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It ati s: ed is, ng Pre up lief of and ten and ne- in not pa - Me. :hat anis. artie iry Y. S., non /ery fula ired ases this ates S Of rum war- n. uses sing Aver lucts in a will Eat yf it. bed - too, If [button ducted irsIons d morn - spent table - incise. Second berth. enough Ins full , on the Rout,' wortere a oda es brands 3 r•Palrs 'umbra a Oey than ant and ed-after. Tilting Inn md Feed 'OtnUI re makes italegua ORO, jOKe aNNI. , not tn mrntAtel Imes re M. Kan. ,d In 15 cured. on,Ohoo Miter. en Yoe FAIR ASIERItAN GIRLS lestvertsg for Art's Sake—The Life of tile Student, Unless She Is Well Sup - Wad with Funds, IS Not an Enviable One. (Paris Letter.) OW the girl student In Paris lives de- pends on her in- come.. If life any- where for her means a succession' of patient jugglery to make one dollar divide itself into \, two dollars, Paris will do more to bring about the phenomenon than any other city; but if she has always had a good home, with some one always near to take the Mall worries off her shoulders, and domestic economy has not been a part of her education, it is a mistake to go abroad to study if she has only a little money. There are hundreds of Amer- ican girls in Paris who, starting out bravely to win laurels at any cost, are paying the penalty of poor living in careworn looks, unhealthy complex- ions and wrecked digestions. For a girl who le not used to it, the petty deprivations of an economical life are a positive menace to health. The little conveniences that she took as a matter of course at home amount to necessities when she finds she cannot have them, JANET SCUDDER. and the longing for small creature com- forts is constant friction on a sensitive nature that makes her irritable and melancholy. A Paris spring and an early summer are, climatically, a foretaste of Para- dise; but it Is during the winter months that the art schools flourish, and It Is winter that brings the hardships. The Latin Quarter is lined with apartments, studios and pensions for accommoda- tion of students, and old buildings that have stood a century are often put to this use. These are naturally draughty and damp, with French casement. win- dows that have to be draped with blan- kets to keep the snow from drifting In. and doors with a half -inch ventilation all around, so that even with a tire the girls must sit on their feet and blow their fingers to keep them from slowly congealing. Some of them dis- pense with the fire. Coal is sixty cents a hag, and a bag does not last long. It, therefore, conies under the head of luxuries; but as the atelier is warm and the day is spent there, they heroically wrap themselves in shawls for an eve- ning at home and go to bed early. The popillar way of living is to rent a studio and keep house on the co- operative plan, and the first Idea is to make the place artistic. The girl with art in her soul would rather go without her dinner than not have color and ef- fect in her surroundings. A fad of the students is to decorate the walls of the studio with the striking and often startling lithographs that have made theatrical biliposting a distinct braneh of French art, end there is net a studio among them that is unadorned. It re- quires not little ingenuity to retain the individualit y of the studio when the one room serves for aleeping anti eat- ing purpeaes. hut u'lover management accomplishes it. Couches. ornamental , nough in the daytime. Make exceed. MISS CARRIE BROOKS. ingly comfortable tied at night, while a tall screen partitiona off the \['love ends\ and prevents unsightly culinary adjuncts from being aggressively con- spictions. One of the luxuries of Paris that the American girl has never condidered a tummy before is the bath. Here it Is not the simple, linpremeditated pastime ;t IR in America. there is no such thing as jumping out of bed, wrapping the Irrtpery of a vniuminous bathrobe shout voy, anti hopping Into n ,ontigtirms tub, with plenty of hot water at simply a turn of the faucet. The houses I , , Paris that have bathrooms are easily counted, but to make up for the deficiency the city is generously supplied with public baths at prices from 1 franc to 5. This means, a iovse, in extra expeese to the girls, and if they feel they cannot afford it the only resource is a hurried and unsatisfactory session behind the screen. cheaply generally and it male refill - Those who rnake a•lousInehe ble to patronise the innumerabiti car*, restaurants and creameries that thrive at the expense of the students in the Latin Quarter. It is a proverb that nothing goes to waste in a French kitchen, and this is the only way of ac- counting for the low prices that pre- vail in these places. With 1 franc a dinner from soup to coffee inclusive may be eaten, and for half a franc a very satisfactory meal, all cleanly served and well cooked, may be had. SikdyIng at present in the Academie Montparnasse, under MacMonnies, Col- lin, Amen Jean and Merson, are Aany American girls of whoa their country has already reason for beteg proud. One Who will be remembered in connection with the world's fair decorations is Miss Zulime Taft, whose work has received high ecomiurns from art critics. \We are trying to accomplish something,\ said Miss Taft, modestly, \because. somehow, our friends are expecting it.