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AT THE END OF THE SEASON.

Some Reasons Why the Hair of the Sn'm-
mer Hotel Proprietor Turns Gray.
These are the days when the big'sum-
mer hotels ' at seashore and mountain
begin to cut down expenses in view of
the near close of the season. And there-
by hangs a tale, for the cutting down
process is not unattended by trials and
worry, says the New York Herald. '
Of course the most expensive thing is
the help. Most great hotels require al-
most as many servants as they have
guests, and when the guests begin to

go home by'scores the servants have to'

be discharged by scores or away go the
profits of the season. ..

, But servants are clannish, and there
comes in the difficulty. They are only
engaged for a season of indefinite
length, and know that they must go at
its end. But many object to going
while their friends remain, and it often
happens that the lucky ones who are
retained refuse to stay out the remain-
ing weeks or days if their friends are
discharged.

So' no end of trouble arises, and the
wretched proprietor acquires gray hairs
in straightening out the difficulties.
Recently the proprietor of one of the
biggest of our nearby seaside hotels,
having lost all but about forty guests,
undertook to reduce the kitchen staff
proportionately;

There was immediate war, and even
the French chef get red in the face and
declared that if he couldn’t have his
all-summer force he would pack up and
get out forthwith. The proprietor
couldn’t yield and retain his profits, and
the chief and his assistants were ob-
stinate. . .

So all that was left for the proprietor
was to throw out the entire force, bag
and baggage, and hustle up to the city
and engage an entirely new force for

ion .
the remaining two weeks of his season.

 

 

 

DRIVEN INTO HYSTERICS.

Young Woman Became Frantic at the
' Sight or Presence of a Cat.

It's a subject that is frequently
talked about, but it is a fact that the
natural antipathies between certain
persons and certain animals furnish
fresh food for wonder and conjecture
constantly. Everyone knows well
enough the aversion that the majority
of people have i or snakes—the horrify-
ing dread that their presence excites.
Many persons also "hate cats,” as they
term it. Their soft, stealthy move-
ments excite a distrust that frequently
amounts to aversion. It is seldom,
however, that this is so pronounced as
in a case which excited considerable
comment in this city recently, says the
New York Tribune. 'It was of a young
woman who had always had a mOst un-
conquerable dread of the feline crea-
tures, and she actually could not en-
dure the presence of one in the room
without losing control of herself com-
pletely. She was so sensitive in this
particular that her family declares that
upon entering a room, if there wasa
cat concealed anywhere within it, she
would at once detect its presence, and
unless it were removed at once would
become hysterical. In fact, it was a
standing joke on her that on one occa-
sion like this she became absolutely
terrified, and rushing up to a ,young
man, who was a total stranger to her,
seized him about the neck, sobbing des-
perately till the cat was taken away.

The girl was thoroughly ashamed of
her weakness, as she called it, but de-
clared she was absolutely powerless in
the matter. Some instinct—it was no
subtle odor—told her if a out were any-
where near her, and the moment she
detected it she straightway lost all her
self-possession.

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HE WAS WILLING.

'I‘ime Had Tempered His Grief for His
Lamented Partner.

There was an old man with a big and
bulky satchel at his feet and a weed on
his hat leaning against the Griswold
street front of the post office the other
day, says the Detroit Free Press, when
a wag who had been hanging around for

- the right sort of a man to appear ap-

proached him and said:
‘ “I see that the grim destroyer has in-
vaded your hearthstone‘.”

“The which?” asked the old man.

“The grim destroyer—the angel of
death. I take it your ‘wife has gone
hence.”

“Yes, gone hence."

“Allow me to extend my heartfelt
sympathies.”

“Yes, you kin extend ’em.”

“You must be lonely.”

“Yes, purty lonely.”

“I have lost the partner of my own
bosom and I know how it feels. You
seem' to be all alone in this great
world.” .

“Yes, that’s the feelin’.”

“Life appears to be a desert to you?”

“Yes, a reg’lar desert, with sand 3.
foot deep.” .

“But in your loneliness-in the seemi-
ing emptiness of your life—has it not
occurred to you that you could do some-
thing »to add to the happiness of your
fellowman‘B”

“Yes, it has.”

“And will you do it?”

