Lucknow Sentinel, 1891-11-13, Page 7NIU E'S LEAP 'IBA$ PROI.'O8AL,
?he Storj of & Little girt Who Brought
,.bout a Weddhwe
" Really; Catharine, I don't wonder at
Mary's surprise at your behavior. You for-
get that you are Frank's widow. You are
too forward."
I hesitated .a moment, really anxious to
keep my temper;, foe ,I was Frame's widow,.
and the speaker was his mother.
"Forward !" cried Mary. "Indeed, you,
wettid beve•bee t shocked last night,mother.
There was Mr. Vance urging her to sing,
and actin as if Herbert- Halstead wag" ber
-wily f$ende. when it was only a married
woman"
" Yea '' . interrupted Julia. " I think,
mother, cif you can't make Kate realize that
she is married, with a daughter nearly *'six
years of age, you had better "—
" Send me away," I broke in, unable
longer to control myself ; " it's not the
first time that hint hasbeen• r3enet.rnitts-
, - A.4, n t< et lee 'i ore `l�or �''Iittle-Telly, poor
chi
Ate. �ld, I would go away to earn mg living
at once. You drive me desperate. I declare
I win marry again and get rid of all this"—
and Hien I Burst into tears.•
" Marry again t How will you do it • ?
Oh, yes ! legend joke --3 cried Julia, with
a shrug at ny tears. R' Don't you see,
Mary, it's Ieap year !" and she laughed
derisively.
" Who'll you ask f' sneered Mary.
•' Herbert Halstead ? Julia, you'd better
look out 1"
" You may sn er," I cried, checking my
tears. I was no thoroughly angry. " But
I tell you, if o should ask me to marry
him,. I belie I .should ask ,Mr. Halstead,
,and—he'd have me 1"
I had fairly taken, up their own :weapons
of personalities which I had scorned. The
moment after, ashamed of myself, I ran to
my room to put on my bonnet and get out
of the house. I looked in the glass as I put
on the crape bonnet, with its widow's cap
and veil, on my head, and I•saw a face t�
which black was very becoming, though it
was not a remarkably pretty face. It looked
not more than 25, some said not more than
20, but I was really over 24. Married at
18 to Frank Stevens, I had been ' a petted
wifeforfouryears and now a widow for two,
The thought of the hapt ineas of the
four and the. loneliness of the two, pp I
looked at the face surrounded by crape,
ncade the tears come again,; but I brushed
them away resolutely and went out, know-
ing that a .brisk walk would de me more
good than anything else. I went out
without my ri'.4:,-my inseparable com-
panion, my 1 , eby girl, Nellie. This
alone showed to troubled I was. Truth
to tell, I was too a gi y to trust myself with
the little one, who might have asked to
have our conversation explained, her she
• had been in the room at the time. I could
only hope that at 5 years old a child did not
understand me. •
Soon after I left my mother-in-law and
her daughters went out for a drive. They
invited Nillie'to go, but she feeling, per-
haps, that they had not treated mamma
well, refused.. . Soon the front door -bell
rang, and, like all children, Nellie must run
to see who was there. She managed to open:
the door herself, and there stood her prime
favorite among the gentlemen who visited
the house, Mr. Halstead, or as she called
him since her babyhood, Uncle Herbert. He
bad been her father's chum and dearest
friend, and loved the%child for Frank's
sake.
" Ladies home, Nell ?"
" I'm home," she said, " and I des
Mamma '11 be in soon." •
_., " Very well. Let's go in the parlor and
I have a chat."
Nellie sat in his lap, discussing the merits
1 of cocoanut cakes and sugar almonds a
little while but, suddenly dropping her
candies in her lap, she;. asked, " What's
leap—leap—leap, I fordet. Do you . know
what's it'?"
" heap I leap frog'? leap year ? Is that
,it9"
'" Yes. What is it 9"
" Why, it's a year when you ladies can
• ask the gentlemen to marry you. But you
',see, Nellie, you're too young—or wouldn't
you ask me ?"
