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tapping Of his Ioathsome feet. until one
sIaps in anguish, but sIaps III vain
I saw man in train once, with a
tiny bellows flied with poisoned powder
which he was squirting at the flies. I
pitied that man. / did not condemn him:
and I pitied him more when his sin had
found him out, and / saw the ColOred
porter whispering to him. One cannot
conveniently carry sticky fly paper on a
journey, which IS a pity. since it is the
most Effective as well as the most in
human mechanical fly destroyer. The
poisoned paper which country 1nnkeepers
affect, especially in their dining-rOoms.
no doubt Injuries the f1y's constitution
and shortens his life; but 1t is not sure
death. and 1t is never quick destruction
The flies go off and NOPE and stagger
over the table cloth. and die in the pre-
serves; and you don't know which is pre-
serve and which is fly. They are every
where, like MIltOn samson. living at ran
Com, caTelessly diffused." Even the sticky
paper has its limitations; and its very
virtues have their peTils, as everyone
who has stumbled on TO q piece Of sticky
fly paper at night knows
SLEIGHT OF HAND
After all, the human arm fights flies bet
ten than paper or powder or fly trap OF
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by her side on the watch for all such little
freaks of a perverted inclination and
prompt to avert the casu alties that might
result from them. ,..a.
Miss Conseulo Vanderbilt did not ride
well when she first came here She had
ridden before, think, but she was not be-
yond the need OF Johnson. l saw her early
one morning on the Avenue well out beyond
the Marble House, in region not much
freauented at that hour. She wore a SIM
pie white duck shirt and pink blouse,
costume she has since discarded for the
natter attire affected by her mother.
She could not or did not getup speed enough
to keep her balance, and Johnson lectured
her smartly--there's not an aristocrat OF
the whole Four Hundred he's afraid Of
in the interest OF finding soft and safe land
ing places in the grass for her. When the
morning g lesson was over the white duck
had a good many green stains. Miss Con-
sueIo rides better now. She can go out to
the country club without single slip or
swerve.
Mrs. l. Townsend Burden is another of
Johnson's fashionable pupi's, and she
does credit TO her teacher. Mrs. Henry
Clews rides with him also, but is not yet
an exhibition scholar.
Mrs Herman 0elrichs and Miss Virginia
Fair have been under Johnson's tutelage
and probably Miss Fair Is his star rider.
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ever seen, unless it be the banks of Am
sterdam, which one can't tell from the
residences of the stately burghers.
The house belongs TO the estate of DR..
David II. King, owned by nephews and
nieces of the millionaire William H. King,
now confined in an insane asylum. The
cottage was the boyhood home OF Charlie
Bates, son of c. F. Bates, who made at
one time something of a sensation in
society by his marriage to the Queen
of Diamonds and later by his divorce
from her.
The office of the embassy is on the
ground floor OF the great entrance han.
1t is Iow-Ceiled and antique of look, with
hard-w ood floor and quaint, artistic
fittings that might well have belonged to
the last century. Some good practical
looking desks and big and conspicuous
portrait of Queen Victoria keep the ro-
mancing visitor, however, well pinned
down to the matter OF fact days of this
year of grace, 1895.
The door is opened by q rosy-Cheeked
country boy, old in years, but young in
learning. who makes the beds. sweeps
the floors, waits on the secretaries of
the legation, and, III short, is girl, and
yet is no girl at all. The reason for this
lads existence is that these scionS of
English nobility do not want a woman
about the place, and in turn the reason
for this is that they have their meals
sent in from the Club Cottage and like
TO come to breakfast comfortably in dis
habille.
The dining-room and smohng-room are
behind the office and the bedrooms on the
floor above.
Sir Julian Pauncefote. who is entitled
to wear almost the whole alphabet after
his name, and who is the queen s ambaS-
sador extraordinary and plenipotentiary,
is in Europe at present on his annual va
cation, but is expected to return at the
end of the present month. He is hand
