GOTHAM'S MONOPOLISTS.
TrinltytC'lock Watclics Tlicni from Its
High i'orcli, anil Laughs at their
Efforts to Cago tho Public
What They nro Doing nml How They Do It
Tho Old Tlmo l'leco of Wall Strict on
tho Situation.
Special Correspondence.
NnwYoiiK, July 29, 1885,
Trinity clock, whoso hands hnvo do-
noted tlio risu and fall of so ninny
thousand speculators in Wall street,
from boyond the moinorv of tlio pros
out generation till to-day, including
Daniel iJrow, ,Jny Cooko, dim I'isk,
nnd other woll known names of tho
past, is smiling now at tlio strenuous
eilorts put forth by Gotham's million
aires to bind tlio public and enrich
thonisolvos. Novor within tho mem
ory of Trinity has there beon a timo
wfion tho eilorts wero so open, tho
masks so thrown asido, as to-day.
Never havo the schemes boon so np-
parontly crowded with succoss as now.
From Vandcrbilt down to Jako Sharp,
1885 promises to bo for excellence tho
year of yonrs for tho fruition nnd f ul-
lillinenl of jiot schemes.
What then is Vandorbilt doing?
.Nothing, except driiiKtng congross
water at Saratoga.
Nonsense, Vanderbilt, although ho
didn't wnnt, wouldn't havo, and
couldn't be induced to take tiiat sin
hole for American capitalists, tho
West Shore Railroad, is nevertheless
just as sure to get it as ho was tho
Niekolphito, and. nothing short of a
miraolo will prevent it. His utter
ances nt Saratoga last weok were por-
haps a trine premature, out not ill
timed, and whon lie said "No wo shall
havo tho West Shore to make money
out of us," it was meant, ami the
deluded men who fancied that they
wore to bo delivered from tho oppres
sion of thu Now York Central," tho
farmors who granted tho right of way
as a "great rival," will find that thoy
hnvo only played into Vandor
bilt's hands at last, and that
instead of one side of the
Hudson, ho will havo both. Van
dorbilt has fought the West Shore for
tho past eighteen months on tlio sumo
ground that the late A. T. Stewart
fought his rivals, to break them up
and haul them in. And it will bo done
with tho West Shore men if Vanderbilt
himself has to lift tho llftf million
mortgage on it. Vnnderbilt is taking
things easy nt Saratoga, whilo Twonib
loy is Jixinir things in New York, Vale
mighty "West Shore, born of hope,
nursed In expectation, fought with
do-porutlon from infancy, your fato Is
sealed, and a fuw more days will see
you tho younger twin of tlfo Central,
which has issued $25,000,000 of stock
already to tuko up thu i?50,000,000
West Shoro mortgage, ono dollar for
two, whllo Vanderbilt reserves $25,
000,000 additional bonds to use as de
sired. Tills gives the Cental n total
indebtedness of i?200,000,')00, moru
than Vanderbilt is worth slncu Ids
$10,000,000 loss last year, although ho
has made about 3:1,000.000 within
tho past tlireu weeks in thu
stock boom. Witli tho Central in one
hand and tho West Shore in the other,
Trinity smiles at Vanderbilt's succoss
iu 1881.
AndJay Gould, what of himP Well,
Jay is not inactive this summer and is
much on tho make as over, as is evi
denced bj tlio Western Union grab of
tlio Hankers anil Merchants wires ti
tow days ago, mid tlioir attempted in
corporation with tho Western Union,
Tiiov. too. havo n big morl-rano about
$10,000,00j), and Gould will tlimlly gut
tnoso wires.
Gould goes about tilings more char
acteristically tliun Vanderbilt. If ho
wants anything, hu seizes Jlilrat nnd
lets tho courts decide his right to It
afterward, Fostossiou being nine
tenths of tlio law, Gould generally
HWiiRirea to got tho olhur tenth by
ome hook or crook, mid eo grabs thu
nine witli fueling, nnd looks forward
to tho tenth with expectancy.
Gould's bigpost grab was made
when ho and Jim Fisk collared tin
Erie It. H. from Vnnderbilt, on ac
count of which Fisk lived In Jcrscj
for sonio weeks, out of reach of ,Now
York statu oilicors; but tho last prat
was a fair sized one, If not quito bc
successful.
