1 lie carolina watchman vol xx.-thihd series salisbury n c thursday february 14 1889 torpid liver xu known by these inarki;«l peculiarities 1 a feeling of weai .!.■ . ..:, 1 pains in the limbs 2 ifaui breath imd lasto in the mouth :,!,'! fui i i tongue 3 constipation with occasional uuocka ofdinrrli<i-a 4 headache in the front of the head : nuiicca dizziness and ycllmmosa of 1 5 heartburn loss orjjppollte i dial t lie stomach and bowels by wind 7 depression of spirits and great melan , do '■ . with lassitude anil a disposition u leave everything for to-morrow x untnrnl llnxv i>f rile from i lie i ivor u o4*untial to ijckmi health when this is uijutructcd it results iu biliousness t'cted ion l nets to serious 1>'m simmons liver itfrulat or exerts i most felicitous infliii m-eovi r every kind l r stores i he liver to proper w rking order regulates the secre tion of bile and puts the d i z ■'■ i <• organs in sucli ih:i1 the can '!<> their („•■-! work a ■■• ■ tiikinx this medicine no oik will say 1 am bilious 1 <•[ have t to severe spells of con ■ i i cal . ■■ ! v hii i gen i ■ . i have been ' i liver r interruption t<j i hi ..■,, middl rport ohio o gejtuijre has oui 5 stamp ; i r '. ■ n ft ml of wrapper j h ze'hn a co philadelphia i'u ely's catarrh cream balmhgg^bj cleanses the nirah^^agcs passages a 1 1 1 y #^ co &£ s pain andinfiamma-k ayfever j < fi t i 0 n heals the fe , jfm gores restores w^^y d$t*w ths sonsas of t^:p and smell w&t u£j thy tin tnidhay-fever catalirh i a disease of the raucous membrane generally originating in the nasal pas sages and maintaining its stronghold in the head from this point it sends forth a poisonous virus into llie stomach and through the digestive organs eoi inpting ihe hi ood and produciuj ther trouble some and dangerous symptoms a particle is ip,iue i into each nostril and is agreeable price i cents at druggists by mall registered i 11 cents ely bros 56 warren street xen \ ork i3:ly t?-r 1t tp almost everybody wants i spring tonic 1 j i - i : n i ■ i i • testimonial which shows how i i !!. i is regarded it will knock your mala | ria out an i restore your appetite : splendid for a spring tonic a m.ini i us ( in june ■'■<>. 1 883 i suffered with malarial blood poison more or me and t lie only medicine thai iloue me n \ gooil i it i i it is undoubted ly the best i incul medicine made and for this malnrinl country should be used by every one ipritit nt the year ami i good in um n it full and w inter as u tonic and blood purifier gives bett?r satisfaction cadiz ky july i 1 lease send me one box mood balm catarrh ri turn mail as one of my customers i |{. 15 for catarrh and wants a box mff 1 iv 15 gives better satisfaction my 1 ever sold 1 ii a <• sold 10 dozen in kveel -. and ir gives good satist'ac lfldon"t remit all rightforsnuff write me yours w ii liiiam'os it removed the pimples rorsii morxtain teun march 20 lss a ladv friend of mine lias for several years been troubled with bumps and pimples on her fucc and neck for which she used various ens ! metics in order to remove them and beautify ; and improve her complexion 1 u t these local ' applications were only temporary and let't her . ii worse couditkm 1 recomnieud aii internal preparation — j kna-wa a botanic klood bultn — which i have ; ltd using and selling about two years flic ] ure ! three bottles and nearly all pimples have | ■ lier skin is sofi and smooth and t-ral health much improved she ex ii much gratified and cat recom mend it n all who arc thus affected mrts s m wii.sun a book gf wonders free all who i sire full inform ulon ab nit the ■■ mse e of bio i polsu is scrofula and scr ifuluus j swellings ulcers sores klieuin itisin ki inf.v , i in plain is catarrh eic can socure by m;ill froe • illusi rated book • f vvoiidei-s ' llllod with t lie most wonderful and startling prooi ever uelorckuow n addn ss blood balm c >.. atlanta i we are receiving our fall anfl winter stock | i i sisting of choice selections in black blue rud browu worsted suits also a full line of ciissimere suit for men youths boys and irhil | dvereoats n specialty give us a call at wells old stand respectfully i blumenthal & bro i cekr cuaige i 11 cl.kmkk7 craige & clement a.ttorncvs liaiv salisbuuv n <!. t'eb.3nl i--i r j c mccubbins surgeon xl>ot^."tis^"t bnlisbury - - - n c 1 ' ire iii cole building won i l or nexl to itnpl.ell < o-iie 1 a atwdl'rf i k ■ uli m.,il ll-«.l !): h . lines of the confederate note written ok the hack os a confederate note representing nothing on gou a earth now and naught in tin waters below it as tin pledge of a nation that passed away keep ii i'm r friend ami show it slic it to those li will lend in cur to the tale this trifle will tell of liberty born of a patriot's dream of a storm-cradled nation that foil too pour to possess tin precious ores ami too much ot a stranger u borrow we issued to day our promise to pay and hoped to redeem on hie morrow tin days rolled mi and the weeks