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WOX/IE/iLAND. [George Edgar Montgomery.] I tfy ueart to-day is like a summer Hower I Which lifts its blooming chalice to absorb I Sweet «»dors from the air. For, like a I Hower, I Mv heart absorbs die fiery life that dwells I Within the blossoming matter of the world I And naked strength of nature. Here, where I earth I Seems [»eaceful as a dreamefs paradise, I J trace the movement of the universe, I The splendor that inspires the thought of man, I And glory that outshines the fancy. Here j learn the clear ami simple speech of truth, And feel the buoyant spirit of forest birds That till a whole bright summer with their song. [ look U|M>n the old world as a child Looks with a vague and tender trust upon Ju» mother’s face; and, strangely moved, I see Beyond the beauty of familiar things, As one may see into another’s heart With the line sense of love. HUNGRY JOE’S DEFEAT. [New York Tinies.] . tht> r‘.u‘day ot Au«ust “ m»n arrayed n store clothe., a sluu.h hat, an.l blue spec tacles registered ttt a fashionable hotel on Broadway as B. Ashley, of Abilene, Kan. 1 «»«• stranger had ju-t come in by the western express from Chicago on the Erie road. His garments were the product of a ready-made clothing »tore jn Abilene, and they added slightly to his general bucolic appearance, ills hands and face were tanned, be walkel with the Jiarenthetical gait of one whose legs im<l lieen curved by years spent in the saddle, and his bearing was in other respects indica- ,lve °* the wild western borderman. Mr. Ashley spec lily developed other tendencies of the prairie type. He insisted upon going out for exercise on horseback every morning shortly after daybreak, and upon these occa sions he employed hisown raw hide bridle and ha well-worii Mexican saddle, which had No harsh voice falls formedapart of his luggage. His accent Along the solemn quietude of the air. was a peculiar blending of English and west Yet I can hear faint voices, which are like ern types of speech. He had weak eyes and Echo of unseen music; there is sjieech was in consultation with a prominent physi In the melodious breeze, and there is song Within the soft hush of the languorous cian here, while stopping for a month in New | noon— York on his way to Europe to put himself Song that would roar like thunder if tho ear under the care of tho most eminent oculists Could catch its undertone. The fire and stir abroad. Mr. Ashley seemed to have very lit Of a da^lalian impulse throb beneath tle occupation l»eyond horseback riding at Theo itward slumber of a life which is unearthly hours of the morning, visiting his ¡Sleepless and everlasting. Then* is not man of medicine in the afternoon, and loung A leaf, a rose, a tree, nor animat? thing Which does not add a language to the world; ing about tho immense and richly gilded ro tunda of the hotel in the evening. He was Awl I, that am a ¡»art of earth and sky, ¡•’eel that divinity and kinship born bountifully supplied with cash, and he ex- Oh. I love i Of truth and noble knowledge. pended it with considerable liberality. He To watch tho pageant of the world unroll, smoked a good deal, but drank little, because To search within its sorcery, and to drink Its wild enchantment, even as men were his doctor had objected to one habit and ab solutely forbidden the other, by reason of its wont, , effects on the patient’s eyes. Many people Jin the dead days of fable, to give form about the hotel drank at the expense of Mr. no sprite, and gnome, and god. Ashley, but he seldom indulged himself in PREPARING SEALSKINS. more cheering beverages than lemonade and vichy. ■ the coloring all D one in E ngland — ()ne day Mr. Ashley strolled through the lobby of the hotel in the company of a young MONOTONOUS WORK FOR GIRLS. man whose face is well known to the regular ■New York Sun. I In a small, gloomy room ftt the top promenadersof Broadway. This young man (of a flingy building in a down town is always faultlessly dressed and clean shaven. (street eight girls sat yesterday working He has prominent featuresand peculiarly thin compressed lips. He lives handsomely, Ltolidly. The light seemed dusty ami and •nd always has plenty of cash. With his new- ■hot as it shone dimly through the soot- found companion, Mr. Ashley, the weak-eyed ■ncrusted window panes, and the rum child of the guileless west, occupied a seat in ple of machinery below jarred the floor the bar room for some little time. Upon this (incessantly. The girls sat in little occasion Mr. Ashley departed from his usual ■groups. They were shabbily clad, custom sufficiently to assist in the liberal ab (though there were touches of bright sorption of champagne. When his Broadway (color here and there, and their faces friend went away, Mr. Ashley sauntered Lil looked pinched and care-worn. again through the office of the hotel. He was [Their backs were bent in a weary way beckoned by one of the clerks. “Mr. Ashley, how long since yon have La they leaned over the work. Each in New York?” queried the gentleman ■girl held a sealskin stretched across been the