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LESS FURNITURE BEING USED IN THE NEW STYLE ROOMS

to be covered with wall paper, and then
the object of the decorator was TO fill up
that wall as much az POSSIBLE with pictures,
or else get the room Sd full OF furniture
that the sense Of bar eness was removed.
In a measure. much furniture was neces-
sary in these big rooms, with their lack of
distinctive style. The difference to-day
In the work of decorators exp lains the
difference in the quantity OF furniture
needed.
Nowadays a drawing room will be dec
GRATED, gay in Louis Seize fashion. The
walls will be panelled, with mouldings
about the silk or pictures. The ceilings
will be treated in the same way; The effect
OF this decoration is to furnish room
very much more than the plain old wall
paper ever did. There Is, Of course, no need
FOR the quantity Of furniture that used
to be wanted and fine pictures can be hung
on these walls.
what furnishes these rooms properly
a decorator told THE Sun reporter, Is a
few fine specimens OF the furniture OF the
period. Very little furniture was used in
the rooms that were furnished originally
with Louis Quinze OF Louis Seize pieces,
and the rooms were all much larger than
those we have to-day.
Il saw Louis Quinze room the other
day which was in perfect taste. There
was O piano In 1t, a small grand, but that
was necessary, and II was covered with
draping which made it decorative. II it did
not improve Its acoustics. Two chests
of drawers which were genuine Louis
Quinze specimens chdise tongue and
four separate ohairs-all Of them perfect
pieces-furnished beautifully a room 20 by
% feet. There was no sense Of emptiness
in this room, which ten years ago would
have been 30 clogged with furniture and
bric-a-brao that it would have been all but
impossible to get around it.
sThe diminution In the number Of tables,
cabinets and what not has OF course tended
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OF il which were used before the present
style OF less furniture came into existence
Consequently the amount Of 1t to be seen In
New York houses to-day is smaller than
ever before. We have not yet got to the
stage in which only one piece is taken out
at a time, but We are nearer that Japanese
custom than eYer before
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tunate enough to fall into the hands OF
q skilful decorator, and her rooms were
delightful and artistically empty.
One room held two graceful sofas with
genuine ormolu ornaments and covers In
yellow silk, Of the same color as the wall
draperies and the curtains. Two chairs
and two cabinets with doors. sparingiy
ornamented with real ormolu, completed
the furniture OF this room.
IT be middle roc m leading into the din
ing room contained high desk, a heavy
round table and four chairs. This room
was done also in yellow to increase the
sense Of space and not have the vision
disturbed by too many tints In such a COM
paratively small area. The dining. room
had a heavy, mahogany sofa and twelve
chairs. All the pieces were genuine First
Empire and with two consoles gave the room
Just the formal stiffness which was the
essential feature OF this period.
Nov. these rooms were sparsely fur
inshed for New York ten years ago, but the
woman who owned that house was for
and to put her confidence In him. As a
result she never grew tired Of Empire fur
niture. When It went out OF style. her
rooms were just as beautiful as ever. be-
cause they had been done with a sense Of
what real taste and the periods of time
require.
Naturally, women with their houses
packed with Empire furniture unit, they
looked like auction rooms or junk shops
grew siok OF this excessive supply and got
rid Of the costly furniture II they gould
afford to. No style is more difficult to
adapt to so-oalled domestic use OF the
present day than Empire furniture II is
rather degraded, pseudo classic fashion
that must be used as all classic etyles are
and allowed to retain some Of Its remoteness
and severity. Trying to tumble lot OF
Empire furniture together TO make II seem
homelike Ia most futile task
The decrease In the amount OF furniture
used nowadays is In q measure due TO the
artistic methods OF decorators. Rooms
In first class new houses for which their
owners pay lar &c sums are now decorated
more artistically than they used to be.
Formerly there was q stretch Of vacant
wall, interrupted only by the cornices,
the Dashboard and the doors. This had
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tickets, we could not travel by ordinary
train. We were thankful to be allowed to
make this arrangement and cheerfully
paid several dollars on our tickets.
But alas. even then the immigrant stigma
remained. Although we paid the full
amount demanded for ordinary first class
tickets, our tickets were still immigrant
tickets, and, although we were extremely
weary and willing to pay for berths in the
Pullman-a luxury we usually indulge in
our tickets forbade that we should do So,
and We were therefore obliged to sit UP
all night and all Of the following day.
WAS this, / ask, fair treatment of Ameri-
can citizens2 We offered good American
money for privilege which. is supposed
to be extended to any respectable traveller
who is willing to pay for it, and we were
denied that privilege. because the obnoxious
word Immigrant was stamped upon the
tickets which we were compelled to pur-
chase Can We, with any consistency call
ourselves free American citizens until our
immigration laws are amendedt'
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This is the era OF the empty room. Fash
ion. which changes for modes Of furnishing
as we'll as for everything else, has swung
as far away as possible from the over
crowded rooms that were in style few
years ago.
One no longer stumbles over the so-called
silver table" in the at tempt to get out OF
the way of the glass covered miniature
table, and then falls over the kidney dish
which has been moved out to make room