some man OF military bearing and with
snow white hair. When in Newport he
entertains lavishly, and his wife and two
daughters are familiar figures at all social
functions of note. Mrs. Pauncefote Is a
pleasant woman, with a large circle of
friends. She is one of the best whips in
Newport The Misses Pauncefote are pretty,
accomplished girls, who never lack admirers.
The embassy has a corps of six, Of whom
one is abroad. In the absence of Sir Julian
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She doesn't hold the record for speed, but
Newport records don't count for much;
there isn't really &, fast rider here. Miss
harrington, who has, beaten Miss Fair,
would be laughed OF the track in any place
where girls are really athletic, with her
paltry ten miles in fiftY-three minutes,
but she looks well on q wheel, and SO does
Miss Fair, who has a deal. OF pluck and
endurance, and is out on the ocean drive
every day.
johnson has taught Mrs. Royal Phelps
Carroll and Mrs. II. Mortimer Brooks, who
drives six horses day and yet finds time
for cycling.
Two of the prettiest OF the black teachers
pupils are Miss Evelyn Burden and the
beautiful Miss Whittier, of Boston, who
is visiting her. ass t., 40. ..-..
Johnson doesn't encourage boomers.
He believes in a short tailor skirt, with
cycling shoes ard leggings. Indeed,
doubt If he ever saw anything more
radical here Nobody rides for speed:
everybody rides for grace, and the great
bloomer question, which practically has
been settled everywhere else, hasn't so
mush as beg.l to burn. Newport doesn't
care for athletics. 1t only bikes" as
a fad. and that without too much eXert1on.
typical bicycle costulre is that of
Miss Virginia Fair, who wears adark green
cloth skirt that is bound with white ard
stops at her ankles A white silk blouse
bagging a little over a white belt shows
under a smart green jacket. Her hat is
q white sailor tied with green ribhOrs.
Miss Elsie. Clews, who rides very well,
wears tan. color ard dark blue.
Men as well as women Toll and reel with
Johnson on Bellevue avenue and they make
much more cOmical pictures. Curiously
enough ii seems 10 hurt them deal more
to lose their dignity for minute, and then,
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by all the society girls. This year there
is white teacher also but Johnson still
gets the lions share Of the patronage.
JohneOn hasn't any academy or riding
track, but his methods are as efficacious
as they are simple. When one OF the
smart set wishes to add TO her attrac-
tious the display OF her figure upon the
wheel johnson takes her out in front
OF the Casino or anywhere else, as 1t
may happen upon the avenue. He holds
her upon the prcCdTious seat, and seems
to have as many arms as Briaraeus, Tor his
hands are on the handle bars, on the pedals.
between the shoulders or his agitated vic
tim, anywhere and every where, guiding
supplying motion, correcting all the
gyrations OF the tricky, two-wheeled imp,
landing the frightened girl safely on her
feet, if she loses her grip for an instant
and feels as II she would give the world TO
feel solid ground.
Under some one Of the stately trees
that overhaug the avenue you may be
sure OF seeing at almost any hour of a
bright morning, Johnson, cool, placid,
faithfully examining pneumatic tire,
and beside him rsther flushed but with
grim determination written on her face,
an heiress OF millions, weary but not
abashed, getting ready for another go.
When Il Philadelphia or a Southern
belle catches the Newport infection and
goes out with Johnson she apt to tie
a heavy brown or dark blue veil over
her face, so thick that she cannot be
recognized. But after day or two she
comes back to white gauZe with black
spots, for somehow she finds out that
it is correct, though it may seem ridicu-
Ious to learn to bike" in public.
To appear ashamed OF what is correct
is not good form. This is one reason
why girls in Newport learn very quickly
to ride. Since it is fashionable to take
their tumbes in the main highway, they
mount their wheels with desperation
which does bravely in place of courage, and
when they fail they pick themselves up
or suffer themselves to be picked up by
Johnson, with q smile. The method is
spartau but 1T works without fail.
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AsToR's woNDRoUs CAREER.
Not Family, But System for Amass-
inr Ynst Yeafh