diamond stud. Bier lap, and picked at it with great behind “Near eight year,” responded unin- rapidity. Their hands were quite formed gentleman, “ Ne ver was that here afore, ■»lack. They seldom spoke, and when and never since.” (i stranger entered they looked at him “I)o you know the person who just left listlesHly for a moment, and then yon C propped their eyes on their work “Y«*s. Met him two nights ago nt the Again. Madison Square. I couldn’t buy a seat, and I “They are picking the long black he offered me one of his. Said his friend Lairs out of the skin,” said the fore- hadn’t come and he would be glad to acoom- j (nan, rubbing his hand over one of modate a stranger; so we sat together. Seems j (he glossy pieces of fur. “We get all to be a nice sort of a chap. ” “1 have no doubt of that,” continued the (f our sealskins from London, where clerk with a slight air of superior knowledge (hey are taken direct from the Arctic not unblended with sarcasm. “That young (egions. Sealskins cannot be colored man is Hungry Joe, one of the most cele butside of England. They not only brated confidence operators in America.” Lave a peculiar process there, but the “You don’t say,” drawled the western man 1 (limatic influences result in better col slowly, and with some astonishment. “Well, oring than can be done here. So the I’m darned.” He went thoughtfully away. That night (kins go to England first. After they (ave been colored they are shipped all the young man with the thin lips and the handsome clothes called for Mr. Ashley after (ver the world and made into sacques, (olmans, muffs, gloves, and hats, when dinner. As they came through the office the occidental innocent took out a large pocket lliey arrive at their destination.” filled to repletion with money, drew | “Why are the long black hairs you book from its inner recesses about $5,000, and de (peak of not taken out in London ?” posited the wallet, with the balance of its I “Well, I don’t know that there is any contents, in the hotel safe. His companion (articular reason except the econom- viewed this proceeding with a passive f <ce (al one. The London concerns charge but a gleaming eye, aud the two w’ent out (rite heavily for the work, and the re together. Mr. Ashley returned to the ho el mit is we prefer to do it here where it just in time to take his morning ride on loeen’t cost as much. It does not re- horseback. He slept until about 4 in the 1 luire highly skilled labor. The black afternoon. Then he drew $200 from his | lairs you see are not so very much wallet and left. “You are fully warned,” observed the | bnger than the rest of the fur. There ( a difference of perhaps a sixteenth of clerk, as he handed ever the amount, “and it is your own fault if you lose any money to (1 inch. By blowing against the grain Hungry Joe.” If the fur the black hairs can all be “Correct,” responded Mr. Ashley, stuffing (ad«? to stand out.” the bills into his pocket. I “How many hours do the girls work His next appearance in the hotel was a lit ■ day?” tle after midnight, and this time he put $300 I ‘ They come at 7 o’clock and leave at away in the wallet, with the declaration that I They are paid fair wages. Of the New York sharps might be pretty stiff on burse they do not make their fortunes, bunko, but they were a little behind the times on draw-poker. “In my country,” he ex ■it still the pay is fair.” plained, “two deuces and a bowie w’ill open a | Monotonous work?” (“Oh, it’s overpoweringly so,” said the jack pot every time.” Mr. Ashley passed several days in quiet and patty foreman, shrugging his shoulders (patiently. “The incessant picking seclusion. A full week went by before he out again with his companion of the (most drives me mad at times; but drilted lips. The next day after that he (on I suppose it’s worse for the girls.” compressed drew a round $1,000 from the safe, and I7/A7? A? THE RES T A OC/F T Y REIGNS. seemed annoyed when the clerk smiled a broad and knowing smile. “No game (r Philadelphia Press. fazeu me,” said Mr. Ashley in I After all, in a city of a million and a ever a dogged way, “and a man who can | blf of people, what is society? This hold up his end with cowboys isn’t (eat centre abounds in comfortable going to be liested by any broadcloth brigade i bd happy homes, where respectable that was ever hatched.” There was a lull (en with money enough for all the i of eight or ten days in th' proceedings, and bm forts and many of the luxuries of then Mr. Ashley drew another $1,000. A ■e live happily, charmingly, inconspicu- couple of days later he drew $850 more. That I (sly. There are thousands of houses afternoon he went for a drive with his gen- ' (re to support which from $10,000 to i tlemanly companion. His face had been suf- LO.OOO a year are none to much, in fused with sadness all the morning, but it was I Brich reside merchants, brokers, editors, noticed that he seemed somewhat brighter | he returned from the drive. That (wyers. There are also very many when Hungry Joe and two of his well (agnificent residences, better called | evening known Broadway companions spent several (laces, in which live honest and intelli- hours in earnest conversatiofi with Mr. Ash (nt people, who live reputable and ley. That gentleman’s weak eyes made it (medie lives, spending from $50,000 necessary to wear his broad hat well down I $150,000 a year, and there are others over his forehead. When the three young finally magnificent, in which live men went away the merest shadow of a smile lhemers, blackguards, liars and thieves, played about the mouth of the western man. ■io, having fattened upon the mis- From the table at which they had sat the (rtiines of their fellows, flaunt their | three young fellows went straight to the tel (altli offensively in the faces of their egraph office, where they sent the following (orer but better fellow citizens. Out dispatch: , Abilene, Kas.: lie of these are hundreds of thousands P ostmaster x>o you know Beniamin Ashley, cattle I people who live quietly, who are | raiser? Telegraph full particulars, my ex- (ver seen in public places, who are (odest in their ambitions, temperate in i |eir living, church-goers, domestic, I fiiet, home people. pms AND THEIR ADHERENTS. I fiw York Sun. ■The Catholic mission at Lyons has I ■blished some statistics concerning fie religious creeds of the world and j fie number of their adherents. Mono- fieism is said to have fewer followers fian Pagandom, which counts 816,000,- i B" worshipers. Catholics are esti- , fcte<l to number 212,000,000. Non kt holies are distnbuted into Protes- fcts. humbering 124,000,000. and van- . B* dissidents and schismatics, figured • at M,000,000. Jews foot up 7.000,- BO; Mohammedans, 200.000,000; Brah- |ns, 163,000.000; Buddhists, 423,000,- Bh; and idol worshipers, 230,000,000. Bis interesting in this statistical esti- fcte to note that Roman Catholics ar? Bday «aid to outnumber the adherents ■ all other forms of the Christian creea B only four millions. art. They toasted him right royally in “ v?l low label,” presented him with a big basket of flowers with the word “Farewell’’ in large blue» letters across the centre, and otherwise marked his departure with evidences of their tender regard. Mr. Ashley had been gone from the fashion able Broadway hotel precisely eleven days, when a tall man came in from a carriage tlrtt was loaded with trunks and steamer j chairs and ». ther appliances of wean travel. He signed himself on the register, “Benjamin Ashley, Ixmdo•».” The clerk looked up hur riedly as if to apologize for not recognizing his guest, then looked surprised, then mut tered a hasty word or two, and assigned the stranger a room, all in a confused and preoc- cupiel way. This was apparently another Benjamin Ashley. He was tall and slender, and well dressed, and pale. But he spoke with a slightly Americanized English accent, not unlike that of the other Benjamin Ashley. The clerk was pretty well puzzled, and that night he took good care to have the stranger’s full name and address inserted in the list of arrivals published daily in a periodical de voted to that purpose and carefully read by the confidence fraternity. The clerk went on duty early the next day, aud as he had fully expected, one of the first callers was the thin- lipped young man, who asked to have his name sent up to Mr. Ashley’s room. Ward came back that Mr. Ashley would see the gentleman in the drawing-room, and thither the clerk followed after a moment. Hungry Joe was sitting in a large arm chair when the tall man from Ixmdon came into the apartment. The New Yorker merely be ' stowed a passing glance on Mr. Ashley and looked away. The Englishman, however, seeing no one else Excepting the clerk, ad vanced courteously and said: “ Did you wiih to see me. I am Mr. Ash ley. ” “ Eh?” queried Hungry Joe, with a startled look. “ You’re not Mr. Benjamin Ashley E “ Precisely.” “ Not of Kansas” “ Aes, of Abilene, Kan. How can I serve youF The thin lips of the confidence man were rather white by this time, and they were more firmly compressed than ever. He re garded the tall Englishman in a dazed fashion for a few moments. Then he asked: “ Do you own a large cattle ranch thirty- five miles south of Abilene?” “ I believe I do. Why do you ask?” “Been to Europe to have your eyes doc tored r “Yes, I have now been abroad four months. But, my young friend, these ques tions are rather odd. Please explain your self.” “Odd!” echoed the Broadway man. “Well, I should think they were. If you are Ben jamin Ashley, and you do own that ranch, the cleverest man in the country has given me a deal, that’s all. Why, it ain’t two weeks ago that me and two friends bought a half interest in that ranch, and, by George! the man whiTsold us stopped in this same ho tel.” Mr. Ashley seemed rather astonished by this information, and beckoned the clerk, who had been listening to their conversation quite intently. That individual gave a care ful description of the previous Mr. Ashley, and the New York sharper told how had he won some $3,250 from the man, who was on his way to Europe for the benefit of his eyes. , He had represented himself as the owner of the Ashley ranch, and at his request the