for the Louis Quinze cabinet. One can
fashionably Furnished room which looks
like Sahara In comparison with the chock-
a-block apartments Of decade ago,
THE new style il In accord with better
standards Of taste" said decorator who
admitted that the fashion. had changed
greatly in this respect, land believe that
the day. OF the overcrowded room has
passed forever. ] can remember some
years ago when the rage for First Empire
furniture began. Anybody who has seen
the style Of that period, knows that only a
few pieces Of this massive furniture were
used In every room.
Il can recall rooms Of that kind in New
York, however, so crowded with Empire
pieces that they filed all the available space.
Chairs, sofas, the heavy. awkward tables
and dishes were piled about until the. or
mulu gave the whole room brassy look.
Empire furniture Is very much the rage
just now, and very rare, consequently costly,
the hosteeses In such houses seemed to pro-
claim. Just look how much Of 1t We
have managed to get into one ROOM
.The result OF such providing was OF
course an entire loss Of any beauty the
furniture Possessed. It was impossible
to enjoy the outlines because half Of the
pieces were hidden. 1t was equally i'm
possible to see the beauty in the color OF
the wood, because that could not be de-
tected In the budding together OF 30 many
pieces.
THE most successful Empire rooms
ever saw In New York were In house less
rooms on the entrance floor, opening one
into another, making an effect not unlike
an elongated Pullman car. The hostess
who wanted Empire furniture was for
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Several principals OF public schools IN
New York are q good deal worried over the
fact that gambling is on the increase among
boys and that little Is done outside OF the
school to suppress It, One OF them. man
OF fifty years experience in the public
schools and in teaching boys, remarked
that although he did not agree with recent
statement that the schoolboy of to-day
in his general behavior was more lawless
than boys Of past generations he did think
that In some respects he was more keen In
following harmful practices, such as tru-
ancy and gambling, for instance.
"These two practices nearly always go
together" he continued. Every truant
is pretty sure to be gambler, although
every gambler is not always a truant.
Wipe out gambling and truancy will cease.
you can have no conception of the
amount of gambling which goes on among
the small boys of this school and OF almost
every other situated in crowded district,
The diversion is not local. 1t is just as
much followed on the West Side as 1t ia
over here and up town as well down
town schools include pupils who spend
every spare moment they can get in play
ing craps, pitching pennies, buttons and
the like.
There are 1000 boys in this school, and
hardly class, l am afraid, but has its
gambler or ringleader who acts as instructor
to dozens of other boys
Here the principal turned to his desk,
flshed out pair Of dice from pigeonhole
and picked out some bits Of paper from q
drawer.
Zone Of my Teachers" said he, captured
these dice the other day from a boy in her
class, and these papers contain the names
of boys discovered gambling on the school
premises or near the building. or course
we have no jurisdiction over boy when
he is away from the school precinct, but
do make point Of interfering every time
see boys gambling on the sidewalk any
where near here.
when the game takes the form Of pitch
ing pennies l edge close up and at the first
chance put my. foot over cent. stoop down,
pick it up and put it in my pocket. Then
! tell the boys, II you want to get this back
send your mother or father after it to the
school, I am II cents to the good at
present, for Of course not boy Of them
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Nep Bedford oorrespon dence Boston Herald
Dick o'Leary Of this city, prevented by
physical lnnrmitles from following the COM
mon pursuits OF men. has devised new method
of earning a livelihood. With his donkey
and his little cart. his mcgaphone and a
banner he goes all over the city and adver-
tiscs any thing from baseball game to social
and dance.
Dick O'Leary was once one OF the strongest
men in the city. As porter at one o. the
hotels he handled heavy weights with the
ease of a professional strong man. In the
flower OF his strength one night, he awoke
the next morning to fnd himself crippled
and helpless After weeks Of inactivity.
and as result Of careful nursing, Dick re-
covered sufficiently TO go 70 work on light
jobs. but his malady had not been conquered.
His strength gradually gave way, and in the
end he found that he could not walk,
A good many men would have given up
under the circumstances. but O'Leary was
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plucky and determined to find some plan
OF earning q living for himself and wife.
He took his cue from Billy Clark the famous
town crier OF Nantucket. only he decided 10
improve on Clark's methods. He realized
that for the scheme he had In mind nnll'y
was prime requisite. so he went TO friends
and asked them To- get him donkey. Throrr'r
another friend Dick was fitted OF WIN
outfit. His first appearance on the street
made decided hit. Crowds OF boys followed
him wherever he went. and II was evident
that he would have no trouble in at-rac nr
notice.
At first the business was rrrcarious md
there were times when Dick and his duu...'
went hungry. But he has now become ara
institution recognized by those WHO w Z:
certain things advertised, and not day pas g,
but he trsverses the city In hs donkey car'
lie Is q vast Improvement on the. sandwi
man. because he talks to the public thrnnfn
his meRaphone. while his donkey and .lrt
lift him above the level of the town cricr, u"
affection from which he suffers is genera,
known and sympathy brings in some part oil
his trade.
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Poison for Cholera Victims.