became \ ears bui our coffer were empty still loll is scarce tin treasury quaked if a dollar should drop in the till hut the faith thai whs in us was strong in deed though our poverty well we discerned and tins little note represented the pay that our suffering veteians earned they knew it hail hardly a value in gold but as jrol'l our soldiers received it it gazed in our eyes with a promise to pay and every true soldier believed it lint our boys though little of price or pny ( r of bills thai \\ ltc over lite : we knew if it brought our bread to-day twas the besl our poor countn could do keep it it tells all our history o'er from the birth of the dream to the last ; mo lest and bosn of the angel hope like our hope of success it passed far off idaho cor statcsvillc landmark here in far distant idaho where at this season the north winds blow cold and drearily over the illimitable wastes of si ow it ii 1 the whole face of nature rx t iii its mountainous aspects pre sents the appearance of a siberian tun dra a wandering son of the old north state has established his domicile and in the seclusion of his little old log cabin n the claim welcomes a weekly visit of the landmark briuging as it often does mention of friends and neighbors and reminders of scenes and localities familiar in the days lang svne a great deal in regard to a town or a neighborhood is always indi cated by the general appearance and make-up of its local newspaper and judging from this test i readily infer that statesville and the surrounding country have improved considerably within the six years since the time 1 last saw them during the past sixteen years i have led the life of a rambler having with in that time traversed all the stattfs and territories of the extreme west and now at last i have come to what seems likely to be though not so in tended a permanent location in this the host river valley of eastern idaho to those of my old friends ami schoolmates who perhaps are still struggling with a pine ridge farm iu the brushy mountains for a living i would say that taking all things into consideration i have nowhere found the conditions for the attainment of earthly happiness any better than there the tie which binds the western north carolina mountaineer to his native heather is i believe stronger than that of the people of any other locality 1 have found representatives of the old north state everywhere and though there are many exceptions i have met with but few who consider that they have bettered themselves in all respects by emigrating 1 do not say that emigrating is a thing to be in all cases and under all circumstances discouraged but there exists nevertheless a species of human plant which will not take root and flourish in a different soil and under the different conditions to which it may be transplanted the brushy moun tain youth to the manor born who rambles off to the plains and deserts the mountain wildernesses and the dismal solitudes of such a country as this soon finds that he has torn him self away from far more than he ever intended his mind will constantly revert to the old scenes and the old ways he will often think regretfully of the corn huskings the log rollings and quilting bees the camp meetings the possum hunts the moonshine whisky ejrisodes etc which afforded the necessary variety to his life there no wonder that when he finds himself in a locality where none of these things exist where every energy is bent in the i direction of money-making rather than i social amusement and where religious observances are never even thought of he is for a time at least a tluee-eorner ed man thrust into a round hole the principal industry of fins terri tory is mining and that is the one up on which all others depend the farm ing are i of idaho is comparatively very small as it is only the valleys where j water can be obtained for irrigation ■ that can be cultivated and except near j to some of the mining camps and set tlements where a market can be found i for his produce the pioneer settler has a hard time of it in his efforts to avail himself of uncle sam's fret gift of loo acres of land stock-raising and wool-growing are also carried on quite extensively here and in ordinary winters cattle manage to subsist on the ranges without feeding 1 , though occasionally the loss is very heavy as no provisions for winter feeding is made by large cattle owners to the southward from this point and extend ing for hundreds of miles clear into eastern oregon lies the great snake river lava fields one of the most prom inent features of the territory a s c tion of country as large as half the stute f north carolina literallveover ered with the deposits of molten streams such as those that buried her culanium and pompeii into these lava fields the lost river and numbers of other streams how and at once sink and disappear the lost river valley has but recent ly been settled and the land is not val uable as yet