" Oh, no ! I wouldn't ask you. Mamma's
going to ask you,"
The young man nearly dropped the child,
and then folded her'close to him again, lest,
perhaps, he should forget her again. "What
o you mean, darling?" he asked " Now
Mutt, Nellie, but don't tell Uncle Herbert
• anythi#,g of your own make-up."
"Oh! no ! really, truly, bless me, she's
alive-isi.'t that what you say when you are
true? Wall !"—the little tot gave a long
sigh and paused, Herbert not daring to in-
terrupt her fast she should see his anxiety,
and, miniature woman that she was, should
refuse to satiate. him.
" Well," sh$ repeated, " you see, they
does scold materna, so they does. To -day
ire ring they msked mamma cry, to -mor -
(she would call yesterday to -morrow)
ey scolded her epause she wouldn't sing,
d `hey sad she was forard. What's
ed !" ejaculated Herbert,
'e If it had been. some
others now. B>k 'Nellie, how about leap
year?"
" Oh, yes"! I ost fordot ! didn't I ?
Well, you see, ammo, said—but, oh,
Uncle Herbert I new r showed you my two
weenie new kittens( They's only little„
sings, without e ee. eerie out_-on;thepiazza-
dnI'll s low you.
It was no use toe impatient. The
young man knew the chid too well for that,
and so they went out nd inspected the
kittens. Then he tried coax Nellie back
to the subject.
" Oh, I fordot !" she sat , " Only they
made mamma say"----
" What did they say, 4riing, I'll give
you a big doll"
" With real alit ?"
" Yep, yes eal hair and eyes, and --
oh, nothing. Bu did they say I wanted to
marry' ,
" They say mamma wasn't a girl, and she
was old ; and mamma said—oh, there's
/ mamma. Mamma, didn't you ask Undo
Herbert to marry you .? He wants to
know."
I had come in looking for the child, and
that was the speech I heard. I felt ready
to sink with mortification.
" Kate, darling, can I hope you'll let ins
ask ? You must know that . I .hoped when
these (touching my veil and black dress)
were put aside, that'' could ask you to let
me care for you, and at once. Come dar-
an then
:forard .
" For rd, in
under his breath
r
ling," as I hid my face in my handl, " You've
.asked me to marry, you and I inn t Dante
the day ; and I say now, at once. Let's give
them a good, thorough surprise. I can,
,guess w_a he .- .have -treated you. Come,
now, get ready this fairy, this blessed little
darling that has brought me my happiness,
and we- will go to -your own pminister. "
I tried to refuse, but I was so weary of
living with mother -in-laws that ne. last, we
three- slipped out of the lienal ;arts) dear Dr.
S , who lead baptized me, married -me to
Frank,.und knew Herbert well and mar-
ried us.
We drove back and reached the front
.door as- she-faniily- were returning." Julia.
who . would appropriate Herbert, stepped
forward.
" Good evening, Mr. Halstead. So you
met Kate on the steps ? Strange ?"—with
a glance at me, as if I had planned to meet
"Not at all, Miss Julia," maid Herbert.
"My wife and I just called in to receive
your conxatielatto,(a ,w.,, i3�- .lneense tkle
iifigef'libre •fox a few ddays."
No tableau I have ever seen wan half so
comical as the one those three made. I
really felt for Julia, for I knew she cared
for Herbert.. She gained self-possession
quickly and congratulates) me, whispering
as she kissed me : " So -you asked him ?"
My husband heard and answered :
" No, Miss Julia, she did not ask nee.
Through other means, thank God, I learned
the one I loved was unhappy ; and, as I
hoped, for more than a year past, to soon
ask her to be my wife, I persuaded her to
marry me at once. Leap' year privileges are
still open to those who choose them."
We are quite an old married couple now,
for three years have passed ; but Herbert
and I still often laugh over Nellie's leap -
year proposal.
A NEW DANCE.
It is a W'i'altz. and is Known as the Jubilee.
Devotees of dancing will be glad of the
new waltz, the " Jubilee."' It is certain to
win a.triumpii ;oust .atescertain as society
dons hen diencing shoes. neon eenase,-^�•�#
feet, beginners want to waltz the first thug,
and inability to reverse is apt to discourage
them. Now the ardent swain, the'college
fellow, the apoplectic dandy in his second
childhood, and the fair, fat and frisky
widow wh'e� ggets dizzy when she tries to go
around bacleward will commence with the
" Jubilee," master it in two lessons, and get
a fine opinion of themselves all through a
bit of trickery on the part of -the composer.