“I will. It’s ’leven months now since
my wife was taken away and if you’ll
point me out a woman about forty
years old who wants to get married I’ll
pop the question so quick that it will
make her heels lift up. You betcher
life I want to do something for my
fellerman and I’m waitin’ right here to
get another sight of a woman whom
I’ve follered fur three miles and winked
at over a dozen times.”

Fingers and .Toes.
There is one curious fact respecting

the animal creation"with which you

will never become acquainted if you de-
pend on your text books for informa-
tion. It is this: N 0 living representa-
tive of the animal kingdom has more
than five toes, digits or claws to each
foot, hand or limb. The horse is the
type of one-toed creation. the camel of
the two-toed, the rhinoceros of the
three~toed and the hippopotamus of
four-teed animal life. The elephant
and hundreds of other animals belong-
ing to different orders belong to th

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HIS Honses AND ~DOGS-KILLED. ,

Carrying Out the Strange Provisions of an
> ' Animal Lover’s Will.

. At Bridgeport, Conn., a provision in

the will of Francis Ives Was lately car-

ried out, his fine horses and well-bred

dogs having been put to death,
says the New York World. -Mr.

Ives was a distinguished member of
the Fairfield county bar and a rich old
bachelor. Rumor had it that when he
was a young man he fell in love with

the beautiful Miss Julia. Jones, daugh-

ter of Rev. and Mrs. Henry J ones and
granddaughter of Noah Webster. Mr.
Ives proposed to Miss Jones and she re-
jected him. Afterwards she married
'Rev. Thomas Beecher, brother of Hen-
‘ry Ward Beecher. From the time of
her marriage Mr. Ives separated him-
self from the society of women. He
owned a fine stable of thoroughbred
trotters. Two of them, Prince and
Gypsy, were his greatest favorites, and
as he speeded them he seemedto be
forgetful for the moment and happy.
He o'wned a kennel of pedigreed point-
ers and setters and he was an enthusi-
astic'hunter. Mr. Ives died last winter,
leaving a large estate. His will made
his life-long friend, George Hayes, his
executor, and, outside of« a few small
bequests, left his whole estate to his
sister, Mrs. Whiting, of New Haven.
But the eighteenth clause of his will
betrayed Mr. Ives’ intense affection for
his horses and dogs—an affection
'which, necessarily diverted from its
first object, had centered itself on
them. In this clause Mr. Ives directed
his executor, Mr. Hayes, to chloroform

to death all the animals that he might}

own at the time of his death in the
month of June first following that
event. In explanation of this act of
seeming cruelty Mr. Ives wrote in his
will: '

“I fear lost my dogs and horses will
fall into the hands of some one who
will not treat them kindly.”

Mr. Ives was well known to be a hu-
mane and kind-hearted man. His exec-
utor considered his order binding upon
him.

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~ Sounds That Break in the Stilly Night on

the Ears of the Flat Dweller.

“In the hot nights, wit-11 the windows
into the air shafts all open,” said a New
York flat dweller, “we hear‘ the voices
of old and young in all sorts of tones
and modulations, and speedily become
used to them and pay no attention to
them; they are part of the routine of
life to which we become accustomed,
as ve do to the sounds of the streets, to
the rustling of trees or the flow of
waters. But suppose you wake up in
the night in intense quiet; your own
air shaft windows wide open and all
the rest the same. The voices you
heard in the evening. now are stilled;
there is-no sound. ‘hen you hear the
striking of a clock, and then you hear
more clocks; some close together, some
far apart, but no two striking together,
and they are as different. in manners of
stroke and sound as they are in time;
there are no two alike. There are
clocks ’with a sharp, quick, shrill
strike, -clocks 'with a slow cathedral
gong, colorless clocks, charming clocks,
medieval clocks of the kind they made
forty or fifty years ago—you know
them by the strike, lothic in pattern
and perhaps with a picture of Melrose
abbey or something of that sort painted
on the door under the clock face. Iron
clocks, wooden clocks; marble clocks,
onyx clocks, nickel clocks, all sorts of
clocks, old and new, rise before the
mind's eye as they tell each its tale of
the 13(assing_time.and when they are
all done there comes after an interval
one more, a deep, ponderous, distant
boom, and after that comes silence
again.”