\ Miss Janet Scudder of Terre Haute is also in the public eye, and last year received the distinction of being select- ed by Mr. MacMonnies as his personal assistant, in whose atelier she is DOW at work. Her wood carving decorated sev- eral of the fair buildings in the Illinois and Indiana buildings. Maud Hum- phrey, Mrs. Madeline Smith. Miss Alice Randall, now Mrs. Fred Marsh; Miss Dodge, Miss King, all familiar names, are Americans whose wort. was accept- ed at the last salon. Another of his pupils of whom Mr. MacMonnies is particularly proud, is Miss Carrie Brooks of Chicago. Per- sonally she is piquant and charming, 23 years old, with a record of small suc- cesses behind her that promise much for the future. Slie began her studies at the art institute in her own city, and has been in Paris one year. Her present work, still unfinished, is a stat- uette for Mrs. Cyrus McCormick, a rep- resentation of the foolish Virgin, which Miss Brooks has named \Too Late.\ This will be exhibited at the next salon. This artist also contributed to the beauty of the fair, and worked under Mr. Taft in decorating the several buildings, besides being represented in the art building. Miss Brooks has taken child life for her specialty, and puts soul into the clay models because she loves the pudgy baby faces; all her heart is in her work, and the Mecca of her hopes and ambi- tions is the power of Lampt. The clubs tnat have been established In Paris for American girls are well patronized. \The American Girls' Club,\ of which Mrs. Whitelaw Reid le t founder, is always well filled. This oc- cupies a reasonably mot ert1 building near the Boulevard Mom.parnasses. It Is quaint and picturesque, with hanging balconies overlooking a square court .n MAUD HUMPHREY. the center. The rooms rent from five francs a week up, and the board Is as low as the management can afford to make it. Thnre is a large reception room a well equipped library and an adjoining tea room, where a daily five o'clock Is held. Once a month the tint) Ildlueri invitations for at dancing party, and these social features are much ap- preeiated. A particular furction of the club is the Christmas art sale, at which the students may either enter their work, with the restriction that no price affixed shall exceed 100 francs. 'rhey often diipeud on this sale to help them out of pi Ofiellt and impendieg ditlicul- ties. The People of Labrador. Labrador is not coneleered a deeirable place in which to live, yet the people who live there AVM to enjoy it. One of the athiantages is that they do not have to pay rent. Most of the people own a summer house and a winter house. The slimmer house is on the coast. The people live in III , Se 11011SPR from June to October. The goyd fishing season 13 during these months and this is tl prineipal industry of the people_ They catch, airy and sell the fish to traders and thus purchase their winter sup- plies. The winter houses are or. the shore of en Island, lake or river and built in the shelter of treea In the win- ter the men hunt for rabbits, partridges and other small game and trap the for- bearing animals. Wood cutting is also an Industry. but dose not bring money. The wood Is for their own use. Part of the time the weather is so severe that there Is no possibility for work or fun nit of doors. Winter Is the time of visiting. The dogs are harnessed and the whole fam- ily cross the lake or river for a visit. Dancing 19 the evening amnaement The people of Labrador are a kindly, home- Ic‘ log people. Exchange. SPRECKLES*TROUBLES 'rue SUGAR KING IS AT WAR WITH HIS SONS. He Gave Adolph and Rudolph $600,000 Aplece and That Act Has Caused AU tke Trouble — Hornanee of a Million- aire's Life. (New York Letter.) HERE is an unique war going on in the home of Claus Spreckles, the sugar king of this con- tinent. The old man, who landed in New York more than half a century ago with wooden shoes on his feet and $3 In his pocket and conquered untold difficulties in building up the immense fortuee that he is now master of, has at last met his match 'in his two SOns, and they are giving him no mercy., The two sons are Adolph and Rudolph Sprecklea. There is another son, John D., who is generally spoken of as the gocei son. He stands by his father through thick and thin, and being gifted with strong commercial intelligence is a valuable aid to the old man. For it is a financial war that is disturbing the peace of the family, and just now the two sons are on top and have so entrenched them- selves in their position that the father with all his millions is unable to make them feel the smart of his displeasure. The trouble dates back to Jan. 2, 1894, CLAPS SPREcKLES. when the two boys purchased from the old man three-quarters of the stock in the Hawaiian Commercial Company. Something over a million was the price Axed, and a certain sum was paid down on the spot, leaving $700,000 to be paid In two years. Some time prior to the purchase old Claus gave $600,000 to each of the