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m m t i a Day and Night :n.:i au acute attack of Bronchitis, a .'loss tieklins in the throat, and an exuaustii!^:, dry, hacking cougli, afflict the sufferer. Sleep is banished, and great prostration follows. This disease is also 2 ness, and sometimes is liable to become involve the lungs, and terminate .ycr’s Cherry Pectoral affords ief and cure in cases of Brou« controls the disposition to cough, and induces refreshing sleep. I luive been a practicing phvsidan for of Bronchitis. After exhausting all the usual remedies Without Roliof, I was attackod, last winter, ^Yith a severe Cold, which, from exposure, f;rew ^vuI•^e and finally settled on inv Lungs. J5y night sweats 1 was )-educod almost to a skeleton, ^fy Cough was incessant, and t frequently sjnt Mood. 3Iy plivsicimi uM me to give up business, or 1 would in t a s s a w L 't:! C u r e d By U s ing two bottles of Ayer’s Cberrv Pectoiv'. 1 am now in perfect healtli, and ah.c to resume business, after buviiur bi*en pro nounced ineuruble with Omsumpjion.— S. r . Henderson, Saulsburgh, renn. For years I was in a decline. I had w’eak lungs, and suficred from lironchitis and Catarrh. Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral re stored me to health, and I have been for a long time comparatively vigorous. In ous medicines, without bcncfil. he fmallv prescribed Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral, which relieved me at once. I continued to take this medicine a sliort time, and was cured. —Ernest Colton, Eogansport, lud. Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral, CUBE Mdache and relieve ail the tronb SICK * * H E A D ACHE a m i P C A S T S B M J E D IC IN E C O ., Mew Y o r k City. Children © FOR PITCHER’S &steiia C a a toria prom o tes Digestion, and overcomes Flatulency, Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, and Feverishness. Thus the child is rendered healthy and its sleep n a t n r a L C a s t o r i a contains no Morphine or other narcotic property. known u, ^ -----^ ■ re., Brboklyn,'lf, *‘I nse Castoria in my practice, and find specially adapted to affections of children.\ AlXX. EoBERTSOJf, M. D., 1057 2d Ave.. New York. T h * CESTxmt Co., 77 Murray St., N. Y. liBrnons^^lsaepenS lllonSULPHURBlTTBRS Mlt-fflU core yon. PHUB B itters w n il|| not assist or cure* I t | | | never iidls* MtlkAtti^daud anyone HteeUpg; it bo , tisc HIS itlfhub B ittees ; n ilt will enre 70 Q. Cleanse the vidatea |ra blood when you see|l| ts ImpnHties burst-l 1 no: through the skinljl nTiniple 8 |Blotclie 8 i|l| and Sores* Bely o nU SunpHUB B ittees ,M And health will fol-S M Operatives wUo are sfclosely condned to Q the millB ana w o it B shops; clerlcSyWlio do M not procure sufficient ■ exercise, and all who ^9 are confined in doors* ■should use S ulphub ■ bittoh S; They will gu^^thea be weak and S ulphur B ittbrs |!| will cure I*lverCom-|l| plaint. Don’t be dl 8 -| | conraged; ItwUlcureM Dl It you Uo not WISH IH to suffer from Bheum- in aUsm, use a bottle ol IISULPHUR B itters ; 111 it never falls to cure. will build you up andi 1 umke^you strong andl|| ^ uifhu ^B i ^ S bs 111 will make your blood p j pure* rich and strong* M and your fiesh hard* l | | Try SULPHOB BIT^I 1 TEES to-night, and III YOU will Bleep well||| and feel Letter forlfclU dedical Work published? rn Don’t be without a Hbottle. Try it; yon H| wlUnotregreti|^^ H| Ladies in delicate III health, who are all lUrun down, should use ■IS hlphur B itters . Do yon want the best Medical Work publish^? Boston, Mass., and receive a copy, fr»e. M i t i t i t k ®n. §rpn ^ Sen, of % Cctmtg. $i.so §mx, m V O IilT M B 6 8 . H U D S O N , N . Y ., T H U B S D A Y , DECEM B E R 8, 1887. N U M B E R 4 9 io r i i S - LIFE'S JOURNEY. But it suddenly shoots over chasms Or sinks into tunnels of night. And the hearts that were brave in the momlnf Are filled with repining and fears ' “A frro,ih‘S s i . ' ’c ’= f With all its discomforts and dangers. We need not be sad or afraid. Paths leading from light into darkness, Tho’ the rocks and the shadows surround us, Tho’ we catch not one gleam of the day \*'^nd dtophlg wfflte feeUn^om^ bay. \iJS'sssliKri*. The last final end of our journey, There lies the Great Station of Rest. *Tl3 the Grand Central point of all railways, All roads center herq when they end; All tickets, all mile books, all passes If stolen or begged for or bought. On whatever road or division, Will bring you at last to the spot. \ r . J s . K i g ’.fT S s \ ' Be patient, the train will move onward And rush down the track of the years. Whatever the place is you seek for, Whatever your aim or your quest, You shall come at the last with rejoicing To the beautiful City of Best. all find in the City of Rest. SOJOURNER TRUTH. ACCOUNT OF HER INTERVIEW WITH PRESIDENT GRANT. Personal Appearance of tho “Dyblan Sibyl’’—Her Words at the Capitol—An Introduction to Grant—An Impressive Interview—Tho Farting. I knew Sojourner Truth more than forty years ago in New England. She was then 70 years old. but seemed hardly beyond the prime and glory of her womanhood. In those days Harriet Beecher Stowe described her as \the Lybian Sibyl,” gifted with prophetic insight and tall and erect like n strong and graceful African palm tree. She would do more housework of the heaviest kind than two ordinary women, and yet be one of the best %vatchers by a sickbed at night. A sick man she lifted to the best place on his bed as easily and tenderly as a mother would lift her baby, and the touch of her band smooth ing the pillow and stroking the fevered brow was health and quiet, while her wail, “There, honey, you’s easier now,” had a strange power to give ease and calm. Untrained in grammar or rhetoric, never ble to read or write, there was a quaint dis- jgard for set rule of speech in her public and rivateivate discourse,iscourse, but no fine rhetorician pr d could make his r could equal her in ] uberance of imagery. _ _ close of the civil war 1 went with her to the senate reception room in the Capitol at mid make his meaning plainer and few raid equal her in power of expressic irs after the 'Washington. She stood beneath the center of its m-ched ceiling and the deep look of her ■walls, as she said: “Dis is like the picture chambei-s of de New Jerusalem dat dey read about in de Book.” Then she looked out of the window and saw the poor huts of tho great gospel of divinity ai manity seemed spo’.ven in two Great