= Some years ago l found myself In the
city OF Buenos Ayres at time when the
cholera was raging In that capital" said
MIR. ID. j. Arbuckle Of New Orleans.
ct happened that as i walked along q
public thoroughfare one day while the plague
was at Its height / saw a man fall to the
ground. and l surmsed that he had been
stricken with the dread disease. Before
the unfortunate and administer drink TO him
from a bottle which i had no ioubt oon-
-tained O restorative OF some kind Of medicine.
AT the same time the policeman blew bis
whistle for an ambulance.
The vehicle came very quickly, and yet
was. q corpse that was removed remarked
70 the ofhoer that the medicine had been OF
ne avail Certainly pot, sefior.' he answered
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poison. That is the way we have to do now
the man would soon have died any way
Il never experienced a deeper feeling Of
man In the Hight Of murderer. Yet he doubt
less regarded what he had done a. In the
nature Of dissgrecable necessity. and politely
bidding me sdlos. went his way
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sheep for warm Climates.

From Country Lite IN America.
The Department OF Agriculture has re-
Gently imported nve woolless sheep-four
Southern States.
A heavy crop Of wool Is q burden in hot
dry districts. resulting In . direct LID effect
on the quality Of the mutton. These sheep
are being experimental with by the Bureau
Of An% h.y n yer. s1s
the barbados. yhsrs thsy proved profitable
Arizona republican., 1904-05-17
CHASING DEAD BODIES
In the Wild Swirling Waters of the
 Truckee River.

