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ft THE SUN, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1808. ' w?ww?wv " I THE FOOD SHOW'S PATRONS. TRKIR PATRON AOM CONPTtNXO TO r a tin a prkk zv nooks. Worn. Bat All They Can flat and Carry Oil In Bad Paper Hats Samples of Noap and Other rortabla Things Horn :rltl ala the rood, bat lo Not Bat tha Uu. There ara great goings-on at tha Madlaon Square Garden these days. The food ahow. otharwlso known as the Groat Annual Free Lunch for Womon. Is doing lta stunt In tha New Vork oontlnuous performance. It Isn't aueh a bad stunt either. If you know a good bit ot comedy when you see It. When the paper bag brigade gets really warmed up to work, there Is (un for the procession. It begins at the door. Somehow the women always come In looking, or trying to look, as It they wouldn't eat a tree sample If the assem bled exhibitors got down on their knees and begged It as a favor. As for carrying about a big red paper bag stuffed with advertising cards not for worlds would thoy be guilty of aueh a thing I That Is the wsy they look when they come in. But Immediately up steps a chipper Individual -.vii ) a handful of rod cards, "Take one of our cards, lady. It'll entitle L 1 yeu to a free sample of our soap at our booth. Our soap is the best in the world." ,Tho old stagers como around at this very point. The card changes hand and the wo man la off to gut hor bit of soap. The newer ones waver a little. They still try to be su perior to the business In hand. And the chip par Individual continues: "Have one of our cards our free samples -ear soap our booth." The women hesitate soma more, but finally take a card aa if to say : "Oh, all right. If It's any accommodation to you. But I shan't take the soap. Not 1 1" Now. anybody who wants to be mean enough to follow these women around and watch them get their sorap of hoop In their turn can do so. Borne peoplo are quite cnpablo of It, and not only go scouting around on tho trail of these superior female persons, but tell talos about them afterward. Thin is nut ono of those tales. ThoBS women aro not the whole show. There aro others. Some of these others show un usual fortitude and porsist in declining the ted ticket. Thon tho ohlpper Individual plays bis last card. "Oh, all right!'' he says airily. "You'll be aoming and asking for ono and won't get It." Ills tonn says: "Thorel Now will you be good?" And they generally are. It Is like a thieat of excommunication. They take their tlekets and plunge Into the fray. Almost the first booth they strike offers thorn another red bac'xe of courage. It is n good large paper bag With a big, red. Blathering advertisement ou the outside, Money couldn't hire ono of Micro women to parade up and down an exhibition and ride In cars and trains and on ferries car rying ono of these paper bag " ads." But by a little diplomacy thousands of them are made to do this very thing, and most of them seem grutoTiil for the privilege. There are other ays, howover, or carrying away the food ahow's free samples. This is one of them. The aceue Is at a health food exhibit. ," Humph 1 What's that ?" demanded a short, (at woman, pointing to a saucer which another woman Is diligently scraping. "That." says the "demonstrator" behind the counter. "Is our ground glass pudding for dyspoptlca." " Well, I'm a dyspeptic, and I guess I'll try aome." Tim demonstrator puts a dab of white stuff into a aaucer, and pours on some cream. The atout woman, devours it as if she hadn't seen anything to oat for a week. "That ain't pure cream." she remarks aa she acrapes up tho last few drops and licks tha spoon. " No," says the demonstrator. " lt'a part (ream and part milk." ' I thought bo!" says the woman indignantly. 'We can't afford to use pure croam." ex plains the demonstrator. "As it Is. we use tour or live quarts of cream a day and twice as much milk, bocause we have to-use milk for Dur pancakes, too." "Pancakes!" exclaims the woman. "Where ire your pancakes?" " Around at the other side of the booth." One swish of skirts and there is a short, fat woman at tlio pancake griddle ten feet away. Bheflxeaa greedy eye on tho cakes which are just being taken off. There are three of them and four persons are waiting. Two of the cakes go to a man and woman and the two re maining women hang breathless on the dispo sition of the third. "I'm a dyspeptic 1" exclaims the short, fat woman at the critical moment, and It works. She vets the cake. "This ain't pure marie syrup," she says as she takes the last morsel. 'I beg your rurdou ; it Is the very boat maple syrup to lie had." "la It? Well, you didn't put more'n two drops on my cuke, und I couldn't tell what it did tasto hi.-' You botter give me another cake and put on enough syrup so a person can tell what it is. You can't expect folks to buy your stulT if you nerve It that way." wli" gets another cako which she disposes of in the mime cureful fashion. Not a crumb escapes her. "Wouldn't you like to try a package of our ground glass?" asks the demonstrator. " It Is Serfectly delirious, yet harmless to the most eticntH stomach 1 Try a package ?" "No " coldly remarks tho woman, wiping her lips, "I don't like it at all." Hhe swishes nway und the demonstrator Eiunis for her fork in order that ho may wash t. But the woman had licked it so clean that le is uuahlo to find it, and ho washes the whole aet to make sure. "She didn't like It!" ho says, aa ha critically eyes the plate the woman usod. It fairly ahines. "Well, ai any rate she didn't get all the enamel oil the china." Mean while along comes another woman: two of them, in fact. Theygonerallyhunt In couples. But this "ui lit is more tlinu a couple, for each of the women has n child in her arms and an other hanging to her skirts. They line up In iron! of the pudding counter and stolidly wait for tho Biiucers to be filled and handed over. The demonstrator gives them two dabs, but the women calmly pass those on to tho children and stand at uttention once more. "But I gave you two saucers," says the demonstrator. " This Is for peoplo who think of buyini.'. The children won't be customers." "But they're awful hungry," replies one of the women with iispcrlty. " You ought to lie ashamed to begrudge a taste to a hungry baby !" declares tho other. " Oh, all i :i:hi !" und tho demonstrator hands out two more lauoors. Next como two airy creatures, who whisper and gigulu us they ui'proiich. "Will you try our food for dyspeptics?" says the demonstrator sweetly. "(Hi, no: thunk you." But they still stand there. "it s very nleo," says the domonstrator, for they are of tho well-dressed contingent and look us if they might possibly buy a 10-cent package. "Oli.no: I guess not," they say. Thoy don't mean that they guess It isn't nioe; their minds are still on tlio Invitation to have some, and they keep on saying 110 because they are living up to what they main believe they believe. namely, that it Is plebeian to eat free samples. "Let me give you a little of our pudding," says the demonstrator, handing out two sau cers. She knows what she is about and knows also that the women are pining for a taste. "Oh. no wo don't really well, we'll just tasto it. Never mind two sauoersl We don't care for more than n mere taste. One saucer la plenty. Oh. all right," They proceed to the serai. ing of tlio dishes, then put them down with a sigh of sutlhfnctlou. "That's really very nice," they say politely. "Won't you ttyii package?" " lib. no, thank you. We're not housekeep ing' We're only boarding." Well, what under the shining sun do they want to como to a fiod show for If they're not keeping house?" exclaims the pudding girl to i he paiicuke man as the women pass ou with a longing look at the smoking griddle. "'Maybe they want to see what food looks I like." remarks the pancake man, who lives In a bourdlng bouse himself. " Why don't they go to a restaurant, then ?" The pancake mun Haps a trio of griddles and merely says to the next comer: " Try one of our griddle cakes for dyspeptics, lady. Perfectly delicious, yet "and so on. Perhaps this is the woman who eats her cake wi'U great gusto and then, when asked to buy alr.ile package. says that she certainly would only she cou'dii'i curry It home. And she looks the demonstrator calmly in the eye and never blinks, just aa If he couldn't see tlio paper bag ahe Is toting around filled with picture cards and free samples. "Doyou think It pays?" asked the observer. "Oh, yes," said tin demonstrator. "I guess It does." Along came three small boys, schoolbooks under their arms and just as hungry as three hears They had evidently lieeu there before, for a good-natured looking woman in a booth dumped a couple of hot griddle cakes onto a paisjr napkin, dusted some sugar ou them, did the same thing to two more sou of cakes ard Ludj4d u.uu over, viva Uum bora went off to p a convenient corner, made two bite of the con tribution and headed for the next booth. "How do you make out that that payer" asked tha observer. . 