There is no reversing blit a great deal of
revolving to the right. • The partners take
waltz position and dance two " dips " to
the side, separating, advance one step,, then
kick with the inside foot "and again with,
the outside ; join hands, • swing in waltz
position and take four waltz steps. This
mischievous, captivating dance will in. all
probability score a double success, for some
rogue will be certain to write a song accom-
paniment.—Chicago News.
he et
American
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American Prayers for the Queen.
" The prayers of the ;righteous availeth
much, quoted a genial South Dakotan to
the reporter yesterday, prefacing a little
story in a manner befitting the day. " The
truth of this," he. continued, "has certainly
a very strikingillustration in Yankton. At
the Episcopal church in that town finances
were a trifle light some time ago, when one
of its members visited England, his former
home. Well, sir, he actually succeeded
there'. in securing the promise of $1,000 a
year for his church upon the condition that
it should offer prayer at each service for the
Queen of England. The condition is being
fulfilled, and the money, I am told, is being
paid regularly. You can visit the Yankton
church at either the morning or evening
service and you will hear prayer offered ,for
the ' Queen of England, the President of the
United States and all others in authority.'
This fact is of not a little importance in
showing that Victoria thinks South
Dakotans are ' righteous.' She is to be
commendedfor her good judgment.—Sioux
City Journal.
" I thought Mrs. Snapper was rich." "So
she is ; she keeps her own carriage."
" Keeps her own carriage ? That is rather
strange.", " Why ?" " Because 1 heard the
other day that she couldn't keep a servant
girl." -
Indians don't have ballet performances,
but when they give a scalp (dance the bald
heads are bound to come.
The centenary of a panorama occurs in
1892. A young l+ d boro painter named
Barker wits thrown nto prison by •his
creditors., From the way in which the light
from a hole in the ceiling struck the walls
he evolved the idea of the panorama.
In 1804 there were 35 translations of
the Scriptures in existence. There are now
nearly 300.
A female jewelry drummer is on the road
in Maine. She is handsome, dresses
stylishly, n1ears a man's soft felt hat and
hails from New York. ,
The greatest truths are the simplest ; so
likewise are the greatest men.
Princess Beatrice's last baby, barn on
Oct& er 4th, was Victoria's 12th grandson
and 34th grandchild.
!'A Book of Scotch, Humor" 'illustrates
anew of a native of Annandale the saying
that a prophet is not without honor save in
his own country. "Ikon them a'," said
a rustic, speaking of the Carlyle' ; "Jock's
-a,.--dotter--aboet-'-London.- Tang's a haxem-
scarem kind of thiel, an' wreates : books an'
that. ' But Jamie—yon's his farm you see
owre yonder --Jamie's the man o' that
family, an' I'm prood to say I ken him.
Janie Carlyle, sir, feeds the best swine
that come into Dumfries market."
" Mary," said Mrs. Marker, "I wish you
would step over and see how old Mrs. Jones
is this morning."In a few minutes Mary
return. " Sure she's just 72 years, 7 months
and 2 days old."
The average expectation of life on the
principle of heredity may bo found, accord-
ing to a statistician, by' adding the ages of
a man's parents and grandparents, if dead,
and dividing the result by six.
He—I see that only one girl has been.
admitted to Harvard College. She'll be
awfully lonely, don'tou think ? She—O
no ; there are lots of y real nice Thelylike
young men there.
Et hcl—Chappie is sure now that marriage
is a lottery. ' Maud—What has convinced
him ? Ethel --He told Jeseic he guessed be
would make her his wife, end she told him.
to "guess again." '
JAPAN MOM Ur.
The Third 4ty tit J 140IF AuEutRe4.
A London cable says : De atches fr m -
Japan state that shocks of earthquake ha e
been experienced in that country. So
severe were they at Iliogo and Osaka that
scores of houses were deetroye4• And anaay
lives foot at both Places.'
