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inquired if we belonged to the Red
Cross society. One dear old lady in
southern Berkshire asked us if we
could make Dutch cheese. and seemed
surprised when we told her that was
not on the curriculum at Vassar. She
asked if we could cook boiled din
ners and other prosy homework ques-
tons. In the evening she asked us to
sing The Campbells Are Coming and
few other hymns that haven't ap-
parently reached New York.
I'm Lenox we came across a little
country boy fishing. Miss Marshall
took the rod. swung the bait over the
bridge. and before it touched the wa
ter half-pound trout jumped up a
foot to catch it. She landed the trout.
Once in awhile we take to the fields
and jump brooks and fences. Occasion
ally farmer gives lis a lift on his
hay wagon. and we have had several
lovely rides in that way"
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LONE HORSEMAN BATTLES II
WlTH~TWO HUNGRY EAGLES
After Killing One and Stunning the
Other He Takes Birds to City as
Evidence of Encounter,

Uk1ah, Gals. S. Chalmers, q
sheepherder on a large ranch near this
city, was suddenly attacked by two
enormous eagles while riding on his
range and compelled to put up most
desperate fight for his life
Chalmers first saw one of the birds
flying through the air with a sheep
In his claws, and was eagerly watch
ing it, when suddenly, from behind,
he heard shrill, melancholy whistle
like cry that sounded distinctly in the
evenings stiffness. Looking back. he
saw another huge eagle. When the
bird with the sheep heard the cries of
its companion it dropped it's prey and
both flew together, close behind the
horseman.
Chalmers had no gun. and thinking
the eagles would attack him, started
his horse on run. He ran the ami
NAL nearly two miles up a steep hill,
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how to go to work. A direct appeal
to vote would have been fatal. Ben
jamin B. Odell, Jr., then less famous:
suggested plan. 1t was to have cor
tain county roads" laid out through
Orange county. The farmers were de-
lighted" In realigning the roads to
get better grades, how easy it was to
close parts of ancient highway running
through the sensitive Mr.. Harriman's
grounds, substituting more direct"
routes that did not. AS these were i'm
proved one-half at the states expense
and one-half at that of the county,
even the bamboozled farmers did not
know whether to be angry or not.
This was the real beginning of the
political-financial alliance between Mr..
Hartman and Mr.. Odell that has had
such mOmentous results in New York
politics.
Once again political influence saved
Mr.. Harriman's sensitive soul from an
annoyance The city of New York
wanted to establish an open air hos
pital for it's consumptives, and a site
had been offered free not more than
five miles from Harriman's house.
That would never do. Odell was then
governor. A law was promptly passed
which enabled the blocking of hos
pital in Orange county, but made it
excessively difficult to establish one
anywhere else in the state. DR.. Osler
recently gave New York city the credit
it deserves for doing much by law to
lessen consumption. 1t has cut down
the death rate from that cause by one
third. Distinguished citizens are not
helping much to cut off the other two
thirds-which is almost literally pos
sible.
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be offended. But It is not epicuresj
folk that live to eat, we need spend
time on; = let us speak of the average
normal person, but the normal person
that has >fastidious bent. What does
he or she end in the tea-room? First
he or she is impressed with the beau
tiful cleanliness, the modernness Of the
arrangements for spotlessness and
healthfulness. The floors are tiled,
there is spaciousness, plenty of light
and air, no over-elaboration, over
furnishing. The housekeeper thinks
at once, how easy to keep clean.
Mayhap not SO easy as it looks; this
is, in Chicago, a luxury, but one is
willing to pay for it. And yet one is
not asked to, the prices are merely
nominal, less than at that place down
in the wholesale district patronized by.
substantial business men, where the
expense account must have very little
charged to it under the head of clean
ing.
The manager of the tea-room I Wis.,
tied to-day has the needed executive
powers, the housekeeperly ways re-
qiusite for one who sees that 1000 peo-
pie are daintily cared for every noon
hour. She told me with proper pride
OF the washing of the tiled floor each
night, the washing of the chairs each
day, the cleaning of the woodwork al
ways in progress; and inquired if it
did not only look clean but also ''feel'
clean. And that is it, you at'once real
ize, there is what might be called. hon
est housekeeping; both the inside and
outside of the platter clean.
Such white napery, such shining sill
yer, such sparkling glass; and the serv-
| ice looked after to the least detail, but
not cumbersome. No wonder men in
wade this woman's paradise of COM
| fort.
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GIRLS ON !.
20O-M|LE TRAMP
FROM NEW YORK CITY TO BEN
NINGToN, VERMONT.
THEY ENJOY OUTDOOR LIFE
Attired in Blue Walking Skirts and
Red and White Sweaters They
Make Picturesque Ap-
ne4ranca
pearance.