'Oh. they say they take our rectpee home to their mot hers and that advertises us. " What are all theso men around here ? "Oh. thev say they'litake tho reolpea home to their wives. " ?h." said the observer. . .. es." said the woman, and then It seamed aa If she smiled. . , Down in the basement there are several philosophers who sit and shout: "Step up. ladles, and try your iuok at" Whatever It happens to bo. .... "Do they ever step up V" asked the observer. who happened around the other afternoon. "Oh. yes, nights they do. Just now they're upstair where a woman's Inarnln 'em how to cook hypodermlcatod quails snd desecrated eocounutand things of thst sort. Yep. They come here with their pencils and paper and they write down a lot of thlngsllke: Take a half pound of the best butter nnd a handful of musnrooms and a handful of Imported ohest nuts snd some of this sauce that yon can get for a dollar a bottle and some of this other that cost about twleo n much nnd chop and mix and stir 'em up, all up together, and then add a whole lot of other things and serve hot with your quail. This makes a delicious dish for foui people.' " If y gracious 1 It's funny to see the women tak in' notes as if they was goin' to cook some thing of that sort the minute they got home. And ono of 'em pipes up and says: ' Where can I get the best Imported chestnuts?' Humph! imported fiddlestick! You bet her husband's In luck If ho gets a piece of. boiled mutton that' fit to eat. No. they don't get down here much In the afternoon. Home of 'em come down and chase themselves around the maze and get up un appetite o as to eat some more simples upstairs. But there ain't anything free down here, so most of 'em only give us a sud smile and skip out as quick as they can." Upstairs the bag brigade went ou and on. The bora ate a spoonful of jelly here and a dab of pudding there, and a hot biscuit some place else, and, between times, they stowed away circulars and picture cards and samples until the paper bags swelled and swelled. It being a food show, of course there are the booths of the spectacle men nnd the comb and brush cleaner, the photographer and the dealer in Turkish knlckknacks, 'he silhouette man and the Original Yankee Ouesser. and there are also rubber tires and jewelry and per fumery and patent pins and various other things equally appropriate for n fond show. But tho men and women who were aftera free lunch wended their devious ways among all these distracting exhibits and pouneod upon a free biscuit or pancake or a dab of jolly like an eagle on a chicken just out of the shell. And at last, when there wero no more free mouth fuls to bo hail, they went out glowing withUrr isfactlon and red paper bags. PIANISTS TO BM ItKATlTt. Artists Who Have Never Played Before In This Country, and Others Who Will Ret urn. Emil Sauer la the most eminent of the pian ists who comes for the first time to this coun try. It Is Indeed unusual that a man of his European reputation should have waited so long before seeking the honors and rewards that como from American popularity. More than sixteen years ago he played In London, nnd before that had made his debut In Ham burg. He was born there in lHO'J. His first lessons wero from his mother, who had taught him so well that the youth had the courage, in 1870, to play before Anton Bubinsteln, who was at Hamburg. The Russian master saw so much talent In tho 14-year-old boy that he sent him to Moscow to hecome a proteg6 of NikolntiH Rubinstein. His studies were com pleted there. After Bauer's London appear ance he travelled in Italy and Hpaln and in 1884 played before Liszt at Weimar. A year later he was heard in Berlin and with that In dorsement in Germany continued to travel through his own country with success. He passed the Vienna ordeal triumphantly and be came popular in St. Petersburg. His recent appearances in London have renewed the suc cess of his earlier visits there. He has the cus tomary hair, tempered by the modesty becom ing In ono who has not yet won his spurs here. Morlz Rosenthal has paid two previous vis its to this country, but neither of them can be said to interfere with the interest in the tour which he Is about to undertake. Short ly after his arrival here he was taken ill with typhoid fever and returned to Europe bo soon as he was able to undertake the journey. Ten years ago he played throughout one season here and his rank among pianists was then placed among tho highest. He Is said to have Improved since that time In many attri butes of his art. and his appearances here this year are expected to win even greater recognition for his talents. He is a native of Lemberg in Boumanla and showed his taste for musio when he was only 4 years old. This had developed into the manifestation of very posltive'powers bylthettline ho was n years old. At that age he walked from his home to see Rafael .losoiTv In Vienna. It was his amuse ment that the child's enthusiasm first aroused. But after he had played Joseify was willing to undertake his tuition. At tho age of 10 Rosen thal made his first appearance In public, play ing with Mikull. who had been his first teach er, Chopin's Rondo in C for two pianos. Joseffy ultimately became his only teacher, and his wonderful genius for hard work showed itself during the years of his work In Vienna. Un like most musicians, he took an Interest in something else besides the instrument he was learning. He devoted from six to seven hours of every day to that. But he was u student at tho University of Vienna as well, finding philosophy and phi lology.the most interesting subjects in the cur riculum. Ho heard the lectures of Zimmer man, Brentano and Hansllck and took the de gree of Muster of Arts with honors. In 1882 he returned to tho concert stage, appearing in Austria. Germany and England. In 1888 he came here and returned two years ago for the tour that was interrupted by Illness. His f neatest gain since his first performances here s said to lie in the greater sympathy and re finement of his playing. Rosenthal has not lost the broader Interest that was characteristic of him as a youth. He is fond of literature and his marvellous mem ory 1b said to show Itself not only in his reper toire, but in tho fact that he can repeat any poem of Heine, his favorite, If the first line be spoken. He has written ou musical subjects with credit to his literary tasto and his knowl edge. He spends much of his time in Vienna and Ischl, but is most at homo iu his villa at Abbrazio. near Trieste. There he jpends from eight to ten hours daily at the piano, and the hardship of this Is somewhat mitigated by ;he fact that he transacts much of his business, receives his friends nnd follows much of the ordinary routine of life while seated at tho piano with his fingers on the keys. Some times ho eats his dinner at tho piano. But then his lingers rise from the keys. His favorite diversion is billiards, and that is one quality in common with Padorewskl. All the details of