speaker had telegraphed the Abi lene postmaster, who had replied giving de tails as to the property, which is valued at about $50,000, and had added that Mr. Ashley himself had gone abroad for medical treat ment. The man had represented that he wanted to make certain expenditures in Eu rope, and that his card losses would prevent unless he could dispose of an interest in his ranch. He produced deeds to establish his ownership, and they seemed satisfactory even to the lawyers. Thinking he had a chance to get $25,000 worth of material for $14,000, tho victim harl taken two friends in with him, and by clubbing together they had raised the necessary amount. “Really,” observed the Englishman when the recital was finished. “I am very sorry for you, but you have unquestionably been swindled. For my part I shall not have the slightest difficulty in establishing my inden- titv. As to your friend, tho bogus Mr. Ashley, he is probably one of my cow boys, Henry Barnes by name. The de scription certainly fits that person. He came to the ranch—let me see— about 14 months ago and asked for a place. Now I remember he wasn’t much like the other boys, but I needed more help, and I took him on. He may have been in hiding for some crime, for all I know But on the plains we can scarcely go into such matters. He did his work all right, and seemed rather more refined than his companions, though he tried to conceal it. I heard once or twice from my men that he played a very cold hand at poker.” “He does,” said Hungry Joe mournfully. “He was an expert penman, now I come to think of it, and he did some work of that sort fdr me. He was still there when I camo . away.” “And that’s the cuss who got off to Europe ' with my money, hang him,” burst in the defrauded confi lence operator, angrily, i “What’s worse, he went away full of my champagne, and smelling of my basket of , flowers. That man’s a d—d swindler, that’s what he is.” Receipt for a Duel. [London Family Herald.] In the little town of Rosenburg, west , Russia, lived a young and hot-headed lieu- i tenant, who one day had a dispute with a clerk in the government service, and sud- i denly exclaimed: “You know well enough how to handle your pen; but I have at home a pair of sharp swords with whica I can write better.” The other answered: “Such playthings ought only to be given to children who have nothing to lose.” The lieutenant then challenged him to fight with pistols. “Very well,” the clerk replied, “I accept your offer, on one condition. You know I have a wife and childr-jn for whom I must care. My income is 4.500 marks. If you will deposit a sum sufficient to yield that 1 interest, I am willing to fight. In that case | P* R. Di' KSON, Brewer house, New York. you must place to my account 90,(XX) marks.” The re] ly was evidently in all respect? satis “But,” stammered the astonished officer, “I ; factory, »nd within two days Mr. Ashley re have no fortune!” “Ah, sir, those who pos ceived in his rooms at the hotel a visit from sess nothing have no right to ask men who the ihree confidence operators and a lawyer, must work for others to fight duels!” The who is more or less celebrated in this city. duel never took place. Tlie head porter of the hotel was called up into the room after the visitors had been The l<ondon “Hasher.’’ there an hour or longer, and was requested to Th? Gaulois thus sums up the modern Ix>n append his signature to a certain document in the capacity of a witness to the signing don “masher:” He never laughs or puts off thereof. This done, and the papers signed by an air of weariness. One smile and he is lost. Mr. Ashley, a large sum of money was paid He rises at midday and breakfasts on a sar- , over by the gentleman with the thin lips, and dine and glass of curacoa; drives to Hyde the porter retired with a five-dollar bill out park in a buggy, with a high-stepping horse, of the pile. The visitors shortly withdrew until 2:* then lunches; then Tattersalls; at 6 from the hotel, and Mr. Ashley deposited again in the park on horseback; takes a that night the sum of $ 14,0( MJ cold cash in the lemon squash; dresses and dines at 8, eating office of the hotel. Two days afterward he little, but taking a good deal of “the bay” took passage on a Guion steamer for IJver- (masher name for rhampagn#*!; then the pool. having explained to the hotel clerk that Gaiety; then the ball, where he never dance«, he had sold ? half interest in his Kansas cat but sits in a comer with his mashes, »pf M tle ranch to hrs friends, and that Hungry Joe, 3; must never be »een on foot as he was called, had expressed a wish to re “Never mistake perspiration for inspira tire from city life. Mr Ashley was wi off“ by his enthusiastic New York acquaint tion,” said an old minister in his charge to • young pastor just being ordainel ancea after the most approved style of the yon may have your meal« In your room; but these are extraordinary luxuries which must b»‘ paid for accordingly. As a rule, I am Observation of a Traveler on the bound to say that the cookery, especially of meats, is often execrable, eveu at the best Continent