being too far from mark ets and remote from railroads and cen ters of population most of the people are of mormon antecedents though a majority of them here appear to have apostatized and re nounced the faith of brigham yonug and jo smith in several counties of the territory the mormons are largely in the ascendant and there the apos tates of jack-mormons are seldom found polygamy is often practiced among them in spite of the laws against it and the efforts of the united states deputy marshals to arrest and of the courts to convict these lecher ous old saints very forcibly reminds one of th illicit whisky prosecutions back in the south in the days of si and s2 the presence of a deputy marshal in the neigh borborhood is sig naled from house to house and causes as much of a sensation as a report that a squad of revenues had come info the brush ies the mormon problem is not yet settled by any means and the political power of the mormon church is still a source of danger here in the west the mormon people generally though somewhat below par in the point of intelligence compare very favorably with the grentiles here s ■ far as indus try thrift and morality are concerned hut the result of several veal's observa tion here have convinced me that such a tiling as simple old-fashioned hon esty does not exist in this part of ida ho the greek philosopher with his candle would fail to tind an honest man hen 1 . the noblest work of iod is also the rarest james i martin lost river idaho jan 17 18s9 a horse that bit dr pounden dies of hydrophobia charlotte chronicle on wednesday night a horse be longing to messrs davidson & griffin died in frightful convulsions with every symptom of hydrophobia the history of this horse is a singular one and illustrates the strange charac teristics of that dreadful malady on the 4th of december messrs davidson & griffin hired the horse to charlie black of this city mr black rode the horse to rocky river and on his return he told messrs davidson is irith'n that on his trip the horse was bitten by a dog mr black said that he thought the dog was mad though he was not positive the horse was bitten on the shoulder and the would was so small that only a few drops of blood came from it the animal did not suffer any pain frtun the bite nor signs of being mad it worked as well as any of the other horses and ate and drank as much is eve 1 . on the first of this month messrs davidson and griffiu swapped the bit ten horse for a mule the horse had not been sick for a moment and the fact that it had been bitten passed out ! of the minds of the owners last wednesday the man to whom the horse had been swapped brought the horse back to davidson & griffin and said that something was surely the ! matter with it he said that it would neither eat nor drink and he could do nothing with it mr davidson then remembered . about the horse's having been bitten ; and to be on the safe side should the animal show any symptom of madness : he had it tied securely in a stall that afternoon the horse began to exhibit unmistakable signs of hydro phobia not only refusing to drink j water but snapping and biting at every j thing near it dr pounden examined the horse and in attempting to pour some medicine down its throat lie was severely bitten on t iie hand in three places soon alter biting dr pounden the animal had spusni after spasm and that night lied in great agony mr davidson in rending a treatise on hydrophobia saw it stated that ani mals with this disease would go mad at one of certain periods of time after having been inoculated with the p«i son these periods are 9 days 9 weeks it months or v years turning to his books lie was amazed to find that the day on which his horse had been bitten was exactly 9 weeks from the day on which it died of hy drophobia there is considerable sickness among children in charlotte just now in one of the rooms at the graded school where the enrollment is 70 only 17 scholars were present on thursday - charlotte chronicle thoir busings booming probumy no one tltin_r l»as caused such i revival of trade at klntt/.'s drug store as their giving away to their customers t so i many free trial bottles of dr kind's new discovery for consumption their trade i is simply enormous in i his very valuable i article from the fact that it always cures anil never disappoints coughs colds a.sthm.i bronchisti croup and all throat and iuiil ilisi-ises quickly curiil you an test it licfoiv buying bv gttliny i trial 1 bottle five large size i every lottie w li lit id i much or litt'e we often hear men grumble because they are not rich they scold about their business and think theirs is not so good as their neighbor's and that if they only had taken up some other calling they would have been all right this spirit is not confined to farmers j alone though it is too common a feel ing with them how seldom it is that we find a man who wants his sons to follow his bus iness and this i true