ing VAST wealth
Talk about the brief harvest day OF
specuIators," said Frederick Harriet to
Gath, of the New York Morning Journal,
but see the wondrous career of the
Astors. It is not family, but system
AS soon as the Harlem River CanaT was
legisIated for, their estate began TO buy
and improve the natural dOckage property
in the flats about Ringsbridge tin they
possess q hundred acres III the future
center OF New York, where a hundred
acres is 4 colossal fortune. AS the canal
opens this dock and wharfage property
is Immediately ready for barges 10 enter
and warehouses to be erected. Hotel men
talk as If the Astors were making new
departure to build hotels, forgetting that
they were the first important hotel men
in New YORK. and built the AstOr House
and trained III 1t swarm or hotel men,
and at the end of sixty years 1t fetches
the rent its eYer-aCCeleTated income JUS
titles its tenants to pay In han its
length Of years the Herald office has
lived and died. Real estate conducted upon
the statesman plan OF these men IS Ike
the Mutual Life Insurance Company, which
has assets OF $3.50, 900 900, and nearly
S2OO, 1000 600 of that is surplus put INTO
real estate right here.
The AstOTs bought ana ueFFtopeu INTO
dock property another great tract at the
mouth os the Bronx before they took up
the Kingsbridge tracts on the Harlem
Their foresight is like the monks who
planted orange groves, which bear fruit
for five generations, which are the genera
tions of the American AstorS- What nj
ial monument is like their Joint hotels
now going up on the site OF their adioln-
ing houses? And IN vigor Of character the
present fourth generation equals the first,
with literary as well as business versa
tility NJ forefathers, the Haveneyers,
came over at the time with the AsJoTS,
about 1776, from adjacent parts, the
Astors from Waldorf, and the Eavemeyers
from Lippe They reared the great StrHc-
lures of sugar refining and imperial real
est ate ~
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seas.
No suggestion is meant that the rep
resentatives OF the Empress OF India in
this country are seasick; but when
Briton can get a British accent and
British atmospIere-soft and moist iu the
physical sense and very smart i'll the social
sense-and a heavy British carriage and.
wilderness OF hveries, and general
Difference to all the things he has been &C
customed to defer to, why, OF course he
is going to do so.
Sir Julian Pauncefote began it two years
ago. He took the Bonaparte villa on
Harrison avenue, overlooking Narragansett
Bay and here ne established the embassy.
One side of this historic mansion was set
apart for office use, while the reception
rooms of the other side saw many notable
gathering.
This summer the embassy has not such
magnificent surroundings, but is housed
III place easier OF access and i'll a fashion
able quarter of the city. TIE British lion
growls or more pacfically grins in the old
and pretty King cottage on Redwood street,
overlooking Bellevue avenue. The King
cottage is an o,d-fashioned wooden house
overgrown with clambering ivy.
Trees OF a Century's growth shut it in,
and, as il these Were not screen enough,
a heav y awning covers all the lower
windows. No less businesshke office was
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and the story would be the better for some
shadow OF confirmation.
The society man OF the party is Mr.. John
q. Ford, who is already More popular with
Newport bellies than was the Count de
Castellane last year. He is a tall, hand
some man, OF dark skin, contrasting oddly
with his light mustacbe. Perhaps he is the
best dressed man in Newport. Certainly
he looks as If he were kept carefully in a
bandboX. Ii is easier to find him ON Bellevue
avenue than at his office. One has not
been used to thinking OF the bicycle as a
vehicle Of diplomacy, and yet Mr.. Ford
so far unbC.sis from the stiffness of inter
national etiquette as to assist in maintain
ing cordial relations between Uncle sam
and John Bull by daily spins along the
Ocean drive with Miss Fair, Miss Hattie
Gammell, or some other deyotee of so
ciety and cycling.
Probably the most Industrious, person
in the office is the earl of Westmeath
who spends his days with his books aud
is well versed in the affairs of the political
world. He has a reading desk at the EN-
bassy and spends many evenings there alone,
in brown study or rather encircled by the
gray smoke Of a good cigar. He attends
TO much OF the correspondence or the Of
flee. which is very yOluminOus, wel-filled,
special mail. pouches going out at ire
quent intervals. The earl is pleasant,
bOyish looking fellow with smooth race
and light hair He speaks with pro-
nouuced English accent. Like Mr.. Ford,
lie rides a bicycle. He is Que Of Newport's
best swimmers
MT Henry o. BaxIrC OXIDES, second Sec
retary Of the legation, r. bigger ana more
imposing than any Of his colleagues He
is tall, heavily built man, arerul IN dress
and a society favorite. When be is not at
the office he is pretty sure TO be rouCd at
the Reading Room, Newports fashionable
summer club just before leaving Wash
iugtou he had bad fall from his bicycle,
but now has so far recovered as TO be seen
wheeling on the avenue every bright day
Mr. Cecil A. Spring Rice left for Eng
land soon after the embassy was trans
ferred TO this city, and Mr. j. j. O'Beirue
has but Just arrived.
The diplomatic corps is asked every
where aud seems to enjoy life, as indeed
it ought, for work and play both come
easier down here by the summer sea,
and society dDesu't need the excuse Of
Angloma0Ia to see cause 10 open its arms
to the manly men or the British embassy.
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The Quest Perilous.