hotels, for they are usually overdone. I have found nowhere on the continent a beefsteak, or a roast of beef, or a mutton chop, at all Not I p to the American standard of c-'’’iparable with what one (>n get any hour Comfort and Convenience— of the day at any of our L>est American hotels. Koine l>?Mirable For here all their luscious juices are cooked out of them, and the meats, at the best, are Cnatoms. poor in comparison with ours or the English tat aud tender viands. [European Letter in Pioneer Press.] A SEVERED HEAD ALIVE. Though my experience of hotels on the continent has l>een chiefly confined to the Alpine regions of Switzarland and France, I A Remarkable Iteeltal by a Veteran Chicago Engineer. have found them, as a rule, good. Some of them excellent, excellent—that is to say, ac [Chicago Herald.] cording to the continental standard, which is “How was it about the explosion you wit by no means the best American standard of ness m ! ?” “Well, one was near Susquehanna, on the comfort and convenience, to say nothing of luxury. We miss, indeed, that York & Erie, now the New York, Lake Erie crowning flower of American civili & Western. Poor Walter Arnold was run zation—the airy and consequential hot«l ning the engine. He was as nice a chap and clerk, with his head of Adonis in oil and his as steady and careful an engineer as you ever dazzling opulence of jewelry; and we miss saw. 1 was standing near the office door the ubiquitous African, with the broom talking to the mechanical superintendent brush, w\o confronts you at every turn and about some new hammers that we were put corner with his instrument of torture, and ting into the shop. It was iu the fall of 1857, insists upon sweeping you as if you were a but 1 remember it as if it occurred yesterday. street crossing. The barber’s shop, too, so Walter hauled up about 200 yards to important an adjunct of even the poorest the right of where we were standing, American tavern, is nowhere to be found, so and his engine had hardly stopped when far as I have ol»served, even in the most ex the explosion took place. It was a fearful tensive aud pretentious of European hotels. sound. It stunned us for a second or two. In Chester, where I needed the services of a Then we rushed down to see a sight which I barber, I was directed to a shop at some dis don’t want to see again. A lot of the work tance from the hotel, which I found with people and their wives aud children had got difficulty, up the back stairs of a haberdash on the tender. It was pay day, and they er’s shop. For no barber's ¡>ole, as is uni were nearly all cut to pieces. The fragments versal in America, was there to serve ns a of the bodies were seen lying around, mixed beacon light to the unnhorn stranger. Nor up with the wreck of the engine and tender. have I seen a burber’s pole in Europe, though Immediately on getting up to the spot I it is of purely European derivation. But I rushed across the track to see if I could find recognized the functionary I needed in the anything of poor Watty, for he and I were modest sign “A Hair Dresser.” He was only close friends. Well, sir, sure enough, there a hairdresser. ' He was as ignorant of the was his head lasting upright on a flat stone mystery of the art of shaving as of the sur in a little stream of water by the side of the gical operation which was formerly a funo road, and the color of life was still seen in tion of the barber’s miscellaneous profes his cheeks. ‘My God,’ I said to the man next sion. In England, he explained, that every me, ‘there is poor Watty’s head,’ and with gentleman was expected to shave himself, that the eyes actually closed and opened, as and if he couldn't he should let his beard much as to say, ‘Yes, old man, here I am? gi-ow. This was, of course, an exaggeration. This is as true as you and I are here now. There are plenty of shops in London, and No, 1 don't want to be in any more explo in continental cities, where the functions of sions.” “And you really think the head heard your liarber and hairdressei* are united; butthoy are relatively far less numerous than with remark and answered it by winking his eyes? ” Us, and are generally separated in the small« r “Yes, sir; it is true as death. Watty Ar towns - in many of which the barber is un nold knew me, and heard my voice, and an known. swered it. You see, the head <vas taken off WINE DRINKING. But this is a digression. 