Pittsfield, Mass.-Fiye former COL
lege girls, on a tramp of 200 miles
from New York to Bennington, VT,
passed through Pittsfeld. They are the
Misses Helen and Alice Fox and Caro-
line Floyd, recent graduates of Vas
sar, and Amy Marshall and Gertrude
Owen alumnae of Wellesley.
With knapsacks over their Shout
ders, blue walking skirts and red and
white sweaters, they presented pic
turesque appearance. Except to say
that they reside in New York the girls
declined to give their addresses.
On this trip the girls have purpose
ly avoided the larger towns and cities.
They stay at no hotels, the farmers
are their hosts, and they tarry
wherever night overtakes them.
They remained in Pittsfield a few
minutes to buy nine yards of purple
| ribbOn-William college colors-fo1
| they are to pass through Williams
town. and two Of the girls have friends
there. AS they pass along the roads
Berkshire farmers doff their hats and
stare at them. They seem well sup
piled with money.
AS spokesman for the party, Miss
| Fox related few experiences. She
said:
I'VE started from New York simply
to take walking trip through Con
necticut and the Berkshire hills. We
| walk from 10 to IS miles day. &C
! cording to the weather. Three of the
girls have never been in the Berk
shires before. For them it is espe.
cially delightful; for us all it is q
| recreation.
eve shun trolleys, automobiles -and
! hotels. The farmers are glad to see
us. especially when we pay we'll fol
| their hospitality.
lone old man in Stockbridge asked
II we had just come over. Another
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freshment. A tea room to the Chi
cagoan means the place provided by a
department store for the convenience
of shoppers that may desire break
fast, luncheon or five O'clock The
'place" at Fields, Mandels and Car
son Prizes is no stuffy, tucked-in cor
ner, but goodly part of one floor
given over to snowy tables, comfort
able chairs, shining buffet, trim maids,
an almost ideal service One forgets
all about department stores, weary
shopping, the city's outside turmoil
and dust in these quiet, flower-adorned
beautifully clean surroundings.
No wonder men who have become
acquainted with them prefer them to
club and public restaurant of the usual
order. No wonder the harassed house
keeper invites guests to meet her at a
tea room table; no wonder out-of-
town buyers consider them better than
the most expensive hotels. They GER
tainly are a feature of life in Chicago
of which the city may well be proud.
The majority of the patrons are
women, naturally, as the majority of
the crowds filling the stores are wom-
en-, but there is a considerable sprin-
king of men. 1 asked my cicerone
about the gentlemen, and she named
few names that are we'll known in
the city, said the same groups come
day after day, seem to like the atmos-
phere and the cooking, the deft wait
resses, the exemption from presence
of greedy, waiting lackey.
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and then again he heard the whistling
sound. This time the birds were
upon him. He reached for his quirt
which hung on the saddle horn. and.
Selling it, he commenced hitting at
them. With one well-aimed blow he
managed to knock one of the eagles
in the head, stunning it. The bird
fell to the ground
The other one then came at the
horseman more furiously than ever
Several times the great bird swooped
at him, sticking it's claws into the
mans shoulder and dealing heavy
blows with it's wings, which tapped
wildly in Chalmers face. The eagle
finally closed in SO that the unfortu-
his whip, but he managed to pull off
his coat and threw it over the head
of the bird. The eagle pulled and
shook at the cloth savagely, the man
in turn striking it viciously with his
fist.
After struggling desperately for sew
era1 minutes Chalmers succeeded in
pulling his knife from the pocket of
his blouse. and, springing forward in
spite of the hail of blows from the
claws, beak and wings Of the eagle,
struck it in the body as the bird flew
at him, knocking it to the ground.
Quickly leaping on the eagles head, he
managed to kill it,
The first one Of the birds, which was
knocked down, was short distance
away trying to fly, and the horseman,
taking his saddle blanket, muff1ed the
half-stunned creature and tied it's
talons together. Later he brought it
to town with the dead eagle.
Chalmers was badly cut about the
head and face and he also received
several deep gashes in the right Shout
der. where the birds had stuck their
talons in.
The dead bird measures seven feet
from tip to tip, with talons six inches
long. The live one is not so large
only measuring five feet, with talons
three inches.
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lakes in the AdirOndacks. A settler of
the old type built his cabin upon it
years ago and presently bought it. A
defect appeared in the title and he paid
at the Office of the secretary of state to
clear the title. Later appeared what
they call in the Adirondacks a "land
shark kind of sea lawyer on land
whose business is to- spy out defects in
title and buy them in-an easy matter
in the case Of land once numbered and
abandoned for taxes. My old friend,
now dead. heard of the land sharks
claim. but it didn't worry him much.
Nor did it. After his death the land
shark took possession.
What the settler had said was very
simple. i've paid for this land twice"
he told the shark quietly one day,
bought it and paid for it. I guess my
rifles good title while I live
Any man accomplishing a great estate
of wild land is apt to include in
it, innocently so far as he is concerned.
some land sharks holdings. He may
buy bitterness with the land. If in
addition he fences in the old trails and
puts armed men to warn off the men
who have used them for years. the bit
terness is not allayed. Dexter did some
thing like that, it was said; and Dexter
! is not here to contradict. His MUIR
derer is knRwn to many in the woods.
believe he is known in a way to Dex-
ter's father. but without proof. He is
safe from revelation while he lives.
The old settler in the woods knows
| often that the trail the Indians used
before him is highway in common
law and might be so declared ir court
If he had money to fight the case.
But he hasn't it.
There is the seat of strife. And
! men IN old countries where every title
runs back 500 years cannot under
| stand it.
OWEN LANGDoN.
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ton to pleasant qualities; personal
talks are held wherein the staff is
given a pretty high standard to live
I'D to. And, so this manager told me,
the girls take their training not only
willingly, but eagerly, are educated up
to the consideration of ''waiting' as
womanly and dignified calling. The
serving is amiable and skillful
In looking over the menu one anus
eddy finds that all sorts and conditions
are provided for, from the health
faddist to the person that cares not
rap for future effects of gastronOmic
Indulgence. You may drink postum
cereal sweetened with 'saccharine, or
you may imbibe murderous Mocha,
partake of deviled crabs, lobster salad,
chatting dishes-anything. You may
have certified milk brought to the
table in darling little jars from scien-
tifcally conducted dairy, and turn into
your goblet Jersey milk pretty nearly
straight from the cow. You may buy
ten cents worth of food, or ten dollars
worth, and the courtesy will be just
| the same. You may lunch off bread
and milk, or you may have six-coursa
| meal
One of the tea-rooms can seat 1000
at once, has floor space one block
long and half block wide. This is
not all great public space, however,
there are numerous coy little re-
cesses and secluded corners. The grill
room attracts those given to made
dishes and hot-from-th hob things,
and there are spots far removed from
sight and sound Of food preparation.
AS we said, arrangement for many
men of many minds.
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Girl Horribly Tortured