It is just about 31 years sinco Jay
Gould owned but ten cents in tho
world, and tnado his next fiftv cents
nnd n squnro meal, by manufacturing
n noon mark for a farmer in this state.
Times hnvo wonderfiillv ohantred
sinco then, but Gould still keeps tho
"last ten cents ho owned" ns n mo-
mento. Ho was about 15 vcars old at
tiiat time, and is only -19 to-day, while
Vanderbilt is G4, but Gould is agilofor
his age, much moro so than Vander
bilt, nnd can jump on n ton million
mortgago against tlio bankers and
merchants while Win. II. Is thinking
about doing sonietliin in a similar
lino for tlio Wost Shore. Gould is out
of tlio city at present, but his repre
sentatives nro making it wnrm for the
15. nnd JU. pcoplo, and lrmity smiles
again at Jay Gould and his Inst trans
action in wires.
And whero is Cvrus W. Fiold this
summer? Is ho Idlo? Oh, no, Mr.
Field is in England, explaining tho
beauties of the Elovated Hailroau Sys
tem to admiring Englishmen, and
won't cot through this sumnior. His
heart and soul nro in his work, nnd
London niny expect second story rail
ways oro Jong, u thoy listen with ere-
donco to Cyrus XV., for his ten slriko
wns mndo in Manhattan elovntcd, and
when the electric motors nro attached,
nnd smoke and cinders dono nwny
witli, then his millennium will arrive.
Most people do not perhaps know that
tlio snioko now generated from tho
olovntod ronds contnins niucli enrbonio
gas, and mat a certain Dr. J nvlor ot
this city, who has n niedlcnl Inhrninry
on tho t)xth nvontio line, received i
$20,000 damages from tho Elovntod in
a suit arising from thu action of this
gas on his patients. Jt was carried
up, however, nnd liko all suits against
corporations, it went up so high tlint
it novor eniiiu down to earth again,
and that endod it. Uyrus field linn a
cYRurrtww'y'
monopoly Unit is a gold inino, ns nny
onu of thu 1100.000 pnssongors curried
daily by tho Elevated can sec.
Trinity is smiling at his success,
and wondoring if London will es
cape. Hero is ono hnppv man of 1881, who
has after thirty lour years of patient
waiting, scheming and lobbying, se
cured the goal for which A. T. Stew
art and other shrewd business men
longed iu vain. Yes, Jake Sharp cap
tured tho linest street in America this
year, laid the rails down in about ten
ilius, nnd bus been renping thu har
vest uvorybody said hu would reap if
lie succeeded iu his undertaking of
putting street cars on lirondwny.
Despite the World and the people, tho
iroporty holders and their numerous
njunetions, Sharp succeeded, and tho
cars are now tin established fnet, nnd
are paying big. Tho mini, woman or
child who gets nsoat inn Broadway
car is iu look, and as a general thing
even standing room is not to bu hail,
especially ns. they won't allow tho
anxious public to stand on tho stops.
It is estimated that every day puts
$2,000 clear prolit into thu pockets of
tho projectors of this A 1 investment,
and bonds or stock are not to bo had
for lovo or money. The general np-
poniuneu of n man or woman who
emerges from n Broadway car would
Indicate that thov had ironu through a
Tammany torchlight procession, mid
uiiinu out second bust.
Sardines in a box rovel in space
compared to thu Individuals who trav
el ou Hroadwny in tho street oars, or
jam boxes, ns they nro appropriately
ciiiimi. nut nniontr ail uiuu happy
pooplu who huvo cuught ou. there u
ono lonely individual, who wondcrt
why it is that Heaven, fato and Wall
street havo not smiled propitiously
upon him in 1881. Tills is Russull
Sage, tho venerable "put" mid "cull"
idonler of Gotham. No bonanzn has
'ns yet opened up to him this year, to
'pll'sot his ill luck of last season, when
ho lost so much in tlio panic preeipi
I jtatod by the Ferdinand Ward and
Marino bank failures, iNo, nussell
Sago is not iPhappy man, and doesn't
tenjoy his meals at Saratoga this sea.
son as of yore. He is said to bo very
'thoughtful and sedate, drinking his
Congress water in'silencc, anil watch
ing Vanderbilt closely to see how ta
docs things generaally. It is rumored
that Sago is thinking of following
other than the Gould fortunes iu the
near future, and Trinity smiles at his
d,!cmma.