boys. How he regrets it, for they use it as ammunition against the coffers of Spreckles senior. The old gentleman not long agosaid that Adolph and Rudolph thought that he ought to have given them $2,000,000 apiece, in- stead of $600,000, but for the Rake of harmony be sold them the three-quar- ters interest in his Hawaiian company This dtal not have the desired effect, for shortly after the transfer the two boys packed up their trunks and quit the family home. Since then the people of San Francisco have been mightily in- terested in the war. Although now an old man in years, Claus is as active a. , ever, and a stiff fighter. It was gener ally supposed that he would make short work of the two boys, but after two years they are still holding their own More than that, after a carefully pre pared plan on the part of the old man to brink them to terms, they beat him at his own game, and tow he doesn't know where to begin at them again The plan was this: The last payment of $350,000 was due on Jan. 2 last, an when Claus heard that the boys were hard lip for ready cash, he saw all the money lenders in Sari Francisco and ar ranged with them not to nrike any loan to the boys. Then he waited for his victory. On .1an. 2 he sent a messenge, to the boys for the $3.50,00d, expecting its an answer a plea for compromise Then he thought he tamlui make his own terma and resume his former position' its undlstolted Loss of the family. But the messenger r turneul with a certified / RI' l)OLl'll SPREcK check for the full amount Some motue lender had worked to windward of ill , old gentleman and the latter Is Otte his scalp with a %engem - lee All this is but A mall chapter in tit, career of Cinus Sprerkies lie is wort ti to -day anywhere from $20,000.000 to $40,000,000, and perhtuan more And lo has nerompllehed all this In the fare o' ninny handlcapn Ills education, to he gln with, amounted to nothing lii English IR broken and heavilv flavore , l with the Recent of tde frithetlynut The lot Hon of the Pollee P ted the Deal -Some Queer Customs of 1..lin—Marr 3 vete the Purchaser's Object. IX hundred dollars ia.the value Joseph Piro, of Goshen, N. Y., Is said to place upon a wife. This is the amount he is alleged to have of- fered the father of thirteen - year -old Ella Collander, pretty Italian child, whose bud - ling charms Inspired the tender pas- sion in the Piro breast. The , offer was agreeable to both father and daughter, end but for an unfortunatie obstacle - the law --there would have been a mar- riage that was clearly not made in 'heaven. Piro is a thrifty shoemaker and fruit dealer at Goshen, whose ap- pearance is not of the sort that charms. Up to a few weeks ago he lived in the rooms back of his shop. At that time he found it necessary to employ some one to help him, and secured the serv- ices of Michael Collander, who, with his wife and three children, came to live with Piro. Collander's eldest was Ella, thirteen years old, mature for her age and with a claim to comeliness. Piro adored her at sight, and in a few days sur- prised her father by agreeing to ex- change $600 for Ella. Cupid and Mam- mon made a sufficiently strong combi- nation to overcome Coliander's scru- ples, if he ever possessed any. The child was quite willing to be sacrificed to love and avarice. What the mother thought no one seems to know or care. The bargain was kept secret. Little Ella, still in the primary grade at the public schools, went on with her stud- ies, and the patter of Piro's hammer on the hobnailed shoes of his country- men was as firm and regular as if his heart was not swelling with the emo- tions of a bridegroom to be. People no- ticed that .Mrs. Collander seemed borne down with some sorrow, but it • did not bother Collander pere, and so was nothing at all to be considered. One day about three weeks ago Piro and his child fiancee appeared before an astonished minister and asked to be married. A hasty and rather indignant refusal followed. Another divine was visited with the same result. All ef- forts of the couple to become man and wife resulted in fiat failure. Then an idea broke into the fortress of Piro's mind, lit the great city of New York there surely would be no trouble, even if a big Italian man did want to marry a pretty child. So the Piro business was given a vacation, anti tie money making genius is of the in- domitable kind which smashed every barrier into hinders. Small wonder then that the two sons should allow nothing, even family see - [melt, to stand In the way of their finan- cial progress. The old gentleman's thirst for lucre made a great number of Men groan, but .it looks like a back- handed swipe on the part of Dame For- tune to use his own sons for the purpose of retaliation. It is interesting at tills Period to follow the fortune building of Claus Spreckles. As a newly arrived immigrant In New York he at once pro- ceeded to hunt employment. He was unable to speak the English language, and being a youth of no education worth mentioning, was not at all par- ticular as to the nature of the work, so long as It was work and brought in the money he was after. But he possessed a commercial spirit, and