even in some j cases where the father has been appar ently successful within a few months we have had occasion to ask men in various callings in city and country what they would recommend for a young man just looking for a life work very few of the many who were spoken to advised putting a young man into the business they had follow ed though many whom we consulted had prospered in their calling the impression is too much abroad and it gets into the heads of the young men as well as others that the rich are happy far happier than the poor or ewn those of moderate means and that every one must have a business that will in a short time bring riches now all will admit that poverty i not de , sirable but there are worse things even ' than this better to be poor and hon est than to acquire riches as some do the person who is neither rich nor poor is the happiest man of all com paratively few in this country need to remain poor diligence even in farm ing will give a fair competency a man who is not contented with his occupation rarely succeeds in it every work or business must be taken hold of with courage and pluck a weak hearted discouraged man is of little use in this world lie will overcome few obstacles will be constantly seeing lions in his way diligence in busi ness should be the watch-word god helps the man who helps himself marry a gentleman a writer in women at work advis es girls if they would be happy in mar ried life to marry a gentleman he thus defines what he means by the term a true gentleman is generous and unselfish he regards another's happi ness and welfare as well u his own you see the trait running through all his actions a man who is a be rat home among his si ters and disco r teons to bis mother is just the man to avoid when you come to the great question which is to be answered by yes or no a man may be ever so rustic in his surroundings if he is a true gentleman he will not bring a blush to your cheek in any society by his absurd behavior there is an instinctive politeness in herent in such a character which everywhere commands respect and makes its owner piss for what he is — one of nature's noblemen do not despair girls there are such men still in the world you need not all die old maids lint wait until the princes pass by no harm in delay you will not be apt to find him in the ball-room and 1 know he will never be seen walking up from the liqn«r saloon nor is he a champion billiard player he has not had time to become a champion for he has had too much honest earnest work t do in the world i have always observed that the champions were seldom good for much else lie very wary in choasing girls when so much is at stake do not mistake a passing fancy for undying love marrying in haste seldom ends well facial paralysis from chswinj gum the most remarkable case that iihs come under the observation of the med ical fraternity in harrisburg pa for a long time is that of mary yountz aged 12 years who is suffering from facial paralysis this affliction is due to chewing'gum she having employed the use of uev jaws so constantly dur ing the last three months that the muscles of her face are powerless snl her nerves are in a dilapidated condi tion when she laughs her face pre sents an am using sight thereis much sympathy felt for the little miss as 1 er condition is regarded a serious one by the physicians who have been called ! upon to treat her in whatever posi tion she is able to twist her mouth the rams les remain and the face is thus in a contorted shape until one of the mem | bers of her family as>ists her to place 1 it in proper condition her chin drops ! and it frequently becomes necessary to tie a bandage over her head to keep tin lower jaw in its proper place mary is now under the care of dr hites who is applying plasters to her face and under this treatment sh v seem to be improving though vry slowly this is the first case of the kind that has been heard of by many of the promi i nent physicians and their treatment is much oil the order of an experiment bucklen's arnica salve the brst salve in the world for cuts bruises sores ulcers salt klu-um fever sores tette chapped hands chilblains corns mill ill skin eruptions ami positive ly cures piles or no pay required it is guaranteed to uive perfect siiiisfsu-tion or moncj refunded pi ice 2.1 uents ; us box fur sale by kluttz & l'i . incomes of rulers the liite emperor willliam is cred ited with haviog saved 812,000,000 out ! of his ublic allowaace the president of the argentine re public contrives to pass his time quite nicely on 30,000 a year switzerland gets along pleasantly with a president who is satisfied with the modest salary f 3,000 a year oscar ii of sweden and norway rubs along comfortably on 575,523 that his subjects gracefully pay him the czar of russia is credited with ; receiving 12 250,000 and upward from his domains but upward is an unlim ited term the king of prussia emperor of germany is not