his visit to this country were settled as he was seated at tho piano at his practice. He is not married, in spite of the sentimental story published in theforoign news papers to the effect that he had fallen In love with the young woman who had nursed him here during his illness. This is not true, iu spite of the fact that tha nurse was said to be an heiress iu disguise who hud hecome a nurse In order to show that she oould earn tier own livelihood if necessary. Rosenthal has brought buck some novelties with which he intends to enlarge his repertoire. These in clude a new sonata In B major hv Ludwla Hchytte. u now valse in A flat by E. l'oldlnl. a sonata, hitherto unknown here, by Moz.iut. and compositions by Hchwenka. Lesehitltsky and GrUnfeld. Rosenthal will be heard for the first time on Wednesday evening at Car negie Hall. Ho will give seventy-five recitals here before his return und may go to Mexico after his engagements here nre tilled Edouard Zeldeiirust. who Is somowhat of a specialist in Ills art. is a Dutchman who has played with success in London and Paris. He Is known particularly as an .Interpreter of Bach. He lives In Amsterdam. His repertoire includes most of the modern and romantic writers for the piano, and It is only throuch the exceptional qualities of his Bach inter pretations that ho has come to be known us a representative of that master's works. He has been praised as well for his playing of the other composers. He will be heard in this city In March. Among the well-known players who will be heard this year are Rafael Joseffy, who will give a long series of recital throughout the country ; Teresa Carreno. who comes again and stands in the front rank of women performers, and Alexander Hllotl. the Russian, who ar rived here late last season, but won a place for himself immediately. Adele aus der Olie. Ed ward Macdowe'l Fannie Zeislor, Madeleine Schiller and Alberto Jonas are some of the others who will contribute to the strain of mel ody which will soon be uplifted from the piano keys from Maine to California. A lo-Tear-Old Boy Shoot a Bis Bear. Pobt Jxavis. Oot. 21.-The first bear killed in Sullivan county this season was shot yester day In the woods north of GrahamsvUle by Gets, the 16-year-old son of Farmer Benson. Benson was in the barn doing his morning chores and saw a big black bear near a hickory tree, not fifty feet awuy. He got his gun and fired twice at the boast without effect, and it run off. A dozen GrahamsvUle hunters with several dogs started In pursuit. They tracked the bear down the western brook to the old fish pond, thence over the hill to A. B. Curry's woods, where they suddenly came upon bruin. Benson's son quickly drew his riflo and fired, and the bear dropped dead. The ball entered the aide and came out on the opposite side In 1 . . ',.,".. ', i ' " r1' ' .-j7t HIS TRAIN GAMES OVER. jra-w rmm TnAmvisne stair ot CARD P LATINO OH CARS. The Cfcleago Kan's Life Which Went Oat la a Sleeping Car Just as Be Had an Aee Blgh Flush t Diamond An Fuelling Might an a Bleewer Bound far Dearer. WaiBtKOTON, Oct. 22. "I haven't played any cards on railroad trains, even with friends, for the past aeven years," aaid Joe Ptncknev, the Boston travelling man who sells bridge and trestle in every land, at a hotel here the other night, "and It's mora than certain that, for the remainder of my string. I shall never again alt lotos train game, Whether it'sold maid, oasslno, whist or draw especially draw. I used to play cards most of the time when I was on the road just to relieve the monotony of travelling. I don't recall that it ever cost me much, for I generally broke even and often a little ahead on a year's play. I vary rarely eat Into a game in which all of the other players were stranger to me, especially when the game was draw or something else at so much a corner, and j I never got done out of a cent. "I know so many travelling men that a drummer friend of mine has an even money bet with me that I won't be able to board a single train, anywhere In this country, for the pace of a year, without my being greeted by some travelling chap with whom I am ac quainted, and he wlna up to date, though tha bet was made mora than eight months ago. Bo that, when I used to be In the habit of play ing cards on the trains. I alwaya had aome fel low or fellows on the other aide of the table that I knew to be on tha level. But I had an experience on a Western train seven years ago that aort o' soured mo on the train came; In fact that experience knocked a good deal of the poker enthusiasm out of me, and since then, whenever I've got into a came with friends or acquaintances in a hotel room, I've slued them up pretty carefully to see It they wore all robust men. Maybe you don't under stand what possible connection there can be between physical robustness and the game of American draw just now, but you'll understand it when I toll you of this experience. "In the spring of 1801 1 got aboard the night train of the 'Q.' Chicago to Denver. The train left Chicago at 0 o'clock at that time. When I was seven years younger than I am now I never sought a sleeper bunk until 1 or 2 in the morning, and when I found that there wasn't a man on this sleeper with whom I had even a bowing acquaintance I felt a bit lonesome. I started through the train to hunt up the candy butcher to get from him a bunch of travelling literature, and In the car ahead of me I found Tom Danforth, the Michigan stove man. an old travelling pal of mine. I sat down to have a talk with Tom when along came George Dun woody, the Chicago perfumery man, who had also paralleled me a lot of times on trips. In side of four minutes I had pulled both of 'em back to my car and we had n game of cut throat draw under way In the smoking com partment. We started in at quarter ante and dollar limit, but when I pulled 'way ahead of both of them within an hour or so and they struck for dollar ante and five-dollar limit, I was agreeable. "We were plugging along at this game, all three of us going pretty slow, and both of them gradually getting back the money I had won in the smaller game, when a tall, very thin and very gaunt-looking young fellow of about thirty entered the smoking compartment and dropped Into a seat with the air of a very tired man. I sat facing the entrance to the com partment, and I thought when I saw the man's emaciated condition and the two bright spots on his cheekbones. 'Old man. you've pretty nearly arrived at your finish, and If you're making for Denver now I think you're la bit too lnte.' My two friends didn't see the con sumptive when he entered the room, for their backs were turned to the door, but when, while I was dealing the cards, the new arrival put his hand to his mouth and gave a couple of short. ' hacking coughs. Dun woody turned around suddenly and looked at him. "'Why, hello, there. Fatty,' exclaimed Dun woody, holding out his hand to the emaciated man, where you going? Denver? Why, I thought y ui. we re there long ago. Didn't I tell you lust fall to go there or to Arizona for the winter? D'ye mean to say that you've been In Chicago all winter with that half a lung and that bark o' yours? How are you now, any bow. Fat?' "The eraacla ed man smiled the weary smile of the consumptive. "'Oh. I'm all right. George.' he said, sort o' hanging on to Dunwoody's hand. 'Gointc out to Denver to; croak this trip, I guess. Didn't want to go. but my people got after me, and they're diusing me out there. I wanted them to let me stay In Chicago and make the finish there, but they wouldn't stand for it. My mother snd one of my sisters are coming along alter me next week.' "'Finish? What are you giving us, Fatty?' asked Dun woody, good-naturedly, but not with a great amount of belief in his own words. I imugine. 'You'll be selling terra cotta tiles whon the rest of us'll bo wearing skull caps and cloth shoes. Cutout the fin lsn talk. You look pretty husky all right.' "'Oh. I'm husky all right,' said the consump tive, with another weary smile, and then he hod another coughing spell When that was over Dun woody Introduced him to us. "'Ed. alias Fatty. Crowhurst,' was Dun woody's way of introducing him. 