souls ’ ’ ■ ' -'o brief sentences, can move other souls. SPIMT TOLD SS S I ? r s £ S ‘, i s of duty to be done led her to the capital city. Her way opened, not long after, for some good sei-vice among the freedmen at the hospitals. I soon went to see her and she said, with great earnestness: “I believe de Grant, and you can get me there.” I told her that was easier said than done, but I would try, and the next day wrote a note to him, saying she wished to see him a t some fit time, took it to the White House, sent it in to the business office, and a verbal message soon came back to me in the waiting room that any morning would suit. In a few days Sojourner, with two ladies, a venerable friend of Quaker birth and my self, went to meet the appointment mid I sent in a card, “Sojourner Troth and friends,” which brought back in a half hour a messen ger to escort us to President Gx'ant’s office. He sat at the end of a long table in the center with documents piled before dosing an interview with other I stepped forward to introduce the id to bring Sojourner beside the table. ' \ ident Lincoln, and he, r Imr “Aunty” ii of the room, him, and just peisons. ^ party and She had met Fresh boro Eeiituckian, coi tho old familial* Tva old familial* Tvay, kindly, was reticent, and all was not quite easy at fii-st. But a happy - - ■ I call her “Aunty” In while Grant, though all was not quite 'thought came to to the colored people. She spoke of this gratitude; the thiu ice broke and words i freely from both, for Grant was an easj fluent talker, 1 until the fit tii but had the wisdoi :ame to speak, tallll andnd er« Standing there, ta a erect while stirred in soul by the occasion, her wonderful < glowed os she thanked him for his gooddi lowed os she than id gave wise counsel in her laint way. nXlS AND eiMFLS DIONITSr,- Her words came ia tones full of deep power and tenderness, and he listened with ^ e a t in- lirly treated.” His voice and mam how bis heai-t was touched, and bis softened tones showed how “the bravest are the ten- derest. ” She told him how his tasks and trials were appreciated and how much faith was placed in his upright doing of duty to the oppressed, and be quietly, yet with mui able rights of all. Only great souls can comprehend true gp-eatness, and these two understood each other. Nothing In the illustrious career of Gen. Grant gave me a fuller sense of bis largeness of heart a nd mind than his unpre- tending simplici^and apprecintive respect in Students entered the T koy BUSINESS coiAEUt in October. This lathe largest number that ever --------- -- — ----- ... — . -omlng mostly from In October. This la the largest number that evt entered In one month, and coming mostly froL Troy and Its vicinity,speaks well forthepopularlty of ttna most prosperous institution. Young men andLadira are here quaJifled In the shortest ttir- to take positions as book-keepers, stem and celc^phers, a great manyqf whom: Septis-w ly. 13 Third S t, Troy, N.Y CUREDEAF FOR THE Feck’S Patent improved CnshtopM JtV P e rfactly Keatore th e X X e u inr, Whether deatneas Is caused by colds, fevers orlnjurleRtO thenatnral drums. Always m posiaon, Im t m* to others and comfortable to wear. T9BBT M» MMlwn um y MACIIJ. WZ1U9 VU JK'o C0X, proadway, oor. « th St. New York, f « nityof Sojot sense of her with Lincol x)d. She s him; “I have a little book hero that I call my book Of life. A good many names are in it, : kept a place on the same page ■ for youou too writerite yourour name.”ame.’ y t w y n splied: “I am glad to put it there,” shisis autographutograph in her little book. wrote h a In then said: “It will do me good for j have my photograph,” and with et plea and with he thanked her and select 'eral laid oi avident from sev( 1 had lasted beyond the Stood by, waiting their 3, yet listening with great interest, fit time came to leave. The preside 1 his chair and \ rose from hi hand with a and a woman born gave Sojourner hi a p arting word of good will. Thi spect and an opprei B, Stebbins. Golden trout a re found in but one place in SOME- FAVORED SPOT. The mountain heights are dear to some, To some tho vaUey’s deep recess; To some the desert is a home, ■With thoughts to cheer and joys to bless. lerished spot to Im CORK OAK IN CALIFORNIA. I Growth No Longer a Matter of Ex periment—Stripping t d long ago. The distribution of cork s by the patent office about twenty-five years ago may not have accomplished much in other parts of the country, but it gave us a start, and there are now trees yielding cork and bearing acorns at a number of different There were samples of cork and acorns shown at the Saeramento citrus fair by H. A. Mes- ' ~ ■ unty. There are ti la, Santa Barbara i state uiiiversit. California cork acorns, and will be lik have the trees for distribution next There is no doubt about the adaptation of the tree to the state, as the widely separated places named above all furnish proper condi tions for its growth. It is of course a crop of fore needs patience in the plant All the corkwood of commerce comes from the Spanish peninsula, where the trees abound not only in cultivated forests, but also grow wild on the mountains. The tree is like an American oak. With leaves similar to the oak, and acorns. It takes ten years for the bark to become a proper thickness to be manufactured into bottle stoppers, life preservers and seine corks. 'When stripped from the tree it is to be boiled for two hours, nuded trunk, like a hen robbed of her eggs, does not sulk and quit the business, but throws out a fresh covering for a fresh spoli ation. Qne tree has been known to yield half a ton of corkwood. One pound of cork be manufactured into 144 champagne cs. The baled cork bark is sold to cork manufacturing centers, The most extensive manufactory in Amer ica iS at Pittsburg. Besides the o rdinary de mands for cork bark, a good supply of the buoyant material, after being burned, to make it still lighter than the original bark, is shipped to Canada and New England, where it is made into seine corks. The aver age annual importation of corkwood into this counti-y, entirely at the port of New York, is 70,000 bales a year. A bale weighs 160 portations of $1,400,000. free.