Despatches ware received here this even-
ing from Japan announcing that the tele-
graphic wires beyond Hiogo and Osaka were
down,. It was added that there had been
an sur uaka.ab aiogo and -•the rumor was
Current that a great amount of property
had been destroyed and that the loss of life
had been considerable. Hiogo is a seaport
town of Japan on the Island of Hondo, with
a population of over 50,000, and is situated
about 22 miles from Osaka. Osaka in point
of,sise is the third or fourth city in Japan
having over 350,000 people, but in social
affairs, fashion, commerce neetetetdilet
Later—A private telegram, dated Hiogol-
received here to -night, confirms the report
eanninissenntreseeteenseeesee
conveyed in former telegrams, that a dis-
astrous earthquake shock has occurred in
Japan. This telegram says a seyere shook
was experienced at Osaka and that the de-
struction both of life and property was
very great. So severe was the shock that
a number of houses were thrown to, the
ground and many of the occupants ere
caught in the falling buildings and crushed
to death. A large number of persons suc-
ceeded in escaping from their tottering
homes only to meet death in the streets.
There is no means at present of estimating
the total loss of life, as all the telegraph
wires in the districts affected were broken
by the falling of the poles, which were
thrown down by the seismic disturbance.
The above-mentioned despatch, however,
states that it is known that in Osaka alone
the death list contains the names of 300 of
the residents of that city.
A RECTOR'S CRUELTY.
'"Rg elationis as to the 5Zanage-
• went of an Orphanage.
A Dublin cable says : Startling testimony
was given to -day in the trial of Rev. Samuel
Cotton, a rector at Carnogh, County Kil-
dare, who was charged with criminal neg-
lect and ill-treatment of the children in
Carnogh Orphanage. Rev. Mr. Cotton,
who has conducted the affairs of the orphan-
age for many years, jias,made many appeals
to the public for financial aid, and has re-
ceived large sums of money by subscriptions
for the maintenance of the orphanage.
Owing to numerous complarnts-against that
institution the Society for the Protection of
Children recently 'made an investigation
into the manner in which the orphanage
was conducted. It was ascertained that
the children were in an emaciated, filthy
and ragged condition. A girl had been
chained by the legs to a table leg. The
rooms of the orphanage.were in the filthiest
possible condition. In the kitchen' was
found a baby, six weeks old, covered with
dirty rags and dying of cold and starvation.. -
Other children were found in the same
apartment crowded around a small fire,
almost frozen and half starved. All were
weak and sickly, and their growthhad
been stunted by the treatment received..
The sanitary condition of the establishment
was perfectly horrible. The walls and floors
were in a beastly condition, and some of the
beds used by the children were old bags and
packing cases filled with stale hay. All the
children were kept in a state of terror by
Mr. Cotton. Mr. Cotton was committed for
trial. •
11e Loses the Fees. •
New York Press : " I see that a man
has been buried alive out West, Doctor."
"I can hardly believe it." " But the papers
say so." " Well, all I've got to say is he is
a mighty poor doctor who allows a patient
to be buried alive."
They Had no Use tor Kim.
Puck : " How did poor Waters happen to
get lynched ?"
" He got into the flooded district and
somebody spread a report that he was a
Government rain -maker."
A Welcome Relief.
New York Weekly : Sea Captain—There
is no hope ! The ship is doomed ! In an
hour we shall all be dead !
Seasick Passenger—Thank heaven !
Rev. William J. Boone, Protestant
Episcopal bishop in China, is dead. - His
father before him was also a bishop in the
same country.
HER STRONG POINT.
My wife she cannot cook at all,
Roast
spoil,'s sure to
t hersexo has the call
hen she and I• at breakfast fall
Into a family broil.
The Madrid Telephone Company, which
recently took a losing business from the
hands of the Government, has now 1,800
subscribers, or one to every 270 inhabitants.Bare wires longer than 900 feet ate not per-
mitted. •
" The privileges you enjoy; my son, from
being an American," said the proud father,
" are simply inestimable. You may some
day become President of the United States ;
while in England i}o little boy; however
brilliant or good, can ever become Queen."