York, Pa.-John r. Laird and wife
OF falrview. have been arrested on
charges of cruelty made by 13-year-
old Ethe Jacobs. They have entered
$500 bail each for a hearing. The
Jacobs girl was a domestic at the
home of the Lairds. She alleges that
during the four years she had been
living with the Lairds she was brand
ed on the back with a hot flatiron,
'calded with boiling water, nearly
drowned in cold water, stripped naked
and dashed with horsewhip until the
blood came; that she was fed on, red
pepper and knocked down with stove
wood.
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which, comparison OF all the accounts
received makes it apparent that some
observers who have sighted them have
seen double; or else a yacht, like
man, may have an astral body and be
spoken in two places at once.
For the rest of the season it is going
to be- distinctive card" to have been
on one of the yachts. Indisputable
proof OF personal presence is social
factor. AS matter of fact, the voyage
must have been inexpressibly dreary
upon any of the craft that really had
any chance Of winning On some Of
the others that went out for the fun
and glory of the thing it was different
Ordinarily at sea one scarcely sees sail
or smoke after the first &c hours unsN
shore is near again; only II mil. ?
away is big ship visible, and fog ant
mist most OF the time lessen the dis
lance. Charlie Barr hardly needed to
take at starting that great sweep down
the Jersey coast to lose" the other
fellows.
Eleven entries were far more than
had been expected. Up to almost the
last minute half as many were assured.
Famous yachtsmen accompanied the
fleet whose own boats were not in it,
Royal Phelps Carroll was aboard the
Apache. He once crossed the ocean in
the Navahoe. Poultney Bigelow was
on Commodore Tod's boat; his tiny
canoe that he used to run On the Hud-
son or down the Danube would have
been rather lonesome on the Atlantic.
On the Atlantic-this time the yacht
was Clinton Barnum Seeley, whom
New York will not willingly forget.
It was Mr.. Seeley whose bachelor din
ner at Sherry's nearly broke that re-
sort financially. besides making trouble
for all the guests with the police.
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L,
in spite Of all the talk about it's de-
cadence, to attract a strong contin-
gent. Newport has one undoubted ad-
vantage. 1t really is cool. A sum-
mer house in Westminster or In New
Jersey is not. Long Island is a trifle
hetter, but. after all, what is there to
do after the coaching season has end
ed and before the hunting season has
begun?
There will always be plenty of poor
land, fiat, marshy. perhaps. far from
the cooling shore. from the breezy hill
tops and the pretty views, but the at
tractive sites are fast being bought up
and combined into great tracts.
through which by political chicanery
or by the outright bribing of town Off
clals, passage even by public highway
is cut off,
To permit Mrs. Mackay's Harbor
Hill estate at Roslyn to be more SYM
metrical public road was legally
closed and small burying ground re-
moved. John D. Rockefeller can drive
over Is miles Of private road in his
Pocantico estate. The historic village
of Tarrytown is practically cut off
from growth and from water supply
by Mr. Rockefellers thousands of
acres just 80 miles from city hall. w.
X. Vanderbilt's Lake Success estate of
1000 acres is half within the city linn
it's, and he also is closing a public
road. The Payne Whitney estate Of
the same size is just beyond, and it
has shut up a lake and RACED half a
village.
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Experience of Two Sailors.