—-Pacific Rural Press. In a Cigarette Factory. A repoi'ter visited one of the large cigai-ette lanufactones In this city to see how they ai-e made. The manufactory is a four story building. About 1,200 girls are employed in making cigarettes. A girl was asked how many ciprettes a girl could make in a day. She replied that it depended on how nimble ber fingei-s were. A smart girl could make about 3,.600 a day. She is paid from seventy ■ ' ■ ’■ ig to the m,” she said. “This large , marble is what we roll them on. It is much better than wood, becaxise it is washed three or four times a day to prevent the cigarettes from getting soiled. 'When a girl finishes a thousand the cigarettes are carefully exam ined. If any of them are pasted crooked or are soiled they are returned to the maker, who must do her work over again. “This small piece of brown paper is what we use .to roll them with. It Is called a kun- kee. One edge of it is pasted to the marble. A stick about a foot in length and about as thick as a match is used for the pasting. Tlie paste is made of pure starch and water. The cigarette paper is laid on the kunkee, and a the flat of the hand over it the cigarette is rolled. Then the paste stick is run over one edge of the paper and it is gently slid through the fingers, and the cigarette is made. After nds are cut off it is ready for the trade, ing cigarettes looks easy enough; but if you wore compelled to sit at a table ten hours each day you would find it very hard and tedious and injurious to the health. The tobacco is sent direct from the plantation to the faetoi-y, where it is adulterated by a se cret process.”—^New York Evening Sun. Strange Control of Horses. Since boyhood I have always hud a strong control of hoi'ses. I can no more explain it than I could tell you why my eyes ore black; but it is a fact that before I have handled a hoi'se long he will follow me like a dog and iw me like a dog and I once had the four ies that pull the engine at Broadway and Almond under such control that at the dis tance of a block they would answer my whis tle and race like the wind to see which could reach me first. An old fire horse was oncei sold to an ashman. He was hitched to a post' a block away, and I thought I recognized him, and 1 whistled. I had not seen him for two years, but he recognized my whistle, and, breaking tlie hitcliing strap, he came tearing: to me, with the cart rattling behind him. A, few minutes later the excited owner came upi and thanked me warmly for catching hisi runaway horse.—^Assistant Fire Chief iu' Globe-Democrat. REST FOR BRAIN TOILERS. Good tYork Cannot bo Done When th#' Brain Is Exliaustod-Newspaper Men. There are no workers who require an nual, or even more frequent, periods of! rest more than newspaper men. Toiling as most of them do, under pres-sure, the: nerves and brain are continually at thei highest tension. Unless this strain is re lieved from time to time, the weariedi A man may be able to write when hisi brain is exhausted. Some men get so ini the habit that they can -write -when they are asleep, b ut all vigor, force and origin ality is lacking, or if the strain of brillian cy is kept up, it is done a t the expense of life itself. This Is not news to most of onr readers. There is hardly a journalist of any experience who does not fully re alize the truth of this statement, and It is safe to say that there are very few who would not be willing to take the vacatk'ns it they could get them. — ... .. letoirs of lent upon h i umn string, who has no fixed salary to rely upon, rarely has an opportunity to save enough to pay the expenses of a va cation, nor can he afford to stop the pro duction of colunm fillers long enough to take the rest which he requires. It Is on this account that we see so many young men broken down In newspaper work, prematurely old, worn out and useless. There are in New York alone over five hundred space writers, brilliant, cultured and enterprising, who come within category and who cannot do more only is the absence of money, during the brief vacation they might take, a serious consideration, but the possibility and probi- ability that some rival may take their place in whole or in part, or that they may lose some valuable opportunity in which they can obtain largo rotmms, are even more potent reasons for their re maining a t the treadmllL An Ingenious knight of the pen suggests the formation of a “ Mutual Vacation As sociation.” A hundred members contrib- pleasant week or two In the woods or at the seashore. At the same time the asso ciation ns a body could fill a ll his assign ments and represent him to a considerable extent in the discharge of nearly aU hfs professional duties. The Idea Is worth a t ^ a t any rate.—The Journalist. Xranlng Amtuamants. Dr. Norvin Green, prerident of the Western rpion Telegraph company, think* that « rent many men break down from overwork. QUICK LINGUISTS IN CHINA. of busi- mds the fore which tablets and Ig Kong—A every Chinese house or pit aess, even in the sampan that attenc jhip, is the shrine, or altar, before whicl joss sticks are burned; here are tablets a lares and penatesand curiously carved on ments. The Chinese have a diversity of re ligions, as we do. but somehow or other they 11 seem alike. The general term for it in . igeon English is “Josh Pigeon”—i. e., God’s business. The word “joss,” like many others, Is from the Portuguese, the first Eurojieans ihat came to China, and is a corruption of Decs (God or Deity), I believe. Pigeon or pijun is as near as the Chinese can get to “business.” And this comical dialect is one jf the strange things to the newcomer. Miss Bird very neatly calls it baby talk. It is a very singular'corruption of English. She »lls it abominable, but I like it. The people ill fall into it easily, and the grave mer- ffiants, Chinese and English, German or A.merican, all carry on their business as ihough there were no other in the woi'ld. [ b'ke it because it amuses me, makes laugh; and anything that makes iony fellow as myself laugh is jood. If the mail was just in, and I wished my letters, I should say to my lampan man: “Sam, my wanohee you go iopside, that Keechung bousee, and talkee he oiy wanchee my letter chop-chop!” “Sam, I wish you to go up to Messrs. Russell & Co.’s ind ask them to send me my lettei-.s,.quick.” :t is astonishing how readily the Chinese un- lerstand eveiything you wish.