'Hells tiles, waterworks pipes and conduits. Called Fatty because he's nearly six and a half feet high, has never weighed more than thirty-seven pounds (give or take a few), and has; never since any one knew him hail more'n .half a lung. Thinks he's sick, and has laid himself on the shelf for ovor a year past. No sicker than 1 am. Used to have the record west of the Alleghenies for cigarette smoking. You've cut the cigarettes out. haven't you. Fat'i" "For reply tho consumptive pulled out a gold cigarette case, extracted a cigarette there from and lit It. It was a queor thing to see a man In his state of health smoking a cigarette. Dunwoodv's eyes stuck out over it. "'Weil, if you ain't a case of perambulating, lingerine suicide. Fatty, 1 never Saw one,' said he to his friend. "'It's all one,' was the reply. 'It's too much punishment to give 'em up. and it wouldn't make any difference, anyhow.' "I had meanwhile dished the hands out, and after my two friends had drawn cards and I made a small bet they threw up their hands. "'Draw, eh?' said the emaciated man. ad dressing Dunwoody. 'How about making it four-handed?' "'Oh. you'd better take it out In sleeping. Fat.' replied Dunwoody. 'You look just a bit tired, and we're going to make a night of it, most likely, with whiskey trimmings. You can't do that very well without hurting your self, and if you came iu and we got Into you you'd, reel like playing until you evened up, and 'ml get no rest. Butter not como in, Fat. Bettor hit your bunk for a long snooze. We'll have breakfast together when they hitch ou the dining cur at Council Bluffs.' "'1 haven't sat into a game of draw for a long whllo,' said Dunwoody's friend, 'and I'd rattier play than eat.' "There was a bit of pathos in that remark, I thought, and I kicked Dunwoody under the table, '"Well, jump In. thon. Fatty,' said Dun woody. and the poor chap drew a chair up to the tabic with a look of pleasure on his druwn, hollow face, with its two brightly burning spots on the cheekbones. "it soon became apparent that Dunwoody's fear about our 'getting Into' the consumptive didn't stand any show whatever of being reul lzcd. The emaciated man was an almighty good poker player, nervy, cool, and cautious, and yet u good bit audacious at that. I caught him four-flushing aud bluffing on it several times, but he get my money right ulong. iu the general play, all the same, und after an hour's play ho hud the whole three of us on the run. I was about $100 to the rear, and Dunwoody and Danforth had each .contributed a bit more than that to the consumptive's stack of chips. The fact was, he simply outclassed the three of us as a poker player and, by the way. I wonder why it is that men that have f:ot something the matter with their lungs are variably such rattling; good poker players? I've noticed this right along. I never yet sat into a poker game with a man that had con sumption iu one stage or another of it that ho dldn t make me smoke a pipe for a spell. Thut would be a good one to spring on some medi cal sharp for an explanation. "By the time midnight came around Dun woody's friend with the pulmonary trouble had won about half as much again from us, and Dunwoody began to look at his watch nervously. The three of us were taking a lit tle nip at frequent intervals, just enough to brush the cobwebs away, but the sick-looking man didn't touch a drop. He smoked one cigarette after another, however, inhaling the smoke into his shrunken lungs, aud the sight made, all of us feel sorry. I guess, for the fool hardiness of the man. Finally Dunwoody looked ut his watch and then raised bis eyes and took a survey of the countenance of tha consumptive, which was overspread with a deep flush The consumptive's eyes were ex traordinarily bright, too. " 'Fatty,' said Dunwoody, 'cash In and go to bed. You've had enough of this. Poker and 11'.' cigarettes for a one-lunger bound for Colorado for his health! Cash In and skip!' " 'No. X don't want to wilt, George. " aaid the consumptive. 'I haven't had anything like enough yet. What's mora. I've got all of you fellows too much in the hole. I only wanted to come In for the fun of it. anyhow, and here I am with a lot of the coin of the three of you. I'll just play on until this pay streak deserts me and give you fellows a chance to win out.' "When he finished saying thin the man with the wasted lung had another violent spellof coughing and Dunwoody lookod worried. But he gave in. .'All right. Fat,' he sild. "do aa you darned please, but 1 don't want to bo boxing you up and whipping you back to the lake front. "Then the irame proceeded. I don't think any of un felt exactly right, playing with a man who looked aa if hi day were as short -n u mho rod as a child's multiplication table, but maybe the fact that he was suoh a com fortable winner from us mitigated our sym pathy for him just a little bit. He kept on winning steadily for the next hour, and about half past 1 In the morning there was a good sized jackpot It went around half a dozen times, all of us sweetening it for five every time the deal passed, and finally, on the sev enth deal, which wo the consumptive's. Dan forth. who sat on his left, opened the pot. I stayed and no did Dunwoody. Whon It was up to the dealer he nodded his head to Indi cate that he would stay. We were all looking ft him, and we noticed that he had gone pale, t was noticeable after tho deep flush that had covered his face when he entered. "Danforth took two card. I drew hon estly and to my hand, which had a pair of kinga in it. and I caught another one. Dun woody asked for three and then the dealer put the deck down beside him. " 'How many Is the dealer dishing himself' we all happened to ask in chorus. " 'None.' answered the sick man. who seemed to be getting paler all the time. 'Pat. hey. Fatty?' eald Dunwoody. 'Must be pretty well fixed, or, say, are you gaily enough to try a bluff on this? You don't ex pect to bluff Danforth out of hi own pot?' "The consumptlvo only smiled a wan smile. 'Well. I hope you are well fixed.' went on Dunwoody. 'for it's your laat hand. I'm going to send you to your bunk aa soon aa I win this jack.' " 'The limit ' aaid Danforth. the pot opener. skating five white chips Into the centre. " 'Five more,' said I, putting the ohlps in. 'I'll call both of you.' eald Dunwoody, shoving ten chipa Into the pile. "It was up to Dunwoody's consumptive friend. He opened his lips to apeak and little dabs of blood appeared at both corners of his mouth. His head fell back and at tho eame time the cards In his hand fell face up on the table. The hand was an ace high flush of dia monds. Dunwoody was standing over him In an Instant and Danforth and I both jumped up. Dunwoodv wiped the blood away from the man's mouth with his handkerchief and then put the back of his hand on the man's face. . V 'It's cold,' said Dunwoody with a queer look. "Then he placed his ear to his friend's heart We waited for him to look up with a good deal of suspense. He raised his head after about thirty seconds. " 'Crowhurst's dead.' was all he aaid. "Dunwoody telegraphed ahead for an under taker to meet the train at Omaha. He gath ered up the cards, too, and the chips. " 'Crowhurst won that pot,' he whispered to us. "His pat flustCbeat all of our threes.' "Dunwoody wan banker and he cashed all of the dead man's chips. When he took Crow hurst's body back from Omaha to Chicago In a box. Dunwoody handed the $580 the dead man bod won from us to his mother, telling her that her son had given him the money to keep for him before turning into his sleeper bunk. "That." concluded the man who sells bridge and trestles. "Is the reason I've out card playing on trains for the past seven years." MSW ORLKANS'S CEMKTKRIKB. The General Pilgrimage to Them Bach Tear on All Saints' Day. "When an unsuspecting