''I love you with passion that knows no
bounds-I could daIs anything for your dear
saka-I would"
''Stop!" cried the beautiful girl mperi-
ously
For moment she gazed upon him in
silence.
'.AcIoss the river lies Brooklyn"
A deathly palloI crept languidly over the
young mans face.
''BIingme q token that you have journeyed
around that city or an hour and am yours"
With a despaiIinS moan the young man
grabbed his hat and allowed the night 10
swallow him up.
Asan accompaniInentto to theslamminG door
the beautiful giIl laughed merrily.
Then she exclaimed in puIe Harlemese:
'sWhila a trolley car runs in Brooklyn it's
dead easy to get id OF any man dOn'thke."
Again she laughed meIrily.-New York
World
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ATTACKED BY A STALLION.
A California Mans Desperate Struggle
to Escape Death.

to Escape Death.
A fight with q mad stallion occurred
this afternoon in the heart OF the city.
saws a Los Angeles correspondent Of the
san Francisco Examiner. j. W. SHlander
was the victim OF the enraged beast, and
narrowly escaped with his life. The stall
lion is owned by George Hare, and IS
ordinarily as gentle an animal as could
be desired, but of late ne has been exceed
ingly restive and hard TO handle.
Recently Mr. Hare had him III his corral
securely fastened, as he thought, and
little attention was paid TO him. The
animal, by sudden plunge, broke his
halter, and before the stableman could
stop him out Of the corral he dashed
ana ganoped down the street, turning
into Olive. At this time Mr.. Sulander
was walking along Second street and
turned into Olive. The stallion had not
paid any attention to paSSers by thus
far, Just galoping along. kicking up his
his heels and enjoying his freedom
But the sight OF Mr.. Sulander seemed to
infuriate the animal, for he made dash at
the pedestrian and bore him TO the ground.
Mr.. Sulander at first did not know that
he was being attacked, thinking the horse
was runaway steed that had colhded
with him, but before he could move the
beast commenced striking him with his
fore feet and swapping his powerful Jaws
in attempts to rend the mans body Mr..
Sulander realized then that ne had fight
for his life to make, and struck and kicked
in return to the best OF his ability. For
several minutes horse and man were all
tangled up, the stations sbrin screams
of rage mingled with the mans cries for
aid.
1t was q cruelty one-sided contest, and
the terrified spectators fully expected TO
see the mans brains dashed out at any mo-
ment. One of the iron boots struck his
left ankle and his leg fell broken, but he
continued to call for help.
A number of people collected, bat so fierce
was the horse that il was some time before
he could be secured with ropes and his
victim rescued At last this was ac-
compliShed, and beyond the broken leg and
some bruises and cuts, Mr.. Sulander was
found to have received no other wounds.
How he escaped fatal injuries cannot be
understood, for the horse fought like q
fiend.
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any kind Nothing can exceed the efficacy
of the hand properly equipped for the
fray, with small broom or a Compactiy
folded Gewspaper-anOther illustration OF
the power of the pressi y single really
gifted fly slayer, male or female. can do
more than any kind of poison or trap,
but the difficulty is that few maids and
fewer meu-servautS are really gifted in
killing flies. 1t is a pitifUl sight TO look
on the average maid attacking TlieS by
jerks, with an inadequate feather duSter,
she seldom hits anything, except the Orna-
meats, aud when by chance her unwieldy
weaonp does strike a fly, it must be
poor creature that cannot stumble Off
among the feathers. Therefore, l read
with interest q paragraph that has been
going the rounds OF the papers, anent the
remarkable hOHseSeeper, who has neither
screens nor flies She. it seems, keeps
the flies away wit hSpirits OF lavender
and water, one part of Lavender to five OF
water Mix and scatter about freely {
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aCalled Down."

In one OF the largest and richest churches
or B one Sunday the minister was very
much disturbed during his prayer by the
untinlely shaking down OF one OF the large
furnaces.
A lttle later both tfre minister and congre-
CATION were very much startled by hearing
the familiar voice of Que of their most
prominent godly deacons coming up the
register. Thomas" they heard, Thomas.
what in do you mean by making such 8
racket right in the middle OF the minister's q
prayer?"-Boston Budget.
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=
sible and even probable that she endured
all the preliminary struggles with pedals
and handle bar III broad daylight, on the
most fashionable of all summer thorough
fares, proud Bellevue ayene.
II is 20 a stranger the most curious sight
in Newport to gaze upon swarthy attired
member of the 400, who in Gotham town
would not stiI three blocks without her
cal riage 10 shield her and her maid TO at
tend. valiantly Keeling and wildly wobbling
on the tipsiest OF all vehicles, in the agonies
OF heI first lesson, right in the public street,
with all the world to look on.
And yet the explanation is simple. New
pOIt belongs to society. Only society peo-
pie are supposed to invade it. Bellevue
avenue is the avenue of the 400, and why
should one dread to be seen by 399 of ones
own?
Cycling became a fad in Newport last
summer The only teacher here then was
Prof Ike Johnson, a pleasant athletic col
oIed man, who promptly got himself liked
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Diplomats Enjoy
Newport Life
SUMMER OFFICE OF THE
QUEENS REPRESENTATIVE.
Embassy Moved to the Old and
Very Pretty King
Cottage.