1 was speaking of clear, below the jaws, and very likely the the European hotels. In the list of American superheated steam seared the ends of the hotel luxuries which many Americans sadly veins and stopped the flow of blood from the miss here, I should not forget the bar-room. head and face. There was a good color in This most cherished of American institutions the face and the eyes were full of intelli is rarely to be found in connection with Euro gence.” The reporter ascertained that the name of pean hotels, or at the cafeu. Though Wine drinking is as universal »s tea an J coffee the speaker is William Nugent, mechanical engineer and draughtsman. The person who driuking with us, it is like the latter, a part of the day’s repasts— more especially of the was with him at the time of the accident was dinner. The A merican custom of promiscu oue Richard Bates, who afterward removed ous social tippling of strong liquors, on empty to Philadelphia. Mr. Nugent is employed iu stomachs, at all hours of the day and night, the office of the ChicagoTire andSpring works, which the bar invites, and which is the fruit As to the possibility of the head being ful cause of so much intemperance, seems to conscious after severance, it is on record be unknown on the continent. The wine that several of the heads taken off by the bottle before every guest or family at the j guillotine in Paris during the reign of terror, table d’hote is supposed to have been taken showed signs of life and consciousness after execution took place, and that vital action freshly from the cellar of the hotel. continued for a considerable time in some THE HEAD PORTER. cases. It is by no means impossible that a But I was going to say that the organiza nervous contraction of the eyelids might tion and regimen of the continental hotels have taken place. Whether there was really are as different from those of America as the conscious motion is another question. It is social customs of the people. Here the cou certain that Mr. Nugent thought at the limo cierge, or what may be called the head porter, that there was, and that he continues in that is the most important, or, at least, to the belief to this day. The conditions are cer stranger, the most useful of the hotel func tainly more favorable for the momentary tionaries. He has his bureau or desk, and, in maintenance of consciousness in Walter Ar the more pretentious houses, he wears a liv nold’s case than in the cases of victims of the ery, and two crossed keys embroidered on the guillotine. There was much less loss of laj>el of his coat, are the insignia of his office. blood, and the whole system was probably in He is usually a linguist of no mean accom a condition of more robust and active life. plishments, for he speaks at least three, and There was also the fact that the flow of blood sometimes four, languages—French, English, from the head in this case hail been partially and either Italian or German, and often checked, fii’st, by the superheated steam, and, both. In either of these languages he second, by the cold water of the creek. gives you any information you may re “Shake Nlitayn In.” quire for yorr guidance within or with [Detroit Free Press.] out the hotel, posts your letters, sends your “My boy Shake he comes a big shoko on packages to their destinations, hires your car riages, and earns his modest gratuity by a me,” said a pleasant-faced farmer at the thousand little necessary attentions which Gratiot avenue station yesterday. “How was that?” are wholly neglected in American hotels. In “Vhell, Shake was radder lazy und he eat the hotels of the smaller Swiss towns and French towns, as generally in England, the more on der table ash two men. Last vheek bookkeeper or secretary is a woman, some he shtrikes on me for wages.” “Is he of age?” times the wife or daughter of tho landlord or “Oh, no. Shake vhas only 16. I doan’ [>e- landlady, and bookkeeping for a hotel here is a much more complicated affair than in lief he can earn his jsiard mit any farmer, und so I tells him I vhas willing to poard und America. For, instead of a single charge | per day for board and lodging, it is made up clothe him, und if some circus comes along I of charges for every it-jm of service or con gif him feefty cents. Dot vhas good enough sumption—for your bed room, your candles for a boy mit sooch an appetite. But vhat (for gas or oil lamps are unkn >wn in be 1- | you pelief Shake does?” “I dunno.” rooms on this side of the water), for attend “He comes to town and drinks some peer ance, for your several meals, and for every article ordered outside th? prescribed menu. und vhas arrested und sent up mit der work house for seexty days. If 1 tak«? him out I THE MEALS. It follows from the nature of his duties | haf to bay ten dollars cash. Dot vhas a b»g that the head-waiter or chief butler is also a I shoko on me, und Shake he laughs all oafer much more important functionary than with himself?’ “Why don’t you leave him in thereto us. For he has to take note of what every guest eatsS and drinks, and particularly of the serve out his time? Begets his tioard and eccentric foreigu variations, from the pre clothes, and you 1’ave nothing for him to do scribed native courses. Breakfast, as an at home in the wihter.” “By Shiminy; but I nefer fought of dot early morning meal after rising, is not one of these. Instead of it you are provided with pefore! Dot’s so—dot’s so. Shake vhas no goot at home, unffvhas only expense on me. coffee or tea or chocolate, and brea«I and but ter. This is called a cafe on the camplet If I doan pay dot ten dollar den he shtavs though it is regarded as anything but com in.” “An«l the joke Is on him?’ plete by most Americans. The most sub “Dot’s so—dot’« so. If I take him out he stantial breakfast, which