" I am compelled to announce, 'dear
-brethren,," observed the minister, taking off
his glasses and wiping. thein, " that our
regular Wednesday evening prayer meeting
will not be held this week. I shall bo on
hand, of course, but the janitor will be
unavoidably , absent that evening, and it
takes two to make a prayer meeting. We
will sing the doxology and be dismissed."—
Chicago Tribune.
Miss Eastlake, the actrets, was left pen-
niless at Philadelphia Saturday night by the
attachment of the box office receipts and her
scenery by the management of the Walnut
street theatre for money loaned her man-
ager three, weeks ago to help him out on
another attraction. In consequence Miss
Eastlake disbanded her company. She
cabled to London for money and will re-
organize and finish iter season on her own
account.
--English barmaids have been introduced
in a New York drinking place.
Mother—Why, Rosalie, I thought you,
were gcitig driving.with lir. De Riche.
What aro you wearing black for ?'1
Rosalie—Youe know the poor fellow is in
mourning for his wife and I want t o show my
sympathy."
•
BUM t3 NOT A' SSC„
RdinbliniRD 11lag1Qfraf Haint tu* That
He Was a Religious Han.
Baillie Colatop, of Edinburgh, in a recent
address on Eurus, said : Robert Burps was
essentially a' religious man, and having
thoroughly ,dissected Seattish life and char-
-atter came irresistibly to the couciuemu
that the peasant religsous life, of his coun-
trymen was the grand secret of his country's
greatness. fp the " Cotter's Saturday
Night," Scotland's peasant life is most
admirably depicted. The he ds_al the-house--
-holdare there, discharging their respective'.
duties. The -reception room for all is the
kit.' -hen, with its " clean hearth-stane."
There are little children there. who are
toddlin' aboot ; and there are older
childreb, also, who cams in with their
cronies ; and there are are bashful lovers,
too, who are introduced into the familycircle. There is gossip freely indulged in
eta 1'R .neperteosn t"ai' "a'o o
their duty. There is business spoken °V—
as to horses,t plows and kye. Then comes
the supper—a plain supper of which all par-
take—
The halcsome parritch, chief of Scotia:s food.
But there the evening is not ended, and
the assembly does not disperse. There is a
duty still to be discharged : •
The cheerfu' supper done, wi' serious face,
They round the Ingle form a circle wide;
The sire turns o'er, with patriarchal grace,
T e big ha' Bible ance his father's pride;
His nnet rev'rently is laid aside,
A- lyart haffet s wearing thin and bare ;
Tho a strains that once did sweet in Zion glide,
He wales a portion w. th j udieious care;
And 'Let us worship God 1" he says with
solemn air.
Burns then proceeds to describe the ser
vice ; how they sing a•psalm or hymn, with,
ehapter read and tlppropriate remaz'ks
made by the father ; how they kneel before
heavens eternal king and the head of the
household prays for all those under his roof,
without any strain of.sacredotal pomp, but
in his own natural way and language. He
then describes the happy parting of
ljlei,nnpmeni .. ecien, entinceeingenninnenea
From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur
s orings.
That makes her loved at home, rever'd
abroad ;
Princes and lords are but the breath of
ngs" An honest man's the noblest work of
God."
But while Robert Burns showed how he
looked upon the Scottish religions life as a
most important factor in forming the.
religious character of Scotchmen and snak-
ing them men in the best and truest sense
of the work—he himself was brought from
time to time pear enough to the fountain of
grace tet show that he was no skeptic, no
scoffer, but one who had the germs of
.religion deeply implanted in his heart.
THAT FISH c;mrMM1SSION.
The Stocking of babe Ontario With Fish
to be Considered.
The United States Government has de-
cided to establish a hatchery on Lake
Ontario just—as soon as New York State
shall enact protection laws, and engineers
-the past season have been inspecting the
eipore for a location. New York State last
winter appointed a special commission to
confer with the Canadian commission to
draft joint laws and regulations for Lake
Ontario. This :joint commission niet last
week in New York city, at which Aid..
Stewart, of this city, attended. Invitations
were extended to and accepted by the
United States Fish Commission• and the•
Fish Commissions of Ohio, Pennsylvania
and Michigan. It was well attended and
much interest was manifested.