Russol Sago has enough to retire
on, but ho can't mnko up his mind
to quit bus'ness yet.
Small Runs
Unlimited rnngo is not nbsolutoly
necessary. Tlio advantage of rnngo is
in tho variety of insect, green nnd seed
food which tho fields, meadows and
orchards afford. Fowls will thrivo and
lay woll, if they havo plonty of room
to walk about, scratch in tlio fresh
oartli and pick tho tender grass und
ryegotniues thai grow on thoir runs.
I Fowls conlined to houses or small
jnrds require more care and attention
than n tnoy nave tiieir iinortv. in re
stricted places the ground soon be
comes tainted and sour from their
droppings. Fowls in good health are
nlw;ivs liusv snurnliincr I'm- Knmittliim?
jn tho earth of the "latino of fooiC
gravol or othor acids to trituration of
food in tlio gizzard, tlio solvent glands,
or calcerous mutter for egg shells. In
picking up those "unconsidered tri
lies," dirt nnd excrement must be
.taken up nnd puss through tlio same
'digostivo nnd nbsorbent channels,
honco tho nccossity of scrupulous
cleanliness about the hen houses and
jimall yards at all soasons.
If fowls arc to bo kept successfully
in limited yards, thoy need to bo placed
on dry soil a place tint has tho na
tural advnntnge of being readily
drained and always free from damp
Jnoss and stagnant pools. It is always
requisite to keep tho house and run
clean, the droppings and vegotablo re
fuse removed regularly, bofore fur-
huentation takes place, and the appli
cation of deodorizers and disinfectants
to keep tho place pure and sweet. The
timo and labor, requisite for such
work, may seem irksome to tho bogin
,nur, and not necessary in pursuing tho
cultivation of poultry, but such ideas
jiro deceptive and misleading. l)tdlry
uMonthly.
Is "Young America" Irreverent'
, Tliu Roy. Dr. Rnldwln, of Huston,
'thinks not. He says: "My own con
ivletions are that tho youth of to-day
'possess oven more real, heartfelt, siii
jeere, God-liko reverenco, or respect.
Thirty to lifty years or more airo tho
so-called reverence wns too often a
irovorenco of compulsion, whether ap
plied to God, to the church, or to par
ents. Tlio word then was too niton
"thou slialt" and "thou shalt not." It
was upon this foundation that the
child's heart was educated in too
many homes, and by much of tho re
ligious instruction given to thorn.
Reverence, iu its full degree, is a
mutter of education and surrounding
influences. Let this fact be oyer kept
in mind iu our churches, Sunday
schools, and homes, and by all whu
nro iu any way unpaged or interested
in tlio religious mul'moral education
of tho young men, and the young wo
men of this country will bo full- im
bued and possessed ot the roal, true,
heartfelt, genuine spirit of reverence
that the charge, if mndo, could not bc
based upon facts, that
ioais irreverent."
"Young Amor-
Decay of tho Funny Man.
In nothing else is there such marked
decay as in tlio alloged "funny" news
papers and tho funny men who have
givon thorn their brief notoriety. To
every humorist, who tries tho "pump
ing" process on his wits, weok after
weok, thoro invariably comes a
drought. Wit must How spontaneous
ly, mid when tho spirit moves; it can't
bu forced. The attempt to produce
wit in certain quantities by the column,
at a curtain time, will leave the oxpo
rliuotiter an exhausted receiver. Every
man who has tried to bo witty by mens
uronient, and has contracted to furnish
a certain quantity of wit weekly or
dally or monthly, lias failed in his en
deavor. Humor comes when tho con
ditions aro right; when a man "feels
liko it," but is so subtlo thatlf you
watch tor it, mid attempt to cultivate
it, tho labor is lost. Term Haute Mud,
If you feed prlutur on "p." It will Invar
lably put him out ot "ort." Tlil l nut I
pious icflectlou. Qtvnyt Observer.
Thr pioKr uliuly of mmiklud U womu.