—Foreign Manufacture of Champagne. “Champagne is a sure cure for the head- iche. That may not be your experience, but It is true nevertheless,” remarked a promi nent California grape grower and wine dealer, IS he talked of the diffiei-ent processes for manufacturing wines. “-When a fellow goes Dut to a supper, and gets up next moruiiig with a big head, you can rest assured that h« didn’t drink pure champagne. ‘It is not all ;old that glittere,’ neither is it all champagne that sparkles. I will put pure champagne against all the medicines of the world as a smedy for neuralgia. “How do they make champagne? Well, fouxnust remember that a good deal oCwhat ' Is labeled champagne is doctored with ear- But tho real stuff is made by _ii grapes. The wines are first made separate, each from i separate grape, then they are blended to gether for taste and bouquet in certain pro portions, well understood by winemakers, The blended wines are then bottled and cork- sd, and undergo a process of fermentation tof two years. The bottles are then opened, tho lediinent blown off, the wine is rebottled and iweetcned with a rook candy sirup i:i propor tion os it is wanted for dry or extra dry. It is then corked up and allowed to stand for fix months, when it is ready for use. “No, they don’t make bottles in this country irong enough to hold champagne. The i-essuro in the first fermentation is from ninety to 100 pounds on the square inch of glass, so you may know it takes a strong quality of glass to hold the liquid. The cork d in a champagne bottle is brought from lin,”—St, Paul Globe. * First Great Ballroad Accident. ing thirty-eight passengers was movii _ through ft thick fog at a high rate of speed. A mass of earth had slipped down from the slope above and covered one of rile palls tq the depth of two or three feet. The engine plunged into this and was immediately thrown fi’om the track, and instantly the whole rear of the train was piled up on the top of the first carriage, which contained all the passengei-s, eight of whom were killed and seventeen wounded. The Coroner's jury iriied a verdict of “Accidental death in all and a deodand of £ 10 , J 0 on tho en gine, tender and carriage: Tills feature of “deodand” belongs to tl old common law, which declared that when ever any personal chattel was the occasion of death it should be forfeited to the king, not only that part which immedlfttely gives the nds but ail things which move with it' •felted. Down to 1847, when pai-lia- locomotive involved in an accident, which, of course, the company had to pay as a fine.—Chicago Tribune. The Swelling of the Oyster. Oysters, it seems, may be swollen very con siderably by allowing them to lip ftwhile iq water. By this means, Professor Atwater tells -js, “the body of the oyster acquires such a plumpness and rotundity, and its bulk and weight are so increased, as to materially in crease its selling value.\ Now, the simple oysterman, as well as tho unsiTpbisticated customer, has supposed that this swelling or “fattening\ of the oyster rep,- resents an actual gain of flesh and fat. But the professor rudely dispels this theory by the crushing explanation that the increase of volume is just -what would be expected from the osmose of dialysis. Subjected to this ter rifying process five quarts of oystei-s gi-ow to six, but the extra quart is water and not fat ness, and tlie dealer “offers his customers no more nutritive material—indeed, a trifle !ess-=i in the six quarts than ho would have done in the five quarts if he had not floated them.” Lovei-s of plump and juicy saddl Fact. Concerning Suicide. e total suicides in a year, over 60 pep occur during the hot months of June, July and August, The melancholy days of autumn, the saddest of the year, are sti'angely not condemned to self destruction, yet one would think so. I figure it out that men drink more in the summer, and consequently they don’t sleep well. You will notice that most suicides occur in the early moi-ning. The testimony a lways shows that the a ct has been preceded by a sleepless sequent brooding over trouble. Irishmen night, with d or imagil commit suii is because they ai-e brought up in nine out of ten os Catholics, and have the of the future before them. Americans commitimit suicideicii to avoid d k g r a c ^ ^ w M le broken up nei-vously atat thehe endd off a debauch.bauch. su E S t en o a de :ase on record in this office of a immittlng suicide, nor have I ever or read of one any where.—Coroner In Globe-Democrat. A man in Iowa has spent fourteen years In solving the problem of boring a square bole, and he has succeeded. A company is organ ized to put his invention on the market. It is sel. The balance of the exactcounterpart of the shine. It will cut a two machine is an al: old styled boring machine. It will cut a two by four mortise'in from four to five minutes, and doing it with perfect accuracy, that a car penter cannot possibly complete in less than No Need of Catching Cold.. Spealcing of colds, I have a theory that no one need ever have one unless he chooses; in other virords, that it is quite possible so to train the skin, that wonder ful organ, which is generally looked upon as the paper wrapper to our human biindle, as to render it uon-snsceptihle to sudden changes of temperature or atmospheric moisture, whence colds come. ' as this l 8 The berths in the steerage are not reserved, they are free, and the cuBtom of leaving the baggage in them, denot ing that they are taken, is not re garded. The usurper coolly throws out the first occupant, bedding, tins and baggage, not caring if they are injured or not, then falls asleep and does not awaken until its first possessor finds another place. Some one quietly appropriated mine and had thrown my tins in an adjoining bunk. All were found except that indispensable arti cle, my bright iron spoon, which was either lost or taken to complete eomc one else's outfit. The stewards are good fellows and will give extra ac comodations for a dollar or two. They will wash the tins for the small sum of SI, and will place in your berth free of charge. One of the difficulties of a steerage passenger is to dress and undress. The usual way is to bang the pants on the end of the berth, jump into the them and quickly grasp hold of the planks to keep from being thrown against the sides of the boat when it makes a lurch. Another way is to kneel, but many a head was bumped against I he iron beams when the per son arose to fix his suspenders. Nearly all, however, went to bed without un dressing. The women have separate apart m e n ts in the sam e p a rt of the boat, and all become acquainted in a short time. They were carrying on busy conversations, and the difierent lan guages poured out in a torrent, which never ceased except when the boat gave a lurch, and then ouly for' a moment. Dirty faced children, with their cries and screams added to the melody of sounds. 