Hon. Robert B. Roosevelt was made chair-
man. A special sub-commitiee of twelve
was, appointed, representing the United
States fish commission and the several state
fish commissions, as well as officials from
the fish protection and propagation bureaus
of. Ontario and Quebec, to formulate a plan
of action to be submitted at an adjourned.
meeting. The meeting of the sub -committee
voted to be held - in Rochester, November
10th. It isthus apparent that this
association has been the means of arousing
the people and officials of two countries,
and most gratifying progress is now con-
fidently expected.
You May See a Aiilliau.
A concession has been granted to M.
Stepanni to erect a Moorish palace at the
World's Fair. One of the many attractions
which he proposes to exhibit in this `palace
is $1,000,000 in gold coin in one pile. He
believes that this will be a great drawing
card and that nearly every visitor, will want
to see it. Of course great precautions will
bo taken for- the safety of such great
Atreasure. It will be in a strong cage and
Mr. Stepanni says : "Just under the gold
will be constructed a fire and burglar proof
vault. To the doors of this vault will be
connected electric wires. In the event of
an attempt to rob the palace my guards
will press an electric button, the entire pile
will fall into the vaults and the doors will
spring shut." • A space 200 by 250 feet was
granted for the Moorish palace, upon which
Mr. Stepanni says that he will expend
$400,000.
Limited' Co 'ersational Points.
Smith—Well, i you can't bear her, what-
ever made you propose ?
Jones --Well we had danced three times
and I couldn't think of anything else to say.
—Texas Siftings.
The average Atlantic steamer. is manned
by about 150 men, as follows : Thirty-two
deck hands, 4 officers, 9 petty officers, 32
firemen, etc., 8 engineers and 65 stewards.
The master and chief oflieials—that is,
mates and engineers—are chosen by ,the
owners or managers, while the remainder of
the crew are chosen by the captain. First-
class'sliips muster from 12 to 15 men in each
watch, and all of these are shipped as sea-
men. -
Paul du- Chaillu, the noted traveler and
African explorer, is a little brown man with
flashing black eyes, smooth bronze face and
a head as bald as a baby's. He is a con-
firmed old bachelor, but has manners that
charm women.
In boring artesian wells on the Pacific
Coast great depths are reached before strik-
ing water. At Jaral and Monclara the
wells are 1,530 and 1,280 feet in depth. The
supply is'incxheustfble, but the water has
to be pnrirped. ,
fly a mixture of oil and graphite, screws
used about machinery may be prevented
from becoming rusted.
A it+1li.
I wish I were as. busy
As the cunning little bee ;
1 with --I were a sparrow brown,
To Hy from bush to tree.
I wish I were a humming -bird,
But not o: b_utterflyl;
For it lives just in. summer,
And in winter has to die.
I wish I were the sunlight,
To sparkle every day ;
I wish I were the roses,
• So fragrant, bright and gay.
• I -wish fi-were°t1[e travel. moon
That's gleaming up on high;
I wish I were the tiny stars—
,Those flowers of the sky.
- I even wish I were my doll,
With golden hair acurl.
I wish that I were anything;
But a naughty little girl
—ELLA BENTLEY (aged 10 years), in " Harper's
Young People."
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31'iiitik' overty the Destruction of the -
Poor.
An interesting writer for the New York
Times has been visiting in the regions of the
working poor in< New. -York city trying to
learn what it costs them to live. ' Entering
a typical store in Hester street, he gave the
woman who kept it a dollar to answer his
questions, and from her he learned thatsuch
stores do a strictly cash business, that com-
petition is at times and by spurts very keen,
and that the customers pay more for what
they buy than does the well-to-do house-
holder. It gave the writer food for thought
whlie en—
discovered that these people pay more
for their common kindling wood than the
millionaire does for the hard hickory logs
that he site and. watches sputtering -on itis
open hearth, and that they pay as muck
again for their coal as doe's- that same mil- •
Bonaire. The wife of a workingman would
come with only 30 or 40 cents with which
to purchase her supplies for the day. With
that amount she would buy meat; vegetables,
flour or bread,��ahodpof�co��aals and . a bundle
head, AiDe- '.rigiS'e6 1 ..WJe*
sold by the pound was sold by the ounce,
and coal and wood instead -of being sold by
the ton and the waggon -load, werebought
here by the basketand bundle. The prices,
therefore, had to be high, for the tenement
house stores, selling in such small quanti-
ties, had to purchase in smalluantities.