V, J'aul UtralJ,
I Tiff I UHlfc
Thoy Want Their Wives' Letters.
From tho Chicago Herald.
"Tlio third man I'vo sent away mad
this morning," remnrkd n clerk nt the
general delivery window. "Ho called
for mail addressed to his wife, and wo
wouldn't give it to him. Wo nro not
nllowed to, unless ho has nn order. I
teUyou, it is nn eye-opener to many
men" to discover that thjir wives hnvo
any rights. 'What!' they will say 'n
man can't get a letter for his own wifo
without an order!' 'No, sir, it is a rulo
of tlio department.' And then they
boil with rage. You sop, most men nro
in thohnbit of opening their wives' let
ters. Thoy don't think it is wrong.
Sometimes" a married women wants to
carry on correspondence without hav
ing her husband a party to it, and to
protect her rights that rulo was made.
Of course, it is nono of our business
what her correspondence is about. It
may bo witli her rolniivcs, lady friends,
her lawyer, or witli an admirer. We
don't know, nor care. All tint tho
department knows is that tho
is a woman, entitled to havo
her letters delivered into her
own hands. If she wants her husbnnd
or any other person to havo them sho
can write nn order. Sometimes tho
husbands will go off nnd como back
nftern while with nn order which they
havo written tliomselvo3 nnd signed
tlioir wives' names to. In mich cases
wo cot ahead of them by ranking them
sign a receipt, and tho similarity of tlio
writing in tho surname gives their littlo
gam o away.
"I remember n case whero a woman's
foresight was too sharp for her husband
Evidentlv suspecting that he know sho
wns getting mail here, nnd that ho
would present an order in n woman's
handwriting, presumnblv her own, sho
left hero a written order that hor lottors
were to lie delivered to nobody but her
self. When Mr. Husband came around
witli his little order wo presented his
jnfos order, nnd ho walked nwayns
quick as ho could. But manytimes when
men ask for tlioir wives' letters hero or
nt tho ndvortised window thoy do not
know of tlio rule, and tho honest amaze
ment that comes on their faces upon
discovering that their better halves
hnvo Bomo privileges not shnred by
them in common somo rights which
oven tho husband cnunot intorfero with
is quito comical.
"I hnvo seen men who get rond nt first,
but who, I would be willing to say,
stnrtcd into n train of thought upon
calming down that resulted in increased
respect for thoir partners nnd in tho ro-
alization that tho husband is not niuo-tcen-twentietlis
of tho family team."
Tho Lime-Kiln Club.
For somo timo past there has beon ill-
feeling between Piko Root Perkins nnd
tho Hon. Justified White, caused by n
dispute over the query : "Is Lifo Worth
tho Living. " As the mooting wns ready
to open Brother Gardner called tho
pair to tho head of the hall nnd said :
"Ono reason why somo people decide
dnt lifo am not wnth do libin' am be
kaso doy mnke lifo n burden to dcir
solves nn' werry onplensnnt to oddors.
Ono real mean man in a community km
make 500 peoplo doubt if virtuo am re
warded on earth. Ono canting hypo
crito in a town kin keep a Blander-mill
grindin' night an' day. Ono infidel in
a county kin cause 5,000 woll-moinin'
pcoplo to kinder doubt if dnr' am a
Henben or a hereafter.
"Bekaso you two differ in opinyun
yon go at it nn' holp to mnko lifo on
plensnnt to each odder. It doan' striko
you dat anybody elso kin bo right, or
dat you may bo entirely wrong. Brud
dor Perkins calls Brother Wliito n fulo
boknso ho can't ngreo with him. B rud
der Whito calls Briulder Porkins n bigot
beknso ho won't accept his opinyuns.
Each has his friends an' supporters, an'
deso siipportors divido oil an' feol aigo
wiso toward each odder, an' boforo wo
know it do quarrol has involved 200
pooplo. Gein'len, do pusson who ar
gufies dnt lifo am wnth do libin' must
provo his argymonts by his nekslmns.
lie who feels dat lifo ain't wnth do
troubloof haiigin' aroun' on earth can't
do bettor dan to walk down to do wharf
hitch n grindstun to his neck, nn' jump
into wnter twonty foet deep.