WANTED TO BORROW HIM.

Queer Request Two Women Made of a
Philadelphian and the Reason Therefor.
A genial Philadelphian, who for ob-
vious reasons does not care to have his
name printed on this occasion, secured
a parlor car seat on an express train
for Readingafcw days ago, says the
Philadelphia Record, and as he. was
about to pass through the gates was
surprised to hear himself accosted in
feminine tones with the somewhat
startling question: “Please, mister,
could I borrow you for awhile?”
Looking around he found two buxom
women, who hastily and hesitatingly
explained that they were riding on a
pass made out in the name of a gentle-
man and his wife, and, as the gentle.-
man was not present, they wanted the
genial-looking citizen to place his
bought ticket at the disposal of one
lady and take the other one under his
wing, while'he personated the absent
owner of the pass.
; “Which is my wife?” he inquired
with an inward qualm, lest his own ab-
sent better half should hear the story.
“You can take your choice, sir,” said
the lady in search of an escort: and be
promptly did so by tucking the arm of
the youngest fair one under his own
and leading her into the car. The
couple proved to be right jolly travel-

ing companions, and the citizen’s only-

regrct in the transaction was due to a
fear that the story might leak out and
get home ahead of him. But it didn’t.

 

 

 

Longevity in Philadelphia.
That quietude conduces to longevity
seems to be demonstrated by the record

.of lofigcvity in Philadelphia, a matter
on which the city prides itself con»

siderably. During the first half of this
year the obituary columns of the
Ledger contained death notices of 234
women and 180 men who had lived to
or beyond the age of 80 years. The
greater part of the deaths were of resi-
dents of Philadelphia. Thirteen women
and twenty-six men lived to or beyond
the age of 9.0 years. The extreme ages
reached were 99 years by one woman
and 96 by three men. One colored man
has a record all to himself. He was
John Gibson, a well-known character
in Philadelphia, who died on February
2 at the home for aged and infirm col-
ored people. He claimed to be 130

years old, but the most authentic inforw

mation made him out to be' 117, which
was accepted as being probably cor-
rect. , .

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The GAZETTE

A Chance to Profit by a Boston
Man’s Experience.

5% (From the Boston Herald )

It’s a strange thing how people will
put away all opportunity uuul too late;
it’s only little things (but go tomnkeup
our everyday existence; the trouble is
we don’t pay sufficient attention to
them.- “A wink to the wise may be
sufficient,” but semei'mes we do‘n’t get
that wink. and .we are not all Wise.

vNow, for instance: Backache is a little

thing. Sometimes it comes after a hard
day’s work, or'a slight cold. It will
pass oil", you say; it’s only the result of
overtaxing my back. This is where
you are wrong. It isn’t the fault of
your back, but your kidneys. The
exertion or straining has interfered
with their delicate mechanism. You
call it backache, but it really is kidney
ache. If the kidneys are not relieved,
chronic disorders set in, and this is
where the “little thing” should not be
passed over.

A Boston man has learner] to appre-
ciate what delay means. We refer to J.
H. Mathews, who resides at No. 4 Gar-

land St. This is how he speaks about
it: “ home eight years ago I had a bad

fall which rendered my buck lame and
sore. I was not surprised at this, as
my accident wash bad one, but as time
went on my heck did not appear to im-
prove, and I wondered at it. I never
seemed to get perfectly well. It would
hurt me to stoop over or lift anything
heavy. I suffered with dull headaches;
colds, drafts. and even dampness had
immediate effect on my back. I was
always 100k]!!! for a remedy for my ills.
At but I found it. I got a box of
Doan’s Kidney Pills at Bradbury’s
Drug Store. on Washington St. They.
were highly recommended, and be-
gan their use at once. Their action
was “like unto magic,” and day by day
the pain began to lessen in my back
am glad to give the public the benefit
of my experience. Dean’s Kidney Pills
are excellent medicine, and strike right
at the point of the kidney troubles.”

Dean’s Kidney Pills are for sale by
all dealers, price 50 cents. mailed by
Foster-Hilburn 00., Buffalo, N. Y.,
sole agents for the United States.

 

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Greene’s Nervura,. . . .
William’s Pink Pills, . . .
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Pears’ Unscented Soap, . .

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