an inclination to barter, and it was not long before he had a corner grocery, wore a white apron and with limping speech was booming the quality and quantity of his stock in trade. But busi- ness dragged and collections were somewhat difficult. There was a live- lihood in the grocery, but Claus wanted more. He bought a grocery at Louis- ville, but took up his march again after the American dollar and brought up at New Orleans. When he heard that gold had been discovered in California he started straightway for the Pacific coast. Other men were taking claims. getting shot and cut all to pieces, and accumulating more or less gold dust meanwhile, but Claus was not of a spec- ulative mind at that particular period of his life. American dash and enterprise had not then made an impression on his German thrift and caution. There- fore, while adventurous spirits were out in the mountains fighting and digging like wildcats, Claus was content to re- sume his white apron and corner gro- cery, which he did in San Francisco. Money was plentiful and profits very large. Claus saw his bank account grow day by day. He sent to Germany for his brothers and they came in the next ship. Then Spreckles and his brothers bought an interest in a brewery. Their bank account grew larger 'than ever, and when Claus was offered something like r(5,000 for his interest In the brew- ery he accepted the money and invested it in a sugar refinery. The finery was doing a large and profitable business. Claus thought the matter over and con- cluded the refinery should be his. Ile set about to get it. The stockholders objected to his business methods, whereupon he bought them out. In the course of time Spreckles got the refin- ery, roof and all. But the genius of Spreckles did not display itself on a grand scale until he was well launched into the sugar business on his own ac- count. Then he began to think that the Sandwich Islands offered a fine field for the growing of sugar. He took a sail across the Pacific to investigate, but he was quits dismayed at finding that every foot of the land must be irrigated. This meant the expenditure of every cent he had accumulated, but his con - ELLA COLLANDER. Sunday, January 5, Piro, Ella and Col- lander boarded a train for that city. The course of trate love, even though It be one-sided, does not, as truthful tra- dition relates, run smooth, anti the momberm of the bridal party were tre- mendously surprised to find, when they reached New York, that the police had arranged for an ante -nuptial reception, their efforts being assisted by Mr. El - bridge T. Gerry. The reception was a marked success when viewedarom the ADOLPH SPRECKLES. standpoint of the police. although the visitors looked upon the situation dif- ferently The result of it all was that Ella returned to Goshen from her visit still a little girl, with every right to play with her dolls and bid the cares of matrimony go hence. plunge. Ile found 10,000 acres of land, low, connecting two mountain regions and considered useless, lie leased this barren waste from Kalakaua for a song and went to work. There wag plenty of water in the mountains twenty miles The failure of this attempt to marry sway. fie dug a canal fourtetm feet has apparently resulted In a truce. wide and three feet deep built arnie- Piro has perhaps thought of a more ha - hits, blasted thirty tunnels through ( ratt y! ' waY in which to inveat his $600 than in a child -wife Once more he I solid rock and got water to his desertui at a cost of something like $500,000. He hammering hobnailed shoes and growl- ing at the world. He says any woman founded a town, calling it Sprecklea- who wishes to marry hint must now ville. Ile macadamized the streets thereof, planted Mindy trees, built a pay him for the privilege. and, :thy - church and established a club for the Aral', tie wants a \big\ woman for a wife. If Cupid really ulid. In a spirit of entertainment of his army of employea. lie extended his main canal awful it sarcasm. bend a stray' shaft into the penetrated every part of his barren en • heart of thin queer -looking ahotarnaker the wound Enlist have been Might. and tate. He cause,! five linmenste reser- to all appearances has healed, for Piro volra to be constructed high up In the beara no resemblance whatever to the mountains at) that he could have a per- petual water supply. Meanwhile the owner of blighted affeetions. lie cane he haul planted haul been growing, dently regarda the whole affair as a proposed property puichase that fell and a mill that soon produced 100 tons of sugar per day . Was being built under his personal supervision Spreckles became the bosom friend ol the old king. Kaiak:lila, and the latter niade him a knight commander in the king's order lie loaned the king big slims at fat interest and lorded It over the court officials with a high hand. He WAR diplomatic. too, and Made the port- ly queen tOlInermia presents of Amerl- can finery, anal In a short time became the most powerful white men on the islands. When the eastern sugar mag- nates tried te down him they met a tough customer lie was not content to stand on the defensive, but at once AA- RIIMed the aggressive, anti coming east established in big refinery in Mille/lei phla and soon got a good share of the leistnesa In the eari lie has large beet plantations In tinuthern California and a big refinery le a oeuert the product in to suear through. Little Ella, who had Ruch a narrow escape from niatrintony or Riasory, whatever one choesee to consider it smiles cunningly when questioned about the affair, and gays she doesn't want to be any one's wife: that Ville M11110 gnu to RCI1001 at least three years more, that she known nothing of any bargain concerning her. And AR for marrying Piro. anprIstP That main' Never! Should she ever marry it would .