"Ion two hiuililors tako each odder
by tho hand. . Now shako. Now go to
yor sents. Each ono of you has a right
to Ins theories nn bolieis, but norther
of you havo do right to denounce do
oddor. Do world am big 'nufT to hold
all do theories of all de inhnbitants.
Wo hnvo plentv of room for nil de be
liefs we kin boliovo in. Dar am acreago
fur nil do argymonts wo kin argy. Whon
wo reaiizo this wo must leoi now silly
it am fur do Hon. Centrifugal Johnsing
to call Judge Merriweathor Tompkins
n charlnton, beknso Mrs. Johnsing had
thirty-two pussons to her high ten, and
Mrs. Tompkins couldn't count but
thirty-ono nt hor low coft'eo. "
The reports of commercial papors all
agroo tiiat for somo reason or other tho
trndo of tho present sonson has been bo
low tho general anticipations and oven
bolow that of last year. A largo vol
nmo of merohandiso has beon disposed
of, but thoro has beon littlo or no monoy
in it. Stocks of morchandiso continuo
leavy ; thjero is no profltablo lino of in
vestment; overybody proceeds with ox
tremo caution. And yet all tho condi
tions appear favorable. Tho prospect
of a short wheat crop ought certainly to
mako a good prico and a quick sale for
tho largo surplus. In tho situation gen
erally thoro appears to bo no ciuiso
whatovor for the present stagnation,
nnd so roBiody suggests itself. Tho
problem will "work itsolf out in duo
timo, but it is dull work, this "waiting
for tho wagon."
Tho wife of an habitual dmnkard in
Juffalo, N. Y., has obtained a vordict
of $1,000 damages against a liquor
Boiler who persisted iu Belling her hus
bnnd whisky niter ho had been notified
to desist. The vordict ia a rightooua
one, though two oi the jurors rendering
ti wero saloon-keepers.
EUREKA.
A stout black-whiskered man sat im
mediately in fftnt of mo in tho rnilrond
car and indulged from timo to timo in
the most strange and unaccountablo
maneuvers. Every now and then ho
would got up and hurry away to tho
narrow passage jvhich lends to the door
in theso drawing-room cars, and, when
he thought himself soenro from obser
vation, would fall to laughing in tho
most violent manner and continuo tho
healthful exorcise until he wns as red
in tho face as a lobster.
As wo neared tho city theao demon
strations increased in violence, savo tho
stranger no longer ran away to laugh
but kept in his scat and chuckled to
himself, with his chin down deep in his
shirt-collar. But tho changes those
portmanteau? underwent! He moved
them here, there ho put them behind
him. llo was evidently getting ready
to leave, but, as wo were twenty-five
roues from the citv tho idea of such
early preparation wns ridiculous. If wo
had entered the city when tho mystery
would havo remained unsolved, but tho
stranger bo?amo so excited that ho
could kep his seat no longer. Somo
ono must help him, and, as I was the
nearest to him, he selected mo. bnd-
denly turning, he said, rocking himself
to and fro in his chair in the meantime.
and clnpping his legs together nnd
brenthing hnrd :
"Been gone three years 1"
"Ah!"
"Yes ; been in Europe. Folks don't
expect mo for threo months vet, but
got through nnd started. I telegraphed
them at tho last station thoy'vo got it
by this time."
As ho said this ho rubbed his hands
nnd chnnged tho portmanteau on his
left to tho right nnd tho ono on tho right
to tho left again.
"Got a wifo?" said I.
"Yes, and three children," he re
turned Ho then got up and folded his over
coat anew, nnd hung it over the back of
tho seat.
"You aro prettv nervous over tho mnt
ter. nin't you? I said, watching his
fidgety movements.
"Well. I should think so." ho re
plied," I nin't slept soundly for n week,
And you done know," ho went on,
glancing around, nt tho passongers nnd
speaking in n low tone, I nm almost
certain that this train will run off tho
track and break my neck beforo I got
to Boston. Well, tho fact is, I havo
had too muoh good luck for ono man
lately. Tho thihg can't last, 'taint nat
ural tho thing should, you know. I'vo
watched it. First it rains, then it shinos,
thon it fains again. It rains so hard
you think it's never going to stop; then
it shines so bright you think it's always
going to shine; and just as ycu aro set
tled in either belief you aro knocked
over by a change, to show that you know
nothing abont it.