badly fixed the kingdom of prussia pays him 1,235 000 and besides this he has great pri vate domains the sovereign of the dusky sons of sunny italy annually takes 3,000,000 out of the pockets of his impoverished . subjects for the sole behoof of himself 1 and kiii milian king of servia has had a pretty tough time in governing his petty kingdom of less than 2,000,000 hi and his kin cost the little limited monarchy 240,000 the kuler of bavaria is allowed only 1,307,040 a year and out of tins sum he has to pay for his clothes and pro visions for his family and to keep them iu pocket money the emneror francis joseph of austria may be a wise and valuable skipper to have on board the ship of state but with 3,875,000 a year he is adequately recompensed the king of the belgians has just about as much as he can do to keep himself supplied with pie and confec tionery on 660,000 a year that his grateful subjects turn over to him france finds there is no lack of am bitious men to fill the office of presi dent f«»r the annual salary of 600,000 francs or 120,000 and an allowance of a smaller amount for house and ex penses the greeks allow king george i 200,000 a year but as that sum only just about pays his board bill great britain france and russia pity him in his poverty and severally give him 820.000 from parliament her m st gra cious majesty draws as sovereign 1 925,000 a year her position as sov ereign makes her duchess of lancas ter and the net revenue from her duchy is about 2 10,000 a year in the land of the mikado emperor mutsuhito has his family provided for and his coal and j lumber bills paid by the state and or his separate us he has the modest sum f 2,340,000 a year allowed him the sick man of europe the sul tan of turkey is the boss of a country which has long been bankrupt ab dul hamid us faithful subjects though as poor as church mice have to disgorge annually for him and his family 7,500,000 and upward alphonso xiii is as yet little more than a year old and is a pretty costly youngster the most expensive young j ster spain has he has numerous kith and kin and both he and his army of relations have to be supported at j the public expense which urn ints to 2,000,000 and upward prince nicholas ef meutenegro though he has been an absolute mon arch tor twenty-eight years cannot be considered quite happy it is true his humblest subjects do thr best they can for him mid pay him 20,000 a year but if russia did not come to his assis ! tance his washerwoman would fre quently go unpaid the australian boomerang the boomerang of the australians is made of hard wood and has the , curve of a parabola is about two feet long two and a half inches broad and one-third of an inch through in j throwing it the hunter takes it by one end h uling it so that the convex edge is forward and the hat side uppermost when thrown it ascends gradually with a rotary motion and finally be gins to retrograde the natives of some tribes call the boomerang wangii or kilie and the wood known to botanists as acacia pen dula is generally selected by the boom erang makers if possible they choose a limb that is bent to fwrtn an angleof ! about loo to 130 degress the vfeapon ■ returns to the thrower.best when thrown ! against the wind but never returns when it has fairly hit the object at which it was aimed those who are expert can place it where they wish and in warfare it is most effective striking where it is least expected and i iu hunting it can be used at a distance • of 200 paces n y cmmercial adcer ! user see that your kitchen stove has a thorough cleaning inside and out every two or three weeks many timed stoves are blamed for not drawing r i biking well when they are clogged up with asbe ; visiting cards theirintrocliktioiin.it n much a hitter f invention aa of kvolution it is not easy to determine with pre , cision where and when visiting and in vitation cards originated in e irop -. in reality they were not so much a matter of invention as of evolution the first • person who utilized the white back of the playing card to write his name on when he failed to tind his frien 1 at home or to leave a message or invita tion for him would were hi known be entitled to the title of invontor 1 we know that in england these cards had their origin in the way indicated dr carlton in english xotcsand quer ies says that in examining a lot of old papers he cam across a number of such cards dated 1752-1764 many of which 1 were printed from english copper-plates on the backs of old playing cards the visiting cards were small the cards having been cut and those of the karl and countess of northumberland wero j printed on tho ba k of the trey | 1 of clubs and of the queen of diamonds respectively the invitations to card-parties printed from copper plates were large enough to cover the whole ba.