1 quarreled with myself for going steerage, but it was too late. With a sigh of regret I went on deck. The water was calm and beautiful; a pleasant breeze was blow ing and the ride was enjoyable. Toward night the water became rougher and the boat began to rock. Many began to experience a dizzy and unpleasant feeling, which fconstantly grew worse. In a short time the gen eral laughter and sweet songs had suddenly changed. I looked around. There was scarcely a woman on deck, and the men had well nigh deserted it. Lemons and oranges were in de mand. The bar was profitably patron- And as this Is exactly the season to commence sucli a system of pellar educa tion, as i t has proved effective in many in stances -within my own knowledge, and as it is within easy readi of every one to try, I write It here. Tho theory is that no sidn that has been exposed freely for half an ho-ur a t the -beginning of a day to a tem perature lower than it will encounter through the day •will note small changes or be affected thereby. A cold is simply m nervous shock re ceived by the myriad* of minute nervj terminals that bristle over the surface o) the human body, transmitted to the cen ters and so bock again to the mucous membrane, the peculiar seat of this special irritation. Iiot us then so train these sei sitlve fibers that they -will pass by nnni tlced changes of atmospheric conditioi and the matter is accomplished.—Amei can Magazine. It is stated that the Dno d'An j been in Paris for the last fortnigh [ the knowledge of the •uthoritlee, A STEERAGE TRIP. (Vlio 'Fried It. oaitneal and butter; for dinner, vege- table soup, boiled beef, potatoes, rice and stewed apples. Sometimes this rad on Sunday cherry pudding would be given for others, in the lOpe of driving It was in hours before were bright and happy now pale and troubled. I paced the deck, as did man bracing air, with th< away the miserable feeling. I had to give up. All had d walking and bad taken their positions at the railing and were gaz ing earnestly at the water.. They may have been looking at the phosph( cent light, but I doubt it. We were made worse by the combined odors of carbolic acid, chlorate of lime, (which thrown around profusely), paint, tar and grease, and other things known to those who travel on ships. These smells made me deadly sick, made me bate tho boat, everybody and. 'thing on it. sailors’ duty to sweep the decks, b u t they ought to have extra and it should be collected from steerageteerage passengers.sengerd. Thee menen were immoderate smokers,moker and the rerything It is the the s pas Th m s scent of bad tobacco was another dis agreeable odor mixed with those that were already rendering my stomach weak. A Polish Jew carried the largest and filthiest pipe, and many times during the day and night this big bowl of intolerable scents could be hanging from bis mouth. The sick persons slept on deck all night,, dreading to go in the steerage on ac count of the horrible smell which per vaded it. The sailors worked the whole night managing the sails and washing the decks, and often the sleepers were aroused by the scrub bers’ hose. The bare deck was the principal bed; mine was a coil of rope, ind, notwithstandiDg the noise, I fell into a refreshing sleep. The seasick people would come to the tables and try to eat, but as soon any greasy food was taken the party sought the railing of the boat the gutters in the steerage. Finally they took to their taerlhe, and when the stewards came at meal times to give each his portion, they, like some Rip Van Winkle, with shaggy beard and unkempt hair, poked their heads from their berths and shoved their plates and basins at the steward to be filled up- There they sab and ate. If the food had the wrong effect, the stretched their heads over the bert and looked at the door. Some ate and washed in the same basin, for it was too much trouble to carry a whole din ner set. The steward every morning swept out the steerage, though the agents of the steamship dines say they axe washed o u t, a n d s p rinkled the floor with sawdust, chlonde of lime, car bolic acid, etc. In three days the steerage passen gers were all well, and when the din ing bell rung every one rushed to the tables. The steward dealt out from large buckets each man’s share, and to the credit of the steerage they behaved very well, though table etiquette seem- out of place. It is different coming to America—the class of people is so un like. Sometimes four or five are in straight jackets at once. The food was in good condition and well cooked and every one got plenty. We giren for braaldast, ^offoe, tea, l^«ad, other. would be changed, and on Sundi cherry ] desert; for supper the same as breakfast. Who cannot live on this for seven days? Many a steerage passenger fares better on the boat than he does in his own home. Formerly the steerage passenger was given bis day’s allowance, but he bad to cook i t ; and this is probably Ihe reason why my bring canned food with them, inking they have to do their own cooking. Now, by getting on the good side of the cooks and paying them $ 5 , they may get almost cabin fare. After eating, all go on deck to wash leir tins. The rest of the day would- be spent in lounging around, sleeping , playing cards and telling yarns. At night those vbo had any music in them would sing a few songs. They would be accompanied by a broken winded accordton or a melan- choly flute. The most respectable would join in the songs and sports of the sailors and cabin boys; and many' an evening was plesantly spent in this way. Some of them, rather than be idle, would help to do the work, and when the sails were put out many as could pull on the ropes. The steerage passengers get over seasickness sooner than the cabin passengers, who have so much richer food. Some of the cabin passengers were sick ihe entire trip, b u t would come on deck the day before landing perhaps afraid of being quarantined. To cross the ocean for health, it is, in my opinion, a mistake for a young man to go cabin. Because the cabin is so finely furnished that when he gets seasick he will go to bis berth, and, having some one to wait on him, he will very likely stay there during the whole voyage ; whereas, the steerage being not so comfortable, and the odor not so pleasant, be will be forced on deck, the place