Reno, New, May 16-More than a thousand people line the banks of the Truckee river between Laughton Springs and Truckee meadows ill a vain effort to discover the bodies of the vic- tims of yesterdays tragedy. All night a vigil was kept at points where arc lights have been suspended over the water and early this morning Indian trailers were sent out to follow both banks of the turbulent stream.
 At noon today the body of Miss Me Milan was observed for a brief time to pass over the electric light dam near here. One of the witnesses of the brief upheaval of the form of the girl and its almost instant eclipse in the foam below was her aged father who be- came almost frantic. At once horsemen galloped along the river below, warning people to be on the lookout. The work of discovery is well organized and every available appliance, including nets stretched across the river at different points. has been brought into requisi- ton.
 F. w. Tinsman, of Chicago, one of the victims, was treasurer, of the Chicago Art company, and was camped at ; Laughton Springs in company with Charles Dunlap, it's vice president. They were enjoying an outing, fishing and sketching river scenery.
Arizona republican., 1904-05-17
THE ILLINOIS DEADLOCK
There Was no Prospect at Midnight
 of a Solution.

Springfield, H., May 16.-With it's deadlock unbroken and with little pros pect of a compromise, which will de- liver the situation, the Illinois repub- lican convention took a recess at 5:23 o'clock this evening until 10 o'clock to- morrow. The recess followed the twen- ty-ninth roll call, the result of which showed each candidate with approxi- mately the same strength he had when he entered the convention.
 The last ballot taken today gave the following: Yates, 4S1; Lowden, 4Oi; Deneen. 3S2; Hamlin, 115; Warner, g.; Sherman, 56; Pierce, %.
 The convention proceedings were comparatively tame today and at only one time during the session was there any great demonstration. This occurre when a glee club was invited to the platform to sing. Uncle Joe" Cannon asked the audience to icin in the chorus and he led it himself, taking a com manding position on the platform and beating time with his gavel reversed for a baton. He looked like a digni- fled old time singing master at a Coun- try schoolhouse and swayed his little body in unison with the music and de- scribed the beats of the inspiring tune with his improvised baton.
 The great audience sang with a will and when the echoes of the chorus died away a wave of wild enthusiasm swept over the immense hall. At midnight there appears no remedy for the dead lock. Yates, Deneen and Sherman have held a conference, but without result. No candidate is ready to be withdrawn.
Arizona republican., 1904-05-17
EIGHT WITH BANDITS.

St. Petersburg, May 16.-The general staff has received the following dis patch from Lieutenant General Slkar- ahoff, General Kuropatkin's chief Cf staff, dated May 15: "On May 14 I was informed that Chinese bandits had appeared in the villages sixteen kilome- ters west of LiaO Yang, and I sent out
 attachments of riflemen mounted and on foot and a company of infantry. No bandits were found in the villages. the inha bitants of which answered ques- tions evasively. As the force was re turning from the village of Shantad- sea. twelve kilometers west of Liao Yang, d considerable number of ban dits were discovered at a spot wheI Q they had been concealed by villages. The riflemen attacked the bandits, who occupied the outskirts of a village, from which they were dislodged. They left twenty dead and a number of rifles and many cartridges. Our loss was two soldiers killed and three wounded. The Japanese have re-occupied KoIn- dianh-Sian."
Arizona republican., 1904-05-17
DENVER ELECTION EVE
There Was a Promise of Stirring In-
 cidentS Today.

Denver, May 16.-The most intensely bitter political campaign in the his tory of this city closed tonight with mass meetings and tomorrow full city ticket, the first under the new charter will be voted on.
 During the campaign every daily newspaper in the city has been ar rayed against the democratic ticket. Robert w. Speer, president of the board of public works is candidate for mayor and is charged with being the machine man and with having dic- tated his own nomination as well as that of the entire demCc Ccratic ticket. John w. Springer, formerly president of the National Livestock association, heads the republican ticket.
 The most interesting feature of the campaign has been the court proceed ings, which wound up today, with che elections commission consisting of two democrats and one republican, being hauled before the supreme court for a delivery of judges books.
 Another incident occurred late this afternoon when Crawford Hill and Wm. Stapleton, proprietor and editor respectively of the Denver Republican, were brought before the district court by order of Judge Mullins and charged with contempt of court. TEis action is the outcome of an editorial printed in that paper recently in which it was
Arizona republican., 1904-05-17
A DEAD INDIAN FIGHTER.
Tom Toben of Colorado Companion of
 Kit Carson.