is taken later in the laugh peeind my pack init <ler boys. If I day, usually at some of the numerous cafes, leaf him in I go oop to see him once a vheek and w hich corresponds at least in the order of sequence to our lunch, is called a dejeuner a und niak«! some grins und ask him how it la fourchette—a delicate implication of vhas so far he goes. Shake shtays in. Ha! meats. The table d’hote dinner is the one ha! ha! I vhas tickled already 1” grand formal meal of the day, the only one |j«‘on Abbett. when the resources of the cuisine are called [Gath in New York Tribune.] into requisition, and when all the guests who Twenty-five years or more ago I saw and avail themselves of its questionable privileges are expected txj tie in their designated seats j heard Mr. Leon Abbett, now Democratic punctually at the designated hour of about governor-elect of New Jersey, a«ldr«*fM a <le- bating society in Philadelphia on a public 6 or 6:30 p. m. night He was announced as a prodigy who TABLE D’HOTE. would make a speech immediately on any sub The table d’hote guest here is relieverl ' ject proyiosed by the audience. Some mem of the perplexing task imposed upon him by ber» of the rival debating societies, more the more generous hospitality of the Amer jealous than fraternal, proposed the word ican hotel of selecting his dinner from the be “cosmogony,” an unfair thing, because he wildering profusion of viands and vegetables had not promised to define every hard word. and side dishes and dessert dainties with in But it was said that young Abbett’s wits comprehensible French names which are dis were all ready anil he had a dictionary con played on his bill of fare. His dinner here is cealed, out of which came the miming mean all arranged for him beforehand, and consists ing: science of the universe. He spoke glibly of some half a d«>zen simple courses of a single ¡ but left the impression on my mind that he dish each—soup, fish, mutton or beef success- i would as well tie prompt as right. He was ively—then some usually inexplicable side the son of a milliner in that city who brought dish which is the cook's ch«-f d'œuvre, then up a bright family of boys, handsome, well- string beans, then some sort of fowl, usually behaved an 1 precocious. chicken with salad, followed by fruit ami cake, and, in defererthe to English custom, Too Murli Timber. cheese. The only article you have the privilege [Detroit Free Press.] of ordering is wine, which is usually poor. “Well, what’s the matter nowF asked This seems to lie the stereotypefl menu for a Simpkins’ wife as he staggered in about 3 table d'hote dinner everywhere. At least o'clock in the morning. from Paris to Geneva, high up among the “Well, (hie) an’ 'e said: ‘Putsh stick in'm small inns of the Alpine mountains and so (hie)—soda.’ So I saysh: 'Putsh stick in ravin?«, and down in the more pretentious mine? Then I gesh—” ones of the valleys, the tmall bill of fare has “Well, I guess,” remarked Mrs. Simpkins, prevailed with very little variation for local lay ing considerable rtres» on t »e iiersonal circumstance, except as to price, which varies pronoun, “that he put a whole cord of wood from 4 to 5 franca. in your soda, and that it all went to your head?’ And when Himpkins woke up the BAD COOKING. You may dine a H carte, if you choose, and next morning he thought 00 too. EUROPEAN HOTELS. A NEW NARCOTIC. Coca, a Wonderful South American Plant—-Its Remarkablo Proportion [New Orleans Picayune.] Humboldt aud other travelers tell how tho mail-carriel’s, traveling on foot and bewaring upon their shoulders heavy bags of mail, will scale tho mighty mountain range of the An des, crossing through passes 16,000 feet above the sea level, where, even under tho vertical sun of the e<piator, perpetual snow abides, sustained in these labors by a meagre diet of parched corn, and stimulated by the potent coca leaf. The laborer who, in the absence of steam engines aud other hoisting ma chinery, climbs tortuous and trembling ladders from the depth of a thousand fathoms in the Peruvian silver mines, bearing upon his back a leathern bag of the precious ore, is enabled daily to endure this tremendous exertion through the bracing influence of coca. These matters, incredible as they may seem, are certified to as facts by the most trustworthy witnesses. The schedule time for foot-mail carriers across the moun tains in Bolivia, from Chuquisaca to Ixi Pez, a distance of seventy leagues, 210 miles, is three days, or seventy miles a day, and these carriers live chiefly on parched corn, seldom tasting meat, but chewing about three ounce» of coca leaf a day. In the high altitudes, where traveler» suffer with difficulty of breathing, and frequently with tushes of blood from the mouth aud nose, the consum ers of coca experience no sort of inconven ience, but perform their labass with accus tomed activity. That a plant which is possessed of such re markable properties should be so little known beyond its own proper habitat is quitecurious in this age of travel and discovery, and it in duced some consideration and inquiry on the ¡»art of «1 reporter. Meeting with Dr. Her rick, secretary of the board of health, yester day, the reporter questioned him concerning the matter. Said the doctor in substanix»: Coca is now coming into use by the medical profession in this city. In reply to an inquiry as to the purposes for which this medicine was administered here, the doctor said that it has specific and powerful effects on the nervous system. It is a tonic and stimulant without any apparent injurious reaction. When the nervous sys tem has l>een broken down by alcohol, opi ates, and the like, it has been recommended, and, combined with phosphates, it has been proscribed to counteract the waste of the body which is seen in pulmonary consump tion and other diseases which have to be met by some system of nutrition. It is very prob able that this drug might be used to advan tage by professional pedestrians and other« engaged in exhausting aud prolonged phys ical labors. Under the direction of tho dtx'tor the re porter visited a druggist near the l’oydras market, who imports the article in its purest and most reliable form; that Is, the freshly dried leaves. Said the druggist, reaching down from a shelf a metallic can, closely sealed: “The coca, like the tea, must bo transported and kept in air-tight and water tight packages. Exposed to the air and to moisture, it not only loses its aroma and flavor, but is chem ically altered, and thereby rendered inert and useless. You will observe,” he continued, as he opened the package and pulled out some greenish dried leaves, “they have much ths odor of English breakfast tea, and except tlmt tho leaves are not curled or crumpled, they are not unlike those of the tea plant. The first coca leaves brought here were iu bagsi, but they were worthloss; and now that they an? packed in theso canisters the leavoi arrive here endowed with all their proper virtues. “As a tonic for persons who are suffering from alcoholism or the opium habit, it is an. admirable remedy. It not only re lieves tiie nervous depression under which they suffer, but enables them to break off from their dangerous stimu lants by offering them one which seems to have no bad properties. Coca »Mill» to bracq up the nerves without producing the exciting stimulation and the consequent depressing reaction that accompany the use of other narcotics. In combination with certain remedies it has been of groat lx*neflt to cou sumptive patients also. “Have you any habitual customers for the diug who use h as a regular stimulant? ” a*k«i the reporter. “Yes. The firs* was a gentleman who hail 1« amed to use it while living in Brazil. As M ton as he found he could get it here he ha| been buying it regularly, and says he neveB experienced any injurious effects from it. (Hher person-i, among them several journal ists who learned the use of th«? coca from tho first-named party, also purchase it r«?gularly and declare that while it brac«?s them up for nignt work it pr«xluces no bad eff«wts.” ( 'oca is an interesting study, not only to the medical scientists, hut to the jx>Htical philos- opher, for it enables millions of people to do their daily work on a deficient food supply w ithout suffering th«? pangs of hunger. As an economizer of food it occupies a uni«[ue position. A Thrilling Ride for n -lug of Idquor [Boston Traveler.] One night a Carolina judge had been out very late and on his return, after stabling his horse, he kept vigil even later with soma sympathetic friends. On rising in the morn ing and descending to the breakfast room, his throat very dry, what was his surprise to find the demijohn that stood on the table in a similar arid condition. “Rambo.” “Y-yes, sah.’’ “Take this jock—saddle the mare, and rids down to the (,'orners and get it filled as quickly as you know how. Do you bearF “Y-yea, sah.” His order given, and the slow and stutter ing Rambo from the room, the thirsty son of Bacchus and Minerva sat himself «town, watch in hand, to await the committing of his «-ommission. “Tw«> minutes,” he mur mured, brokenly, gasping as chickens de when their porridge is too dry—“the mare ia bridled—saddled—and Hand» is on her back. Now he is down th«? path, out the gate on ths highway. Good old Bessy! How she file« along! Now they are by the willow tree. Now they are crossing the brook— now— and now — the two miles ar«? finished and they are at the store. Two minutes for the lx>y to finish waiting on tho customer» already there—two minutes to draw the—for Hainbo and it is on its way. Here it com?«. Over tho brook and by the tree—along th«? road—along the lane —through the gate—up the path—and here it is with Hamlo!” “I say, in mama, I c-can‘t find that « to bri dle anywha! Why, h-h-here it 1«, massa, be hind your « hair! Guess you must ha’ bringed it in last night!” Importing Mknll«. [ Popular Science New». ] The thrifty German mind is equal to emer gencies. A half dozen human skull« were lately bought in Iz»ndon for the cabinet ot anatomy at Heidelberg As old bone«, them would be admitted into Germany free from duty; ami the customhouse officials there fore taxed them a» “worn effects.”