Their wholesale price, owing to this fact,
was almost as high as the usual retail price.
In fact, they were really middlemen be-
tween the regular retailers and the people
of the tenement houses whose small means
did not enable them to purchase the quan-
tities usually sold by retailers. They did
not want a pound of butter, for they have
no ice to keep it en. They do not want to
buy a twenty-five pound bag of flour, for
they want something else besides bread to
eat, and if they bought flour in that way it
would take all the available funds.
How did prices run? Well, 'customers
paid 5 cents a pound for flour. So that by
the tine' the patrons of these tenement
house stores had purchased 200 pounds -they
would have inveated $10 for what would
only cost the millionaire $5 at his grocery
store:. For a quarter of a pound of butter
they paid 8 to 10 cents, or 32 to 40 cents a
pound for stuffthat can be purchased at any
first-class store for from 25 to 30 cents a
pound, and very much less by the tub.
They paid 1 cent an ounce,for washiug'soda.
First-class grocersare glad to deliver it at
your door for 3 cents a pound. For a cup
of sugar, holding less than one-half a pound,
they pay 3 cents. In a Srst-class store they
could buy a pound for 4 cents. They paid
5 cents for half a bar of seven -cent soap,
and at the rate . of 40 cents a ppoound for a. -
cheaptea, and 30 cents a pound for a very
inferior coffee. .
Bet the coal and wood end of the busi-
ness presented an even more striking illus-
tration of the extravagance of the poor.
Nearly everybody living in the tenement
houses bought their coal and wood each
day. If they had money to buy'•coal and
wood in the quantities it is ordinarily pur-
chased, they would not know what to do
with it.' They certainly could not keep it
in the stuffy little rooms where they live.
There is usually a cellar in each tenement
house, with a little place partitioned off for
each family, but if they put coal and wood
there it would not stay long. Therefore
these tenementhouse storekeepers had
established the coal and wood bins for -the
poor. They drew their daily supplies from
them, and they paid well for doing it.
The storekeepers usually only kept two
or three tons of coal on hand at a
time. " It was a light, bulky 'coal, yielding
100 baskets or pitilsful to the ton. It cost
the tenement house storekeepers $5 a ton,
delivered. They sold it at 14 cents a. pail,
or $14 a ton. What a wail would go up
from the rich and well-to-do people of New
York if they were called upon to pay any
such price as that for coal.
For wood people in tll'e tenement houses
paid 2 cents for a little bundle of soft pine,
about a dozen sticks four inches long, anti
averaging about an inch 'and a half in
thickness. It is the poorest kind of, fuel,
and in fact is fit for nothing but kindling.
The man who buys•his wood by the waggon-
load or the cord Would get more fire out of
a half cent's worth of his supply than the
people of the tenement houses get out of one
of these two cent bundles.
A Question of Knowledge.
Her Adorer : May I marry your daughter,
air'?' -
Her Father : What do you want to
marry for ? You don't know when you're
well off.
Her Adorer : No, perhaps not ; but I
know when you're well ori ,
Didn't Miss flim.
Mrs. Jocelyn—Don't you miss your hus-
band very much, now that be is away ?
Mrs. Golightly—Oh, not stall., You see,
he left me plenty of money, and at break-
fast I.jnat stand a newspaper up in front of
his plate, and half the time forget that he
really isn't there.—Puck.
He'd' Never Heard it.
gate Field's Washington : " Jones, did
jou ever hear the ' Song of the Shirt' ?"
" No, (hic) Billings, I never did. Fact is
(hie) I didn't know a shirt could (hic) sing."
•
Mrs. George Go. rrld is .said to litre nothing
for society, but devotes all her time to her
home and children. She does ;her own
marketing, keeps a set of books showing her
household expenses, and altogether proves
herself to be a model housewife. -
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