stranger strikes New Orleans the first thing the natives do for his entertainment is to take him to the ceme teries, when everybody knows that a cemetery Is the last place on earth any one wants to go," grumbled the would-be faoetlous man. "Perhaps you struck there on the 1st of No vember." suggested one who had had a similar experience. "Well. I did." acquiesced the facetious one. And the laugh was turned against him. New Orleans people are very proud of their cemeteries at all times, and, considering the amount of money and sentiment which they expend upon them, one would hardly grudge them the satisfaction of showing these works of art to admiring beholders. But the old cus tom still holds of keeping November first dedi cated to the memory of the departed. The faithful observe it with pious fervor, and even the unfaithful have with one accord adopted the pretty custom and joined the moving crowd In the All Saints' Day pilgrimage to the ilent cities. In the good old days, when men found time enough to steal a little from the present and give to momories, the custom was general, but It is now fast slipping into a tradition, and New Orleans is probably tho only city whore it Is still observed seriously. To visitors the street scenes alone would doubtless be worth more than passing interest, for. with the exception of tho Mardi Gras Carnival, the festival of All Saints is the time when the peculiarities and traditions of old New Orleans are most In evi dence. From an early hour the motley crowd begins to move. Quaint, foreign-looking figures glido here and there, singly or in small groups, each one wearing a peculiarly rapt expression and carrying a handful of something covered with white tissue papor, sometimes fresh flow ers from the florist or from a little old-fashioned garden behind board walls, but more often bits of colored paper and tinsel and cloth purchased for a few pennies from some little shop down on Royal or Chartres street. These are the faithful poor, who go early, before the groat world Is awake, to carry their tribute and to say a prayer for the renoso of some soul. It la not until afternoon, however, that the procession Is started fairly, and then, if the weather be fine, the scene suggests a striking resemblance to n festival of flowers In some foreign city. Small parties still move on foot In different directions, but the fashionable world with its constant attendants, the curious, is rolling with one accord over the shell road which stretches from the city to Metalrle Ridge, where sleep the departed great and rich In Im posing structures of marble or granite. But the most Interesting thins; about this ceme tery is the history or legend whichever It may be told of Its foundation. In the enrly part of the oentury. before the old order hud begun to make heavy conces sions to the new. Metalrle Ridge, which is one of the finest sites near Now Orleans, was a race track owned by the swell jockey club of the city. Tho membership of this club was limited to the aristocratlo sports of the old school, whose manner and morals have been depicted by George W. Cable and other gifted writers. It was before the reign of the nourrau riche. There also lived ac this time in New Orleans a man of the name of Smith, identified with the Iiouislana lottery and possessed of large wealth. Nevertheless, despite all that, he had social aspirations and belloved that he would he ad mitted to that club. Mr. Smith was black balled, and In his wrath he sworo that he would live to buy that racetrack and make a ceme tery of it. The property of the club was then undermined and the threat was fulfilled finally, and many of the worthy old men returned once more to the soene of their old glory, and that was to sleep their long sleep. The old St. Louis Cemetery Is Interesting as the oldest In the city, and as being the resting place of many whose mimes wore famous in the early days. It Is situated In tho old Creole quarter and contains many quaint Inscriptions. The greatest peculiarity about these homos for the dead Is their nearness to the living. And ss yet medical science has been able to make little headway against popular prejudice In this matter. Everywhere in the most thickly populated parts of the city one finds these little settlements sut rounded by a thick whitewashed brick iili. and Inside rows of tiny houses of stone or whitewashed brick, for in New Orleans all burla'- must of necessity be above ground. Washing! u Cemetery, which (assort of neu tral or meeting ground for rich and poor, Is in the heait of the best residence quarter. It Is a strange coincidence, if not u significant faot. that during the yellow fever epidemic or last year the greatest number of cases, as well as tho highest percentage of deaths, occurred In this district and not In the poorer quarters. Apropos of the fever scourge, more than com mon Interest will doubtless centre this Novem ber in the little old chapel and cemetery of St. Iti.eh's It has always been a favorite nhrlnu for pilgrims, as the patron saint is known fur and wide as a famous giver and espe cially a healer. The motley collection of clay hands and feet, crutches and other evi dences of Infirmities healed would bear testimony to the fact, even If there were no one to tell the story of his greatness. Here ono conies through wide avenues lined with tall trees and bordered with low. old-fashioned houses, to the outskirts of tho city and away from the noise and turmoil of It all. kneels on the stone floor of the chapel, and while one's candle Is burning before the altar, asks some favor of tho saint. But St. Koch's chief power is to protect from contagious disease, and it was for this reason that the chapel was dedi cated to him during the yellow fever epidemic of 1878. A story is afloat in the region of St. Roch's but the source of It cannot be traced of a certain good old priest who II ved iu that neigh borhood and effooted wonderful cures during the season of Illness laat fall. The system which b practioed was somewhat similar to that of the celebrated Kneippoures When a patient would come to him with the first symp toms of yellow jack the father would cause htm to walk barefooted through high grass, wet with the early morning dew. Whether or not the priest was a special protegd of (he saint. who took this means of working miraculous cures through his agency, is not known : bow ever, tiiat would be the most plausible ex planation of the mystery, for it is said that not one caae of fever treated in this way tailed of reoovery I. i -i ' HIS WIFE AN INSPIRATION. n.KA sriti Aim moftt dkritmd rmOM BKB INOKNtTOVM WATB. Tha If owspaper Man's Cnfl and What tha Marks on It Meant SnggeaKnns That Be Obtained tram His Wlfa'e Conversation Their Real Talne Withheld from Her. "My wife" began the newspaper man. "la an angel, of course," remarked the cynic. " No. not yet, thank heaven." calmly. " I waa going to aay that my wife earna her board and clothes every week of tho year : and yet. so far aa I know, ahe has practically nothing to do." " I suppose ahe smoothes the' troubled brow of care and all that sort of thing." " Sometimes. But that wasn't what I meant. Bee there?" and the newspaper man pulled down his cuff and pointed to aome pencilled note. "'Fork, L seata, mat hour, blind baccara. Act de Voltures'-what in thunder Is all that?" demanded the ovnle. " That's her yesterday's contribution to tha family purse." "But I don't" " I know you don't I'm going to explain. I think I'm safe in believing that nobody can tap thla wire." " What do you " "Menu? Well, when I say wire. In this case I mean that my wife le a perfect, bureau of in formation when it oomes to out-of-the-way happenings. She Isn't a gadabout but not a day passes that she doesn't entertain me at dinner with all aorta of odda and ends, with in teresting things ahe has aeen, with bits of con versation she haa overheard, with troubles whloh are original, and with gleams of satis faction over something you n ever