-ertainly be some oqe who is at least rood looking. All sorts of gossip about Piro and Ella is floating about Ociehen. •nal Pt- ro•lat life is not of unalloyed bliss be- cause of the ridicule he Is ((treed to fare (Me story has it that the wedding of the u hild and the Aileen - taker hat really taloyi place. and that Ella ha entered ..00n the three years' rcel der re with parents that an 01: ,equires. KIT CARSON'S SON SAM. A Slimmer of the World, es Limn hi dollte_d• Ist California. In a spur of the Sierras that runs, with its blue ridge, into the Pacific ocean, forming the western and north- ern cove of Santa Monica bay, is Ruse tic canon, the prettiest and one of the wildest canons in all the mountain re- gion of Southern California. High up In Rustic canon, around a turn in the road, and in the very midst of:all its wildness and mountain solitude, is a ricok on the mountain side, lives Sam- uel Carson, son of the famous Kit Car- son, scout, soldier, pioneer, Americas. For 20 years the old man has been buried out of sight and out of mind in this more than hermit's retreat. HO hae few acquaintances and friends, save tia dozen or more dogs- setters, point- ers, spaniels and Newfoundlands----that lie around his shack and stable, or fed from his hand on the meat he has killed with his gun. He prefers the deer on the range to the drawing -room, the ultra -solitude of the canon to the popu- lous city, and the gurgle of the moun- tain brook to the applause of the mob. Tall and thin, but rugged as the lithe peaks that leap into the sky around him, he is as picturesque and full of color as any hunter drawn by KIT CARSQN'S SON SAM. Cooper or Reid. The interior of his hut is neat and suggestive of his line- age. Here are gathered relics of his celebrated father, which should be worth much to any museum of Ameri- can history. He will tell you glibly of Kit Carson's romantic expedition Nast among the Indians; of his marvelous deeds as a scout; of his wonderful trail across the continent, over which the hardiest and most courageous pioneers la history traveled four months, cross- ing three ranges of mountains, to reach the land of gold with its lustrous clim- ate. and which is now traversed in three days by the locomotive and the Pullman palace car, of his indescribable fearlessness and marvelous Impertur- bability in braving alone a whole band of bloodthirsty and ineffably cruel sav- ages and conquering them b'y dint of boldness and self-confidence; of his rare qualities as a hunter and a trapper, which were greater than those even of the great Boone. There's one man In Santa Monica -- Jim Cowdry, of Missouri—who knows Sam Carson well. \You couldn't get Sam Carson out of that canon,\ Jim said one (lay, \with a log chain. He'll die there surrounded by his (logs and we'll bury him by the side of the moun- tain.\ FEELS A WOMAN'S WRATH. _ A Divorced KIN 8 ds In Stopping Her Et-littaband's Pension. Willis Hampton, who resides near Tayloreville. Ind., has been deprived of his pension in a peculiar manner. He has been drawing $17.50 a month for a long time. Some time ago he had a disagreement with his wife. Mr. Hampton secured a divorce and his wife went West. Some weeks ago she wrote to her former husband that un- less he sent her $50 at once she would see that his pension was stopped. Mr. Hampton refused the request and thought the threat idle. The woman put herself in communication with a special pension examiner, and the re- sult was that Mr. Hampton was rerated, reducing hie pension from $17.50 to $12 a month, the reduction to antedate the time of original Steele. Hampton has already drawn $1,429,47 more than he Is entitled to, and in consequence the pension department refuses to al- low him to file his voucher again un- til the year 1900, by which time the \\\\ MRS. HAMPTON. amount alleged to have been overdrawn will be offset or covered back into the treasury of the United States, elt• Water enlists with Corral:Alen. There has been so much sickness; in Duluth. Minn , that the authorities or- dered an inspection of the water supply. The main reservoir was found half full of dead fish and corruption of every kind and It was learned the pumps fre- quently became clogged with the 1111th. Several men have already been indicted and nearly 100 damage stilts have been brought against the water .company. Typhoid fever is raging. Newspaper*. The newspaper is a brief encyclo- pedia and if wisely limed, le an ea*. \Si Ion in itself HON' W Hayes Doylestown, l'a.