North Sydney, N. S.-James 8. Bart
lett and William Merrett, of the crew
of the schooner Excela, were brought
here in terribly frost-bitten and ex-
hausted condition after having been
adrift IL days, the last three of which
they spent entirely without food. Fur
several days they lived on dead fish
lying on ice foes, from which they had
driven on the sea- gulls. They were
picked I'D OF Slatterie island.
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lilac and hawthorn bloom. 1t is quite
the fad at one of the tea rooms early
in the spring to present each visitor
with a spray of pussy-willows and
later a little wild flower posy-got
goodness knows where. On st. Pat
rick's day bit Of green shows at each
napkin, on Valentines day there may
accompany ones bread and butter a
tiny red heart pierced by fronded fern
stem.
Now that so many men are showing
appreciation of the tea rooms, special
provision is made for them. The man.
ager before quoted pointed 70 long
row of tables placed in the sunniest
part of the room, across the State
street front, where men were seated in
comfortable enjoyment, some begin
ming lunch, some having reached tho,
post-prandial cigar. Yes, smoking,
these invaders! .'Since when," asked,
'has this privilege been granted 2"
20, some time ago We set apart IS
tables for men. No ladies are allowed
at these tables unless accompanied by
men," An invasion with a vengeance.
One tea room has silence" room,
where those that enter are requested
to refrain from talking and all noise.
Here couches, long steamer chairs, big
Sleepy Hollows, invite the weary shop
per not only to- recline, but also TO
slumbsr; and not few take advan-
tage Of this generous offer. The cur
tains are drawn. let in only subdued
:gi1t;; J. the walls are dim green, with
border Of droWsy peoples. /
a5 z#$5zs KATHERINE POP8.
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the last bulletin of his farm. The last
I knew of it it was said to contain
$4,000 acres. And by clever polit-
ical management he is not bothered
by plain, ordinary farmers driving be-
tween his fields on what once were
country roads, -.
After Hartman had bought his
lanos, or part of them. he wanted to
close few roads. but did not know
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The New Automobile Club.