had notloed. She's a perfect mine of oluea for newspaper stories." " Sort of a partner In the business, eh ?" " Yea, but she doesn't realize It She sees a lone article about something she haa men tioned, and she la so pleased to think I took an Interest In Itl I don't want her to get into the professional hunt for news. I know from my own experience that it will spoil her Irrespon sible pleasure In thine. And I'm afraid, too. that it will take away tho freshness of her view of thine. So I simply put down a word on my cuff while she chatters on, and afterward I do what I can with these hints." " But those you have there, for instance. What do they mean ?" "Different things. Take ' fork.' for instance. Last night at dinner. I dropped my fork and when I picked it up my wife began to laugh and said: 'John, you won't do for the City Hall Park.' " ' What'a the matter with me ?' I asked. '"You drop your fork too often,' ehe said. ' Down there I saw a man going around Cath erine up the bits of paper which had blown over tho grass, and instead of stooping over and picking up each scrap he speared it with a long-handled fork. He'd stick two or three before be pulled them off and put them in a bog he had over his shoulder. Then he'd stick two or three more. He didn't have to stoop over once. I suppose that fork aaves his back from breaking In two.' " Did you ever notice that fork ? " aaked the newspaper man of the cynic " No." "Neither did I: and yet I've been going through the park for years. The man and his fork are there, however." "Well." said the cynic, "how about the L seats 1 " "The L seats?" repeated the newspaper man. "It was this way. My wife said to me last night: 'John, haven't I heard something about the press moulding publio opinion ? ' " I opined that in all probability she had. "' Well, then.' nho said. ' I want you to do a little moulding to please me.' " Of course Isaid that 1 would settle publio opinion in a minute to please her. " ' All right.' she said. ' It's about the cross seats in the " L " cars. Of course I like to sit there and of course I do sit there when I get a food ohance. To-day Mrs. and I got on hedowntown train at Fifty-eighth streetand took one of the cross-seats facing forward. One man was in the seat back of us and one man each in the two seats across the aisle. At the next station several passengers got on and most of thorn dropped into the seats at the end of the car. One man, howevor, came to the middle and with a calm look at us sat down facing us In our section. Do you see? Instead of doing the natu ral and most comfortable thing, that is. going into a section where there was only one passenger, he planted himself opposite us be cause -we were women. Of course, there was the usual assorting of feet so as to get three pairs settled, and, of course, we wore annoyed because ho had Intruded. 1 wouldn't care at all if the other seats had been a full as ours, though even then the gentlemanly thing to do would be to Bit down opposite two men rather than opposite two women. It wasn't the slight crowding that I minded, but the barefaced Intrusion into women's presence when the other seats were even more inviting in them selves, hut held only men.' " Well," said tho newspaper man, " of course I said that sho mustn't pay any attention to it. bocause tho man who would do that sort of thing Is boneath her notice. But sho said that it hus happened hundreds of times, and she is getting nick and tired of it. She says that tho men who do it are not of the rougher class, but well-dressed, ducent-iooklng men. from whom a woman ought to expect courtesy. She said that tho other day she went downtown in a car where there was one jpasBenger in each of the four cross sections. She was the only woman among the four. AtFiftlethstreetnman goton. came along the aisle and calmly sat down at her side I He not only avoided the other sec tions, containing only one man each, but he even made her share her seat with him. She got up and took a seat near the door. What olse could she do? A thine like that is an in sult, and all the meaner because a woman can't resent It. I got madder about it than she was, but I'm afraid I can't carry out my promise about public opinion." The cynlo was thoughtful fora minute or two, then he asked about the "mat. hour." "Oh. that wasn't anything very muoh. My wifowus going to the matinee and waa wonder ing whon it began. We hunted up the paperand it oontained this announcement tor that thea tre: 'To-night at 8:15. Mutinies Wednesday and Saturday.' Then I said: "'Where aro the tickets? Perhaps they will tell. They ought to.' "'Yes.' said my wife, "but they don't. I have lookod at theatre tickets a hundred tlmos to see if they wouldn't give tho hour of the per formance, but I have nover fouud one that did. I don't seo why In the world they don't. One can't always have a paper at band, even if the paper always gave tho hour for the performance, which it doesn't, anyway.' " " If your wife wants to send a petition to managers asking them t o nut on the ticket the hour for the show I'll sign it," remarked the cynic with unaccustomed fervor. " We're get ting on," ho resumed. "How about the blind beggars?" Tho newspaper man laughed. "Why, we had a long discussion last night whether a blind beggar was more successful than one thut could see. I maintained that he wouldn't get so much, because people could kind of sneak by him without being seen. But my wife had several good arguments on the other side. She said that people were always suspecting a blind beggarof being an impostor and looked at him pretty closely in order to find out whether ho was one or not. If they find out thut he really is blind they are so sorry for him that they are willing to give him a cop per or two, especially as they can drop u cent in the box and not bo seen by tho beggar. My wife says that she believes ever so muiiv more people would give to beggars if they oould stop and dig out a cent from some oorner without the beggar having a greedy and ex pectant evo upon them all the time. Her argu ments were that the blind beggar gets their attention In the first place because they sus pect him ; then he gets their sympathy because he Is genuine: then he gets their cent because he doesn't embarrass them by watching them and can't reproach them with a look because they don't give him more. And her final argu ment, which was a clincher, was that she gave li cents to a blind lioggariyesterday herself" The cynic laughed. " There's no answering that, at any rate." he said. "Now for that French on your cuff ." " Well, my wife is a good straight American, though she speaks French ana haa lived In Paris. Yesterday sho announced that good, filaln English seamed to be going out of fashion n New York. She told me that one of tho Fifth avenue establishments has a uniformed man at the door, and on his cap Is the legend : AOINT PI VOITUBXS. "She aaid that tn New York she preferred to have her oarrlago bless herl she doesn't hire a cab onoe a month called by a plain ' carriage agent.' aud not by nny 'uutiong du vwahtUr.' or something like that. Then she said she saw a photograph iu a window and sho stopped to look at that. It waa labelled 'Ensemble Singers,' so she told me. But she said that it just meant oborus singers, and she wondered why It didn't say so." "Seems to be a sensible woman, your wife does." remarked the cynic "Sensible!" exclaimed the newspaper man. "Well, I should here, here, Jonathan, ray boy I come down I" he said as he checked himself. "You say truly." he continued with professional indifference. "And, aa I re markedor you remarked before, a good bualneaa partner. I don't know what I'd do without her ayaa and eara," t . MXACM VOVHTIU9 JIT THAT MOUTM. nggostton af a golatloa of the Baeo Froa lean In Baee Separation. At a time when the Dawea commission haa reached the oonoluslon that the white men, who have become known as "squaw men." because they have married Indian woman in order to lira among