"Well, according toyour philosophy,"
I said, "you will continuo to havo sun
shine, because you aro expecting a
storm."
"It's curious," ho returned, "but tho
only thing which makes me think I will
get through safo is becauso I think I
won't.
"Well, this is curious," said I.
"Yes," ho roplied. "I nm a machin
ist mndo a discovery nobody be
hoved iu it spent all my money in try
ing to bring it out mortgaged my homo
all vent. Everybody laughed at mo
overybody but my wifo spunky littlo
woman sho said she'd work her fingers
oil before I should givo it up. Went to
England no better thoro came with
in an aco of jumping olVLondon bridge.
Went into a workshop to earn money
enough to como homo with thero I
met tho man I wanted. To make a
long Btory short, I'vo brought $500,000
homo with me, and hore I am."
"Good for you!" I exclaimed.
"Yes," said ho, "$500,000; and the
best of it is, sho don't know anything
about it. I'vo fooled her so often and
disappointed her so much that I just
concluded I would say nothing about
this. When I got my money, though,
you hotter believe I struck a bee lino
for home."
"And now, I supposo, you will mako
hor happy?"
"Hnppv!" ho replied, "why, you
don't know nny thing nbout it. She's,
worked liko n dog sinco I have been
gone, trying to support herself and
children decently. They paid her 13
cents apieco for making wliito shirts,
and that is tho way she lived half the
time. She'll como down thoro to tho
depot to meet mo iu a gingham dross
nnd n shnwl n hundred years old, nnd
sho'll think she's dressed up. Oh, sho
won't hnvo no clothes nfter this oh,
no, I guess not!"
And with these words, which implied
that his wifo's wnrdrobo would soon
rival Queen Victoria's the stranger toro
ilown thopassagowayngain, nnd, getting
in hjs old corner, whero ho thought
himself out of sight, went through the
strango pantomime, laughing, putting
his mouth into tho drollest shape, and
then swinging himself back and forth
in tho limited spaco as if he wero
"walking down Broadway" a full-
rigged metropolitan belle.
So on wo rolled to the depot, and 1
placed myself on the other carc oppos
ite llio siriiiigi-r, uuu, bihi u punuiuu
teau in either hand, descended and was
standing ou tho lowest step ready to
jump to tho platform.
l looKeii irom ins lace to uie iaces oi
the people before us, hut saw no signf
ot recogumon. ouuuoniy ue criou:
"There they are!"
Then ho laughed outright, but in a
hysterical way, as he looked over the
crowd. I followed his eye, and saw,
some distance back, as if crowded out
and shouldered away by the well-dressed
and elbowing throug, a littlo womau
iu a faded dress, ami a well-worn hat,
witli a face almost painful in its intenso
but hopeful expression, ghncing rapid
ly from .vindow to window as tho
coaches rapidly glided in.
Sho had not seen the 6trangor, but a
moment after she panght his eye, and
in another instant he had jumped to tho
platform with his two portmanteaus,
and making a hole in the crowd, push
ing ono here and another there, nnd
running ono of his bundles plump into
tho well-developed stomach of a vener-able-looking
old gentleman in specta
cles, ho rushed toward tho place whero
sho wa3 standing. I think I never saw
a face assume so many expressions in
so short a timo as did that of tho littlo
woman while her husband was on his
way to her.
t Sho didn't look pretty on the con
trary, she looked very plain ; but some
how I felt a big lump rise in my throat
as I watched her. She was trying to
laugh, but, God bless hor I how com
pletely sho failed in tho attempt! Her
mouth got iuta po.ntion, but it never
moved nfter that savo to draw
down at tho corners and quiver,
whilo 'sho blinked her eyes so
fast that I expect she only cnught
occasional glympses of tho broad-shouldered
man pushing his way so rnpidly
toward her. And then , as he drow closo
and dropped those everlasting portmnn
taus, she turned completely rouml, with
her back toward him, and covered her
face with her hands. And thus sho wa3
when tho strong man gathered her up
in his arms ns if she had been a baby,
and held her, sobbing to his breast.