where he ought to be. X. S.” in Kansas City Jour- Rev. Ittulkittie’s Boy Learns About Samson Aikansaa TraveUer. “Pa,” said the Rev. Mulkittlc’s son, “Samson wasn’t he f” “ Yes Samson was the strongest an that ever lived.” “Tell me about him.” “ It was intended that Samson should be the strongest man, and before he was born—” The bewildered expression on th? child’s face arrested the minister in his narration. “ Before he was born ?” asked the “ Yes; before—that is, before he was found in a hollow stum—” “Just like little sister ?” “ Yes just before he was found angel appeared and foretold of his strength, saying that no razor must touch his head.” “ Was the angel afraid that the razor would cut him ?” No } the angel meant that his The Art of Traveling. H o w to Girdle tbe Globe a t a Oomparso* tlvely Small Expense. Have you ever talked with a man who has traveled around the world and seen everything from the month of the Congo to the Chinese wall? I met one this morning on the west end veranda. He travels all the time, and he told me that he made a itting into cities and com point of intries at liday times, when he could see them at their best. That is why he stays in America in summer. His next stop ping place is Persia; then he goes into he will reach China in April, when the fetes are held. I asked him what ii cost to live as he did. “It would cost you about $12 a day to follow in my paths,” he answer ed, “but I do it for $7.25. Living expenses have averaged me that the jast year. I keep a record 'ihing, and know to a penny w] I always travel first-clasE ling, ai spend. I always travel first-class, see all there is to be seen, and I don’t think I have the reputation of being But I have traveling (gardly. to a science. It costs me now of what it did when thi niggai about 25 per cent. 3 gan. Of course some of the re- ition comes from the cheapness of traveling facilities, but a good part of it comes from knowing what I am about. Traveling is a business, and to do it costs me about one-thin inexperienced people, because when to tip and when not in living I save again. I lii it wc ve on tbe Jfiaropean plan always, so that if I am sight-seeing I ean get my meals any where witfaont feeling that I am pay ing for another I do not eat. Then I always avoid a table d’hote. That’s another way of paying for more than you want. My biggest meal is my breakfast. If I get a good one I ‘don’t care much what I have the rest of the day. I find that most travelers feel the same way. I keep a diary of every thing I do, and I can tell what I did and where I was on any day for twenty years past. 1 can only apeak one lan guage—English, though I have picked up a smattering of French, but I get vUh my native tongue. You along wii will find ] world over, a self about the ianj I am going to. ; a strong man, A Touching Story. Among the emigrants who arrived at Castle Garden the other day, was an old woman, bent with age. She had lived the sllotted threescore years and ten, and her feebleness made her an object of universal pity. On stoomor .Buo occupied stifling quarters steerage, but her companions ere kind to her, and the lade as end-jrable as said her name was Jam she came from Cracow, strength lay In his hair, and that his hair m u st not be cut off.” “If I let iny hair grow long, can 1 lift more than I do now ?” “I don’t know about that.” “Are women stronger than men ?” “No.” “ But they’ve got longer hair ?” “Yes, they have longer hair.” “A woman couldn’t whip you, could she ?” “No, not easily.’’ “Was Samson a democrat “ I don’t know ? “But why don’t you know. I’d know if I was as old as you. Ho' any men was it th \ “ I don’t know.” “ He was bad, wasn’t he ?” “ No.” “ B u t w h e n a m an kills a n o ther he’s bad.” “But the Lord was with Samson.” “ But the Lord says you mustn’t kill Did Samson go to Heaven.” ;o.” strongest angel there. lu. H o w n killed?” getting foolish again.” intto know. Will nybody. “ I suppose so.” “ He’S the ain’t he ?” “ Y o u ! “ But I hnow Samson when you go en ?” “ I suppose so,’ ’ “ But you won’t fool around him, will you ? I t he was to hit you he’d break your w ings, w o u ldn’t he ?’ ■ “ Go to your mother. The next time you attempt to question about the Bible I shall whip you.” A Senator’s Romance. Senator Conger, of Michigan, was married for the second time, when he wax a m em b er o f the H o u se, stout, pleasant old lady, who had dark hair arranged in the old style, and gold-bowed spectacles. She was his first love. A quarrel separated them . Each married. Twenty years after, he, a widower, was in Congress ; she, a widow, sat in the gallery and listened to his speech. It was the first time they had seen each other since their early days. She sent her card to him he came at once to the gallery. After a little talk she asked him to call upon her at her friend’s, Mrs. Dahlgren’s. He said he would call as he used to in those long past days of youth. In few weeks they were married at Mrs. Admiral Dahlgren’s residence, and were completely infatuated with each IN LONDON HOTELS.- A Place -Wbere You Cannot Hnrrr Any- The hotel system in this country is very solemn. You cannot hurry any body. If you drop your key at the hotel it may be an hour before you will recover it. It is like ihe diving bell operation. The more you enjoin these solemn personages the more they lose either their presence of mind or their method. As to the method, they have but little. In the first place, they do not rise till about or after 9 o’clock in the morning, although nature shines upon their island about 4 o’clock. Active minded Yankees, who feel the is a business, a _ one has to learn it as he a trade. For example, tipping ird wl ■ ■■ ^morning shine, rise and expect to get x»ven with the country. They find that they cannot buy a pill or seidlitz pow der or An oyster. The Briton rises as ... ...... '^cornea him—^about 9 o’clock or 10 d of every Ij^Kslock—and is then somewhat un- iny what I rested if a call is made upon his avar ice. I am stopping here in a'hotel which is supposed to be the perfection of recent civilization. It is built of white bricks on the inside and stone exteri orly. There is more style and method about it than is required of a country house. You come in at ihe front door and observe a man covered over with gilded uniform. You advance toward two or three offices near the front door. If you strike the wrong office they march you to and fro. You are requested to