Durango, Colo, May 16.-News has reached here from Fort Garland Colo, of the death of Tom Toben, the famous scout and Indian fighter and intimate friend and companion of Kit Carson, the scout and Indian fighter. The bare announcement of his death was all the information received.
 Toben served as a scout for the gov ernment troops in the expedition against the hostile Navajos and Mexi- can bandits. His most famous exploit was the killing of the famous Espinoza brothers and his nephew who had com mitted numerous muItlers of white peo- pie in southern Colorado because of religious fanaticism. A large reward for them had been offered by Governor Evans, the territorial executive. AL though Toben's age is not known he came to Colorado in the early forties. A daughter and several grandchildren survive him.
Arizona republican., 1904-05-17
WISCONSIN CONVENTION
Hearst Movement Will Cut Very Little
 Ice There.

Milwaukee, May 16.-The democratic state convention will meet here tomor- row for the purpose of selecting four delegates at large to the national con vention at St. Louis and also to ratify the delegations elected by congression- al district caucuses, to choose a nation al committeeman and name pres.den- tial electors. From the returns of eau cuses throughout the state, Edward C. Wall of this city, candidate for the presidential nomination, will un1oubt- edly be endorsed by the convention, over William Hart, the only other candidate seeking to control the state delegation.
 According to the estimates cf the Wal managers, their candidate will have close to 400 of the 5S3 delegates in the convention. Hearst supporters say that the claim is preposterous, but they hay. not given out their figures. Owen A. Wells, of Fon Du Lac, has been chosen as temporary presiding officer of the convention.
 Among those mentioned for delegates at large are: Neal Brown, of Wausau; Mayor David s. Rose, of Milwaukee,: Timothy F. Ryan, of Waukesha; Geo. w. Bird and William r. Villas, of Mad ison. and pr. Wendell A. Anderson, of Lacrosse.
Arizona republican., 1904-05-17
SANTA FE B0ILERMAKERS
All of Them Obeyed the Strike 0r;' pr
 on Saturday. s'

Les Angeles, May 16.-Reports from Albuquerque, Winslow, Needles, SeliS- man, Barstow. Point Richmond and San Bernardino. received by General Manager Wells of the Santa Fe today are to the effect that every boiler maker struck at the points named, when the cal. was issued on Saturday afternoon. At Bakersfield and Los Angeles, where only comparatively few men are em- ployed in these departments the order to. strike was not obeyed and the men remained at work.
 We have applications from many places from boiler makers and others wishing work" said Manager Wells. We are filling vacancies as rapidly as wo can get men to the places where we are short. There has not been any trouble SD far and we expect none" It is announced by the strikers that they are to receive wages while out and this will do away with any reason for returning to work. They say they pro- pose to make a fight without lawless- ness.
Arizona republican., 1904-05-17
SAME AS IF DONE
The Ohio Republican Con-
 ventiOn Today
A Harmony Programme Which Invol- yes the Continued Sitting Down Up- on the Foraker Faction.

Columbus, Ohio, May 16.-Some of the delegates and most of the candi- dates are here today for the republi- can state convention that convenes tomorrow to nominate a state ticket, select delegates and alternates to the national convention in Chicago, adop: a platform. etc.
 For years there have been factions, headed respectively by Senators For aker. and Hanna, who have themselves been conspicuous figures in the annual gatherings.
 Senator Foraker is a leading per sonage with elaborate headquarters here this week, but the old Hanna Guard" including Governor Herrick, Senator Dick, George B. Cox. of Gin cinnati, Dr. J. E.. Loves, of Dayton, and other so-called Hanna delegates, evidently have control of the conven- tion with a large majority of the 951 delegates willing to do their bidding. They will name the state ticket and national delegates and dictate the plat form. This is conceded by all the oth- CT factions wk'ch are here. But the minority, though, without power to change the results, can prevent the harmony desired by the majority.
 The harmony programme, has Herrick. Cox, Dick and Foraker for delegates at large. L. C. Laylin for the head of the state ticket for secretary of state, and all the other places filled in advance, including Governor Her