There wore enough gaping at them,'
heaven knows, and I turned my eyes
away for a moment, and thon I saw two
boys in threadbare roundabouts stand
ing near, wiping their eyes and noses on
their littlo coat-sleeves and bursting out
anow at overy demonstration on tho
part of their mother.
When I looked at tho stranger again
ho had his hat drawn over his eyes; but
his wifo was looking up at him, and it
seemed as if tho pent up tears of thoso
weary months of waiting were streaming
through her eyelids.
Management of American and Eng
lish Hotels.
From tho Detroit Freo Press.
When you go into an American hotel,
you know, a boy takes your baggage at
the door, tho clerk embraces you at tho
counter, brushes whisk, and attendants
dance around you till it seems as if the
whole establishment had been eagerly
expecting you for a week.
Now when you go into an English
hotel it is different.
You tug and twist and shouldor-heavo
at the door awhile, until at last yon
worry it open nnd drag yourself and
your baggage in by painful degrees
against the protest of an inhospitablo
spring that has been cunningly con
trived somewhere to keop you
out. Then you set down your
things in a narrow, privato sort
of an entry with tho foeling of
a burglor awaiting an arrest, and wipe
of your forehead and look over tho
ground. Thero aro no signs, no bolls,
no anything, lou stamp and cough
and rattlo around lor a whilo, aud by-and-by
tho commotion wakes up some
body in tho rear of the house, who opens
tho door nnd peers through. This is
your oportunity. If you are nffablo,
nnd persistent, nnd plnusiblo, nnd stnte
your enso with respectful urgency, this
person (usually a female), after somo
preliminary examination, will disap
pear, and come back in timo with an
other and highor functionary (also a
female), who examines you in tho high
er branches, and may end, under favor
able condition, with your admission.
The Veiled Mystery.
Washington Lottor in Philadelphia Telegraph
Thero is one woman iu the Treasury
who has attracted much attention on ac
count of tho mystery surrounding hor.
Shu has beon in tho department for years
not less than ten and though she is
marked by everybody, I havo never mot
anybody who has seen her face. It is tho
talk of the clerks brought most in con
tact with her. She is a woman of magnifi
cent presence, a tall, lino figure, and ono
of tho most perfect forms I have seen.
Her appearance is that of a woman who
might possess remarkable beauty, but
sho alwavs has her faco enveloped
in a thick veil. In tlio office or
out, at work or walking through the
halls, the veil is never removed, and
the efiorts of hor inquisitivo fellow-
clerks to peep under it are vain. Many
suscoptible young men, struck by her
fine figure, havo quickened their step to
catch uo with her in tho halls only to
find her faco hid from sight. No one can
tell whether sho is old or young, but sho
is probably not "very either." Tho mo
tive for concealing her features is not
known. Whether, liko tho "Veiled
Prophet," she seoks to hide a vision of
ugliness, or whether sho has somo tlier
reason, is a mero matter of conjecture.
Some sav that hor faco onco comported
with the promiso of hor fornr1 that she
was exquisitely beautiful but was a
victim of smallpox, which so disfigured
her faco that she is nshnmcd to show it.
Ono of tho Louisvillo Girls,
From tho Memphis Sunday Times.
A Louisvillo girl who was visiting
here a short time ago scored a signal
triumph over a fresh young society man
of this city. They were sitting upon a
sofa together, and as tho conversation
nrotrvessed he nllowed his nrm to Grad
ually fall down until ho had it around
her
waist.
She
arose very indignant, and he
tho following explanation;) and
made
apology : "I hopo you will not think
auythiug of this. It is just a way I
have. All the Memphis boys act the
intto way. and vou will have to get
used to it. I hope vou will not take
any offense at it, as" it's just my way."
Sho left the room, but came oacK in
few minutes with a married friend
and sat down on the sofa again. Soou
sho began to yawn and give overy os
tensible proof of boing thoroughly
bored. Finally sho said : "I'm dread
fully sleepy, and I hope you'll go home.
Y
ou musn t tako nny oneiise ni mis.
All tho Louisvillo girls net tho samo
way. You nre exceedingly tiresome,
nnd vou had better go homo at once.
Don't bo ofl'ended at this. It is simply
wuy 1 have.
He stood not upon tht order of hia
going.