-k of a playing carl the duchess of iraftoa's c ir.l is printed on the back of the ace of hearts and li ly northumberland's on the bad of the ten of spa ies an i ten of hearts at the bott n of tho latter aro added tho words without ho ps if agreeable it is presum d the hu^e hoops of those : days impeded access to the card-table it would appear that the use of such invitation-cards l sp scially in c nr.iee tion with card-parties hid become , established in london in the first half of theeighte nth c sntury previously j invitations to such parties were wont j to bj scat verbally through servants the writing 0:1 the b 1 -\ of playing j cards was to prevent mistakes as well as from an appreciation of th s symbolical appropriateness of th • form card board proper ai we kn w it ha 1 not yet been inve.itod thj custom was ! found convenient an 1 s > was extended to onlling-carjs ana b ■ • 1:11 ; fa.3b.i0n ' able some thirty-five years a;^o a j house in dun stro'jt s h >. the resi i denco of either ii arth 1638 1761 or his fath r-in-law vvas in c nr.-s 1 of re pair oa removing a marble chimney piece in the front drawing-ro r.i four or i five playing cards wera found on tha back of which nara-33 werj written - ', one that of si isa:u newton born 1612 it h is b • i c ije tured the-50 were visiting cards hut jit is rjally doubtfnl wh'th-r the pmlosopher would have employed such might they not have boon proiuc 1 by the artist as studies for his art i.i j plate iv of his marriaafd-a-la-mode i several such cards are represented ly ; '■ ing on the floor in th ri^ht hand cor 1 ! ner of the picture i one the painter j with his wontod caustic humor has j satirized the ignorance of tin upper ' classes by ins ribing on it the follow ing ingeniousiy misspollej polite in quiry count basset begs to no how l:ule squander sleapt last nite 1 in a novel called the spiritual quixote published in bath in 17 the scenes beiug laid in that city in tho time of beau na-h who died 1760 a preacher is called to account because while he is continually inveighing against gam ing he has in his pocket a pack of soiled cards ready for his engagem tnts or pleasures a note says a set of blank cards has sinco b ■ i invented by which the above absurdities may be avoided this note so smsto date tho substitution of visiting carl prop r i for inscribed playing cards normust we overlook the passage i:i chapter 12 of st ronan's well in which the , ; captain presented to lucky i i.lds the j fifth part of aa ordinary playing-card much grimed with snuff which bore en the blank side his 11:1:11 • and qual ity 1 whether ben johnson's ex pression you shall cartel him 1 points to an earlier use of thes ! car is in af fairs of honor we do not take it on us i ' to decide — american xotcs diid qiu rus -» • the aquatic spider how it prepares itself for au attack on its l'nsusp-ttliik i'rey while their nearly constant abode is the water they are like most other i spiders air-breathers consequently 1 they need some special provision for providing themselves with air while i living under the water and for this purpon they possess the art of con structing a kind of diving-bell it h an interesting sight t 1 witn •— i of i them making his air-cell clinging to the lower side of a few leaves and se curing them in position by spinning a few threads th • spider rises to the level ofthe water with its belly upper most and doubling up its bind-legs retains a stratum of air am rag the hairs '■ with which its bojy i covered then it plunges into th • water and appears as in the first stageof the making of its : silvery robe going immediately to the spot it had chosen it brushes its body with its p?«ws when taoair de taches itself and forms a bubble under the leaf the spider surro \:\'\- this i bubble with the imp jrmeable silky matter furnish id by i 1 - spin le el re turning t . tho surface it take in an ' other layer of air whicb it carries down an 1 adds to tho first one also ex | tending the envelope over it the 1 process is kepi uptill the diving-bell ■ ha reached the proper size and is fin ■ ished the ideal form of th • construc tion is that ofathiinble butit often as : sumes a 1 irregulaj 1 shape li«ce an in ; verted sae :. wheu the spider has ■ taken possession of ita rad ubt it re i mains quijt i.i i head d wn watching j for the appearane ■ of aa in ■ ■ l p-r ! ceivin j:i -. it - izes it a 1 ret irn i to its lo i-re waich it lias sec ircj against intruders by spinniagthroa is across it to devour it.s prey at it leisure .!