register. About six of theso minor offices are kept up toward the front. In the courBe of time you learn the regimen, but if you are blunt or dull you may be for a week kept sailing between office number one and office number seven. \When you come down from your room you drop your key out through a hole into a sort of a vat. If they neglect, as they often do, to fish your key out of the vat you may be ten or fifteen m inutes recovering your way into your room. Inglish speaking people the ■, and I never trouble iguage of the < •Philadelphia oufitry told versal pity, pied stifling in tbe steerage, b u t her companions kind to her, and the voyage was possible. She wasJanowski, and that from Cracow, Poland. She interpreter that she had a ighter somewhere in the States, near the Atlantic Ocean, but where she did not know. The£ cided t under the law ' landing of emigrants which are likely to become public burdens. The old woman protested, but in vain. The day for sailing arrived, and she was told she must go on board the vessel. Age had made her childish, and she sank upon the rude wooden seats and cried as if her heart would break, official gathered up her bur clothing, when tho shawl whi< wrapped around it became loc the clothing fell out. An envelope, torn and soiled, fell on the floor, and the official picked it up. It bore the postmark Newark, N. J., and was ad dressed ------ - ^ ------- An bundle of to the old woman in Cracow, Poland. “Where did you get the interpreter of the “My daughter Jennie sent flied, sadly.ly. “Shehe is my c g this?” asked old woman, ie sent that,” she replied, sad “S is ........... and all that I have on ei my only child. It was decided to take Mrs. Janow- ski to Newark and endeavor to find her daughter, i gentleman who had ne interested in the old woman iteered to go with her, and the morning they started. Arrived at Newark, inquiries were made and a Hebrew woman was found who said that she knew Jennie very well. T h e trio proceeded up Canal strec until they came to a frame house, in front of which a crowd had assembled. “Jennie is to be married to-day,” said the guide. “The ceremony is just being performed.” The old woman forced her way through the c rowd in the narrow e n try. In the neat but poorly furnished room idding guests had assembled. the wedding guests had The bride, attired in a dress of spotlei trimmed with fresh daisies) xemonstrsnee. Then when yon ooim fortheiMCond pari of the htetkfttii you get a little piece about two or three inches. IfyouteU the man to take that back and bring you some thing reasonable to eat he -will obey like « calf. If you submit you will get no more for breakfast At the Langham hotel you ring a bell for something in the way of re freshments; sometimes a man will come in and sometimes he will not You wonderwhe're the center of these houses i s ; who conducts them; who is responsible for them. As far as the chambermaids and labor elements go they are very well attended to, but if you go to the naain office you are kept in a state of apprehension, wondering whether you have a right to ask for' anything or n o t On my way to Lon don I stopped si Brighton for almost a week. Every day I took my sea bath. In the course of three or four days I was affiicted with a strange kind of diarrhoea. I Lad never felt any thing of the kind before; there was a slight pain in the middle of my stom ach, attended with cracking pains toward the side of my stomach. I went to the hotel proprietor and asked where the water came from which fed Brighton. He said, with great polite ness, that it was the finest water in Great Britain. One morning the main waiter in the hotel remarked to m e : “Sir, you had better go to London. The sea air seldom agrees with strang ers. 'With msny strangers it disagrees very much. You will never be' any better so long as you stay here.” So I went on to London, and in a few hours was completely restored to London Letter. AT THE BREAKFAST TABLE. When you go to breakfast you are quired to give your number, which IS been previously confided to you on a little brown ticket or check. You )S 6 ut yourself, and in about three Qutes are required to sign a schedule as to your place of abode. They bring you a little piece of fish about two by three inches. When you have done with this they possibly brin*g you a second piece. I calculate during the present week that every meal which cost me from four shillings to seven ahiliings cost the bouse about half shilling at the very highest. The hotel system here has changed, as they suppose, for the better, and yet we would think in America that it had hardly changed at all. Let me give you an example of the contrast. Fif teen or twenty years ago the Langham hotel was supposed to be the finest in London; it was placed near the Ameri can minister’s residence; it was built of brick, and was a very large and ex tensive building. They made it state and offensive and exclusive. If you go to the hotel you see a man in uniform parading before i t ; bis business is to observe whether you are fit to come into the holy of holies. You pass through the portal, and there is perhaps a second sergeant at arms there to look out for your character. When you get within the hotel becomes very expen sive, containing several kinds of bu reaus containing railroad tickets, news papers and what not. You finally go up to a little office, which is perhaps supported by a boy. He assigns you to a room. Most of the chambermaids receive about £15 a year, or $75. They are obliged to enter into articles of contract to stay out their year. It need not be hinted at that a portion of them are oblivious of the seventh commandment. When you go down to the breakfast or dining room you find that almost every one there is a Germrn. He knows about ENGLISHMEN’S FOOD, In the English restaurants and at English tables generally, says a cor respondent, one is particularly struck with the absence of the great variety of vegetables. There are plenty of meats, game, fish, and all the rest of tbe solids, but of vegetables there is a poverty. * Potatoes, French beans, French peas, cauliflower, cucumbers, lettuce, radishes, and a thing they call vegetable m arrow, A b o u t fill out the list. The peas are those little, flavor less things we get in tins in America, the cucumbers are long, thin affairs, sometimes growing to a yard in length, and the lettuce is about the sweetest and best thing of its kind in ihe whole world. Then