tha Indian and own real estate, some 60,000 in number, have cot to cat out of the Indian Territory so aa to protect the Indiana from the sharp practices of whit men. an Alabama correspondent of a New York newapaper. devoted largely to the advance ment and discussion of impracticable schemes of all aorta, advance the Idea that tha only poa albla solution of the race question in the Southern States is the creation of neero ooun tiea. This ia a slight improvement on the scheme of a nearo State gravely advocated by a North Carolina writer in a book recently pub lished. It ia even an Improvement upon tha aoheme ot Bishop H. M. Turner, who wanta the Afro-American raoe to co to the west ooast of Africa. The aoheme of the Alabama man to create neero oountlea In the South I outlined in the following paragraph: "Nearly' all of the black will continue to live, aa they have lived, aide by aide with the white. The few will, however, draw away and then we shall begin to aee the cure for all unsupportahlo friction in the occupation, by negroes, of counties here and there In the six Southeastern States. Negro oountie are to be the aafety valve of the future. Not very many will be needed ; perhapa one will be in a Congressional d Istrlot ; at flrt not more than one or two in a Stat. The advanced colored man will aaak one of theee oountlea. led per hapa by a colored Bishop or preacher. Tha ambitious will find there a wider and fuller field. The aensltiva will co there because tha distinctions that are to them humiliation will be lacking. The educational leaders of tha race will aeek the opportunities that suoh oountlss will offer." Store 1 nothing the matter with this sohera-, except that Itlcannot be made to work. A great many people Imagine that there la open war between the black and white popu lation of the Southern States, and that both raoei spend a large part ot their time dodging eaoh other. This is the popular view of tha matter, but there Is hardly any truth in it. There was a newspaper account a hort time ago about the white people of a Texaa county having combined to drive the black people out. but when the matter was probed to tha bottom it waa found that the attempted driv ing out waa undertaken by a few white dare devils, against whom the white planters arose promptly and decisively. Any man who will go into any county in the nouth and undertake to persuade the black laborers to leave will be mobbed so quickly by white men aa to con vince him that he had better abandon his job and the county. Instead of there being a perpetual state of war between the races In the South, there is universal peace and friendly interchange of good office, a mutual dependence, which out siders do not understand, in view of the fact that the whites constantly prate about "the dangers of the nearo problem" and "the ne cessity ot keeping the negro in his place," and tho occasional outbreaks of mob violence di rected by a few hotheads and aimed at some black man who has offended an individual or committed some crime. And the two races do not spend any great deal of their time dodging each other: on the contrary, they live very closely together. In too many Instances too closely for the good of either. No one who understands the relation and the temper ot the two people would believe for a moment that it Is possible to oulld up black counties in the South, and for the very simple reason that It would be impossible to keep white men out of them. They would flock Into suoh counties, if it should be possi ble to create them, just an they have flocked Into the Indian country. There could be.no State law enaeted that wouldZstand the consti tutional tent to keep them out. When I was in Alabama last winter I di rected attention in Thb Son to the fact thnt the white farmers were giving up their small farms, Ir. Tuscaloosa and Elmore counties at least, and were seeking employment in tho cot ton factories, cotton oil mills, and the like, and this feature Is true of certain counties in North Carolina. South Carolina. Georgia and Alabama, where there is a steady increase in manufacturing Industries of all sorts, and the inference wan reached that these farms would ultimately fall into the hands of the black farmers, the tendency being that the blacks would stlok to agriculture while the whites would turn to factory work as being cleaner, more profitable and dignified than farm work; but even if this tendency should become pro nounced, black counties would still be impos sible while the factory town and city re mained, and these are bound to remain and multiply enormously In most Southern coun ties, as the tendency Is to build the factory where the minerals aro mined and the cereals are raised. And there is no guarantee that black people are going to stick to farm work and leave factory work to white people. Mo nopoly of occupation is tha most difficult thing, as the labor organizations have been finding ouf for years. Mr. Booker T. Washington of Alabama, who know a grent deal about the subject, declares that the bulk of Afro-Americans are agricul turists, and will remain such, but thin in no wise precludes the idea that large numbers ot them will ultimately own factories and become factory operatives, and that they will become tradesmen to a larger and larger extent. In deed, thev have entered all these occupations already, and will keep on doing so. This fact alone will make a purely negro county or coun ties an impossibility. The desirability of such counties ia a feature of the subject that need not be discussed. When people can't be kept apart because they like each other so well and need each other so much. It Is a waste of time to speculate on the prospect of their being kept apart. The Alabama correspondent takes the sta tistics of population ot the six Southeastern States Louisiana. Mississippi. Alabama Flori da. Georirla. South Carolina and finds that they contain 3.002.188 white and 3.088.850 blaok and colored people. He proceeds upon the assumption, which Is not warranted by the changes which have taken place In the South ern States In the past thirty yosrs, that exist ing conditions, produced by adverse legisla tion and previous condition of servitude, will continue, and I have regarded the matter from this point of view, in a modified sense: but it 1b reasonable to suppose that there will be as many changes In the line of progress In the next thlrty.'years astthere have been In the past thirty, changes in the social and material con dition of Afro-Americans which will gradually dull the keen edge of race prejudice and the oppressive legislation growing out of it. This will come about more assuredly and speedily by the closest possible contact of the races In all the relations of life rather than in forcible or voluntary segregation into black counties. Indeed, this latter alternative would be the surest way to perpetuate the race frlo tlon and prejudice now a factor in the situa tion which causes the whites more worry than the blacks: indeed, the latter are not worry ing a great deal. They have more and better homes, more and better churches, more and better schools and colleges than ever before, and own more property and have more money In the bank. As I have said, they are the happiest people In the Southern States, leaving to the white population the agony of worrying about them and what they are doing. Most of the race friction In the Southern State Is caused by hot-headed newspaper edi tors, who think they are reflecting the senti ments and serving their patrons best by con stantly stirring up strife and by denouncing and disparaging black people, and by legisla tors who act upon the samo theory and have built up a system ot laws bo offensive, brutal and degrading that slaves would find fault with and protest against them. Tho race question in the South would be vastly simpli fied if the editors and legislators were of a dif ferent stripe, and these are bound to change for the better as the Afro-Amerlcun people