/. emile i a :. r '., iit j'o^u ' r s . ,, j j a japancge ho'jsi iu oddltloa ihve n lo.mtorp irt l:i vwu itii architrrtiuc how to describe a japanese house where nothing is like any thing corre sponding to i at home from tho outside it is an uninviting l>i r blade barn ia~ide it is n spotless doll's house magnified a thousand diameters all wood and wicker and white paper the entrance hall i a platform raised a couple of feet above the ground wluuv you take off your hoots if you are a foreigner or leave your sandals if you are a japanese a screen door slide b:u'!v ami you are in but that depends on circumstances sometimes you are in t>n - room and sometimes in another it may be a general sitting room fifty feet square in may be a bedroom if you call early in tin morn ing or you may snd yourself in an improvised sanctum and intruding upon somebody writing labored de scriptions for a far-away press for hero walls have not only ears they have also le s and when you wish to make a new room you simply form square 11 by sliding enough panels in their grooves to inclose the space or at your pleasure all the rooms can bo thrown iato on ■. inclosod in our ciim by forty-six panels thoso forming the sides of the house consist each of sixty little paper panes to wit one's finger stic it silently into the window and peep through this is the natural japanese counterpart of occidental surreptitious inspection by the key holt the floor is of mats not mats strewed aboul as at home but solid structures of delicate stuffed wicker an inch thick of conventional and regular size let into the floor elastic spotless immovable never profaned by even the dainties ofslippcrs chairs and tables arc of course unknown and thi posture of repose is to beat oneself 0:1 0:1 s heals this squatting by the way is very painful at lirst and like t'.i • blam less dances in ruddigore 1 ' tako-sadoal of training 11 at meal tim a you bquat anywhere and your food is placed before you when you an tired you throw your self anywhero on the floor with no fear of soiling your white linen suit when evening comes you do not seek your bedchamber you simply mako it by sliiliiilf the walls round tin spot you have chosea for your slumbers the rough an 1 ready way according to my america friend is to tread around on the floor till you find a bpecially s<>f mat and the lay a few walls up 1 it for a couch a moro luxurious ona is t have a futon or thick quilt spread out and roll your self in a rug or blanket upon it tho chief drawback fora foreigner is that his hip-b > 1 •. which is more prominent than that of a japanese is terribly in the way and my journalism not hav ing yet advanced to graduation upon t!i plank b ■ 1 i have not learned tho trick of obliterating the natural pro jectiona of th body hut you bleep comfortably in spite of tho marauding rat whose immunity from attack hai rendered him oqually inquisitive and harmless a:id in the morning whe.n you return from the bath bod an i bedroom have alike disappeared it is tho story of aladdin doniosticatod — toktio cur washingtm stir a profligate duke how lit mi ii:iq to i**m wiy iiu tlmi in tin ! r.-ii<-li capital brilliant novelists an 1 dramatist would undoubtedly i'm 1 a subject worthy of stu ly an 1 des sription in tho person of tho duke of monlclli a opulent moinber of tho important rus sian calony in paris th s i tke leadj a life which resomhloj toauortain ex tent that of one of thtjsa liora:in k ■; perors or oriental p tteata • > d • • ■ by ict i iresquo historian . 11 ■ lives in a splendid hotel i:i th • a • . 1 • d 1 ii i . 1 i mlogne with his moth •:•, pnncc ■ woronzoff who was a sis r of princ 1 nicolas troubetzkoi and a memb r of the household of tli ; ir !>•'>,•• her lawsuit with her nephew c 1 rat woron zoff one of tho emperor alexander court marshals the duke of mm lelu is reputed to have 1400,000 a year most of which ho manages to spend ia a magnificent mauncr he never jjoea to bed until daylight does appear and li > generally gets up at thr >' clock in tbo aftcrn 1 m after a meal an 1 exteade 1 at full-length 01 a sum.it 11 usdivaa hj receives his friends a 1 1 visitors hi i mother the p/inecss b i:i j present at the levee oil these occasions tho duke weai*s cither a superb dressing gown i:i ivory-colorcj plush lined with satin of the huo of the peach garnishe 1 with silver braiding and or namented with jowels or an amplo jacket of haliotrope velvet with gold and clasp d t < _ r • - 1 i i . - r with ducal coro nets lid led with brill a 1 while conversing with his the host it is said toys with procious otones of rare value i h •<! an 1 incut in the intervals of conversation u band <>;' neapolitan singers warble t!i ■■. melodi ous air of > mny italy and thea • aro succeeded by tzigane musicians who make the ducal hall rings with their native wild and diab tlical strain after eaeh musical porformanc-j tho leader of the band approaches the divan kisses the han 1 of the most nob ■■ ■ ; of the house and receives bia orders fop the next morceau of demoniac blis later in the evening he l •■ :■■ repair to a splendid cafe on th • boulevards where ho dines with his friends an i listens one more to the musicians 1 > whom he distrib ites bountiful l:-r 1 in t:i • sbado of dstfuls of louis while hi guesti qua liberal bumpotw of sparkling cliaaapajae iq oii hooor • i'l u i l\r — oj strcntuam (' uninon still suvid « a hollow tr e iuio which i boy > ; cardinal m.i.iui ij i.sej oftoa to clliuj ij v.v ■ •- ... « --: 1 .. •• ;. : r i no 17