HE extent Of the
automobile sport
and industry is
limited at in the
plans for the new
Automobile club.
This organization
is to have a huge
clubhouse Ct six
stories. with quar-
ters for a cOnSid-
cradle number Of
autos, which can
he hOiSte,t from
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TO ! THE |: FORE ! | |. !. AGAIN c |. \.
THINK WE SHALL BE HEARD
FOR OUR MUCH ROASTING. :1.
IN THIS CASE ALLOWABLE
Best Places in City in Which to Re-
fresh the Inner Man-Dainty
and Well-Conducted
Tea-Rooms.

met a
philosopher to-day.
She is the mana
ger of one of the
d o w n t ow tea
rooms.
I inquired if it
was true: that New
York has nothing
in the way of tea
rooms to- compare
with ours here. in
Chicago, and why.
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Woes of the Rich.

oQLD an AdlrOn-
dack man really
S h cot William
Rockefeller if he
said he would? ]
do not know, but
If l were Mr..
Rockefeller I'd
take no chances.
He is taking none.
There is a fair
farm of 200 acres
facing one Of the
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Rest and Refreshing.

HE tastes of the
time, the interests
of the day, are re-
fected' in the tea
rooms. Now the
liking is for old
fashioned posies-
return to the SIM
pie life. To-day
as I went to pay
for my lunch, I
found the cashier
almost hidden by
a great bunch 1T
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Mr.. Harriman's Garden -

NE greatest cOun-
try h O N e any
wher: about New
York is that of
Hartman, the
r a i l way man,
whose sudden rise
to public notice
has been followed
by Christening. ex-
periences in Wall
street and In the
courts. I'm not
sure that I have
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The Country-House Season,

T would be nearly
accurate to say
that there are two
country house sea-
sons, divided by a
summer. Spring
and fall are the
times chosen fol q
more or less un-
e as y existence
upon some estate
not too far from
Wall street and
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Well Managed.

Me- reason why men
and women are at
tracted here is be-
cause they are al
most sure of i'm
munity from in
science of waitress
attendants. A very
carefully drilled
band serves the
patrons in these
places, the mana
ger selects applf-
cants with atten-
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The Patrons.

7EhE 4-r e tea
rooms nd tea
rooms. What we
here call a tea
L 90 M mayhap
would look strange
to Londoners, they
being used to be-
stow that term on
a shop where bis
cults and the cup
that cheers are all
that is. offered in
the W9V Of re-
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may find in New Orleans and Balti-
more, and perhaps in San Francisco,
palatable stan Of life, but they declare
between these hayazs there is much
risk. - ..-- = ..
It goes without saying that these
timid ones have never mounted to the
airy upper floors of the Chicago estab-
lishnsnts, where none need carp nor
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ON THE OCEAN WAVE
NEW YORK TALKING OF YACHTS
AND YACHT RACING.
TRY FOR THE ,KAISER'S CUP
Society Is Interested in the Nota bles
Who Are Crossing the Atlantic
in the Sailing Vessels-Sum-
mer Season Festivities.

EW York; sup
pose a great many
people have been
surprised that the
racing yachts be-
came SO far: sepa-
rated in their
quest of the kais-
er's cup: experts,
on the other hand,
are surprised that
a few of them did
not get farther
separated. Besides
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Elegant Simplicity.

II are lOlQ L0aC lew
Americans know
how to dine well,
and it is said that
folk in Manhattan
are fearful to ven
ture west of Long
Island lest they fall
victim to barbarous
table service e. A
few Manha Al t
are broad-minded
enough to ac-
knowledge that one