Newport, Aug 2.-An Engltshman can
no more live without hedge than he can
without a tub. Perhaps that is why the
British embassy is stationed this summer
at Newport. The warm weather capital
is the most English OF any city in the
United States, its smooth lawns, stately
pleasure parks and jealousy screened villas,
overhung with oaks and elms and hidden
behind thick, tall hedges OF hawthorn,
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johnson is q busy man He is the most
good natared of his good d-Datured race. very
strong, very gentle and very patient. Miss
Vanderbilt seems even more perversely bent
than other young women on running
into thecurb or making sudden demonstra-
ton under the heels of a housekeeping
tandem, but johnson trots along serenely
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Let Tbem Sec the Palaces.

The French jonrnalets who Prolonged their
Kjeltrip and paid avisit to Copenhagen were
not received by the King OF Denmark. He
sent them word that he feared a political color
would be givento an official receptionbut he
ordered the different palaces to be arranged
for them to seeas thoy aTewhen useda asroyal
resjdeuces-New York World.
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Pauncefote, the legation is in charge of
Lord Cough, who makes his summer head
quarters at Beverly Farms, Mass, visiting
the office at Newport once a week only.
There is a rumor afloat that rich and
beautiful American girl is the attraction
at the Farms, but no name is mentioned,
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too, they are not sensible enough to take so
much help from johnson. They want TO
go oalone before theyCa and so they spra WI.
Women never s-rawl under any circum-
stances. If they tumble they come down
in a little heap, cuddled.
Not all the men who ride are swells, for
the fashionable women are having their
footmen taught, to act as bicycle escorts.
Miss McAllister set the fashion, ard now
you can tell truly true from factory
girl-fOr Newport has factory girls who
ride the wheel, and ride ifrcommonly well
by the fact that the T IT. Will have
liveried attendant trundling behind. John
son says it's hard to teachlackeys. They re
so used to being ramrods4hey can't gain
elasticity quickly. g.
But what with bicycle breakfasts and
picnics and daily ruesy TO the country
club. it's likely 10 be busy summer here
upon the wheel.
TJSBETH PUTNAM.
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Seaside Bellies
Disport on Bikes
HOW MILLIONAIRESSES AT
NEWPORT LEARN TO RIDE
Cycling Became a Fad Last Sum-
mer-Bloomers Not Encour-
aged by the 400.

EXPORT, Aug. a.
When a Newport belle
spins along the ocean
drive Oh her safety
there is room for in
teIesting conjectureas
to how she learned 10
Tide the wheel. She
may have pIacticed
the gentle ait in New
York, she may have
had lessons in the cy-
ling academy here,
he may have had a
teacher in the privacy
T her own cottage
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The Pessimtst

ut may ba a great and glorious thing to
die for ones country" said the pessinist,
''but what is tbs good In doing an act that
givesyou nochance to respond to an encore?'
Indianapolis Journal
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Octave Thanet
Writes or Pests
FAMOUS LITERARY WOMAN
AND THE BUG PROBLEM.
She Is Inclined to Think Thai
the Human Hand Is the
Best Destroyer.
By Octave .Thanet.

I have been, for a number Of years,
experimenting in the destruction OF flies.
The fly L have always held 70 be
more noisome and irritable enemy OF the
human race than the mosquito. To be
sure, the mosquito hurts one more than
the fly, but, on the other hand, he does
not make such a noise about itl He
sings, but he docs not buzz; he does not
keep the early morning sleeper awake
slapping viciously at his face-and then
he is so much more easily killed than
the flyl
Everyone can Kill mosquito, day or
night, by letting him get good hold and
then bringing the hand down on him. But
whoever hits a fly in the dark?
presume the reason screens are so much
more common west than east is that flies
are common, too.e The screens in a house
which has every crevice defended, do
keep out the flies But one Is more
troubled with them outdoors and when
travelling.
THE CAR FLY
The fly in the Pullman, OF a hot, dusty
day, is d happy sCOundrel. His buzz Of
triumphant glee is heard above the noise
OF the train, and he fits cheerily from
face TO face. with that Understandable, in
suIting flabbing OF ms Odious wings and
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Cruel Fate.

May-Were there any men at the ssashore2
Pamela-Yes, one; but he wasn't popular
May-Who was he?
Parmela-The arraIess wooder.-Truth.