady distinguished for loyalty both to the Pope and to the Church of Rome is made of pure gold, and is valued at 110,000. There is a golden rose on the center, in which the Pope pours balsam, this being surrounded with •mailer rosebuds and leaves, all of the purest gold, and chiseled with exquisite workmanship

It is claimed for the Washington Artillery, of New Orleans, La., which was organized in 1846, that it is the oldest artillery organization in the United States. It was the first in the South to tender its services to the Government in the war with Mexico, and on the day after acceptance it was ready. It now is composed of five batteries, with a total of about 350 men.

The largest kitchen in the world is in that great Parisian store, the Bon Marche, which has 4,000 employes. The smallest kettle contains 100 quarts and the largest 900. Each of the fifty roasting pans is big enough for .500 cutlets. Each dish for baking potatoes holds 225 pounds. When

omelets are on the bill of fare, 7,800 eggs are used at once. For cooking alone 60 cooks and 100 assistants are always at the ranges.

The Armenians claim to be the most ancient nation on the earth, and are doubtless, like other Aryan races, of the line of Japhet. They have often been compared^ with the Hebrews, and they exhibitSemltic charaoteriateristics.

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