grow In intelligence and in tho ownership of property and engage more generally In busi ness pursuits. Indeed. I know of three influ ential dally newspapers in the South that give employment to Afro-Ameri .'an reporters and make a point of giving a big Installment of news In which Afro-Americans are particular ly Interested. These three newspapers are printed at Jacksouville. Fla Atlanta, Ga.. and Churlotte. N. C. The comiietitlon for patrons among Afro Americans by white newspapers in the South Is bound to have a marked influence on tin policy of the newspapers, with a reflex In flu enco ou the white pair uis of the paper. Thin reading constituency Is growing larger aud more influential evory year. White merchants in all the cities of the South make a more de termined effort to secure Afro-American pat ronage than the retail merchants of Boston. New York or Philadelphia do. I have always thought that race prejudice in this country was dun more to the previous condition ot servitude and the present condition of pov erty of tho Afro-American people than ti color, and I think that time will prove this to be true. When the oouditinn of (ho Afro-American people becomes such as to make It of ma terial importance for editors and legislator and merchant to cater for their favor we shall have a better condition of things, and this con dition is being created more rapidly than is generally supiiosed. There is no need tor black counties, as such. In the Smith. The people have lived together In common communities for 'JoO years and they will continue to do so to the end of the chapter, constantly improving In all direc tions and growing more mutually dependent and tolerant. Time and patience will make all the crooked Una straight. T. THOMAa YoaxVHk SCHWARZf Toy Bazar, I 39&41 W. 23d St., Opposite Stern Bros., N. Y. F.A.O.SCHWARZ announces the OPENING of the 29th Christmas Exhibition of all the Latest Novelties in Toys, Dolls, Games, Etc., Commencing ; Monday, October 24th, and extends a cordial Invitation to his patrons to examine the same. To satisfy the desire of many cus- ' ' tomers this opening is made so early in order to take THE FIRST CHOICE of this year's Novelties and to avoid the inconvenience during: the usual rush In December. (Selected goods may be re served until Christmas. i N. B. Please notice that 1 have no connection with any other toy store in New ork or Brooklyn. WBMRX SPANISH WAS USBPtTL. . Cat. Taylor Knew Only Three TTordi, bat They Acquitted His Client. When Colorado was organized as a Territory there was little English used outsido of Den ver and the mining camps. The rest of ths thinly scattered country waa as Spanish as any part of our latest America. 'Not Castlllann, uf course: more likely a general mlxturo of Aztca and Apache and a lot of other strains of blood, but certainly Spanish in name and In Bnppi'h. The Govornmont reoogulzedi'that "it had a difficult task before it in bringing thf.s ,' "greasers" to understand the very beginning of the obligations and the duties ot their American citizenship. One of the most trust ed agents in thla campaign of education was Judge Hallett. who was put iu charge of the judicial system of the new Territory. From that time to this he has been at tlio head ot ... the Federal judiciary In the groat and pros perous State of Colorado. Despite nis fierce ness of rebuke and countless oddities of tem per no Judgo has ever been so resiieutcd as he along tne Great Divide. When he first went on circuit the bar left Denver with him and travelled in a body both for sociability and for safety. Thou there wai no railroad, the only means of reaching any . place from any other being along a slightly marked trail barely passable for horses. )r alow stages the bench and the bar reached Trinidad under the cold shadows of the Sangro in de Cristo range. These Spanish name wore j an incessant annoyance to Judge Hallett. who declaimed against each one In turn and an- nounced his purpose of memorializing ths of Secretary of the interior to have them all mnila rh American. Of a piece with this was his aiti- r,, tude toward the prevailing Spanish speech of or the country; he objected to it. Among the as first rules of his court was that which provided jv that all its transactions should be in Engliith. th ind that if litigants objected to the work of the au sworn Interpreter that was their own .lookout ; or it might encourage them to learn to talk K0 "American." as they ought Hg In Trinidad Col. Taylor of the bar was re- tju talned for the defonce in a case where no de- g fence was possible. The place was lull of wit- cai nouses who hod seen the deed done, whatever tin it may have been, for that is unimportant. Ths .a, prosecuting attorney put on witness after wit- jn ness to prove the facts. lie made a perfect t case and he demanded that full punishment aft be inflicted. It was a difficult situation, for Col. Taylor. His client was guilty beyond a at doubt; cross-examination of. the witnesiiea act could only make that fact more distinct, and for att that reason he did nothing so foolish. Ths case was altogether Spanish. Criminal, wit- J)u nosses. audience, there were not six words f fv jpn English In the whole outfit. The Interpreter 3- m had been called on for every word which had a, f one back and forth throughout the trial. Col. wh aylor arose to make his plea. He surveyed tm the cluster of dark faces which filled the shed kq In which the court was sitting. for "Caballeroe." he began, "caballeros del jur orl ado" at I There was a loud whacking ot the gavel by " Judge Hallett as soon as he caught the sound acr of the language which ho despised so heartily. aev "Mr. Taylor. Mr. Taylor." he shouted, "aa a ag member of the bar of this oourt you must lie pn aware that all Its transactions must be con- fen ducted In the English language, the language out of this country. If I thought that you were to I using Spanish maliciously I should puniBh v u tha soundly for such contempt of this curt. ou the will address this court of the United States in a United States and In no other speech, language m or dialect." Kv "I bow to your Honor's ruling." continued and Col. Taylor, and resumed his plea, but In l.nif- so i llsh and with the assistance of the interpreter. v0t Ho told the gTeaser jury how the sight of their wit firoud Castillan lineaments had caused him to orget a rule of the court aud to address them are in the sonorous speech ot Spain, from which ems their proud forefathers oame. He obeved ths wi Judge, but he felt the restraint of haunt: to wai make bin pleading through the assistance f fk the he Interpreter. It was a simple matter whieb aaa he could set right in a few sentences of t h"ir aVnil own language, but he feared that in Knuli-h h A j could not do so well, yet he hoped that they era would not see a fellow citizen punished solely fnn for the reason that his advocate was not nl- a-n lowed to address a Spanish jury In their own a!i; tongue. Harping on thin tlicmo lm avilel atoi any discussion of the evldonco which bore mi nkj heavily on his client, and in his peroration ho at a paid a glowing tribute to the language "f D- n ton Ouinitetand Quoen Isabella. This done. Is and lied from the soot and wosuotsecu until oourl atuc had arisen for the day. pi ii When they next met the prosecuting attor. beoi ney wanted to know why he had not been ahoi hand to receive congratulations ou the :'' Jrlri luittal of his client. thei "They set him free without a stain on Ins fani character and without leaving (heir "at" n I timi It was all due to your Spanish Why didn't yoU r wait? You're the hero of the whole populatl m shlj "Thit's just the trouble." rejoined ('"! lay. fora lor. "I know they'd acouit that chicken tin"! Woo and then they'd fall all over me with thit are Spanish. I just naturally had to hide. Iie-s wUI three words that Judge Hallett choked ins H i on. that's all the Spanish I ever knew In mf that life. 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