there is that vegetable m arrow ! Yes, it is there. And there it ought to stay. It tastes about like what an over-ripe cucumber should taste, having been previously boiled, so that it might be served hot. It is insipid and watery, and soft, and it “squashes'’ in the mouth. American peas, beans, cucumbers, radishes and potatoes are much better and larger and more richly flavored than are the same aritcles over here. It is all in the climate, 1 suppose. Beans, peas, and those things come mainly from France. Even the bulk of the straw berries, and at least three-quarters of the asparagus consumed in England are grown in the hotter countries. Corn is unknown. Ask for that suc culent vegetable and the waiter will stare a t you in helpless amazement. Insist on having it, and he will prob ably bring you some wheat on a piste. ~’heat is called corn in England, and com is called maize. That perhaps is why the waiter looks amazed when yon ask for corn.o The potatoes over here are generally little things that look like English wal nuts. The Irish potato, as seen in Ire land, is a miserable dwarf, and its English cousin is little or no better. Sweet potatoes they have none. Tur nips, parsnips, squash, carrots and the. seldon lough English to give you what you ,t, and if you have a request to make I groom , a fine'lookinf'< D Hebrew,brew, awaiting the pleasing-''!! stood beside tb e young He i words which should A commotion was beard in the hall way, and as the guests separated the bride uttered a cry of “Mother!” and the old woman rushed into her daugh ter’s arms. Tbe scene between mother ad daughter was very affecting, and iars of joy feast. and daughter was very tears of joy were shed .at the nuptial Solace for Old Age. In speaking of solace for old age, an exchange says : “ One o f the la m e n ts o f the age is that no new friend ships are formed. It is a rather mournful fact that most persons who pass 50 years lose the gift of pleasing. Good-looking y o u n g people, w ith their pleasant faces and enthusiasm, win friends off hand, but the saddened and mature man gets moie and more iso lated. He may be ever so just and kind, but his exterior bears the scars of pain, and the avetage man or wom an instinctively drr.ws away from an invalid. If he be wise he will fall back upon books and a fishing-rod in season, and make friends in heaven, for his chance of making any ddwn here is decidedly slender. Good to bacco and a clean briar-root pipe will also be found an excellent substitute for human affections eat, and if you have a request to make pertaining to your room or your friend he shrugs his shoulders and insists upon feeding you. He is as a Sioux Indian in Great Britain. These Ger mans to the number of hundreds of thousands are overrunning England, and though the English dislike the juxtaposition they seem to be entirely igtbe pleasing'’'‘incapable of ohanging their methods. lake them one. The solemnity of the British hotel is equivalent to the solemnity of a chTfteh. A CARELESS SCULLION. This morning I went to the office and asked for my key. The scuUion there said that it was not on its hook, and would look for it. He then began to fish for it among about fifty keys in a hole underneath the place we had dropped our keys. Having hunted all these keys through, he said it was not there. He had overlooked it in the multiplicity of keys. Had he. at tended to his basin e s B , every one of those keys would have been hung on its place tbe moment it was dropped. Then their system will never stand the pressure and criticism of modern civili zation. You enter the huge dining room of the Hotel Metropole and find a series of pillars in the middle of the room. These pillars are all useless and unnecessary, and they separate people who eat from other people who eat. You are told that for a certain amount of money you shall have so many dishes. They bring you the first dish, and it is about one and a half io two ounces in weight. If you subnui tins ia all you will get of the first, dish. If you are an independent p«ri 6 n YOU will demand a second por Uon iha j^ih. They yield wiiliou- like they grow ii reach the table. I beheve grew in England, but they don’t seem to be much in demand. Toma toes grow in hot bouses, andarecof are rases, and They are n o t particularly liked either. Feachee, too, are either grown on vines inside the roofs of h o t houses o r are trained up a south walL An ordi-, nary American peach tree would have no show in the world in such an at mosphere as this. Peaches are, of course, very great luxuries. They cost at least a shilling apiece if they are of and they are eaten after an degree of preparation that m doubly valuable. any size, and they elaborate degree < makes them seem doubly Melons are non est, unless they are especially imported from France, and even those do not bear any comparison to our own full-flavored, jui ' The watermelon i unknown. Bnt there are s u c h ___ cies as green walnuts and almonds and figs within reach of easy imp< Among the Pyramids. Two Tonrliita -Wbo Failed to Appreciate Each Other’* InfozmatioB. A New Englander who stood gasdng upon the mysterious grandeur of the pyram ids, tu r n e d to a peculiar looking old fellow who had ju s t come up, an d aaid! “Wonderful; the wonderful won der of wonders 1” “What is?” the old fellow asked. “Why, these pyramids.” “Wall, they mout be sourter wonder ful to a feller that’s lived all his life a flat country, but you oughter see the Cumberland Mountains.” “Great Caesar, man, these pyramids were built by the Egyptians thousands of years ago 1 ” “Yas, an’ the Cumberland Mountains wuE built by the Lawd Uimighty long befo’ tbe 'Gyptians eat thar breakfust and got ready to go to work. My fren’, you oughter travelled er little befo’ cornin’ over here, an’ then yon wouldn’t make eioh a mouth ^at a pas se! o’ sharp cornered hats like these here. W’y up thir in the Cumberland Mountains you ken roll a rock down-^” “I won’t talk to you, sir.” “Wall, now, jest use your own pleas ure erbout that, fur I ain’t a hurtin’ io give you information. Ef you wanter stumble erlong like er blind boss w’y it ain’t nothin’ to me .”—Arkanseno - Traveler. I t y e a H a v e iM i et AppeUte, OoBstipattoiii, lBdi|;«etios S 7 peolwoaiia,UTWOoBq?iemt,i>DvepiKa,N«MM| CMn«ra.J>euutT.an<laU(Ua»aen 01 t&e atomaok asawveiainMnAaprixuxnb xos am aot »v dkaweinted. ItiuvarteUelaslvlfis enttae Mtl*. vitm . T ir it. sou sjr an arasguta abs a r
